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Evening journal., 1909-12-07
SPRINGS WINS
FROM BALTIMORE
Takes Fast Polo Game From
MaryIanderS by | TO 0
Score

The Springs roller polio team for tho
second time I'm succession in their game
last night defeated the hithertofore
indicated Al. a. c. five. Mickey
Whitehurst has many times said that
the team that would ultimately defeat
the champions was the Springs five Of
Wilmington. lt is true the team
played under the colors Of the All
Baltimore team. but the lineup shows
every member of the NJ a. G. team
and only them with the exception Of
the new half-back Of the M. A. c., in
whose place they used Whiting, the
captain of the rink team and the best
half-back i'm Baltimore. The score
was tie. neither side scoring until fif-
teen minutes Of the second had been
played, when Coward marked one for
the Springs on a pass from Beatty
Last nights game was a well-played
one. In the first half, which lasted
20 minutes, the Baltimoreans kept tho
BAH in Wilmington's territory most Of
the time.
The visitors won the game by
the score Of 1 to 0. and the goal was
shot after eight minutes of extra play
Consequently every polo enthusiast
realized that the battle would be close.
After a Commute rest the teams
tried again Beatty, first rush Of the
Springs, appeared TO get better in tile
second half, and tho Baltimoreans
scented trouble. They started off in
"a vicious manner, and within two min
utes two shots were made for goal
Guest was on the job and blocked the
ban easily. He had hardly recovered
from killing these two efforts TO enter
his domain before third shot came
his way. He was on guard and sent
the ball out again. The GOODNESS and
excellent Judgment of Guest brought
much applause He saved the game in
those Eve minutes.
Then the Springs began to show
stamina. They got busy and kept the
ball i'm Baltimore's territory. The half
was growing to a close and it looked
as though there would be another
extra session game.
Suddenly Beatty made an effort to
shoot a goal. He missed, but his side
partner. Coward, was there. and with
a smash sent the bill into Grihin's net
Only two more minutes were left and
the Springs, playing on the defensive,
Evening journal., 1909-12-07
PUT THERMOMETERS
THROUGH HARD TEST

Each day at the Weather Bureau in
Washington. the thermometers receive
ed from various manufacturers
throughout the country are put
through the test OF standardizlng
them.
The various processes through which
the bulbs pass before they are la
belled accurate" are easy, inasmuch
as there IS practically little scientific
work attached TO the test. When a
thermometer is first handed to tho
man in the testing room it is dipped
into vat filled with a compound far
below the freezing point. IL is thurst
in at the point where II happens to be
at the time and worked up and down
until the degree of the compound is
reached.
Having then recorded the lowest
temperature, the process OF testing for
the highest is begun. This is Just as
simple as testing for the low tempera-
ture. The bulb is dipped into a vat Of
water, first at 60 degrees. Then it is
worked gradually until 1870 degrees is
reached. If the mercury in the bulb
will indicate 1870 degrees. further test
ing is unnecessary, because that is %
tolerably warm temperature and ono
seldom II ever reached by natural
heat.
A thermometer the bulb of which
contains mercury will not register be-
low 2S degrees below zero. but IN the
far north they are necessary. Such
instruments, however, contain spirits
in the bulb instead Of mercury: but
even this fluid becomes sluggish when
40 or so below zero is recorded, and
IL will seldom show so below.
Evening journal., 1909-12-07

