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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-04-11
VERMONT NOT LIKELY TO BOND
FOR UN-PERMANENT ROADS.

FOR UN-PERMANENT ROADS.
We are glad to receive Hon. Fuller
C. Smiths breezy communication on
Vermont roads printed elsewhere, es-
pecially as he confirms so much of
what we said impersonally. Various
writer's have discussed the road ques-
ton, but he seems to have taken wholly
to himself our suggestion that it would
be better to consider Vermont roads
"above the plane of personalities and
politics." Whether there is politics in
it" is point that we now rest on his
letter itself.
While we were formerly inclined to
favor bonding for permanent roads
our position, since the ravages of the
auto on our supposedly permanent
roads brought taxpayers face to face
with new problem, has been that
Vermont could not afford to bond Tor
trunk roaGs until we know that such
vast expenditure would mean roads
that would stand up under the auto.
Mr.. Smith says whether Burlington
built good or bad macadam streets
fifteen or twenty years ago is imma-
terial."
Inasmuch as Burlington did precisely
what Mr.. Smith would have Vermont
do now on broader scale Burlington s
experience with permanent" roads is
very material.
This city secured the services of the
well known engineer, William S. Bacot
who studied our whole problem as to
needs, material, methods and so on
We issued bonds and expended the pro
ceeds largely in both Telford and
Macadam. We are not now bonding
for the extension of this class of roads,
though we still use these methods of
construction in particular cases; and as
already stated since the advent of the
auto some of our permanent" roads
have been rebuilt
We do not believe it would be any
more profitable for the State than it
would be for Burlington to bond itself
for trunk lines until we know that
such roads would be fairly permanent,
under auto traffic.
The federal expert who investigated
the situation in Vermont said that
with road making in its present eX-
perimental stage Vermont had done
wisely in relying largely uponits gravel
roads, and until the problem of meeting
of auto wear which sucks out the
"binder" of crushed stone roads had
been successfully solved we could not
do better than to continue this policy,
using other and more expensive materials
in bad places where gravel is not avail
able.
We must be excused if we accept the
testimony of distinguished national
expert rather than that of a layman,
especially one who wanted to bond the
State of Vermont for a big sum for
trunk lines of roadway we now know
absolutely would not have stood up
under the automobile.
Vermont is not likely to bond at
present for roads not permanent.
If Mr.. Smith thinks he can persuade
the taxpayers of Vermont to the con-
trary, he is entirely welcome to reason
able space in our columns for any
further letters he may desire to write
with that end in view. Burlington
Free Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-04-11
AIMS TO REDUCE AUTO
KILLINGS.
Work of Highway and Safety
League.

about $50 people will lose their lives
in this state from automobile accidents
in the present year-that is, to judge
by the past year." said Lawrence G.
Brooks at the Twentieth Century Club
yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Brooks, who is secretary of the
Informed Highway and Safety
League, gave an account of the origin
and purposes of that organization. Our
league" he said, twas formed little
over year ago with the aim of making
the roads of the commonwealth safer
than they are today. We are collecting
information about accidents and are
doing all we can to discourage reckless
driving and overspeeding. Part of our
work is to arouse public attention to
the subject for we do not believe in
the necessity of a situation which re-
suits in the killing of from 200 to $50
people by road vehicle accidents every
year. The automobiles kill many more
than the trolley cars. - Boston Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-04-11
CORNWALL,

George f. Field of Los Angeles, Cal,
is IA guest of his brother, A. j. Field, and
family.
The thank-otfering meeting of the
Woman's Missionary society which was
held at the home Of Mrs c. f. Sampson,
was well attended. An interesting pro-
gram was given and the receipts were
Sl3.
Clara, only daughter of Mr., and Mrs,
j. E. Murray, who was operated on for
append icitis, is reported as improving
rapidly.
The remains of Reuben Peck, who died
mt the home of his son, Earl in Whiting
Friday, April 4, and whose funeral was
held Sunday, were brought to West
Cornwall and buried in the family lot
Mr. Peck was SO years of age. He
leaves two sons, Aretus of this place, and
Earl of Whiting; also two sisters. Mrs.
A. II. Taylor and Mrs. j. w. Atwood OF
this town.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-04-11

months, thereby flooding the cotton
plantations of four most fertile coun-
ties
Levees built on the lower Mississippi
will not prevent great and destructive
floods in the Ohio and the Missouri
rivers, and these floods, forming with
run-off from denuded mountain sides,
tile drained farms, and generally i'm
proved drainage, gather enough force
by the time they reach the Mississippi
river to destroy the levees and turn
farms into reservoirs. In this way
much valuable property is destroyed,
navigable channels are spoiled, power
and needed water are wasted, and all
because the nation has been so poor in
purpose that it has not seen fit to turn
national agency of waste and de-
struction into a national agency of
prosperity.
The valleys of the Mississippi river
and its tributaries cannot be perma-
nently protected from floods unless four
things be done:
First-The Mississippi river must be
treated as a unit, with all its tribu-
tares, from source to mouth.
Second-The levee system must be
brought up to standard for its entire
length and thereafter maintained by
the federal government.
Third-The levee system must be
supplemented by adequate revetments
that will protect caving banks; and
Fourth-The levee system must be
further supplemented by source stream
control which will lower the crest of
the floods in the Mississippi valley and
thereby relieve the pressure on the
levees.
Source stream control will mean flood
waters conserved for use in the irriga-
ton of dry lands, for the development
of hydro electric power and for the sup
plementing of the dry season flow for
the purpose of navigation.
Ddnh IeNeJIHenIS VIII mean pTeNeH-
ton of soil erosion, of soil waste and of
the formation of navigation impeding
sand bars.
The building of standard levees by the
federal government, fully justified by
the fact that the necessity therefor
arises from the increasing volume of
flood flow in the drainage of many
States, will mean uniformity, economy
and systematic protection in so far as
levees can be made to protect the low
country.
The treating of the Mississippi water
shed as a unit from the mouths of
streams to their sources will mean the
coordination of the work of the federal
engineers, of the reclamation service,
of the forestry bureau, of the division
of soils, of the geodetic survey, of the
Mississippi River Commission and of
the national effort to turn floods into
power, arid regions into gardens and
marshes into farms. All this will be
done by one act of the federal Congress.
We can lift the rivers out of politics by
enacting a single adequate measure,
establishing policy and providing con-
tinuing funds, exactly as was done in
the case of the Panama Canal.
Faithfully yours,
(Signed) THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
John NJ Barker, Esq, SIG Union
Street, New Orleans, La.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-04-11
Extreme Suffering Relieved

