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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-26
OLD CONTINENTAL HOTEL CLOSED.
maica, Was Proprietor SO Years-Wlll
Give Way to 2o-story Building.


Many people in windham county will
be interested to learn that the old Con-
tinental hotel, a yellow brick structure
at the northeast corner of Broadway and
Twentieth street, New York city, of
which the late E. L. Merrifield was pro-
prietor many years, was closed last
week. On its site a 2O-story business
building will be erected Mr.. Merrifield
was born in Jamaica in 1885 and attend
ed school in that town and at Leland and
Gray seminary in Townshend. He mar
ried Ellen L. Farrar of Townshend in
1863, and they had two children, Carrie
H. and Mark E.; and the latter has con-
Quoted the hotel since his fathers death
in 1902.
In its account of the closing of the
hotel the New York Times said: Mark
E. Merrifield, the proprietor, stood in the
old-fashioned lobby, which has always
had half a dozen rows of comfortable
chairs just back of the Broadway win
dows, and shook hands with his depart
ing guests
For nearly 40 years the Continental
has been a Merrifield hotel The late f.
L. Merrifeld, one of the best-known
hotel men of his time, took the house in
| 1876 when it was known as Barnum's no.
| tel. Mr.. Merrifield managed the house
until his death in 1902, and since that
time it has been in charge of his son,
| Mark e. Merrifield.
1.-The attitude of the old-timers was
| well expressed by one man, who said in
| parting Well, goodbye, Mr.. Merrifield,
I've been coming here for twenty -four
| years, and it seems almost like leaving
| home
"'My oldest guest has been living
| here SO years said Mr.. Merrifield, and
| several have been here over 20 years
| with the exception of the Grand Cen
| t,oI Ata1 hot
er and Third Streets, the Continental is
/ the last of the famous Broadway houses
below Twenty-third street. 1t was built
| about 1865. For many years 1t was the
| home of George Francis Train, and was
also the popular meeting place of the
| Methodist and Congregational ministers
who held weekly conferences and din
ners there. 1t has always maintained
| the old-fashioned methods of hospitality
| and comfort and this was one reason
that made it so popular with hundreds
| of out-of-town merchants"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-26
BRooKLINE.

Mrs. Earl Putnam and two children
are visiting at William Hewitt's.
Horace Gale was called to Walpole
Monday by the illness of his father.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Watkins and Miss
Annie Osgood spent Sunday at E. p
Osgood's.
Robert Potwine, who has been work.
ing in Keene. N. H., is spending a week
at home.
Oxen seem to be in demand. Four
good teams have been sold from this
town recently.
Miss Jennie HARDWOOD and Mrs. Royal
Marsh were in Cambridgeport and Ath-
ems Saturday
Miss Sadie Hewitt. Mr.. Kenney and
Mrs. Don Boutelle of Townshend were
at F. L. Potwine's Sunday.
About 80 attended the millinery social
held in the Baptist parsonage Monday
evening when a pleasing program was
carried out, consisting of recitations and
music. After supper. consisting OF sand
witches, cake, tea and coffee, the men
were given hats or bonnets which they
trimmed in quick time. Reginald NC
Hale won first prize. All report an ex-
tremely merry evening.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-26
my BABY SUFFERS so"
ANXIOUS MOTHERS WORRIED
ABOUT CHlLDREN's ECZEMA.
Try This Remedy at Our Risk.

Try This Remedy at Our Risk.
Mothers are driven almost frantic
with pity and anxiety over the suf-
ferings of children with eczema or
some other torturing rash.
So often are we asked what will
give relief that we want every one
to know about our new remedy, Sax
on Salve, for all sorts of skin dis
eases, which is performing remark
able cures among children as well as
grown persons.
Right at the start this soothing
penetrating application allays the
frightful itching and burning. And as
1t sinks into the skin 1t destroys the
germs and exerts its powerful healing
influence most thoroughly.
You cannot do better than to try
Saxon Salve for eczema, letter, ring
worm or any crusted or scaly skin
trouble. we give back your money II
Saxon Salve does not satisfy you.
wiLFREp r. ROOT. DRUGGIST.
srattispero. We.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-26
GRAFTON.
Mrs. Eta Hall is i'll.

