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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The names of the honor girls at Vas.
sar College were announced Tuesday
This announcement is one of the most
important of the college year and in
clrdes girls from score of states The
list from the Eastern states includes
Miss Margaret Adams Hobbs, Port
land, Me. L7iF
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-16

Chief James A. Hamilton of the
Lawrence. Mass. fire department may
Gle as a result Of injuries sustained
Tuesday night while fighting the
flames In barn. when he and Lieut..
Fred M. Gibson, fell with the flooring,
which had been burned through. Lieut..
Gibson escaped comparatively un-
hurt The fire loss was small
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FAIRFIELD.
Mrs. Joanna Gibson.

Mrs. Joanna Gibson, one of Fair
fields most aged and respected citi-
Zers, passed away at her home on
Ncwhal street at A. NJ. Tuesday
morning. Mrs. Gibson had been in fall
ing health for some time, but her com
dition did not become serious until
within the last few weeks. A complica-
ton of diseases, with a weak heart
made the case a hopeless one. Mrs.
Gibson was born in Liberty the daugh-
ter of John and Nancy Deering Wood
man. She came to Fairfield when but
a small girl with her parents, and the
most of her life was passed in this
town. When a young woman she was
married to Samuel Gibson. Several
children were born to the union, three
daughters, Mrs. Frank Wing. who died
several years ago, Mrs. Charles Cush-
ing of Seattle, WASH. and Mrs. Annie
knight, who has made her home with
her mother for several wears past, and
one son, F. c. Gibson, who also resides
in this town. She also leaves one broth
err, F. s. WOodman of this town, anu
three grandchildren, Stephen Wing,
Samuel and Eugene Wing. Mrs. Gibson
was Universalist and a member OF
the ITniversalist church of this town.
She was always constant attendant
whenever her health permitted II ana
was always a generous giver to all
good causes She was beloved by all
who knew her and the community as
we'll as the immediate family VIII
mourn the loss of good neighbor ana
friend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Houten OF DOUG
lass are in town, called here by tne
illness and death of Mrs. Joanna GID
son.
The Benton Grange Sewing Circle
will meet this afternoon with Mrs.
James Warren.
Arthur McFadden of Lancaster. n.
H., has been in town for several days
visiting relatives and friends. He LETT,
Tuesday fol; his homes
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\. F. Jones & CO. ....... 50 =
The aggregate of livestock at Brighton,
Watertown and the local slaughter
l.ouses:
This week: Cattle 3141. sheep SAL, calves
-i97, hogs 23,S5l
Last week: Cattle 2Oo3, sheep 2992 calves
SO, hogs 30,50O.
MAINE STOCK AT MARKET.
Cattle 146, sheep 60. calves $751; hogs 49,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-16
AND BRIGHTON
LIVESTOCK MARKET,

Especially Reported for the Kennebec
Journal. Livestock Yards, Feb. Is, 1870.
MAINE.
At Brighton.
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At Brighton.

At n. f. d. NJ & w. Co.
Walter Emery ...........
NEW HAMPSHIRE
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18th ANNIVERSARY OF
SINKING OF THE MAINE.
Continued from Page One.)
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Rims & Holbrook ....... 20 20 90
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-11
BABES Set FIRE
TO TWO HOMES
Father Saves Children From the
Flames They Started in
Their Bedroom
Special Dispatch TO The Call

SAN RAFAEL, July 10.-Two little
children who started three fires in the
last year set fire to their own home and
We're rescued by their father, while Mrs.
Robert Barnard and her husband per-
formed heroic work in saving both
buildings from destruction.
Josie and Adolph Mazet, aged and
respectively, are the youthful in
cendiaries. Their father9F. Mazets con-
ducts a French lauudrN-in d street
Robert Barnard, a member of the fire
department, and his wife live next door.
Mazet left the boy and girl in bed
this morning al Z O'Clock Ten minutes
later Barnard saw flames leaping from
the bay windows of the room which
faces the street. Selling a fire ex-
tinguisher, he rushed up the stairway
of the two story building, to meet
Mazet coming down through the smoke
with the two children in his arms On
reaching the room Barnard found the
window curtains. castings. bureau and
the woodwork burning, but he succeed
ed in checking the flames.
Meanwhile Mrs. Barnard had started
to follow her husband, but was startled
to behold the side of her own home
afire. With a garden hose she fought
the blaze, while her husband labored in
the adjoining building. and not until
he appeared flushed with heat and vic
tory did she cease the battle to save
her home. The damage to both build
ings was slight
An investigation by Fire Chief Daniel
Schneider developed the fact that the
children had set fire to the curtains Of
the bedroom soon after their father
left. They also went to a side window
and tossed a bunch of burning ma tcffes
between the side of the Barnard resi-
dence and board fence, where a col
lection of paper soon started a dan
gerous blaze. Three fires have broken
out in the laundry in the last year and
until today Chief Schneider was unable
to learn their origin. Mazet declares
that the little boy and girl have a
mania for starting fires and that it is
almost impossible to keep matches out
of their hands.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-11
BERKELEY GIRL IS
SUCCESS AT CONCERT
EmmabeIIe Hudson Fucker Is
Heard at Greek Theater

