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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
TO URGE WORK
AT NAVY YARD
Meeting to Aid in Having Con-
tract Given Out Here.
COMMITTEES ARE NAMED
Appeal Will be Made to Port Oiree'
tors, Business Men and Others
With lnfluence.-Has Support
of Naval Officers.

Boston-One of the largest meet
ings of navy yard employees ever held
in this city voted to make an organ
lied effort to aid in having naval
collier or supply ship built at the
Charlestown yard.
The meeting was attended by near
ly 1000 men, representing all branch
es of yard work.
Many of the men present recalled
that the Charlestown Navy Yard had
been the lowest bidder for revenue
cutter and the United States steamer
Sacramento, but was not given either
of the jobs. That the citizens of Mas
sachusetts and the navy yard employ
ees would not again be given such an
unfair deal was the expressed hope
of many of those present.
1t was officially reported that the
Boston Navy Yard was today far
better equipped to begin shipbuilding
than was the New York or Norfolk
yards when such work was started
there. The meeting appointed COM
mittees to take up the matter with
the Boston city officials, the Chamber
of Commerce, Directors of the Port
Charlestown improvement Associa.
ton and with the business men of
the city, as we'll as with the commit.
tee on Federal relations of the Mas
sachusetts Legislature.
That the effort had the hearty CO
operation and support of the naval
officers and master mechanics of the
yard was reported by committee ap
pointed at a previous meeting OF
some of the trade unions of yard EN-
ployees.
The fact that the Charlestown
Navy Yard was the birthplace of the
American Navy, that more United
States naval ships, including many OF
the most famous, were built there in
the old days, and that it can today
build better than either New York
or Norfolk was brought out in the dis
cussion by those present.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
STATE TO LEASE
SHELL FISHERIES
Purpose Outlined in Report by
New Commission.
SINGLE HEAD FOR BOARD
Concluaions Unique in That an In
come for Commonwealth is
Provided for.-lncreased
Yield Per Acre.

Boston-A reorganization Of the
state fish and game commission into
a single-headed commission with the
present chairman, DR.. George w. Field
at the head, and a plan for develop
ment under state auspices of the shell
fisheries in the waters of the COM
monwealth are recommended in the
report of the new commission on
economy and efficiency filed with the
Legislature.
The commissions report on shell
fisheries is in line with the recon-
mendations of DR.. Field, who has
urged that the state lease the land
available for mollusk culture. The
commission finds that there are at
least 100000 acres available, 31.000
for scallops, approximately 1000 for
clans, and $4,000 for oysters and qua
haugs.
In this the first report covering the
operation of a state department, the
efficiency commission provides, as
Chairman Norman H. White points
out, means of securing an income
for the state. In this the report is al
most unique. The income is from the
leases of land for the shell fisheries.
1t is provided that the small fisher
men in the seacoast towns shall be
given the first right to lease flats.
An increase of salary from $4,000
to $4,000 is recommended for Chair
man Field when the commission is
converted into a single-headed body.
The present organization, the commits
sion holds, permits friction between
members of the commission and
causes unnecessary delay in the con-
duct of the business of the public. A
deputy, the report says, could very
often and very properly care for GER
tain phases of outside work which
now occupy the time of the full board.
The commission says:
"A single commissioner with train
ed and competent secretary or depu-
ties we believe would give more eff
cient service in this department Of
the states service, and would create
economies in administration and
greater ease and directness in secur-
ing results"
In support of the recommendation
relative to the shell fisheries the COM
mission says it offers increased oppor-
tunity for employment of labor. At
present, about 27OO persons in Massa-
chusetts get the whole or important
part of their income from the mollusk
fisheries.
The new arrangement would pro
vide an increased yield per acre and
greater value through sanitary hand
ling guaranteeing freedom from dan,
ger of typhoid and other diseases.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
UNPLEASANT HAPPENINGS IN
NEW HAMPSHIRE

