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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
A Bad Guess.

Representative Ralph W. Moss Of
Indiana hurried to Washington when
congress started up and engaged COM
Portable living quarters before his wife
srrived. She reached the capital some
weeks later on 4 Saturday night. The
next morning she said:
Now, Ralph, we'll 60 TO church, OF
course. Which church have you been
attending"
"Wh.er-uh. which one have been
attending, you say?" repeated the con-
gresham. why, there's mighty nice
little church down here just couple OF
blocks. It's such an easy walk that I've
been going there rather than to some OF
the more fashionable churches"
"All right. IL you feel at home there.
that's where wen 60" said the con-
CHEESEMAN'S wife. I'VE haven't much
time, anyhow"
SO they put on their things and went
TO the little church down the street.
When they got inside they made a
startling discovery.
They We're the only white people In
the church.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
pITTsFlELD WINS FAST GAME
Bennington High Loses on Shire Hit
tInq-Score 6 to 8

Pittsfeld high defeated Bennington
high on the common at Pittsfield Sat
urday afternoon, to 3, in a fast
game. Both teams played good ball,
but Bennington was the steadier in
the field. The home team won be-
cause of its ability to hit when men
were on bases. Capt. Linnehan Of
the Pittsheld team was the big man
in that respect, driving in three of
his teams total. Calnan pitched a
fine game, although he started wild
in the opening round by walking two
men. Bennington didn't score, how
ever, because Calnan frightened up
with three men on the sacks and
struck out the next man TO face him.
This same feat was accomplished in
the seventh inning. Waites and
SCOTS hits, with an error by Noun
tain and Calnan's wild pitch, were
responsible for the visitors runs. The
score:
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
MORTUARY CHAPEL
FOR PARK LAWN
CEMETERY
Contract Let to FIynt Granite
Company Of MOnsOn, Mass.
STRUCTURE TO COST SS,0z3.sO
To Be Built Of Stone and to Be Com
peted by August I Of the
Present Year

The committee selected from the
board of directors of the Park Lawn
Cemetery association to build the pro
posed mortuary chapel, Irving e.
Gibson, Edward l.. Bates and Arthur
j. Holden, has closed a contract for
the construction with the William n.
Flynt Granite company of Munson,
Mass. The contract provides that
the company complete the building in
every detail, that the price for the
work shall be SsS3S.9O and that the
chapel be finished by August / of the
present year.
The specifications provide that the
masonry shall be Of random asher,
similar to that of st. Peters Episco-
pal church, but whether stone from
the Taylor quarry or granite will be
used has not been definitely decided.
The floors are to be of marble tile,
the interior finish in cypress with
copper Hastings and the roof of black
Munson slate. The building is to be
electrically lighted and green cathe-
dral glass is to be used in the win
dows The plans also call for a
basement of sufficient size to accom-
modate a heating plant and for SUI
perintendents office In the vestibule
The plans. which were made by
Architect William c. Bull show that
the main wing of the structure will
be As feet and six inches long. The
chapel will be S2-6x23-6, the chancel
l4x12 feet, the vault 17x2O. The
vault and chancel will be 80 feet over
all.
The chapel will seat hundred per
sons. and the vault will be of sufiici
ent size to accommodate 40 full sized
bodies
The contract also provides for the
erection OF two large granite posts al
the entrance 10 the cemetery or
South street.
The committee, following their ap
pointment by the association, visited
number of cities and from their OBJ
servations. have selected a building
plan which they believe will result
in the construction of chapel which
will not only be appropriate in every
way. but which will also meet al
requirements. Such a structure hai
long been needed.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
NO SIX TEAM BASE
/. BAL[LEAGUE FOR
THIS SEASON
Northampton Decides To Go
With TWin-State
TOWNS TOO FAR ART
Bellows Falls, Brattleboro and keene
Opposed Admitting Plttsfeld
and Bennington