BERKELEY. July IO.-Before an au-
dience OF several thousand Emmabelle
Hudson Fucker sang this afternoon at
the half hour OF music at the Greek
theater. Miss Fucker rendered half of
the afternoons program whileeThomas
Nowlsfi. tenor. was also heard. Miss
Fucker was accompanied by Miss Bar
bara Nachtrieb. while H. p. Pasmore
oficiated at The piano while Nowlan
sang
Miss Fucker scored 2 signal success
In two opeFatic numbers in her pro-
gram-the 10 Son Titania" song from
Thomas ''Mignon" and Non Desartum"
from Gounods Romeo and Juliet" She
also sank several old ballads.
The program was rs follows:
Tor Thine own Sake ,Barnard). Roses
hv sumner Forsaken'' Newton and 4 Rise
FROM Dreams ~ You Pasmorel. by Thomas
T.. Nowlsn.
spring tGounodD Jerusalem" from Men
celssoifn's oratorie st Psul'') and 10 Son
lirsRio' ,from -'Mignonl Miss Fucker.
Gray Days Johnson Garden Roses
Clark. A Bowl Of Roses Clark Thomas
D.. AcUlan.
Poses in June" German songs Ny Mother
Taught Me NDeTOraki and aria from Romeo
and JCl5et' Thomas. Miss Fucker.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-11
SCHOOL TEACHES GIRLS
HOW TO GET OFF CARS
Rules Provided for Travel Are
Few and SimDIe

To teach a mature woman how to
get on and off a streetcar is perhaps
impossible. Her way of going at it
will continue, in all likelihood, to be as
awkward and dangerous as ever But
there is hope for the growing girl, and
the possibility of training her TO safe
guard life and limb is now recognized
IN some eastern schools.
In Brooklyn two or three school gym
nasiums have been fitted up with min
iature cars, each with a step exactly
the same in size. position and distance
from the ground as that, on the ordi-
nary streetear, says the Bangor News
A crew of students propels the car
around track, and the rest, either
aboard or at established stations" are
set to mastering the few simple eIe-
mentary rules for urban travel that
the feminine mind is so prone to neg
1ect. The points impressed on the girls
minds may serviceably be mentioned
here:
They must wait until the car is sta
tiopary. When they get off they must
face the direction in which the car is
going. They must take hold of the
handrail, both ascending and descend
ing. And they are required to learn
grace as we'll as precision in their
movements.
The real hope of the world is in the
young. Practice taken today may keep
down the casualty roll of the future
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-11
LANGUAGE OF LABELS
TELLS Tip" PROSPECTS
Hotel Employees Invent New
Code for Mutual Benefit

We knew there was so called Ian
guage of flowers and a language of
gems and even a language of postage
stamps, and now New York man
says there is language OF labels The
labels are the sort that are pasted on
trunks by porters at foreign hotels and
the manner in which the label is at
tached indicates to other porteTx in
other hotels the tipping" possibilities
of the trunk owner, says the Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
If the label. is pasted in the middle
of the cover porters are warned that
the owner is a close fisted fellow whose
gifts to the deserving porter family are
mean and small A label pasted on the
cover near the side means that the
owner is irascible and may use his fists
il annoyed by extended palms. But il
the label appears in a diagonal posi-
tion on the center of the cover anxious
porters are assured that the owner is
an easy. giver and may even be as
sessed double gratuity.
The. existence of this curious code is
prima rily of interest to the tourist. but
as bit of sociological evidence it will
be widely noted. A picture of the tour
list graye1y inspecting his labels with a
view to ascertaining his financial stand
ing with the porter element would be
highly amusing. The traveller who was
labeled as a tight fist could be expected
to smile in grim approval while the
easy mark would accept the fattery of
the diagonal piacard with a comical
grimace. In short, the label code in its
limited field would appear to be a
pretty fair test of one phase of human
nature.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-11
EVENTS THE COUNTIES THE BAY OF SAN FRANCISCO
COUNCILMEN Will
VIEW WATERSHEDS
Alameda Officials to Inspect the
Sources of Supply OF Bay
Cities Company

