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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-08
Women and the Suffrage.
o the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Your editorial of recent date. showing
the results Of the woman sunragists in
Pittsburg in their attempt to vote, was
not only amusing but very instructive.
1t is truly surprising that small minor
ity Of women have so wholly embraced
this question of woman suffrage.
Women who ask for the ballot do not
know the real meaning and significance
OF universal manhood suffrage, or they
would never use the term equal suf-
frage."
Constitutional government is not q hap
hazard. uniformed, shapeless institution,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-08

Samuel Ham, wso was found guilty by
jury in the circuit court for Carroll
county. Nd, of assaulting william Hes.
SON with intent to MAIN and disfgure.
was sentenced by Associate Judge Brash.
ears yesterday to confinement In tho
Maryland penitentiary for three years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-08

Lewis NJ. Leisinger, seyenty-two years
old, died Tuesday at his home, near
Weltys Mill, Nd. Of paralysis. Recently
while working In Waynesboro a heavy
piece Of steel fell upon his foot, crushing
the toes. Five days ago he was stricken
with paralysis. He was q Union veteran.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-08
!IHEYLNEL|KEK KINGS
Modern Base Ball Players Get
the Best of Everything.
EXPENSE HEAVY YEARS AGO
Hardie Richardson Recalls the Time
When He Was With the
Philadelphias.
EXPENSE HEAVY YEARS AGO

Fortunate indeed are the ball players
OF 1910, when conditions of today are
compared with those Of thirty-four year,
ago. when 1 was a member of the Phila-
delphia club" says Hardie Richardson.
former Detroit star. and who with ''Dea-
con" White. Dan Brouthers and Row.
made up the famous big Four
The comparison between the recent
trip of the victorious Athletics in the
words series, in line Of receipts. attend
ance, salaries. hotel fare and travelling
accommodations. with that which was ex
perienced by a club from the same city
In the old days will amply illustrate the
point make. The story, think, is best
told In few narratives.
1T was in May Of 1876 that the Phila-
delphia base bail club set out on the
western trip. which I will use for COM
parison to modern times. Harry Diddle-
boch. then base ball reporter Ct the
Philadelphia Item, was manager, with
Bucky Weaver, pitcher; Bill Crowley
catcher: Childs. first base; Shettsline, sec.
ond base; myself. third base: Nelson
shortstop; Shafer, left field: Warner
center field: Mason, right field, and
Etalr. substitute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-08

II you want work read the want col
umns of The Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-08
Out in the Bitter Cold.

ION arriving at Columbus, on the way
back, We found st. Louis already there
ahead of us, SO no game resulted for us.
But something else did At the hotel,
during some skylarking, in which throw
ing water through transoms was fea-
ture, one man fell down the front stairs
and rolled into the Office in his ''nightie.'
Whereupon the proprietor suddenly de-
sired the team to leave his hostelry and.
much to our discomfort, we had to get up
and hike.
1.-The next day the team arrived at
Pittsburg, where Manager Diddleboch ar
ranged q boat race between Shettsl1ne
and myself. He had rowboat to pay for
for his pains. During the race a COLLISION
destroyed one OF the boats.
1.-The team moved on to Hollidaysburg,
where the master mechanics of the Jul
niata Valley railroad provided a special
train and took the boys on q fishing trip.
which lasted all night. Everything was
provided, from. a colored waiter to ear
load of beer. At Harrisburg, the next
stop, the players rebeiled and refused to
play, saying that they wanted to go home.
Manager Diddleboch acceded to their
wishes, declaring that he would disband
the club on arrival. He kept his word
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-08

discouraged and talked of going home
purchase the tickets, as he could save
money by doing SO. and that the team
should await his return.
1.-The team was willing to wait. but
insisted that Diddleboch deposit $40 with
Mason to insure his coming back. He did
SO, but on his return failed to get the
$40 from Mason. who afterward divided
it among the players. This was all we
got In the way of salary during the entire
frfp
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-08