DC was taken into custody by Mr.. Stewart
on leaving AIR. Handy's office Tie said
he escaped from the school sometime ago,
but did not remember the year.
Tho manner in which Mr.. Handy Ques-
toned the Witness caused Mr.. Prickott to
suggest that the Witness be allowed to
tell his own story
Nr. Handy remarked that tho witness
was under duress, and he told Mr.. Priehett
that he wanted no advice on how to quos-
ton the witnesses.
AZ this point. Mr. Lyman agreed that
Mr.. Stewart should leave the room
while the witness was testifying, If
Mr.. Handy so wished. The hitter,
however. had no objection TO Mr..
Stewart remaining.
The witness in reply TO a question
asked by Mr.. Handy said he was
whipped ON one occasion with $50
lashes. being made to bend over twice.
and receiving 20 blows each time. He
was shown strap offered I'm evidence.
and said the whipping was done with
a wider strap. A similar strap was
shown and he admitted that II was
the one used on him.
The witness said the SS.55 belonging
70 him was taken from him when he
was admitted TO the school. Mr. Boyer.
he said. took II from him.
When he called at the school for
his money after returning to VIII
mington. the witness said. he was not
detained by Mr. Stewart. but remained
a week TO await Mr.. Boyer to get his
money, but the latter did not arrive,
and the witness then left the school.
In cross-examlnation the witness
testified that Hugh Grub was pres
ent when he was whipped, the twotre-
ceivlng the same number of lashes.
Grubb had previously testified that
he had been whipped with forty
lashos.
Mr. Pritchett produced a vicious
looking knife. made from case knife,
sharpenod to point, and asked
Hamilton IL the weapon had not been
taken from him yesterday. He adj
mittod that it had. Asked why he
had the knife, he replied 'to cut
wood"
Mr. Handy admitted that the knife
was dangerous weapon for the boy
To- have. but ho did not see whore il
had anything to do with the present
investigation.
Hamilton was asked II he had not
placed stolen Undertaking In his
trunk. lie replied that the clothing
was given to him by the wife of an
officer Of the school.
Mr. Handy again objected. and
Hamilton was allowed to leave the
stand.
Boy Appears in ShaelSles.
Elmer Pfenor, the boy who was al
legged to have been beaten by Guard
Mayne. was the next witness. He
appeared shaclSled. He testified about
his efforts 10 escape when Mayne and
some Ferris School boys captured him.
lie said he was knocked down by
Wayne with a fence rail- 1T was not
splinter" he said. "but q medium
size rail" He said Mayne said to
him when he struck him: you win
throw stones at me" at the same time
uttering oaths.
The witness said he was not able to
get into the wagon unaided, which
took him back to the school He said
he told DIR. Greenwood. when the lat
ter examined him. that he was sore
an over. aud said the feeling was due
to the beating he had received.
The witness said he was also attacked
by Ferris school boy, Frank Nc
Cloneghan, who was with Mayne and
the other boys.
Evening journal., 1909-12-07

icer, now with another institution testified
10 Hazel Lane, former inmate of tho
school, attacking him and attempting 10
cut him with a putty knife, when the
witness stopped him from making his
escape
The witness denied the evidence OF tho
vac obmnd hrdlucmfwy shrdl hrdlupmm
boy named Ennis, who testified that he
was whipped with a bull strap in the pres
ence OF Campbell.
Campbell further testified that he had
seen other boys whipped. The strap put
IN evidence, he said, was the one used
In cross-examination the witness said
he never counted the blows the boys re-
ceived. but did remember that they re-
ceived five and ten blows at one whipping
but did not recall how many times they
stopped over during their punishment.
Probers in 2 Wransle.
Mr.. Lyman and MT Handy got into dis
pute relative to the further presentation
Of the case
Mr.. Lyman wanted to call additional
witnesses in behalf OF the officers Of the
school and Mr.. Handy objected and want
ed TO have Harry Hamilton. a boy at the
this boy would not be produced
Mr. Lyman took exception TO this remark
and said Hamilton would De produced. He
said no officers Of the school would pre-
vent Hamilton from appearing.
Mr. Handy made the remark that he
had his Suspicious"
Contractor Defends Institution.
At this point George $. Charles, a Will
mington contractor, who Is erecting a new
building for the Ferris School institution.
testified that he had seen boys at the
school wearing chains. lie did not think
the chains interfered with the boys move
ments. and one boy had told him they
didn't Some OF the boys. he said. he em-
ployed at 81 day and the chains did not
interfere with them in their work.
Mr. Handy asked the witness If he
would like his boy to wear chains. mo.
would not" replied Mr. Charles. ''but
II 1 could not controfany of my boys 7
would bring them 10 this school myself.
for from my personal observation il Is a
good institution"
Hugh Grubb. OF No. SOC West Fifth
street "A former inmate of the school.
testified that he, Harry Hamilton. a boy
named Carpenter and some other boys
were whipped by Guard Boyer on ono oc-
casion for chewing tobacco.
The strap offered in evidence was shown
to the. witness and he said 1t was the one
used on him and the other boys. lie said
he received ten lashes. at 4 time and
stopped over about four times.
Asked If Carpenter was whipped with n
trace strap. as the latter had testified,
when they were all whipped the witness
said the same strap used OH him was used
ON Carpenter.
In cross-eNamination the witness said
he was out of the school on parole and
admitted he might be brought back He
said he had been whipped eight or ten
times while he was In the school.
Witness said that while he was at the
school somebody was whipped there al
most every day
Evening journal., 1909-12-07
TESTIMONY AT
FERRIS SCHOOL
Contlnned ION BID |.