ALAMEDA. July 1o.-C. =. eiiii'a -
manager OF the Bay cities water COM
panv. has arranged to take party OF
city of1ciaIs to the Mount Hamiiton
region 10 inspect watersheds there con
t~ol!ed by the corporation and troin
which' President William s. Tevis OF
the company has announced that Ala
n. eG.t viii be supplied es..th wafer.
Among th0se listed 70 make the ,TlP
are city Engineer l. n. Chapman ~
T. w. Stidhanl, secretary or the eodru
of health: Councilmen Fred L hr ruln III y
sumner Crosby and E. ID BIS @
expenses Of the trip are to be oofns OS
the Bay Cities company
City Engineer Chapman and ms as
sfstant. Alfred Fannister. mace Twp
10 The watersheds some weeks ESQ
'Thev brought back with them samples
of water to he analyzed by the cltN
chemist As the water had not been
taken in vessels that had been sterlt-
ICED and not in the way that chemist
would take the samples IL was decldeo
that any tests made would not be rair
TO the water.
Doctor Stidham will carry W'th hlnl
special bottles for taking samples OF
the mountain water, and will upon re-
turning turn the samples over TO the
city chemist for analysis II IS eN-
pected that the trip will require tWo
days The start viii be made from mere
tomorrow.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-11
SCARED VETERAN FAILS
TO TELL OF WIFE'S BLOW
Woman Says Worst Mark Came
From Fire Shovel

Among Senator Depew's fourth Of
July stories there is one about vet
eran on a streetcar.
This veteran, in all the panoply of
his blue uniform, brass buttons and
white cotton gloves, was on his way to
skirts OF the village. A stranger
boarded the car, and the veteran. lean
ing across his wife, engaged the man
in conversation.
The talk soon turned to warfare,
and the veteran said
Yes, sir; I've seen fightin'. I got
this cash across the cheek at Chicka-
mauga. Ny stiff leg, by gosh, comes
from ball in the knee-Chancellors-
vile. This thumb nail here was shot
off at Gettysburg. I lost the tip of
my ear at Spottsylvania.'
Dear me-, said the stranger, how
interesting. You have, indeed, sir,
seen hot fighting. But tell me, how
Gus dent down the side of your nose?
A cavalry charge-hand-t to- hand en-
gagement, ~eh2',. Es
The veteran frowned and ignored
the question He began to talk about
the heat. But his wife interrupted.
Go on, Bill" she said impatiently.
Tell the gentleman how you got the
dent in your nose"
You shut up, Hannah" said the
veteran.
It won't nuther,'' said the old woman.
For it just about riles the skin off
me to hear you braggin' and brag-
war whilst you wont never open your
head about the finest and most notice.
able mark OF all--the one / give, you
with the fire shoveIe'
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-11
BANKER CONDEMNS
USE OF SMALL CHECKS
Swiss Financier Fails to Agree
With American System

With what NJ. Huentsch, the Swiss
banker, had to say in criticism of the
American currency system and credit
methods most of our financial authori-
ties are in hearty accord, but when ne
scolded us for the extent to which we
use checks in paying our small bills, he
entered upon a subject which he ap
parently has not thoroughly studied.
While his objection to the custom may
be sound enough, il will be generally
held, we think, that he did not give suf
f1cient weight to its counterbalancing
advantages. 3
Even in this country far from every
body except the yer ypoor has a check
ing account, but the number of people
who do is undoubtedly greater than
anywhere else, and unquestionably this
habit decreases the amount of money
in active, hand to hand circulation, says
the New York Times. That tends to
increase the general stress in times of
financial difficulty, but, on the other
hand 1t tends to prevent or defer such
time by putting more money where it
can be most conveniently and effect
fvely used. The Keeping of a bank ac-
count, too. gives aCyaluable business
training to many people who would not
otherwise get 1T. and as for the relative
safety, from the Individual point of
view, of keeping money in q bank and
of carrying it in pockets or hiding it
away at home there is, of course, moth
ing to say except in favor of the habit,
which NJ Huentsch condemns.
The actual transference of cash Is
dangerous as we'll as troublesome, and
it usually involves needless expense,
of time if of nothing more. The pay
ment of small bills as we'll as large ones
by check, moreover, has the admirable
effect Of preventing many petty
squabble between debtors and creditors,
since 1T is next to indubitable proof
of complete or partial settlement of
accounts-better proof, in some ways,
than the formal receipt which it so
often supplements or replaces. Trades
men like the check system, the banks
are coming to encourage it more and
more, and nobody who has once adopted
it is al all likely to abandon 1t.
The American abroad is sometimes
amused, sometimes enraged, and some
times disgusted by the insistence on
cash payments which is SO common in
European countries He knows that
our almost constant use of checks,
while 1t involves an occasional loss
through forgery or mo account" is
on the whole beneficial and vastly fa-
cilitates the transaction of ordinary
business
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-11
BURGLARS PRY OPEN
DOORS AND ROB HOMES
Stranger Examines Diamond
Pin and Walks Away With 1t

