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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-20
COLUMBIAN MARBLE co
Question Whether the Vermont Mar
BILE Company viii Buy It.

The year granted by the courts to
the receivers of the Columbian Mar
BILE Quarrying company at Rutland to
wind up their business expires May l3
and the big plant will then be turned
over to the Vermont Marble company.
The Columbian receivers and the Ver-
mont Marble company have operated
the plant jointly during the last year,
Keeping their business entirely sepa-
rate. The Vermont company has done
nothing at the plant but saving. The
receivers Of the Columbian company
have been saving up the blocks they
had on hand. finishing some of the
marble into monuments. and shipping
some Of it as rough stock They have
now disposed of almost everything.
Owing to the present depression in
business it is thought by many mar
BILE men that the Vermont Marble Co.
will not care TO run the plant another
year as il is said to be able to do all
Its saving In its other mills. These
mills are operated by water power
whereas the Columbian plant is run
by two large steam engines. 1t is said
that the Vermont Marble company
can better afford to shut the plant
down and pay rent on it for another
year than to run It.
There is much speculation as to
whether the Vermont Marble company
will take advantage of its option to
buy the Columbian plant for $2S0,000
at the expiration of the present lease
in May. 1909. Whether 1t will do so
or not depends to great extent, 1t is
said, upon the quantity and quality
of marble which the Columbian quar-
ry at Proctor is found to contain.
Every effort is being made to deter
mine what the possibilities of the
quarry are.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-20
Keeping on Trespassers.

How to warn of trespassers without
spring guns has been discovered by a
canny peasant In the south OF France.
His woods were invaded by nut pick.
ers. He asked botanical friend the
Latin name for the hazel nut, and put
up the following notice: Caution
All persons entering this wood do so
at their own risk. The Corylls Avel.
lana abounds here as well as other
equally venomors snakes" Not
trespasser has ventared into the wood
since.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-20
MILTON RESIDENCE BURNED
Home Of James Evarts DESTROYED
Fire Caught from a Stove.

Milton, April lS-The Evarts resi-.
dence on Gimlet hill better known as
the c. !. Ladd place. was burned about
IL O'Clock last night. The fire caught
In a partition behind stove and was
under considerable Roadway when dis
covered, so that there was no chance
OF saving the building. which was oc-
cupied by the owner, James Evarts
and Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Phelps. All the
household goods on the first floor were
safely removed but the chambers
could not be reached.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-20
Y. M. c. A. HIKE
A Good Crowd of Boys Went to Castle
Rocks Saturday.

Over 20 Y. NJ. c. A. boys went on a
hike to Castle Rocks Saturday. The
start was made at about 1890. When
they reached the rocks a fire was
started and coffee made to drink with
their lunches. The boys who went
We're as follows; Douglas Godfrey,
Robert Houghton, William Shaw An
sci Buss, Frank McLaren, Archie
Camp, Chamcey Todd, Ebert Mckee
on, Charles Mills, Arthur Russell,
Howard Russell. Gordon Burke, Min
er Clarke, Frank Stockwell, Charles
McLaren, Edward Woodman, Henry
Walbridge, Bernard Madigan and Sum
ner Holt. The leaders were Frank
Camp, James McLaren and Joseph
Lakeland, J. A. Asphalt, the physical
director also accompanied the boys.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-20
AID OFFERED ACADEMY
Conference Education Society Votes
$1,000 Toward REBUILDING School.

Saratoga, n. Y, April 1S.-Members
of the Troy Methodist Conference to-
day sent a telegraph of sympathy to
the principal of the Troy Conference
Academy at Poumey, VT The build.
ings of Round Lake summer insti-
tutes at Round Lake, We're offered for
the use of Poultney students and a
committee was appointed to discuss
the matter with the academy trus-
tees.
The Conference Education society
voted $1,000 toward rebuilding the
academy.
The conference trustees elected in
clude z. l.. Dow of Rutland and c. B.
Dunton of Poultney.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-20
ARlzoNA'S REP. CONVENTION
Adopt Resolutions Endorsing Admin
istration,

Tucson, Ariz., April 1.-the Repub-
lican territorial convention met here
yesterday and adopted resolutions en-.
dorsing the national and territorial
administrations, warmly eulogizing
Senator Foraker but did not instruct
the national delegates. The Kibbey
faction organized second convention
which adopted resolutions strongly
favoring the nomination of Secretary
Taft, but did not instruct the delegates
for him
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-20
MRS LEVI 3. STEELE
Dies at Phoenix, Ariz.--Body viii be
Brought to Rutland.