Mrs. Eta Hall is ill.,
Miss Amy Davis is visiting friends in
Everett, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Dompier were in
Londonderry Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs oliver Lawrence were in
Saxtons River Monday.
Mrs. John Pollard of Bartonsville was
at ]. Growers the first of the week.
Mrs. Adams, who is caring for Mrs
w. s. Eaton, was in Springfield from
Friday to Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Fairbanks of North
Chester were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
H. Burlingame Sunday.
F. o. Merrifield closed very success
full singing class for the children last
week Wednesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. w. E. L. Walker were
called to Bellows Falls Friday on ac-
count of the serious illness of their
daughter, Mrs. d. r. Kendall. Mr.
Walker returned Saturday. Mrs. Ken
dali is more comfortable.
Scranton daily newspaper recently
contained an account of the rescue of
Edward Gross, whose clothes were on
fire. by Rev. DR.. William NJ. Walker,
pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist church
and well-known summer visitor here
Three gallons of gasoline in dishpan in
George M. Schmidt's tailor shop exploded
and wrecked the shop. The newspaper
account said: Gross, who is youth
of IS or whereabouts, is in the state hos
pital with serious burns about the legs.
He will get around all right, the doc
tors think. He can thank Rev. Walker
and c. E. Murrin of South Scranton for
saving his life. They wrapped their
overcoats about him when he rushed
out on the sidewalk, and put the fire
of his clothes out That is how Rev.
Walker sustained deep cut on the end
of the nose and another one on his
right hand. Schmidt, who is 20 years
old, was cut on the palm of the hand
by broken glass;
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-26
WINE DIAM.
Many are harvesting ice.

Many are harvesting ice.
Mrs. Hattie Jones is visiting in Ches-
ter.
Ora Rhoades is housed with lame
back
Orvil ingalls, and Bert Howe each lost
horse recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Smith of West
Townshend visited at Waldo Smiths
Sunday
Little Cecil and Olive ingalls,. after
spending several months with their aunt
In Mount Holly, have returned home.
Mrs. H. S. Prentiss and sister. Mrs. j.
A. Goodnow, expected to start from
Philadelphia for Los Angeles the gath.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-26
DEATH OF JUDGE A. A. HALL.
Public Positions with Distinguished
Ability.

Ability.
Superior Judge Alfred A. Hall, 60, died
Sunday in his home in st. Adams after
an Illness of several weeks with brights
disease. Judge Hall was born In Athens
in this county Dec. 81, 1S4S, son of Mr..
and Mrs. r. II. Hall. He attended the
schools in his native town and Leland
and Gray seminary in Townshend. He
began the study of law in the Office of
Davis & Adams in st. Adams in 1870 and
three years later was admitted to the
bar.
In public affairs in st. Adams Col
Hall served in many capacities, being
at different times president of the board
of village trustees, corporation counsel,
member of the board of education, treas
urer of the board of library trustees, and
states attorney. In 1892 Mr.. Hall was a
state senator from Franklin county. He
was chairman of the commission on the
revision of the Vermont statutes In 1898
and commissioner from Vermont on the
conference on uniformity of state laws
in 1896. During all these years he prac
ticed law successfully until he was elect
ed superior judge in 1906. In 1876 he en-
listed as private in the Vermont Ma
tional Guard, and retired some years
later with the rank of first lieutenant
and regimental inspector. He was col
onel on the staff of Gov. Pingree In
didate for Congress in 1900 when ID. j.
Foster was first nominated in the First
district.
In Free Masonry Judge Hall was very
prominent. He was made a Mason in
Blazing Star lodge in Townshend soon
after attaining his majority. He served
three terms as worshipful master of
Franklin lodge in st. Adams and in the
grand bodies of Vermont has been very
conspicuous, being at different times at
the head of the grand lodge, the grand
chapter, the grand council and the grand
commandery. In the Scottish rite branch
of Masonry he had been honored with
the 33d or highest degree.
In 1874 Mr.. Hall married Abbie L. Aus
tin of Athens. She survives with two
sons, Harrie V. Hall, assistant treasurer
of the Chittenden County Trust company
in Burlington and Leroy A. Hall of St,
Adams.
Judge Hall was a man of very attrac-
tive personality and on the bench won
a reputation as one of the most efficient
presiding judges who has ever appeared
in the Vermont courts.
The funeral in ST. Adams was attended
by supreme court judges and superior
judges and many prominent men from
all over the state, including several who
have been active in the Masonic fra
ternity The body was brought to Sax
tons River for burial in the Hall family
lot.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-26
WEST WINDHAM,

