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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17
Roosevelt For Direct Vote on U. s.
Senator'S,

Grand Rapids, Mich, Feb. IL. The
election of United States senators by
direct vote of the people is favored by
ex-President Roosevelt. He believes
the constitution should be amended so
as to provide for popular election.
In Lincoln day speech here last
night Colonel Roosevelt came out
squarely in favor of the movement.
Zone of the progressive policies upon
which l think the great majority of
progressives are agreed is that United
States senators should be elected by
popular VOTE" said Colonel Roosevelt.
''The constitution should, in my judg-
ment, be so amended as to provide for
this"
Asserting that the present method of
electing senators was "relic" of old
times and should be remedied, the
colonel declared himself in favor of
abolishing the electoral college in elect
ing president, yet" he said, "while
he believed in the election of senators
by direct vote, he did not favor any
policy which would take away from the
federal government one particle of the
control which it now has as regards the
election of senators. "
Colonel Roosevelt came here from
New York to be the chief speaker at the
Lincoln anniversary celebration of the
Lincoln club. His subject was Lincoln
and Progressive Republicanism. The
banquet hall, seating more than 1000
people was crowded. H..
The cheering which greeted the ex-
presidents appearance in the hall was a
continuation of an ovation which began
upon his arrival in the afternoon, when
the crowds greeted him with cries of
Teddy for president in 1922
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17
The Famous Morgan Hors

In the February Outing David Buffum
discusses the making of good carriage
horse. In relation to the different
breeds he says of the Morgan:-
''This family has gone on record as
the gamest, the most beautiful, and, all
things considered, the nearest to per-
lection of any that America has pro-
duced. Though not as fast at the trot
as some other families, they were all
fast; they all showed uncommon endur-
ance and stamina; they had the points
of equine excellence and elegance that
distinguish the Arab; and they bore
themselves as superbly as the proudest
of the aristocratic sons of the desert.
In every single respect except size
they were ideal horses. Concerning
the breeding of Justin Morgan, the
founder of the family, there have been
endless discussions, but of this we are
certain that the family had the pre-
potency that only comes of ancient and
unsullied lineage. Itisno won der, then,
that their blood should be found in some
of the best of our carriage stock today
and logically that we should look to it
as an important element in breeding
such stock.
1t is a pity that such family should
not have been preserved in its integrity
and that its blood should be so largely
lost to present-day breeders. But
through the desire to breed extreme
speed the Morgan were crossed with
other families and the original type was
very largely lost. Efforts fare now
being made to restore it, and if this is
successfully accomplished and by care
full selection, the size increased little,
the advantage to American breeders
will be very great. 1t will be quite
number of years, however, before all
this can be done and still longer time
before the stock will be available to
breeders as a distinct breed.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17

into Mount Ethan Allen, it became
plain to me that the difficulties of get
ting new name would be almost in
superable, and so began doing what
little came in my way virtually to re-
store the name given by the first white
men who saw it-Lion Couchant, Couch
ing Lion. My family and a good many
of my friends here now call the noun
tain The Lion. We have even got up
an imaginary "Club," each member of
which is supposed, whenever he calls
the mountain anything but The Lion,
or Lion Mountain, to pay five cents
toward disseminating the old and good
name. / hope you will agree with me
that that name is more worthy of the
mountains splendid dignity than that
outrageous 'Camel's Hump"
Don't you feel like taking hold to
help this re-christening? You can al
most effect it yourself, if, whenever
you write or speak of the mountain,
you follow the policy that 1.-THE Lion
Club" is following.
Believe me, dear Sir,
Faithfully yours,
H. HOLT.
Hon. Joseph Battell.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17
To an Auto m o bile.
with Apologies.

