The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-09

and yelling to the Automobiles about
the sin of motoring and his purpose
of saving the innocent children from
"juggernauts." Several times the
young fanatic came near being run
down by automobiles the chauffeurs
of which paid no attention to the har-
angue. Finally the young man was
arrested and sent to Bellevue for OBJ
servation of his mental condition He
said he was leading campaign
against motoring, for the sake of
children.
An interesting ceremony took place
in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn
Heights, the other night. The four
flags and banner presented in the
same church by Henry Ward Beech
er on the third Sunday in May, 1861,
to "Beechers regiment" before it went
to the front, were returned to the
church. Less than two dozen of those
who went to the front that day sat in
the pews on that occasion. The
Beecher regiment. the first Long
Island regiment to go to the war, was
organized under the auspices of the
church, and while the recruiting was
in progress the volunteers slept in
the lecture room of the church. 1t was
known as the Sixty-seventh New York
Volunteers and did distinguished SER
vice during the war.
New York is to have a Municipal
Opera Company, whatever that may
be. The solo singers are to be fifty
young men and women who are en-
ployed in the city's department
stores. The chorus will consist of
100 other young department store en-
ployes, who earn from to SIS week
and who consequently cannot afford
to have their voices trained. The or
ganizer of the company is a German
music teacher, connected with a
prominent boarding school for girls
in this city and he is backed by one
of the singers of the Metropolitan
Opera Company. A trial of applicants
for solo positions in the Municipal
Company was held the other day and
about forty young men and women
presented themselves. The organizer
of the company was astonished at the
remarkably excellent quality of many
of the voices and expressed himself
confident that there would be no diff
Guilty in filling all solo positions with
excellent material. The company will
offer La Boheme," "Pagliacci." and
Michael Angelo" in the first two
weeks of next January and will then
make a tour of two weeks, returning
to New York for another season of
! two weeks.
AN elderly man who only a few
years ago had been a member of the
school board of Newark, n. j.. is in
the New York City Hospital with a
broken spine and other serious in
juries with no hope Of recovery. He
was found in this condition in an al
ley near the Market Street station OF
! the Pennsylvania Railroad and was
unconscious at the time He was re-
vived but either could not or would
not tell how he had been injured
There seems to be some mystery about
the man and his career. Although
supposedly man of means. he had
been living in cheap lodging houses
recently No one seems TO know any
thing about the circumstances of the
man and he refuses t. give any in
formation about himself and his
movements Immediately preceding his
injury. The police authorities are in
terested in the case AMI believe that
the injured man knows in what way
lie sustained his injuries, put refuses
to make a statement so as not to give
any clue to the authorities.