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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-09
HETrY GREEN AT ST. REGIS
Takes an inexpensive Room There to
be Near Her Daughter.

Mrs. Hetty Green has taken room
at the Hotel St Regis having a de-
sire to be near her daughter who was
recently married and is now living
at 440 Madison Avenue. Mrs. Green's
stay is expected to be for few weeks
only.
She told the management of the St
Regis that she would only consent to
stop there providing no publicity was
given to the fact that she was guest
She did not desire luxurious apart
ment, and was at her request assign
ed to a room with bath for which
the regular charges of the hotel is So
a day. She took with her small
trunk and a handbag.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-09
COURT sTENoeRAPHER
Miss G. Sadie Smith Will Otficiate at
NeWfane.

Brattleboro, April 9.-Judge Fred NJ.
Butler of Rutland, has appointed Miss
G. Sadie Smith of Rutland official
stenographer for the April term of the
Windham county court, which will
convene at Newfane next Wednesday.
Charles S. Chase of this town. for
merly of Nottingham, has been the
Windham county court .stenographer
many years but on account of his law
practice it has seemed best for him
to give up the position. The appoint
ment of Miss Smith is only for the
coming term. 1t is expected that
some Brattleboro person will be APP
pointed later to hold the position per-
manently.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-09
MRS EFFoRo STEVENS DEAD
Died at Her Home on Putnam Street
This Morning.

Mrs. Mary Dunn Stevens wife of
Efford Stevens, passed away about s
o'clock this morning at her home on
Putnam street after an illness of about
three weeks following child birth.
Mrs. Stevens wCs a native of this
town, being born here 81 years ago.
She was a daughter OF the late Bert
Dunn and wife. Besides a husband
and three small children she leaves
her mother, Mrs. Bert Dunn, one sis
ter, Mrs. Myron Stlatton. and broth
er, John Dunn
The deceased had many friends who
are grieved to learn OF her untimely
death. The father and children have
the sympathy OF the entire community
in their sad bereavement.
The funeral arrangements are not
yet completed Notice of same will
be published in tomorrow's issue.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-09
MAY SPANK DAUGHTER OF II
Detroit Police Judge UphoIds Fathers
Right When Girl Causes Arrest.

Detroit, April Sin the police court
here today, Justice Jeffries upheld the
right of father to administer the
oldfashioned spanking TO his seven
teen-year-old daughter, even If her
dignity suffered. Margaret Granzin,
aged II, had her father arrested for
disturbing the peace after spanking.
Granzin told the Judge that the pun
ishment was part of an effort to keep
his daughter away from cheap theat-
res, and the Justice decided that
spanking young ladies of II was per-
MISSILE.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-09
WEATHER FORECAST

Probabilities for This Section for the
Next "a Hours.
For eastern New York and western
Vermont fair and colder tonight.
Temperature below freezing in inter
ior. Heavy frost in extreme south
portion. Saturday fair
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-09
HANLY TO FIGHT BEvERIDeE
Former Governor of Indiana to Run
for Senator on Temperance Platform

La Porte. Ind, April S.-Friends of
ex-Gov. J. Frank IIanly say that for
NAL announcement will be made of
his candidacy for United States Sena-
tor against Albert ]. Beveridge.
Mr.. Hanly, it is asserted, believes
his battle for temperance will give
him a lead in the Legislature.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-09
Afternoon Session
Public Missionary Meeting

oCAiN -HA~~iNNAN'fd
Devotional Exercises.
Address by Rev. W. o. Berokman, SUI
perintendent of Mount,in White
Work, A. NJ. A.
Address by F. H. Wiggin, Treasurer,
A. b. c. F M.
Address by Rev. Otis Carey, d. D.,
Missionary in Japan, A. B. c. F.
NJ.
Address by Rev. G. J Powell, super
intendent for North Dakota, c. H.
M. S.
Address by Miss Miriam Woodbury.,
Secretary of Woman's Depart
ment, c. H. NJ. S.
Address by Rev. G. H. Gutterson,
Eastern Secretary, A. M. A.
Prayer service
Address Speaker to be announced)
Evening Session
Supper will be served in the chapel
for 25 cents.
Public meeting, President Garfield of
Williams college presiding.
Brief addresses by Mr.. Barckman DR..
Carey, Miss Woodbury. and others
as time may allow
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-09
DISTRICT MEETING
OF Congregational Churches in VIII
Jamestown on Tuesday April 10

