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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-31
GREATER AUTO CHARGES
Mayor Again Asks New Oistribu-
ton Of Fees from M otor Cars.

Mayor Fitzgerald again Monday
wrote Gov. Foss urging the necessity of
increasing automobile fees and distrib-
uting the fees so that Boston and the
cities and towns in the metropolitan
district may get share of the fees for
the care and maintenance of the streets,
which are greatly injured by automo-
bile traffic.
In his letter the mayor points out
that in Boston alone the park commits
sioners want $780,, 900 year for five
years for repairing damage to highways
by automobiles, and states that Com
missioner Bourke figured that the cost
of maintenance for four of the principal
streets, some five miles in length, were
damaged to the extent of $1,000 by
auto traffic during the last six or seven
years. "Ths ratio applied to the 500
miles of streets in Boston produces a
total that must furnish food for thought
to the tax payers, the mayor states.
The mayor says that the general tax
payer should not be compelled to make
good deficiencies created by inadequate
fees, and the city of Boston parkways
and metropolitan boulevards should not
be excluded from the relief afforded to
other road systems by the fund collect
ed for this purpose.
LAS matter of fact, my own eXpe-
rience is that the automobile owners
themselves recognize the burden which
they place upon the cities, as well as
the commonwealth, and would be will
ing to accept reasonable increase of
the fees, especially for high-powered
vehicles. The opposition to legislation
designed to effect this purpose comes
from their attorneys rather than from
the owners themselves. If present con-
ditions are allowed to continue not only
Boston, but other cities will be com
PEELED to omit large amount of neces-
sary repair work and to leave the
streets and boulevards in dscreditable
condition through sheer inability to
meet the rising charges for road repairs
created by the increase of auto travel. 4"
Boston Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-31
a Protest Against Speed.

Someone or something must call
halt. Complaints come both in polite
parlance and in the more forceful ver-
nacular against the speeding of auto
mobiles that are floating about Bur-
lington like thistledown in August.
Of course each spring there is kind
of intoxication in the air which leads
almost imperceptibly to higher
speed and still a higher. There is
something about sitting at the wheel
of an automobile which makes man
feel as if he were suddenly promoted
into more than man. The conscious
ness of presiding over so much power
has tendency to make the driver
look upon those who plod along the
road as only little higher than the
insects. And the power of speed is a
constant temptation to the exercise
of it. Put the best natured fellow in
the world at the wheel of a big car and
if he escapes climbing a tree and
killing himself before mastering the
motorists art, he will hardly escape
killing or manning somebody else
after mastering it. He will become
needless of the rights of others and
pulled up to the bursting point from
pride in his ability to scare the life
out of his fellow beings. Considering
the number of people and the promis-
cuous kind of people who are exposed
to the demoralizing influence of the
motor car, it is the highest kind of
tribute to human nature that any
foot-passenger who crosses College or
Pearl or any other street ever escapes
to tell the tale. A man of threescore
and ten or twenty will often execute a
backward leap of which Gutterson
would be proud when encouraged to
the unusual effort by having an auto
dashed half inch in front of his nose
at the rate of forty miles an hour. In
this way it is constant temptation to
the auto-driver to reveal to people
what possibilities they possess.
But it is necessary to deprive the
fortunate drivers of autos of at least
part of their pleasures. Those of
US who plod about on foot have just SO
much work to get done and it is necces-
sary to the world that it be done. So
even drivers of motor cars must be re-
strained from cutting US poor cattle off
before our time. Furthermore we find
it disconcerting to be forced to dc
athletic stunts without a moments
notice, and society has undertaken to
protect US against that kind of perse-
cution. Now we crave just enough OF
that protection, to inconvenience the
lordly drivers the least, and yet pre-.
serve our lives and self respect. = Bur
lington Free Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-31
AUTO HITS THOMAS A. EDDY
Car Hurts the Importer, but not
Dangerously,