''BeIng the youngest man on the team,
] had to carry the managers extra lug
gage. The first stop was Altoona, Pa.
where We won game. At the hotel.
which. by the way, was not the best one
in the place. had to double with Crow
ley. About midnight some Of the MEM
berS OF the club, not wishing to re-
tire, amused themselves by throwing
chairs into the rooms OF their sleeping
comrades. You see, there were no locks
on the doors. Being property man, as l
have limited. retaliated with fusiliade
of base balls. and succeeded la driving
away the disturbers from our door.
"Pfttsburg was the second stop, and
here We won another game. But at New
Castle the following afternoon. the Phil
Hes dropped their first game of the trip.
From New Castle to Beaver Falls the
team rode in a band wagon. On the way
from Beaver Falls to Mansfield. Ohio. In
the bus going from the station to the
hotel. Diddieboeh charged Mason with
the theft Of his cigars 4 fight between
the pair started instantly, but serious
trouble was aye-ted by the prompt inter-
ference of the other players.
Another game was Won at Mansfield
and the club moved on TO Columbus for
the next engagement. Here tht Phillies
won to victory. Getting away once
more. the club reached Cincinnati and
played at Ludlow. KY. where another
win was registered The stars of Cow
inston also suffered defeat on the follow
Ing afternoon.
Eleven Damage One Room.
But despite this triumphal procession
such economy was practiced by the man.
agement that the entire eleven players
were all placed In one room for the night
Next morning some one threw a pillow.
That was signal for all to do likewise.
In short time 1t was difficult to- see
across the room, as feathers were every
where. For this little amusement the
management was compelled to pay Sc for
each pillow and $l.75 per man for clean
ing the room
AT Indianapolis, where three games
were played. the Phillies lost two. Go
ing rom there to ST. Louis game was
won. The club then returned to Indian
ap0liA only to lose still another game.
st this Manager Diddleboch seemed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-08
Difference in Base Running.

combination batting percentage of 80
as against .2S7 for Bates and Grant.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-04
A Lavender Town.

One of the minor harvests that
promise well is that OF the lavender
fields. nave seen some furnishing
crops in the Hitchin neighhorhood re.
Gently. says a writer in the London
Mail Comparatively few know Of
this quaint Hertfordshire town asan i'm.
portant lavender-growing center, yet 1t
has grown the sweet old herb (Which
the Romans called lavendula when
they used It to scent their baths), has
distilled the flowers and sent their ex.
tract into all parts of the world for
more than century. At cutting time
people come in from miles around to
inhale the sweetness of the fields, and
when the distilling begins the fra.
GRANGE Of lavender Is borne on the
wind two miles or more from the town.
The flowers are put into the still with
the fresh bloom Of their maturity on
them. and from six pounds of such
flowers about hall an ounce Of oil is
extracted
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-04

H. Hunt of Montana 1t is under
stood that Byron White OF Michigan
may be named also for one Of these
new judicial Offices
Mr. DeVries is president of the
Board of General Appraisers at New
York He will be succeeded as a
member Of that board by James Fran
els Smith of California. former Gov
ernor-Gensral Of the Philippines, who
served with President Taft on the
Philippine Commission
Mr. De Vries is Democrat who
served In congress from a California
district from March 1897 to August,
1900, when he was appointed to the
Board of General Appraisers. judge
Hunt is the United States District
Judge for the district of Montana.
He was classmate OF President
Taft at Yale. Mr. Barber is a law
yer who resides in Bennington
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-04
When
IRELAND DEFENDS LEOPOLD
Archbishop Says Stories of Congo
Atrocities are Unfounded

ST. Paul, Jan. Archbishop Ire
land. in statement issued for publi-
cation today, warmly defends the
course of the late King Leopold of
the Belgians in his government Of
the Congo. The statement says:
AS time is allowed for calm con
sideration of facts, the general Amer
lean press changes very much for the
better its tone with regard to the ad-
ministration of the Congo under the
late King of Belgium. There was at
first a passionate cutlery against bar
barous cruelties committed under his
regime. Now, however, official docu-
ments or reports of disinterested and
unprecedented travellers are being lis
tened to and the DOGGY of atrocities
is being more or less put 10 rest.
AS plain matter of fact there
were no atrocities in the Congo.
This may not be taken as meaning
that the Belgian operations on the
whole, in new and untried field of
labor were at all times free from
abuses of any kind but that the oft
proclaimed atrocities took place and
were the results of a general admin
istration is entirely false
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-04
ANTI HUGHES GANG
HAS NO LEADER,
RA|NES GONE
Are in Bad Without Either
RaineS or McCarren
CAUCUS AT ALBANY TONIGHT
New York Legislature Assemblies To
morrow and Majority Must
Choose a Leader

