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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-08
VETERAN cAvALRYMEN ELECT.
First Vermont Regiment Held Meeting
at Gettysburg.

Burlington. July s-The 4lst annual
meeting of the First regiment, Vermont
Cavalry association was held in the
headquarters tent in the Vermont camp
at Gettysburg. Col. Myron NJ Parker
of Washington, of Company NJ, presi-
dent. occupied the chair. I. $. Peck of
Company was elected acting secre-
tary and George l.. Mcbride OF Company
l. acting treasurer. Major Edwin H.
Higley OF Company X offered resolutions
of thanks to Governor Allen NJ. Fletcher
and Others for their kindly assistance
in making the reunion at Gettysburg
a possibility.
Comrade George L. Mcbride moved
that committee of three be appointed
to elect the president, secretary and
treasurer of the association for the ensu-
ing year, and the eosamittee presented
the following: For president, Lieut.
Barney Decker of Company G; for sec
retary, Sergt. Seymour II. Wood of Com
pany J.; for treasurer, Capt. Henry o.
Wheeler OF Company A. The report was
unanimously accepted.
The vice-presidents were nominated in
open meeting, and are as follows: For
field aud staff, Col John w Bennett
Company A. Major Ellis b. Edwards;
Company b, Alpronso Barrows; Conn
pany q Mark NJ. Rice; Company d.
y. g. Walker; Company 4 Sylvester
Snow; Company r, John NJ. Nash; Com
pany G. Lieut.. James Barrett: Company
II, Frank Ross; Company /, William
Hall; Company /, George l.. Mcbride;
Company VI, John Aldrieh.
The secretary was directed to cast a
ballot for these names, and they were
elected
Adiutant c. ID. Gates moved that the
next place OF meeting be left to the
escretary and treasurer, due
notice to be given the members.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-08
Out of 10000 Workmen Who
Participated in Rail
road Vote
RESULT ANNOUNCED
AT THE CONFERENCE
The Employees of 81 Eastern
Railroads Want an In
crease of Wages

New York, July S.-Ninety -four per
cent Of the members of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen and of the Order
of Railway Conductors out of 10000 who
participated in the strike vote in the
wage dispute with ffty-one eastern
railroads are in favor of a strike. These
figures were announced to-day at a
Joint meeting of the Representatives OF
the union and the committee Of railroad
managers.
When the conference convened the
Erie railroad announced that it had
withdrawn from the proceedings on the
ground that it would be unable TO meet
any advance which might result. This
practically invites a strike.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-08
BURLINGTON GIRL
DIED OF TETANUS.
Caught Her Foot in Machinery of Motor
boat Week Ago Last
Sunday.

Burlington, July s.Blanche Lafond,
the seven- year-old daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Lafond, died this morning Of
tetanus at the Mary Fletcher hospital.
The girl caught her foot in the machin.
cry of a motor boat week ago last
Sunday wac taken to the hospital
for treatment. While being carried 10
the hospital on Sunday the taxicab in
which she was being taken there col
lided with another automobile and the
taXicab was overturned. However, the
girl was not hurt in that accident.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-08
RECEIyERSHIP CASE
PUT OVER ONE WEEK
When Arguments on the Southern New
Englands Demurrer Will Be
Heard

Boston. July s.--The reeeivership pro-
ceedings against the Southern New Eng
land railway, which were instituted by
John Marsh, a railroad construction con
tractor, were to-day postponed until
Tuesday next, when arguments on the
defendant corporations demurrer will be
heard in supreme court. The postpone
ment was granted at the request OF
the railways attorneys.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-08
And Burn Sir William H.
Levers Country Resi-
dence in England
VALUABLE PAINTINGS
WERE DESTROYED
Arson Squad Left Message
Accusing Him of
Disloyalty

London. July s.An arson squad OF
militant suffragettes set fire to ana
caused the destruction OF the country
residence of Sir William Fl. Lever, foun-
der of Port Sunlight and chairman OF
the Liverpool school of tropical medi-
cine, early to-day. The mansion, which
was known as The Bungalow, was sit
uated at Rivington, near Horwich, Ian
cashire 1t was not occupied by the
family, but contained valuable paintings
and other precious objects, all OF which
were consumed by the flames.
A message left by the incendaries
stated that if Sir William Lever had
been as loyal to the suffragettes as Ian.
cashre was to the king, the fire would
not have happened.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-08
NoRTHFIELD MAN DROWNED.
Lee Martin Told His Wife to Drive
Along; He'd Fish in Dog River.