Thomas A. Eddy, vice president Of
the American Trading Company, was
knocked down by an automobile last
night at 18TH street and Broadway. At
frat it was thought that his skull had
been fractured, but DR.. Meyers of the
Washington Heights Hospital, where
Mr.. Eddy was taken, said after an ex-
animation that Mr.. Eddy had suffered
no worse injury than severe cuts and
bruises and ought to be able to leave
the hospital within short time.
Mr.. Eddy was crossing the street
when the automobile, which was driven
by its owner, John J. Murray, Jr., of
452 Hamilton avenue, Yonkers, struck
him. 1t was not going at rapid rate,
the police say, but Mr.. Eddy was thrown
ten feet and landed on his head. He
was picked up by Mr.. Murray and
Policeman Costigan of the West 152d
street police station, and taken to
Washington Heights Hospital in the
machine.
Mr.. Eddy, who lives at 81 South Ok
ford street, Brooklyn, had lost much
blood and received bruises on the body
The cuts on his head are severe. New
York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-31

thoroughly studied the puzzl!ng ques-
tons. he gave the following interview:
GOOD forestry on State lands in the
North Woods demands cutting so mod
crate as not to destroy forest conditions
or seriously disturb the forest cover.
Practical forestry in the Adirondack
Park should begin slowly and at first
should cut not more than l per cent of
the Park each year. The first consider
alton in all cuttings should be to improve
the forest. Clean cutting should be
forbidden by the Constitution. So
should cuttings so heavy as to impair or
interrupt the forest condition or require
the planting of trees after logging.
All logging in green timber should be
directed to encourage young growth,
and all sound spruce trees below four
teen inches, or hardwood below eight
cen inches in diameter should be left
standing.
Before the Constitutional question
whether practical forestry shall be per-
mitted in the Adirondack Park is sub
mitted to the people for action, the Con-
servation Commission should be called
upon to lay before the Legislature and
the people a full description of the
methods of practical forestry which it is
proposed to apply, and the results these
methods are intended to secure. In q
virgin forest, as the young trees grow
up, the old trees die and fall to the
ground, thus supplying fuel for forest
fires. In a properly handled forest,
mature trees are cut down and the slash
disposed of, so that an Adirondack for
est carefully and properly logged pre-
sents no greater invitation to fire thar
one not logged at all.
1.-The timber in virgin forest does
not increase in quantity, because the
growth of the young timber is offset by
the death and decay of the old. But il
a well-handled forest the amount anC
value of the standing timber steadily
increases. The result of practical for
estry in the Adirondack Park will moi
be to decrease the future supply Of
timber, but to husband and increase it
1t is not only to the interest, but it i!
the duty of the State to put its forest:
in the best possible condition to be use
full to the people. That cannot be done
without the wise use of the ak. -
Brooklyn Eagle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-31
In connection with the above the
Boston Herald says editorially
NONE TOO SEVERE.


What is said to be the longest SEN
tence ever imposed by the criminal
court of Suffolk county in an automobile
case, was melted out to John A. Maloy,
who pleaded guilty of manslaughter in
connection with the deaths of Donahue
and Connolly, track repairmen, on
Boyston street, early in the morning
Of April 9th. Maloy, the chauffeur,
twenty-seven years old, has been sem
fenced to five to seven years in the
State prison.
According to the testimony he was
using the machine without the owner
permission; he was running it at fifty
miles an hour; he drove on after the &C
cident, and only by peculiar series of
happenings was it possible to trace him.
He had twice before been fined for ex-
ceeding the speed limit, and had another
time been found guilty of violating the
automobile law in regard to the warn
ings at intersecting streets. His license
had been suspended because of an &C
cident which resulted in the death of
Louis M. Terry, but on the finding of
the commission that he was not re-
sponsible, it was re-issued.
1t is ridiculous that youngsters OF
this type should be allowed to run high
powered locomotives through our pub.
lie streets. If such accidents are to be
prevented, the law must assume some
severity. 1t has been administered in
the past far too leniently. Let US hope
that precedent has in this case
been established which will count
toward the more effective protection OF
the public.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-31
MaIoy Gets Five To Seven Years
For Automobile Deaths.