Albany, Jan. 3.-As the men who
will shape the politics of the legis-
lature of 1910 are coming 10 the cap
itol, it is becoming more and more
evident that in no previous year Of
the Hughes regime have the political
leaders of the governors own party
approached a legislative session with
more doubts and fears to harass
them.
IF we only had Raines, and IF
McCarren were still alive say men,
bers OF the old guard" who are beat
ing about for a way to oppose Gov.
Hughes successfully and at the same
time save the face" of the party in
the gubernatorial elections next Jan
uary. Without the help those two
resourceful political and legislative
tacticians, who might have devised
way out of the dilemma, the Re
publican leaders are confronted with
the alternative of either opposing to
the end a governor who is popular
with the people and thus laying the
foundation for a democratic victory
in the state election next fall, or else
tamely acceding to recommendation
which Governor Hughes frankly de
clares are for the purpose of putting
an end 10 bossism in the state.
On the eve of the legislative SEES
sion the question of who shall sue
coed the late John Raines as presi
dent pro TEN and majority leader Of
the senate is causing considerable
agitation in the Republican camp
The matter should be settled at The
Republican Senate caucus tomorrow
night
OF the two candidates in the field
| Senator lothian p. Aids of Chenan
go and Senator Harvey d Hnman o
Broome Senator Aids is the one
most likely to be selected though i
is certain that the vote in the caucus
will by no means be unanimous
Many Senators who have supported
the policies of Gov Hughes will vot'
for Senator Hinman because Senate
Aids has been classed as one OF th'
more conspicuous men in the oppos
ition camp.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-04
TRULY A MAN OF SIMPLICITY
inexpensive Costume and Household
Furnishings of Bureher One
Hundred Years Ago.

We are accustomed to think OF mas.
cul,ne dress as to-day much simpler
and much less costly than a hundred
years ago. This may be true, but
there were exceptions In The Tav
ems and Turnpikes of Blandford" S
G. Wood prints an inventory of the
clothing and household goods of Col
Samuel Sloper, who had served his
town in the war as well as in political
matters.
Samuel Sloper was not arrayed in
kings garments His inventory, made
in 1893, contained no mention of sword,
not even a gun, nor buckles, nor any
silver ornaments of any kind, nor
silken stockings; only hat valued at
30 cents, one linen shirt at 40, zone
pair old velvet breeches,' worth so
cents, "one fancy cotton vest" ST.;
one striped nankin vest" SO cents;
"one pair Q. buff breeches," $3.50, and
one pair of wooden hose. That was
all. He must have been man of sim
plicity
His household goods were plain af-
fairs, too, and seem to indicate that
he had given up the business of pub
lie host before his demise, since he
died possessed of but two bedsteads
and four dining chairs. although his
kitchen boasted OF nine chairs. The
neighbors used to come in and oc-
cupy them and chat together, perhaps
There were only half dozen knives
and forks and other paraphernalia OF
dining room and kitchen to correspond
Sunday Magazine of the Pittsburg
Dispatch
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-04
ADMITS WREcKING TRAIN
Ohio Youth Wanted to Rob the Dead
Passengers and Go West

Muncie, Ind, Jan. S.-Vernon Pies
singer. is years old, today pleaded
guilty to having opened a switch at
Dawn, Ohio, and wrecked the Knick-
erbocker train on the Big Four rail
road on Saturday night when he was
arraigned before Mayor Schermand
of Greenville, Ohio, today. He was
held to the grand jury and placed in
Jail.
Plessinger had expected that many
passengers would be killed or injur
ed so that he could steal enough
money from them to take him to a
seacoast town where he could join
the navy He lived with his grand
father at Dawn. His mother lives
at North Anderson, Ind. The engin-
eer and fireman of the train were
seriously injured in the wreck No
passengers were hurt.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-04
HALF OF MEAT SOLD
NOT INSPECTED
SAYS MELVIN
Thinks Much Diseased Meat is
Distributed
SERVICE NOW INADEQUATE
Not Enough Inspectors and Govern.
ment Can Control Only Inter.
state Shipments

