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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22

With figures now available from
the Post Office Department on the
parcel post service, and from the In
terstate Commerce Commission on
the proposed reduction in express
rates, it will be possible for shippers
to know in advance precisely how
much it is going to cost them to ship
their goods. These figures make an in
teresting field for studies. They re-
verse in many respects the relations
existing between the express compa-
MES and the postal department.
While the new express rates, which
are to go into effect next fall, are a
material reduction from the existing
rates, as subjoined tables will show,
they restore to the express companies
field which the government took
away from them when it established
the parcel post For instance, it will
appear from the tables that packages
weighing as much as five pounds can
be sent now much cheaper by parcel
post than by express, but the express
rates prescribed by the Interstate
Commerce Commission to go into eff
feet in the fall are such a substantial
reduction that in most instances they
will be lower than the parcel post
rates, and ten-pound packages also
can be sent cheaper by express than
by mail in the future, except on the
short hauls.
Department stores which for a
while have found the postal service
cheaper than the express on certain
classes of goods undoubtedly will re-
| turn to the express service as soon as
| the Interstate Commerce Commission
rates go into effect A complete SEIZED
ule of the new express rates has been
prepared, and makes very large vol
ume. On the short hauls and the ex
tremly long hauls, as well as on the
small packages, at all distances, the
parcel post rates are lower than the
new express rates, but on packages
over four or five pounds, the EXPIRE S
companies can be used to advantage
economically to points in the central
part of the country and the Middle
West.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
THROUGH TRAINS DROPPED.
Service on B. & M. viii Not Be I'M
paired.

Boston-Sweeping changes in the
passenger service of the Fitchburg di-
vision of the Boston & Maine rail-
road have been instituted and became
effective Monday.
Two through trains, one from Bos-
ton to Albany and the other from
Albany to Boston, will be discontin-
ued; also, one train from Boston to
Fitchburg, one to North Adams and
two to South Acton, and two that now
run from South Acton to Boston.
Officials of the railroad declare the
service will not be impaired as con-
sequence, but it is generally under
stood that the curtailment is in the
interest of economy, and the first step
III the reorganization of the road to
be taken by its new president, Nor
Tis Mcdonald.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
PORT DIRECTORS
PLANS APPROVED
Passed by Finance Committee
of Governors Council
100000 IMPROVEMENTS
include commonwe aIth, Fish, New
East Boston Piers, Drydock and
Reclamation of ITO Acres
of Flats.

Boston.-The finance committee of
the executive council, at a meeting
unanimously approved the plans of
the Boston port directors for the ex-
pending of the 100000 appropria-
ton for port improvements.
Chairman Hugh Bancroft and Di-
rectors Conry and McNary explained
the present plans of the port direc-
tors. They include these improve
ments: The new Hamburg American
steamship terminal at South Boston;
the Fish pier, adjoining that of the
Hamburg-American; the big dry dock,
1900 feet long, to be located on the
commonwealth lands in South Boston
beyond the Hamburg-American pier,
and alongside the reserved channel; a
new pier on the Eastern railroad
property in East Boston, and the rec
lamation of 40 acres of flats belong
ing TO the state, off Jeffries Point,
East Boston.
The plans also show the viaduct
from Summer street to the common
wealth piers, power house, ramp and
grain elevators, and the proposed rail
road extension in East Boston.
Charles A. Ufford, of Samuel N Uf-
ford & Son, petitioned the executive
council to give him a hearing upon
the proposed expenditure of $4,000
900 appropriation. In a communication
he claims that no action should be
taken at present.
Details of the construction of the
new drydock came to light when the
plans of the port directors were filed
with the council. The new drydock, to
be the biggest in the Western Hemis-
phere, will be- 1900 feet long over
all, 1,150 feet long in side. 1t will be
146 feet wide at the top, and 120 feet
wide at the bottom, inside. The dock
will be 81 feet deep. The water will
be IS feet deep at low water, and As
feet deep at high water.
The 100000 cost of the dock is
half what it would have cost had not
the boards geologist, Professor Cros-
by, of Technology, found a natural
site with a solid bedrock foundation
The United States Navy Department
plans to use it for its super-dread-
thoughts. Lieut.. Dewitt c. Webb, U.
S. NJ, the departments drydock en-
gineer and expert, has been cooper
ating with the board in preparing the
plans.
Mud fats in which the East Boston
Company claims channel rights that
1t is trying to establish through the
aid of the courts will be"taken by the
Directors of the Port by right of emf
nen domain.
The intention of the Port Directors
is to fill all this property, both the
100000 feet just taken and the 25,-
100000 feet farther out which the
State owned before, making a total
area here of 2S,OO0,O0O square feet
which will be opened for industrial
and railroad purposes, with State piers
like those in South Boston.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
LARGE MAINE LUMBER DEAL
Bangor Syndicate Buys Timber and
Mill Holdings.

