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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-20
PRESS MEMS OUTING
Vermont Publishers on Annual Sum-
mer Gathering.


st. Johnsbury, Aug. 20.-The Yer
mont Press association was the guest
yesterday afternoon and evening OF
Theodore n. Vail at the Speedwell
farms. About rs members OF the as
ISOLATION with ladies were present
Those arriving from the south and
west at noon were met by special
train at St Johnbury and taken To
Lyndonville to The House, Speed
we'll farms. The afternoon waf
passed in looking over the green
houses, Conservatives, stock barns
trout ponds, the blooded stock and
The many beautiful views about the
estate.
About 80 guests, including some Of
Mr.. Wallis personal friends. sat down
to a clam bake and shore dinner
served in the coach house by Rev
J. A. Dixon of Charleston: In the
evening a concert of classic an6
popular music was given by Frank
Taft of New York, organist, anC
john Cheshire of New York, harpist
The immense organ is one of the
sights OF The House, Speedwel
farms.
During the afternoon many of the
guests awaited themselves of Mr.
Wallis invitation to inspect the ar
treasures and antique objects which
make The House. Speedwell farms
a veTitable treasure casket. Ont
of the objects which attracted admir-
| ing comment was cloisonne plat'
which is believed to be tne oldes
of it's kind in existence. Anothe
piece of wood carving taken from al
Assyrian tomb, which is certainl.
$500 years old and is believed b.
many to be nearer 5000.
The party is at Newport today be
| ing entertained with a boat rid
through Lake Memphremagog and
banquet in the evening at the New
port house. This will be followed b,
reception and dance at the zach
club mouse.
Among those present were Gov
and Mrs. G. H. Prouty of Newpor
and Mr. and Mrs. c. w. Gates o
| Franklin.
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WH|TCOMB OUT OF
JAIL BUT A FEW
MINUTES
Again Locked Up on Suit for
Damages
BAIL ED ON FIRST CHARGE
Alexander Bishop Wants $500 for In
juries Claimed to Have Been
Inflicted by Defendant

Andrew Whitcomb of Searsburg,
who has been in the county jail since
the last week in June, following his
arrest in Readsboro for an assault up
on Alexander Bishop, was released
between and o'clock Thursday af-
ternoon. A cash bail in the sum of
$500 mad been arranged by some of
Whitcomb's friends in Searsburg and
the money had been deposited in one
of the local banks.
Whitcomb had not been free man
but a minute when he was served
with the papers by Sheriff Fred God
frey in a civil suit brought against
him by Bishop who claims $500 dam
ages for injuries sustained at the time
Of the alleged assault.
The quarrel i'm which Bishop was
hurt occurred in Searsburg June 20.
Bishop is road commissioner for the
town and on that day Whitcomb was
in his employ. The quarrel, It is al
legged, was over a matter of wages.
Bishop had three broken ribs as a
result of the quarrel and it was some
days later ascertained that ne had al
so sustained a fracture OF the skull.
For the latter injury he underwent
an operation at a North Adams hos
pital and has only sufficiently recover
ed so as TO be able to attend the hear
ings of the case brought against Whit
comb by States Attorney w J. Meag-
her
Following the quarrel Whitcomb
disappeared and was arrested in Will
mington while on ais way to North
Adams. He was first seen on a mar
row gauge railroad car by a Reads
boro constable and when he realized
that he was being sought attempted
to escape by swimming through a ca
nal which supplies water power to
one of the Readsboro mills.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-20
THAW SUMMONS NEW LAWYER
Matteawan Man May Succeed Mr..
Morschauser as His Council

Matteawan, n. Y, August 2O.-Har-
ry Thaw occupies his old quarters, a
private room, and has certain privil-
eyes which are denied to many OF the
inmates.
Yesterday he requested that James
G. Meyers prominent local attorney,
be summoned Mr.. Meyers arrived
soon and held a long conversation
with Thaw. Mr.. Meyers would not
deny that he is to succeed Mr. Mors-
chauser as Thaw's counsel. Ihaw has
expressed himself at the hospital as
being rather disappointed with Mr.
Morschauser, saving that his case
was not conducted as he had planned
it, Mr.. Mayors defended George
Conrow at his trial for murder in this
county recently. Conrow is now in
the death house at Sing Sing his exc
cution having been stayed by an APP
peal.
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"THE SHOW HAS GOT TO GO ON
Fay Wallace to Play "PoIly" Though
Husband is Suicide