Washington, Jan. S-That half the
meat eaten in the United States can
be called unexpected and that a real
and serious danger to the public ex.
lists as result, is one of the con
illusions reached by DR.. A. ID. Melvin
chief of the United States bureau of
animal industry, in his annual report
to the secretary OF agriculture.
inefiiciency of the government in
spection because of its lack of author
ity to reach business done entirely
within a state, is given as one of the
causes, and DR. Melvin points out
the great need of supplementing the
government inspection of meats with
| state and municipal INSPECTIONS.
One result of the federal inspec-
ton is to cause the diversion of dis
eased and suspicious looking animals
to the uninspected establishments,
where they are slaughtered for the
local market, says the report.
Many cities have an inspection
/ service but very few have an ade,
/ quate force, and the inspection often
consists of merely examining the
meat as offered for sale in the mar
kets when it is usually impossible tc
detect disease the evidence of which
may have been removed with the Wis
cera or organs says Dr. Melvin
AS rule sanitary conditions are
very bad at uninspected slaughter
houses and IN order to provide rea
protection against diseased or un
wholesome meat a competent yeter
mary and sanitary inspection at IT,,
time of slaughter is essential
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-04
$4,000 DIVIDEND
DISTRIBUTED BY
LOCAL BANKS
--.f-
For the Year lust Ended. All
Are Prosperous
HAVE ADDED TO SURPLUS
Savings Banks Deposits Have In
creased $4,000 During the
Year 1909.
HAVE ADDED TO SURPLUS

The record for Bennington banks
for the year just ended has been one
of the best in their history. ALI have
gotten through the year with no los
ses, have paid good dividends and adj
ded to their surplus The four local
banks pay their depositors a total Of
over $4,000 for the year 1909.
The First National bank has de-
clared its usual semi annual dividend
of per cent on its capital stock Of
$4,000 making 10 per cent for the
year and thus distributing $1,000
among it's stockholders.
The Bennington County national
pays its usual semi-annual per
cent and has added more to its sur
plus and undivided profits than in
any previous year Its per cent
dividends to its stockholders for the
year makes a distribution of $4,000
as the capital stock of the bank is
100000.
The First National bank of North
Bennington has paid dividend Of
per cent and paid similar one last
July making a total of per cent for
the year The capital stock of the
North Bennington bank is $l500O0 30
that its total dividends for the year
are $4,000
The Bennington county savings
bank, in when more people are inter
ested as it contains the money of so
large a share of the community has
had another record breaking year.
It's per cent dividend to depositors
for the year just ended amounts to
over $4,000 while the Jan state
ment of the bank shows it to be I'M
doubtedly the strongest savings bank
in the state.
The deposits in the bank Jan. /, 1910
were $1,460,l6263 A year ago the
deposits were 1928, 441.6S making a
I gain for the year of S166, 750.95.
/ But it is in surplus and accrued in
terest that the strength of the bank
! is best shown. The surplus Jan. !,
! 1910 was S152. 4661S, while its ac-
/ crued interest account is upwards of
/ $4,000 The total for the two items
/ is almost 5000 900 which means that
/ the depositors have that sum Of
money back of their deposits as a
/ guarantee of the safety and stability
| Of the bank
This surplus safety fund Of the
Bennington County savings bank is
the largest in proportion TO deposits
of any savings bank in the state max
ing this bank the strongest and SAT-
est savings bank in Vermont in
which 10 deposit money, while its
per cent interest rate to depositors is
as high as is paid anywhere.
One year ago the surplus and ac-
crued interest account OF the bank
was slightly over $4,000 while FIVE
years ago it was less than $4,000
thus showing the rapid progress the
bank is making in strength and sta
bility as well as in deposits.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-04
BOSTON THEATRES FLOODED
Forced to Abandon Performances
Through Bursting Of Water Main

Boston, Jan. "a % inch water
main burst at the corner of Hollis
and fremont streets early this even
ing and until the water was shut off
three-quarters of an hour afterward.
torrent poured itself all over the
neighborhood Sixteen blocks were
flooded to a depth Of three feet in the
lower grades, stores. theatres and
the subway being chief sufferers. The
Majestic theatre, on fremont street
and the Globe on Washington street,
were forced to close their doors
Water poured into the subway
through a large ventilating fan near
the corner of Hollis street and tied
up traffic for nearly half an hour.
Fires under the boilers in the Hotel
Touraine were put out The tele-
phone system throughout the Oxford
Exchange was put out Of business.
Water rushed into the telephone con
Quits.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-04
COUNTY COURT
Adjourned December Term Recon
vened Here This Forenoon

