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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-20
EXPRESS COMPANIES SETTLE
VIII Pay state $4,000 j., Pack Taxes
and IS a Mile the Current
Year.

Montpelier, Feb. 16.--An agreement sign
ed by Attorney-Gcnora, Fits Cor the
State, the president and treasurer Of the
American Express company. ana the
vice-prcsident and treasurer of tho Ma
tional Express company was filed ycster-
day with the state treasurer which pro-
vidcs for the payment Of back taxes
from these companies. This agreement
Of settlement is also signed Ly Gov. +.
ID. Proctor. Horace +, Graham. auditor
OF accounts. and J. r.. Cushman, state
tax commissioner. It is said the settle
mcnt in cash Will be made within a very
few days.
Cnd"r this agreement the express COM
panics pay $40 co on taxes due in 1895
ana 1906 and agree under the new law to
pay S q mile on tholr business. This
sum of $1,000 for each year is in leu of
all taxes in arrears up to the end Of the
last fiscal year. The National Express
company also agrees to pay s. a mile on
al. business during the current year.
For the year 1900 the American Express
tional express company sos, each COM
pany TO pay tho same sum for 800. The
controversy is Of long standing and
threatened to develop suits against the
com panics. The express companies
claimed that because they were stock
companies they werc exempt from pay
ing corporation taxes.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-20
A song FOR FEBRUARY.
when the gusts Of ~midwinter ha
Whitoncd

Whom the gusts Of midwlntcr have
whitoncd
The graves of tho flowers
Who's warm fragrance and beauty
once frightened
Our happicst hours.
Shall We muse on ono memoried pleas
And mourn for its dcarth?
Nay. my love, here is measure for
measure
Here's home and tho hearth.
There * nothing of i'll can hotidc me-.
Though all Joys but my hearth be de-
MED me,
Whore tho tea kettle singcth its
tune.
And you sit on the settle beside me-.
1t is June, it is juno,
For the joy one feet season hath
taken
Another Is born.
Though our woods, by tho thrrrshcs
~forsaken.
Stand cold ana f~orlorn.
And though voicclcss and brooklct lies
sleeping,
Ice hound in the earth
All. the warmth and the music unlcap-
ing
At home, from the hearth,
There is nothing Of i'll can botiic me.
Though all Joys but my hearth be de-
MED me,
Where the tea kettle sinScth its
tune.
And you sit on tho settle beside me,
1t is June. it is June.
II. y. DAILY, in Catholic Standard and
Times.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-20
ESTATE OF JOSEPH GASALETTE,
CHARLOTTE.
STATE OF VERMONT. Distr CT of Chit

ESTATE or JOSEPH LAyALETTE,
CHARLOTTE.
STATE OF VERMONT, Distr ct Of Chit
tenden.
To all persons Interested in the es-
tate of Joseph Bavalettc, late Of Char
lotte, in said district. deceased,
GRE CITING:
At y Probate Court, holden at Bur
lngton, within and for the District Of
Chittcndcn on the 31st day of Janu-
airy. 1908, an instrument purporting to
be the last will and testament Of
Joseph Lavalettc. late of Charlotte, in
laid district deceased, was presented
to the court aforesaid. for probate.
And 1t is ordered by said Court thai,
the 21st day Of Feb. 1908, at tho Pro.
bate Court rooms in said Burlineton, b.
assigned for proving aid instrument;
and that notice thereof be gil, en- 10
all persons concerned. by publishing
this order three weeks SUCCESSFULLY ir
the Burlington, weekly Free Press. a
newspaper published at Burlington,
previous to tho time appointed.
Therefore, You are hereby notified Ia
appear before said court, at the tlms
and place aforesaid, {; d contest the
probate of said will, II you have cause.
Given under my hand at Burlington,
In said district, this 31st day of Jan
uarN, 1905.
32,w3t Judge.
MABCELLUS 4. BINGHAM.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-20
TIME In MONTPELIER
Ice jam in WinOcski River broke just
in Timc-Storc Cellars Were
Flooded.