TTd'''S'OVV' UT '"007y'
A meeting of the Congregational
churches in this district win be held
in the Congregational church at viii
Jamestown on Tuesday. April 10, I'M
der the auspices of the joint mission
airy campaign.
The churches which are to be rep
resented at this meeting are as fol
lows Williamstown, First, South,
White Oaks: Adams, North Adams,
bennington, First, Second, North; and
Pownal The following program will
be carried out:
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17

The second white rhinoseros ever
captured alive in Africa has been
brought to a museum near Brussels.
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New Hampshire or Rhode Island class,
while she sinks into insgniticance
when ranged alongside the North Da-
kota.
But what of that. She belonged 10
an era when she was just as represen-
tative of the fighting strength afloat
as are any of the ships of that time.
Her history fills pages of the brightest
annals Of maritime warfare, and her
decks ran red with the blood of men
who were fighting for their rights ana
made possible the nation as it Is to-
day.
Is 1t any likelihood, therefore, that
this noble craft should go to the junk
dealers and become a prey to the
torch Of the shipbreaker? Not much.
and it is likely that if her timbers
will hold together she will be in exis-
tence when many a steel warship of
decade or two ago will have been
broken up as worthless.
The navy also has other maritime
pensioners. They are all vessels built
from IS to so years ago as sailing
craft, but are now scattered around at
the many navy yards, where they are
used for various purposes. All OF them
are housed over, just as the Consti-
tuition, and present an odd appearance.
These vessels are listed as "unscrv-
iceable," and among them is the
jamestown, in the marine hospital
service and stationed in Hampton
Roads.
There are eight of the old craft
Franklin, Wabash, independence, Pen
sacola. Richmond, Philadelphia Han
cock and Lancaster-used for receiving
ships at different navy yards, while
there are some Others like the old
Santee and the Dale, that the govern
ment hardly recognizes at all as being
worthy of mention in the list The
old Hartford, Admiral Farragut's flag
snip, is still in commission, and only
last year a small fortune was ex-
pended upon the old Constellation to
rebuild her that she might again carry
under her own canvas the flag she
bore in 1872, while another ship of the
same name. built at the Norfolk navy
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ship, the Constellation, are the only
floating relics of the war of 1912, and
she now occupies a berth of honor at
the Charleston navy yard, near Bos-
ton.
1t is true that she little resembles
the vessel she was in her prime, and
she has been rebuilt so often that
there is not much of the original tim
Der left, but it is what she represents
more than what she is that makes
her so revered by all Americans who
can never forget the gallant part she
50 well played and the name she made
for herself when men fought hand-to-
hand conflicts on vessels dashed side
to side.
With her once lofty spars repre-
sented by three slender sticks and her
decks covered with a shed that makes
her look more like Il houseboat than
anything else, the old Constitution
presents sorry figure when compared
with the great steel warships of the
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17

with a sister ship named the Expert
ment. She was finally wrecked In the
West Indies.
There was a sloop of war named the
Enterprise that took part In the Lake
Champlain campaign and battles of
1776, but of her subsequent history lit
tie is known, and she was probably
destroyed by the Americans to prevent
her falling into the hands of the
British.
The third Enterprise was schooner
of 1874 tons, purchased in New York
in 1891 and II years later sold, becom-
ing u merchantmen She made no war
record, and her principal claim to
recognition is that she was commanded
by many officers who later distin-
guiShed themselves.
During the civil war there was no
vessel in the navy named Enterprise,
but in 1876 at Kittery, Maine, there
was launched the present vessel of
that name. She could steam about Il
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17