Bennington and Pittsfeld will not
be represented in the "Tri-State'
league during the baseball season OF
1912. At "a meeting held at North
ampton Saturday, representatives OF
all the clubs interested were present
and the project for the oranization
of six-club league from Northamp-
ton and Pittsfeld. Mass, Bennington,
Bellows Falls and BrattlebGo, W,
and Keene, N. H., were present. The
representatives of the former Twin
State" league were solidly opposed TO
the admission of Bennington and
Pittsfeld and the result was de-
cision on the part of the Northamp-
ton association to cast its lot with
the Twin Staters 4
Some of the Northampton directors
favored the six-team league, as they
realized that baseball of a better
quality has always been played in
Pittsheld and Bennington than has
as yet been produced by the Twin.
State towns, but the argument of
long railroad jumps was too much
for them and they were compelled to
60 with the majority.
John p. Morrlssey Of Bennington
and Fred NJ. Osteyee Of Pltts6eld re-
presented their respective communi-
ties at the conference so far as they
we're able to do so, but didn't get
much of an opportunity as the Twin
Staters" were inclined to flock by
themselves. When they left in the
evening no final decision had been
reached but on Sunday each received
a telegram from Secretary John h
Sisco of the Northampton association
stating that it had been decided &c
| go into the four team league, with the
Brattleboro. Bellows Falls and Keent
combination.
II is the intention of the Northamp
ton club to put its team in the fielc
the last OF May and to play independ
ent ball during June, the month pre-
ceding the opening Of the league sea
son. which does not start until Jul,
IL. Mr. Sisco expressed willingness
to arrange a series with Bennington
during the month OF June.
Mr.. Osteyee feels confident tina
some nearby town can be induce'
to form a four-club league. including
} Pittsfeld, North Adams and Bennine
ton, provided the legal tangle II
which the Pittsfeld association is In
yolved can be UNFINISHED. He ha
suggested that Dalton, always
strong baseball town, might be avail
able, or that Lenox or Adams nigh
be selected as the fourth club.
Mr.. Morissey and Mr.. Qsteyee wer
both in North Adams on Saturda
and called on directors Of the club 1
that city. The North Adams me
regretted that any movement was o
foot which had for its purpose tn
elimination of that city from the has
ball map and emphatically asserte
that North Adams would have tear
and that II would stay the seaso
through. They even expressed wi
llngness to put up a forfeit to qua
antee that North Adams would fms
schedule.
Mr.. Morrissey was unable to fin
any Of the directors after his retur
from Northampton and the results {
his trip have not yet been discussed
There will he a meeting Of the di
ectors this evening for that purpose
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In No Wonder The Rest The

for the Jordan Marsh company Of
Boston whose bodies are reported as
recovered The body of Charles c.
Jones of Bennington, Vt, will be
taken care of by Dr. Donnelly OF Hoo
sick Falls.
Everything has been arranged at
the navy yard for the reception Of
the Mackay-Bennett with her cargo
of dead. Best advices are that she
will dock at noon, but the time can
not be fixed definitely. Workmen
completed the erection of tents and
the piling of collins on the pier yes
terday Nearly all the clergymen in
the city spoke of the catastrophe in
their sermons yesterday, urging res
idents to refrain from going - the
pier The mayor has requested that
all flags in the city be lowered to
half mast when the funeral ship en-
ters the harbor.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
LEADER OF MOTOR
BANDITS SLAIN
IN PARIS
Great Battle With Police Last
ing For Hours
DYNAMITE FINALLY USED
Motor Bandit Leader Had Fortified
Himself In Small Garage and
Held Out for Five Hours

Paris, April 2S.-Jules Bonnet, the
leader of the motor-car bandits, is
dead. The murder of M. Jouin, De-
putty Chief of the Paris Detective Ser
vice, who was slain by the bandit
at Petit Ivry Wednesday, has been
speedily avenged.
Run to earth this morning in. a
little garage on the outskirts OF
Choisy-le-Rol, some six miles south
east of Paris, the bandit, after with
standing a siege by police and Repub-
lican Guards for neary five hours,
was found still alive after the garage
was partly destroyed by dynamite. He
was mortaily wounded on attempting
a last resistance.
The tenant of the garage, man
named Dubois, who had given Bon
not shelter, was killed in the siege
The police casualties were one de-
teetive seriously wounded and an
other slightly injured.
The New York Times correspond
ent was present at the awful close,
amid blood and flames, of Bonnot's
long career of robbery and murder.
/ saw the dying man shot almost to
pieces by the police and borne
! through a vast crowd of peasants,
fighting like wild beasts to get at him
and rend him. never witnessed
anything more terrible than the fran
tic surge of the mob, yelling Kill
himl" about the quivering figure OF
the dying murderer.
The garage is little structure Of
wood and plaster. 1t stands detach-
ed on a fair-sized grass plot. In
front is a small yard inclosed by
barbed wire.
1t was in this little shanty that n
Guichard, head of the Paris detective
force, suspected that Bonnet or one
or the other of his desperate com.
rades might be hiding, for papers In
the name of Dubois were found in
the road near hut in the forest
where the bandits spent the night be.
fore stealing the car with which they
carried out the Chantilly raid.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
TAFT SAYS TEDDY
IS DISCIPLE Of
ANAN|AS
President Issues Statement De
nying 7. R. Charges
HARVESTER TRUST CASE
President Taft Says He was Absent
and Was Never Consulted on
Case in Any Way