/ have humble longing that has never
been confessed,
A longing l have striven in vain to bury
in my breast;
want to take ride once more, wher
days are hot and muggy,
Behind little jogging horse in some
old shabby buggy.
/ oft am hurled along the road in some
ones fine machine
At such pace | cannot tell a brown
field from green.
want to amble on at peace, unheeding
what they say,
And watch with joy an ancient horse
flick ancient flies away.
never see landscape now that is not
scudding by
In gales of wind and clouds of dust be-
fore my goggled eye;
The pensive cows are galloping, the
hens are squawking past;
If anything seems peaceful / know il
will not last.
l have no great ambitions and l don't
desire to shine
AS heroine of accidents in the auto
mobile line;
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17
Run Down From Behind by Auto

Mineola, L. l., Feb. Frank Duo
vara of Jericho, L. l., when walking in
the Jericho turnpike today, was run
down from behind by an automobile
driven by Gilbert R. Wright of No. 10
Bergen avenue, Jamaica. Wright is
chauffeur for 7. F. Archer of No. 451
Fulton street, Jamaica, who was in the
car. Wright surrendered to the Dis
trict Attorney, who permitted him to go
on his own recognizance. Duovara s
skull is fractured and his right leg is
broken. New York Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17

decisive as it was deserved. The object
sought was by no means the betterment
of railway facilities; the purpose was to
check the activities of the Canadian
road in New England. The Vermont
legislature, however, acted in the in
terest of the public, following the
presidents set by the Rhode Island gen.
eral assembly and the Massachusetts
board of railroad commissioners. The
petition for taking Grand Trunk proper
ty solely for the benefit of another road
was most pernicious in principle, and its
summary rejection after bitter fight
affords conclusive proof that New En-
gland is not disposed to permit the
erection of wall through which only
New Haven rails can pass. The sensi-
BILE course for the New Haven to follow
is to cease interfering with Grand Trunk
plans and concentrate effort on needed
improvements of its own property.
This undertaking is large enough to
keep the Boston and Maine manage
ment very busy for the next ten years. /"
Providence Journal.
The people of Providence have good
reason for rejoicing in the victory of the
Grand Trunk railroad because their own
trans portation interests and those of all
New England as we'll were directly in
volved in the issue.
ST. Adams has good reason to rejoice
in the outcome, not simply because of the
sentimental relationship of Vermont 8
| Railroad city" to the cause of its
immediate friends and neighbors but be-
cause it, too, will share in the direct and
practical benefits that will inure to Yer
mont by this encouragement of the
great Grand Trunk railway system to
pursue its policy of maintaining at least
one live wire of independent and I'M
absorbable railway competition in New
England. st. Adams may expect to
derive certain and substantial benefits
from the immense volume of traffic that
is to pass through this railway head
quarters when the Grand Trunk trans
continental system is completed and
this city is on the main line of Grand
Trunk iron reaching from ocean to
ocean.
Incidentally, the Messenger believes
it represents more than local sentiment
in congratulating General Manager
George c. Jones upon the freer hand and
larger opportunities that this victory
is ultimately to give him in his manage
ment of the Central Vermont railway.
Public opinion in Vermont would have
! increased his responsibilities long ago if
the public had owned the Central Yer
mont railroad. st. Adams Messenger.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17
Shsrifrs Badge DIdn't Helm Him,

DR.. Philip Grausman of No. 100 West
Fifth-eighth street was before Magis-
trate Krotel in the West Side Court
Yesterday, charged with refusing to halt
his automobile when ordered to do so by
policeman. After his arrest, it was
alleged, DR.. CRAFTSMAN showed the blue
coat deputy sheriff's badge. "You
think you own the streets because you run
machine" the Magistrate exclaimed.
Your flashing that badge will do you
no good and l have good mind to have
Sheriff Shea deprive you of it," The
oHender was fined $5.-New York Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17
TAXI SMASHEDIN BROADWAY
Occupant Hurled Through Glass
Shield Suffers q Broken Nose.

Albert E. Smith, a Pittsburg pub
Usher, and young woman companion
were injured yesterday when the taxi
cab in which they were riding was
crashed into at Forty-ninth street and
Broadway by racing automobile.
Smith was thrown through the glass
shield in the front of the taxicab and
landed on his face on the seat beside
the driver. His injuries included a bro
ken nose, and those of his companion
cuts on the face by broken glass.
Smith left the Hotel Rector in taxi
cab to visit his son, who is a student of
Columbia University. The taxicab was
in charge of John Lenahan. AS the car
approached Forty-ninth street a racing
auto driven by John Cleber of No. 316
Lockwood avenue, New Rochelle. and
which was towing another car, was COM
ing south. Just as the taxi and the
racing car were about to pass each
other woman darted across Broadway
in front of Cleber's machine. Cleber
swung to the left to avoid hitting the
woman. On account of the slippery
state of the pavement the car skidded
and crashed into the taxicab in which
Smith and his companion were riding.
The shock was a violent one. for both
machines were going at fair rate. DR..
Allen of Flower Hospital attended
Smith. who returned to his hotel.
Cleber was arrested. New York Press,
Jan. 80.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17