Northfeld, July s Lee Martin. VINO
lived on the Little Northfeld road, was
drowned in Dog river, opposite the fair
ground. and near + w Colds on Sat
urday afternoon. With his wife he
started to drive to the village, but left
her at the Harlow bridge, saying that he
would fish down the river and join her
later. Coming to deep hole the heat
of the day evidently induced him to
take plunge and it is supposed that he
was seized with cramps and drowned.
The body was discovered by f. w. Gold
and medical aid summoned, but it was
too late. Mr.. Martin left a wife and one
child
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-08
vENNER-MERRILL.
Barre Young Man and Keene, N. H., Girl
Married.

Thomas W. Nenner, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas G. Venner of this city,
and Miss Rena Merrill, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. George A. Merrill of keene,
y. H.. were married at the Episcopal
rectory at Keene, Tuesday morning june
j. Mr.. and Mrs Venner left immedi-
ately after the marriage on wedding
trip to. Boston, Nantasket, Mass, and
Newport, r. l. They arrived in Barre
yesterday morning. At present they
will reside at 81 Keith avenue. Mr..
Nenner is well known in Barre, where
he resided until few months ago. then
going to Cape Ann, Mass, and later to
keene. y. H., where he was engaged in
his occupation as a granite cutter. Miss
Merrill is one Of Keene's popular young
ladies.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-08
sERvIAN RETREAT HARRASSED.
Large Bulgarian Force Said To Have
Made Appearance.

London, July S.-The report of the
appearance OF a large Bulgarian force
at Vmnia, threatening the Servian line
of retreat, has been confirmed from
Sofia.
Still more significant, as tending to
confirm the belief that the Servans are
suffering defeat, is the announcement
from Belgrade that only meagre reports
are being received from the Servian army
headquarters and that the government
has decided to publish reports only on
alternate days. In addition, rigorous
censorship on the newspapers is being
enforced.
The Servian wounded describe the bat
ties as almost inhuman in their ferocity,
the men throwing away their firearms
and using their bayonets as daggers.
Whatever the policy of the European
powers may be, little is now heard of
attempts to stop the war. The ambas-
ssdorial conference met in London again
yesterday but apparently did little else
than discuss the boundaries of Albania.
Meanwhile Roumania and Turkey give
signs that they will not long be idle
spectators.
News of the fighting continues to be
OF contradictory character. 1t is al
most invariably from official sources in
the respective capitals; no independent
testimony is available.
This applies equally to the struggle
between the Greeks and the Bulgarans
and between the Servians and Bulgar
ians.
A despatch from Saloniki reports that
The Greeks have occupied DemirhishiT
and Ctrumitza, and, according to the
most likely information, the Bulgarian
general. Ivanoff, has been slowly retir
ing before the superior Greek forces
northward since his army was weakened
BY the departure of his right wing to
attack Krivalok.
1t should be noted that another de-
spatch asserts that General Ivanoff, by
an unexpected attack, scattered the
Greek army of 10000, commanded by
King Constantine. and occupied Nigrita
and other points on the Greek line.
IT is possible that both reports are
correct and that that crediting victory to
General Ivanoff has reference to later
date. after the Bulgarian commander
was reinforced.
An interesting detailed report from
Greek official sources of last weeks op-
erations describes how the Bulgarians,
by incessant labor, had transformed Kill
kish into another Plevna with a sur
prising extent of trenches. guns and de-
fenses, and asserts that the Greeks by
their successful advance prevented the
execution of a plan for a Bulgarian at
tack on Saloniki.
David ,IcDonoId .nd port ,rorcor h, "a
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-08
FINED ON OLD oFFENsE.
Manuel Villa of Barre Arraigned in
Montpelier Court.

