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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1911-09-07
Horseback Riding.


Fine, well trained saddle
horses 10 hire. Instructions
given in driving and riding
astride or side-saddle. Habits
furnished. The road leading
over the crest Of Mt Equinox
has just been cleared and n
magnificent panoramic view
can be had from the summit.
There are also other numerous
roads leading through the
woods presenting wonderful
scencrics.
OSCAR HAUTER,
40. Equinox House.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1911-09-07

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Tie Journal 10 Eiaa 70 welcome 9f
CLARK ~ she steadily Increasing nun
Scr a property uppers - iaun
benjamin A Donkey u South
port CnHH. was q guest At the Equl
aoR House over sunday last Mf
Bnlklcy has a Best " friends 10
Manchester wbo are alyays glad TO
Nee bin in town and ouly slsh that
his visits mlght be longer Mr.
Bglsiey has been coming here ever
since 1906 only missing Que year
ehen be was In Europe Nj Bulk
lsy lott for wiIkesbare. Pa, on the
flyer Monday afternoon. be having
G string ~ horses there which were
entered for one raees Al lAal place.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1911-09-07

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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1911-09-07
ID. A. ILLINGWORTH,:
ID. V. M.
Graduate Veterinarian.

Hospilal and Office 81 W. Main ST. Calls
promptly attended day or night. Surgical OPP
erstions and Lsmeness a specially.
Phone % NJ Benn ngton VI.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1911-09-07
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
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NAAlmNIIM

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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
GREATER ARENA WILL
TAKE GARDENS PLACE.
Thirteen Story Structure Will Cost
$4,000, ,ooo-seats For 1922.

New York is to have great exhibit
ion building to take the place Of
Madison Square Garden, which is to
be torn down in February.
The new building will cover the en-
tire territory bounded by Forty sixth
and Forty eighth streets and Park and
Lexington avenues. 1t will be thir-
teen story show and loft building cost
ing about $2,500,0OO. OF this amount
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Exchange will furnish $1,000,000. The
building and site will belong to the
New York Central and New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroads.
The exchange will have fifty year
lease at an annual rental of from
100000 to 100000.
The arena will be the same size as
that of Madison Square Garden. but
It will have a far larger seating capac-
ity. On the main floor will be 3,6SS
containing 546 seats. and two balco-
MES seating ., 2,4S3 and 1905 respective
ly, total seating capacity of S,622,
being more than has the garden.
The upper ten stories will be used
for loft purposes. When the arena or
central floor space is used for conven-
tons or other large gatherings chairs
can be placed for nearly 4,5O0 addi-
tional seats, so that nearly 1900 peo-
pie can be seated if desired
There will be a mezzanine floor with
over $50 box stalls. The arrange
ments for handling horse shows and
military tournaments have been made
under the direction of James T. Hyde,
manager of the New York horse show.
The arena will have an earth floor,
with two other floors above it, so ar
ranged that they can be easily re-
moved. One of these will be the or
dinary wooden floor for trade shows.
etc.; the other will be ballroom floor.
Another feature will be a large tank
for aquatic events.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
BANKERS WILL VISIT PANAMA.
After Convention In New Orleans Four
Hundred Are to Inspect Canal.

After Convention In New Orleans Four
Hundred Are to Inspect Canal.
Details of the plans of the New
York bankers who will attend the
thirtyseventh annual convention of
the American Bankers association in
New Orleans from Nov. 20 to "a next
have been made known. Almost all
those who attend the convention will
travel afterward to the Panama canal
to inspect the work done there.
The bankers, many of them with
their wives, will travel in five special
trains over the New York Central.
1t is expected 400 will make the trip.
The trains will be of the all steel
type, with mahogany interior finish.
BARRIERS, stenographers and maids will
be in the cars. For the trip from New
Orleans to Panama and return the
New York Central has chartered four
steamships.
In Nashville the bankers will be en-
tertained by F. o. Watts, president Of
the American Bankers association. A
special train on the Panama railroad
has been chartered for the party.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
NEW JEFFERSON DAVIS.
A Great grandson of the Confederacy's
President Is Born.

