Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-10-05
CHITTENDEN COUNTY
WINOOsKI.

Tho death of Miss Mary Devino oc-
Cured at her home on Main street late
Thursday night very suddenly after an
4 attack of paralysis. Miss Devino was 81
years old and had had attacks of paralv-
sis some few years ago but had been in
good health of late years and up to Thurs
day night she had been up and around
/ the house Winooski had always been her
! home and she is survived by three sisters
/ and three brothers, Misses Lucy and
! Rose of this place, Mrs Alfred Labountv
/ of st. Johns, +. G., and Joseph, Louis and
/ Charles of this place The funeral was
| held Monday morning at St Francis
| Navier Church.
! w. r. Chambers and SON. Robert, left
/ Monday for Topper Lake where Nh
! Chambers will enter the hotel business
Mrs. Chambers and daughter. Harriet,
and Mrs Marcella Wardwell will leave in
the course of another week
The American Wooden company mills are
undergoing considerable changes in the
way of Improvements. one of the largest
and highest cement chimneys In this sec
! tion is being put in by the Weber Chin
+ ney company of Chicago and the +. ".
| Pitman Co. of Massachusetts is build
! ing new boiler room and adding one
| more story to the old machine shop and
| when these jobs are completed they will
| then begin the work OF building new
I filtration house. The new boiler room
/ will contain {; battery of 10 boilers and
! the roof is Of steel construction. The last
bit of steel was laid yesterday and the
roof viii be begun Immediately. This
boiler room IS built in the rear of the old
one and both buildings together will make
a building IA feet by 80 feet wide and 81
feet to the top of the roof, and is of
brick. The one-story addition to the ma
chine shop will be used as a pattern room
| The work is progressing rapidly BY the
large force of men engaged on the work
under Superintendent John Henderson CT
the T. w. Pitman company. AS soon az
this work Is completed the construction Of
the new filtration house will be begun.
This building will be 81 feet wide. 40 feet
long and IS feet high. There will be three
large water tanks inside OF this building
and three tanks on the outside. Proba-
bly, one OF the largest cement chimneys
in these parts Is the one under the super
intendency of George Perry. The foot of
this chimney is % feet square. feet i
inches high. The diameter on the outside
Is 10 feet 5 inches with a diameter of ~
feet on the inside and running to a height
of l75 feet bove the footing. About five
feet is laid each day.
charles tPoorboy) Gilbert has been re-
arrested for escaping from an officer |
after serving IA sentence OF IS days, and |,
in municipal court waived examination |
and was bound over to county court in |
default of bail. ON August $ he was
arrested for breach of the peace and !
in court he was given sentence of |
Is days This term expired yesterday, and |
ne was re-arrested a warrant made |
out by Town Grand Juror ID. f.. O'Sul- |
Ivan ana was brought Up in municipal |
court. When he WAS being taken back /
to jail TO serve HIS time in the breach |
of peace case he made the excuse 20
chief Of Police Horton that he could |
raise the money to pay his fine from some
of the boys at the HiaWatha club When
the street was reached after leaving the
court room. he started on run up tho
railroad track Officers Wnrdwell and |
Barber, who later made a search of the
woods, could not find him. 1t WAS some
few days after that poorboy was To-
c1tcd IN the club rooms by Officer Ward
well, who placed him under arrest ana
took HIM to the Jail in burlington to
serve his sentence