Montpelier, Fob. lG.-Montpclier had
an anxious three hours from ten
O'Clock last night until one o'clock
this morning because of threatened
damage by high water. The heavy
rain and high temperature Saturday
caused the Winooski river and its
branches to rise rapidly. The ice in
tho main river went out at nine
o'clock last evening and it was
thought then all danger was ovcr
About eleven o'clock an ice jam form
ed between the city and Green Mount
cemetery, setting tho water back and
flooding nearly all the cellars in the
business part Of tho city with from
one to three feet Of muddy water. The
merchants, who had gone to their
homes. were hurriodly summoned and
they cared as best they could for
their property which was in imminent
danger of destruction. Tho ice gorge
broke shortly after midnight ana the
waters rapidly subsidized.
ROAD BLOCKED BY ICE.
The highway between this city and
Green Mount cemetery was blocked
with huge cakes of ice for a distance
of ncary half a mile. superintendent
of Streets c. Il. Roberts was early on
the ground this morning with a large
force of men and succeeded in getting
a channel cut in time to allow the
funeral procession of Mrs. h. A.
Bishop 10 pass.
Barre suffered considerably las\
evening from flooded cellars, both in
the residential and business parts of
the city. Gunner brook overlooked its
banks and North Main street was rem
dcred impossible.
The electric railway was Knocked
out of business until the waters sub
sided. The track between here n
Barre was under water in several
places last evening,
The property loss in both cities was
small.
1t meadows between this city and
Barre are largely covered with ice
that was left when the water sub
sided.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-20
ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION
How II Has Developed in Various
COuntries-DoinE Cities Work.
CO BE CONTrNUED.)

Tic development Of electrical trans
mission of energy was. without a doubt.
the greatest boon to the Industrial world
In the history of manufacturing. The in
vention Of the transformer enabled tho
engineers to harness the most distant
waterfalls and 10 bring the power within
the industrial centres 10 turn the wheels
of mills and factories, light the streets.
upply power for the street cars and
illuminate the buildings. without this
machine hundreds Of thousands of horse
power low in daily use would still he
tumbling TO waste down the far away
waterfalls and swift-nowing mountain
streams.
Industries require excellent shipping
facilities, so the mills and factories could
not go to the distant inland waterfalls.
The transformer is the machine which
brought the mountain to M%ohammed
Now the water power is changed to
rlcctrlcal power and transmitted over
Slender copper wires to the manufacture
ing centres, Fifteen years ago this
Wou'i have been impossible because,
without the transformer, the current
cou1d not be raised to send 1t under
pressure for any distance. Low voltage
would require a large transmission line
and a heavy loss in current. by way of
explanation, If the water power itself
Were to be transmitted any distance at
low pressure it would take a large canal
TO carry the required amount of water;
but If the water could be sent under high
pressure a small pipe would carry "A
good many hundrcd horsepower. The
transformers raise the voltage and send
the electrical current under high pres
sure over a very small wire, and so
great is this pressure that thousands of
horsepower can be sent to great dis
tances over small wires with very little
losses.
In the last ten years the transformer
has grown from "A few kilowatts to .
few thousand kilowatts In output and
from a few thousand volts to 100, 900 volts
The transformer has no moving parts.
In shape and outline 1t looks not unlike
4 large oval boiler. The interior mech
anism consists Of large coils Of wire
insulated with oil, A cooling device Is
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-20

o'clock Sunday morning and within
u short time the water had risen to q
height of five feet and n half over low
water mark. The men at the power
station at the grist mill had % hard
time keeping the gates free from ice
and floating debris.
The water bounded over the cement
walls near tho extension to tho COL
chester mills and splashed against the
mill windows but did not break
through.
The power station was Obliged to
shut down about three o'clock Satur-
day afternoon and the electric cars
are now getting their power from the
steam plant at the carbonizing plant
of the wooden mills.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-20

