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New-York tribune., 1911-12-18
WHITE CHRISTMAS, PERHAPS
Two Heavy Storms Expected
This Week and Next.

Washington. Dec 17.-There are strong
indications that the coming week VIII be
marked by rain or snow and generally un-
settled and disagreeable weather through
out the United States, according to a bule-
lin issued tonight by the Weather Bureau.
Temperatures generally will undergo de-
cided changes. ard the precipitation, in the
form of snow and rain IN Northern and
rain in Southern districts, will be above
the normal. A disturbance that is over the
Western plateau will advance eastward
and cross the great central valleys Monday
and Tuesday and reach the Eastern states
by Tuesday night or Wednesday, Another
disturbance will appear in the Far West
about Thursday, cross the Rocky Noun
tains Friday, the great central valleys Sat
urday OF Sunday. and the Eastern states
At the beginning OF Christmas week.
These Disturbances will no attended by
general precipitation and decided changes
In temperatures
New-York tribune., 1911-12-18
BRIDE HELD FOR FORGERY
Girl Pleads Guilty When Ar
raigned in Court.

Mrs Anna Crowley Clifford, seventeen
years old. a pretty little blond bride OF
less than three months. who was arrested
or Saturday night at her home, No. 3S4
East 10Th street, Internationally pleaded
guilty yesterday 30 having forged the name
NJ her former employer, Herbert y Chute.
carpeuter and building contractor. Of
No q East S5th street, TO check for so
and having cashed it. 1t IS charged by
the poljce that she forged numerous other
checks. and It IS said the total money
gained by her in this way will aggregate
5000
When she was arragned in the Harlem
court Magistrate Corrigan read the com
ulaint charging her with this single forgery
and Mrs. Clifford answered quietly;
81 plead guilty to forging that one
check
No application for bail was made. and
the magistrate bound her over to tho grand
iurv without mentioning any amount he
would accept for her liberty.
Mrs. CHORD did not appear in court as a
girl who had spent 500 during the last
,our months. as the detectives charge. Her
tailored blue suit though neat, was cheap
and worn. Her other clothing. though not
shabby. did not exhibit any signs Of eX-
pensiveness.
No explanation OF what she used the 81"
for was given in court although the de-
tectives declare she said when arrested
that she had forged the checks 10 help Il
girl friend who vas in trouble. Her hus-
band. who is employed by an electrical
firm. was in New Jersey working when the
girl wife was arrested. and did not ap-
pear In court yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-18
POLICE TELL TROUBLES
Life in 18th Precinct Is One
Squeeze After Another.

The day of telling your troubles TO the
policeman has passed and 1t is now his
turn to air his grievances, and he VIII
do so willingly II he happens TO be on
duty in the 18TH Precinct, the station
house Of which is at First avenue and
5th street. There fifteen men sleep in
fifteen beds. placed 50 close together as TO
resemble "A single bed, all in one room.
The station is an antiquated three story
brick structure and barely accommodated
ninety men. but when the Eldridge street
station was abandoned, few weeks ago
forty more were quart red in the 5th
street station. Since then life has just
been one squeeze after another
There are six sleeping rooms in the
building. and tie conditions in each are
the same. When one platoon comes in
from duty the sleepers are aroused, and
the tired patrolmen wait I'm the han until
the occupants of the beds have scrambled
into their clothes and crawled across the
beds TO the door. There is no room in
the aisles surrounding the beds when
locker doors are open.
The worst room Of them all * on the
ton floor. Here arc quartcred the ffteen
heaviest snorers of the precinct and
when they are all sleeping the noise OF
q sawmill is nothing I'm comparison. II
man wakes up too soon he may rs well
dress and take a walk. And TO add 10
the sorrows of the those w o occupy thls
particular room. the roof leaks, and dur
ing a storm rubber coats are pressed into
service as blankets.
Nothing has been said of the man
whose bed is against radiator I'm which
there is 10 steam on cold night ana
which resembles "A forge fire when the
evening is warm, or the trouble that arises
daily over misplaced clothes, shoes and
nightsticks.
The men. however. are taking stoieal
view of the matter II must be borne
they say. 50 Just grin and bear IT, but
none of them would be displeased upon
learning that the badly needed commo-
dious quarters on the East Side were 10
I be built.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-18
STOLE FOR NEEDY FAMILY
Court Compelled to Hold Jersey woman
on Her Plea of Guilty.