Bangor. Me.-The most important
sale of timber lands and mill property
of recent years in Maine was complet-
ed when the large holdings Of the
heirs and estate of the late William
Engel of Bangor passed into the
hands of a syndicate composed oil
James NJ. McNulty. o. S. Townsend
and Isaac NJ. Pierce, all of Bangor and
all prominent in the lumber business.
This deal involves about S525,OO0
worth of property. This consists OF
115.G00 acres of timber land, of which
81 geo acres were owned by Rachel
and Sylvia, daughters of the late Sen
ator Engel, of which 81 900 acres are
on Penobscot waters and the remand
er or the St. John; the Engel estates
interest, amounting to about $4,000
acres, in the holdings of the Eastern
Land Company; a saw mill in East
Hampden with saving capacity OF
20.000OO feet yearly; water-power
saw mill at Orono, capacity 10000, 0O0
feet yearly, and the principal interest
in the box mill at Old Town that has
been operated by Engel G Wing. The
capacity of the latter plant, about
100000 feet yearly, is to be In
creased. All of these mills are well
equipped and will be operated by the
new owners, who will cut 35,OO0,00O
to 100000 feet of logs annually to
supply them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
EXPRESS VS..
PARCEL POST
The Relative Positions Again
Are TranspOsed
POSTAL RATES AND RULES
Express Companies Redeem Lost
FieIds-New Rates Go Into Effect
This Fall-Rates Out
of Boston.

Boston.-An important change in
the parcel post service has gone into
effect, increasing the weight of pack
ages that may be sent short distances,
about as far as from Boston TO New
York, and decreasing the rates on
packages delivered within few milth
of the post Office where they were
mailed. Until this change the weight
limit has been eleven pounds, but
hereafter the Post Office Department
will carry packages that weigh as high
as twenty pounds for delivery within
the second zone. Most of the places
in New England and New York, and
some in New Jersey, lie inside of the
second zone, reckoning from Boston.
The rates, at various weights, within
the local district and the first and
second zones, in which packages up
to twenty pounds are mailable, are as
follows:
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
STYLE WRITING HEREDITARY
Science Wakes Up to a Fact That
the Public Have Long
Ago Realized.

London.-Non-scientific persons have
long realized the remarkable similar
ity in handwriting of members of the
same family, sometimes lasting for
half a dozen generations, and now
1t seems, science is at last waking up
to this suggestive fact in heredity.
Sir Hickman Goodlee, president of the
Royal College of Surgeons, said:
Il have lately been reading old let
tiers dating back to the early part of
the eighteenth century, and / have
been struck with the way in which
mere handwriting is handed down
from father to son, and mother to
daughter.
1T is possible to trace quite clearly
my great-grandfather's writing in that
of my cousins and my fathers and my
own. If mere handwriting is thus
transmitted, together with the tone of
the voice and the shape of the nose,
the question arises whether any one
need be ashamed of his defects, sorry
for his misdeeds, proud of his sue
cess, or satisfied with the conscious
ness of virtue. We may feel the long
arms of our apelike ancestors stretch
ing out of the past and molding our
characters. We may read all that
has ever been written about free will
from the time of Aristotle, and We
may hug the notion that our actions
have been predestined from the nebu-
lous state of our planet.
But it makes no difference to us.
We are still doggedly convinced that
by taking thought we can add one
cubit to our stature, or at any rate
prevent it being one cubit less"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
FINDS HEADLESS GIRL AT SEA
Fishing Schooner Captain Buries Body
of Woman Clad in Expensive
Clothing.