Lewis Bishop Hall, husband of
Fay Wallace who was to have appear
ed here Monday evening, August % in
the leading role in Polly of the Cir
GUS" was found dead from gas in his
rooms at No. IS West 10Sth street,
New York City, Wednesday morning
The cause of his suicide is attributed
to dependency because of separation
from his wife whose company was go
ing on six months tour. Mrs. Hall
Fay Wallace) who was playing at
North Adams was informed by wire
of the death. She left that city for
New York at 5.15.
Miss Wallace played here last sea
son in the same role that she was
booked for Monday evening and won
the admiration of the audience by her
pluck, as she was suffering greatly
from neuralgia. The company is
playing at Gardner, Mass, today.
Manager C. A. Wood has been in
formed by wire that Miss Wallace will
play the part of Polly" Monday eve
ming even in the face of such misfor.
tune. 'The show has got to go on"
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TRi-LEAGUE ORGANIZED
North Adams, PlttsfieId and HooslcL
Falls Arrange Series

At a meeting of the managers of
Pittsfield. Hoosick Falls and North
Adams baseball teams Wednesday
night in North Adams a three corner
ed league was arranged for the month
of September.
At the meeting which lasted for
two hours were Managers DR., Thorn
as F. Curtin of Pittsfeld. William
Kirk of Hoosick Falls, accompanied
| by l.. II. Haussler of HOosick Falls,
last years manager of the team and
one of the best fans in this section of
the country. and Manager John II.
Flaherty of this city.
The schedule of championship
games will be as follows:
September 5-North Adams at Hoo
sick Falls.
September 7-Pittsfield at North
Adams.
September 12-Pittsheld at Hoosick
Falls.
September 1S-North Adams at
Pittsfeld
September 14-Hoosick Falls at
Pittsfeld
September 16-Hoosick Falls at
North Adams
September 1S.-Hoosick Falls at
| Pittsfield.
September 19-North Adams at
Hoosick Falls.
September 23-Pittsfield at North
Adams.
One of the best features of the
meeting was that no limit was placed
on players. Each team can have any
player that it may want in any game
North Adams and Pittsfield will, now
ever play their present teams Mr.
Haussler announced that HoosicR
Falls which has presented some teams
Of class in the past, will present the
best team 1t ever had. Local fans
will have some of the best baseball
ever with which to finish the season
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TWOK|LLEO IN RACE
OVER NEW AUTO
SPEEDWAY
Driver and Mechanic Both
Badly MangIed
CAR GOES THROUGH FENCE
Nearly 10000 People Witness Double
Fatality in 25o-Mile Race at
indianapolis
CAR GOES THROUGH FENCE

Indianapolis, Aug. 20.-Urefrid
Bourque of Springfield, Mass, driver
of Knox Car No 3 and Harry Hol-
combe of Grandville, Mass, Bourque's
mechanician, were killed Yesterday
during the running of the 250-mile
race for the Prest-O-Lite Trophy of
81 900 at the inaugural meeting of the
Automobile Speedway.
Tne Knox racing car in which the
two men were riding, of which Bour-
que was the driver and Holcombe me-
chanician, left the track and crashed
into the fence on the home stretch OF
the speedway. The accident was wit
messed by nearly 10000 persons and
women tainted and the faces of men
blanched as they saw the car leave
the track and turn over upon the dar.
ing occupants crushing out their lives.
Whether the car skldded or the dri
yer lost control in some way will new
er be known but with thousands OF
eyes upon it the Knox machine leaped
from the track and dashed into the
fence and turned completely over
burying its occupants underneath.
Bourque was lifted from the mach
me limp and helpless and gasping for
breath and ii was seen that both legs
were broken and there was a bad
fracture of the skull, from which
blood was flowing in a stream. He
died as he was being taken from the
car.
With great difficulty Holcombe was
brought from under the car, but he
was still alive and was taken to a nos
pital with the greatest speed. His
arms were broken and there were
three deep gashes in his skull one ol
which laid bare his brain, but hasty
examination of his pulse showed that
| life was not extinct. The mad race
20 the hospital was just completed
when Holcombe died without having
1t any time been conscious.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-20
WEATHER FORECAST

Probabilities for This Section for the
Next "a Hours
For Eastern New York and Western
Vermont partly cloudy tonight and
Saturday Cooler tonight and in
south portion Saturday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-20
WRIGHT BROTHERS
CLAIM PATENT
INFRINGEMENT
Suit Brought Against AerOnau-
tic Society
WANT THREE.FOLD DAMAGES
Experts Believe Suit to Have Been
Brought to Test Covering Extent
of Ohio Brothers. Rights
WANT THREE-FOLD DAMAGES

New York, Aug. 20.-Wilbur and
Orville Wright the aeronauts yester-
day entered suit in the United States
Circuit court here against the Aero
nautic society of tnis city charging
infringement of patent rights on their
aeroplane inventions. The Wrights
complain that the society procured
from the Herring Curtiss company
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-20
NEW YELLOWSTONE eEYsER
PLAYS $50 to 200 Feet in Height with
Irregular Eruptions.