Manuel Villa of Barre was arTaigned
before Judge Harvey in Montpelier city
court on an old charge of breach Of the
peace, to which charge he pleaded guilty
and was fined S25, with costs of S33S5
he paid. The state alleged that the Of
ftnse was committed last October.
William Dobey also was before the
Montpelier court on the charge of intox-
ication. subsequent oirense. to which he
pleaded guilty He was fined s.. with
costs of 1874. Judge Harvey then sus-
pended the payment OF the fine and al
lowed DObey to sign the pledge
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-08
Lieutenant Loren H. Call of
United States Avia-
tion Corps
WAS KILLED TO-DAY
NEAR HOUSTON, TEX.
Aeroplane Collapsed as He
Started on a
Flight

Houston, Tex. July s.-Lieutenant
Loren H. Call Of the United States ayia-
ton corps was killed to-day by the col
lapse of his aeroplane at a point north
OF Texas City. Lieut. Call had started
a flight from the aviation field in the
second army division of the mobilza-
ton camp.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-08
PROMINENT ORANGE CITIZEN.
George ]. Cook Died This Morning of
Shock.

Orange. July S.--5eorge J. Cook, one
of the oldest and most respected citizens
of this town. died about one o'clock this
morning, the cause OF death being \
ehock.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-08
weather Forecast-

Fair tonight in interior Wednesday
fair and warmer; light to moderate va
Tiable winds,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-08

David Mcdonald and Bert Mercer have
returned home, after spending several
days with friends in Boston.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-07-08

CONTINUED on fifth psge.l -.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-11

so that the danger from accident Is
hafved and the efficiency doubled.
Since So per cent of oc~ean-going ships
are less than 600 feet long, and 1t
would be a waste OF water and of time
to use the entire 1.OO0-ft. lock for
short vessels, each lock provided with
intermediate gates, so that any one OF
the five different lengths Of chamber
may be used. In all there are 46 lock
gates at Panama. These are made OF
steel plates riveted to structural-steel
frames, and so strongly have they been
constructed and so carefully braced
that the largest Of them, weighing l.
483, 700 h., droops less than one-eighth
Of an inch at the extreme end, So feet
from its pintle, or hinge. The total
weight of the gates is 11S,4SS,100 lbs,
and their cost, including the cost OF
erection, was $~5,374,474, or more than
4 cents a pound.
Vessels will be lifted or lowered in
the locks at the rate of 3 feet a minute,
and the total time for passing the
Gatun Locks will be about an hour and
a half. Ships will not be allowed to
pass through the locks under their own
power, for fear of damaging the lock
gates by collision.
In Gatun Lake a ship may steam at
full speed for "a miles, to Bias Obispo,
where it enters the Culebra Cut. The
channel through the lake is not a
straight line, but passes around and
between many islands. 1t is marked
by buoys which are to be lighted at
night. In fact, the entire length of
the canal will be so brilliantly lighted
as to make the passage by night al
most as safe as by day. The Culebra
Cut, nine miles long, through the
mountains, was the most difficult part
of the canal construction.
At the southern end of the Culebra
Cut is the Pedro Miguel Lock, with a
lift of 80 feet 4 inches. A ship passing
through this must proceed two miles
farther to Miraflores, through another
fresh-water lake, about two square
miles in area, with a surface SO feet
above mean sea level. At the lower
end of this lake are the Miraflores
Locks, similar in every respect to
those at Gatun except that they are
of but two steps instead of three.
Dropping down through these a dis
lance of 81 feet s inches, the ship
finds itself again in salt water and at
the level of the Pacific Ocean. Here a
channel 500 feet wide and s miles long
leads to deep water and the open sea.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-11
WHAT X A CITY,