Mary Hamilton is working for Mrs.
William Carleton.
Arthur Holden is drawing hay from
the Zeno Howe farm to Londonderry.
Mrs. Ida Joslin is at home on a three
weeks vacation from her duties in Ware,
Mass.
Olive and Cecil ingalls,, who spent sew
eral months at their uncle's in Mt. Holly,
returned home this week.
On going to the barn Sunday morning,
Myron ingalls, found one of his horses so
nearly dead that he had 1t killed.
A small child Of Mrs. Maud Bridgeos,
while at the Baptist ladies' aid society
meeting Wednesday, fell on a stove,
burning its face and one hand to a
blister.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-26

Thomas Bell of Moores, N. Y, is Wis
iting at Philip Moore's.
Many of the old friends here of Judge
A. A. Hall were -saddened to hear of
his death.
Ice cutters are busy on the pond and
report the ice Of good thickness and of
excellent quality.
Miss Jennie HARDWOOD and Mrs. Royal
Marsh of Brooklne were at Rose Ter
race one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs S. ]. Weaver spent Sun
day with their daughter and husband,
Mr.. and Mrs. E. p. Weston, in Bellows
Falls.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-26

New York city. according to the census
bureau, has ceased to be an Irish and
German city, so far as its foregn-born
population Is concerned, and has become
predominately Italian and Russian. 1t
contains 252,500 Irish 2792O0 Germans,
1904 Italians and ass, 600 Russians and
rims Even the Hungarians have pass
cd the Irish, outnumbering them by 1900.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-26
Utterly Wretched
"ervous Prostration Long Endured
BEFORE Remedy was Found.

Miss Minerva Reminger, Upper Bern,
IA, writes; For several years / had
nervous prostration. and was utterly
wretched. / lived on bread and beef
tea because my stomach would not re-
tain anything else. l took many rem
edles, put Obtained no relief until I
to gain at once. Am now cured
Pure, rich blood makes good strong
nerves, and this Is why HOODS Sarsas
parilla, which purifies and enriches the
blood. cures SO many nervous diseases.
GET II today In usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-26
LANpoRovE.

Bonnie Beers has moved from Clarks-
vile into julius Vestine's house.
Charlie Nelson has moved to South
Londonderry. where he is to work for
DIR. Millington.
George Harris came home thursday on
visit, returning Wednesday to his work
In Weathersfeld.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-26

The body of Brig. Gen. William Smith.
u. 8. A.. retired. who died In Pelham
Manor. N. T., Jan. II, was brought to
Orwell. his native town, for burial. Gen.
Smith was paymaster OF volunteers In
the Civil war and reached the grade OF
brigadier general In 1890
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-26
Calves Wanted

We are paying, for prompt shipment.
3 cents per pound for hog-dressed Calves
At this price we pay freight from any
Vermont or New Hampshire point on
200 pound shipments. Stock should be
well bled. free from disease, thoroughly
frozen and should have entrails removed.
Shipments may be combined with Hides.
Skins, Bones, Tallow, etc. Ship quick.
as prices will probably decline as the sea-
son advances.
CARROLL 8. PAGE. Hyde Park. VT
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-01-26

One way to discount a woman's argu-
ment is to agree with her.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
PARADE STIR DUE TO
ADVANCE OF SUFFRAGE
Mrs. Eunice Dana Brannan lnterprets Keen
Interest Of Public in Demonstration
Scheduled for This Afternoon.

