Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-07-29
PRESIDENT PUTS
 CORNISH 0N MAP Summer Capital of United States Most Unique Town
 in This Country. WINFIELD VISITS IT Says "Baltimore, Vermont" Has Many AttractiOns-Th Sheriff One
 of Them.
WINFIELD VISITS II
By JONATHAN WINFIELD


 Cornish, N. H., July 26.-(There really isn't any such place as Cornish, but it makes good date line)
 i When President Wilson selected the mythical town of Cornish for the Summer Capital of the United States" 1 and the Church Hill home as the Sum- 1 mer White House, he little dreamed that he was getting within striking distance of the most unique town in the United. States.
 l Yes, I know that most unique" is ] phrase condemned by all writers and speakers of good English but it is the only superlative adjective applicable :, to the town of Baltimore, Vermont. Unique it certainly is-but also most unique among the towns of the United States Listen, while I unfold the ] tale of some of it's "uniqueness' and antiquities" which latter must not be confounded with iniquities.
 There is at least one other Balti
 more in the United States which has gained prominence because of it's size and the excellence of it's crabs and
 oysters. Baltimore, Vt, has exactly
 twenty-two inhabitants and twelve
 voters. Also, I have it directly from
 the oldest inhabitant of the place, that
 neither of the other Baltimore's lux
 uries have ever reached this name
 sake of the Maryland metropolis.
 So small is the town of Baltimore, Vt., that but a select few in this sec
 tion of the country know of it's eX-
 istence. Shortly after my arrival
 here I heard rumors of the strange
 ness of the town, from a foreigner
 here, who had evidenced an interest
 in the peculiar things in his adopted land A foreigner in this section of New England is a man who has not lived here most of his life or who only 3 resides here in the summer. This l particular foreigner" is James A. l Dalton, of New York, theatrical pro- r moter and husband of Marie Dressler ' and all-round host to every newspaper , man who arrives within radius ot 5 ten miles.
 - But to return to Baltimore, as l tried to do immediately was inform- ed of the existence of the strange 3 place. The only man in Windsor, N. H., the town opposite Cornish, who g would admit that he had ever hea. d Of , l such place was the oldest inhabitant, l Davis by name, who volunteered to guide me to the smallest town in the I United States, provided 1 would sup
 ply the automobile.
 The road to Baltimore led up the r side of a steep mountain and during the trip the patriarch of ! Windsor regaled me with 2 strange tales of the town which
 we were approaching. In Vermont, it s appears, every town must have a } charter. Baltimore obtained it's char u ter in 17S6 when there were twenty
 DcOplC III tuC IOW VI IL,
 century and quarter andthe popu- 5 lation of the town increased only ten 5 per cent or two persons. Davis, the ? oldest inhabitant of Cornish, assured . me that Baltimore holds the record g for dimunitive townships and that this record is not even approached by any !, other place in the United States. l In this connection, said the oldest inhabitant, an interesting incident oc-
 cured during the 1900 election for , President Vermont was the last state
 to file the returns of her election in : that year. Indeed she was so far be- 5 hind the others that many queries
 were made from Washington as to the reason for the delay. Baltimore has
 not yet sent in the returns" came back the reply from Montpelier to each of
 the questions concerning the reason for Vermont's tardiness. Finally one enterprising New York newspaper sent man up to discover" Baltimore and to find out why it had not sent in
 it's election returns.
 After many hardships he reached
 the town and put the question to the leading citizen who replied with a tone of surprise: 'Waal, you see, we , done forgot to vote on the right day an we're waitin' to find out if it's legal to vote now"
 On arriving at Baltimore we found ourselves the center of attraction for crowd" of the townspeople. Said
 crowd consisted of sixteen people and we found that the other six were some distance off. AS soon as they heard of the arrival of the automobile they Hooked to gaze upon the strange vehi-
 cle with a mixture of awe and admira-