Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-10-20
ass Miles In 2s7 Minutes In Automobile
Road Race.

Road Race.
Hemery, driving an so horsepower
Darracq and member Of the French
team, won the automobile race for the
Vanderbilt cup on Long Island Saturday.
His elapsed time was hours, SO min
utes. s seconds. The course of 2S3 miles
was covered by the winner in 276 minutes
and seconds, considerably in excess
Of mile a minute. The leader for eight
tenths OF the Journey was Lancia, driving
an Italian Fiat of 100 horse power. Lam
cia took the lead early in the race, hav-
ing started in fourth position, and drove
for seven rounds at a rate of nearly IS
miles an hour. on the eighth round he
had tire troubles and was in COLI
sion with another car. This ruined his
chances. although he continued and
finished in fourth place Second went to
Heath, driving Panhard and Levassor's
100 horse power Panhard. His time was
4.5O.26. There were several accidents,
but no one was seriously injured.
An amendment to the civil service rules,
sweeping in character, was authorized
Tuesday by President Roosevelt. Here
after cabinet officer will have the power
To remove summarily and without hearing
any civil service cmploye in his depart
ment who. to the personal knowledge of
the head OF the department. has been
in the performance Of his duties.
1t is reported that the Boston & Maine
railroad will soon inaugurate a pension
system by which employees who have
been in the company's employ many
years will be pensioned on half pay at 60
years This age limit of employees will
be Go years, 1t is said, and all employees
will retire at that age under a pension.
4 permanent fund is to be raised for the
purpose, so 1t is said, by assessing the
employees y per cent. AS the benefit is
mutual the proposed plan is looked upon
with favor by the employees. 1t is said
that the railroad company will contrib
ute $4,000 towards the fund.
John Newton Williamson. congressman
from the I'd Oregon district, convicted in
the land fraud suit started by the federal
government was sentenced in the United
States court Saturday to serve ten
months imprisonment and to pay a fine
of $500. He was also reprimanded by the
court. Marion r. Briggs. ex-United
States commissioner, was taxed by the
court with similar dereliction of duty and
given an equal penalty. In the case of
Or. Gesner the term of Imprisonment
was cut in two and the fine doubled.
Appeals are pending and a stay OF
execution was made. pending a further
order of the court. Meanwhile, Congress
man Williamson will go free on his own
recognizance, but bond OF $4,000 was
required for the other two defendants.
shipwreck tale, in which eight sea-
men suffered so fearfully from exposure,
hunger and thirst that six of them either
died outright, were washed away, or,
crazed by their fearful experience. hurled
themselves into the sea, was brought 10
Boston Monday by the two survivors of
the we'll known coasting schooner, Van
Name & King. OF New Haven, which was
beaten to pieces by a gale of the South
Carolina coast Oct. 6. The two men who
lived through the five days and were res
cued by the schooner Stillman F. Kelley,
are William Thomas and William Ga
Warnock. Their last companion died
about IL hours before help came. The
two survivors lost about 40 pounds each.