20 the effect that he had not been hrutalv
treated at the school The witness said
St appeared to him that 81 was compulsory
for him to sign tho paper ON pain OF bo-
ing taken back 70 the school
Ennis further testified that boys were
not allowed water during the time old
foundation walls were being razed. He
said he had been refused water az a
time when he suffered considerably from
thirst He also told OF being shaclSied be-
cause he had made an unsuccessful at
tempt to escape from the school
Ennis said he had wide iron band
around his leg and was shackled to an
other boy. He said he was compelled to
bind four handkerchiefs around his leg
10 keep the band from iniuring him.
The witness testified that he was beaten
for an onensc with forty lashes by MIR.
Boyer a guard, and when he begged for
mercy. Mr.. Boyer struck him IN the face
md knocked him In q corner. Ennis also
testified that he was kicked in the groin
on one occasion by one OF the Ferris
school officers named Ezra Hamilton.
whom he said was drunk at tho time. He
afterwards lost his position.
Tn croas-examination the witness said
no lived with his parents az No. $50 Van
dover avenue. lie said he had served
three and a half years at the school and
during that time had made two attempts
10 escape The boy told OF having been
whipped a number OF times, once with n
bun strap one and three-quarter inches
wide and one-quarter inch thick
Mr.. Lyman produced the affidavit which
rho witness signed i'm tho presence OF Mr..
Price lie admitted signing tho paper,
and said ho gave answers to the questions
which were asked by Mr.. stewart IN tho
presence of two ladies in the office of the
Ferris School lie said he made no obiec-
fions 20 aignins the paper fearing Mr..
Stewart would not release him, II he did.
Tho questions and answers Ia tho ara
davit were read to Ennis and ho said
that tho answers he made 20 somo of the
questions were not true and that he made
them IA the manner in which they ar-
pesrod IN the affidavit in fear Of being
kept IN the school
Air. Handy asked Ennis II he ever saw
any other boys whipped and ne replied
that ne watched through q crack I'm a
door the whipping of two boys, Patterson
and Golden. Ropes aud straps, ho said,
were used. Tho witness also said that he
had seen a colored boy named John Miller
beaten and choked 10y Guard Boyer unul
iis complexion changed. Tho statement
caused smile. ennis ala Miller was uscd
go roughly that Mrs Boyer. who was
standing near. begged hor husband TO de-
slst Ennis said the Miller hoy was beaten
because he he'd TIED string around %
cats tail
Captured Boy Tells Of Whipping.
Harry c. Hamilton who win be "a
years OF age ON December 2S next. an I'M
mate of the school, testified that he was
taken IN charge boy superintendent Stew
art outside the elevator door in the Ford
Building, after he. had lett the office OF
Mr. Handy
The witness explained that he went TO
Mr. nmdy's office TO get the latter 20
collect Ss.l5 owed him boy the school and
Evening journal., 1909-12-07
Forner conaressman Rurton Here

Former Congressman Hiram r. Bur-
ton went 20 Philadelphia this morning
to attend tho annual dinner Of tho
Sons Of Delaware there tonight From
Philadelphia Dr. Burton will go TO
Washington to attend the National
Rivers and Harbors Congress. Dr.
Burton spent several hours with
friends here before going to Philadel-
phia.
Evening journal., 1909-12-07

blocked any chance the Ail-star had
10 tic the score.
Wilmington. Ail-Star. Baltimore.
Beatty First rush, w. Whitchurst
Coward ....Second rush ........IOgan
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-14
NEW UNIFORMS ARRIVE
National Guardsmen to Be Decked
Out in Olive Drab.