Mrs Helen smith. of West New York, y.
j.. was held IN $1,000 bail for the grand jury,
on a charge Of grand larceny. to which she
pleaded guilty. by Magistrate Appleton yes
terday morning in the Jefferson Market
police court.
Kate Dawson a detective in 3d street
drygoods house. caused her arrest Saturday
afternoon for stealing jewery to the value
of so 80
The prisoner said her husband who had
been out of work for more than two months,
was sick In bed, and that she had no money
to buy food for the children nor TO get
medicine for her husband.
The complainant was willing that the
charge be Withdrawn. restitution having
been made, but she had pleaded guilty, aud
the magistrate was compelled to hold her
to await the action of the grand jury. He
directed the probation officer To investigate
Mrs. Smiths story and to report the result
10 the grand jury.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-18
SUGAR TRUST PLANS
A PENSION SYSTEM
$500 Employees May Benefit if
Stockholders Agree at
Annual Meeting.
DIRECTORS GIVE DETAILS
$50 a Month to $4,000 Yearly
= To Be Paid on Retirement
After Long Service and
in Special Cases.

The ''hard-hesrted" Sugar Trust is
oHcjally considering the Importance OF
nenevolence as an economic factor. It's
stockholders at their next annual meet
ting will be asked TO approve a plan to
rrovide pensions for their 800 officers
and employees. Already a respectable
number Of large private corporations In
Tho United States have found such a
sroIicv highly successful, and the Ameri-
ran Sugar Refining Company yearns to
Soin their ranks.
The directors of the company have
worked out the details of the plan, it
was announced last night. They would
retire employees more than siXty-five
wears old. or after thirty years Of ser
vice. and suggest as a nucleus of the
pension fund an appropriation of 500
600. No pension under the proposed
plan will be less than $50 a month and
none will exceed 5000 year. In the
case Of women the age limit is set at
sixty years and the term of service at
twenty-five years. The amount of the
pension should be. the directors think. "a
sum annually equivalent TO l per cent Of
the average annual wage or salary dur
ING the ten years preceding retirement
multiplied by the years of service"
The plan provides for the appointment
of a pension committee to supervise and
carry out this big undertaking with fair
ness 10 all concerned. The eligibility list
will include all officers and employees of
the American Sugar Refining Company
and all corporations and companies
owned or controlled by H. Employees of
absorbed concerns may date their term
of service from the day they entered the
employ of the absorbed company.
The pension committee may use its
discretion, if the directors plan is
adopted. in paying to officers or en-
pIoves the whole or a portion of their
wages in case Of enforced absence due
10 sickness or accident. If any officer
or employe who has been I'm the employ
NJ the company for q long period of
time becomes permanently inCapacitated
through no fault of his own the COM
mittee may pension him. In the case Of
wives or children of deceased employees
who have been in the service Of the COM
ponv for many wears, the pension COM
mittee may report 10 the board Of
directors or to the executive committee,
II the board so directs for special ac-
lion il, I'm the judgment Of the pension
committee, such action seems justified.
The pension committee must further
use 'ts judgment in paying pensions to
employees who have not reached the age
Of sixty-fve and whose services have
leen dispensed with after fifteen years.
I'm a case Of this kind the pension is to
represent the accumulation Of pension
New-York tribune., 1911-12-18

formerly Commissioner Of Charities OF New
York.
The free patient work OF the private
hospitals is most valuable aid In caring
for the sick poor" said Secretary liebberd.
"The free wards I'm these hospitals are al
WAYS overcrowded A. this work IL de-
pendent largely on individual contributions,
il Is hoped that the public will respond gem
erously this year Ia the appeal OF the asso-
citation \ centralized fund Of this kind
apportionel on scientific plan according
to uniform statistics gathered from all the
hospitals. Is not only OF great economic
value but is "A great aid In furthering the
work OF relief OF misery and suffering"
New-York tribune., 1911-12-18
MAKES PLEA FOR HOSPITALS
z. w. Hebberd Commends Work Of
Saturday and Sunday Association.