A Great grandson of the Confederacy's
President Is Born.
The first great-grandson Of the pres
ident of the southern Confederacy,
Jefferson Davis, was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Jefferson Hayes Davis at Denver.
He is named after his great-grapdfa
ther.
The baby's father is the son of Win
ME Davis Hayes and j. A. Hayes,
banker of Colorado Springs He had
his name changed to Jefferson Davis
in honor Of his grandfather on the
maternal side. The change in name
was legalized by an act of the Colora-
do legislature.
Mrs. Davis was formerly Miss Dora
De Witt, daughter of DR.. Theodore
De Witt Of Broadmoore, a fashionable
suburb of Colorado Springs. The ba-
by, If he lives, will inherit a million
or more.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
OUR GROWTH IN FIGURES.
Official Publication, Giving Record OF
Progress Of tho United States.


Statistical Record of the Progress
of the United States, 1S00-1911," is the
title of small document just issued
by the bureau of statistics, department
of commerce and labor. 1t covers con-
ditions in the commercial, financial, in
dustrial and transportation systems Of
the United States at brief intervals
since the year 1900, down to, and, in
many instances, including, the year
1911.
Among the interesting facts shown
are that the area of continental Unit
ed States was S43,255 square miles in
1900, advancing to 1,734,630 square
miles in 1910, to 1896, ,536 square miles
in 1850 and 3,O26,7S9 square miles in
1853, since which date no change in
area is shown. The population, which
was $685. in 1900, was 93,750,0 900
in 1911. The public debt, which was
$S3,000,00O in 1900, reached $3.50
100000, less cash in treasury, in 1865,
the figures Of 1911 being $1,015, 900 900.
The per capita debt, which was $15.63
in 1900 and in 1866 $76.9S, is in 1911
$10s3. Deposits in all banks in the
country cannot be shown earlier than
in 1875, at which date they are set
down as little over 100000, 900
and in 1910 over $15,0Oo,OO0,00O. Ex-
ports of domestic merchandise, which
amounted to $32,000OO0 in value in
1900. were over $2,oo0,oOo,oOo in 1911,
and imports, which amounted TO S91,-
100000 in 1900. were $1,000. 100000 in
1911.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
HeIpina the Home Merchant.

The farmers wife, behind old Bess,
Drives in to buy a new best dress"
She's sure to find just what she wants.
THAT there black serge like Sarah Quant's.' :
But her friend in town feels called upon
To go for her best to Stapletou,
And Stapleton is sure to go
To Rochester or Buffalo.
Now, Buffalo for that same gown
Must take the cars for Gotham town,
While New York women cross the sea
To London for their flnery.
The London dame by steamer fares
To where smart Paris spreads her wares
Where Paris buys is not quite clear,
Unless at home, which would be queer.
Walter @. Doty in Puck.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
Too Small For Him.

Spanish grandees delight in numer.
GUS names, even appropriating those
that belong to their wives families.
One Of these distinguished dons, wan
dering too far into the country, went
astray on lonely road late at night.
He knocked at the door Of a small inn,
the landlord Of which from an upper
window shouted:
"Who is thereT"
"Don Diego de Mendoza Silva Ri.
bero Guzman Pimetal Osario Ponce
de Leon Gumaza Accrora Teller v
Giron." replied the grandee
I'm that case" interrupted the inn
keeper, closing his window. "go; there
is not room enough here for half of
youw-New York Telegram.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
POSTAL BANK FOR PANAMA.
But Canal Zone Residents Won't Get
Interest on Deposits.


Residents of the Panama canal zone
who have long desired to put their
savings in the hands of the govern
ment for safe keeping have had their
wish granted. President Taft has
signed an order establishing a postal
savings system on the canal strip.
which will go into effect on Nov. g.
The system to be instituted differs
materially from that in the states in
that no interest will be paid on the
deposits, the object being merely to
provide a depository for the funds Of
che canal zone inhabitants. Tie new
system is not under the direction OF
the postoffice department. but under
the isthmian canal commission The
board OF directors of the canal zone
system is the collector of revenues,
the auditor and the treasurer OF the
canal government acting ex officio. De-
posits of dollar or more will be ac
5000
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
INSCRIPTIONS BY DR.. ELIOT.
Only Ones to Appear on Washinston's
New Postoffice.