Montpelier. April 12.-The olive
drab service uniforms of the National
Guardsmen. which will make the Yer
mont boys look nobby and nice this
summer. are arriving at the state ar
senal. The entire equipment may be
here within the next two or three
weeks inside of a month anyway, ii is
thought. Half the coats are yet to
come. They are overdue and should
have been here now, but the shipment
was delayed. The breechs and leg
gins have arrived.
The new uniforms are of wool. and
their coming has been looked forward
TO by the boys. They will be used for
time as sort of Sunday go meet
ing clothes. and will be put on on star
occasions when the blue uniform is
not called for. The old kahki will be
used for service and the olive drab
and blue for the dress-up affairs when
the lads want to make fine showing
OF course it will be only a matter of
time when these uniforms will be
used as service garments for which
they were intended.
Adjutant General Gilmore states
that he cannot set a definite day when
they would be sent out Capt Baker
would go to work on what has arriv-
ed. sorting them out and putting them
in shape for speedy shipment so that
when all are here they can be dis
patched without delay. He would
like to see the boys have the uniforms
by the middle of May. anyway.
Gen. Gilmore has husbanded his
call on the national government so
that he was able to get the new uni
forms this year. They will arrive
just in time for muster which will be
held this year beginning July 4. The
regiment will be in camp during the
Tercentenary week at Burlington and
VIII be located as usual at the state
camp grounds netar Fort Ethan Allen.
The new uniforms are like those
now worn by the officers, being of the
same texture and color and are the
same as those worn by the regulars.
II is fact not generally known that
the government expends on an aver
age of $4,000 year ON the National
Guard in Vermont.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-14
THE TERcENrENARY
Contribution to Memorial Fund-The
Historical BookIet-Notes

Additional contributions to the
memorial fund of the Lake Champlain
Tercentenary Commission received
since the publication of the last list
of contributors are given below.
Maxwell Evarts of Windsor is a
contributor to the amount of 500
and In the letter which he wrote
to Secretary Hays of the Com
mission he said that he hoped the
contributions would reach a hand
some sum and that the celebration
in every respect would rebound to
the credit of the state
Interest is also being manifested
by people outside of Vermont In the
celebration and this interest is in.
creasing every day. Contributions to
the memorial fund should be sent to
Frank l.. Fish, Treasurer, Vergennes
Vermont
The historical booklet prepared by
Horace w. Bailey, a member of the
commission is now on the press. This
booklet is to be distributed to the
school children of Vermont and sold
to the public at 25 cents a copy. Cop
les can be procured by addressing
Secretary Hays, 1876 Main street, Bur
lington, VT.
The following are the additional
contributions to the memorial fund -
Percy b. Pope, Bethlehem, Pa, 81 |;
F. ID. Rutherford, Los Angeles, Cal,
IS; II. w. McKinnon, st. Louis, Mo-,
So; Dane R. Conway. Pittsburg, Pa,
81; B. p. Sparrow, Somerville, Va,
81; Leslie M. Saunders, st. Regis
Falls, n. Y. 81; Stephen NJ. Foote,
Jaskson Barracks. New Or, So; Geo.
NJ. Wright, Orwell, VT, $40; C. o.
Howes, Shelburne, VT. 81; William
T. Hulburt, Los Angeles, Cal, so
cents; George F. Edwards, Pasadena
Cal. $50; w. A Farnsworth. Glen
Ridge. N. j., 81; Grace NJ. Dutchen,
Hopedale. Mass, IS; Phil S. Howes,
Montpelier. Vt, ST. William r. Dewey
Montpelier. Vt, So; Fred M. Corse,
st. Petersburg, Russia. $40; Maxwell
Eyarts, Windsor, VT, 800: DIR. G. C.
Berkeley. st. Adams, VT, 81; Miss S.
NJ. Landon, Washington, d. c., 81;
Mayor f. r. Campbell, Washington,
d. c., 81; w. S. Pomeroy, Washing
ton, d. c.. So; William H. w. Bene-
dict, Dover, N. H., so cents; w. F.
Hagar. Wallingford, Vt, rs cents;
DR.. Charles II. Prindle, Chicopee.
Mass, 49, ID. P. Learned, Norwich,
Conn, So: Charles b. Gray. Burling-
ton, VT, IS.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-14
The Lax Law Problem.

The New Hampshire legislature
created a permanent state tax com
mission. VermOnt's lawmakers re-
fused to do so. And almost immedi.
ately after the adjournment of the
session, the listers of the various
counties began to assemble in county
meetings to attempt to establish for
themselves in an unofficial way that
very standard of uniform administers
ton of the various features of the law
that would be established by just such
permanent state tax commission.
Only now we have, or may have, four
teen hating, uncertain and altogether
unauthorized standards, with no as
surance that they will even endure
two years alike in the same county,
or that the very men that made them
are to be relied upon altogether to in
terpret or enforce them alike in their
own home towns.
We need one tax law for all the
people alike and one Interpretation
of that law and one stand rd of ad-
ministration of that law for all the
people alike The way to get it is
through the authority and oversight Of
StdtS ldA COulIlilaSloH VI Htdit ldA
commissioner. But we didn't get ii
from the legislature. And now the
very attempts the listers in the sew
eral counties are making to get to-
gether" and agree on some definite
and approximately uniform interpret
alton and administration of an admit
tedly unjust and inefficient law, are
the most striking evidence of the mis-
take of the legislature in not putting
tax law standard into the hands of
some centralized power.-St. Adams
Messenger.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-14
NEW LAW TOO RIGOROUS
Undertakers and EmbaImers Object
to Recent Statute.