Thomas Welsh, veteran of the
Civil War, died in Manchester OF
burns received in a fire at his home
A loss of several thousand dollars
was caused by fire in the plant of
the Impervious Package company at
Keene.
Lloyd Narramore, a teamster, was
killed at Keene, when a load of lum-
Der tipped over upon him on a steep
hill on the Chesterfield road.
Charles R. Conkrite, one of those
convicted in connection with Nashua's
anti-vice crusade, has gone to Jail for
year and must pay fine besides.
Rockingham county officers arrest
cd Alberto Demaraic at Plaistow on a
charge of keeping liquor and game
COCKS The man when arraigned,
promised to leave town.
James E. Nash was arrested for
drunkenness IN Portsmouth and de-
velopments afterwards led to his be-
ing held on charge of entering the
house of Miss Pauline Bradford.
Stephen Kimball, 80, and his father
in-law, George Hanscomb, aged 60, of
Campton, were burned to death when
Kimball's farmhouse in West Ply
mouth was destroyed by fire.
Edward J. Patenode of West Swan
zey was held for the grand jury be.
cause of an alleged assault upon
John E. Taylor of Marlboro, from
whom it is said that Pattenode took
s23.
Harry A. DeVaux of Worcester,
Mass, has sued Arthur e. Dumas of
Manchester for $4,000, basing his
suit on an article printed in a Man.
chester paper, which resulted, it is
claimed, in DevauX losing a contract
worth $4,000 year to him,
A case of cruelty to four year old
child, unearthed in Nashua by the
New Hampshire Woman's Humane
society, led to charges against Mrs.
Ernest E. Williams, while her hus-
band was arrested on a much more
serious charge, involving also his
stepdaughter, Annie Hunt. aged Is.
Dover painters will, on Feb. 81. for
mally demand of their employers a
minimum wage of $3.50 for a day of
eight hours for iourneymen, with over
time work paid for at the rate of time
and half. The minimum wage has
been $3.50
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
news OF The
GRANITE STATE
Items of Interest CuIIed From
Here and There
FOR THE BUSY READER
Legislative Reporter Meets With Pc
culiar Accident-Quarter Million
for Licenses-kiIled by Bar
Harbor Express Train.
More Than a Quarter of a Million for
Licenses.

more Than quarter OF a Million Tor
Licenses.
Concord, N. H.-The report Of the
license commission was filed with the
legislature on Thursday of last week.
1t shows that the receipts for the
year ending April 80, 1912, were
$2SS,362 OF this amount there was di-
vided among the counties and munich
ralities $271,527. Since the last re-
port nine bonds have been paid
amounting to $500, and the amount
received from forfeitures of bonds
since the law went into effect, is SS5,
34529.
The commissioners believe it would
be beneficial to have a definite stand.
ard for liquors, which they recon-
mended in their report of 1910, and
upon which no action was taken by
the legislature of 1911. They again
recommend that such a change be
made in the law, and that also a pro
vision be added prohibiting misbrand
ing or improper labelling of packages
or bottles containing liquor.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
A PECULIAR ACCIDENT
Capt. Win Davis, Well Known Legis-
lative Reporter.

IatiVe Reporter.
Manchester, N. H.-Capt Win Davis
of Manchester, the we'll known legis-
lative reporter for the Mirror, met
with a singular accident on Thursday
night of last week which may result
fatally. AS near as can be ascertained
Mr.. Davis went to his room in the
evening with a newspaper, and after
removing his outer garments put on
a bath robe and apparently laid down
on the outside of the bed to read and
smoke. In the morning his daughter
went to call him and was Mortified
to find the room filled with smoke and
the bed nearly consumed. She found
Mr.. Davis on a bed in another room
and pane of glass smashed from the
window. He was unconscious and the
sleeve of his outside garment was
burned through at one elbow. Other
wise it showed no marks of fire. 1t is
supposed that he went to sleep while
smoking and after the bed caught
fire inhaled lot of smoke, and only
realized his condition when the fire
reached his elbow. Then he left his
room, shutting the door after him, and
going into the other room broke the
window to get some air. He was at
once taken to the hospital, where the
doctors pronounced his condition en-
tirely due to the smoke he had in.
hailed. The bed clothes and mattress
were entirely consumed, but the bed
stead being Of brass and the room
closed the fire did not burn freely
enough to communicate to the wood
work of the room. Mr.. Davis had just
returned from Suttin, where he went
to attend the funeral of his mother
and his wife was there at the time
of the accident.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
RECENT DEATHS.

