Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-05-23


are advertising far and wide to get men.
The New York Central has acquired
go acres in Utica, N. Y, for a passenger
and freight terminal, which will involve
s5,Oc0,0OQ
According to a cable despatch the duty
on American agricultural machinery
imported into Russia will remain I'M
changed until January I, 1911
The Cunara Steamship company will
give one months extra pay to each Of
the crew of the Carpathia as a reward
for services in the Titanic disaster.
Associates If Governor Stubs, and
even the Governor himself, are reported
to be planning to abolish Legislature
and have Kansas governed by commits
sion.
Many Industries in district tributary to
| Kansas city, Mo. are threatened with
serious loss as result of failure of natural
gas in Kansas and oklahoma fields
About $500 acres between Yarmouth
and Norwich. England, has been planted
with sugar beets rs part Of plan to
make England sugar-producing coun-
| try.
According to a recent calculat on, Amer
lean visitors to Europe spend In ono
season about s6o,o0ocO OF this London
1T Is estimated, gets about S,50oooo and
Paris s15,0Oo,0OO.
Cardinal Farley has received from the
| .6a priests of his diocese a gold medal,
which will be the historic emblem COM
memorating MS elevation to the
| cardinalate
Edward s. Ellis, writer of boys stories,
appealing to the authorities of Montclair,
y. j.. to begin a crusade Of mosquito
determination, says ll,s95,6s3 were born
near his home Saturday.
Washington special says 1t is the pur-
pose of the Roosevelt management TO
have In attendance at Chicago enough
| contrasting delegates to fill big hall in
the event the republican national COM
mittee decides against the candidacy of
the former president.
one hundred and fifty persons were
plunged into Puget sound at Seattle when
the chains holding gangplank leading
from the Coleman dock TO the steamship
Flyer broke. From the struggling. snrlek-
ing mass In the water two persons were
brought to shore dead. Mrs. Fl. Leonard
and Carl Brudan, three years old Of Seat
tie
Union machinists and bolermakers
have voted to call a general strike
throughout Canada in sympathy with
machinists and boilermakers of the Grand
Trunk railway who have been out for
eight months.
An Ottawa special says promising
gold camp has been discovered on the
line of the new National Transcontin-
entail railway in the district Immediately
Of Cochrane, Ontario.
A Washington special to the World
asserts that over 100000 has been ex-
pended to date In the Roosevelt cam
pligl and expenses are daily increasing
The average cost of delegate has been
5000 The World says Roosevelt offices
have been alive ever since George W.
Perkins visited Colonel Roosevelt at
oyster Bay.
Entrance of c. w. Morse IN July into
active control of the Hudson Navigation
company of New York is believed to
mean that that company will make an
effort to break into the day passenger
and freight business. The Hudson River
Day line and the Central Hudson COM
pany have combined against the Nav1ga-
ton line.
The Boston journal says that the mar
ket end OF various coppers listed on
the New York Stock Exchange will be
taken care of ny IL $50 10000 pooi. In
which John ID. Rockefeller. understood
to be large factor, desires to bring
ahout dissolution of the Amaigamated
Copper company. and destruction of the
books recording the "crres Of the
Amalgamated"
At the close OF 1911, tho 2ls fire aaI
marine insurance companies doine,
business In New York had s62s.142122
OF admitted assets, an increase of s44.-
49l,366, as compared with 1910 Ii
abilities other than capital we're $3.50.
3S4,G7s. an increase Of sl0S9S.116 The
total income was s354,2i6767 and dis
bursements s3nO"14.325, an increase
as compared with 1910 of s21.o25.536
and S27,2s7.159. respectively. Losses
increased about sl6.00O0O0
New York State banks and trust
companies have slOO,OOo,0OO more
loans and Sl25,00o,oo0 more deposits
than on December ! last, the largest
increases In the last five years State
Superintendent of Banks Tuyl says:
When we consider the enormous
amount of business done ny these
institutions. 1t is not too much to say
that the business outlook is better
than II has been for many years My
Information. too, is that conditions in
character"
Since January orders for no steam
, ships of various classes have been placed
with American shipyards which are the
busiest I'm 10 years. All new orders ex-
cept one are for coastwise trade Latest
returns give the Great Britain merchant
T marine 1l,54l.I0 tons, while United
States is second with 5,l5s.Oo and Ger
o many third with about i.i'OOOO.