Such costly sites arc unremuneratiye I'M
less they can be utilized for structures
Of many stories. Recent building for
residential purposes has not taken the
form, as some years ago, OF expensive
flats 50 much as of hotels proper and
apartment hotels" The apartment
hotel consists of n large number Of pri-
Vate suites. but with the domestic SER
vice ana commissariat Administered as
In an ordinary hotel. At the entrance
there is usually a luxuriously furnished
reception hall instead of a public lounge,
and the general atmosphere is rather
that of an elaborate private establish
fnent. This now institution aims at pro-
vidinr n mean between the isolation of
the private residence and the publicity
Of the normal hotel. In most instances
the rentals paid in apartment hotels are
high, and in some cases possible only
10 persons of great wealth. AS much as
GOO a year per room without board IS
paid in a few establishments Of this kind
in Fifth avenue, Now York.
1t would be easy to moralize on tho
probable effects OF hotel life upon fam
HES that grow mp in such an environ
nent. The spectacle of quite young chill
drcn sitting up with their elders at the
table dhotc and giving their own orders
from the menu is not pleasing. The Ann
crican mild is not as "A rule deficient in
SAVIOR fairc, and his social prccocity Is
likely 10 be inordinatoly stimulated when
the display and excitement Of a fashion
able hotel take tho place Of tho disci-
pine of the nursery. It must be rcmcm-
hered, however, that this criticism does
not apply at all to the country and to
Inc smaller towns. where tho residence
of families in hotels is almost unknown.
though even outside tho large cities tho
popularity OF the boarding house is not
an altogether wholesome factor in the
training of the Young
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-20

An eminent Deyine once preached a
sermon from this text: con building and
builders" He talked of the Worlds
Great Architects, artists, authors. palnt-
ers, sculptors, etc. lie said that every
one. 10 matter how low his station in
life, who left the world better than he
found it, was a builder, that he who
digged a ditch well built for tho worlds
betterment. He might also have added
tina he who discovers n great remodv
like Rydale's Tonic. works for tbe
worlds betterInent Rydale's Tonic is q
human system builder. It purines and
builds the blood. restores weak norvors
systems and increases the stronpth o,a
weight. All who have used Rvd,,o,s
Tonic 1t a great systom tori,
n builder. J. W. O'Sullivan. Rur,,r,-
ton, Stanley & Estey, Winooski
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-20
ST. ALBANS HAD A
SMALL-SIZED FLOOD

st. Albans, Feb. 1G-The recent heavy
snow fall followed by mild weather and
heavy rains, caused a flood of small
proportions here Yesterday. The side
hill residents and the cellars along
main street were principal sufferers,
many cellars getting a foot or moro of
water which came in II volume that
the sewers could not carry it off.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-20
o, VI y.

20. woman. in
Our hours Of ease
Uncertain coy
And hard to please,
1t is not nice
At you to poke
The everlasting
Quip and joke;
But, woman, when
AIS said and done
You can't help it
You're lots OF fun.
About your neck
You wear a fur
When round you
Chilling breczcs whirr
Below the fur
A pcek-a-boo
Permits your dimplcs
To peek through,
A heavy skirt
Your limbs inclose
Your ankles show
Through open hose.
To you, dear. in
Your hours or case
We bag our trousers
At the knees;
Your NO mean Yes"
You know 1t does,
Your eco away!'
In old days was
Our signal to
Hunch closer up;
You arc the bubble
On life's cup!
In CHAD days you're
Some hard to please,
But when we'rc sad,
Dear heart, You freeze
Right tight to us,
The worse u rue
The more you help
Us battle through
To blossomed WAYS
And glints of SUM-;
You're lots of help,
And lots Of fun.
Houston Post,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-20
ESTATE or THOMAS JOHNSON,
WILLiSTON.

STATE OF VERMONT. District of Chit.
tcuGen.
To all persons Interested IN the es-
tate Of Thomas johnson. late Of Will
Iiston, IN said district, deceased.
GREETiNG:
At p Probate Court. holden at Burning
toa. wlthia and For the District of Chitten-
d'r, ON the 10th day of February.
I'o'. asa instrument purporting to be
the last will and testament of Thomas
johnson. late Of Williston. in said dis
triot deceased. was presented to tho
court, aforesaid, for probate.
And it is ordered BY said court that
tho 18th day Of February 1905 at the
Probate court rooms in said Burlington,
ho assigned for proving said instrument;
md that notice thereof be given to all
persons concerned by publishing this or
der three weeks successfully in tho Bur-
t!ngton Weekly Free Press. a newspaper
published at Burlington. in said dis
trict. previous to he time appointed.
Therefore. o are hereby notified to
appear before said Court, at the time
and place aforesaid, and contest the
probate of said will, II you have cause.
Given under my hand at Burlington,
in said district. this 10th day of Feb
ruarY. zoos.
NtRCELLUS A. BINGHAM,
80, W.. Judge.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-20

WANT AID. TIcINC
you may ''trr 'e snlAxr" wit: p, ,ple
in city md country-anythin.: you
have .or something you want.-Oae
kind of farm machinery for another,
one kind of live stoci for ,nothery
one kind of farm product for an
othery your farm itself sOr another
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-02-20
ICE GOES OUT AT WINoosKI
Roar and Crash Heard for Blocks
Power station shut Down.