Mrs. Calista Robinson Jones, form.
er national president of the Women's
Relief Corps, and a once president
also of the Vermont branch OF that
society, died in her home in Bradford,
VT, last week.
The Rev. DR.. George Dana Board
man Pepper, eighty, for many years
known as "Lincoln's double" because
of his close resemblance to the mar
tyred president, died in Waterville,
Me-, last week. DR.. Pepper was
former president of Colby College.
Mrs. Mary Barber Woodward, who
is believed to be one of the first
women in the United States to re-
ceive a widows pension from the
Government died at her home in New
Haven, Conn, last week. She was
ninety years old. Her husband, Lieu
tenant Kirby Woodward of the United
States Navy, was killed in the service
in 1850 Three years later she re-
ceived the pension papers.
Mrs. Mary Maynard, said to be the
oldest woman in New Hampshire,
died last week of old age at st. Jo-
sephs Hospital in Nashua, N. H. She
was in her 1920 year.
Cyrus l.. Barker, one of Lewiston's
most prominent business men, who
died recently at his home on Main
street, was one of the best known mill
men in New England.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
tuberculosis Death Rate.

Boston.-Maps of Boston showing
the death rate from tuberculosis by
wards in three different periods
1885 to 1890, 1901 to 1908, and 1911-
is an interesting feature of the ninth
annual report of the Boston Associa-
ton for the Relief and Control of
tuberculosis, just issued.
In the 1885 to 1890 period the high
est rate was 1915 deaths per 10000
inhabitants in Ward Is, South Bos-
ton, and the lowest rate 9.36, in that
section known as Beacon Hill.
The 1911 period finds the highest
rate shifted to Charlestown, where
Ward 3 shows rate of 25.1S6, while
the lowest rate, 766, is found in the
Back Bay, Ward II.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
The Way of the Transeressor.

Franklin, N. H.-Acting on the
theory that the world owes him a liv-
ing, Wallace Langley of Franklin en-
tetred the store of E. W. French in
that city one night last week and
helped himself to such articles as he
stood in immediate need Of A raid
upon his home by the police dis
closed a large quantity of booty and
Friday Mr.. Langley was arraigned in
police court He plead not guilty to a
charge of breaking and entering, but
the judge thought otherwise, and in
default of $500 bail he will await the
April term of court in Jail.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
Albert Reumely Remembered.

Manchester, N. H.-Albert Rueme-
ly, who has been keeper of records
and seals of Golden rule lodge No.
45, Knights Of Pythias, of Manches-
ter, for twenty years, retired from
the position last week and was pre-
scented with a Morris rocker by men,
bers of the lodge. The presentation,
which took place on the regular
meeting night, was made by ex-May-
or Edward C. Smith. Mr.. Ruemely is
one of the best known lodge men in
the state and stands high in a half a
dozen different orders.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
SIX RECON- NJ ENDATI0NS.
Important Changes Suggested in Re
port of Bank Commissioner.

Important Changes Suggested in Re-
port of Bank Commissioner.
Boston.-Six recommendations for
legislation are made in the annual re-
port of Bank Commissioner Augustus
l.. Thorndike.
That chapter 399, Acts of 1910,
which requires the bank commission
er to take possession of delinquent
corporations and individual bankers
under his supervision, be amended SO
that he may be authorized to relin-
quish his possession when the bank
is ready to resume and at the same
time continue the prosecution of cases
begun by him while in contrv,.
That the statute relative to invest
ments by savings banks and institu
lions for saving being amended so that
such corporations may retain for a
reasonable and proper time invest
ments in certain bonds, stocks OF
notes which at the time of their acqui
sition were legal investments and
which have subsequently become IL
legal through failure of the issuing
corporation to comply with the re
quirements of the law. Also that
bonds which have been legal invest
ments shall not become illegal by rea
son of temporary failure to meet lega
requirements.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
killed by Bar Harbor Express.

Exeter, N. H.-George Bracey, re-
siding on Valley street in Manches,
ter, was struck and instantly killed by
the Bar Harbor express at Exeter on
Thursday of last week. Mr. Bracey
was travelling salesman for the
United Shoe Machinery company, and
was in Exeter on one of his regular
trips. He was walking beside the
track when the express whistled, and
evidently becoming bewildered he
stepped directly in front of the train
which dragged him about seventy-five
yards. Mr.. Bracey was a widower and
lived with his father. He had one
daughter.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
To Repeal Hatters' Case.