Mrs. Levi b. Steele, widow of Rev.
Levi b. Steele, who died in Rutland
about year ago, died Thursday in
Phoenix, Ariz., at the age of 70 years.
She was born in Randolph, Mass, and
was married to Rev. Mr.. Steele In 1864
and had lived in SALISBURY, Johnson.
Pittsford, West Bolton and Sharon,
her husband being pastor of the Bap.
fist churches in those places. Rev.
Mr. Steele was one of the oldest Bap-
fist ministers in the state.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-20
EDGERToNS GET MILL
viii Occupy House at WaIingford and
Conduct the Business.

Walllngford, April 20.-Martin v.
Williams and Stella L, Williams have
sold to Frank p Edgerton and Mari
cite Edgerton Of Dandy the mill prop
erty on Mill street. This includes the
grist mill and buildings and the two
houses now occupied by William W.
Rogers and Seneca w. Palsus. Mr.
Edgerton expects to occupy the former
house soon and will use the mill for
custom grinding and also for cider
making.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-20
BASEBALL SATURDAY
Results in Two Games in Two Bio
Leagues.

The results in the two big baseball
leagues Saturday We're as follows:
American League
Philadelphia 4-Boston ..
Chicago 3-St. Louis o.
New York Washington ,.
National League
New York brooklyn 0.
Philadelphia 3-Boston 9.
st. Louis Chicago ..
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-20
WEATHER FORECAST

Probabilities for This Section for the
Next "a Hours.
For Eastern New York and Western
Vermont fair tonight and Tuesday.
Warmer Tuesday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-20

DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel
Salve. 1t is especially good for piles.
Sold by ID A. Ward.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-06
OLYMPIC ENTERT4TNNEST.

If il is bad form to look a gift horse in the
mouth. the charge of rudeness may also be
brought against the sportsman who ponders
critically over the British Olympic Councils
failure 10 provide for the entertainment Of $500
athletes and the distinguished visitors who
will attend the London games this summer
Lord Desborough. the councils spokesman con-
fesses that the attempt to raise $4,000 by
private subscription for this purpose has ended
in the accumulation Of sum too pitiful TO be
published. Foreign participants will therefore
have to be content with the pleasures for which
they and their personal friends choose TO pay.
Even Parliament has disappointed the council
The man of Drawn who recalls the Greek gov
ernment's liberality in 1905 may share Lord
Desborough's amazenlent at the seeming mig
gardliness of the nation which likes to think
itself the worlds centre of sport and athletics
But before insinusting that Englishmen are
not eager 70 'set EN- up for a lot of foreigners
who hope To drub their own contestants, the
critic will do well to consider the influence
which British customs and ideals may have had
in the matter
Fund raising generally is much more difficult
in England than in our own country. We need
only recall the woes of Oxford IN her apparent
IL futile effort TO raise S1000Oo0. When, as is
usually the case, the money sought is intended
for some public affair or institution. the Eng
rshnlan follows up his refusal 10 subscribe with
the remark that the government should foot the
bills if the cause is a worthy one, and If it is
not important enough for the government to
handle private citizens ought not to be solicited
II is not impossible that the conception of eth
Ietics prevailing among the English upper
classes NAV have wrought some degree of the
Olympic Councils discontinue The athlete. ac-
cording 10 this. must be amateur not merely
within the meaning OF the written laws govern
ing contests, but also in the fine old sense of
the word. Some easy strong men call
the view undemoratic, but 1t has certain great
advantages.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-06
HONEY AND BUSINESS.