Boston.-The discovery at sea Of
the headless body Of an extensively
dressed girl was reported by Capt.
Charles White of the schooner Jennie,
Gilbert, upon his arrival in port from
a sword-fishing trip. To the captain
it appeared that the head had been
skillfully severed with a sharp
knife.
The body was picked up July 16l
about 40 miles from Boston, in the
track of both ocean and coastwise
steamers. 1t evidently had been in
the water but a short time. Capt.
White described it as that of we'll
nurtured girl of from sixteen to twen-
ty years. The clothing gave no clew
to the identity of the wearer Captain
White says he wrapped the body in
canvas and sank it in the sea.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
FIRST EUGENiC BABY SHOW.
First of Its Kind in New England,
Held at Gloucester.

Gloucester, Mass.-The eugenic
baby show, the first of it's kind in
New England, seemed to assure to
visitors to the Gloucester day carnival
at Stage Fort Park that the stock of
Essex county is not in danger of de-
terioration, for more than $50 babies
under four years old who had previ-
,ously passed examination by physi-
clans, were on exhibition. Ruggedness
of physique rather than pulchritude
was the test of excellence, and all of
the babies exhibited ranked high in
straightness of limb and soundness
of organs
The gold metal for the nearest ap-
proach to perfection was awarded to
Roswell Francis Lane, years old,
whose parents live at 381 Washington
street, this city. He scored SO per
cent.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
STEEL CARS ON
The new HAVEN
Order Placed For 100 Coaches
to Cost S1,500,000
BIDS ON 100 MORE SOUGHT
Policy of System At Present To
Build Only Best-Trains To
Be Made Up OF
Steel Cars.

Worcester, Mass. Under the regime
of Howard Elliott, the New Haven
system is to replace its wooden
coaches with cars of all-steel con.
struction as rapidly as possible. The
first order placed by the new man
iagement was for 100 steel coaches, to
be constructed by a Worcester firm at
cost of $1,50OOO0.
Ihese cars are to be made ready
as early as possible, and will be put in
service as soon as they are received.
The New Haven is also endeavoring to
obtain bids for the construction of 120
more steel cars, including so baggage
cars, so smoking cars, ten combina-
ton baggage and smoking cars and
ten baggage and mail cars.
Steel cars are not used on trains
a part of whose equipment consists
OF wooden cars, for the reason that
in wreck the wooden cars would be
crushed against the heavier steel
coaches. The new cars will therefore
be made up in trains by themselves.
AT present the New Ravens policy
is to build nothing but steel cars. 1t
was brought out at the time of the
Stamford wreck investigation, about
two months ago that at that time the
company had in service 2,288 cars of
various types of passenger equipment,
of which number only 81 were of all
steel construction. OfRo'-'- of the
road stated, however, that 354 such
cars were being built
Commissioner McChord, in discuss
ing the New Ravens equipment at
the time of the Stamford wreck, said
that steel cars not only are much bet
ter able to withstand the force of a
collision, but that they are not sub
ject to the danger of a fire breaking
out in the wreckage. 49, -----ons,
he said, had built up their passenger
equipment almost entirely with steel
coaches, so that wooden cars are the
exception.
President Mellen stated at the time
the New Haven parlor, sleeping and
dining cars were sold to the Pullman
Company about a year ago, that the
reason for the action was that the
New Haven was confronted by the
expenditure of 100000 for new
steel equipment.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
Horse Starved to Death.

Old Town, NEE H. Martin of Old
Town receiving word that team re-
sembling the one which he lost had
been found near McNultys at Baker
Brook. Mr.. Martin, who runs a livery
stable let team the first of June to
party of young men who drove out
to Baker Brook and hitching the tea
wandered about and when it came to
start for home they could not find
where they left the team. They
walked home and Mr.. Martin with a
party have searched for it, but could
not find any trace of it. John McNul-
ty came across the team, the horse fy-
ing on the ground in his harness
starved to death.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
"Loan Shark" Heavily Fined.

