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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-09
IN SOCIETY
By Mary Gwynn Whiteman Telephone l42

A row of tadpoles on the shore?"
And once he woke at five and said,
"If Mister Bumble- bee was dead
And through with all his noisy buzz
Would he become a Bumble- -was?"
Paw, what becomes of all the noise
That's made by little girls and boys?'
And "If Chinaman should drop
Upon rock, kerplunk, kerflop,
Would he go right to smash like all
Our china plates do when they fall -
And 'If the sun shines on alway,
Why amt it always just today"
And "1f a window has pane
Could mother make it well again
With all the things | have to take
Whenever | have stummick ache?"
"How much dye think centipetc
Would halter pay to shoe his feet
If he wore shoes and rubber boots
To cover up his tootsie woots?"
Did Noah have skeeters on the ark?
And when he saved the whale aI,d
shark
Dye spose he kept 'em down below
Or carried 'em along in tow"
es, so it goes both day and night.
In questions hard he takes delight.
He seems to think that | am
Complete Encyclopediay!
john Kendrick Bangs.
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Six of the best union BARRIERS and
you are always next" at Tom Rob
erts' shop
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something like oysters, and has been
highly relished by Mrs. Corlew's
guests whenever it is served them.
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Presbyterian Aid Society.

The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Presbyterian church meets on Tues
day afternoon at three o'clock at Mrs
H. c. Potterfs. A full attendance is
urged.
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Circle Two.

Circle Two of the Broadway Mett-
odist church will meet on Tuesday
afternoon at three o'clock with Mrs,
A. II. Palmer.
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Circle Three.

Circle Three of the Broadway Meth
odist church meets on Tuesday after,
noon at 2:3O with Mrs. W. n. War
ren.
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Every customer we have is pleased
with our baths. Tom Roberts.
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Mrs. T. A. Thurmond will attend
Grand Opera in Dallas.
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Mrs r. d. Pidcoke has returned to
Galveston after several months resi-
dence in Ardmore. The change was
made because of Mrs. Pidcoke's i'll
health, which necessitated change
of climate. Mrs. Pidcoke made many
friends here who regret that she
las been forced to return.
+
Dick Light, an Ardmore boy, will
appear in the prince of Tonight"
at the Robson opera house on Tues
day night.
Mrs. L. H. Griffin will entertain
Circle No. One Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunn will attend
Grand Opera in Dallas the latter
part of this month
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Adams will
visit Dallas the latter part of this
month and enjoy the musical feast,
Grand Opera.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gillian will
attend the Inauguration exercises in
Washington.
First Mistress of the White House.
The. coming inaugural exercises and
the possession of the White House
by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and her
three daughters brings to mind form
er mistresses of the White House.
Who was the first lady to claim
this distinction?
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Wednesda ay.

Ferndale Review Club with
Mrs. S. A. Douglas.
Bible Study Glass with Mrs.
Madden.
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e u u ~ ~ " (. :: - ;; :, :; - -
:: ToDAYs CALENDAR. ::
u !;
:: Orio Club with Mrs. For !:
!: ward. =
:! Christian Missionary Society !"
:: with Mrs Ed Sandin. ::
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e. THE WEEKS CALENDAR. y
q Monday. -
q Ladies of the Leaf with Mrs. ::
:: Roberts. !"
:: Tuesday. u
y Broadway Baptist Woman's !:
Il Aid and Missionary Society at ::
: church. .
:: Young Ladies' Aid Society of 3:
:: Presbyterian church at the An ::
:. mex !"
'. Presbyterian Ladies Aid at 3:
!: Mrs. Potterfs !"
!: st. Philips Guild with Mrs. !.
:: Ledbetter. ::
q Raviolas Supper at Mrs. Cor y
;: lews. -
{: Circle Two, Broadway Meth -
:: odist, with Mrs. A. II. Palmer. y
:; Circle Three, of Broadway =
u Methodist, with Mrs. w. N. Il
:: Warren. ::
q Wednesday. y
:: Ferndale Review Club with 3:
!: Mrs. S. A. Douglas. e
:: Bible Study Glass with Mrs. u
{: Madden. =
:: Thursday. u
!: Bridge Club. 3:
:; Cosmos Club. g
:; Friday. !"
:: Valentines Day. ::
{: Orio Club with Mrs. For :.
q ward. !"
!: Girls Valentine Dance at !:
81 Elks' Hall. u
q Church entertain Baraccas. g
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Monday.
Ladies of the Leaf with Mrs.
Roberts.
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Tommy's Questions.