All records for dulness in recent years were
eclipsed last week at the Stock Exchange, and
variations in prices were correspondingly mar
row A petition was signed by large number
of members asking that Friday be made a hoi
day also. but the governors decided otherwise
While some members criticised this action, II
is obviously only right that a public market Of
so great importance should be open at all times
except regular holidays. although the actual fact
was that no one seemed to need the facilities
of the Exchange Friday. or any other day
last week, for that matter. A sale of member
ship at $4,000 marked a decline of $4,000 IN
value another evidence of the dulness but the
price is still $4,000 above the lowest point Of
the year Latest returns Of railway earnings
in June show that decreases In comparison with
last years figures are gradually becoming less
heavy. and further improvement in the current
month is promised by the larger offerings Of
freight and steadily diminishing number of idle
cars Many shops have resumed repair work
In preparation for the vast tonnage OF agricult-
ural products that must soon be moved to con-
suners, and the high prices prevailing VIII re-
suit in a good return movement Of manufact-
ured products.
Another CAL upon the banks for the return Of
New-York tribune., 1908-07-06
r-sTyrE THE CHEAPEST POLTCT.

The Pennsvlvanian's memory is short Less
than a genera ton ago the citizens or Plttspnfs
were compelled tn reimburse the pennsylvania
RAILROAD for enormous damages inflicted upon
the corporation's property in that city by law
less strikers whom the local police failed TO op-
nose with reasonable show OF strength IL was
a costly lesson in civic responsibility. But three
decades later the inhabitants of Chester. Penn.
seem to have forgotten even the story Thus 1t
comes about that the Chester Traction Com
pany is filing bill against this once prosperous
community which will surely make taxpayers
gasp and may even lead some of them to re-
pent having svnpathized thoughtlessly and to
gross excess with the band of men who resorted
freely to every violence, even murder. IN order
to gain questionable concession All reports
about the causes and development of the street
car strike and the ensuing boycott Indicate that
the traction company is both morally and legal
" entitled to recompanse for harm done to its
property during the long. dsgraceful months OF
riotinc which have not yet ended.
Ticklish questions about the right to boycott
or to resist boycott do not arise here. For the
sake of argument be it granted that there is
nothing wrong in the policy of using argument
and exhortation to keep passengers and strike
breakers away from the cars of company
which refuses TO grant certain requests. HAD
only this policy been followed. the traction
cornpany's plaint would awaken scant sym
pathy and It's sufferings would warrant no bill
Of damages from the city. But almost the en-
tire population of Chester. including municipal
officers and the police, espoused the strikers
cause so fanatcally that the lawless We're LETT
free TO blow up loaded streetcars. destroy tracks.
burn barns and assault even innocent travellers
until the state constabulary took control. And,
since the latter left the town to itself on May
%. anarchy has again been prevailing, with
variations which make the Kentucky might
riders look like defenders of law and order
However much the strikers may have incited
their tovnsmen against the corporation. the re-
sponsblity for the costly disgrace rests with
the municipality which has let its own patrol
men aid the lawbreakers unpunished.
If it We're necessary only TO teach the wisdom
of lawfulness, the city would not have to pay
the traction company's S200,000 bill Mer-
chants investors and workingmen in Chester
have already suffered bitterly enough a re-
suit of the industrial paralysis which the boy
colt has caused. But how long will the lesson
be remembered: How long before another
Pennsylvania town will fancy that anarchy is
cheaper than Justice?
New-York tribune., 1908-07-06
EXCISE INTESTIGATION.