The machine. owned by S. L. Wing, a
manufacturer, was in charge of Albert
douglass. The chauffeur told the police
the car was going slowly, and Mrs. Tou-
sey stepped directly in its path. He
helped to carry her to the sidewalk.
where two young women cared for her
until an ambulance arrived from the
hospital which the old woman had left
about twenty-four hours before. New
York Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17
WOMEN FATALLY HURT.
Members of Theatrical Company
Injured in Poughkeepsie.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Jan. 29-Six
persons were injured, one probably fa-
tally and two seriously, when an auto
mobile containing five of the person.
injured crashed into trolley,car here
this afternoon. The accident took
place in upper Main street when the.
chauffeur of the car, Arthur Ketcham.
tried to cross the street in front of an
approf ching trolley car The automo-
bile skidded in the snow and when hit
by the trolley car was wrecked COM
pletely.
In the car with the chauffeur were
Anna Marks, % years old, of Provi-
dence; Gloria Clayton, 20, of Boston.
and Edith Edwards, 10, of New York
members of the Phil OFT COMPANY
which will open three days engage
ment in the Collingwoodl Opera House
here tomorrow, and George Snyder. a
chauffeur, of Middletown, N. Y.
Miss Marks and Miss Clayton are so
badly hurt that they may die. The in
Jured are all in Vassar Hospital
Miss Marks was pinned fast in her
seat when the machine was jammed
into mass by the force of the collision
She was sitting on the front seat with
ketcham. She is injured internally.
has bad cut on the head and has MANY
body bruises. Miss Clayton received a
bad blow on the head, and it is feared
that she has conclusion of the brain,
She also received several cuts and
bruises. Miss Edwards right arm was
broken and she was cut about the head
and shoulders. Snyder's colarbone
was broken, his right hand was broken
and his right kneecap was injured.
Ketcham escaped with comparatively
slight injuries. He was hurled from
the machine when it crashed into the
car. He was injured about the head
and shoulders.
Ketcham is employed in the Sague
Garage, and he borrowed car there at
3 O'Clock. Accompanied by Snyder. an
other employee of the garage, he met
the girls in the Poughkeepsie House,
where they were boarding, and invited
them to go for a ride, promising to be
back by o'clock.
Running west in Main street from
Vassar College the automobile met a
trolley car bound for the college at the
junction of Church street. The car was
running east. Church street runs west
to the river from Main street, on the
south side. AS the machine neared the
junction and Ketcham was preparing to
cut across Main street to turn into
Church he observed the trolley car shoot
around the turn near the junction.
ketcham turned the car sharply to the
left and was cutting across the tracks
in front of it when the wheels slipped
on the icy pavement.
Edward Leroy, the motorman of the
trolley car, was badly cut by flying
glass. He reversed the power, but
was unable to check the speed of his
car, and it caught the automobile at
the front seat. The force of the COL
lission turned the automobile partly
over, and all but Miss Marks were
thrown out. She was tangled in the
robes and her body was jammed back
against the rear seat. New York
Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17
South Dennis, Mass,