Hartford, Conn.-Another appeal in
the famous Danbury matters case,
this time to the United States Cir
cult Court of Appeals, is certain, as
Judge James L. Martin of the United
States District Court, who, with a
pury, heard the case in this city
some months ago, has granted a writ
of error on defendants appeal. The
recent verdict was for the plaintiffs
to recover $25O,OOO damages from
Martin Lawlor and 1873 others.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
NEW HAVEN REFUSED OFFER.
Control of the Bangor G. Aroostook
Railroad Not Wanted.

New Haven, Conn.-The report is
confirmed in railroad circles here that
the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad Company was recently
offered by financial interests control
of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad.
The offer was refused on the ground,
1t is understood, that beyond pro-
Jects to which it is fully committed
and development of the Rutland sys-
tenn the New Ravens policy here
after would be contraction rather
than expansion and the improvement
of the properties that it already owns
and controls
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
Veteran Railroad Man Retires.

Gen. George D. Waldron, who has
been connected with the railroad for
something like quarter of CEN
fury, retired from the service Friday
and was presented by the clerks and
housemen at the freight office with a
fine alligator skin travelling bag. Gen.
Waldron was recently appointed to
good position at Lawrence, but re-
signed it in order to go into the in
surance business.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
Eloped and Arrested.

Tilton, N. Hilary P. White, an
instructor at Tilton seminary, who
went away last week with Catherine
Hourin of Boston, girl of IS, was
found in New York Saturday and the
couple were arrested. The girls ia
Their appeared in court when the
couple were arraigned, but declined
to press a complaint on the mans
plea that he and the girl be allowed
to marry. The three left the court
room together.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
Too Many Buoys To Care For.

Neutrality-suspicious. reason advanced
by the lighthouse department against
the establishment of buoy to mark
a shoal spot southeast of Shovelful
Lghtship, Vineyard Sound, is that
there are too many buoys and that
the lighthouse tenders cannot take
care of all of them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
The New State Treasurer.

Concord, N. H.-George E. Farrand
of Concord, recently elected state
treasurer, assumed the duties of the
office Saturday. He will retain the
services of ]. Wesley Plummer. the
present deputy treasurer. Col. Scion
A. Carter, who retires from the posi-
ton, was elected treasurer in 1872
and has held the office continuously
ever since with the exception of
two years.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
Women Organize Federation.

Portland, Mean organization to
be known as the New England Con
ference of State Federations of
Womens Clubs was permanently eff
fected here at the final meeting of the
conference Of New England club
women.
The new organization, which rep
resents $4,000 New England club wom-
en-, elected Mrs. George H. Fowler of
Pawtucket as secretary-treasurer.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
DIVORCES IN NEW ENGLAND.
One to Each IL Marriages and Stead
lily Increasing.

Boston.-That the proportion of
divorce to marriage is steadily in
creasing was brought out at the an
nual meeting at the Diocesan House
of the National League for the Pro-
lection of the Family.
Rev. DR.. Samuel W. Dixie, cores
ponding secretary, showed from fig
ures that there was one divorce to
every twelve marriages here. The
following table of figures was given
for New England:
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
Two BOYS Wanted.

Manchester, N. H.-The police of
Manchester have been appealed to by
the parents of two boys, Eddie Cor
man, aged II, and James Lane, about
the same age, both of whom have
been living at their homes. to find
some trace of the missing young
sters. It is supposed that they have
gone away together.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
Practically Exterminated.

Lincoln, New. J. Clayton taxi
dermist had an opportunity recently
to buy two passenger pigeons for the
small sum of 5000. Probably mem
bers of the older generation can re-
member when these birds abounded
in large numbers all over the country,
They are now nearly extinct and are
nrized very highly.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
News Throughout New England

.
Forecast Weather 6 Months
Ahead.
Boston.-Not at all deferred by
the scramble Uncle Sam has to
furnish weather day by day,
Henry Helm Clayton, in charge
of the Blue Hill Observatory I'M
til Harvard took it over. has a
plan for an international weather
bureau to forecast the weather
six months ahead.
This plan is now being consid-
cred, according to dispatches
= from New York city, by the Car
negie Foundation.
1t will take money to do it
= about S5,OO0,0O0 endowment.
. . -
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
Woman Wins Her Suit.