pie. white and green. and the hearts Of
some shop owners are showing new life,
too. Many Of them have offered 10 al
low their employees TO leave in time to
join the ranks, suggestion that last
year met with the coolest refusal.
What does all this mean to us who
look beyond the facts and form to the
spirit behind it? Does it mean that the
general. unthinking public is practically
won to our crusade, that the fighting is
all nearly over. and nothing or nearly
nothing is left but the shouting?
No, not even the most optimistic of us
believe that. ON the contrary, we know
that all this fine showing Of numbers in
our ranks. and sympathy and encourage
ment among the crowds assembled to
cheer us on. must also rouse into new
energy those corrupt forces secretly or
ganized, to which the entrance of the
woman's direct influence I'm politics will
mean confusion and, we hope some day
in the near future, defeat.
So our procession must mean to us not
only congratulations on the splendid
progress our cause has made. but deter
mination To work as we have never
worked before To carry il forward to
triumph.
We need strength, we need devotion,
We need money we need conservation
and we need to keep our powder dry
for the autumn elections.
Let us try To better New Yorks past
record. She was one of the .laggards
To ratify the compact of the original
states in their fight against Great Brit
ain. She was among the last to sign
the United States Constitution. Let her
be the first of the Eastern states to
institute the last great democratic re-
form--votes for women.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
The Full Committees Power.

that the fuli committee alone had authority
to PASS upon a tentative agreement anu
in line with this understanding the repre-
sentatiVes of The miners on the run COM
mittee considered the report OF the suO-
committee which did not meet with their
approval. =.
The anthracite mime workers at wilkes
Barre on TUESDAY May IL. at which time
the entire matter viii be submltteu 10 thehL IL
Our future course VIII be decided D! o tne
action taken at that convention. We nay g
not yet broken off negotiations WIN inc
operators, but expect to meet Ggain ana
hope to reach an agreement.
The members of the conference com
mittee Of miners, gathered here TO meet
a committee of operators scattered 10
their homes last night to await the ac-
ton Of the miners convention on May
IA. They fully expected 10 be back IN
the city again about May 20, with either
the original proposal slightly modified or
a new one to submit 10 the committee Of
OPERATORS. The members Of the sub
committee will urge as strongly as they
can the acceptance Of the compromise as
they indorsed it.
In reiteration of the stand they took
on Thursday the anthracite operators
committee Of ten issued yesterday the
following statement:
After further consideration Of the anthra-
cite labor situation rs il developed a yes
terday's Joint conference. the operators
hold to their position that they have
right 70 expect the leaders OF the mine
workers TO exert their strongest eHorts 10
bring about a ratification Of the agree
ment proposed by the Joint subcommittee
Of mine workers and operators.
suit of a resolution introduced at the sug-
gestion Of John =. White. president OF the
United Mine Workers OF America. at the
Joint conference hi Philadelphia or Aprll
10 The members Of the subcommittee on
the mine workers side were Mr.. White ana
the presidents Of the three anthracite dis..
tricts of the United Mine WORKERS or
America. John r. DEMPSEY, Thomas Ken
nedy and .John Fahy. all recognized leaders
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
GIRLS SEEK USHER'S JOB
Rush of Applications for Place
Made Vacant by Eloper.


Philadelphia, May 3. - Since Sara
Louise 4omans, usher at the Metro
politan Opera House here, cloped with
William II. Kemble Yarrow on April -
no less than ~ girls-tall. short, blond
and brunette, but all beautiful, accord
ing to their letters-havc made applica-
ton by mail for places as ushcrs
On the day following the Yarrow- ho-
mans wedding nearly forty letters were
received at the office Of the Metropolitan
Opera House. The next day dozen
more arrived. Each day brought more.
Some were written on scented paper and
others on business stationery, showing
that i'm the heads of many stenographcrs
visions Of temperamcntal courtships with
singers and elopements with mOneyed
princes existed to make the long day at
the typewriter shorter and more pleas
ant.
Half Of the letters were accompanied
by photographs, and not a few Of the ap-
plicants dwclt at great length on their
vocal talents and true artistic apprecia-
tion Of art ard artists.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
MORGAN TAKING CURE
Follows Treatment at Aix-les-
Bains and Rises Betimes.
by Gable to The Tribune. J

London, May Al. Pierpont Morgan,
who is accompanied by his sister, Mrs.
Burns. and two friends Mrs. Markoe and
Miss Rhett. of New York has been un-
dergoing strenuous cure at Aixles
Bains for some time past. says The
Standard" and intends to continue the
treatment some weeks longer. A cure
is not a perfunctory matter with Mr..
Morgan, for he spends most of the
morning between the thermal establish
ment and the Zander Institute, and when
masseurs have finished with him it is
luncheon time.
After luncheon Mr.. Morgan replies
through his secretaries to his daily stock
of letters. kilograms and cablegrams as
rapidly as possible. and generally goes
out afterward for a motor cab drive with
his sister. After dinner cards are played
in the family circle for an hour or so,
generally bridge at one franc per hun
dred points Cone centime per point, and
the following morning Mr. Morgan is up
betimes to continue the cure, which Is
stated to be doing him great deal Of
good.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
CUBA IN GRIP OF
FINANCIAL TROUBLES
Creditors of Island Republic
CIamoring for Payment OF
Their Claims.
RUNNING DEEPER IN DEBT
United States Government Urged
to Take Action to Help
Cubans Straighten
Affairs.
RUNNING DEEPER IN DEBT
I From The Trihme Bureau. |

Washington, May 3.-Cuba IS in the
grip Of serious financial troubles on the
eve of the Presidential election. and
creditors especially. American contrac-
tors who did public work in Havana
are clamoring for their money, with the
result that fiscal intervention by the
United States government has been
impetus to the idea entertained for some
time by certain students of Cuban af-
fairs that such course should be
adopted.
The Department of State is highly
gratified over the progress made in
SantO Domingo since the United States
undertook to straighten out its financial
affairs and secure payment Of the in
sistent creditors, md it is argued that
like results could be effected in Cuba
were this government to intervene under
the provisions of the Platt amendment.
AS regards Santo Domingo 1t was an
nounced to-day that the customs receipts
for March, 1912, exceeded those for
March, 1911, by more than $4,000. the
announcement nphasizing the wisdom
Of the United States action In that
country.
For ten years Cuba has been getting
deeper and deeper in debt, spending not
only the annual income of the republic,
amounting to about $4,000 600. but also
the proceeds of larle loans, with the re-
suit that there is now debt OF about
SJOOOOOOO. France, England and Ger
many are insisting on the payment CT
claims resulting from injuries to their
subjects during the Cuban wars. and
other creditors are insistent.
The grievances of the American con-
tractors who constructed the sewer and
water systems in Havana have reached
the State Department, and there are
powerful influences behind the COM
plants and the suggestion Of action by
the United States Members Of Congress
are taking a keen interest in the stua-
ton.
OF course, there is an earnest hope
that Cuba will be able to extricate her.
self from her financial ENHANCEMENT, but
advocates Of American action point to
the fact that conditions have been con-
stantly growing worse instead Of better.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
FINAL WORD TO
THE WOMEN MARCHERS.

Uniformity Of dress was the dream
Of artists for US. know that many
nnareher would rebel. A white or
Iiaht dress and small hat are de-
srahe. They are not obligatory. Any
rearet some may feel for lack OF uni.
formity in their fellow marchers
should be outweiohed by the thought
that dstaste for conforming may be
but the promise Of independence in
future voter. The strongest argu-
ment for woman suffrage is the need
in politics Of force which can't be
easily turned.
REMEMBER. WE WANT SUF-
FRAGE MARCHERS MORE THAN
WE WANT UNIFORMITY OF
DRESS.
The march will last but an hour,
tho Carnegie meeting but an hour "
you take refreshment before the time
for formation you will need no re-
freshment until the end OF the dem
onstration. The Street Cleaning De-
partnent has publicly accused the
marchers Of last year Of leaving a
Uttered route behind them We
neither sold nor gave away single
bit Of literature. Untidiness, il it ex-
isted. was not caused by the march
crs.
REMEMBER, WE MUST MAIN
TAIN OUR GOOD RECORD OF
LAST YEAR,
The orderly appearance OF our pro-
cession will depend upon each 'ndi-
viduaI marcher. Let each one be IN
position carly. The head Of the pro
cession will start from Washington
Square at 5 o'clock, and not one
minute later. Be prompt.
REMEMBER THE PUBLIC WILL
JUDGE, QUITE ILLoGICALlY, OF
COURSE, BUT NO LESS STRICT
LY, YOUR QAllFICATiON AS A
VOTER BY YoR PRoMPTNEss.
March with head erect, eyes to
the front.
REMEMBER, YOU MARCH FOR
THE MIGHTIEST REFORM THE
WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
The final word is, obey your mar
shal.
REMEMBER. YOU MARCH FOR
EQUALITY, NOT PRIVILEGE; FOR
LAW, FOR ORDER.
HARRIOT STANTON BlATCH.