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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-17
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
Annual Convention Of Vermont Asso.
citation Held at Rochester

The annual convention of the Equal
Suffrage Association of Vermont was
held in Rochester on June 11-12 Del
egates from all parts of the state
were in attendance and several en-
thusiastic suffragists from the Dor
der states among whom were the
Misses Allen of Ney York and Mrs.
Rublee. Mrs Francis Hand and Miss
Arnold of Cornish, N. H. Regret was
expressed for the absence of Mrs. A.
d. Chandler and Mrs. A. Parmalee,
for many years loyal workers in the
cause. On Wednesday evening an in
formal reception was given at the de-
lightful home of Mrs. Julia A. Pierce.
president. when Mrs. Charles Van
Patten gave an anti-suffrage nono-
logue, which was heartily appreciat-
ed by her audience. On Thursday
three sessions were held in the Uni
versalist church. Among the speak
ers were Mrs. Juliet Barrett Rublee
Of Cornish. Mrs. Wyman of Manches-
ter, Mrs. Amanda eSaver of Barton
and Professor Cox OF Dartmouth col
lege. Much interest and enthusiasm
we're aroused and at the end of the
afternoon session more than one hun
dred dollars was raised in less than
five minutes. At the business meet
ing the reports of the officers and
standing committees we're acted up
on, among these an interesting state
ment Of legislative work by Mrs. Kan
ME II. Rastall and encouraging news
from the secretary. Mrs. Mary G.
Garfield Of the remarkable growth of
interest in the suffrage movement in
Vermont and the formation Of sever.
al new organizations in the state dur
ing the past year. The following Of
ficers were elected: Honorary Presi.
dent. Mrs. Julia A. Pierce Of Roches-
ter. president. Mrs. Francis r Wv
man. vice-president Mrs. Charles Van
Patten; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Amanda Seaver. recording secretary.
Mrs. Mary g. Garfield. treasurer.
Mrs J. A. Pierce. auditor. Mrs. les
sic G Ttnkham- At the noon recess
the gusets Of the convention were
taken in motors through the beauti.
ful White River Valley. this being
only one Of the many WAYS in which
their Rochester friends showed their
cordial and generous hospitality.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-17
BRIeANps IN SKIRTS.
Robbers In Europe Who Dress Like
Grand Opera Ballet Girls.

There are places in the world where
women dress In mems clothing and
men don women's apparel
Even In Paris there are women
dressed In cheap. coarse, mas,uin.
attire. working as teanlsters and day
Iaborers. While II is against the Jaw.
the police wink at the fact aud allow
them to earn peaceably their daily
wages.
In Persia In some OF the Interior
parts the women wear the strangest
oldest trouser garments They seem
to like them. too. from the fact that
they cling to them In spite OF all ef.
forts to make them don feminine at
tire.
Then there are the Alpine dairy
maids. who dress as men when they
20 about their work and look pretty,
II we are inclined to take evidence
from the numbers Of men who yearly
persuade them TO cast or their mascu
line dress and put on more clinging
costumes. But then their eyes are so
bright and their cheeks so red that
they couldn't really look homely In
anything they might choose to wear.
Again. far in the north. where Il Is
freezing cold most OF the time and
people dress to be comfortable and not
to look pretty, the women are actually
forced into trousers to keep warm
The ancient women warriors always
wore trousers. But their reasons were
purely military. Besides. they were
half masculine In manner and appear
ance and dressed to accentuate their
qualities. They had to make them
selves into fierce looking creatures to
terrify the men on the opposing side.
and from all accounts they succeeded
admirably.
As for the stronger sex. there still
seem to be men In existence who wear
women's garb and enjoy II In certain
parts Of Greece. Spain and Albanis
there are bands OF desperate brigands
who. when they are decked out for at
tacks on strangers or neighbors. look
for all the world Ike grand opera bal
let girls in their short brightly color
ed skirts, which are made very full
and sometimes even ruined q bit
They seem tremendously proud OF
their attire, and rival bands strive to
surpass each other In vividness Of pat
terms and newness OF styles. - M
change.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-17
HOW BENNINGTON
BUILT FIR ST
SCH0OLH0USE
Subscription List Found in Pa
pers Of Late Col. Pratt
PRESERVED BY ELIJAH DEWEY
Signatures of Early Pioneers Be
Ieved to Be the Only Ones In
Existence.