Boston-Max Finkelstein, who
pleaded guilty to having violated the
small loan law, was fined 5000 by
Judge Murray in the Municipal Court,
and warned that if he was ever again
before the court on similar charge
he would be sent to Jail. Judge Muir
ray also said that the law is Oh the
it will be enforced. Finkelstein paid
the fine.
Louis Cart, of Is Revere street,
brought the complaint against Finkel-
stein. He borrowed $240 from the de-
PENDANT, and agreed to pay him $500
in 80 days. The charge was consider
ed excessive.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
DAMAGES FOR BEING BLACK
LISTED.
HaverhilI Shoe Worker to Receive S25
or $3.50, According to Masters
Report.

Boston.-A supplementary report
has been filed i'll the Supreme Court
by Arthur P. Hardy, master In the
case of John Cornellier VS.. the Haver
hill Shoe Manufacturers Association
Cornellier was a member of the Sho
Cutters Union and went on strike or
Dec II, 1912. He alleges that he was
hlacklisted by the manufacturers and
was unable to get work in Harerhill.
Hardy says that if the court rules thar
Cornellier is entitled only to dam
ages between Dec. II and Dec. 30,
when the general strike" began, then
damages in the sum of $25 is to be
awarded to him; but if the court holds
that Cornellier should have damages
for period beyond Dec. 80, then he
shall receive $3.50.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22

Gle Sans on every sea may be seen
this snowy pennant, with its blue de-
vice, shown in the accompanying pic
ture, flying above the Stars and
Stripes.
Only while the church services are
in progress does the starry flag sur
render its supremacy When the
worshiping is concluded the Banner
of the Blue Cross" is lowered with
fitting ceremonies and the Red, White
and Blue is restored to it's head. In
the picture is shown the main building
at the Mare Island naval station at
Vallejo on San Francisco bay in Cali
fornia, with the church flag flying
from the staff in the foreground.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22

be at the service of people in rural
communities aind will have manifold
duties to perform. He may inspect
diaries, orchards, farm crops; he may
conduct demonstration work relating
to seed selection, fertilization of soils,
crop rotation, pruning and spraying
of orchards, the renovation OF pas
lures; he may make exhibits at county
and state fairs, Illustrating good meth
DDS and far-reaching principles; he
may carry on correspondence with
farmers, and farmers wives, and he
may prescribe reading courses for the
pleasure and profit and instruction of
all who live in the open country. All
these phases of extension work the di.
rector may take up in so rar as time
and means permit
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
Inauguration of Vermont's
Agricultural Extension Service
1t viii Start in Full Operation During the Coming
Fall Under New Director


Montpelier, Vt-The Vermont Agri-
cultural Extension Service, inaugural
ed by the last legislature will start in
full operation early this fall. The
trustees of the state university, have
secured the services of Thomas Brad
lee to be director of this service. Mr..
Bradlee was graduated some time ago
from the college of agriculture Of Cor
nell University; is one OF the finest
products of this institution rated by
Dean Bailey as eminently fitted for
this line Of work rur some years
he has been one of the Institutional
staff of the Smith Agricultural school
at Northampton, Mass, and has lad
much to do with extension WORK.
The director of extension work Will
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
Adjusts Wages Difficulty.

ST. Adams, Vt.-Following a series
of conferences between the engineers
and firemen of the Central Vermont
railway, and officials of the company,
the officials gave out the following
statement:
The wage question between the
Central Vermont Railway Company
and its engineers and firemen has
been amicably adjusted"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
Recommend Expenditure of
$2O,O00,0O0 tor Island Waterways
Would Mean Much For New England - Connect
Cotton Fields of the South

Boston-The proposed inland water
way from Boston to Beaufort, N. c.,
providing an all-water route from this
city to the cotton fields of the South
through to Florida Keys and New Or
leans was given fresh impetus by a
report of the War Department TO Con-
gress in which former Chief Engineer
w. H. Bixby of the army recommend
ed the expenditure of $20,000,O00 in
the immediate future.
The plan contemplated in the report
provides for the construction of Ca
nal twelve feet deep and ninety feet
wide in the bottom, to be later enlarg-
ed to a sea level canal across New
Jersey from New York bay, to Della
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
VERMONT NORMAL GRADUATES
Great Demand for Teachers Who Re-
ceve $40 to $14 Weekly.