In the superior criminal court before
Judge Chase, John A. Maloy of Cam
bridge who was indicted for murder in
the second degree, pleaded guilty to
manslaughter and was sentenced to state
prison for term of from five to seven
years.
The sentence is the biggest one ever
imposed in this commonwealth for an
automobile offence.
Maloy was charged with running over
and killing two men early in the morn
ing of April 81.
The two men were Thomas Donahue,
47, Sc Tudor ST., and John Connolly, 26,
247 E st., both of South Boston.
The car was owned by S. Vorenberg.
Maloy is the son of Patrolman John
Maloy of Sta. l, Cambridge.
Before sentence was imposed Chief
Dugan gave the records of Maloy: In
1907, speed, $40 fine; 1909, speed, $1(
fine; 1909 intersecting streets, filed,
1910, speed, 500 fine; 1910, speed, placed
on file. On Feb. 10, 1910, he struck
Louis M. Perry and his license was
suspened, and later as it was found nc
blame was attached to him, the case
was placed on file and his license wa:
returned to him. Boston Record.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-31
BOYS PRAY IN STREET FOR
LAD KILLED,
Resentment Turns to Pity for All
the Parties to the Accident.

The mobs on the East and West sides
of the city that close in on an automo-
bile driver who has Just run over a
child don't always act as did the crowd
that swarmed about the touring car in
East Fifty-eighth street at Second ave-
nue. that had just run over Eddie Lynch
at 6 O'Clock last evening.
Eddie is, or was, II years old, and
lived with his father, Charles, an engi-
neer employed at the Raymond street
Jail, and his mother at 1888 East Fifty
eighth street. Eddie went to a public
school on week days. On Sundays he
was an acolyte at the Catholic church of
st. John the Evangelist, Fifty-fifth
street and First avenue.
Yesterday afternoon Eddie went to
the church to go to confession. He
knelt at the altar railing and said his
penance after confession and then went
home. Fddie's mother was busy pre-
pairing supper and told him he might
run out and play with the other boys
until supper time. So Eddie sprinted
up Fifty-eighth street and found 1.-The
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-31
Bio Revenue From Potatoes.

Since January this year, 1885, Ill,
bushels of potatoes have been received
at Boston from England. On these the
government collected SAIL, 266 in duty,
assessment being at the rate of % cents
a bushel. Receipts this year have been
Unprecedented owing to shortage in the
domestic crop. The government treasury
has profited, but the consumer has
practically paid the duty, for the price
of foreign potatoes has been so much
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-31

gang" playing game called "truan
Officer
The gang" made Eddie Lynch truant
officer as soon as he joined them. Ed
die was sweating with exertions in cap
turing the runaways when from the east
came touring car, owned and driven by
Russell w. Smith, building contractor
of 242 East Fitty-frst street. Seated
with Mr.. Smith was William Pelzer of
357 East Fifty-eighth street. In the ton
neau were Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Pelzer.
The car was not going fast. Mr..
Smith intended to turn north into
Second avenue and had slowed down to
make the turn. About twenty-five feet to
the east of the turn Eddie Lynch, truant
officer, darted after truant. He ran
into the lamps of the Smith car and
was flung forward yard or so. Mr..
Smith instantly tried to stop the car,
but when it came to halt Eddie lay
under it.
The women in the car screamed as the
men jumped out of the car to try to
pull Eddie from beneath it. Eddie's
mother screamed from her own window
as she leaned out to call him to supper
just as she saw him disappear beneath
the wheels.
Policeman Barney Goldstein of the
East Fifty-first street station ran up to
help. The swarm of small boys who
had been playing with Eddie crowded
around the car and not even the
presence of the policeman stilled their
boyish threats. Larger boys, youths,
women flocked from all sides and
the threats rose to shouts, while
Mr.. Smith, who was crying, worked
unheeding with the policeman trying to
get the boy from under the car A
white haired old Irishman worked his
way through the press.
"Thatll do, lads" he commanded to
the shouters of Kill 'em!" "Ye'd be
dom Bother down on your knees
prayin for the lad"
A boy knelt down on the asphalt,
barred his head and began to say the
Hail Mary" aloud. In moment the
shouts ceased and the Catholics in the
crowd, which meant very great many
of them, soon all were kneeling with
barred heads and praying. AS they
said the Hail Mary taxicab came
along Second avenue and Mr.. Smith
and the policeman carried Eddie to it
and all three were hurried to Flower
Hospital.
DIR. Knopp was standing at the hospi-
, tai door. He took but glance at the
form in Mr.. Smiths arms and said
Hes dead
my God! Awful! Awful" Mr.. Smith
said over and over. He climbed into
the taxicab again and went back to
Fifty eighth street, where the crowd,
again on its feet, stood around the car
gazing upon Mrs. Smith and Mrs.
Pelzer, who were crying. The crowd
made no move against the women or
against Mr.. Pelzer, who sat in front.
r AS Mr.. Smith drove up some women
were leading Eddie's mother down the
street to her home. New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-31
ROOSEVELT hackers ARE CON-
FIDENT OF SUCCESS.