Washington, April 29.-President
Taft issued a personal statement
from the White House yesterday re-
futing the assertion of Col. Roosevelt
that Mr.. Taft while member OF
the Roosevelt cabinet, had not only
acquiesced in the governments de-
lay in prosecuting the Harvester
Trust, but, in fact, was the one who
first suggested that the suit be not
pressed at that time.
To substantiate his statement the
president quoted from the official re
cords of the War Department OF
which he was then the head, to show
that he was in the Philippines at the
time Mr.. Roosevelt says the cabinet
discussed the Harvester suit. He
also said that he was authorized by
Senator Root and Secretary OF Agri
culture Wilson, fellow members OF
the Roosevelt cabinet, to say that
they could not recall ever hearing the
suit discussed. Mr.. Taft asserted
that, so far as he was concerned, the
suit never was discussed when ht
was present at cabinet meetings.
The Roosevelt Campaign commit
tee made public in this city last
night a letter sent yesterday by
George w. Perkins to Congressman
Mckinley, manager of the Nationa
Taft Bureau, in which Mr.. Perkin:
bitterly attacks what he calls th'
unfair methods of Tafts followers.
Mr. Perkins declares that George
r. Sheldon, treasurer of the Repub
lican campaign committee when Taf
was elected. borrowed $4,000 from
Mr. Perkinsto pay debts contracted il
the campaign. This money, for which
Mr. Perkins says he holds Mr.. Shell
don's note, has never been repaid
| he asserts.
He attacks the Taft criticism of hi
connection with Roosevelt's campaign
by saying that if he was really &C
tuated by sordid motives as a trus
official, he would support Taft, II
| view of the outcomes of the Tobacco,
and Standard Oil cases.
Mr.. Perkins challenges. the Presi
dent to make public all the CORES
pondence in connection with the haI
vester controversy, saying that tn
president has given out only the col
respondence which passed in Col
Roosevelt's term as president.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
The March Of Men.

II YOU could cast away the pain.
The sorrows and the tears
And let the Joys alone remain
From all departed years.
II you could quite forget the signs
And recollect iie song
What think your Would you be as wise
As helpful or as strong?
II you could lay the burden down
That bows your head at whiles.
Shun everything that wears a frown
And live life OF smiles
BE happy as q child again.
As free from thoughts OF care
Would you appear 10 other men
More noble or more fair?
All, MOI A man should do his part
And carry all his load.
Rejolced TO share with every heart
The roughness OF the road.
Not given 20 thinking overmuch
OF palms and griofs behind.
But glad 20 be In fullest touch
With all his humankind
Charles Buxton Going.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
Resolutions on the Death Of Edward
Dewey Bennett

Whereas. the unconquerable power
OF death. which destroys all things
earthly, has touched our brotherhood
with irreparable loss, In which we
share the sorrow of his family and
of the community BE II
Resolved. That we typify our sense
of the worth OF our deceased brother,
Edward Dewey Bennett, In these res
olutions TO express the love we felt
for one ever ready to give himself,
for any work OF good and that we feel
II an honor to inscribe upon our
rolls tribute to one who was sim
cere in good works, loving in char
tiles and faithful in service TO his
fellow men.
Resolved, That the secretary enroll
these resolutions upon the book Of
our constitution. forward copy to
the family Of our deceased brother,
and cause them TO be published in
the Bennington Evening Banner.
BY order Of the Brotherhood OF the
Second Congregational church.
Edward ]. Hall.
n. Payson Hathaway,
Committee
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
suFoRD SAILS FOR MEXICO
Transport Leaves as Relief Ship For
Americans

San Francisco, April 29.-rhe
transport Buford, under orders to sail
as a relief ship for Americans in dis
tress on the west coast OF Mexico,
received supplementary orders last
evening to sail at o'clock last
night She carries 40 enlisted men
as a guard. 1t is understood that the
Buford will put In At San Diego for
q convoy
Robert T, Balm will be navigating
officer under command Of Quarter.
master Capt Frank ID. lily. Captain
Herbert j. Brees OF the LIST cevalry
commands the guard OF 40 enlisted
men. The ship will carry a surgeon
and a complete hospital equipment.
The torpedo boat destroyers Pre-.
bic and Perry. the largest vessels of
the hotilla. slipped out OF the San
Diego harbor yesterday end went to
sea with sealed orders That they
are bound for the west coast Of Mex
leo is the general belief, although ma
val officers decline TO discuss the
probable destination Of the destroy.
ers
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
Lahouehsrs and the Bible.