Salt Lake City, Aug. 20.-A tele-
gram from Mammoth Hot Springs,
Yellowstone Park, reports that new
gevser has broken out 100 feet north
of Fountain Geyser playing $50 to
200 feet high. The eruptions are not
regular and last generally about one
hour
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-20
BASE BALL
Yesterdays Results on Big League
Diamonds
American League Results

Yesterdays Results on Big League
Diamonds
American League Results
At Detroit-Detroit l, Chicago o.
At New York-(First game) Boston
6, New York z; Second game) Bos-
ton / New York 2, ten innings.
At eveland-Cleveland l, Phila-
delphia 2.
National League Results
At Observation-Disclosures s, st. Lou
is 8.
At Boston-(First game) Boston .,
Brooklyn /; (second game) Boston l,
Brooklyn 0.
At Pniladelphia-(F First game) New
York 6, Philadelphia 4. (second game)
Philadelphia /, New York 0.
Anaarican 4 aaoue STANDING
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-20
The $ay0 Lamp

Produces clear, soft light, easy to read
and sew by. Well made and ornamental.
Can be used in any room. AT dealers', or
write our nearest agency.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
Incorporated
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-20
STOCK QUOTATIONS

Noon Quotations from J. r. Wllllston
a Co., to Bennington Security Co
The following noon quotations were
re seived today by the Bennington SO
eurity company from J. r. Williston
a 10 IF Nav York nv auacial wire:
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-02
SUFFRAG|STS N
THEIR OWN HOME
NINE HANDSOMELY FURNISHED
ROOMS TO BE OCCUPIED
BY WOMEN
Mrs. 0. n. p. Belmont Will Foot the
Bill Of Five Thousand Dollars a
Year for Rental.

NEW YORK, Sept, 2-~Nine hand
somely furnished rooms, occupying
an entire floor of the new office
building at sos Fifth avenue, were
opened today as the national head
quarters of the suffragette movement.
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, who recently
opened her marble palace at Newport
to the suffragsts, will pay the ex-
penses of $4,000 year Five of the
rooms are occupied by the National
Suffrage association, and the other
rooms are at the disposal of state
and other suffrage societies. Mrs
Belmont has a private office in the
building and will, to large extent,
direct the propag anda work that will
be carried on from headquarters in all
parts of the country.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-02
ANNUAL BABY PARADE
ON At ASbURY PARK
The Judgments Of Solomon Were Easy
Compared With What Comes
Before Men Who Have to
Decide Today.