ADJOURNED OeCemDeF ERIN ne Con-
vened Here This Forenoon
The December term of county
court which had been adjourned for
the holidays re-convened here this
morning with Judge Fred NJ. Butler
of Rutland presiding. Assistant
Judge Kent of Dorset was also pres
ent. In the absence of Miss G.. Sa-
die Smith, the official stenographer,
Miss Vose of Rutland acted in that
capacity.
There will be no more jury trials
during the term. The cases of Snow
VS.. the Berkshire Street Railway
company and Bishop VS.. the Reads
boro Chair company for which the
jury was retained have been contin-
ued with an order from the court
that they be heard at the June term.
1t is probable that Andrew Whit
comb of Searsburg, who was bound
over from municipal court on
charge of assault on Eliot Bishop
of the same town, may ask the states
attorney to file an information
against him. Whitcomb who arriv-
ed here from Searsburg this morning
is anxious to have the case complet-
ed
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-04
BEST PRODUCTION YET
Buster Brown" Pleased TitusvilIe,
Pennsylvania Audience

The Titusyille, Pa, Herald in re
cent issue has the following to say
of Buster Brown" which is the next
theatrical production to appear at
the Bennington opera house;
Last night at the opera house
Guteaults production of Buster
Brown was witnessed by fair sized
audience The crowd was smaller
than would have been the case but
for the violent rainstorm which start
ed at about 7:45 o'clock and which
discouraged many people who had in
tended being present The produc-
ton was the best ever seen in the
city of this great musical show. The
chorus was especially strong and
sweet and some of the songs will be
remembered long after the play itself
is forgotten The stage settings and
costumes were up to the minute. The
work OF Master Reed as Buster, ="
Lorraine Lester as Mary Jane and
lack Bell as "Tige" was first class in
! every respect
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-04
INNOCENT MAN HANGED
Prisoner Confesses he Committed Muir
der for Which Another Paid Penalty

Prisoner Confesses he Committed Muir
der for Which Another Paid Penalty
Wheeling, W Va, Jan 81 want
to tell you something | have had on
ny mind for a good many years
cannot keep the terrible secret any
longer 1t was I and two foreigners
who killed Contractor Samuel T. Fer
guson near Washington. Penn, on
Sept Is, 1903, and the man they
hanged and the man who is serving
twenty years for that crime are in
nocent.' Joseph VastellO a prisoner
in the Moundsville, w Va Peniten-
tiary, made this statement today to
G. G. Dawson, Captain of the
Guards
Milovar Koyovic was hanged for
the murder of Ferguson, and Milovar
Patrovic is now serving a sentence
in the pententiary at Pittsburg
Vastello is serving a sentence for
another crime He was arrested a
few months after Ferguson was muir
dered for the robbery of the railroad
station at Burton. w. Va, and was
sentenced to eight years imprison-
ment His term expires next No
vember.
Vastello told a detailed and consis-
tent story. All efforts to make him
contradict himself were unayaiing.
He implicated two foreigners, who
are believed to have returned to their
native land An effort will be made
to have Nastello Identified by Lewis
S. Ligget, a farmer. who saw the
slayers of Ferguson
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-04
TAxlcAs RUNS DOWN OLD MAN
Morris Vietorius, "a, May Die From
His Injuries.

New York City, January A.
Morris Vietorius, aged "A, but
ton manufacturer of 24S East Sixty.
first Street, who has Offices at 81
Union Square, was knocked down
last night by a taxicab at SiXty-frst
street and Lexington Avenue. He
suffered a broken collarbone and was
taken to the Presbyterian Hospital.
His injury may prove fatal, owing to
his age
The driver of the taxicab, James
T. Galligan, of 1880 Madison Avenue
was locked up in the East Sixty
fourth street Station.
According to the police the taxicab
was runnig north in Lexington Ave
nue. at slow rate of speed, when, at
Sixty-first street. Mr.. Vietorius walk.
ed directly in front of the machine
before Galllgan saw him.