The voters of the Bennington grad
ed school district are to meet this
evening for the purpose of taking &C
ton upon the proposal to erect a
new high school building and in this
connection a document bearing upon
the first school house in the town OF
Bennington and which was located on
the common at Old Bennington will
be of interest.
The document, which is nothing
more or less than the subscription
paper on which the money was rails
ed to build the school house, was
found among the papers of the late
Col. John E. Pratt, who raised com
pany A of the fourth regiment of
volunteers in the civil war and who
was mustered out of the service as
lieutenant colonel of the regiment.
This subscription paper was recent
ly presented by Mrs. Luman 5. Nor
ton, Colonel Pratt's daughter, to Eli
jah Dewey, who has placed it in a
suitable frame and will present 1t to
the Bennington Battle Monument and
Historical society.
Mr.. Dewey says that the paper con-
tains the only existing signatures, so
far as known, of number OF the
early pioneers of Bennington, among
them that of Parson Jedediah Dewey
and others. Parson Dewey headed
the subscription with two pounds.
The document reads as follows
Bennington, April 5, 1878.
We, whose names are hereunto sub
scribed, do promise to pay the sever
al sums affixed to our several names
to Ebenezer Wood, Samuel Pratt and
Elijah Dewey, a committee chosen to
build a school house. which house
the said committee bind themselves
to erect and finish by the twentieth
day of September next at which time
the money subscribed becomes pay
able, the house to be built north of
the meeting house on the town plot,
said house to be 20 feet long and 20
feet wide.
And further, If there is more mon
ey subscribed than is sufficient to
build the school house the overplus
is to be returned in proportion TO
what they subscribed and If not
enough subscribed each subscriber to
pay in proportion to what they have
subscribed.
One or two of the signatures are
not legible but the list so far as it
can be distinguished is as follows:
David Story, Samuel Stafford, Moses
Robinson, Samuel Robinson, Nathan
iel Spencer, Gideon Spencer, John
Smith, Lenard Robinson, David Rob-
inson. Phineas Scott, Hawswell Nose
ley. Eldad Dewey, Thomas Johnson,
Jedediah Dewey, Ebenezer Wood, ST.
neon Hathaway, Peter Harwood,
Samuel Pratt, Joseph Wickwire, Sam
uel Cutler, Dwight Hopkins, John
Fassett, Elijah Dewey, Noah Brush,
Simeon Hathaway, Rufus Gun, Steph-
en- Fay, Stephen Hopkins.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-17
TWO G|RLSANDB BOY
DROWNED IN LAKE
NEAR LUDLOW
Boat Was Old and Waves We're
Running High
BODIES NOT YET FOUND
Young Boy Lost His Life in Effort to
save Companions from
Sinking.

Ludlow, June 1.-THE most appal-
ling tragedy in the history of this
place occurred today when three
young people, Miss Grace Hastings,
Miss Mary Tully and Charles Schoen-
field, were drowned in Rescue lake.
Schoenfield was an expert swimmer
and lost his life trying to save the
Others
The girls were 16 years old and
Schoenfeld was of the same age. All
three graduated last week and were
members of a picnic party which
went to spend the day at Sargent's
Point. Practically the entire gram
mar school, about 35 pupils in all,
went to the lake in the morning. w.
d. Davis, the grammar master, was
to have been in charge of the party,
but he was called out of town Satur-
day night by the illness of his moth
err. Miss Marion Stowe, public
school teacher, was chaperone.
About 100 o'clock the Inflated par
ty went out on the lake in an old
beat that had been laid aside for re-
pairs. The waves were higher than
usual because of the wind. Reports
are conflicting, some saying that the
boat was overturned by the washing
of the waves over the side of the
boat, and others that people on the
shore could see the occupants of the
boat changing seats.
At the time of the accident, the
boat was in the eastern part of the
lake, about 100 feet from shore, in
the section called Wetherbee's cove.
The water is very deep. The other
people in the party were at some dis
lance, some in boats and others swim
ming, and there were several people
on the shore, but they were unable
to render assistance. Schoenfeld's
efforts to rescue the girls could be
seen by the watchers.
Charles Lamere, one of the party,
went by bicycle to the Gates house
and telephoned for assistance. Phys
icians responded but the bodies could
not be secured
Miss Grace Hastings was the old
est daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Hastings, and was born here June Z,
1897
Miss Mary Tully was born here No
Ncihbcl Ii, 1917, anu vas tho uduSu-
ter of the late Bernard and Sarah
Tully. She was a mere baby when
her father died and her mother died
four years ago. Since then she had
been cared for by her aunt, Mrs. Jo-
seph Burnes.
Charles Schoenfield, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. w. Schoenfield, who have
lived here the past seven years, was
also a member of large family. He
was a manly lad and his youthful
friends take it quite as a matter of
course that he should go to the aid
of the girls at the sacrifice of his
life. This week he was to have gone
to the Adirondack region to work in
a summer hotel.
The bodies have not yet been re-
covered. The depth of the water at
the point whre the boat sank and
the debris of the lake make the work
of securing the bodies difficult. The
lake is used extensively during the
summer by camping parties and this
Is the first fatality of the kind that
ever happened there.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-17
CAUGHT SHORT TROUT
Two Fishermen in Rutland County
Arrested and Fined