A town Is composed Of streets. al
leys, and buildings, fitted into a de.
sign regulated by typographical pecu.
liarities, natural facilities and means
Of access. Also 1t is a place where
people live.
Some towns are larger than others
some in the matter Of population
some in the matter Of public spirit.
This is largely due to the fact that the
people who live in a town are hu.
man. A town Is no larger than the
spirit Of its people. The limit OF ex-
pansion is finite-expansion. or growth
being the result Of human activity, en-
deavor, mental labor expended in the
task Of building upward.
The signs Of progressive public
spirit are manifested In the attitude OF
its people. The difference between a
large town and a small one, regardless
of the matter Of population, the mag
nignifcence Of its buildings or its geo.
graphical beauty lies In the attitude OF
its people toward one another, and
between tther communities and locali-
ties.
Public spirit is largely a method Of
advertising. Heres the hook in the
bait. Being a newspaper article, 1t
must necessarily be a treatise on ad-
yertising.) A number Of people who
do not profess belief in advertising
are, nevertheless, the best Tor worst)
advertisers in a town. One need not
buy extensively OF newspaper space.
nor yet d~isfgure the face Of nature to
advertise the good feature nor betray
the worst in his town. He need not
herald to the ends Of the earth, the
shortcomings of his community to be
an extensive advertiser thereof.
Advertising is either a stimulus or
a narcotic, according to the manner in
which 1t Is applied. The money which
is sent out of town goes to the up
building of another. The c~igarmaker
in the other city receives the benefit
OF the advertising gr%atituously given;
the -four mill in Podunk does likewise,
the effect of action must manifest it.
self in some direction, for, in this
world, nothing Is ever lost.
1t Is not selfish spirit that makes
larger communities. 1t is not a selfish
person who consistently and constant
ly endeavors to impress upon those
with whom he comes in contact each
day, the good qualities of his neighbor.
1t Is not selishness which prompts
people of a community to show prefer
ence for home products. 1t Is not pos
sible for a selfish people to exclude
from their minds any thought which
may bring discredit upon a neighbor.
Little things these are, perhaps, often
overlooked, yet, in the words of the
artist, 1t is little things. well done.
which make up perfection"
Is 1t not true that large towns are
the result of the public spirited effort
for unselfish people?-Huron Herald.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-11
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

For the week ending December 6,
1913, reported by Brookings County
Abstract Company.
Samuel A. Buck to Jens Paulsen, w.
n, NV. u, NE. u of the NV. a and
NV. "A Of the NE. "A all in 22-112-
So. $4,000.
Emma A. Buck to Jens Paulson, w. D.
w. u NV. a ~22-112-52, except one
acre. $3,400.
c.. L. Walston to d. J. O'Meara, w. D.
NV. a 27-111-51. $12,400.
R. A. Stevens to Efie G. Gross, w. D.
Lot 9, in Blk. 4, Original Plat White,
S. D. $3.50.
Parkdale Home Association to Jenefor
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-11