The st. Mary's first duty was In the
Mexican war. when she landed troops
at Vera Cruz, in 1S47, and later she
hroupht to this country the trophies
of victory. She was then sent TO the
Pacific, where she remained untii 'he
close of the civil war, when she was
again ordered to the Atlantic. Wnlie
in the Pacific, however, she lookeu
out for the interests Of the union py
chasing confederate privateers, ana ON
occasion thwarted the privateer Sheh-
andoah In her design upon score OF
ships in the Chincha islands
In 1869 the ship was at Valparaiso
when the Spanish admiral Pinzon, ana
his fleet sailed in. The Spanlard
wanted to lombard the town, but cap
tain G.. NJ. Colvocoresses, who was de-
sirous of protecting American inter-
ests ashore. anchored her between the
city and the Spanish fleet
Admiral plnzon sent an arrogant
note. in which he stated that unless
| the St Mary's was moved at once she
would have 10 take the consequences,
| for he proposed to lombard the port
| This note brought reply that was
| characteristic and right to the point
| After stating that his vessel was an
| chored in position entirely to ms
satisfaction, the plucky American
| skipper concluded by stating that II
| there were a bombardment care should
| be exercised that none OF the shots
| struck the vessel. for, while he realized
| the weakness of his vessel as com
pared to the squadron, his ship repre-
scented 5000 guns on the sea. There
was no bonbardment.
| About 25 years ago the St. Mary $
| was turned over to the New York
nautical school, and up to last summer
she was used by that organizations
| she was practically rebuilt three years
| ago but the desire of the school to
obtain more modern craft led the
government to condemn and dispose
of her.
Her ultimate fate was that she was
recently placed on the beach at Point
of Pines. Mass, and burned, for the
sake OF the copper and other metal
with which she was put together.
The steam sloop of war Enterprise
| is the fourth of that name to fly the
national war flag. The second was
the armed schooner, which, from her
remarkably successful career in the
brief naval war with France, 1799-lSOO;
| in the brilliant operations against the
barbary powers, 1Sol-1S05, and in the
war with England, 1Sl2-1Sl4, became
known in the service as THE Lucky
Little Enterprise"
Among the young men who saw
service on her deck were Hull, Balm
bridge Decatur, Lawrence, Mac
donough, Somers, Burrows and many
others, who either lived to write their
names high on the scroll of fame OF
gave their lives for their country and
gained equal fame. This little vesse
| was built at Baltimore in 1899 along
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knots per hour and with sail area
sufficient to work her under even light
winds she was regarded as the finest
example of the modern fighting ship.
She was used by the navy for max
ing deep sea soundings, and she led a
rather uneventful career. In 1892 she
was assigned to the Massachusetts,
nautical training school, which used
her up to last year, when she was
turned back to the government, the
school securing more modern vessel.
What Will be the end of the Enter
prise cannot be foretold, bat it is prac-
tically certainty that the ship will be
put up at auction and sold to the high
est bidder, who will probably buy her
to get from her the material that is in
her that is marketable.
There is, however, in the navy one
vessel that will never go under the
hammer, and that is the old frigate
Constitution, better known as odd
Ironsldes." This vessel and her sister
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17