Rutland, June 16.-As result OF
several complaints received by Coun.
ty Fish and Game Warden f. w
Hayward of this city to the effect
that men from the logging camps on
the east and west side of Mount
Killington were cleaning Eddy brook
and Pico stream of short trout,
James Eggleston was fined s55 and
costs OF $40 by City Judge +. G..
Swinnerton today in this city. He
paid the fine. Saturday Warden Hay.
ward and Deputy Warden w. II.
Dunn went to Sherburne and yester.
day they found Eggleston on a
Brook with 10 understood trout in
his possession. He pleaded guilty
this morning to violation of the fish
laws and the fine under the new fish
and game code of 1912 was $40 for
the first trout and IS for each fish
thereafter.
On Saturday afternoon Charles
Dawley was arrested at Cuttingsville
by Deputy Warden Charles Aldrich
and was arraigned before Justice
Theodore G.. Pearsons of Cuttings.
vile. Through some misunderstood
ing of the law he was fined 81 for
each of the short trout in his pos
session with costs. This is the pen.
atty under an old statute
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-17
GIRL KILLS DOCTOR
AND TAKES HER
OWN LIFE
Puts Four Bullets In Body OF
Savannah Physician
HAD BEEN HIS PATIENT
Murderer and Suicide Was Accom-
panied to Office by Woman Who
Has Disappeared.

Savannah, Ca, June 16.-Dr. Guy
o. Brinkley, a practicing physician,
was shot and instantly killed in his
private office this afternoon, by Miss
Kate Kittles, a patient. The girl
then shot herself dead, her body fall
ing across that of her victim. She
shot herself through the temple.
DR.. Brinkley was shot four times.
All of the wounds were in the body,
one penetrating the heart. The wo-
man had concealed the revolver in a
small white handbag when she enter
ed the office. DR.. Brinkley had been
attending the girl for several weeks.
A woman companion, whose identi
ty has not been established, but was
probably sister OF the dead girl,
accompanied her to the physicians
office, remaining in the anteroom
while the patient went into the con-
sulting room. The woman disap-
peared by the front entrance i'm
mediately after the shooting began.
DR.. Brinkley was Virginian. He
came to Savannah several years ago
from Suffolk, near Norfolk. He was
unmarried.
Miss Kittles had been under treat
ment with DR.. Brinkley for several
weeks, but during that time no card
of Identification had been made out
for her.
What passed between her and DR..
Brinkley will probably never be
known. The woman who accompan-
led her and who is probably the only
person who heard what passed be-
tween the couple has not been found.
The mother Of the girl can throw
no light on the tragedy. There had
been no indication Of anything un-
usual existing between DR.. Brinkley
aud his patient The act was evil
IDENTIFY premeditated, however. on
the part of the girl She followed
her purpose with determination. APP
parently she made no attempt to
hurt herself until she knew DR..
Brinkley was dead.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-17
NORWICH COMMENCEMENT
University VIII Make Wednesday,
June 25, Genuine "Old Home Day."