The only inscriptions which will be
placed on the new city postofflce
building at Washington have been
written by ex-President Charles w.
Eliot of Harvard. DIR. Eliot was re-
quested to write the inscriptions by
the architects, and they have been ap-
proved by Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh, The following will be in
scribed on the east pavilion:
Carrier OF news and knowledge instru-
ment Of trade and commerce. promoter of
mutual acquaintance among men and ma
tions, and hence Of peace and good will.
On the west pavilion will be this
inscription:
Carrier OF love and sympathy. messen-
ger of friendship, consoler OF the lonely,
bond of the scattered family, enlarger OF
the common life.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
Choice.

1 would not wise nor wealthy be;
I ask not much of fame:
care not that was left to me
No high and noble name;
l crave not power--no, not L
Nor pride. which hath a fall
In fact, my longings do not lie
Along these lines at all.
I'd play no superficial part
To gain mankinds applause
If | might be in mind and heart
Exempt from natures laws.
So that no fault could e'er be found
In my perfected ways
And men the whole great world around
Would name me but to praise.
So could choose whate'er I would
From all of life's estate,
I'd make my choice-I'm sure 1 should
Without a moments wait.
I'd choose that lot which no mishap
Could prove a hollow sham
I'd choose to be the sort Of chap
My mother thinks l am!
Chicago News.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
NOVEL AERoPLANE SIGNALING
Morse Alphabet to Be Used In Smoke
by tho Army.

Experiments at the army aviation
school at College Park, Md, are to he
made with an aerial signaling appara
tus devised by Lieutenant Roy c. Kirt-
land, the army aviator. and Charles
Bowman, a semaphoric- expert, The
apparatus is based upon the crude
semaphortc methods employed by the
Indians. The Morse code will be used,
the signals being shown by smoke
emissions from a caldron.
The caldron is shaped like teapot
and will be controlled by a valve. The
smoke will be generated by chemical
mixture With this device 1t is planned
to spell out words against the sky
The velocity Of the aeroplane in flight
It is calculated, will always counterac,
the force of the wind, and 1t is believ
Cd that it will be possible to leave be
lind trail Of signals perfectly legibls
- man ~ tho @-..s,u..I
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
According to the calsndar.


The locust sounds its rasplng lay
Upon some log,
And hot and humid is the day
In Aug.
Kansas City journal
Dad looked at his lean pocketbook,
And then he wept
He's glad the folks will all be home
In Sept.
Los Angeles Express.
We soon must claim the -overcoat
That we have hooked.
Because the nights will all be cool
In Oct.
Youngstown Telegram.
Thanksgiving triumphs will be few
For me, by Jove
I've signed a note that will be due
In Nov.
Chicago Record Herald
Alas, the bills that now abound
VIII never cease
For Santa Claus will be around
In Dec.
Cincinnati ENQUIRER
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
The Reverse Order.

"There are times remarked the
general. when we do not care to have
the army in what is usually considered
the best trim"
visitor.
st is not desirable" answered the
general sententiously, from a cour-
ageous point of view, to have it in
good running baltimore Amer
lean.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
An Exaggerated Report.

Editor-You say here in your report
that Mr.. Jones has "taken a partner
for life"
Reporter-Well, l suppose the ex-
preston is a trifie bromide.
Editor-It isn't its bromide quality
I was thinking Of, but don't you know
our policy is never to be extravagant
OF dogmatic in our statements ?-Bos.
ton Transcript.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
Afraid to Eiaht.

Mrs James-My husband and have
never had a quarrel in all our married
life.
Mrs. Frank. Yes. Everybody said
when you married him that he would
be afraid to say his soul was his own
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
Wanted a Meal.

''Saw man order $50 worth of ham
and eggs yesterday"
'I've heard that old joke"
''This amt any joke. The man was
hungry" kansas City Journal.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
An ADVANTAGE.

'The automobile presents another
advantage over the horse" said Mr..
Chuggins thoughtfully, that people
do not commonly appreciate"
"What is that?"
when a motorcar plays out it goes
to the junk pile. Nobody thinks OF
chopping it up and trying to export
1t as beef" Washington Star.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
The Modern Version.