The much debated and opposed New Jersey ex-
else investigation will begin to-day in Jersey City
Governor Fort thus has his way and is taking
this exceedingly practical and useful step toward
fulfilling the promises which were last year made
10 the people of the state by him and by the
Republican party. The intense and sometimes
virulent opposition which was offered TO his
appointment of an Excise Commission and the
ridcule which was hy some directed against
that body have now given place to a realiza-
ton that the commission is an accomplished
and potential fact and TO somewhat anxious
anticipation of the possible results of its work
This. at least. the part of the opponents OF
the Governors policy. On the other hand. a
large body of the people of the state anticipate
the results of the investigation with much sat
isfaction as an indispensable contribution to the
solution of one of the most pressing and weighty
problems in the state government
The lines on which the commission will do its
work have been indicated in its preliminary can
vass for information from the heads of all
Municipalities in New jersey and from the
MAYORS of iftv of the chief cities of the United
States The information asked-and it is pleas
ant to report, generally given-relates to the
amount of license fees charged, the number of
saloon hotel restaurant and club licenses out
standing the manner of granting licenses, the
disposition of the money received from fees, the
regulations to transfer or licenses ana as TO
opening and closing hours of saloons. and the
records of revocations of licenses and of con-
victions for violation of the law. These are OBJ
viousIy all pertinent items of information, which
such a commission has a right to seek and the
securing of which is Indispensable to right
understanding of the excise situation and to an
intelligent report upon the desirable changes 10
be made in the laws.
There is of course thought Of persecution
or of preiudging the case. Governor Forts COM
mission is not conducting a propaganda either
for or against the liquor trade. 1t is seeking
knowledge concerning the condition of that
trade on which may he based legislation for the
correction of the evils which generally con-
ceded to exist. Saloonkeepers as we'll as total
abstainers have long been clamoring for revision
of the excise laws, but there has been no gen
eral agreement to what the changes should
be- nor indeed. could there be any so long as
specifc information concerning the workings Of
the existing laws was lacking The eminentiy
fair and practical work of this commission
should. therefore. meet with the sympathetic
approval and cooperation of all who are inter
ested in the abatement Of abuses and the equi
table Improvement of administration.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-06

been si1ty-eight by-elections OF which forty-
FIVE have been contested. In the whole hst tne
Liberals have not won q single seat rrom tue
Irnionists while the Tnionists have won seven
from the Liberals. The gain in Unionist votes
over the number cast at the general election
aggregates 1888 while the loss Of Liberai
votes is 34450 Such result attained through
a large number of contests In all parts or the
kingdom in all sorts Of local circumstances must
be regarded as significant. It must mean
steady and general growth of tariff reform sen
timent and commensurate waning or deVotioh
to the free trade policies of Cobden II the
present process continues 1t seems not nnrea-
sonable to anticipate a tariff reform majority
in the next House of Commons, and II such
ma iority is secured and protective tarih Id"
is enacted the free trade idol will be cast down
in its own chief temple.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-06
NATIEs NOW AND HEREAFTER.

