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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28

York has been deepening the Cham
plain Canal which connects Lake
Champlain with the Hudson river
These improvements are nearing com
pletion and are expected to cost about
100000. The canal will be twelve
feet deep and same depth as the pro
jected Canadian waterway The
Champlain Canal has been in use
since 1923 and before the days Of
railroads a thriving business was
conducted along this route Among
the unpublished Schuyler manu-
scripts in the Lenox Library, in New
York, is a letter from General Schuy-
Ter to Gov. Thomas Chittenden, Of
Vermont, relative to opening a canal
and lock navigation from the tide OF
Hudson's river to Lake Champlain
which was laid before the General
Assembly in October, 1898.
The importance of diverting a por-
ton of the ever increasing traffic OF
the Great Lakes region and Canada to
q waterway of which Lake Champlain
is to form an important part, seems
very apparent II should mean lower
freight rates, or, at least, steadying
of rates and a prevention Of an in
crease, and with the increased com
merce between Canada and the Unit
ed States, which is likely to follow
the adoption of the reciprocity policy
this waterway ought to play an i'm
portant part
The construction of this system de-
ponds upon Canada. Lake Champlain
is always available for commerce and
the New York portion of the route is
assured. II the ST Johns Montreal
canal is dug, very likely we shall hear
a revival OF the plan to run light
draught passenger boats between
Montreal and New York Certainly
! pleasure yachts will find the route {
pleasant one. Altogether the project
( is one that will appeal powerfully to
the imagination of Vermonters.
Montpelier Journal
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28
Tho Hungry Boy.

Mercy on US, hungry boy, what
blessing you enjoy with your sturdy
little tum always eager for crumbl
What a privilege is yours taking care
Of apple cores, carbohydrates, starches,
pie, anything that fire can try, any
proteid at all so they make it in ball,
In a dumping or a cake such as moth.
er used to make. May your stomach
give you joy l was once a hungry
boy.
Oh, for boyhoods appetite and its
eagerness to bite anything not too ac-
cursed rs perhaps to bite it first! Al
the wisdom in the hats of the learned as
to fats, all the dletie crew are as moth
ing unto you. Pass the flannel cakes
the kraut-any old thing -trot ii out
pass the pudding and the plum, moth
ing puts you on the bum; anything the
teeth can chew Is acceptable to you,
any mixture or alloy whatsoever, hun
cry boy.
Oh, for such another spread as you
oil the time are fed, with your little
pewter spoon working morning, night
and noon. dipping here and dipping
there, unforbidden anywhere, never
idle, never still, nothing warranted to
kill, nothing hurtful on the whole com
ing to the little bowl which you rattle
on the board when you devastate your
hoard bidding this or that ahoy, ere it
passes, hungry boy.
Consequently, little man, do your
feeding while you can. Eat your I'll
and sleep your sleep while your ap-
paratus keep smooth and working and
your dreams are not frazzled at the
seams. Not for long is that great joy,
so go to it, hungry boy.-St. Louis
Dispatch.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28
IT'S BEGUN.

WNHE rugs are hanging on the line,
The curtains have been sent away,
n And every useful thing of mine
Has hidden been since yesterday.
The chairs are stacked up In the hall,
The sofa pillows in the sun.
There's not picture on the wall.
For it's begun.
Ammonia pervades the place;
My easy chair is piled with books;
Strange women, lacking every grace
And also lacking pleasant looks,
Rush madly through the house all day,
Pcrsplring freely as they run
Downtown for lunch I'm glad to stay.
For it's begun
Upon the parlor floor ] see
A cake of yellow soap half worn.
Was ever, comes the thought TO me,
Mans habitation so forlorn?
My path is barred with rocking chairs;
At risk OF limb my room is won.
Today tumbed down the stairs,
For it's begun.
Farewell, sweet peace and comfort, noWl
Farewell, contentment. for awhile
At night she'll have a throbbing brow
And will have lost the way 10 smile.
Worn out and weary on her couch
Ill find her when the day is done.
And for week she'll have a crouch,
For it's begun.
Exchange.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28
PERU

School in the village will close a
successful term this week.
Frank Lord of New York has been
in town few days the past week.
Albert NJ. Lyon and family OF Bos-
ton were recent guests at ID. Lyons.
Miss Evelyn Tilden is home from
Prown college for her summer vaca-
ton.
Minerva Lyon is home from school
work in Boston for her summer vaca-
ton
Our friend S. b. Pearson Of Geneva
n. Y. has been spending week in
town.
Mrs. w. II. Burroughs and family
Of Rutland are expected this week at
their home here.
Ed. Batchelder,, accompanied by
Mr.. and Mrs. Lowe OF Townshend
spent Sunday in town
Lena Blodgett is home from Erv-
ing, Mass, where she has been at
work for a few months.
II. b. Smith of Chester was in
town on business two days last week
lie was accompanied byMrs. Smith.
DR.. Turner of Worcester called on
his cousin, Mrs f. X. Crossman re-
Gently, while on an auto trip to his
old home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant and children
also Madam Grant have arrived from
New York and are occupying their
summer home here.
Freda NJ, Jones graduated from
b. and b. Seminary last week and has
been spending a few days with rela-
lives at Niagara Falls.
Clarssa Coolidge was a member of
the graduating class at Castleton
Normal school. She will spend a
part of here vacation here.
Rev. H. L. Kilton and children of
Raceyille, ~ Y, are spending a three
weeks vacation at their summer
home. Mrs. Kiton is in an Albany
hospital for treatment
The Children Day program was
carried out as planned last Sunday
morning The children did very well
rhe only disappointing feature was
the absence of the pastor on account
of illness
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28
3. & N. EXPECTS AGREEMENT
Thinks Grand Trunk May Allow II to
Build Connecticut River Line.

Thinks Grand Trunk May Allow il to
Build Connecticut River Line.
Concord N. H., June 27.-The hope
that negotiations now in progress be-
tween officials of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford and Grand Trunk
railroads will result in an agreement
whereby the Boston & Maine, con-
trolled by the New Haven, may OBJ
tain its desired facilities on the Yer
mont side of the Connecticut river,
along the lower part of the Vermont
New Hampshire boundary by a traffic
arrangement with the Central Yer
mont, controlled by the Grand Trunk,
was expressed by Oliver Il. Branch,
counsel for the New Haven road, in
the supreme court here Mr. Branch
appeared in connection with the pc
tition Of the Sullivan County railroad,
under lease TO the Boston & Maine
for permission to extend its lines
through the towns of Cornish and
Plainfeld, ~ H., so as to connect the
portions of the Boston & Maine sys-
tenn at Lebanon and Cornish by a
link on the New Hampshire side of
the river After Mr.. Branch had ex-
planned the status of the negotiations
action on the petition was postponed
until the September term of court.
Mr. Branch said that if the propos-
ed agreement were. effected it would
be unnecessary for the Boston &
Maine to construct either this link or
the proposed extension along the
Connecticut river on the New Hamp-
shire side from Hinsdale, on the Mass
achusetts boundary, to Walpole, OPP
posite Bellows Falls He said that
this arrangement would be completed
before the September sitting of court.
The safety and convenience of the
public Mr.. Branch said, demanded
that there should be at least two
tracks up the Connecticut valley to
care for the Central Vermont and
Boston & Maine traffic, and because
of physical conditions, If there were
to be two tracks on the Vermont side
of the river, it must be by consent of
the Central Vermont. He said that
the New Haven preferred such an
arrangement, but if it could not be
made it would be imperative for the
New Haven to have a track on the
New Hampshire side.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28
A champIaln Waterway.

A recent issue of the New York
Sun contained the following signii-
cant dispatch allusion to which al
ready has been made in the Journal:
plans for big undertaking which
has in view the establishment of
new waterway between Montreal,
Lake Champlain and New York, were
received today at the Department of
Public Works, which is asked to APP
prove of the project. The plan was
filed by H. Hervey of Montreal on
behalf of the Lake Champlain and st.
| Lawrence Ship Canal Company,
which at the present session of Parli-
ment secured q time extension.
"a twelye-fOot waterway is propos-
ed and the scheme will involve the
construction of twenty-one miles of
new canal through the counties of
Chambly, st. Louis and La Prairie.
The works will start at Flyers Island
five or six miles below st. Johns and
terminate at Longeuil, opposite Mon
treal
"The object is the connection of
| Montreal with Lake Champlain by a
better system of waterway than now
exists, while from Lake Champlain
connection will be made with the
Hudson River and New York 1t is
said that the company is well backed
! financially"
Apparently the dream of the late
Thomas Ii. Garfield and other prom
inent Vermonters is in a way to be
realized at last. While the plan is not
yet fully agreed upon, it appears
to have behind it substantial business
men, who are determined to carry the
project into execution. If there is OPP
position to the project it may be ex-
pected to come from the great trans
continental railroads, which are very
influential in Canadian affairs, but it
is to be hoped that nothing will be
permitted to interfere with its sue
cess
The distance from st. Johns to Mon
treal is not great and the country
traversed is nearly level so that the
construction ought not to be difficult
The present water route includes n
part of the Richellieu river and the
Chambly Canal around the rapids of
that river, the canal being twelve
miles long. AS the outlet of the riv-
err is several miles below Montreal
the short cut mentioned Is more feas-
ible than deepening the Chambly
Canal.
For several years the State of New
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28
MAKING TEACHERS PROGRAM
Executive Committee of state Asso-
citation Has Work Nearly Done

WHNiNG EANf1GnO FhO0nHM
Executive Committee of state Asso-
citation Has Work Nearly Done
Montpelier, June 27.-The execu-
tive committee of the Vermont State
Teachers Association, of which
George S. Wright, superintendent OF
schools at st. Adams, is chairman,
has partially completed the program
Of the sixty-second annual convention
of the association, which is to be
held in this city October 10, 20, and
81. Among the speakers appears the
name of Booker r. Washington, the
negro educator, who will speak on
"rhe Negro and the Application of
Education to Life"
The general sessions will be held in
the city hall, which will be the head
quarters Of the convention. This af-
fords the largest auditorium the as
ISOLATION has ever used. Department
tai conferences will be held in city
hall and in other halls near by. 1t is
expected that there will be the usual
exhibits of textbooks, school supplies
school work, etc.
A notice of the convention will be
mailed to superintendent and prin-
cipals about September and the
complete program will be mailed to
all teachers of the state about two
weeks previous to the meeting.
The program, so far as completed
| is as follows:
Thursday evening, October 10, at
O'Clock, address, "The Negro and the
Application of Education to Life
Booker 7. Washington, principal of
Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.
Friday morning, October 20, at 900
o'clock, address, Among Ourselves, "
! Principal William McAndrew, Wash
ington. Irving high school, New York /;
address. subject TO be announced,
State Superintendent Payson Smith,
OF Maine.
Friday afternoon, October 20, at 2
o'clock. departmental conferences,
Principal William McAndrew will
speak at the high school conference
on the topic, "Our Share in the Gen.
eral Service" while Superintendent
Fayson Smith will speak at one of the
conferences.
Friday evening, October 20, at 500
O'clock annual meeting OF the Yer
mont Schoolmasters Club, address by
DR.. A, Il. Winship of Boston editor OF
The Journal of Education, annual
meeting of the Vermont Women
Teachers Club; address, Success in
Teaching" Miss Sarah Louise Arnold
dean of Simmons College, Boston
Mass.
Saturday morning. October 81, at 8
O'clock, address, The Child's Side OF
Things" Miss Sarah Louise Arnold
business session; closing the conyen
ltion.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28
SUNDERLAND
School in town closed Friday.

School in town closed Friday.
Arthur Mears of Sandgate was in
town one day recently.
|. NJ Bentley and Frank Frost were
in Manchester Monday
Albert e. Bentley of Keesville, N.
Y, is visiting in town
r. d. Shaver's family have moved
to Stephentown, n. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wright of Ben
nington were in town Sunday.
MR and Mrs. Alvin Gilbar of Ben.
nington were in town Sunday
The school board met with A. r..
Stilson on Tuesday afternoon.
Augusta Bentley spent Saturday In
Bennington with Mrs. Walter Young.
Charles Thompson and family of
Salem, N. Y, spent Sunday at A. e.
Bentley's.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28

Congressman Foster, who has been
attending an agricultural conference
at Rome, Italy, comes home and
breaches a valuable sermon on inten.
sive farming that every farmer ought
to read. To make a business success
full requires close attention to detail
and that is where the average farmer
is weak He spreads his efforts too
often over so many lines that he
fails to make any of them pay
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28

Scholarship and athletics can go
hand in hand, as we note by the fact
that Albert Seymour Haynes, a pitch
er on the Pittsburg National league
team is to be graduated from the uni
versity of Vermont tomorrow with
Phi Beta Kappa honors for high stand
ing in scholaTship.-Ba Times.
A man who can do one thing well
is more likely to be able to do more
than a man who is a failure at every
thing he undertakes.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the
regular annual meeting OF the stock
holders of the Bennington Water com
pany will be held at the Office Of
Henry W. Putnam in said Benning-
ton on Tuesday, July II, 1911 at 10
o'clock in the forenoon for the pur-
pose Of electing a board of directors
of said company for the year ensuing
also to transact any other necessary
business when met.
Adelbert w. BREASTED, Secy.
Bennington, VT, June n, 1911,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28

The price of diamonds is said to be
going up and one of the reasons Civ
en- is that the worlds supply of dia-
monds will be exhausted within five
hundred years. Anybody who cannot
get all the diamonds they want with
in five hundred years deserves to go
without anyway.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28

1t is a strange fact that there are
more suicides during hot weather
than during cold. A mind not in nor
NAL condition seems to be worked
upon by high temperatures.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28

Dog day weather in June is good
for the hay crop and will, to some ex-
tent, make up for the dry weather of
May. A few farmers who began hay
ing Monday wish they had waited a
few days.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28
Observation-Disclosures
Suspicious Nature.

"Why did you Jilt that man who
wanted to marry you"
Because" replied the prima donna,
II couldn't make up my mind whether
he was in love with me or merely
wanted to hear me sing for nothing
Washington Star.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28

National Bank Examiner Fuller c.
Smith was credited with the title OF
Eek Governor" in a report of the
graduating exercises of the st. Al
bans high school sent to The Mont
pelier Journal Friday. Fuller has
been charged with everything but
treason but this is the first attempt
to crown him with an honor he has
long had silent yearning for
Brattleboro Reformer.
Bet you a cent that Fuller is wise
enough not to throw up his present
job for the sake of running for the
goyernorship or any other office lying
around loose or insecurity nailed
down.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28

Had a puncrure my friend?'
The chauffeur looked up and swal.
lowed his feelings with huge gulp.
NO. sir" he replied. I'm just
changing the air in the tires. The
sther lots worn out, you Idea
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28

All must agree that they like the
manly way in which Hon. Allen M.
Fletcher, of Cavendish, is seeking the
next gubernatorial nomination Any
thing that is worth getting is worth
the effort. This applies to politics as
well as to ness.-Waterbury Rec
ord.
Mr.. Fletcher is an able and accom-
plished man and a gentleman of cul-
ture, polish and refinement If he
becomes governor of Vermont the
state will have an executive who will
always make a good appearance. The
only quarrel we have with him is the
extreme earliness with which his can
vass has been started. 1t is a full
year to the state convention and that
is too long to maintain political agi-
tation. An early bird in search of a
worm may make a mistake and get
only the leayings of the day before
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28

In spite Of what the skeptics say
The ancient adage holds good still.
Where's there's a viii there is a way
That is, II It's a woman's win.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28
Discretion and Riches.

) Men get rich by using their
discretion, and for the most
part, as would seem from the
way they conduct themselves
ever after, they use it all up
; Puck.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28
SOUTH SALISBURY

George Madison and son Gaylord
spent Monday with his daughter Mrs
G. Nj. Vaughn in Arlington.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28

We hope you wont break
your glasses but if you do, save
the pieces and bring them to us
and we will make them all right
again. Broken frames repaired
as good as new, lens tightened'
frames adjusted free.
Reliable fitting Of lens.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-28
FRANK E. HOWE, Editor and pub'r

BENNINGTON, VT, JUNE s8. 1911.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-23
ASKS KINDNESS
TO MAN AND BEAST

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Until President Gompers unionizes
the teamsters of Washington like oher
cities the cruelties will never cease,
because these owners care neither for
man nor beast. The people of Washing
ton would be surprised today If they
knew how these negro drivers are being
treated. From 4 until s, 9. and 10 o'clock
is a days work. They have to make so
many loads or it is deducted from their
miserable stipends.
They have to sleep in hay lofts or in
wagons.
They have to be at the stable at 4
a. m. or lose their job.
They haul Government material and
no thought Of the eight-hour law.
Not like their brothers in Government
employ who 20 home at p. m. they
continue on until the horses fall.
l know of a coal company whose
horses and men fall from exhaustion
from over work. 1t Is pitiable state Of
affairs right here in the Capital, and
still Mr.. Gompers will raise 500. 900 to
aid criminals IN California and never
send a man around TO see these men
and talk to them. Mr. Gompers. you
have the public, Humane Society, and
organized labor to back you, so go
ahead and help these men who want to
work and keep out of jail and be self
respecting citizens. See If the eight
hour law is respected; see If what 1 say
isn't true.
Going around in behalf of the dumb
beast I discovered these matters, and
my name can be had at this office II
YOU wish testimony. haven't told one
half of the underground methods OF
Washington.
Remove from animals that barbarous
check rein. Who ever heard of work
horses checked up like trotters? Going
ND hill they want their heads; and half
the balky. sulky horses are caused by
the check rein. You will never see the
owner or driver with high collar on
working, but, of course, you know
these animals don't know anything
Look at the driver and then the horse
and see who is the most intelligent.
THE horse needs water and needs 1t
badly: the water is free; 50 remember
that these animals are flesh and blood,
NOT machinery. 1 heartily favor the
work horse parade. and hope the press,
Humane Society and the people Will
offer prizes and encourage this parade
for next Labor Day. What fine sight
10 see on Pennsylvania avenue the ami
mails coming into their own. L.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-23

from the reigning dynasty, and of re-
storing peace by negotiation.
But there is this vast difference be-
tween Madero and Fisher: That
whereas Madero has been won to the
peace cause by assurances that Diaz
will retire. Fisher is able to give no
assurance to his insurgent friends and
late allies that Taft will abdicate. He
is giving only the assurance that things
are going to be mended. He finds that
the Taft Administration looks much
better from the inside than 1t did from
the outside.
There are circumstantIal reports that
Clifford Pinchot, James Rudolph Gar
field. and numerous other insurgent
chiefs have not been convinced. They
have not been privileged that close, init
mate inspection from the inside point
of view that has been vouchsafed to
Secretary Fisher. and that has done
so much to convince him Of the essen
tial excellence of conditions.
Peace conferences have been held be-
tween General Fisher and a long list
I of the rebel leaders, II Is reported, with
very Indifferent results. Generals Bran
deis, Pinchot. and Heney called on Gen
eral Fisher at his headquarters recently,
under a flag of truce: but the subse-
quent report was that General Brandeis
had returned to the insurgent camp and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-23

was planning a big fanking movement
against the position Of General Hitch
cock at the Postoffice Department.
Field Marshal Hitchcock
To Be Kept Busy.
This was most disconcerting news. A
vigorous assault on the headquarters
of the Hitchcock Army OF Southern Oc-
cupation might keep that able field mar
shall so busy tat he would find it diff
cult to perfect the organization of his
Southern mercenaries into an effective
phalanx in time for the general engage
ment at the national convention.
There have been persistent reports
that General Hitchcock, disaffected with
the campaign plans imposed by the
commander in-chief, was disposed to
sulk in his tent and not press issues
with his wonted vigor. This can be set
down, on the best authority, as an over
statement of the case.
General Hitchcock's plan Of campaign,
In his own particular territory, has not
been materially changed. nor has the
general lost interest in the cause. 1t
merely happens that in the reorganiza-
ton Of the whole war game the most
important operations are now being con-
Quoted in the territory of which Gen.
eral Fisher has recently been placed in
command. The Hitchcock Hessians are
confidently relied upon to swing into
line at the right time.
Whether General Hitchcock will con-