OAKLAND. July I0.-George Kings
home at $40 Howe street was entered
by burglars yesterday afternoon while
King and his family were taking a Mil
Valley outing. the thieves prying a
door open with q Jimmy. Small jewels
and money were stolen.
Presums bly, the same burglars later
in the day broke into Doctor Schul-
strom's home. 1915 Howe street, in the
same manner as at Kings, and a gold
watch was carried away.
From Fred ". Woods home. Plum
and Grafian streets, were stolen Jew
els and firearms worth $50: a gold
watch and chain worth $50 were taken
from Mrs. Emma Cameron's room at
z06 Thirteenth street. and Mrs. L. J.
Meads. 429 San Pablo avenue. reported
10 the police the theft of gold watch
valued at $50.
z. =. Hughes room IS. Bacon block.
said he let q stranger, who was talking
70 him in his Office. hold a diamond pin
TO examine IL, and the stranger. hastily
departing. took the gem with him. 1t
was worth SIl5.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-11
81 GRANDCHILDREN
MOURN Her DEATH
Six Grandsons to Act as Pail
Bearers at Funeral of
Aged Woman

OAKLAND, July 1o.-Mrs. Emily A.
Ceetey, great grandmother of 4S.
grandmother of 50 and mother of 1S
children, died this morning at 154
Athol avenue She was IS years of age.
had lived in this city for one year and
in California for 20 years. Her death
was due to ailments incidental TO old
age.
Mrs. Cootey came of rugged New
England stock She was the daughter
of Abner BuckRan of Massachusetts
and Polly Perkins of Vermont and
was born at Barnard in the Green
Mountain state She became the bride
of Lawrence Cootey while in her teens.
Thirteen children were born of the
union. Ten are living. They are: Mrs.
NJ A. Schetter. Mrs. Alice E. Brannan,
Mrs. w. A. Shaw, Mrs. A. A Smith,
Mrs. Kimban Hatch, Mrs. Charles E.
Perrott, Mrs. ". F. Mitchell, Owen l.
Cootey, Dr. Thomas A. Cootey and John
II. Cootey.
The first to die in the Cootey family
of children was the thirteenth born.
George II. Cootey. He was a member
of the Thirteenth Minnesota regiment
of volunteers in the Spapish-American
war and participated in his first battle
in the Philippine islands August 10,
1891. he SucCulnDeQ TO smallpox con-
tracted while serving his country. At
the time of his death George II. CoOtey
was the only member of the family
unmarried He was the support of his
mother Following his death she was
allowed pension by the government.
Members of Mrs. Cootey's family
have been in four wars. In 1776 John
Perkins her grandfather. served in the
revolutionary war In the war of 1912
her father, Abner Buchanan. took up
the musket at the call of his country.
I'm the civil war her brother. Abner
Buchanan Jr. donned the uniform of the
union army and served throughout that
war, while her thirteenth born, George
II. CooteY. served in the Spanfsh-Amer-
lean war; e Eas o. asoF-71 - q.
Mrs. Cootey never had her family to-
gether at one time her eldest daughter
coming west before her youngest child
was born. ----
The daughters and sons OF Mrs. Geo
tey live in different parts of the United
States For the year preceding her
death she made her home in Oakland
with her daughter. Mrs. A. A Smith Of
154 Athol avenue.
Mrs Cootey's funeral will be held
Tuesday morning from her late resi-
dence. The pail bearers will be six
grandsons.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-11
JUDGE GREENE WAS
JUDGE OF "HOSSRACIN' "