The ice in the river at Winooski
went out with a roar and a crash that
could be heard for blocks about three
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-01
DRAPER Wins TWO GAMES STATE TOURNAMENT NEXT ROY OR
Teams Lining up for Basketball
Carnival the Coming.
Week.

The basketball fans Of the state are
now looking forward to the state bas-
ketban tournament. which is billed for
Salt Lake next Friday and Saturday.
The entries do not close until next
Tuesday, but already it is almost an
assured fact that the best teams OF
the state will be entered.
The l. of L.. Y. NJ. c. A. l.. D. 5. l..
A. c. and 3 Y. L. have practically
agreed to enter. and it is thought the
B. y. c. viii get in line. Coach Babe
mock Informed EiWOOd Brown of the
games committee yesterday that the
B. 7. c. We're working on a game IN
Chicago and that if they made the trip
east it would be impossible for them
to play here. If not, BadenOck thought
the CrimsOns would be on hand all
right. There is also some talk of the
Lehi, Granite and other of the lighter
teams entering. One thing is assured,
and that is that it viii bring together
the best aggregation of basketball ma
terial that has ever been seen in this
state.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-01
SPRING SPORTS
At UNIVERSITY
Track Men Do First Outdoor
Work-Strong Baseball
Team Promised.

The university track team did its first
outdoor work of the season last week.
The track was in excellent condition and
allowed the track aspirants to get in three
DAYS of outside training. The prelimi-
nary work that has been going on for
the past month in the gymnasium show
ed its good effects and all OF the men
are in excellent condition.
Regular workouts will be held every
afternoon on the athletic field as long
as the weather permits, and Coach Mad
dock believes that he will be able to
get a trial meet next week.
The prospects for the track team are
bright this year. and there seems TO be
no apparent deficiency in any depart
ment.
Baseball Men Busy.
meeting of the baseball men was
held last week and about forty men at
tended The plans of the season were
outlined and the candidates for the nine
are highly in favor of taking a trip out
of the state this year. In addition 70
the games that they will play on the
Intercollegiate league schedule numerous
other contests will be played with the
amateur aggregations of the city. There
are enough men out practicing every
evening to form two teams and Mad
dock expects to have a number of prac-
tice games next week. The men are all
in good condition, most of them were
on the indoor baseball team.
A movement was started last week TO
by the classes in an annual interclaSS
track meet The interclass track meets
were held some years ago but lately they
have been cut out. In order to re-estab-
IiSh them again the athletic council VIII
endeaVor to get d silver loving cup for
gers of the class track teams Will be held
next week to discuss the matter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-01
AUTO RACE IS ON AGAIN
American Car in Iowa While
Closest Competitors Are in
Illinois.

Chicago. Feb 29.-The five contest
ants in the New York-to-Paris automo-
bile race are tonight scattered from
Michigan City, Ind, to Clarence, Iowa.
The latter village. which is a few miles
from Cedar Rapids, is the resting place
of the American car, the leader in the
contest Back of it are the Italian car,
at Rochelle, Ill; the French car No. 1,
at DeKalb, H., and the German car
and the French car No. , at Michigan
City The location of the latter two
was revealed in a telephone message
received here tonight. 1t is said that
they will leave for Chicago tomorrow
morning The American car is now
two days out of Chicago. The first
French and the Italian machines left
here this morning. The army car ar
rived at Boone, Iowa, at 7:45 tonight,
and will, it is expected. reach Car
roll about midnight.
Before leaving Chicago today the driy-
ers Of the Italian car filed formal pro-
test against the American car This docu-
ment recites that the American machine
was altered while il was undergoing re-
pairs at Buffalo; that 1T was toWed two
days without the motor running; that it
was toWed by a trolley car in Indiana.
that it used the railroad tracks between
Michigan City. Ind. and Chicago, anu
that il was put on SledgeS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-01
ROY ORDERED TO ATLANTA
Griffith Has Not Yet Got Castleton's
Signature to Con-
fro cf