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Thursday.

Bridge Club.
Cosmos Club.
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Friday.

Valentines Day.
Orio Club with Mrs. For
ward.
Girls Valentine Dance at
Elks' Hall.
Church entertain Baraccas.
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Orio Club with Mrs. For
ward.
Christian Missionary Society
with Mrs. Ed Sandlin.
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Young Ladies Aid.

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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-10-22

ton ami Providence, over which such
frei=h had to travel
En- ep in the early days of eonsoiida
ton there was still much time con-
sumed because the old freight transfer
points were retained. Boston and
northern New England were not en-
tirely without early produce, but owing
to the slow schedules and delays the
business was a hazardous one for
commission men. In these days the
bulk of the southern fruit and vegeta-
bles was put on boat at Norfolk and
rushed by sea to Boston. Some of it
went by rail to New York and thence
by the old Stonington line to Boston.
The sea was able to afford the better
service for the most part. The boats
from Norfolk made the third market
day and sometimes not that. The Sto-
nington line made possible noon de-
livery on the second day, but while
this enabled some large consumers,
such as hotels, in Boston to serve
fresh fruit at the dinner hour the gen
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-10-22

eral consumer had to wait until the
third day, while the depreciation went
on.
In 1896 the first fast freight service
was inaugurated, but it was not all
that it ought to be until about four
years ago.
At that time the New Haven roads
officials got together with those Of the
Pennsylvania and decided to work out
4 schedule which would land the
stuff from the southern farms in Bos-
ton in ample time for the second mar
ket day, counting from the time of it's
shipment. 1t was to be a schedule
which would stand up under heavy
service and be such as to warrant the
ders. The Pennsylvania put on sew
eral new trains, and quick transfer
was arranged for around New York.
In all about five trains are now re-
lu1red in the busy season to bring this
produce from the south. The cars are
picked up all over Virginia and even
south of there and most of them are
collected at Norfolk. There the Penn
sylvania makes up a train, known as
B 10, in one or more sections, and
starts it north at noon. This train
reaches the Jersey City yards Of the
Pennsylvania at 10 a. m. the next
day. There it is broken up and sthe
cars rushed to the New Haven transfer
floats, which are taken around the
East river and through He'll Gate by
the most powerful tugs in New York
harbor. In the great Harlem river
yards it is classified" again. 1t starts
on its way to Boston at 3 p. M, max
ing stops at New Haven, Providence,
Mansfield and Readville tS drop of
cars. The old arriving time of this
train was 2:3O a. m. in Boston, but
thirty minutes have Aeen cut off this
in the last year. Frequently it comes
into the South Boston yard at 100 a
m. Thirty-five cars is about the limit
of freight train. When $50 carloads
Of berries alone are coming up from
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-10-22

1t is this stream, rising and falling
with the weather conditions, which
feeds the summer resorts and has en-
cater to the finest trade and made them
independent of local truck farms. It
has also greatly increased the number
of BOSton's commission houses.
The speed with which this stream
flows northward is equaled by the
celebrity with which it is handled in the
South Boston yard, the great diStrib
uting reservoir into which it pours
it's tons of produce. There are seven
yards and thirteen freight houses max
ing up the Boston terminal, and in and
out of it run 1 800 cars a day, of which
this perishable freight forms only a
! part.
AS soon as one of the fast express
| freight trains reaches the yard in the
| early hours of the morning the cars
are marke0 showing what yard they
are intended for, this depending upon
the firms to which they are consigned.
Then the switch engines get busy.
1t takes an average of twenty minutes
! W Ia tuc Gals 1Hoy nave 81 re-
duced the time of switching or CLASH
fcation, as it is called, that in thirty
minutes every car in a forty car train
will have been put in its proper yard
and place. On an average it is just
one hour from the time the big Pacific
locomotive lands it's train of fruit in
the terminal that the cars are ready
to have their seals broken That is
when it is ready to be sold by the
marketmen, though the sales do not
begin till the bell rings at a. m.
There are few other citinr where
this kind of freight is landed 50 close
to the market. Ten minutes is all that
is required in Boston to transfer it to
the market from the car. In this
terminal, where Abs freish* cars can
be kept at one time, there is sufficient
space provided so that teams can back
up to 2,1OO of these cars.
About 50 per cent of the produce
brought into this yard every day re
mains there or is shipped out by ex
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-10-22
THE SAFETY OF SAVINGS
BANKS