Mortified, June 15.-The 95th
commencement of Norwich Universe
ty will be held next week, beginning
Sunday, June %, and continuing to
Thursday, June 26. Several years
ago the custom was established of
setting aside one day of commence
ment week, the program of which
should be planned and conducted in
a large measure by the alumni. This
year an enthusiastic and systematic
effort will be made to get as many
as possible of the past cadets to re-
turn, to make them comfortable and
make them realize that Wednesday,
June %. is a genuine "Old Home
day" The program of commence
ment week follows
Sunday, June 22.-3:00 p. m. bac-
calaureate sermon, the Rev. Ernest
A. Pressey; 500 p. m, guard mount
ing; $3.50 D. m, evening parade.
Monday, June 23-10:00 a. m, drill
300 D. M, baseball, Italian Athletic
club VS.. Norwich; 500 p. m, guard
mounting (mounted); $3.50 p. m. eve
ming parade.
Tuesday. June 24-1O:OO a. m.
drills; 200 p. m, Austin rife con-
test; 500 p. m. guard mounting;
$3.50 p. m. evening parade; SIS p.
m, dramatic club play, "The Magis-
trate."
Wednesday, June $500 a. m. bat
TALON drill: 1890 a. m, polo game
2:30 p. m. baseball, Alumni VS.. Var
sity; 500 p. m, guard mountains
5:30Sp. m. evening parade; 7:OO-9:3O
D. m, alumni social and business
meeting; S:00-10:00 p. m. president
meeting; s:00-19:00 p. m, presi-
dents reception.
Thursday, June 26-1O:OO a. m.
commencement exercises; 300 p. m
review by the Governor of the
State; 2:40 D. m. commencement
drills; $3.50 p. m, commencement
ball
Word has been received from the
Office of the adjutant-general, that,
by the direction of the secretary Of
war Norwich University is again
designated as among the "distin
guished institutions" as they are
classified by the inspectors of the
United States army.
The classification was established
in 1903 and Yearly since that time
Norwich has Jeen in this. the high
est class
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-17
NEW HIGH SCHOOL
QUESTION FOR
DECISION
At Special School, Meeting This
Evening
MEETING AT 8 O'CLOCK
High School Has outgrown Its Pres
ent Quarters and More Room
10 Necessary.

The special school meeting to act
on the new high school building
plans will be held at the graded
school building this evening at 8
| o'clock. Every voter who has chill
dren in the public schools should be
present as this is most important
, meeting.
Bennington has always been proud
of her schools and wants to be in the
future. The situation is simply that
the nigh school has outgrown the
plant and something must be done.
The district is in the same situation
as mill which gets more orders
than it can fill. The plant must be
enlarged or the business must be
sent to some other mill.
Bennington high school for the
past three or four years has been too
big for its rooms in the old building
and the situation is getting worse all
the time. Last week a class of 81
graduated and there are already ap-
plications on file for "a to enter the
freshman class in September. A few
VIII OF course drop out of the other
classes, but allowing for these, there
VIII be in the high school from 80 to
on more than 1t can accommodate.
PROBABLY no one wants to see our
schools set back in any way and the
question TO be decided tonight is
whether to piece along in makeshift
FASHION for year or two or 20
anead now and put up a building
which will meet the needs of the
| school and be a credit to the town.
Other towns are in the same fix
as bennington. Torrington, Conn.
has just let the contract for a new
building to cost $250,0OO. North
Adams is about to build a 5000. 600
building. Montpelier is erecting a
new nigh school at cost of S135, 900.
Brattleboro is to build a new school
as soon as site can be secured.
In this connection it is interesting
10 note that Brattleboro had a site
practically picked out, but could buv
u only at a cost of $4,000. Mont
pener went to an expense of almost
$4,000 in getting site while Ben
nington has secured a perfect site
and one far better than Montpelier
mas and 1t cost only $500, so this dis
trict is fortunate in one respect any,
way, The cost of the proposed
building here is nowhere near what
some OF our neighbors are having
The plans of one architect wouid
make the cost $4,000 while those of
other call for $4,000.
Ihis cost price could be cut to
some extent by erecting an inferior
building, but it seems to be as little as
VIII give us a building creditable in
every respect
Ihere should be large attend
ance OF voters at the meeting to-
night and the question should be
talked over fairly and fully and a de-
cision reached that the district will
not regret later.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-17
ICE STRIKE IN HEAT WAVE
Cincinnati Wagon Men Threaten tc
Tie Up Plant Tomorrow.

Cincinnati. Ohio-With the threat
ened strike OF ice wagon employees
scheduled to take place on Wednes.
day morning, Cincinnati, with a tenn.
perature of 102 degrees, faces a try.
ing situation. The strike cannot be
aVerted, in the opinion of the union
olhciais' unless the employers accede
70 the mems demands for more nav.
otherwise the plants will be tied up
completely, except for ice deliveries
70 the hospitals, for which purpose
enough men will be allowed to con.
tinue work.
The employers say thew cannot
meet the mems wage demands for
an increase of from SIS to SIS a
week for drivers and from $1,000 to
$l5 for helpers during the summer
months. During the winter months
the men ask that they be paid s16 a
week for drivers and s13 for helpers.
The drivers now receive from s12 IN
Sl5 week and the helpers $1,000.
me men also ask not to be required
TO work on Sunday.
IL Is understood that the Ice De-
livery company, the largest in Gin
clnnati, has arranged with various in
dependent ice companies for a unit
-ed stand against the demands of the
union. 1t is reported that each ice
company has put up $500 bond un-
dertaking to stand out against grant.
Ing the demands.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-17

EXPLODE $3.50 WAGE TALE
Mil Girl Finds She Got More, bu,
Father Kept Part of II.

