Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-02-12
FIERCE CRUSADE RAGING
OF LAKE cHAMPLAiN
BECOMES SERIOUS MENACE.


Busy Times for Cattle Commission
State Railroad Traffic Dsmoralirsd--
Meeting Of Vermont Fair Association
Many Years Railroad Service.
Edward Hatch. jr.. OF New York 10 In
Burlington In the interest OF the move
ment against the pollution Of the wa
ters OF the streams flowing into Lake
Champlain and the lake ITSELF MT
Hatch took the Initiate about year
ago and since that time fierce cru
SADIE has been waged against the own
ers OF pulp mills on the banks OF the
Ausable and Boquet rivers, across the
lake who allow the refuse to float down
the rivers and flow into Lake Cham
plain.
The condition has become a serious
menace In polluting the rivers and lake
and is constantly becoming more ana
more alarming. Mr.. Hatch. who owns
the Four Brothers Island, and has
summer home at Willsboro Point. has
interested a large number In the pro-
iect. and II has been laid before the
members of the New York Legislature.
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government OF the river beds on the
New York side Of the lake was begun
with n view to determining the enect
of the pollution upon navigation. the
report has already been filed with the
department at Washington. In con-
nection with the Vermont interest In
the subject, a petition is being circu-
lated among property owners along the
lake shore and already signed by more
than a hundred of them asking Cover
nor Mccullough to take some action
I'm the matter looking toward an ofn-
cial investigation by the state board OF
health.
Henry NJ. Turner Of ST. Johnsbury Is
a candidate for delegate at large TO the
republican national convention from
the second district.
James e. Burke, Burlington's black
smith mayor was unanimously re-
nominated to Office at a caucus Of over
$50 democrats Thursday evening, Feb.
L.
Two williams college students, while
driving to Bennington Friday, Fen. D.
were badly frozen. The hands of one
were frozen and the others feet were
frozen so that he could not walk.
The grand jury at Boston has re-
turned an indictment for murder
against Roy C. Johnson of Burlington,
charged with the murder Of Mrs. Sa-
die Peters at South End lodging
house.
Ground will be broken in the spring
at Burlington for a college to be erect
ed for st. Mlchael's institute by the
Oblate Fathers of the Sacred Heart.
They have been using a temporary
building.
A wreck occurred on the Central
Vermont railroad at Swanton Friday
Feb. S, when a wheel broke on the
tender and several cars and the engine
left the track. The engineer had
narrow escape.
1t is expected that the Italian paper,
I'll Proletario," will be moved from
New York to Barre soon. M. Serratu,
the editor, was the man who was TO
speak in the socialist hall. Barre, on
the evening of the murder of Ell Corti.
State Treasurer ]. L. Bacon does not
agree with the records Of the Burling-
ton city court clerks amount Of the
deficit in the costs of liquor cases for
t,,
amount of such deficit, $3.50, VIII not
be paid by the state until further in
vestigation.
Senator Dillingham; has introduced
a bill in the senate at Washington pro-
yiding that sessions Of the United
States courts for the district of Ver-
mont may be held at Newport. The
new federal building at Newport was
planned with this end in view and the
bill merely authorizes that one session
of the United States court may be held
each year in that town.
Edward Stanley, the Oldest conduc-
tor in point of service on the Central
Vermont railroad, died at Burlington
Sunday, Feb. Z, after an illness of a
week with pneumonia, at the age of 5S
years. He began his railroad career
at the age of IL years when he sold
apples and papers on the trains, and
has since been on the rail in the ca
pacity of brakeman, baggagemaster,
and for SO years as conductor.
Traffic on the Central Vermont and
Rutland railroads has been utterly de-
moralized during the past week, on ac-
count of the heavy snow, ice and in
tense cold. Traffic on the Mississquoi
division was completely blocked. At
St Johns, Que, train is stalled in a
big drift, another train Is blocked be-
tween Richford and st. Adams, and
there is trouble all along the line north
of Burlington. The service south is
not so bad
The Bennington license commission
ers report in favor Of the plan of group
ing saloons, as was done in Benning-
ton last year, instead of scattering
them in many localities. They think
the saloons are under better supervi-