There are certain fundamental
principles governing the invest
ment of money which are well un-
derstood by every safe Banker.
Some Banks are so exceedingly
careful in regard to their invest
ments that they come to be known
as ultra-conservative. Others, seek
ing to earn larger dividends for
their stockholders, reach out for
extra high rates at the possible
sacrifice OF absolute safety of prin.
cipal.
The Hyde Park Savings Bank
has very properly come to be
classed among the ultra-conserva
tives, because its management has
never yielded to the temptation
offered by high rates of interest
lest, in so doing, the element q
absolute safety be sacrificed.
No Bank has any right to claim
to be especially conservative unless
the actual facts and figures ar,
forthcoming to substantiate tina
claim.
The Hyde Park Savings Ban
offers depositors and the public tn
following facts. They are take
from its books, which are at a
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press. The cars destined for Portland
and for northern New England begin
moving out by noon again, but from
Boston radius of at least twenty-five
miles is covered direct. Portland will
get its berries in time for breakfast the
next morning
About Is per cent of New England is
affected by this fast freight service
perfected by the railroad men. The
sea has had to yield this traffic to the
line of steel which ties the north to the
south. Today the New Highlander,
even though he lives in Maine, is as
certain Of fresh strawberries for his
table in the spring as he is Of his own
garden truck in the summer.
When the great He'll Gate bridge and
Connecting Railroad joining the New
Haven system with the Pennsylva.
MIA is completed in New York city
this schedule may be shortened even
more. This great engineering feat, un-
dertaken by the two roads, will obviate
the long water transfer around Man
haitian Island. It Is only three miles
across New York bay from Greenville
where the Pennsylvania trains roll
in from the south, to Bay Ridge, where
the cars will again take the rails
bound for Boston, and the dangerous
and, delaying tides of He'll Gate will
thus be avoided. While it will not
mean the saving Of another market
day, it will mean that more trains car
be handled and may result some day II
making Portland's market day the
same as Boston's.
The railroad is the great harvester
It gathers the grain in one corner Of
our country and distributes 1t in an
other than man may be fed with thu
staff of life; but. more than that, 4
sees that his table is supplied with tb'
good things Of the ground though b,
live amid the SHOWS.
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the south in one day obviously this
train can't take them all, though it
runs in several sections. For the later
sections of the Pennsylvania roads
train bringing up the berries the New
Haven has still a faster train ready
This train leaves the Harlem river
yards at 1926 p. m. and gets to Boston
at 4 a. m. 1t also makes stops on the
way where cars have to be dropped
for midway points. All this takes
time, so that the speed between these
stops must of necessity be that Of
fast passenger train.
These are the two great berry ex-
press trains of New England. With
the Pennsylvania trains they form
the route over which daily passes the
out of season fruit to which we are
now so accustomed.
Though this stream of farm produce
runs practically all of the year, It Is
subject to many changes. When Feb
ruary's SHOWS cover New England this
stream begins to trickle and then run
red with the first stra wberries ripen-
ed by the warmer sunshine of the
south. Larger and larger it grows,
and now the stream takes on a touch
Of green along with the red Green
peas and spinach and the early greens
are flowing northward, first a few
cars, then more, then fifty, hundred,
and finally sometimes as high as 300
cars a day Of Strawberries alone when
the crest is reached in early June.
The berries give way to melons and
more vegetables, then to peaches, po-
tatoes and onions, and so it goes until
all New England's own crops are
ready for the reaping.
The amount of perishable freight
borne northward to New England and
distributed from Boston has grown
enormously since the railroad men per.
fected this schedule. In 1902 there
were handled in yard No 1, in the
South Boston terminal, 1868 cars OF
| perishable freight In 1906 it had
grown to $3.50, in 1908 to 1898, and
last year it totaled 1881. Here are
| some Of the figures:
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KEEPING THE TABLE SUPPLIED
iCw New England Gets Strawberries
in february end Melons In May.
What the Railroads Have Done
to Accomplish This.