Burlington, Win the remarkable
forward movement that has character
lied Vermont education during the
past few years, the normal schools
have had no small share. They have
helped more than 10000 girls to be.
come better teachers than they would
otherwise have been. The demand
for normal graduates is greater thar
ever before, practically all of the grad
yates of last June receiving $40 pei
week while several with previous ex
perience will receive from $12 to ST.
per week.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22

ware river with twenty-five feet depth
and 125 feet bottom width.
The gigantic scheme, which would
mean so much to the business inter.
ests of Boston and the entire State,
contemplates the building of a canal
from Massachusetts bay across to the
Taunton river, thence to Mount Hope
and Narrangansett bays. By this
plan boats would be able to go from
Boston to New York in projected wa.
ters and the construction or the canal
south from New York would enable
vessels to transport goods to and
from the extreme southern ports of
the country without the hazard OF
storms along the Atlantic coast as at
present
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
Education Commission meets,

Burlington, Vt.-The state commits.
sion to investigate the educational
system of Vermont held meeting re-
Gently to determine the location of
the new agricultural school, which is
to be built either in Rutland or in A d.
Olson county, under act No. 81 Of the
last session of the Legislature.
This act appropriates a sum of $20,-
COO to be used for the establishment
of this school and provides further for
an annual amount of $4,000, to be
used for its maintenance.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
BUDGET system for Bay State.

Boston-Governor Foss and the Elk
ecutive Council has received a report
from the Commission on Economy and
Efficiency advocating a State budget
and State purchasing department.
An investigation of every depart
ment of the State to determine where
there is unnecessary duplication of
effort is recommended in the report,
which outlines a series OF studies
proposed to be undertaken.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
Was a Wife for a Day,

Milwaukee.-"It was worth the
money to be a wife, even if it didn't
last long. I'm no spring chicken any
more, and did want to be some mans
wife" So declared Mrs. Violet Adam
son, thirty, of Stonefort, ILL.,, after her
husband of a day had disappeared
with $500 of her money, She appeal
ed to the local police for aid.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
BIBLES FOR NEW ENGLAND
Gideons Raise $4,000 to Place $4,000
Copies in the Hotels.

Old Orchard, Me.-Over 5000 was
raised in three days by the Gideons
at their first convention at Old Or
chard, according to c. l.. Drake OF
Boston, chairman of the Bible COM
mittee. He expects that $4,000 Will
be subscribed to pay for the $4,000
Bibles for New England hotels.
So enthusiastic did the convention
become that contributions toward the
cost Of Bibles for New England pour
ed in faster than the committee could
handle them. One man gave $1,000
and another $500, and others smaller
accounts.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
70, Weds Adopted Daughter, %.

Portsmouth, N. H.-This city re-
ceived a sensation when it became
known that Cornelius H. Parslow, 70,
painter and decorator here, and for
years sexton of St. Johns Episcopal
Church, had returned from Cohasset,
Mass, where he was married to his
22-year-old adopted daughter, Georg-
lana Shattuck.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
No Cows Killed Under 6 Years.

Boston-Res0lution concerning the
raising of cattle and favoring the con
servation OF the beef supply, by pro
hihiting the slaughter of cows under
six years of age, were passed at a
session Of the United Butchers Asso-
iation Convention. The last resolu-
ton was advocated by Charles G. Del
bell of st. Louis, who has made an
exhaustive study of the subject.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
$1,000 North of Opiun1.

Providence, R. I.-More than $1,000
worth of opium, manufactured and in
the process of making, was seized by
Federal authorities here in one of the
most successful raids ever conducted
in the State. The place raided is lo,
Gated stones throw from the central
police station.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
CHURCH FLAG UP ON SUNDAY
Old Glory Gives Way Only for This
Christian Banner on Sabbath
Morning.

Washington.-In whatever corner of
the world Old Glory waves there is.
only one banner to which it gives way,
and that is the church flag. On Sun.
day morning at all the United States
naval stations and at other points
where the navy hold sway and on
every battleship and gunboat of I'm"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-08-22
Many Have Appendicitis.

Mount Pleasant, N. H.-Colebrook,
near here, has gained the name of the
Appendices town" Over 200 of the
1000 inhabitants have undergone op-
erations for appendicitis.