One day n friend went into the office
OF London Truth and offered to bet La.
bouchere that he could name book he
had not got In the place On inquiry
this book was specified as the Bible.
Labouchere offered 20 bet the man $50
that he had tbis'book, and then deity
turned the conversation, writing mean
time n note furtively to the clerk out
side to go downstairs to the booksellers
underneath aud borrow Bible. Later
he returned TO the subject OF the bet
and. calling the clerk In, babe him pro
duce the book. Ho said afterward that
he was afraid the boy hadn't cut the
pages so as TO prove II had been IN use
some time This enhanced the Joke, as
no one In those days ever saw Bible
with the pages uncut
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
COL. BENEFITS FUNERAL
Held Sunday Afternoon at Second
Congregational Church

Congregational Church
The funeral OF the late Col. e. d.
Bennett was held at the Second Con
gregational church Sunday afternoon
at o'clock, Rev. G. S. Mills oliicia-
ting. There was large attendance
including many from out of town.
There was no music except that OF
the organ played by Mrs. Keeseman.
Mount Anthony lodge. f. and A. NJ,
OF which Col Bennett was past
master, attended in a body and con-
Quoted the services at the grave, W.
NJ. Barron. master and Charles Barn
es. marshal. The employees of the
Rutland railroad also attended in a
body The bearers were past mas
tiers OF Mount Anthony lodge, Charles
S. Beach, II. ID. Fillmore, A. w. Var
ney, ]. w. Hurlburt, c. S. Perry and
+. II. Battles.
The floral tributes. which were
beautiful, included several set pieces
from the organizations OF which Col
Bennett was member. The inter
ment was in the village cemetery
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
JOHNSON REFUSES $4,000
Hugh Mclntosh's Bid for Fight With
Langford Turned Down

Milwaukee, Wis, April 2S.-Jack
Johnson, champion pugilist OF the
world, declined an offer of 100000 to-
day to fight Sam Langford in Austral-
ia.
Hugh Mcintosh of Sydney instruct
ed Tom Andrews of this city to ne
gotiate with the big black for a fight
with the Boston fighter, within six
months, but Johnson refused, saying
that he intended to retire from the
ring in September, and that after his
fight with Flynn. he did not care to
go in for another bout.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29

Halifax, April pa wireless mes
sage received here yesterday from
the cable ship Nina, which is sup
plementing the work of the Mackay-
Bennett in searching for the bodies
of those who persisted in the Titanic
disaster, indicates that there is lit
tie hope of adding to the 1SO-odd now
on the Mackay-Bennett, due in Hall
fax some time today. The weather
has been bad, the sea rough, and
bodies are widely scattered. Capt
Decarteret of the Nina believes the
kay-Bennett has picked up near
~ all obtainable. If his prediction
is correct, the bodies of Maj. Archi-
bald Butt, Mrs. Isidor Straus and
other prominent persons not report
ed as among the identified dead will
never be brought to port for burial
A revised list of the identified dead
compiled last night from wireless
messages received in Halifax and in
New York, places the total number
of the identified on the Mackay-Ben
nett at 1874, and those on the Nina
as eight Ten, all told, were report
ed as recovered by the Nina, but
one unidentified fireman was buried
at sea and the body of another mar
in evening dress gave no clew to Its
identity except gold cuff links mark
ed IS G." Among the eight bodies
identified on the Nina, none are
those of prominent persons, except
ing that of President Hays of the
Grand Trunk, previously reported as
recovered. His body has apparently
not been transferred to the Mackay
Bennett, and will probably not reacl
Halifax until later in the week whel
the Nina docks.
Vincent Astor and party arrived a
Halifax yesterday in a private ca
Astor's body as soon as it is positive
Unidentified and encoffined Anon
the other arrivals was Isidor UnizC
la, who will search for the body o
Victor Penasco on behalf of Penas
cos widow, who is at present stay
ing at the Hotel Plaza, New Yorl
Senior and Sonora Penasco were mai
ing the first part of a trip from Spai
around the world on the Titani,
She and her maid were saved, Sh
is sister-inlaw of Premier Canal'
jas OF Spain and related to the Spar
ish royal family
j. d. Finn OF Boston is on his wa
to claim the body of Timothy MEGA
thy and II. H. billiard, two buyer
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
NEARLY ALL ROOSEVELT
caueuses in West Virginia are Now
COMPLETED