William Jennings Bryan once Joked'
in fourth of July address in Lincoln
about our American fondness for tttles-
You all know OF the colonel, ne
said. who got his title by inheritance
having married Colonel Browns WI
dow? But / once net a general who
got his title neither by inheritance nor
by service, nor by anything you could
mention.
General 1 said, how do you eogf
by this title OF yours, anyway
Why. sir said he. passed my
youth In the -four trade, and for TWEEN
ty-seven years was a general miller.
Il know another titled man, Judge
Greene.
Are you, sir I once asked him.
a United States Judge of circuit court
Judge?
"I amt neither he replied. I'm
a Judge OF hossracin'.'
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-11
PARK COMMISSION
WANTS S537,332
Report of Board Shows That
During Year $4,000 Has
Been Spent

OAKLAND, July 10.-The first twelve
months activity of the municipal park
commission closed yesterday, with a
record of successful achievement behind
it. Out of a total of $150,144.36 received
during the fiscal year, the commission
has expended s149,o66.25 in establishing,
improving and maintaining public
parks. There remains S1,07S.11 to be
carried forward into the fund of the
coming fiscal year.
With the sum of S146,977.S5 set aside
for it in the budget, the park COM
mission began it's initial years labor.
This amount was reduced by bill for
dredging Lake Merritt amounting to
$4,000, and later, the sum of $4,000
was appropriated to the playground
commission. This brought the actual
amount of money placed at the dis
posal of the commission at the begin
ming of its work, down to $97,917.S5.
To the original budget the city coun-
ell then added three more special appro-
priations as follows: For sidewalks at
Union Square, $3.50; for sidewalks at
De F'remery park, $216,51, and for extra
labor, $2,50O This brought the work
ing fund up to S101,144.36, out of which
$100.066-25 was actually used in the
establishment and maintenance of pub
lie parks.
complete report of the years work
of the commission is being compiled
by Secretary Henry f. Vogt. The re-
port will also contain an account of the
activities and achievements of the play
ground commission. Members of the
park commission will meet tomorrow
for the purpose of receiving and pass
ing upon the compilation. The report
will then be placed before the city
council.
In view of the Increased number of
parks under maintenance, the extern.
sive contemplated work of the COM
mission, the city council has been asked
to appropriate $597.332 for the fiscal
year 1910-1911.
The San Francisco call., 1910-07-11
BOARD To FRAME
MODERN CHARTER
Freeholders Will Organize Soon
After Votes Are Canvassed
by City Council

OAKLAND, July 1o.-Before the
week is ended. the board of Is free
holders elected last Wednesday to
frame a new and modern charter will
have been organized and will have its
work well begun. The votes cast at
the election will be canvassed by the
city council tomorrow evening The
councils declaration of the result will
constitute the freeholders a legal body,
and the Is chosen men will not tarry.
Every member of the board is
pledged te a modern form of charter.
II is a certainty that Oakland will be
afforded opportunity to vote on an or
ganic law providing for government
by a commission, with mayor chosen
by the people. The new charter will
follow the reforms of Switzerland and
progressive American cities, in provid-
ing for non partisan municipal cleo
tons. 1t will be impossible under the
charter that will be shaped for any
voter to stamp a single square, thereby
voting for a whole party alignment
regardless of the character of candi-
dates In this the provisions of the
new charter viii be entirely consonant
with the purpose of the direct primary
law Initiative, recall and referendum
VIII DC prov lOSQ
The freeholders expect to carry on
their work rapidly, so that the charter
shall be submitted to popular vote
and if carried be ready for early rat
ification by the state legislature at the
session beginning January, 1911. This
viii make the new charter effective
for the municipal election of March,
1911.
The freeholders have planned no
temporary organization. and have not
met TO discuss the problems before
them. All such action was deferred
by unanimous understanding until the
canvass of votes by the council was
over Either Tuesday or Wednesday,
the men will meet at the council cham
bers of the city council to take up their
duties and to elect their chairman.
Meetings probably win be held at the
city hall
The board of freeholders is composed
of r. n Chamberlain, John J. McDon-
aid, William c. Clark. !, Harrison Clay,
Charles II. DAILY, George W. Dornin,
Albert II. Elliot, Raymond B. FELTON,,
John Forrest, Richard NJ Hamb, G.,
c. Pardee, Harrison S Robinson, Fred
L. Shaw. Albert Kayser, and Hugh
Hogan.