-uE SALE Of the old sloops-ot-
war Saratoga, st. Mary's ana
Il ENTERPRISE, after having peen
condemned by the government 'hey
carved SO well, brings wildly TO minu
.hot the ..wooden walls of the olu
nav are rapidly being RELOCATED 10
the past Avn
indeed. when the Monitor and the
Merrimac fought their famous oa..'es
in Hampton Roads and the oiiiooAi,s
world perceived that the days Oh
wooden fighting ships were over the
three crafts that have lately been cas-.
aside as untitled for service, were JUS.
in their prime and were nulnoereu
among the finest vessels of their CLASS
in the whole world.
Today these same vessels, when COM
pared to the mighty battleships NE"
Hampshire, North Dakota, Delaware
and others of the class. are as COM
pairing a smooth bore 12-pounder 10
Pinch rifle or an ox-cart with an au-
tomobile.
But even though they suffer by
comparison, and are considered I'M
worthy of further official notice or
nublic moneys to maintain, 1t is some
condensation to those who love the
old vessels for their own sake to
know that within few years even
the mightiest fighting craft OF the
present day will be pronounced opso-
lete in view of the many improve
ments that the craft of decade or
two hence will possess.
In these days war material not m
frequently becomes out OF date before
it has had an actual test under the
conditions for which it was designed
but in the epoch of wooden walls there
were no such sudden changes. FER
haps II was due to lack OF rapld
development of ideas, but 1t is tact,
nevertheless, and to this alone is que
the long life Of these vessels.
or all the vessels that We're in serV-
ice up to within the past few months
the Saratoga and st. Mary's were the
Oldest The former was built in 1872
at Kittery, Maine, and the latter two
years later at Washington, d. c. The
Enterprise was built at kittery,
Maine, in 1876. and was equipped with
a steam engine, being, at that time
regarded as d most efficient vessel
representing the very latest IDEAS IN
maritime construction, with the posi-
BILE exception of armor plate, which,
when appreciated, had not been
adopted by this government up to
that time.
A comparison with the st. Mary
which was then considered old, made
her indeed seem formidable. The st
Mary's was of l ,025 tons displacement
300 tons less than the Enterprise, ano
her armament was so inferior as &c
hardly be worth while comparing.
Notwithstanding the trio have come
to their end as fighting craft. all have
won their laurels on many sea, ano
while there does not hang about then
the halo of actual carnage when soup
pers ran deep with the blood of then
crew, they served the flag well ano
won victories OF peace no less re-
nowned than those of war.
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tinued Mr.. Brock, Mrs. Hartley went
to close the shutters of the study, and
came running in to me, saying: Come
quickly! Here it is again. l went
rapidly to the study. Looking through
the window l again saw distinctly the
vision on the lawn, albeit it was not
so distinctly visualzed as before, prob
ably because of the strong moon shin
ing"
After the first apparition kilograms
were sent to Algiers inquiring about
the Astleys. The response came that
both DR.. and Mrs. Ashley were pro-
crossing comfortably, but, curiously
enough, letter written Dec. rs,
which arrived in England later, re-
vealed the interesting fact that DR..
Ashley was suffering from conclusion
of the brain and presumably was un-
conscious at the time of the appari>
ton.
The Rev Robert Brock has suggest
ed an explanation of the mysterious
apparition:
DR.. Brooks Explanation of It.
MY own impression Saturday" he
said, having had no previous expert
ence in these things, was that DR..
Ashley was dead. Now, it really would
appear that when we saw his figure
outside the study window he was in a
state of Inconsistencies or delirium
and in some mysterious way was able
to project himself in living form to
his home in England, where, perhaps,
at the time he supposed himself to be.
1t remains to be seen whether this ex-
PLANTATION will commend itself to scien-
lists and students of the supernatural"
The independent narratives of three
witnesses-Mr. Brock, Mrs. Hartley, q
woman OF 20, who is of nervous tenn
permanent and given to seeing things
and housemaid, aged II, who says
she saw DR.. Ashley on the OCCASION
but was too frightened to look Sec
ond time, We're taken down by the cor
respondent of the London Times, and
as one unimaginative scientific con-
tributor to that paper writes:
1.-THE publication is really of great
value because it is evident the wit
nesses to the so-called apparition were
suffering from an optical delusion."
Another skeptic points out that the
vision, to have been convincing
should have appeared on Dec. Is, the
day of the accident; not ten days later
when the news of 1t had reached the
| impressionable Mrs. Hartley, who
| transmitted her impression to the
Rev. Mr. Brock, whom the skeptic
| cassifies as a believer in spirits by
| profession"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-17
DRAIN ON INSURANCE
FROM WEST
EFFORT Is BEING MADE TO GRE
ATE SOME LOCAL oPPoRTUN-
ITY FOR INVESTMENT.