Undertakers and Embalmers Object
to Recent Statute.
A majority of the undertakers OF
Vermont, including some of those in
this city, are opposed to the act OF
the last general assembly governing
the licensing of embalmers and the
shipment of human remains on rail
roads, says the Rutland News. The
law, which is designed primarily to
force every undertaken in the state
to take out license, is claimed to be
too stringent and the claim is made
that il will not stand because of an
old statute which has never been re-
pealed. II is understood that under
takers in various places are preparing
to fight the law and it is quite prob
able that a test case will result SOON
er or later.
Until the new act became effective
the Vermont laws required an under
taker and embalmer to be registered
in order to practice legally but he did
not have to pass rigid examinations
and pay So for a license If he passed
the examination as is now the case.
embalmer can ship on the railroads
bodies Of persons who died from CON
tagious diseases and in the case of a
death from a non-contagious disease
body prepared by man who is
merely registered under the old law
cannot be carried on a train unless
II can reach its destination within 80
hours after death.
1t is this last provision which is es-
pecially Objectionable TO the unlicens-
ed undertakers, now greatly in the
majority. They say II is practically
prohibition against their handling
cases where the burial is to be in an.
other town than the one In which
person dies. II family wants ser
vice in their home. as is generally
the case, or II death occurs in some
place several miles from the railroad
il is nearly impossible to get body
to its destination within 80 hours af-
ter death.
The new law places licensing of
undertakers under the direction OF
the state board of health. The ex-
pected test case will probably come
when some local health officer, act
ing under the instruction of the state
board of health, refuses to issue
permit for transportation to some un'
dertaker who is merely registered.
It is understood that Burlington and
st. Adams have not single licensed
embalmer. Two of the Rutland fu-
neral directors are licensed men and
two are not and the working of the
law in the two northern cities where
it is said, no attention is being paid
to the new statute. is watched with
interest by those interested in this
city.
DR. c. F. Ball, Rutland health Off
Ger. will observe the 30-hour limit to
the letter in issuing transportation
permits.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-14
Would You Enjoy
Healthy Old Age?

There is reason why persons Of three
score years and ten cannot be active.
bright and healthy.
In old people, matter how healthy
the individual might otherwise he. there
is often tendency TO GOODNESS OF the ex-
tremities. sluggishness OF the circulation.
tOrpidity OF the liver and constipation.
This tendency is really a condition, and
one Of the many Accomplishments OF old
age. and not disease. II there Is one
remedy more peculiarly adapted for this
condition than another. that remedy is
Smiths Pineapple and Butternut Pills
They impart energy to the whole system.
invigorate the circulation Increase the
flow OF digestive juices thus Improving
the stomach action and nutrition They
quickly relieve ali unpleasant symptoms
usually experienced by old people. result
ing in torpidity Of the liver. constipation.
feeble circulation headaches etc
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-14
STORE WINDOW FELL OUT
Two Men Cut About Head and Face
at ddlebury-Fireman Dead.

Middlebury, April 13.-A large plate
glass window in the toy store of c. F.
Rich, across the street from the AT
wood building, which was burned Sat
urday morning, having been loosened
by the heat of the fire, suddenly fell
to the street yesterday morning about
$50 o'clock, striking several persons
who were standing. on the sidewalk,
watching the fire ruins. c. F. Rich
suffered cuts on the head, face and
right arm. George Wilson was cut
about the head and face. Both men
were removed to the Office of DR. E.
H. Martin where their wounds were
dressed, it being necessary to take sew
eral stitches in Mr.. Wilson's face.
The funeral of Harry Kelley, the
fireman, who was so seriously injured
by the falling of wall in the Atwood
building Saturday morning and whose
death occurred at the Mary Fletcher
hospital in Burlington Sunday morn
ing, will be held at the home of his
brother Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock