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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-09-23
MAN DYING, WIFE BADLY
HURT.
In Dark They Hit Nominee
Blocking Road. Couple Hurled
80 Feet at Base of Shaft in
Jamaica Avenue

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas V. Patterson,
of No. $50 Parkside avenue, Flatbush,
are in the Jamaica hospital as the result
of an automobile accident that occurred
at 2 clock yesterday morning. Patter-
son is said to be dying; his wife, Mana,
is in less serious condition. The chauf-
feur, Gerard Byrne, is unhurt.
The accident took place at the juno
ton of Hillside avenue, the main auto
mobile artery of Queens, and Bergen
avenue, Jamaica, the car crashing
against the terraced embankment at the
base of the Soldiers and Sailors Noun
ment, throwing its owner and his wife
some thirty feet.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-09-23
Accident Averted.

A bad accident was narrowly averted
yesterday when DIR. E. j. Ghidella,
driving his 26-horse power Cadillac,
with four passengers in it, lost rear
wheel, throwing the car heavily in the
gutter. The machine was going at a
fair rate of speed when for some un-
known reason a rear wheel slipped off
nearly opposite the Rufus Robinson
farm on the Montpelier road. The car
fell to one side, and before the power
could be shut off flew to the road side
where it slid into the soft earth. Nc
one was injured. Montpelier Journal
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-09-23

MANY sufferers from nasal catarrh
say they get splendid results by using an
atomizer. For their benefit we prepare
Ely's Liquid Cream Balm. Except that
it Is liquid it is in all respects like the
healing, helpful, pain allaying Cream
Balm that the public has been familiar
with for years. No cocaine nor other
dangerous drug in it. The soothing
spray is remedy that relieves at once.
All druggists, 75c., including spraying
tube, or mailed by Ely Bros, So Warren
Street, New York.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-09-23
MOVEMENT FOR BETTER
HIGHWAYS.
Washington County Legislators
to lake Trip.
MEMBERS ELECT OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY
WILL PROBABLY TOUR NEW HAMP-
SHIRE SOON.

SHIRE SOON.
Montpelier, Sept. 19.-Two resident
officers of the Vermont Automobile
Club, James M. Boutwell,, first vice.
president, and S. S. Ballard, secretary
with others interested, talked the mat
ter over yesterday and it is proposed
to set the thing in motion, and do as
our Franklin county friends have done,
and during the week it is hoped to make
arrangements to take the Senators and
Representatives of Washington county
on trip at some convenient time over
into New Hampshire and show them
what has been accomplished along the
good roads movement. This will give
them an idea of what it means, and it is
hoped to have the New Hampshire
State road commissioner give them some
timely hints on this subject.
1t will be seen that those interested
in automobiles are full of zeal, that
roads should be built by bonding the
State, that is, by the money of the whole
population, seven-eights of whom are
prevented from any safe or comforta-
BILE use of them by the automobiles,
which, because of their nature, like
locomotives, should be confined to their
own roads.
No doubt the believers in this move
ment will gladly furnish transportation,
and it has also been suggested that this
will take the form of dinner after the
days run. at which time the New
Hampshire State highway commissioner
will be invited to give the tourists an
informal talk along this line. Burling-
ton Daily News, Sept 20, 1910.
This suggests a junket into New
Hampshire with dinner accompanying
and similar trips from other counties
are proposed. But we have no idea
that in any of these excursions there
will be any reliable information OF
either the cost or the quality of the
roads visited. This is not the object OF
the excursions.
The object is not facts - whether
of building roads or the use which
they will be submitted to; but il
is to bamboozle members of the
Legislature into supporting a bill, &C
companied with great expense, to builc
roads, not for the benefit of the people
of Vermont as a whole; but for the
benefit of automobile clubs by whom
the trip is projected. We do moi
believe that in any case this will be
successful ; but that members of the
Legislature generally, whether partic-
ipating in these excursions or not, will
refuse to bond the State of Vermont
for large sums to build roads, or per,
form any other services, for the benefit
of comparatively few citizens and to
the detriment of the great majority.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-09-23
Autoist Killed At Weston Curve

Frank S. Perry, an electrical engineer
employed by the Western Electric Com
pany who lived at As Hollis avenue,
Braintree, was fatally injured in an
automobile accident about 4o'clock yes.
terday afternoon at the "culvert curve
on the state road near the Weston Way
land line.
AS the machine rounded the curve il
lost the right front tire. 1t crashed
against the stone wall skirting the road
and Perry, after being thrown through
the glass windshield, was caught under
the machine and badly crushed. He
died at the Waltham Hospital at
O. clock. Boston Herald,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-09-23
saspipss In Nero's Time.

Bagpipes are generally ascribed to
Scotland. where they have been In use
for a long time. but it was an instru-
ment upon which the ancient Greeks
and Romans played Nero is said to
have performed upon 1t. and an old
piece of Grecian sculpture represents
a player on the bagpipes dressed In
the fashion thar is known today as the
highland costume.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-09-23

10 900 mile. This would amount to
$340, 900 for a road bewtween Middle
bury and Burlington. And indeed the
whole idea of the State building roads
for motor engines to run on will soon be
relic of the past. Let them build
their own roads.
To this accurate information we will
add, in another column, additional sta
tistics on this subject from report of
the commissioners of public roads in
New Jersey, 1909. The book is one of
215 pages with large and excellent map
showing the roads all over the State in
red lines.
The title of the map is;
"RoAD MAP
OF
THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
From original surveys of the New Jer-
sey Geological Survey, based on the
Triangulatlon of the U. S.
Coast and Geodetic
Survey.
Scale 5 miles to an inch.
The heavy red lines indicate improv-
GU 1Ools Duiib uilucI tilS pIONiSlOii5 Va ttic
State law together with some of the
| connecting roads bnilt by the local au-
thorities without State aid. The dotted
lines indicate turnpikes.
NoTE-For want of space many State
roads built in Essex, Passaic and Union
counties, and many miles of light gravel
roads along the Atlantic coast are not
indicated"
The map is quite. thoroughly lined up
with these different roads, but there
would seem to be room for good many
more.
The population of New Jersey in
1900 was l, 1888, $3.50 and the valuation Of
property 1913, 418.7 "a; and the popula-
ton of Vermont 343, Gal and valuation
of property s1S3, 1888. 90. The Vermont
property valuation was about one-fftf
that of New Jersey. Vermont has ar
area of 1865 square miles and New
Jersey 1915. That is, the area to be
covered by roads is nearly 1000 square
miles greater in Vermont than in New
Jersey. New York has about five
times the area of Vermont, over which
to build roads, and "a times the amour
of taxable property with which to builC
them.
Since writing the above we notice thu
I'll Il.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-09-23
Lillian Russell Sued For Injuries

Schenectady, n. Y, Aug. 80. Will
Russell, the actress, for injuries re-
ceiyed by being run down by her auto
mobile in this city on Aug. Is. The
tire on Aug. 26. New York Post.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-09-23
State Conference Of o. A. r.

The annual conference of the D. A. r.
will be held with Marquis de Lafayette
Chapter of Montpelier during Ladies'
Week, exact date to be announced later.
Mrs. Alice B. G. Ballard, Mrs. Mabel
A. l.. jackson and Miss Martha S. Wat
son, all of Montpelier, will act as infor-
nation committee.
MARTHA A. SWIFT.
State Sec'y d. A. r.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-09-23
GIRLS WANTED.

Especial. Wanted at once. Exper
fenced stitchers or girls to learn on wrap
pers and house dresses. Team work
good wages. expenses guaranteed for first
few weeks" THE IDEAL MFG. COM
PANY, Tilton, N. II. 34t5p
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-09-23
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER as, 1910.
Vermont Roads.

VIC iiOtlNC QQlIC Oil CAtCIhCo dNNOhiS
in the St. Adams Messenger of an
excursion in automobiles said to be
given by the Board of Trade of st. Al
bans of the members elect to the Legis-
lature from Franklin County, for the
purpose of examining the highways.
This excursion was extended into New
York State as far as Port Henry where
the lake was recrossed and the party
proceeded to Middlebury and had din
ner with Mr.. Higgins. We make no
question they got a good dinner, and
it would appear were safely returned
to Franklin County, although one auto
mobile that was to go had to be with
drawn for repairs.
1t is probable, too, that they got
fair idea of the present condition of the
different highways they went over, but
no accurate knowledge of the cost of
roads necessary to endure the travel of
automobiles, which is an essential rec
quisite to any estimate in the matter
worth considering.
no ino''Si VI i"N' 'iioie 10 iiO N'"'e
10 'he Union 'hat naturally mas SO goou
roads throughout large part of its
extent DIS vermont FOR III eastern
Vermont and upon our mountains the
roaus are largely VI ioahi anu gravel
Which, Will coiiipdra 'iVely NIUE repairs
make eAceiieht roads, some OF them the
very pest.
helerrihe 10 inns we ho'lce the loi-
lowing III 'he au'iahu News
IN silnounciIg the l'iherary anu pur-
week under the ausnices of the St Al
bans board of trade, to show Franklin
county. ieglslators-elect some perfectly,
sPleh o.;, oia.e ioauS ~ IeM OH, anu
need of more good roads LEGISLATION in
Vermont, it was stated that the tourists
would be shown State-built highways in
ruem $500; oin o,a' MI I roaIs' anu YER
Now the News has no Quarrel with
this road-demonstrating trip. But we
DO protest against the unjust mahgning
" veitione roaus as lley are now.
good as anv found in New York State
or Massachusetts,.
But the greater question that of the
cost of roads, with the average Yer
monter, to be considered is, for whose
benefit any system of State roads is to
be built. If it was for the people as a
whole, or even as large majority, the
question would be very different one
from what it is.
The first question is whether the
great majority of the people would
vote, or if their representatives will
vote to build, at very large expense,
a system of roads which, first, couldn't
be used with any comfort or safety by
seven-eights of the citizens, and second
would of course last but a short time
because constantly used by motor en-.
gines, many of them of large size, gen.
orally travelling at 20 or 80 miles ar
hour, and frequently much faster.
Let these gentlemen who got up this
trip give authentic figures of the cost OF
such roads as they would bond the State
to build And second let them include
some system that will make any roads
new ones or old, practically safe for al
the citizens of the State to use.
Without information of this kind the
board of trade at st. Adams are vast
ing both their money and their time.
In the meantime we will give some
reliable information upon these sub
jects quoting first from interview with
Mr.. Schanck of Princeton, New JERSEY
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-09-23
MlDDLEBuRY REGISTER

Terms Strictly in Advance.
ONE YEAR IN VERMONT -----.-- 81 90
SIX MONTHS IN VERMONT -----.-- so
THREE MONTHS IN vEMoNT $500 40
ONE YEAR Outside of Vermont, $1.25
ONE YEAR Outside of U. s., $500 1.50
The Register will be found on file at
the Congressional Library reading room,
Washington, d. G.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-09-23

Since writing the above we notice the
following in an exchange:
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-09-23
ECZEMA CURED by PURIFINA

ANY Druggist CAN supply You. Sc size free
What BETTER Prooff euRiFihA. Now rerk cibs
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-09-25
IT HAS SERVED THE PURPOSE

Chief OF Police Kizer, OF Norfolk.
has asked Chief Mitchell for copy
OF the local anti-gambling ordinance
with the view OF having a similar
measure enscted by the Norfolk city
council. Under the state law j. Is
practically impossible 10 prevent
gambling in public poker rooms II the
gamblers are halfway discreet. conse-
quenily poker rooms have been run
ming full blast. 1t Is said, in spite OF
all the reforming In progress across
the Roads.
II will be remembered that at the
me the Newport News council pass
ed the anti.gambling ordinance II was
strongly contended shat the measure
would not stand the test of the courts.
Several poker Joints" were operst-
ing openly in the center OF the city
at the time, and heir proprietors. con
fident in the belief that in the long
run they would have nothing more
serious to deal with than the ineffce-
tive State law. boldly kept their
games going A few heavy fines and
Jail sentences imposed by Justice
Brown finished the fight. however
There was much talk about appeals
and tests in the higher court. but IT
was Ill talk. No appeal ever went to
the Corporation Court and the prom
lsed test never hiss been made. but,
whether or not 1t. is good law. City
Attorney Massie's ordinance has kept
Newport News clear OF public gamb-
ling dens for four or 1--WE years
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-09-25

coed themselves. IL is rightly con
tended that II is pity TO turn gooo
men with experience cut OF ONCE. es
oeeially when in many instances the
new officers VIII be nothing like 50
substantial and efficient as the Old
Here IN Newport News. for example
there is no reason for desiring a
change in these officers The treas
urer and commissioner are unusually
efficient public servants, enjoying the
esteem and confidence Of the people,
and neither can be charged with OBJ
iectionable activity In politics. Per
haps there are oiher such officers in
the state, but. unless this paper IS
misinformed. they are notable ex-
ceptions to the rule. Throughout me
state, il is said. the commissioners
and treasm ers. with the sher'ns and
clerks q courts. year In and year out
use their Offices for political purposes.
brIlding up local political machines
through which they not only per
petuate themselves IN Office but con-
tol affairs generally In iheir coun-
ties II is ,known that some OF the
treasurers carry the tax bills OF
friends and adherents for indefinite
periods. Most OF them draw big in
comes from their Offices and can al
ford 10 cany on this money lending
business. with political suppor as the
interest demanded.
The power Of the Office holders
makes il poss BILE fer them to ofer
formidable opposition TO the abolition
of the fee system. And as they are
the beneficiarles of the system. the
opposition will be just as strenuous
az they can make IT, This Is another
reason fer voting down the amend
ments When the officers can no
longer succeed themselves indefinitely,
their power will be broken. And I'M
I'll It Is broken. II probably will be i'm
poss. BILE TO get rid OF the outrageous
system under which petty county on
Gals are better paid than the COVER
ncr OF Virginia.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-09-25
THE SWEET STEN0GRAPHER.

The ONCE boys In love with me. poor kidi
He bushes every time our chances lne .ss
Last night he followed me out In the
street.
Ana when 1 turned 1 So MIN as he hid
His face by quickly pulling down his ia,
I'm glad 10 give him Joy by looking
sweet.
And honeyed words to him weaid4s-
peat. ~
But that fear he'd blow up IL did-
He comes around and stands beside my
And signs while 1 am pounding on the
keys.
One day took a rosebud from my hair
And. with some passing little pieasan-
tries.
Reached for his butronho'e and stuck f
there.
You should have seen him trembling st
the kneesi
He always keeps his nails well trimmed
and clean.
There's no low water mark beneath his
chin.
r An. you should see him blush when
come in!
It's too bad that's mes only seventeen!
He has a nice new necktie which Is green
And looks up at me with sickiy grin
He loves me SO that II would be sin
II l ignored his presence on the scene
Sometimes think It would be kind II
Pretended that / loved him Just Bit
To look half sadly at him and 10 sigh
When he finds time to finger where sit.
All. but l dare not trust myself TO try!
He might be overtaken by a At.
q. L. Kfser In Chicago Record-Herald.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-09-25
Ram arkab.e Violin Test.

An ingenious test Of old and new vio-
Inns. ia which an instrument of mod
ern make was voted the finest. has
been made ia Paris. During the per-
Torrance both critics and performers
were in complete darkpess. SO that IL
was impossible to see which one OF the
seven yiolins selected for the test wits
being played. Then immediately after
being used the instrument was placed
under a cloth. and the lights were
turned on for a few moments to en-
able the critics TO write down the
votes. All the violins were played by
two musicians Of high standing. ana
the compositions were written especi-
aliv for the test. The two violinists
tried TO bring out the best In each
violin, and the result. decided by the
votes. was interesting. The modern
make of violin led the list with lo2
votes and its nearest rival for favor
was n Stradivarius with 06 votes.
Other old and famous makes OF violins
received 50. IS. So. 81 and so.-Loudon
Telegraph.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-09-25
Tn. Waiting Championship.

An Atchison woman VINO looks for
good, In everything is glad she mar
ried. 1T has taught me patience she
said. When girl she Jew into a tenn
per II she had to wait FIVE minutes for
something she SYanted. but now she
waits and waits and waits and says
nothing. She waited nine years for
her new front porch. six years for her
husband to take her to the theater ana
eleven years for him voluntarily. when
there was no company around. to offer
her a rocking chair. This" she said
recently to n friend who heard she was
sitting up half the night waiting for
her husband to come home. rs moth
ing. l can wait longer and say less
about 1t than any woman who ever
lived. I am glad | married; other
wise I could never claim the waiting
championship beIf-"-Aschison Globe
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-09-25
lander Hearted Maid.

Once upon a time there lived a cni'd
of gentle mien and manners mild: she
was so tender and so kind she wept 10
see window blind. She feared J; might
give the window pain to leave 1t stand
ing I'm the rain. Her maiden aunty
she would beg not to stone raisins'
beat an egg. or from potatoes take the
ewes. Oh, how this maid did agonize!
And when she saw her whipping
cream with horror she would sob ana
scream. The very thought Of killing
time appeared to her dreadful crime
and. though to music she inclined. 10
heat n measure seemed unkind. To
see the cowslip by the river with ap-
prehension made her SILVER; to cur n
page or turn 1t down would cause a
deprecating frown. And when sne
saw them shivering in the chill au-
tumn air she knitted stockings for the
trees because their limbs were bare.
Her heart so oft with anguish wrung
caused this poor maid TO die quite
young-Widow.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-09-25
Sensitive to Art.