- STRAWBERRIES in March, mel
> ons in May! Today this is the
boast OF no modern Lucullus,
but the privilege of the many.
You may even eat fresh strawberries
away up in northern New England in
February. Today the New Highlander
can cut his cantaloupe and eat fresh
Vegetables with snow still on the
ground. New potatoes when his own
are being planted are to him no longer
4 dream. Fresh peaches on his table
when his own trees are just through
blossoming excite about as much curl
osity In him as the brides bouquet of
roses in Januay No longer does that
strawberry patch out in his own gar
den mean bis first taste of the luscious
fruit in June or July. 1t used to be
30 many years ago, but nowadays he
has probably eaten quarts Of berries
long before his own have ripened.
All this has been brought about not
by some agricultural wizards work
In our gardens, not by our meteorol-
ogists' work in studying the weather,
but by the railroads. 1t Is the result
solely of the perfecting of our modern
methods of transportation, the bring
ing I'D of our main steel highways OF
commerce to a standard not surpassed
anywhere else in the world, enabling
the traffic men and operating experts
g., t~Lk a41 I,1lA
that today the New England table Is
but forty hours from southern farms.
There is no faster freight service in
The world than that which carries
strawberries to the New England table
srom the southland in two days. There
no such terminal yard anywhere as
The great yard or yards at South Bos-
7en Of the New York, New Haven and
hartford where this fruit and early
vegetables are received, bought and
sold and distributed. AS many as
$50 carloads Of Strawberries are some
anes received there in a single day,
ind 50 quickly are they handled that
sne hour after they have entered the
Fard they are either: being unloaded
" are being sent out again to Port
and or places even farther north,
where they can be eaten the next
morning.
The celebrity with which this most
sertshab1e Of perishable freight is
handled from the time It is put in the
freight ear in Florida, Georgia or Vir-
sfnfa until It has reached the market
men scattered all over New England
5 probably not exceeded anywhere in
this country. It represents years OF
study, Of painstaking work over rail
cad schedules, Of the most effective
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cooperation between the railroads and
Of the most scientific management so
far as tt relates to this phase Of the
railroad problem. 1t has created q
new business in New England, a bust
He6s that practically did not exist
twenty years age. 1t has made new
markets and a new industry for many;
Has wiped out the enormous advantage
which Philadelphia and New York
saes seemed to have over Boston and
New England in this matter Of table
&cifcacfes and the handling of the
early southern produce.
In the business world time is counted
~ the business day. In the produce
business 1T is counted by the market
day, and the market day begins and
ends practically between 6 and Z a. m.
Thanks to a development of a fast
freight service for this kind Of prod.
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times open to anyone wishing t
| verify them.
FIRST. In its nearly twenty-five
years of existence it has neve
owned note upon which it re
ceived more than six per cent in
terest
Second. Its average rate of id
terest on all its assets is less thar
| 5 IL per cent.
Third. It's investments on thu
first day of July last in Unitet
States, State, County, City, TowI
and School District bonds and
notes and on notes with these al
collateral none of them drawing
more than five per cent interest
was more than $3.50, 900, probably
a much larger sum than is carried
| by any other bank, with equa
assets, in Vermont. This means
that every depositor is morally Ger
tain to get his money whenever he
wants it, as upon this class of col
laterals the bank can secure money
with which to meet any reasonable
demands upon it.
Il Fourth. On the first day of July
last, the Hyde Park Savings Bank
had in cash and on deposit with
: banks, banking associations and
n trust companies, 779,2o4 60. Very
i much the larger part of this was
drawing 3 per cent and less, while
none of it was drawing more thar
r 4 IL per cent. This means great
, deal both to those depositors who
8 have their money in the Hyde Parl
e Brink, and to the people of Vermont
= as well. The depositors know thai
a bank which carries such liberia
= line of cash can, with practical Ger
. tainty, meet any demands which
they make upon it. To Vernon
+. it means that every legitimate in
iterest in the state can come to this
bank at any time, and for larg'
.lsums, and be promptly supplied.
Only few weeks ago the Hyd
Il Park Savings Bank was carrying
i the entire outstanding short time
n notes of the State of Vermont, az
gregating 100000 1t is true tina
l this loan paid the bank only 5 pc
q cent while very large quantities O
presumably good out-of-state pape
s was at the same time being offere'
j. to the managers of the bank at
per cent or more. This fact show
Z conclusively that the Hyde Par
q Bank seeks the safest and best gil
I edged paper it can find eve
u though it has to accept low rat
of interest thereon.
The Hyde Park Bank is toda
.r carrying for the other banks {
> Vermont, paper aggregating MOI
than S2o4,7s5, not dollar of whie
pays the bank more than per Gel
interest. Possibly other banl
may criticize this line of inves
ment and call the managers of th
bank fools because they do n
Il. seek loans paying higher rate
interest. But when you ask the
= banks why it is that the depositir
public prefers the Hyde Pa
Bank, and why it is that in the Ia
fiscal year the average deposits
that bank exceeded the withdra,
ais by nearly $1,000 for each blu:
ness day of the year, they will,
honest, confess that the PARTIAL
flor the Hyde Park Bank is becau
it seeks absolutely safe, low-rat
rather than high-rate, paper a,
because it 90 utilizes its funds a.
take care of every Vermont intere
from the state of Vermont, borro'
ing S2oo, 900, down to the humble
borrower who may want only IS o
The people of Vermont who d
post in Savings Banks are n
seeking, as place of deposit, Il
honk ~vhich eorne the 1.roest 4;
New-York tribune., 1913-04-04
LYMPIC AT QUEENSTOWN
Giant Liner Inspected and APP
proved by Directors.
lBy Cable 10 The Tribune.