Dec. 9Th, 1910.
Hon. Joseph Battell.
My both remembered and Honored Sir:
The papers tell us that you stand
ready to give the state of Vermont, for
state park, one thousand acres of vir-
gin forest, including the peak in the
Green Mountain range known as Cancels
Hump and upon specified conditions.
All these conditions are wise and good,
especially the one that no Christian
juggernaut shall ever enter it; and vet
would prefer, in rejecting the paltry
name Cancels Hump, to have you re-
store to it the original and most be-
fitting name given it by Champlain as
he sailed up the lake, Lion Couchant.
the COUGHING Lion in plain English.
Let me add: Do you remember that
one summer when with other noted
men, President McCosh of Princeton
University, was at the Bread Loaf;
how took him in a five days ride
about the State? We went over the
mountain range to Bethel and then on
to Randolph and Barre, then to Mont
pelier, Stowe Mount Mansfeld) Re-
turning, we came to Jonesville and
through Huntington, Starksboro, Lin
coin; think it was in Huntington at a
certain point in the road, we caught a
fine view of the Lions profile, when
DR.. McCosh exclaimed: What pity
that you should set aside the name
given to that summit by Champlain,
and besmear it with the paltry term
Cancels Hump: look up there: see the
Lion S nose, his ears, eyes, mouth, head :;
and see how like Milton's Lion, he is
paving to disengage his hinder parts ::
| wish | were poet! | would tell you
how in ages past that King of Beasts
was thus located not only to be the
guardian of this splendid valley but ex-
tend his sway into the vast Adirondack
region beyond, requiring those Adiron-
dack peaks-what do you call them?-
to submit to his authority" The en-
thusiasm of the poet-speaker was in
tense; he ended, entreating me to do all
/ can to get the original title, so de-
manded by the photography - the
lionine facial expression of the peak
restored to it. The misgiving pledge
gave. is my justification for writing
you, my esteemed friend, these hasty
but grateful words.
Yours truly and in the best of bonds,
c. B. HUBERT.
Hon. Joseph Battell.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY II, 1911.
CAM ELS HUM p.

The editor of this paper has received
the following interesting letters in re-
gard to this mountain:
Ferrisburgh, Vt, Dec. Is, 1910.
Dear Mr.. Battell
take the liberty of enclosing letter
from an old friend of Mr.. Robinson's,
who for twenty or more years spent his
summers at his Saints Rest" on the
lake shore near the mouth of Otter
River, and who loves the noble noun
tain with the same intense love as we
Vermonters give it. He is DR.. ]. w.
Barston of Gramercy Park, New York
City, now an elderly man but with a
young mans enthusiasm, a great lover
of flowers, trees, waters, mountains, in
fact lover of all created things, in
Guiding mankind. am sure your spirit
would find his congenial one. He en-
joys quiet contemplative ride with a
good horse as much as you and do.
wish to tell you OF my appreciation
of your generous endeavor to preserve
our forests and mountain shrines from
the Dissertation of thoughtless money
getters. 1t is certainly a work future
Vermonters will bless you for and for
which all thoughtful ones of the present
generation are grateful.
/, too, want to protest against a
change of an old name that is dear from
constant association with a noble and
inspiring object, just as the homely
name of friend is sweet to those who
love her.
"Camel's Hump" is homely and map
propriate. Yet wherever a person
reared in sight of that peak, may wan
der, that name conjures up the noble
outline of the mountain rising in ever
lasting beauty above ranges of green
foot hills, just as grand and majestic
today as when Samuel de Champlain
saw it against the east from his little
boat on the lake that bears his name.
Those who have not lived in the noun
tains cannot understand our love for
them and our veneration for them. If
it must be changed, let the poetical and
appropriate name Champlain gave it
be chosen. Indeed it does look like a
Crouching Lion overlooking and guard
ing our land. Yet the old name is good
enough for me.
Very respectfully,
ANNA L. ROBINSON.
Mrs. Rowland E. Robinson)
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17

Bolton, VT, Jan. 3, 1911.
Col. Joseph Battell.
Dear Sir: Tread with great interest
the item in the weekly Free Press of
Dec. 18th and, that my work has been
so strenuous, could not find the time to
write you few lines until the present
time. hope you will pardon me if |
ask a small favor, as am representing
many more who share my views. We,
who live in the shadow of the grand old
mountain wish that it might retain the
homely name it has so proudly carried
for many years.
Sincerely yours.
MRS. M. M. SABINs.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17
cry respectfully,
ANNA L. ROBINSON.
(Mrs. Rowland E. Robinson)
New York, N. Y, Dec.