Said the art gallery guide. Just
watch the crowd awhile and see which
of their antics impresses you most"
Presently the visitor said. Il think
it is the queer attitudes so many OF
them strike"
Exactly" said the guide. They
are initiating the poses OF the figures
in the portraits. Anybody who sits
for q portrait is supposed to strike a
graceful attitude. All these people
who have never been painted realize
the grace there is In the poise OF the
head, the turn Of the wrist. the slope
Of the shoulders. They wish they
could look like that. and unconscious
~ they try 1t. The men are as bad
as the women. They straighten up;
they droop: they tilt their heads; they
arrange their hands and feet In ima-
tation of the figures they admire most.
Sometimes their attempts are very
clever; again they Ore simply ridicu-
lous. New York Times
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-09-25
THE GOVERNORS DECISION.

Just as the directors of the local
Chamber OF Commerce have sent an
o.her appeal to Governor Mann for
the abolition Of the State quarantine
system. II IN announced that the gov
ernor has had this matter under con
siderstion and already has arrived al
decision. which viii be made pub
lie Monday. Nhen the chsmber c.
Commerce appealed to he governos
last winter they offered all the evi-
dence NECESSARY TO demonstrate that
the state quarantine. Inadequate e
4 Is. serves no purpose other thar
to provide fees for the ofhcers 5p
pointed for this pori and Norfolk. an.
IS an unnecessary handicap TO am
burden upon the ports The governO
modified tc quarantine rules At iha
time. md this. paper hoped wheR ~
term q the present local oaoer begsr
TO near an end he would accede to th'
request that the service b. sboiishel
entirely. We truss that bis exceIienc,
has now decided 10 do this.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-09-25

The formation of the plateau on
which Dubois II built Is matter OF
great curiosity. Beavers are RESPONSE
Bile Tor It Long before the white men
saw that section OF Pennsylvania bea
vers built a huge dam In well set
valley. Year by year the stream wash
ed rich mud into the dam. and when
the body Of wafer was destroyed GAO
acres Of land Cat as table TOP were
left. On this stands Dubois--Altoona
Tribune.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-09-25
Candid Caddies.

Caddies, as every one knows. often
become expert golf players. and trot-
ting about the links at more than one
local club are youngsters who could
put It over the men whose clubs they
carry in a straight game 1t often
happens. therefore. th0t the amateur
golfer happening to draw one Of these
diminutive cracks as his attendant
finds himself playing in a mysteriousiy
depressing atmosphere. The contempt
that the caddy feels for the playing OF
some of the amateurs is sometimes
beyond bis power TO suppress.
At the Philadelphia Country club
they are telling a story OF a swell
young beginner who appeared to think
the only qualification necessary for
golf was a lot Of staggering clothes
He started over the links with n young
lady who had similar delusions- They
played awhile with one OF the best
caddie golfers as an attendant.
do you think" asked the young
man. turning to the eaddie with
kindly air. do you think we'll be able
to get around the course before duskY
III you run. SIR" said the caddie
Philadelphia Times.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-09-25
Old Dominion Line
Daily Service
FOR NEW YORK.

FOR NEW YORK.
Steamer leaves Norfolk, foot Of
Church st) 1900 p. m. daily except
Sunday for New York direct
, JAMES RIVER NIGHT LINZ
STEAMER FOR RICHMOND, VA.
Leaves Pier "a" $3.50 every evening,
pa. sengers only. Stop at Ciaremont
50 land or receive passengers on
signal.
VIRGINIA NAVIGATION CON-
PANY, James River Dav Line Cor
Richmond and all James River lant'
.ngs. Steamer leaves Newport NeTs
tuesdays. Thursdays and SATURDAYS
at 8:15 a. m. for Richmond. Leaves
Newport News Monday, "Wednesday
ano Friday at 5 p. M, Tor Norfolk
and Old Point.
I "SMITHFIELD" leaves Pier "A"
daily except Sunday 800 a. m. for
Norfolk, and 1870 p. IN. for Smith
field. Ocracoke leaves pier "A" daily
except Sunday 3 a. m, for Smithhsid
and 3 D. II. for Norfolk.
I All freight received and delivered
al Pier A, foot If Twenty-fifth street.
| II. C. PARKER,
! Acting Agent,
Newport News.