The work Of the Hospital Saturday and
sunday Association, which Is raising a fund
ia bc distributed among the private hos
pltals according TO their needs for free
work was the subject of a statement is
sued yesterday by Robert W. IIebberd, Sec
retary Of the State Board Of Charities and
New-York tribune., 1911-12-18
TAFT WOULD HONOR MAINE DEAD

Washington, Dec. 17-President Taft Is
anxious that the bodies Of sailors found in
the wreck Of the Maine, which are soon TO
be brought North, shall be transported
with all possible dignity from Havana on
one Of the large vessels Of the navy, con
voyed by another vessel.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-18
GIANT SMOKER FOR NAVY GIANTS

I'nder the auspices Of the naval reception
committee. a giant smoker will be given TO
the blueiackets of the American battleships
al the New Grand Central Palace, Lexlng-
ton avenue and 46th street. on December
% and q. About eight thousand men are
expocted TO attend t-is Christmas treat.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-18
SUPREME COURT TO TAKE RECESS

Washington. Dec 1.-THE Supreme
Court of the United States will adjourn
next Friday until Monday, January s..
Much Of the time Of the justices during
the recess viii be devoted 10 preparing
opinions.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-18

Plant your APPLE ORCHARD In the Kinder.
hook Country, "a pleasant land, where good
living and good orchards 20 together. Come
and see. Ask Tor booklet.
RURAL LIFE co. kinderhoek. y. v.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-12-06
"Ishmael."

The G. M. Brown Company is COM
ing to Barton soon in the greatest of
all book plays. "IshmaeP' and "Self
Raised" will appear at the opera
house Friday evening, Dec. 8. A story
among million and read by millions.
The most famous of American novels
has been converted into a charming
play, which is being received by the
public with the same keen interest
and intense enthusiasm aroused by
the book generations ago. "IshmaeP'
was translated into many foreign
tongues It's dramatizatien is the
work of Grace Haywood, whose est.
Elmo" and "Graustark" rank with
the best of plays from books and
promises to equal both in popular in
terest. Theatre goers Of Barton
should turn out and give Miss Mary
Harris, a former Barton girl, who
plays the leading female character, a
royal reception. She has risen to the
highest rank in the theatrical profess
sion.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-12-06
SHOULD YOUNG MEN DRINK?

The American Issue ir its Vermont
edition for November asks. would
You Advise a Young Man Starting
Out in Life to be Total Abstainer,
and if so, Why?" The Issue says:
"A right start in life is most i'm
portant. And the question of total
abstinence from the use Cf intoXi-
eating liquors as fixed principle of
life, is one which every man must
face early in his career"
"Several well-known men of Ver-
mont have been asked to answer this
question out of their own experience
and observation. Their answers given
below are we'll worth careful con-
sideration. They speak with authori-
ty and in no uncertain tones. - The
issue quotes as follows:
Governor John A. Mead, LII. D., a
trained physician, a large manu-
facturer. the efficient chief executive
of the state, writes:
Yes, most assuredly, and for the
following reasons: Human expert
ence and scientific research confirm
the conclusion that even the moderate
use of intoxicants reduces efficiency
and impairs physical and intellectual
capacity.
Crowded insane asylums and penal
institutions demonstrate that ex-
cessive use of alcoholic beverages
results in blasted lives, desolate
homes, broken hearts. and in the end
in disaster, disease and death. The
consequences affect the Individual,
the family and the state"
Henry D. Holton, M. D., the hon
ored secretary of the state board of
health. an eminent physician of much
more than statewide reputation,
says:
"A young man must be a total
abstainer in order to make the most
of his life materially and morally.
He cannot achieve the position in the
CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-12-06
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
Delivered Yesterday at the Opening Of
Congress-. Deals with Trust
Problems.