ASBURG, PARK, N. Y, Sept p
Asbury Parks annual baby parade, al
ways the greatest infantry pageant in
the country, surpassed it's own records
today in the display of lovely young
sters in competition for beauty prizes
logged out in their best bib and
tucker, the brigade of infants and
children charged down upon the hap
less judges and made the task of those
individuals about the most difficult
ever presented to mortal man. The
judgments OF Solomon We're easy
compared with, the problem presented
by the scores of smiling baby faces
all appealing for prizes. There were
also the mothers, each certain that her
offspring would win the first honors
to be considered by the arbitrators
The baby parade is the final feature
of the carnival that has been in pro-
gress during the last week
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1t has been the business of this
the show ring to obscurity in some dis
tant hamlet. A giant has often beeh
known to dwindle into something APP
preaching a pigmy. How much meat is
there O ma ton show horse that would
disappear if the same animal should
be reduced to just working proper
tons? Personal experience places the
amount at between 800 and 400 pounds.
Hence, if your hog-f ton-horse was
in ordinary farm flesh he would weigh
between 1900 and 1900 pounds. Just
so, and this leads to this reflection:
What is the weight of the crack geld
ings when they pass from the first
hands in the rough to the care Of the
skillful conditioner? Did any one ever
hear of a "thin' geidina being sold that
actually weigher 1000 pounds? Not by
a long shot. Between 1900 and 1900
Of them, and yet good care and abund
and feed send them into the ring
weighing the ton more or less. Instan-
ces need not be quoted, but the writer
well remembers one thin mare bought
in January at 1910 pounds which was
put into the international arena in Chi
cago in December with an official
weight of 1860.
Excellence mas never yet been legis
lated into any commodity. Pure food
laws have made manufacturers sell
16 ounces of stuff when a pound was
purported to be offered, and to sell
what they said they sold, but the an
cient principle of caveat emptor has al
ways prevailed. Law cannot force a
purveyor to sell a good article. Show
yard legislation anent the size of the
package will never force exhibitors
to put good article into the ring
The carton may be 17.2 hands high
and 1000 pounds in weight, but that
is no guarantee of excellence in the
contents. 1t is the province of the
judges in the show-ring to demonstrate
what size truly means in horses
Every man who steps into the ring
in judicial capacity is clothed with
full power to refuse any or all of the
prizes if, in his judgment, the exhibits
are not worthy. Why not, then, put it
up to the judges? Let scale and SUBJ
stance and trueness to type be recog-
nized, not mere arbitrary size.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-02
IT'S THE TITLE OF A BOOK, AND
ITS READING MATTER is so
VERY LUCID.
Some Terrible ransIes Of English Are
Perpetrated in It's Two Hundred
Small Pages.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 2.-The
earth is pretty big subject to handle
in a little volume of less than 200
pages, and maybe because it's such a
rotund theme, so to speak, big, fat,
rotund, circumlOcutory words aren't
out of place, but nevertheless and not
withstanding, the shock that the aver
age reader gets when he opens pub
LEGATION on Mother Earth issued here
by the United States coast and geode-
tic survey is something awful.
The title of this little handbook is
form Measurements in the United
States" The Isostasy part of it sounds
convincing, and if the reader is GU
rious, he can delve deeper into it's
pages and learn some impressive
truths.
For Instance, the following little
statement is gem of clear, concise
English. in A. B. c. language that must
firmly intrench itself in the lay mind:
This logical conclusion from the
study of the geoid contours for the
United States, taken in connection
with the fact already noted that the
computed topographic reflections are
much larger than the observed def1ec-
tons of the vertical, is that some in
fiuence must be in operation which
produces an incomplete counterbalanc-
ing of the reflections produced by the
Typography leaving much smaller de-
Elections in the same direction"
Or, if this isn't lucid enough here is
another:
1.-THE problem at present under con-
sideration is that of constructing the
contour lines which will represent the
relation of the irregular geoid to the
regular ellipsoid of revolution known
as the Clarke spheroid Of 1866. which
is supposed to be in the position fixed
by the adopted United States standard
datum
Then, too, one may turn over to page
1O1 and there find this remarkable
statement Of fact-of course it's the
truth, surprising as the information
may be:
1.-THE same principle may be ex-
pressed by the statement that the two
observation equations. one longitude
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pains to keep their daughters as SIM
pie and childish as possible.
But then this little talk is only for
the too-ambitious mother - she who
wants the daughter of II or less to
grow up too quickly merely because
skirts have been made long enough to
hide long legs With the other mother
she who keeps the tall girls dresses
so short that she is ashamed TO be
looked at. and who babies the big hob
bledehoy of girl before Tom, Dicl:
and Harry would take quite a diff
ferent tack.
AS last word. let me turn again to
my cousin and her trio of complaining
letters. DO you think / am too ex-
acting. cousin. too ambitious? You
know Rays heart is in the right place
"a brave, deep, true heart"
All. Caroline, you will break my own.
AS if that Were not all-for the man
ners of a true lady have their roots
in the heart
for she asked me to send on some
rules of conduct for Ray-'Throw the
dust brush out the window till she gets
through with college
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-02