New York, N. Y, Dec. 10, 1910.
My dear Mrs. Robinson:
Thanks for your post card which we
were all most glad to receive. And
now will you excuse my troubling you
80 soon again, but my soul is being
troubled by paragraph in last week S
Vergennes paper-a proposition seri-
ously offered, l think it was in the
State Legislature-to change the name
which old Sam'l Champlain gave to the
beautiful mountain which he discovered
in 1909 and to which he gave the wholly
appropriate name Lion Couchant"
from its exact and most picturesque
profile of COUGHING lion, to Mt. Ethan
Allen.
The idea of throwing away the per-
fectly fitting name given by the dis
coverer (even though for century the
mountain has borne its vulgar and inap-
propriate name of Cancels Hump and
sinking the history of the highest and
most attractive peak of the Green
Mountains) seems to be an outrage or a
terrible blunder.
/ admit that Ethan Allen is a name to
conjure with and dear to every Yer
monter Though Mr.. Robinson often
told me he thought the name much
overpraised) but how much better to 90
back to the name given by its discoverer
ITO years before Ethan Allen was even
thought of.
If were still citizen of Vermont I
would fight the proposition to make
such change in every newspaper in
the State and petition the Legislature
against such blunder and / may write
to you begging that you and Rowland
will both use tongue and pen to save
Vermont from making such mistake
and throwing away such a splendid bit
of State history as connected with the
old Frenchman and his amazing story
of travels and discovering of three CEN
turtles ago
Most cordially yours,
j. M. BARSTON.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17
BACK TO HOSPITAL WITHIN
DAY.

Old Woman, Though Warned to
Be Careful, Is Hit by Auto.
Mrs. Mary A. Tousey, so years old,
who was discharged from the New
York Hospital on Sunday last, was run
over by an auto at Fifth avenue and
Thirty-fourth street yesterday after
noon. When she was leaving the hos
pital she was told she still was weak,
and would have to be careful in going
about the streets. She smiled and told
the doctors she was able to look out for
herself. But when she was crossing
Fifth avenue she was unable to get out
of the way of the auto, and received
dangerous injuries.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17
Auto Kills Boy on Bicycle.

Philadelphia, Jan. %. While riding a
bicycle at Glenwood avenue and York
street today, Philip Taylor, ID years old,
ran into an automobile owned and driven
by DR.. Martin ]. Nevinger, and was
killed almost instantly. DIR. Nevinger
was released on his own recognizance to
appear before the Coroner. New York
Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17

This my plebeian longing, without
bubble Of remorse-
l want that shabby buggy and l want
that ancient horse!
BY Grace Ruffield Goodwin in Good
Housekeeping.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17
Andrew Phillips,

Dublin, Jan. 31.-Andrew Phillips of
New York, who was injured in an auto
mobfse accident last September, died
suddenly at his hotel here last night
He had been having holiday of several
months in this country. New York
Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17
Feb. l, 1911.
Hon. Joseph Battell,

Middlebury, Vermont.
Dear Sir: / understand that YOU are
about to donate "Camers Hump" to
Vermont for public park and that a
change of the grand old mountains
name is contemplated. AS one of your
York State neighbors who, when in the
country, lives within view of the
picturesque peak, venture to suggest
that you consider the name bestowed
on it by us years ago, namely, 1.-THE
Sphinx" That is what its formation
suggests, at least from our view point.
In romantic association, in classic story,
in 1.-The mystery of the human" and in
''the mystery of the mountains" it is
surely appropriate and fascinating;
is it not?
You will pardon this note, l am sure,
knowing that its foundation is in adj
miration of the noble pile that I've
gazed upon since childhood. and for that
public spirit which prompts you to do
nate the mountain forever to an ap-
preciative public that is by no means
confined to the boundaries of the
Green Mountain state.
Yours very truly,
j. w. E. MILHoLLAND.
45 Wall St., New York, N. Y.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17

The following letter is from the dis
tinguished Philadelphia publisher:
Fairholt, Burlington, VT,
October q, 1910.
My dear Sir:
After we started our attempt to
change the name of "CamePs Hump"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17

1.-The defeat of the Boston and Maine
bill for the virtual confiscation of Grand
Trunk property in Brattleboro was as
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-02-17
Terms Strictly in Advance.

ONE YEAR IN VERMONT ---- 81 90
SIX MONTHS IN VERMONT ---. 80
THREE MONTHS IN vEMoNT ----- 40
ONE YEAR Outside of Vermont, - $l.25
ONE YEAR Outside of U. S., - 1.50
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