Chicago, Jan. 13.-The vests $780,
600, 900 annual contribution to the in
Surance funds of the east and of Eu-
rope at last has become the subject of
anxious thought by western business
men, the Chicago Association of Com
merce having decided ito see if more
than the present 1 per cent of that to-
tai of premiums cannot be retained
here" where it will be more available
for financing western projects. The
seeing" promises to be energetic.
The subject has been under inves-
tigation for two months, being forci-
bly, brought under consideration by an
address to the association members by
Robert b. Armstrong, formerly assis-
tant secretary of the treasury, who
cited figures to show why New York
has three-fifths of all the actual money
in the United States, figures which he
said prompted his company, the Con-
solidated Casualty company, to decide
in the United States, figures
which, he said, prompted his
company, the Consolidated Cas-
ualty company, to decide on Chi
cago in the mid-western field. rather
than an eastern city. "All this great
healthy heart of America, the middle
west that surrounds Chicago, sends
over $400,000,0 900 each year to the east
and foreign countries for insurance"
he said, a fact now to be acted upon.
Hardly a drop remains for the sus-
tenance of Chicago. One of the total
insurance premiums of the United
States-almost a billion dollars annu-
ally, to be exact. $500, 900 in 1907
less than l per cent was retained in
Chicago, second to only New York in
this country in population. The assets
in the great life insurance companies
alone in this country amounts to
SO, 900, 100000. Ninety per cent of this
is contracted east of the Allegheny
mountains. The other 10 per cent is
scattered throughout the balance OF
the country. Chicago's portion is neg
ligible. 1t has no great investing
institutions"
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yard in 1854. is numbered among the
training ships for recruits.
In this class, along with the Intrepid
and Cumberland modern steel craft
launched in 1907. are the old Alliance.
built in 1876: the Monongahela, built
in 1862, and the Portsmouth, built in
1S43. These gallant old vessels serve
most useful purpose training young
men in the rudiments Of seafaring life,
making them acquainted with sails
and preparing them for service upon
the gigantic floating steel forts-the
modern naval vessels.
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BRITISH SKY PILOT
SEES GHOST
REV. ROBERT BROCK REPORTS
STRANGE AND lNEXPLlC-
ABLE EXPERIENCE.

ono of the chief topics of converse
ton in London is the Ashley ghost
story, which from the statements made
by persons concerned, the circumstan-
ces of the alleged apparition and the
effort made at prompt investigation,
deserves a special place in the chron-
icles of alleged psychic phenomena.
As rule, spook stories rest upon
second hand evidence. In this in
stance three persons have made affi-
davits of what they saw. One is the
Rev. Robert Brock, who is acting as
locum tenens for the Rev. DR.. Hugh
Ashley, vicar of East Rudham, who is
Wintering in Algeria and whose dis
embodied spirit is stated to have made
it's appearance in bodily shape at his
Norfolkshire vicarage.
The first news of the alleged appari-
ton was published in the London
Times in a letter from Rev Robert
Brock. The Times assigned well
qualified correspondent to investigate
and while this correspondent has been
unable to see the apparition himself
his circumstantial reports have been a
plausible contribution to the case.
Inc tteN. MI. bTOCh loiloNo.
Story of the Rev. Mr.. Brock.
owing to the fact that his wife was
not in good health, DR.. Ashley. vicar of
East Rudham, decided to winter in a
warmer climate, obtaining a chap
laincy at Biskera, Algeria, and left
England with Mrs. Ashley on Dec. 10.
1t was arranged that l should act as
locum tenens.
Il met DR.. Ashley for the first time
in London on Dec. and spent not
more than half an hour with him
prior to coming on here; and l heard
nothing more of him until Dec. 20,
when l received a letter from the Rev.
Herbert Muril, the English chaplain at
Algiers, announcing that DR.. and Mrs
Ashley had sustained injuries in rail-
way accident on Dec. 16. on the same
evening l got the letter l was seated
in the dining room when Mrs. Hartley,
the housekeeper came to me and said
Come and see DR.. Ashley and led
me into the study.
Sees Figure Against Wall.
Looking through the glass window
on the lawn, / myself distinctly saw
the figure of Or. Ashley in clerical at
tire standing against the wall which
adjoins the dining room. 1t certainly
was not a reflection of my own face
for I am clean shaven, and the face OF
the figure / saw wore a beard and
mustache. 1t was distinctly DR. Ashley
as | saw him in Londan. l rubbed my
eyes and looked again, / was not
dreaming. The figure was not looking
at me.
Mrs. Hartley had candle in her
hand. and l told her to take 1t away
I still saw the figure most clearly A
housemaid who had joined us also
could see the figure.
81 will go and have look in the
garden I said, and I did go. There
was nothing to be seen there; anc
when / returned the vision had gone
The time was about 4:45 p, m. The
vision lasted ten minutes"
Second Appearance Of Vision.
On the following Tuesday, Dec. 20
Mrs Hartley again saw the apparition
"As on the previous occasionS con