Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-12

Mayor Fitzgerald expects the tax rate
in Boston this year will be SIT a thousand,
or an increase of GO cents over last year
and highest in citys history.
Output OF II Swiss chocolate nanufac-
turing companies last year was 100000
pounds, valued at $14,500.o0 900. Six thou
sand seven hundred persons are, employed
Prize hen, for which President Mel
len of the New Haven railroad paid
s65e, cuddles litter of 10 kittens I'M
de- it's breast when her eggs are re-
moved, the hen driving off the mother
cat
No value is found in the Friedman
treatment for tuberculosis, according
to preliminary report of IS cases which
came under the personal observation
of DR.. George Mannheimer, a we'll
known physician of New York city.
Monthly index number of the Lon
don Economist, published Saturday,
is 1894, as compared with 2,129 for
previous month. The largest declines
were shown by wheat meat and rice.
The Grand Trunk Pacific loan of
ST.. 100000 has passed Canadian House
of Commons. 1t provides for a four
| per cent. loan payable in 10 years and
| guaranteed by the Grand Trunk as to
| principal and interest.
| The federal court at St. Paul has set
June IL for hearing amended plans for
disposition of the Southern Pacific stock
n
will take place before Judges Sanborn,
Hook and Smith.
Columbia University, Rutgers College
and the Reformed church In America re-
ceive requests estimated at 100000 each
| as the three principal beneficaries under
| the will of Mrs. Mary b. Pell, widow of
John H. Pell, New York.
A French surgeon Is said to have follow
| ed the Greek army through the Balkan
war with 90 broken down wealthy patients
and have taken healthy organs, kidneys,
livers and other parts from killed soldiers
and successfully put them into the rich
men.
| In furtherance OF a plan for extern
|
chc has made application for permission
to issue $50 10000 two-year Ave per cent.
collateral trust notes. Part of the money
is to be used in supplying additional faci-
Titles for the Atlantic steamship lines.
A Pittsburg special says identification
OF the main line of the Pennsylvania
railroad within the next few years is
| probable. One of the largest power
houses in the world will be built at Gallit-
Yin. The Pennsylvania Is attempting to
4 gain controlling interest in the Westing-
ihouse Electric company in East Pitts
burg.
In a speech in the French assembly It
was stated that the banks Of Germany,
Austria Hungary and Italy possess only
$74l, 600 in gold. with $1,000, 000O coo gold
in general circulation in these countries
while the banks of Great Britain, France
and Russia, the triple alliance, have ST.
bS,2O0o0o In their vaults, with s. 800, 900 900
In general circulation. From these figures
It is argued that Germany is unprepared
for a long war.
An official of the Hamburg American
line says: Within three years Boston will
have huge steamers that are now sail
ing from New York, including the %, 500
ton Amerlka and the 25 900 ton Kaiserin
Auguste Victoria. New York, however,
Will replace these vessels with three 90 =
0OO-ton steamers, two of which will be
the lmperator and the Vaterland.
New York Herald prints a symposium
Of views Of business men in various sec
lions OF the country, the burden Of which
is stop all this talk and playing poll
tics and pass new tariff bill so as TO
tquiet business" Lobby agitation in Sem
ate is called tempest In a teapot. Pass
age OF the measure, 1t Is asserted, will
revive trade and improve money cond-
lions.
, Sir George Paish, commenting on
the business situation, says the In
vesting public has lost Its nerve.
Fundamentally, London is very sound.
The cause Of the existing situation
lies in United States and the continent
of Europe. In recent years Americans.
a French and Germans subscribed very
large amounts for new enterprises.
but since the Balkan war those coun-
a tries appear to have lost their nerve.
At any rate they have not provided
normal amount Of capital for new en-
q terprises,"
1 General Manager Freeman OF the
, Sturtevant Blower works, Hyde Park,
, Mass, states there Is little work now
on hand and shops will probably be
I closed for three months or more.
Strikers state the concern has orders
@ for 1000 machines for the General
g Electric company, and that only zoo
, of these have been completed. They
Y further declare hat concern has been
given contract to put out 1875 vacuum
= cleaners per day.
!, FAVORED FATHER.
d story is told of two Irish farmers
who had not seen each other for lonj
8 time and who met at a fair. They ha'
d a lot Of things to tell each other.
S "Shure, it's married OF am" said Muir
d ply.
d You don't tell me So" said Moran.
e "Fai' yet said Murphey. land DIV
Il got foine, healthy boy, which the neigh
5 bors say Is the very plctur' O. me-"
= Moran looked for a moment at Murphy