Salem-A verdict of $4,000 has
been awarded Miss Charlotte Fair
field, Salem's woman coal dealer, who
has been trying for the last three
years to recover from the city for
damages for the loss of her business
by lack of dredging in the South river.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
Dartmouth To Get $4,000.

New York.-An appraisal trans
mitted to the surrogate's court in
this city under transfer tax proceed,
ings in the estate of William A.
Pierce, a former resident of Ports,
mouth, N. H., disclosed a bequest Of
$4,000 to Dartmouth College tc
create a fund for the benefit of poor
students. Mr.. Pierce died on Jan. 81,
1910.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
Stork Visits Police Ambulance

Boston.-While a police ambulance
on Carver street was carrying Hilda
Vestrom to the City hospital, the
stork descended on the hurrying vehi-
Gle and caused some embarrassment
to the police officers by leaving sew
en-pOund boy.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
CAUGHT in the Shaftinu.

Nashua, N. H.-Michael Smith of
Nashua was caught in a revolving
shaft in the Nashua's company's mills
in that city Saturday and whirled
around half a dozen times before the
machinery could be stopped. He
lived but few minutes. He was 90
years of age and had wife and one
child.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-02-07
MAINE FORESTRY
COMMISSION
E. E. Mace Declares Protection
Needs Attention.
WANTS THE LAW CHANGE D
Recommends Increase of Lookout
Stations and Cutting Away OF
DISQUALIFICATION Other I'M
portant Changes.

Augusta, Me.-To protect Maine
forests from fire more money is need
ed, according to Frank E. Mace,
State forestry commissioner in his
annual report.
1T is evident from the experience
gained since the passage of the act
incorporating the Maine Forestry
District that several changes in the
law could be made. Particular atten-
ton should be given to the provision
of funds with which to carry out the
spirit of the law" states Mr.. Mace.
"As the law now stands it is very
evident that the tax of one mill and
one-half will not produce sufficient
funds to meet the bills of the forestry
district in any particularly dry year
in which forest fires of any magni-
tude may occur.
In 1911 when, in the brief period
of few weeks, all of the appropria-
ton was entirely exhausted and had
it not been for the fact that the tim
berland owners came forward and
sotJIlSu IllG lllS UlllSy lllC dlllt lOlC
try district might have received a
blow from which it would have been
hard to recover, as men who have
worked could not have been paid, and
not receiving their pay it would have
been impossible to ever induce them
to work again, no matter how great
the danger.
''In making a study of the working
system of the Maine forestry district
my observations lead me to conclude
that the best service is obtained from
the lookout stations. The number OF
these stations have been added to
until there are twenty-siX stations in
actual service and the results from
each have been highly satisfactory
Some improvements will have to be
made at the old stations, but in the
main they are in very good repair
and working order.
81 believe that cutting over the
land, taking trees down to the size
of twelve inches to the swell of the
roots, means that the remaining
growth will be sufficient to produce
another crop Of merchantable timber
within a reasonable number of years
down the trees before the snow is
deep.
while the patrol system has its
value, think that much more can be
accomplished by lessening the mum
Der Of patrols and building more look
out stations.
I'm 1908, as a result of considerable
agitation for public instruction il
forestry, in which the women's clubs
of the State took an active part, al
appropriation of $4,000 was made fol-
the work. 1t was decided that the
best way to accomplish the desired
result was to establish a chair of for
estry at the University of Maine. II
the nine years much has been accom-
plished, but, as stated above, it Ger
tainly seems that this work SHOULD
rbe wholly under the direction of the
president and trustees of the insti
tuition.
Agitation was started and an at
tempt was made at the last session O
the Legislature to establish a Stat
nursery. ! believe that such a nur
sery should be established, as the de
nand is growing among farmers an,
owners of wood lots in the State 70
some place in Maine where they cal
obtain seeds and seedlings"