Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-13
IN OUR OWN STATE
Gov. Hughes Of New York Principal
Speaker at Fish and Game League Ban

Rosen, the russian ambassador, and
Speaker Cannon were the guests of the
Vermont Fish ana Game league at the
banquet held Friday afternoon at Hotel
Champlain, Bluff Point, n. Y.
The members of the league from all
over Vermont arrived early in the after
noon from Burlington. Gov Hughes and
his military secretary Col George Curtis
Treadwel, arrived on the noon train, and
Speaker Cannon and Baron Roscn came
from Burlington in the Hon. j. c. Sibley's
yacht Nalcour At o'clock the party
entered the hotel dining room.
At the speakers table were the presi-
dent Of the league, Maxwell Evarts,
son Of William NJ. Evarts; Gov. Hughes,
Baron Rosen, Speaker Cannon, Gov.
Proctor of Vermont, eX-Gov. Ormsbee,
eX-Judge Darling, collector of the port
of Burlington; the Rev. NJ. Duffy of
Nergennes; Congressman Kittredge Has
kins, eXGov. Stewart, +. Z. Fish of Yer
gennes, Col. Albert Clarke of Boston, Adj
miral Clark, L. S. M Lieut.. Gov Prouty,
Col. G. c. Treadwell, Charles Il. Hughes.
jr., the Hon. J. II. Booth, Plattsburg the
Hon N. w. Fisk, Isle La Motto; Major
Mcdonald, 15tn cavalry, and Senator IL.
w. Hill of Buffalo.
Speeches were made by Gov. Hughes,
Baron Rosen and Speaker Cannon. The
president Of the league, Maxwell Evarts
of Windsor, was POSTMASTER. Gov.
Hughes was very warmly greeted. He
spoke of the demand of the people for
honest and efficient government and
said that they were no longer satisfied
with lip service. Those at the head Of
government must see that justice is done
to all and that only the public good is
to be considered in the performance Of
their duty.
Gov Hughes continued:
Il feel in talking to Vermonters, or
when 1 go into the state of Vermont, as
I Of tha
sources of power. Curtis, in his work on
the battle Of Saratoga, relating the man.
ner OF the Nermonters to the New York
ers says the Green Mountain boys dis
trusted the polished discipline of New
York, while the New Workers thought
these boys brave but dangerously inde-
pendent"
Baron Rosen spoke briefly and wittily.
Speaker Cannon concluded the speak
ing. He expressed himself as satisfied
with the condition OF the country and
was certain that whatever abuses there
were would be adius ted. The speaker
himself declared against government
ownership OF railroads or any other rad
ical plan which would be injurious to the
public and the stockholders. Speaker
Cannon had no patience with prophets Of
evil and considered the country to be
most prosperous His advice was Go
| forward"
In the evening there was a joint meet
ing of the New York and Vermont COM
missions on the tricentenary Of the dis
covery Of Lake Champlain, which will
| be celebrated in 1909. Gov. Hughes is
chairman of the New York commission
| and Gov Proctor of the Vermont COM
mission.
Saturday the two commissions sailed
through the lake, visiting the many points
| of interest
The headless body of a man was found
| near the Central Vermont railroad tracks
in Milton Sunday. The victim was idenu-
| fled as Leon Dancose OF Salem, Mass.
Nicholas Derrick, an Italian, was ad-
mitted to bail in the sum of 5000 at Rut
| land Monday on a charge of assaulting
| Mark Beattie with a poker. The latter
| has an ugly cut on the skull and 1t may
| prove fatal so Derrick was held to await
| the results.
Peter McInrue So, formerly of Mont
pelier, was fatally burned Friday in
| Waterbury, Conn, where ne was en-
| ployed as caster in a foundry. His wife,
who was formerly Tessie Ryle was visit
| ing her parents in Waiesfeld when in
| formed of the accident.
a deposit Of fine dark granite has been
! found about a mile from the Waterbury
| railroad station on land on Woodland hill
owned by George w. Randall and Thomas
| Devine. 1t is expected that Mr.. Randall
will make a large investment in opening a
| quarry and installing equipment
Joseph A. DeBoer, secretary OF the
| Vermont Historical society, is disuibut-
| ing the printed report of the proceedings
| of the last annual meeting in November,
| 1906. In addition to the list of officers
| and report of routine business the vol
| ume contains in full the address by Judge
| w. Z. Stafford on "Thaddcus Stevens 4;
the address by Prof. G. II. Perkins. Of
| Burlington, on prehistoric Vermont {;
and list Of Revolutionary soldiers
buried in Vermont.
The 25th annual meeting of the Yer
| mont branch of the Womans Board Of
Missions will be held in the First Con-
| gregational church of Springfield We'd
nesday, Sept. %. a delegates meeting
| will be held on the afternoon of Sept.
| "a in the church Vestry. Besides the re-
| ports of the years work and the business
| incident to this annual gathering, there
will be addresses by Miss Helen Isabel
| Root a missionary stationed in Ceylon,
| and by Mrs. c. NJ. Samson of Boston,
editor of the Life and Light, the organ
of the missionary organization.
One of Greensboro Bends important
business buildings, owned by Mrs. E. NJ.
| Salmon, was destroyed by fire Sunday
morning, Sept, l. Mrs Salmon had a
store on the ground floor and the second
| floor was occupied by the local camp of
Modern Woodmen of America, and the
| Woman's Relief corps. The origin of the
fire is unknown. Mrs Salmon, VINO esti-
mates her loss at 100000 only partly
covered by insurance, will probably not
rebuild. The two orders occupying the
second floor lost all their furnishings,
the Modern Woodmen's loss being esti-
mated at about $iOO.
The University of Vermont has Joined
the New England College Entrance Ger
tificate Board, and, beginning with the
class entering in the fall of 1908, will
accept students on certificate from only
those schools which have received the
| approval of the board. The following
| Vermont schools have already received
| approval: Goddard seminary, Montpelier
seminary, Spaulding high, Bratteboro
| high, Troy Conference academy, Rutland
| high, st. Adams high st, Johnsbury
academy, Hartford high, Vermont acad-
envy, and Woodstock high. Several other
schools maintain a satisfactory standard
but have not sent a sufficient number of
students to the colleges represented on
the list to keep their names on the list
of approved schools. The colleges rep
resented on the board are: Amherst,
Brown university, Bowdoin, Dartmouth,
Mount Holyoke, Smith, Tufts, University
of Maine, University of Vermont, Welles-
ley, Wesleyan university and Williams.
Judge Edward F. Bingham, 70, a native
| NJ Concord Vt and for many years