which the United States was given
control of a strip Of land 10 miles wide
for the purpose of a canal. The French
company's property was bought and,
In February, 1904, a commission for
the construction of a canal was ap-
pointed. In May Of that year, work
was begun where the French company
had abandoned it. In June, 1905, a
board of consulting engineers was ap-
pointed to consider whether the canal
should be at sea level or with elevating
locks.
The greatest and most difficult prob
lem which the American builders of
the canal had to solve was not n of
engineering, but of health. Under the
French company's operations more
than 60 per cent of the workmen were
continually incapaciated by disease. In
one year the death rate among them
reached so per cent. To Col. w. c..
Gorgas, of the Army Medical Corps,
was intrusted the sanitation of the
Canal Zone. Recent medical research
had proved that yellow fever and ma
laria alike were transmitted only by
mosquitoes and Colonel Gorgas organ
lied a sanitary corps, the main object
of which was to exterminate every
mosquito and every fly on the isthmus.
AS a result the Canal Zone death rate
is lower than in most American cities.
Having made the Canal Zone a safe
place in which to work, the commits
sion went farther and made it a COM
Portable place in which to live. Quar-
tiers for the working force were con
structed at a number of convenient
points and for the married men COM
Portable houses we're provided, and the
commissions commissary department
arranged for regular shipments of
food supplies, which were sold to the
employees at cost. Nor was the social
life of the workers overlooked. Club
houses were built and furnished at the
principal settlements along the route
of the canal, mostly operated under
the direction of the Y. NJ. G. A, and
a little later, women's clubs were or
ganized in the principal towns.
The canal itself, from deep water to
deep water, is so miles long. It's gen.
eral direction from the Atlantic en-
trance to the Pacific end is from north
west to southeast, the northern ter
minal being about 22k miles farther
west than the southern entrance from
the Pacific. The first seven miles of
the canal, beginning at the Atlantic
end, are at sea level. Five miles of
chanel, 500 TT. wide, have been dregded
to a depth of Al IT. directly south
through Limon Bay, and two miles of
this s%ea-level section has been cut
through low-lying land to the entrance
to the Gatum Locks, where the ships
are raised, in three steps, to a height
Of IS IT. above sea level, into the great
body Of fresh water called Gatun Lake.
These Gatun Locks are not only the
largest Of their kind, but together
comprise the largest monolithic con-
crete structure ever built, exceeding in
volume the great Assouan Dam and
bulking two-thirds as large as the
Great Pyramid, which Is still the
worlds largest masonry structure.
These locks, like the ones at the Paci-
fc end of the canal, are built in pairs,
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-11

Thompson, w. D. Outlet G and Blk.
9 Parkdale Home End Addition to
Brookings; Outlet B, lots 1 and 2,
Blk. Q: all OF Blks. z and 8 in Park
dale Home Addition to Brookings, 5.
D. $4,000.
Western Town Lot Co., to John T.
Carlson, w. D. Lots 2 and 8 in Blk.
%, subdivision Blks. 10 to "a inc.
and Outlets X to o, Bruce. 500.
A. Bitterness to Norman A. Hanson,
w. d. Outlets D and E, Parkdale
Addition to Bookings. 81.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-11
THE WONDER STORY OF THE
PANAMA CANAL

(By Frank Parker Stockbridge, in
the December number of Popular Me-
chanics Magazine.)
For more than 400 years the vision
of a canal across the Isthmusu Of Pana-
ma has fired the imagination of the
world. The vision became a reality on
October 10, 1913, when President
Woodrow Wilson. in the white house
at Washington, pressed a button which
sent the electric current 1000 miles to
explode 40 tons Of dynamite which
blew up the last barrier to a free
waterway across the isthmus.
"Gamboa's busted" exclaimed the
president, as he pressed the telegraph
key. The casualness Of his remark was
a tribute to the engineers of the Unit
ed States army, to whom the digging
Of the canal has been simply another
job" in the routine OF their regular
work, and one that called for no brass
bands or special ceremonies to glorify
It. With the same simplicity, the first
vessel to pass through the famous
Culebra Cut, after the breaking of the
Gamboa dixie had let in the water. was
an ordinary rowboat, while a humble
but useful tugboat was the first craft
of any kind to make the passage
through the great Gatun Locks.
While the work at Panama is still
far from completed, yet the canal
which the nrst Spanish explorers
visualixed Is today an accomplished
fact. For the irst time since the
mountains ros from the sea. there is
. continuous water passage across the
isthmus. ships - large - most Of
those Of Balboas day can already be
noated from ocean to ocean.
On September %. 1913. vasco Nunes
Dc Balboa climbed TIE peaks Of the
Continental Divide and discovered the
Pacific Ocean. which he named THE
South Sea-. From where Balboa
stood HE now ocean lay directly south,
6ecauss OF the 6-shaped twist Of the
isthmus. which brings the Pacific IN
trance to the canal 10 only southwark
bnt sastWsrd Of the Ats ~ terminal.
Whom Balboa's report Of biz discovery
reached Spain, II ~ accompanied BY
~ accommodation that : canal be
14mediatsly dug across the isthmus.