Mt. Brassey's view of the present naval stu
alton as expressed in the new number of his
standard Annual is decidedly favorable 10
Great Britain. Her navy is as strong II
needs to be according TO the two power rule.
That is TO say. il is equal. if not superior. in
strength TO any two navies which might be
raved against II In respect to the latest types
of ships the Dreadnourht class of battleships
and the In6omita ble class Of arTnored cruisers,
which are coming TO be called battleship cruis
ers. her advantage is particularly great, since
she has six of those tremendous vessels now
CONNECTED while no other power has even one
IN commission.
In hattleships of al classes. including battle
ship cruisers built and now building. Mr.. Bras
sew reports the strength of the various powers
TO be as follows: Great Britain, s3; Germany.
90: the United States. %: France, a; Japan, 16;
Itslv l3: Russia II Those figures give Great
Britain a comfortable surplus over the two
mower nnea surement- II will be observed that
GERMANY is rated as having one ship more than
tbs United States That Is because OF her
larger building programme. OF ships now built
and in commission the United States has "a 10
GerrnanyTs q. but Germany is building to our
8 If from these lists we eliminate those bat
rleshtpe which may fairly be reckoned obso-
descent Mr Brassey's estimate is equally cheer
full from the British point Of view. for he says
that Great Britain has Al modern battleships.
while Germany and America together have
only 3s.
When he looks ahead few years however,
Mr. Brassey is less optimistic. Indeed. he fore
casts the falling OF Great Britain below that
two power standard which some of her shrewd-
est Admiralty officers consider essential TO her
security. At the end Of this year Great Britain
will have ~ modern first class battleships and
the next two powers will have only Al year
later she will have as and they, according TO
present indications, AZ. The end of 1910 will
find her with IS and them with AZ, and the end
of 1911 will see her number increased 10 81 and
theirs TO So In the last named year Germany,
he reckons, will have % ships and America only
25. These figures DO not, however, include bat
tle<hip cruisers II such ships be added Great
Britain VIII have in 1911 not 81 but 55 while
Germany will have % and the United States %
so that the two power standard will still be
maintained
7 hese calcllat tons are not infsllible for the
reason that some of the powers do not adopt
programmes for terms OF years. but make them
specially year by year. That is true of Great
Britain herself also Of the United States.
But IL may properly be assumed that Great
Britain must keep UP good building pro-
gramme If she does not wish TO be surpassed In
strength by combination OF two povers-
though, or course a combina ton OF those two
New-York tribune., 1908-07-06
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FogFIGN-Dispatches from Asuncion sala
that the government had been oVerthroWn 10y
revolutionists and that DR.. Ernliano 1oIiza.s 1,s
Naveiro had been appointed Presioeh., the oL
Ace-s Of the former government have heo 10 TOT
etpr legations: the killed and wounded are esl-
,osfe6 At five hundred -Four hundred pulld-
;n.s s,cIu55ne the arsenal were destroyed by fre
- po-+an- Prince Dutch colonists in Cur
acso have prepared a petition 10 queen Nnhel
r-,ina asking that steps be taken TO hrlns aooul
;ronroz-eS relations with Venezuela - dis
match from Panama gave details or senior
Arias's withdrawal as candidate Tor lne ei
oencv: there runaors that MS aclloh loi-
lowed the receipt Of cable message from tne
T-ritad States - TIE American athletes en-
tered in the Olympic games arrived in London;
an tha members Of the team seemed TO be in
GOOD condition French and Italian chau1-
feurs are favorites in the race for the Interna-
1ional Gun over the Dieppe course on Tuesday
II was reported from London that the Emperor
and Empress Of Russia would be guests OF King
Edward and Queen Alexandra during the yach0-
ing week az Cowes-
ors poured into Denver for the Democratic Ma
rional Convention Senator w Murray
Crane reached Hot Springs Va. where he Vent
at Mr.. Taft's invitation - The sixteen pat
-leships Of the Atlantic squadron are ready for
their departure Tomorrow from San FRANCISCO
on their horneward voyage across the Pacihc.
Indian and Atlantic oceans. - The funeral
Of Joel Chandler Harris took place IN a heaVy
thunderstorm AZ Atlanta = 1t was salo al
Cooperstown N Y that Bishop Potter's i'm
proved condition warranted a decided hope Tor
= favorable outcome of the case - The
SerDdroTre No 3. the June BUG. mace anOIneC
successful flight al Hammondsport n Y, but
was damaged when II alighted- - Three
canoeists were drowned at Medford Mass -
Fourteen persons constituted the Fourth of July
deathroll in New England.
CTTY-The United States government closed
the Caracas Legation because Of the confscation
and destruction Of American property il was
learned - The New York Letter Carriers
Association held a stormy meeting and ousted
its president Fourth Of July prisoners
met VARYING luck in the magistrates courts
- The New York Civil Service Reform AS
sociation asked the State Civil Service Com
mission to investigate alleged violations in the
CITY finance department. - II was an
nounced that the vacation schools would be
opened to-day. - The Public Service Com
mission announced plans 10 conduct exhaustive
tests of safety devices for streetcars at Sche-
nectady and Pittsburg. - Josiah H Eose, n
Office superintendent Of Silver. Burdett & Co.
was found dead al White Plains - There
fox hunt in Bronx Park. in which hun
dreds Of visitors took part - woman who
posed for nine years a man was sent TO the
workhouse for disorderly conduct
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Fair The temperature yesterday: Highest 81
degrees; lowest 75.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-06
PLATT BACK AT THE ORIENTAL.
Senator Takes His Old Rooms at the Seaside
Hotel

Senator Platt has taken his old rooms at the
Oriental Hotel Manhattan Beach where for so
many years he held summer court the easy
boss" OF the Republican organization OF this state
Things have changed much since then, and the
Senator, he expressed himself several weeks
ago. i. practically out OF politics But he is much
attached to the Oriental
With the Senator at the Oriental as last sum
rner, are Mr.. and Mrs Gustav Abel Of the E,rnen-
dorf. No. 11 West 11th street They are old
friends. with whom the Senator has made his
home since he left the Hotel Gotham. two years
age. The Senator gave up his home at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel where he had been for years when
he married Mrs. Janeway They went 70 the
Gotham. but he did not stay there hong after the
second Mrs. Platt became separated from, htr, ana
took ths summer home that they had bought IN
Highland Mills.