Roy Castleton mas been ordered TO
report to Atlanta. Ga, by Clark Crit
fifth, manager of the New York Ameri-
cans, for spring practice. Castleton
must be on hand by March s, and will
probably leave Salt Lake some time ear
ly next week.
1t will be remembered that Castleton
has not, signed a contract to play with
New York, and that he has already re-
turned two contracts sent him because
the terms did not suit Castleton ex-
pected'tO receive word that he had been
sold when his last refusal reached New
York, but instead got a letter yesterday
ordering him to report at Atlanta with
the rest of the team.
This would indicate that Griffith in
tends to talk the matter over" in
stead of trying to bulldoze the Salt
Lake tWirleT into signing a contract
that suits Griffith alone. Castleton has
several good offers to pitch outside of
New York, but viii be unable to do any
thing unless he can come to some kind
of an agreement with Griffith.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-01
NICK ALTR0CK'S JOB.

Charley Comiskey, the owner of the
Chicago American League club, is one
of those individuals who is always to
the fore when it comes to doing the
fatherly advice act, and he never tires
of shooting good ideas into the heads
of the lively ball players who work for
him.
But very often Charley strikes
snag when he is engaged in ladling out
the brand of uplifting material that
parent usually passes on to his Off
spring.
One of the main stumbling blocks in
the path of Mr.. Comiskey when he
springs his advice is the merry and al
together irrepressible Nick Altrock, the
outstanding pitcher Nicholas is not
given to listening to advice of any
kind. and he does not hesitate TO show
his distaste for it,
One day last summer, as COmmy was
paying off the boys, he took the occa-
sion to shoot the ambitious brand of
dope into his little company. Among
other things, Comiskey said:
Always strive to get to the top of
the heap, and to do this you must
thoroughly learn whatever business
you embark in from the beginning to
the end, and the way to do this" con-
tinued the old Roman, lis to start at
the bottom of the ladder and work up"
"Pshawr broke in Altrock, L tried
that once. / went to work in hard
ware store once, and 1 started at the
bottom of the ladder and went up, and
when / got to the top they put me to
washing windows"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-01
AUSTRALIAN RIDERS COMING
Mcfarland Writes That He Will
Bring Over Six Fast
Ones,

Manager Johnnie Chapman OF the
SaItair bicycle track received a letter
from Floyd Mcfarland yesterday IN
which the elongated Californian says
he will bring over half a dozen Austria
liam riders with him this season. Among
the riders are Jackie Clarke, Farley,
the Australian champion, Pedlar Pal
mer. Brooks, and two others who Nc
Farland says will be good ones. This
would indicate that the dearth of bicy-
Gle riders at Salt Lake this season viii
not be as great as expected when it
was announced so many would ride in
the east this year.
Chapman is now located at Saltair
looking after the building of the new
track. He says the platform which Will
form the arena of the new track is al
most completed and that work on the
track proper will starta within a short
time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-01
Close Race Now on for Champion
ship of Jordan School
League.

The West Jordan and Draper teams
in the Jordan school district school
both the boys and girls teams of ORA
per won their games. The games were
played in a windstorm. The teams are
competing for a silver loving cup Of
fered by c. c. Grape & Sons of Sandy,
and the cup will be awarded TO the team
scoring the greatest number of points in
the series. The final game for this cup
will be played at Sandy on March IA,
between the Draper and Union teams,
who are leading the league. The num-
Der of points won by each team up to
date is as follows: Draper, 273; Union,
25S: West Jordan, 2O9; Sandy, 207; Riv-
erton los: East Jordan. 1906
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-01
TY coBB's WAY.

Tyrus Cobb, he of the swatting pro-
clivities, aside from his being a lad who
wants senatorial salary TO play ball. is
also a youth who works the squeeze
play on every dollar that happens to
come into his capacious claw.
Such a trait was probably responsible
for the almost complete ostracism that
was handed to him by the rest of the
Detroit men on the first entry into ma
jor league circles by the chesty young
Georgian.
wild" Bill Donovan, who is a regular
'cut-up, and always on hand with a
story. was telling some time ago about
how he and Cobb were strolling down
Broadway in New York, when beg
gar came up and hating before them,
said to Cobb
Please, mister. won't you gimme 10
cents for a bed?"
Sure" said Cobb, with bargain-sale
light in his eye, but where is the bed?"