Wheeling. w. Va, April 2S-Twelye
counties in this state held caucuses
yesterday and completed the election
Of the 92S delegates comprising the
Republican state convention.
Roosevelt carried all twelve coun-
ties.
The delegates stand 694 Roosevelt,
229 Taft There are no contests.
This insures the 16 national dele.
gates 10 Roosevelt.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
PRIMARIES IN WASHINGTON
Roosevelt Gets 5000 TO Taft 400
1000 for Wilson

Seattle. WISH. April 2S.-About
5000 votes we're cast in the Republi-
can and Democratic county primaries
yesterday. Only about 1000 were
Democratic voters and nearly all
these were for Woodrow Wilson
or the Republican votes Roosevelt
received about 5000. La Toilette 1900,
and Taft 400
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
FIRe ON HATAAwAY HlLL
Nearly Three Acres Of Timber Land
Burned over Sunday Afternoon

Fire, Sunday afternoon, started by
some careless person, burned over
nearly three acres OF timber land on
Hathaway hill, property owned by
William II. Snow. and caused damage
estimated by Mr.. Snow at 5000. The
timber injured and destroyed was
mostly small, but in these days trees
of all sizes and kinds are too valu-
able TO be wantonly destroyed.
Hathaway hill, because OF its nat
ural beauty and proximity to the vii
lage. has been used by residents Of
Bennington for many years as n sort
of park, with no restrictions by the
owner OF the land. but now that his
property is being destroyed, the own
err feels compelled TO resclnd the priv
ilege In order to protect himself
rrespassing on the property will nc
longer be allowed.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
PENSION BILL COMPROMISE
Agreement Practically Reached Car
rles S30,0oo,0o0 Appropriation

Washington, April 2S.-The confer
ence commission on the pension APP
preparation bill has about reached an
agreement. The Sherwood bill car.
ried an appropriation of $75,OOO.0OO
and the McCumber bill one Of s25,
100000
In the compromise now practically
reached the Senate gets most of the
advantage. The bill to be reported
will carry about sSO,OOO,OOO, a slight
advance on the Senate bill. and q
heavy slump from the Houses bill.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29

We, the undersigned. do hereby
agree TO refund the money on a so
cent bottle OF Greene's Warranted Sy.
rup Of Tar n II falls TO cure your
cough or cold We also guarantee a
% cent bottle to provs satisfactory OF
money refunded
Coles Pharmacy, A. s. Hathaway
Harwood Drug Store,
c. r and A. p. Hawkins
n a Qulnlan. &c. Woodwork
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
Card Of Thanks

We wish hereby to thank all our
kind neighbors anu friends who sc
generously assisted us during our re
cent bereavement in the death Of oul
SON. husband and brother.
Mr. and Mrs. l.. l.. Papers,
Mrs, Garry W. Papers,
Mrs. Charles Dedrick.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
Bennington High

Runs, White 3, Linnehan, Aldrich,
Harmon. Moore, Waite, Harmon. To
tai bases, Pittsheld 3, Bennington a.
Sacrifice hits, Legro. Waite, Shea 3
Stolen bases. Waltamath 2, White 3,
Calnan. Linnehan 2. Aldrich 2, Waite,
Murphy Scott, Harmon. First base
on balls, Harmon, Moore. Murphy,
Shea. Hurley, Harmon. Left on ba
ses, Pittsfeld 5, Bennington IL
Struck out. Waltamath, Mountain. AL
drich, Southern 3, Harmon 2, Shea
Gerkin 2, Hurley, Clark. Batters hit
Gerkin. Waltamath. Wild pitches
Calnan /. Scott /. Time III. 20 m
Umpire, John ]. Murray.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
MEAsLEs an INSTITUTION
About SO Cases Reported at Indus
trial School at Vereennes

Vergennes, April 26.-It Is report.
ed that there are about so cases OF
measles at the State Industrial school
and six OF the cases have developed
into pneumonia. Three trained nur
SEES from Burlington are In attendance
and DR. f. c. Phelps the regular
school physician. is deyoting close
attention to the cases. The spread
of the malady emphasizes the need OF
hospital az the institution.