great beating of TOM toms and blowing
of trumpets, Queen Lii assembled the
throne.
There was trouble brewing in the
islands. and the brief reign of Her
Royal Highness was a troubled one.
She used every effort that a fertile
brain could devise to maintain her SUI
premacy and keep her seat on the tot
tering throne. In 1898 she was deposed
and the islanders adopted republican
form of government.
Queen Lii, in this her sore plight,
went to Washington in 1896 and APP
pealed to Uncle Sam to succor a lady
in distress. That gallant old gentle
man listened more or less attentively
to her plea. but failed to get busy at
succoring. He decided that if what
Her Highness said was true, Hawaii
would be a very desirable possession,
and in 1898 the United States flag was
hoisted above the islands.
The depesed queen returned to her
former aueendom, but has since FREE
quently appealed to congress for finan-
cial redress for her wrongs So far,
Congress hasn't behaved very nicely,
but there now appears to be some like
lihood that it will do little redressng
BY those who know her, Queen Lii
is said to be very vain, and she is es
pecially fond of her hands. These are
white and shapely and a veritable tri-
umph of the manicuring art
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Three family letters lie on my
ceived on the same day, as you might
suppose the three were written by the
same hand and are on the same sub
ject.
NV cousin Caroline writes to tell me
between some gentle expressions of
rondness for myself that she doey MOI
know what she is going Ito do about
RAY. During the winter there she was
with her nose eternally in school
books. grumpy if you asked her to dust
a room and ding -donging always that
she would miss her examinations. Now,
up at the lake, she runs wild like a
hoyden. showing a preference FOR rough
games and wanting straw rides and
boat trips forever. Ray was certainly
an unsatisfactory daughter when it
came to the point of considering how
soon she would be woman grown.
why" said Caroline somewhere
d. and how | wanted to box her ears then.
she can't be made to see how i'm
portant the little accomplishments of
manner are for girl to make a good
marriage. She only laughs and says,
ON. Mumsy, l am only Il And if L
tell her, then, she is too rough and
rude to take up a profession or BUSH
ness. she says quite distractedly. 'Heav-
ems, do you expect me 10 make my
living?'
1T will be worse when she soes to
school again. concluded my foolish
cousin dolefully. for then everything
will be sacrificed for her inordinate
ambition What nonsense education is
sny way. To know how to enter
room and go out of it are enough for
any slrl-with Z. little German or
French, Of course"
IN matters educational my cousin
Caroline is old-fashioned, and she is
likewise ~ years TIE eilllcS III
what she expects girl who still goes
to school and is absorbing an education
of the higher" sort But as some of
her unreasonableness is universal, her
letters have suggested to me little
conduct or etiquette talk to the moth
ers Of other schoolgirls.
What are the faults of my little Sec
ond cousin Ray? She has doubtless a
round bakers dozen no wholesome
girl is without faults-but they are all
of a sort that accompanies uniformed
youth. Ray is only l., as she told her
foolish mother. and so she cannot be
expected to think too much Of the pref
ty manners which pave the way for
good marriage. Her mind is exception
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and hatred for the life which seems
likely to be. her portion Give her a
chance, dear, foolish mother. and when
the time comes. 10. She will walk
forth with the wings of her soul wide
and take up her destiny at the right
psychological moment.
Give her all the undisturbed time she
needs now for study, and rejoice that,
though she is II and wears long skirts,
she still has the heart of child.
Then, what is II after all-what but a
bundle of long legs and thin arms and
mother kisses and pink cotton when it
comes to talk of the bitter hard world
or of husbands, And what is a long
skirt but another name for one of So
ciety's conventions! The heart in this
dear young body may be only seven
still-a gleesome, kittenish thing that
only finds fun in the red worsted ball
when the hard studies are over
All this is as it should be in nor
NAL girl of II. She becomes a woman
quickly enough, heaven knows, and in
stead of fostering an early maturity of
mind and manner, mothers should take
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-02
BIOGRAPHICAL CALENDAR
September 2.
Queen LiIiuokaIani.

Her Royal Nibs may not thank us
for telling, but if the records are cor
rect, former Queen Liliuokalani, OF
Hawaii, is today II years of age. To
prevent an outburst of royal wrath il
may be added that she does not look
it. When clad in her gladdest raiment
and properly made up, she should east
ly pass as young girl of so.
Queen Lil-et-cetera is now girdine
up her-that is, she is preparing for
her annual onslaught upon congress
to push claims for 100000 indemnity
on the crown lands she lost when she
climbed down from the throne of the
Paradise of the Pacific and permitted
Uncle Sam to rule in her stead. The
richly upholstered and dusky ex-queen
is also AS much in evidence at the ses-
sions OF the solons as is Car Joseph OF
Illinois and the other kingly person
ages to whom God and the voters have
entrusted the legislation of the land.
Queen Lii was born on September
2, 1888, and was a sister of King
sneeze here-King Kalakuka, whom
she succeeded. She prepared the wav
for subsequent events by taking, in
marriage one John @. Domonis. an
American, whom she made governor
Of Oahu. The prince consort die5 in
1891, and in the same year, with a