To the Senate and House of Repre-
SentativeS:
This message is the first of several
which | shall send to congress during
the interval bet ween the opening of
ITS regular session and its adjourn
ment for the Christmas holidays. The
amount of information to be commu
government. the number of important
subjects calling for comment by the
executive and the transmission to con
gress Of exhaustive reports of special
commissions make it impossible to in
clude in one message of a reaSOna ble
length discussion of the topics that
ought to be brought to the attention
regular session.
The Anti trust Law-The Supreme
Court Decisions.
In May last the supreme court hand
ed down decisions in the suits in equi-
ty brought by the United States to en-
join the further maintenance of the
Standard Oil trust and of the -Ameri,
can Tobacco trust and to secure their
dissolution. The decisions are epoch
making and serve to advise the busi
ness world authoritatively of the
scope and operation of the antitrust
act of 1890 The decisions do not de-
part in any substantial way from the
previous decisions of the court in CON
STRUNG and applying this important
statute. but they clarity those deci
Sions by further defining the already
admitted exceptions to the literal con
structiOn of the act. BY the DEGREES
they furnish a useful precedent as to
the proper method Of dealing with the
capital and property of illegal trusts
These decisions suggest the need and
wisdom of additional or supplemental
legislation to make it easier for the
entire business community to square
with the rule of action and legality
thus finally eSta ahliShed and to pre-
serve the benefit. freedom and spur of
reasonable competition without loss of
real efficiency or progress.
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-12-06
BARTON

The Study club meets Thursday
with Mrs. E. w. Barron.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. R. Prescott spent
Sunday with friends in Sheffield.
Rev. w B. Dukeshire left Tuesday
for Berlin, N. H., to deliver a lee
ture.
Attorney C. r. Powell of Island
Pond spent few days in town re-
Gently.
Miss Duff Of Barre was the CUES t
of friends in town several days re-
Gently.
The Odd Girls serve supper Friday
night at 6 o'clock at the Methodist
church.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Smith were
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Murk land
Sunday.
Charles Massey of the E. w. Bar
ron Company store is very sick at
this writing.
Regular meeting of the M. W. of
A. Tuesday evening. Annual election
of officers. Supper will be served.
Rev and Mrs w. E. Allen and his
father and mother spent Thanksgiv-
ing with Mr.. and Mrs. 2. E. Hanson.
R. w. Laird and Eva L. Hill were
married at the M. E. parsonage at
Richford. Nov. 20. by Rev. w. E.
Douglass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Benoit were
called to ST. Johnsbury recently to
attend the funeral of her sister-in-
law, Mrs. Noel Vachon.
Miss May Helen England and Ara
John Pope, both of Lowell were mar
ried by Rev. w. A. Warner at the
parsonage November 29th.
Miss Grace Mae Cutting of this
place and Eugene Frances Dubois OF
| Orleans were married at the parson-
age by Rev. w. A. Warner November
29th.
A. w. Morrill, attended the wedding
of his niece, Miss Lucia j. Morrill,,
i, and Charles Mutt, formerly of the
Worcester, (Mass.,) Spy at Pike, N
H., last week.
The following letters remain un
called for at The postofice. Please
saw advertised When calling for these
letters. Pete Button. Vern Graham
James Hodgdon, Alvina McCan.
The lecture on the Panama canal II
be given on the evening of Dec. II b!
C. F. Sweeney for the benefit of tn
junior class of the high school, ha
been postponed indefinitely.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Reirden an
family spent THANKSGIVING with Mr.
Reirden's parents at North Troy
Mr.. and Mrs. Reirden went iron
there to Boston, returning the first O
the week.
Master Edward Strowbridge acci
dentally got hold Of some poison on
day last week and took quantity O
it, but prompt applications of emetjc
and the stomach pump by local phys
clans brought the little fellow out a
right.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-12-06
COVENTRY.

Guy Thurber and Ebbie Stevens are
confined to the house.
Mrs. E. GLADDEN. has been quite i'll
the past week but is some better.
A young mems Bible class is soon
to be organized in the NJ. E. Sabbath
school.
The Missionary meeting will meet
with Mrs. Edward Gray on Wednes-
day, Dec. 18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Dean of West
Burke are visiting their grandchil-
dren at Clarence Perry's.
Mrs. Lizzie Thurher was at St.
Johnsbury Center and East Burke for
few days the past week.
Rev. o. E. Barnard of Westfield
will preach in exchange with Rev. M.
w. Hale on Sunday. Dec. 10th.
Communion was observed at the
Methodist church Sunday and eight
persons were taken into the church in
full connection and four on probation
Some large hogs are being killed IN
this vicinity. George Corrow killed
one that dressed 498 pounds and
George Dean, one that dressed 400
pounds at 13 months old.
The w. C. T. u. held a meeting
with Mrs. Will Niles Tuesday after
noon. Two cottage services were
| held. on Tuesday evening one with Mr..
and Mrs. Clifford and the other with
| Mr.. and Mrs. SQuires.
The ladies of the Congregational
| church will hold their annual fair in
the town hall Thursday and Friday
evenings. Supper will be served is
the vestry on Friday evening from 6
/ to O'Clock.
Saturday evening the voters in town
met at the call of H C.. Cleveland to
see if they would vote to accept as a
gift soldiers monument to be free
! gift from Judge Riley E. Wright Of
! Baltimore. Nd. Mr.. Wright was a
| Coventry boy and was captain in the
| company of the Vermont boys that
went from this town. It was voted
to accept the monument and it is to
/ be Of white bronze and placed upon
the common. 1t is to be set next
/ August. Mr.. Wright also sent a
check of so dollars toward the fixing.
Of the common. This is a magnani-
nous gift and is greatly appreciated
by Mr.. Wright's townspeople. The
committee to have the matter in
charge are H. G.. Cleveland, Albert
/ Patten and Homer Wright.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-12-06
McNamaras Admit Guilt.

James B. Mcnamara pleaded guilty
to murder in the first degree in Los
Angeles, CAL, Friday. His brother,
John J. Mcnamara, secretary of the
International Association Of Bridge
and Structural Iron workers. entered
a plea of guilty to having dynamited
the Llewel.yn Iron Works in Los An
geIes on Christmas day, 1910. James
B. McNamara's confession clears up
absolutely the tragedy of the explo-
sion and fire which, at l.07 o'clock on
the morning of Oct. !, 1910. wrecked
the plant of the Los Angeles Times
and caused the death of twentyore
persons. For nineteen of these
deaths indictments were returned
against the Mcnamara brothers. J.
B. Mcnamara was on trial specifically
for the murder Of Charles J. Hagger-
ty, a machiiist. whose body was found
nearer than that of any other to the
spot where the dynamite was sup.
POSED to have been placed.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-12-06
and has come to the home of his
brother, H. 81. Day.

and has come to the home of his
brother, H. 81. Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Kelley were
chosen as delegates from Browning
ton grange to adtend the state grange
to be held at Montpelier Dec L, 13,
IA.
Isabelle Carrie, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Leon Lewis. and Leslie Har
ry, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Regan
were baptized Sunday by the pastor,
Rev. G. l.. Shaeffer.
The c. E. society held a business
meeting Thursday evening latter the
Thanksgiving service. at which time
the following officers were elected
President, Grace Going vice presi
dent, G. E. Newton; secretary, Ruby
Dutton cor. secretary, Mrs. G. E.
Newton f; treasurer, Mrs. E. S. Kelley
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-12-06
Methodist Church Notes.

Rev. G. w. Burke preached a very
excellent sermon Sunday.
Week night worship service on
Thursday evening at 7 80.
The Odd Girls will serve one of
their good suspers Friday evening
from six to eight.
The services next Sunday at the
church are morning worship 0:45.
Sunday school and Mems Bible Study
at II. Epworth League at 6:l5, eve
ming worship at Z.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-12-06
No More Smallpox.

The Monitor is informed by Local
Health Officer Prime that there are
no new cases of smallpox either in
Barton or Orleans and that the four
cases mentioned last week are nearly
well, the quarantine having been
raised on most of the cases. One
additional quarantine has been made
as a matter of safety in one case
where it is thought there may possibly
have been an exposure. There is nc
truth whatever in the reports of an
epidemic of the disease in town.