Ipswich, June 16.-Evidence was
produced at the mill riot hearing to
refute the statement of Poulitza Biz.
on that she only received about 81 a
week, Never more, sometimes less. -
The court had examined mill records
indicating that in January, February
and March a weekly wage ranging
from $500 to $S.42 had been paid to
the girl
Il mean. said Judge Sayward,
that the public shall know what
wages this girl and other girls en-
ployed in the mills are getting. |
do not propose to have the town of
Ipswich maligned by testimony of
this kind"
Recalled to the stand to explain
her earlier testimony, the girl said
that she had turned her wakes over
to her father and that he had told
her she was earning 81 a week.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-17
CAN BE NO WAR, SAYS JORDAN
Japanese Would Have to Get TheI.
Money in New York

Denver, Col. June 15.-"If publ.
city were thrown upon the corpora
tons interested in wars, war scares
would die out and revolution simmer
down." said David Starr Jordan.
Chancellor of Leland Stanford Uni
versity, who is in Denver.
Japan could not go to war with
the United State even if 1t wanted
to-" he said. ut would have to come
to the United States either directly
or indirectly, to get the money, and
New York could prevent a war. New
York stopped the Russian-Japanese
war.
Japan wants war no more than
San Francisco wants earthquakes.
The most practical advance that
has been suggested for the solution
OF the war question in the investiga-
ton treaties proposed by President
Wilson and Secretary Bryan. They
provide for an impartial investigation
OF the cause n a war for six months
before the opening of war.
1t would be impossible for the
Powers OF Europe to become involv-
ed in a great war, because 1t would
cost each one of them s5,000,00 a
day, and there isn't enough money in
the whole world to defray such a gi-
gantic bill. Germany, for instance,
has been trying to. borrow $130,00O,-
900 in time of peace but finds its eff
forts unsuccessful.
why was this Japanese question
made an international issue in Cali
fornia politics? The Democrats out
there started it, but Gov. Johnson
took 1t away from them-stole their
thunder. There are only $50 Japa-
nese directly involved, each control.
ling forty acreas of land, and most of
them have not been In Japanese terri
tory for twenty years. They came to
California from Hawaii, where they
had been working for years as fruit
pickers."
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-17
RHODES-cLEMENf
Daughter Of p. w. Clement Weds
Major Rhodes Of ENGLAND.


Rutland, June 15.-At the church
OF Our Savior, which her grandmoth-
er. Mrs. Elizabeth Wood Clement,
founded on the site of her birth
place in Sherburne, a remote noun
tain town, Miss Margaret Goodwin
Clement, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Percival w. Clement of Rutland. was
married yesterday afternoon at 1870
O'Clock to Maj. William Wilfred
Rhodes of Observation-Disclosures,
England, Kings Royal rifles. retired.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev Herbert Shipman. pastor of
the church of Heavenly Rest, New
York.
The wedding was a very simple
affair There were no attendants
for either the bride or the groom
and the bride was gowned in a
white dress with short white veil.
Many flowers, including quantities
OF peonies. were used in the decora-
tons. After the ceremony the recep
ton was held at Happy Valley
Lodge" a favorite summer home OF
the bride, not far from the church a
wedding breakfast was served
About 100 guests attended the wed
ding, the people from this city 60
ing by automobiles and the many
guests from Boston and New York
going to Sherburne by way OF Wood
stock.
Major and Mrs. Rhodes will &c
abroad soon. He Is the son Of the
late ]. W. Rhodes and is fine
horseman and lover of out-Of-door
sports. His wife is also fond oil
outdoor life and a golfer and tennis
player. She has been an active
worker in the Rutland Woman's club
and the Vermont Humane society.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-17
THE BATTING AVERAGES
Three HuckIeberry Boys Are Still
Hitting Better Than 800

1t was not expected that the Ben
nington baseball team would contin'
ue to clout the ball for the high per.
centages secured in the first five
games, but three of the players are
yet above the $50 mark. Edgar con-
tinues to hold first position with 1886.
Carolan and Peloquin are doing bet
ter than 300 and the other 300 hit
ter Connolly with mark of 1888.
Shea and Conley dropped out of the
300 class during the past seven
games and McHugh has lost a few
points. Two of the players have i'm
proved their averages. Connors has
jumped from .166 to .226 and Prindle
has advanced from PIT to 291. The
nine players at present regular men,
bers of the team are batting for a
team average of 1903. The figures
follow.