Jack Spratt could play no bridge; his wife
could play no golf
So Jack spent hours in his prodigious
tasks of teeing off.
His wife at bridge would win each prize,
and so they had no care,
Which really helped in advertising this
congenial pair.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
MISS CLEVELAND, STUDENT.
Daughter Of Former President Enrolled
at the ShipIey School.

at tne onlPleJ oonool.
Enrolled among the pupils at the
Shipley school, Bryn Mawr, is Miss
Marion Cleveland, daughter of the
late President and Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land. She is to take the full course
at the school. but whether she will en-
ter Bryn Mawr college at the expira-
ton of the school term has not been
decided by the young wOman's mother.
Miss Cleveland was born at the sum
mer home of the ex-president at Buz-
yards Bay, Mass. during her fathers
sacond term In the White House.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
| EXPLOSIVES
5 HAD APART
Some Reminders of Potent.
aIity of Twentieth Century
!, Weapons.
MHE board that is appointed to

"HE board that is appointed to
III investigate the cause of the
n explosions that reduced an $S,-
100000 French war vessel, the
splendid Liberte, to a misshapen mass
of scrap iron in a few minutes will
undoubtedly reach a final conclusion
similar to the result of the investiga-
tion into the cause of the demolition
Of the Jena on March 12, 1907 France,
as Rear Admiral Melville points out
in writing Of the nineteenth centurys
naval progress, was the first nation to
employ the modern high explosives
which have displaced gunpowder with
various nitro compounds. These PRO
duce not only far greater energy, but
are as well smokeless. The sea fights
of our war with Spain saw the last
contending fleets to be wrapped in
cloud, lingering and battling, of their
own warships. Cordlte, one Of these
compounds in use abroad, is prepared
in long cords from dinitrocellulose
and nitroglycerin. The new smoke
less powder of the United States navy
is made from nitrocellulose dissolved
in ether alcohol"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
The Modern Method .

Let us. then. be up and doing
Doing every one we meet
Then throughout the years ensuing
We will have enough to eat.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
Impromptu.

"If should kiss you" asked the man,
my dearest girl, what would you sayT'
ST don't know" answered Mistress Anne
my best things are sxtempore."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10

The cOcoanut is not only valuable as
a source Of food and drink in tropical
countries. but it is also the best Of I'll
tgees for shade.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10

The dynamite bought in the first
year, 1904, lasted through 1905. The
figures are significant of the increas-
ing ability Of the army Of occupation
to make the dirt fly" 1t is of local
interest to note that the whole of the
contract for dynamite for the year
1911 went to the Du Pont de Nemours
Powder company of Wilmington
S,540,0OO pounds Of As per cent dyna-
mite at III cents per pound and
6.1S7,O00 pounds of 60 per cent at 127
cents per pound. The first deliveries
were to be made in August, 1910.
The care taken in the handling of
dynamite cargoes at Panama is illus
trated by shipment that arrived at
Cristobal Oct. 10, 1908. There were
100000 pounds in 10000 boxes, fifty
pounds to box. Every box was taken
from the hold Of the Sylvia by hand.
and so cautiously was this done that
Of the 10000 boxes only one was bro
ken.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
The B Powder.


in ether alcohol
The B Powder.
In the case of the French battleship
Jena committee that made its report
to the senate reached the conclusion,
according to Brassey's Naval Annual
for 1908, that the explosion in whicn
the lives Of 116 men were forfeited
was due Ito the decomposition of the
b powder, which might have beeu
caused by the magazine being under
the compartment containing the dyna-
mos and by want of proper refrigerai-
ing apparatus or. again, by some So
per cent of the powder being more
than six years old" But, on the other
hand, the technical authorities re-
sponsible for the manufacture of the
B powder defended it resolutely."
Colonel Marsat showed by mathematics
that it was incapable of spontaneous
explosion. NJ. Vieille, the eminent
chemist, who was its inventor admit.
ted that such thing might happen.
Captain Lepidi feared the worst II
up tomorrow, but all of them may
blow up" On the night of July 2S,
while a committee was inspecting it,
Il sample of the powder burst into
flames spontaneously" Experiments
seemed to demonstrate "the danger OF
B powder and also the fact that if il
is properly stored in magazines kept
ut ho ri,r nd t., II
lowed to grow old no danger can rf'.
suit" The Annual goes on to say thai
undoubtedly old stocks will not BE-
supplied to French men-of-war in thu
future" The frightful casualty that
took place aboard the Liberte must
give pause to those who implicitly
trusted the vigilance of the French az
miralty in this regard
What is this B powder that seems
to have been at the bottom of tbs
awful explosions that rent the French
leviathan asunder on Monday morn.
ing, Sept. 20 last? 1t is the first OF
modern smokeless powders and was
invented by Vieille in 1886. 1t con
sists of "guncotton mixed with barium
nitrate, potassium nitrate and sodium
carbonate and treated with either
ether alcohol, ethyl acetate or ace
tone" 1t is unnecessary to essay the
explanation of the nature Of each ~
these ingredients. Let it suffice here
to point out that guncotton, the bash
of the deadly agency, is made by
treating purified cotton with mix
ture of nitric and sulphuric acid. r.
every pound of cotton twelve pound>
Of acid are added, and the cotton is a.
lowed to soak for twenty-four hours
Then the cotton is wrung dry and
compressed into blocks. While it ~
damp it can be shaped with tools, jusI
rs though it were wood, and when the
proiectiles were being made for the
dynamite cruiser Vesuvius the
blocks of guncotton were sawed and
turned in lathes to the dimensions de
sired.
Cordite consists chiefly of fifty-eight
parts of nitroglycerin to thirty-sevcr
parts of guncotton. Nitroglycerin was
discovered by Ascanio Sobrero At
Turin in 1S47. 1t is a liquid, color
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
PROFESSIONAL CARDS:
Attorneys-at-Law.