London, April s.-The White Star
liner Olympic arrived at Queenstown
Yesterday morning after a passage from
Southampton made in pleasant wealth
or. Quite a large number Of people
joined the ship at Cherbourg, and the
resumed sailing by the huge liner from
the French naval port excited good
deal o. interest. The Olympic sailed at
I O'Clock. Just as the sun was setting.
French naval airmen flew around the
vessel at rapid pace and wished the
ships company bon voyage
The whole Of the saloon passengers
speak in terms Of the highest praise of
the additional accommodation provided
for their comfort and safety.
Harold Sanderson, who, in the course
OF the summer, will succeed j. Bruce
Ismay az president of the international
Mercantile Marine, travelled to Queens
town I'm the Olympic from Southamp-
ton. 1t is stated that Sir Walter Grcn-
fell and other directors Of the White
Star Line, who inspected the ship be-
fore she sailed. have come TO the con-
clusion that it will be very difficult 10
devise an improved scheme of decora-
ton for future vessels.
New-York tribune., 1913-04-04
LOST IN WOODS. HE DIES
Starved Salesman Succumbs
After Rescue Arrives.

Liberty. y. Y. April "A posse led by
Patrolman Tremper Of tins town found
Horace Berry. firearms salesman of
Springfield. Mass, unconscious and dying
from starvation in the woods four miles
north of here this afternoon. Berry was
brought into town. and physicians eXerted
every effort to save the mans life, but he
died early this evening.
The finding of Berry was pure chance.
Tremper's men were seeking Peter Atkins,
a lawyer OF Livingston Manor. who had
been missing since Monday morning.
A notebook and pencil lay on the ground
near Berry. The notebook contained the
story of his wanderings in the mountains.
The first entry read
MY dear wife-I am dying | left DR..
Willowemoe on Tues day afternoon for
Liberty. | tried 10 walk through the
woods and make sales on the way. |
have lost my way In the woods God
only knows II | can find my way out
The next said.
"Wednesday.-Ffavc mad only water 10
serve my needs to-day. Have called and
called. sun covered by CLOUDS. and
can't find my way. Company VIII care
for you and the children
The last was
"Thursday.-IIavc been walking all last
nlght. VIII write you la.
The entry was incomplete, as II Berry
had suddenly been overcome by eXhaus-
tiDu