Judge Duell said that the Roosevelt
contigent would make fight to have
the session of the national committee
on contested seats open so that there
would be no star chamber proceedings.
He added:
Up to four years ago this was always
done. We do not expect that all of the
contested Roosevelt delegates will be
seated, any more than we expect that
all of the Taft delegates will be seated
In so far as this means that the
national committee will give everybody
fair deal | believe that the Roosevelt
forces will control the committee. There
will be no steam roller tactics.
| agree with Mr.. Barnes that the
contest is one of principles, and not OF
men. Not even Col. Roosevelt, with all
his wonderful personality, could have
won the fight had he not had behind him
cause which appealed to the average
man and woman. A man to be leader
must face the future. The man who
lives in the past, who is ever looking
backward, is sorry leader. The man
who rails at the present and refuses to
see the future never aids the world to
advance. The sooner he retires to his
tub the better it is for his fellow men.
When from Maine to California the
voters, wherever they have an oppor-
tunity, are found on the same side of a
question, it is worse than folly to assert
that they all are wrong. The majority
rules and should rule, in every demo-
cratic country.
New Jersey only reaffirmed the ver-
dict which has been given in other
States. When the convention meets it
will be found that Col. Roosevelt has a
working majority, outside of any
Southern contest.
do not look for any steam roller tao
tics in the settlement of the contested
seats by the national committee. There
is however one vital question which the
delegates will have to determine, and
that is, shall the choice of a large
majority of the delegates from the
States which must furnish the electoral
votes necessary to elect the nominee of
the Chicago convention be accepted, OF
shall the delegates from the Terri
tories, dependencies and States which
cannot furnish single Republican cleo
tor dictate the nomination? From the
States that must furnish the votes to
elect Republican President, Col. Roose-
welt will have at least 455 convention
votes, while Mr.. Taft from such State
will scarcely have $50. Passing over
the question whether the delegates from
the hopelessly Democratic States of
the South claimed for Mr.. Taft were
legally elected and are representa-
tive, those who are seated will not at
tempt to dictate our party nominee for
President. For them to arrogate to them
selves any such power spells defeat, ends
their official lives for all time and will
surely result in the loss of the Senate
and the election of two-thirds Demo
cratic majority in the House of Repre-
sentatives. In such an event few men
now fifty years of age will live to see
the Executive and Legislative branches
of the Government again in the hands of
the Republican party. The Republican
party is progressive and men who be-
lieve in wise, progressive policies will
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-31

preside over the sessions of the conven-
ton and write the party platform.
Statewide primary elections have
shown that the many will not tolerate
the rule of the few, unless the few
realize the rights of the many must be
fully protected. The more bitter the
attacks on Col. Roosevelt the more
friends they make for him. New York
Cup
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-31
MELRosE GIRL INSTANTLY KILLED.