III WILSON,
IL. ATTORNEY CoUNsELoR-AT-LAw,
Office adjacent to Post Office in Dimmick
office. Honesdale. Pa.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-10
THAT 1aHAVE
IN HISTORY
3 Powder, Cordite, Dynamite
and Lyddite Have Wrought
Deadly Results.

less or light yellow, made by adding
glycerin to a mixture of nitric and
sulphuric acids. AT 1S0 degrees c.,
equivalent to $50 degrees F., it vio.
lently explodes, and in order to curb
Its dissolvent tendencies it must be
mixed with other substances TO make
1t available for military purposes.
Nobers Dynamite.
Nobel, the founder of the celebrated
prizes, who invented dynamite in the
year 1866, used seventy-fve parts of
nitroglycerin with twenty-five parts Of
an absorbent, varying the proportion
to thirty parts of the former and sew
enty parts Of the latter. In 1873 No
bel produced a still more powerful
form of this substance. styled explo-
sive or blasting gelatin. A jellylike
mass OF pyroxylin, or soluble cellulose
nitrate, is dissolved in nitroglycerin
and mixed with wood meal or wood
pulp. The latter is put up in sticks
(cartridges) one and one-half inches in
diameter and eight inches long, and
these can be shipped in boxes in saw
dust, each box holding fifty pounds.
To various sorts of dynamite trad"
names are given, the differentiation de-
pending upon the absorbent that il
used. "Atlas powder" giant pow
der" "titan powder" "rendrock pow
der" Neptune powder "herculca
powder are some of the designations
Lyddite In the Boer War.
The British in South Africa in 1S9g
1902 used large quantities of lydditc
which did not perform all that was
expected of it, perhaps because the
Beers, knowing 1.-The lay of the land"
managed to intrench themselves in
positions where projectiles charged
with it could not readily find them
It's name comes from Lydd, in Kent
where it was first manufactured. Il
is made by the fusion of picric acid
into dense state, but the exact secret
of its manufacture is jealousy guard
ed by the British government. as is
the recipe for its first cousin, melinite
which is made in France. Countless
other names ending in 'ite" are given
TO ballistic substances, such as the
suggestive title of hellhofite, bestowed
upon a near relation of lyddite.
Mercury illuminate is made by dis
solving mercury in nitric acid. 1t is
exceedingly sensitive to heat and
shock Of any kind and may be deto
mated by heat at temperature vari
ously given from 149 to 200 degrees G.,
Peaceful Uses of Dynamite.
conspicuous instance of the utility
Of dynamite in bringing about the vic
tories of peace, historically not less
notable than those of war, is the en-
ployment Of dynamite to effect the gi
gantic cleavage of the earth along the
route of the Panama canal, especially
in the backbone Of the Cordilleras at
the Culebra cut. The quantity of dy-
Mantle used is almost beyond belief
The amount of the official estimate for
1911 is 13,727O0O pounds. 1t has
grown in the years since the United
States took the work over from the
French at the rate indicated in the
subjoined table: