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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-30
FACTORY GIRLS
IN A FIRE TRAP
Investigation in New York Revea
Startling Conditions.
IN ONE ROOM 700 WORKED
It Would Have Taken Three Hours
For the Workers to Have
Gone Down the Fire
Escape.

New York, Mar. 2S.-As pathetic as
the scenes at the morgue on Sunday
though in q different way-were
some of the revelations brought out
by Fire Marshal Beers in his public
inquiry into the causes Of the Asch
building disaster.
1t was shown that the poor girls IN
that panic rush to escape from the
flames found traps at every turn.
1t seemed that the very arrange
ment of the workrooms was trap
With seven hundred women jammed
back to back at their machines, when
the panic started, the narrow aisles
became blocked with chairs and the
girls were in confusion before they
even started for the doors. Then
there was the scarcity of exits. The
inward opening doors and the death
trap Are escapes"
Started from Cigarette.
THE fire, without any question.
started from a cigarette or q match
thrown into pile Of lawn clippings
light cotton sutton the Greene
street side of the building" said Mar
shall Beers. There was no gasoline
about the place, so far as could
learn, and the machinery power was
furnished by electric motors. But ]
can prove that cigarette smoking was
no uncommon practice among the
men employed in the factory. | found
the stains of the cigarettes in places
where they had been laid down by
the smokers
THE fire started at 4:40 o'clock.
Samuel Bernstein, the superintendent
OF the Triangle company, and a boy
tried to put it out with buckets Of
water but fought 1t for only minute
and half. The alarm was not turn.
ed in for five minutes.
while Bernstein was fighting the
fire, Edward Brown, the machinist,
was trying to get the girls in line to
march to the IRE escape and to the
elevator doors. But the poor things,
in most cases, understood YlddIsh
and did not know what be was say
ing TO them.
Girls In . Panic.
The girls had been sitting at sew
ing machines 80 close together that
their backs were almost touching.
The stools upon which they eat had
to - moved IN order to get them into
line. A TIE girls were seized with
panic. they fell IN heaps over these
stools and the whole screaming
struggling maan remained for q min
ute In that tangled coalition. Thers
we're 1900 square lest Of space on
this floor WAero 100 girls worked
II they had been marched to the zip.
~ are escape It would have taken
three hours for hem an 70 descend to
the street Imagine . lheater IN this
town that seats 100 and that & would
take thres hoara % empty
The same condition that vas
found n this hciory Fln - found IA
al he other icfl holdings N this ciiy
49, are rsuted FOR iaeloraA The
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-30

The amount Of manure made Dy
poultry varies with their feed. Elk
iperiments show that a hen OF aver
nge size gives about 10 pounds Of ma
rnure yearly. without close conane-
lment.
Poultry manure ferments very
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-30

II you are IN doubt as to The oondl.
dons you should givs youf I've sock
b ne hara Yard. lmnel14 yourself u
lhs nniiaaiF plaza
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-30

He Was a TsIegrapher Fifty Years
st. Louis. Mar. 27.-Marcus D,
Grain, for twenty years night chief
operator Of the Western Union Tele
grph company here, died from the
eects Of an apoplectlc stroke two
months ago. He was 10 years old. He
had been in the employ of the tele
graph company fifty years.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-03-30

These manures are relatively poor In
potash, although they have as large
q per cent Of this element as do other
smanures. The elements in these ma
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-26
Brutality of Police to Strikers.

In Son Strike" in the October Ameri.
can Magazine, Mary Field tells of some
of the evil results of the Chicago gar
ment workers strike. She writes:
Part OF the trail is stained with
blood. 1t is recorded in police registers,
in court proceedings, in the bitter mem
ory of those who were beaten and
bruised. The daily violence to mans
soul OF low wage the deteriorating
effect Of long hours Of exhausting speed,
the slow poison of fostering irritations
for which there had been no normal out
let, all found sudden expression in yio-
lent attacks upon the property of the
employers and upon the persons Of those
who were loyal to them.
"A scab' became thing Of loathing--
a leper, hereto. They regarded him
much as the poor, shiyering patriots of
Valley Forge regarded the Tory adher-
ents to the king. Those who remained
at work were persuaded by threats, by
intimidations, by violence to join the
ranks of the workers. In the dead Of
night, homes were entered and scabs
dragged from their beds and beaten
The houses of landlords who evieted
strikers were plastered with signs Cen
tie girls with kind eyes and soft voices
suddenly sprang tigerlike upon women
who worked, upon police who guarded,
and scratched and dug their nails into
their enemy, Acids were thrown, plate
glass windows shivered, machinery
wrecked, mobs hooted in front of the
factories. A secret night committee Of
young 'teTorists' prowled after dark,
spreading alarm more by their dire
threats than by any actual fulfillments.
"And to all this violence of the mob,
the police, hired like Hessian troops,
responded with like brutality, often pro-
voking quarrels for the love of a fight !;
and because they had unlimited power
on their side, they became more inhu-
man, more bloodthirsty than the mob. !"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-26
RUMoRs OF A CONFERENCE.
Locked-out Cutters and Manufacturers
May Talk 1t Over.

LYNN, Mass. Oct. 90. Rumors Of a
possible conference between the score OF
more shoe manufacturers who have
closed their doors rather than submit
to the eight hour day, and representa-
tives of the locked-out cutters gained
strength yesterday, when, after meet
ing of the big Six" the six manufae-
turers who have working agreement
with the cutters il was announced that
action on their part on the question Of
joining the lockout had been deferred
at least until Saturday.
The members Of the big SIX con-
tend that the cutters in arbitrarily go
ing upon an eight hour schedule have
violated their agreement, while the cut
ters insist that, should they be refused
work. the manufacturers will violate the
agreement. Thus far the six manufac.
turers have allowed their cutters to con.
tinue work and the matter has not come
to head.
II was also stated yesterday that one
big manufacturer who had been consid.
ering calling in his cutters and agreeing
to the eight hour day had been induced
to hold olf and he, too, has set the time
for Saturday.
President Ralph s. Bauer Of the Lynn
board of trade, in statemenet ISSUED
Yesterday, expressed the willingness OF
his organization to assist in settle
ment. and his statement strengthens the
hope for an early conference and pos.
sible settlement OF the troubles.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-26
TELLS STORY OF coURTsHIP.
Woman Is Suing Sudbury Man for
Breach of Promise.

Rutland, Oct. 26--The trial of a
breach Of promise case brought BY Miss
Lucy f. Roberts of Hampton, n. Y, a
school teacher, age 32 years, against
William Bucklin of Sudbury, aged 80,
son of Postmaster A. N Bucklin of that
town. was begun yesterday in Rutland
county court. Il. w. Maloney, T., H..
0'Brien and G. w. Platt of this city
are counsel for Miss Roberts, and Frank
l.. Fish of Vergennes, and Buttles y
Botsford of this city represent the de-
fendant. The ad damnum Is $1,000.
Miss Roberts was on the witness stand
over two hours. She told her story as
though she We're giving recital to en-
tertain some audience, never once stop
ping for an instant to refresh her recol
lection, and at times she waxed into the
dramatic, She was perfectly composed
during the recital Of the incidents of
their courtship, as was Mr.. Buckln, even
when his love letters to Miss Roberts
were read
The plaintiff said that she first became
acquainted with the defendant when she
was II years old. II was in 1901 that
he asked her to become his wife. They
often talked of marriage but no date
was ever set for their wedding In
1900, he wrote her that they must be
married before January l, 1910 but
when that time came he said he could
not be married because he could not
find house for them to live in. Last
June, after there had been evidence that
the defendant cared for another woman,
and according to her own story, the
plaintiff had had many heartaches- Mr.,
Bucklin asked to be excused from the
marriage She told him that he had
murdered happy girl, and caused a
cold-hearted woman to take her place,
and that She should not release him.
Mr. Bueklin admitted OH the stand
that he had asked the plaintiff to he
his wife, but denicl that he had ever
refused to marry her.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-26
The Color Line.

twenty-five years ago Vermont
clergyman who would have adopted the
course of the Baptist minister at Essex
Junction, who refused to marry a negro
and a white girl. would have been so
generally denounced by his parishioners
and the church-going people Of the state
that he would in all probability have
been forced to resign. That he was able
to take the stand he did without loss of
prestige shows that the people of Ver-
mont in respect to this subject are pro-
crossing away from their preiudces in
the direction Of common sense. Ben
nington Banner.
However, it is very interesting and
to some extent a significant fact that
Vermont never was a fanatieal abolition
state before the war OF the rebellion
OF course, we have on record the inspir-
ing fact that the constitution Of Yer.
mont was the first law to prohibit slay-
cry on this continent and that, in the
old heroic Green Mountain Boy times.
Capt Ebenezer Allen in I777 released
Dinah Maths, a slave he had captured,
because he found no authority for her
retention in captivity or slavery. We
are also told that the first census of
Vermont shows no slaves among the
population of the state and that none
have ever been held here since.
But when all this is said, the stubborn
fact remains that our forbears We're
quite human and had as many of the
Caucasian preiudices in respect of the
color line as anybody else And the
early attempts of the aboiitionists to
work up a favorable sentiment in this
state We're not very encouraging. One
of the most notable instances tending
to confirm this is afforded by the ex-
perience Of the Rev Samuel May, who
was mobbed five times in five different
towns in Vermont for making anti-slav-
cry speeches And as late as 1861.
the Rev. H. 7. Cutting, pastor at Stowe,
provoked church war that ragged for
long time just because he dared to
preach abolition sentiments from his
pulpit.
The average Vermonter in those days.
and since has had something of an aca-
demic notion of the natural rights of the
negro as a human being, but no more.
We of this far northern state know
little or nothing of the negro problem
as it actually perplexes the South, and
as it would perplex us if we had any
considerable number of negroes. Yer
mont has never loved the negro as a
fellow being, albeit she has done much
to restore to him the common rights of
common children of nature. But the
utmost consideration of this kind cannot
change deeper-rooted race sentiment or
race instinct To-day Vermont's idea of
the negro is coldly academic, bloodlessly
just.
The Baptist minister at Essex
Junction was right Only he took a
quieter way Of expressing the same fun
damental idea that often made so much
trouble with other ministers here half
century and more ago.-St. Albans
Messenger.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-26
The Funeral of a aMartYr.e

81 will tell you something, brothers,
which you will say impossible to a civ
ilized country that is like America situ-
ated said an earnest speaker address,
ing large group of Bohemians, writes
Mary Field in "0n Strike" collection
of true stories of the Chicago garment
workers strike, in the October American
Magazine,
eYou must excuse my hollering, but
in regard for this big hall must holler.
One Of our sisters is dead. She died on
account Of her lungs when she was out
selling papers for the strikers. To-mor-
row her funeral is, and we should all
turn ourselves out to show her how great
our sympathy is"
And they, and hundreds of others,
turned out by the thousands As the
endless stream filed slowly by the coffin,
shriveled Italian women crossed them
selves and cried aloud. Big, unsentir
mental men had tears in their eyes, girl
tainted, and fiippant young men were
grave. Then eight strong men, Poles
and Lthuanians, jews and Gentiles.
Catholics and Protestants, bore on their
shoulders through the streets the white
casket of the little Jewish garment
worker. Buried in that white casket
with their martyr" were the preju-
dices, the hatreds, the intolerances of
thousand years. In the valley of the
shadow of death man learns that all peo-
pie are one.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-26
TALK OF THE TOWN.

Ezra White went to Waterbury this
morning on business trip.
DR.. r. S. Merchant OF Washington
was business visitor in the city yes
terday.
Edward English went this morning to
Hardwick, where he expects to be EN-
ployed
Joseph Rock left last night for Bos-
ton, where he will remain with friends
for two weeks.
DIR. j. M. Allen and W. A. Wright OF
st. johnsbury we're among the visitors
in the city to-day.
Leon Carroll, jr, left last night for
New London, Conn.,, where he will pass
a few days with relatives.
Wednesday arrivals ut the hotel Otis
were as follows. w. G. Denen, Fitch
burg, Mass; Mrs J.. NJ. Crawford, Hart
ford, Conn. G. Il. Rice, s. f. Brownell,
st. Johnsbury; j. O'Connell, G. j.. Put
nam. J. Ward, G. II. Stark, w. p. An
fderson, Boston; L. d. Gould, c. g. May
nard New York City; G. w. Foss, Con-
cord, N H.; II. w. Thomson, Platts-
burg, n. Y.
Among the guests registered at the
City hotel yesteray and to-day were the
following: A. NJ. Bucklin, Canaan, N.
Y; H. c. Fisher, Harrisburg, Pa; d,
Murray, Lake George, N. u; j. s. Rob
erts. Springfield, Mass; f. McCabe,
Boston; J. II. Glover, New York City;
r. NJ. McKarr, Boston; +. A. Crawford,
Portland Me-; j. E. Hannelly, New
York City: H. r Stowe, Boston; Henry
Goodwin. New York City; Milo Magoon,
West Topsham.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-26
District Attorney PelIetier is
Presenting Evidence
SEVERAL WITNESSES CALLED
Father Of Rev Richeson, Man Arrested
in Case of Avis Linnell, Visits His
Son in Charles Street Jail
and Comforts Son.

Boston, Oct. 26.-Tbe Suffolk county
grand jury to-day began consideration
of the evidence against Rev. G. V. I.
Richeson, the Baptist minister charged
with the murder of Avis Linnell, The
grand jury investigation is expected to
take two or three days.
The grand jury retired to its room at
$3.50 and were addressed briefly by Judge
George A. Sanderson Of the supreme
court. The first witness heard was
Medical Examiner DR. Leary, who was
before the jury half an hour. He was
followed by Mrs. Linnell and Mrs. Me-
Lean, mother and sister Of the victim.
District Attorney Pelletier had the wit
nesses secured and they could be seen
only as they entered and left the jury
room.
All the members of the Linnell fam
iIy win 20 before the grand jury. 9th
ers who were summoned yesterday in
cluded William A. Hahn, the Newton
druggist whose statement to the police
that Mr.. Richeson had purchased cyanide
Of potassium led to the ministers ar
rest last Friday, and Frank n Carter,
Ia whose home Mr. Richeson's apart.
ments were located. In addition, the po-
lice officials who have been at work on
the ease will detail their observations
to the grand jury.
Col. Thomas Varland Richeson of Am
herst, Va, visited his son in the Charles
street jail yesterday. In the first words
OF greeting even before he had clasped
hands with his father through the bars
Of his cell door, the clergyman ex-
claimed;
Father. / am innocent"
The veteran Confederate soldier, who
has all along expressed his belief in
his sons innocence, was visibly affected.
He grasped the bars for support, while
he answered only:
MY boy! my boy!"
For more than an hour father and
son conversed, part of the time with
hands clasped aiFectionately, but even
to the jail assistant, who stood in the
corridor, most OF what they said was In
audible.
Colonel Richeson left the jail as he
came, in closed carriage, in which
were Frank II. Carter. at whose resi-
dence in Cambridge. Rev. Mr.. Rcheson
had made his home, and another man
whose identity is unknown. He was
driven, it is believed, to the home in
Brookline, of Moses Grant Edmands. ia
ther of Miss Violet Edmands, to whom
the clergyman was to be married.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-26
SENTENCE OF DEATH
ON SILAS H. PHILIPS
Who Shot and Killed Deputy Sheriff
Emmett F. Haskins at Monroe
Bridge, Mass, in 1o1o-To
Die on Week of Dec. 81.

Greenfield, Mass. Oct. 26. -Silas H.
Phelps Of Monroe Bridge, who on June
II, 1910, shot and killed Deputy Sheriff
Emmett +. Haskins, win pay the pen.
atty for his deed in the electric chair
at the Charlestown state prison during
the week beginning Dec. 81 Judge Fes-
sender, in the Franklin county superior
court, sentenced the man to death yes
terday afternoon and set that date.
Before sentence was imposed. Phelps
was given an opportunity to address the
court. He reiterated his protestations
OF innocence.
In imposing sentence, Judge Fessen-
den paid tribute ia Haskins as a
faithful officer killed while in perform.
ance Of his duties
Phelps viii be kept at the Greenfield
jail until ten days before the time set
for his execution,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-26
TREE WOUNDS.
Ideas About the Treatment to Follow
Pruning.

The cut in pruning should always be
made parallel with the parent limb or
trunk, and as close to it as possible
according to the Country Gentleman
When the end of limb is to be cut of,
make the cut near where branch goes
off. DO not leave stub under any cir.
cumstances in your final work In cut
ting out very heavy limb it may be
cut foot or so from the main stem in
order to avoid splitting the main stem
or tearing its bark Then later this
stub can be cut off close. DO not leave it,
Wounds over an inch III diameter
should be coated over in two or three
days after they have been made with an
adhesive, waterproof, antiseptic coat
White lead mixed with linseed oil, with
out turpentine, is good. Other materials
are hot grating wax, pine tar, hot
paraiiine, boiled gas tar, The lower edge
I il the weakest point about wound, on
account of. its being the last to dry
oil after rains. Special attention should
be given to coating the entire wound
thoroughly. Another coat month or
two later is desirable.
There will always be a gap between
theory and practice in pruning. No mat
ter how exhaustive any written treat
ment of the subject, there will be those
who cannot grasp the principles correct
" because they lack the power of appli-
cation. All that can be given one is the
hint. the kernel of the idea AT the most,
any advice on the subject will be sufIi-
cient provided it emphasizes the main
points. Then it remains for the grower
to devise the system of pruning that he
will adhere to.
This idea OF every grower having a
system OF his own contains the solution
OF the pruning troubles experienced
throughout the country If such stand
ard is carefully studied out, by read
ing. by observation, by questioning, it
will give one something to lean on. All
growers make mistakes in pruning; it is
impossible to have an ideal system; they
all have their weak points theoretically,
but practically they do very we'll Bet
ter a system with faults that is faith
fully adhered to, than alternate pruning
and neglect.
The following truths are to be borne
in mind in pruning fruit trees, A little
knowledge is dangerous, both for the inn
mediate damage to the trees and because
later methods will have to be entirely
changed and the trees made to suffer in
consequence. Trees should have their
faults corrected in early life. One can
cut from a tree in minute that which
years cannot reproduce. Every cut of
the pruning knife should be in accord
with definite purpose A limb should
not be removed until one can give
valid reason for it.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-26
CARRIED AWAY THE BODY.
What Constable Did q Buffalo, N.
", Funeral.

Buffalo, N. Y, Oct pa constable
armed with an order from the city court
stopped funeral service yesterday and
carried away body around which the
mourners had assembled and over whom
the minister had just began service.
The funeral so suddenly interrupted
was that of Edward Hopper, and was
being held from the home OF his broth
er, Lewis, in Dale street. The court
order was granted on the petition Of
Mrs. Laura Hopper, the dead mans wids
ow.
The proceedings arose over differ
ence of opinion between the wife and
brother regarding the cemetery in which
the body should be buried Under the
law, it is said, the wife has prior right
over Others to her husbands body.
Hoped died last Sunday, two hours
after making will, it is said, in his
brothers favor. Several members of the
famiyl were temporarily detained BY the
police, but were released when Ned
ical Examiner Stocker pronounced that
Hopper's death was due to apoplexy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-26
in HOME WEDDING
Miss Mildred Perry Became Bride Of
Byron A. Wright Of Hyde Park.

AT the home Of the brides parents,
Mr., and Mrs. w. A. Perry of los Wash
ington street, Miss Mildred Dulcina Per-
ry was last evening united in marriage to
Byron Andrew Wright of Hyde Park,
there being present the relatives % the
contracting parties and the b. s. B.
class of the Baptist church, to the num-
Der of about fifty in all. The room in
which the ceremony was performed was
prettily decorated with a bank of ever
green and ferns, while in the adjoining
rooms the colors were green and white
and in the dining room yellow and white.
The guests were ushered by Miss
Florence Allen and Marie Perry, broth
er of the bride, aud at S:l5 two little
nieces of the bride, Dorothy Claire and
Thelma Eva Perry, formed an aisle of
ribbons. through which the bridal couple
proceeded, to the strains of the wedding
march as played by Miss Ethel Inglis.
The officiating clergyman, Rev. w. T..
Braisted, came first, followed by the
groom and his best man, Ivan w. Perry,
brother of the bride, then the bridesmaid,
Miss Glee Wood, and lastly, the bride
leaning on the arm OF her father.
The bride was given in marriage by
her father and the single ring service
was used The brides gown was white
embroidered lace net, and she carried
brides roses; and the bridesmaids gown
was pink messaline, and Miss Wood car
ried bouquet of carnations. Follow
ing the ceremony, the bridal couple stood
beneath the arch Of green and received
the company.
The collation. was under direction of
Mrs. Jennie Harrington, and it was
served by girl friends of the bride, Bea-
trice Beach, Marion Perry, Bernice
Holmes. Ruby Bradley, Nina Mcdonald,
Gladys Gauthier, Lena Beagrie and Jettie
Clark while Della Ward had charge of
the guest book and Gertrude Geake was
in charge OF the gift table. After being
Iplentifully showered with confetti, Mr..
and Mrs Wright left on a wedding trip
to places in Massachusetts,, after which
they will make their home in Hyde Park,
where the groom is employed by the
MorrisviIle News and Citizen. The bride
has a large number of friends who will
wish her much happiness
Among the out of town people attend
ing were Mrs. A. c. Mclean of Danyille,
mother Of the groom; Mr.. and Mrs. f. X.
Hin and Miss Della Ward of Plainfeh
Mr. and Mrs. T. c. Perry and family
OF Plainfeld, Mr.. and Mrs. c. V. Perry
Of st. Johnsbury, and Mr. and Mrs. NJ.
! L. Cheney of Berlin. All the immediate
| family Of the bride We're present except
Lyle Perry, who is in Philadelphia, fill
ing an engagement as cello soloist with
professional company OF entertainers.