MELROSE GIRL INSTANTLY KILLED.
Manchester, May 20. -Plunging back
ward through a massive stone wall, a
heavy automobile owned by George A.
Ramsdell of Maiden and driven by Miss
Bessie Emerson of that city, this after
noon hurtled over precipce on the
Smith Point road, and dropping fifteen
feet instantly killed Miss Helen Bean of
Melrose, a 20-year-old Tilton Seminary
student, who was in the tonneau.
Miss Beams neck and back were brok-
en-, and but for the miraculous interview
ton of a clump of shrubs and bushes the
entire party would have been plunged
into the sea and probable death.
The accident took place shortly after
l O. clock, and resulted, it was said, from
the failure of the brakes on the auto
mobile to hold. The car was proceeding
up steep hill, and at the most danger
Gus point in the road, where a stone
wall fences a sharp curve, the machine
began to move backward.
Miss Emerson frenziedly threw on the
brakes, but the big car, gathering mo-
mentum, struck the wall, knocking
down about twelve feet of it, and shot
over the edge of the cliff.
Perhaps twenty feet below the road
is the ocean, but thick cluster of I'M
dergrowth received the car and saved
the entire party from destruction. Mr..
Russell and Miss Emerson We're rescued
with difficulty, the former having
sprained ankle and minor cuts, while
Miss Emerson's right arm was broken.
Miss Bean, however, was dead. Pin
ned in the tonneau the weight of the
big machine descended full upon her,
breaking her back and neck and lacer-
ating her body frightfully about the
head and shoulders.
The survivors were cared for at the
summer residence of Richard Stone of
Boston and later returned to their
homes.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-31

Farmers, mechanics, railroaders, la
borers rely on DIR. Thomas Eclectic Oil.
Takes the sting out of cuts, burns or
bruises at once. Pain cannot stay where
it is used.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-31
MOTOR CARS CLAIM LIVES
OF TWO GIRLS.
Helen Bean Of MeIrose Instantly
Killed at Manchester.

Catherine O'Brien, 5-year-old Rox-
bury girl, was struck and killed by an
automobile on Columbus avenue.
j. Travis Roberts, while driving
through Lynn, had his car sideswiped
by another car with such force that it
dropped into the Saugus river. He
swan ashore.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-19
GIRL OF Is VOTED.
Los Angeles Judge Orders -Investiga.
 tion of Election Fraud.

Los Angeles, Gal, July 19-There, was a stir in Justice Summerfeld's $ court yesterday when Lillian Handy, asserting that she was only 15 years old, admitted to Deputy District At torney Ora ham that she had registered to vote at the last election. ..
 Do you mean to say you swore falsely as to your age?' demanded the court 3f
 q did not swear at all,'' was the answer. "The woman who registered me was working for the Socialist Party. was a patient at the Coun- ty Hospital. She said all I need do was to sign 01y name to blank, and I did so."
 MT. Graham produced the affidavit, which was brought into court from the Registration Bureau. He submit ted it to Justice Summerfield, who or dered thorough investigation.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-19

involved the payment of 10000, GOO to a syndicate of Pittsburgh men who held options on the property.
 The deal was arranged with MT. Hays by J. R. Paul, ex-vice president of the Bank of Pittsburgh, and W. R. Woodford, ex-vice president of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. MT. Hays went to London and laid, the offer be- fore the. board of directors of the Grand Trunk and advised that the land be bought. The directors au-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-19
Poultry Specials
Fresh Native Vegetables

You will always find our Vegetable Department well supplied with the season best such Native Head Lettuce, Green and Wax Beans, Escarole and Romano. Fresh Peas, Green Corn Tomatoes, Gel cry Crooked Neck Squash, Cucumbers, Bunch Beets and Carrots Watermelon, Canteloupes, Gooseberries, Huck1eberries Blackberries Red and Black Rasp- berries, Red Currants, etc.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-19
HAYS DEATH SPOILED DEAL. Now Holders of s10,00O,OOO Option on Ohio Coal Land Are, in
 Ouandary.

Pittsburgh, July 19-When Charles, NJ. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk Railroad. perished with, the Ti- tanic, there were lost signed contracts closing deal. for 900 acres of coal in Belmont County, Ohio. The deal
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-19
2 and recitations.

ing and recitations. Refreshments were served after sthe. entertainment The committee in charge of the gath ering had C. w. Larson as it's chair man, and P. B. Allen, A. L. Patchen and George Eddy as it's other mem bers.
 The newly elected officers of Bridge port. encampment, l.. o. Q. F., will be installed tonight by District Deputy Grand Patriarch August Debonum of New Haven and his staff of IS uni- formed men. Those to be installed are: Chief Patriarch, Anton Postozzi; high priest, William. Iieberum; scribe, Henry Kohlmensberger; :. treasurer, Kasper Hoelle; inside guard, Fred, Meredith; outside guard. William Paul.