Mr. G. I Chamberlain. New Durham.
n. H., writes: Il am farmer by occu-
patton and have worked very hard Ir
1908. | was taken with inflammation of
the bladder. | suffered for few weeks
and grew worse. The best doctors gave
no permanent relief 1 was so discour.
aged that l thought | would never get
we'll. About this time | met man who
had been great benefited by DR.. David
Kennedys Favorite Remedy. l drop
ped my doctors medicine and began TAX
ing it. have taken over three bottles
l OF tanned relief soon after began its
use. 1t has also greatly helped my rheu-
matsn with which l was troubled for
years" Write DR.. David Kennedy Co,
Rondout, n. Y, for free sample. Large
bottles, all druggists. adv
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-04-11
ROOSEVELT ON FLOOD-CHECKS.


However divergent may be the views
of Theodore Roosevelt's craftsmanship,
there will be few to deny that he knows
as much as any layman in the country
about the problems of forest conserva-
ton. In another column we print a
letter from Col. Roosevelt to John
Parker of New Orleans, in which he
points out what he considers the under
lying and remediable causes of the
Ohio floods.
We feel that undue emphasis may
have been laid upon the undoubted
factor of forest denudation as a con-
tributory cause of the disasters, but
with the whole tenor of the letter, and
especially with the conclusion, that the
Mississippi river must be treated as
unit, we most heartily agree. OF the
four pre- essentials of an adequate pro-
lection for the future, source-stream
control is logically the most important.
The Swiss engineers have recently
criticized our system on the ground that
patching up levees, raising embank-
ments and strengthening dams are all
eleventh. hour remedies. They are
right Those defences, necessary
though they may be at the crucial
moment, are no more permanent in
value than soldering the holes in a cor
rodng can.
AS Col Roosevelt says, it is the
duty of the federal government to pro-
vide preventive protection against flood
disaster; and preventive protection
means adequate source-stream control
and diversion. Boston Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-04-11

there is a ten per cent tax upon the
gross stumpage value of the. lumber
when cut.
The most encouraging feature about
the reforestation movement in Yer
mont is the fact that so many people
who have planted in previous years are
continuing to do so, indicating that
their former efforts have been success
full. 1t is estimated that fully Is per
cent. of all the trees planted during the
established, while in some stands over
80 per cent. are alive. Among the
largest planters Of past years is DR..
VIM. S. Stevens, who has now planted
10000 trees on his farm in Enosburg,
and is to plant 80, 900 more this spring.
Another enthusiastic planter is Miss
Woodbury. who, during the past three
years, has set %, 900 trees in Weathers
field, and is to plant 10, 200 white pines
this season. T. d. Hobart of Texas,
who spends his vacations on his birth-
place in Berlin, has planted there 27, 600
white pine and 5000 Norway spruce.
This year he is planting 5000 of each.
That so many of the large lumber
concerns are interested is particularly
encouraging. The Newton & Thomp-
son Manufacturing Company of Bran
don has planted, during past years, over
20, 900 pines and this season is to plant
as many more. The Bridgewater
Wooden Company, which planted 5000
trees in 1912, reported in the fall that
50 per cent. were alive, and ordered
5000 for 1913. The Putnam Lumber
Company of Middlesex have set out
$1,000 trees and are to continue by
planting 10, 600 this spring. Many other
former planters are demonstrating their
satisfaction in the work by planting
more land.
Among the most interesting under
takings in this line, thus far is that of
the City of Montpelier, in reforesting
its watersheds in Berlin. This work
which was begun under Mayor Ballard,
is being developed under Mayor Estee.
Last year 10000 white pine and 1000
Norway spruce were planted. This
season the following kinds will be used
$4,000 white pines; 10000 Norway
spruce, and 5000 Scotch pines.
The most interesting new develop
ment in forest planting is in Arlington,
where Mrs. Flavia Garfield is starting
for her little granddaughter a large
forest to be memorial to the late DR..
Garfield. $4,000 white pines are to be
planted this year as beginning, and in
succeeding years more trees will be
planted until about 200 acres of the old
Garfield farm is reforested. The little
girl, who is now only three years old,
will have, in this forest, very valuable
sighted policy on the part of her par
ents and grandmother
Among others who are beginning re-
forestation this year, may be men
toned The Jones Lumber Company
of Warren; Edward H. Williams of
Woodstock; Hon. Charles A. Plumley of
Northfeld; Mr. Arthur Palmer of Tibet
ford; and Master Harold E. Sawyer, a
nine year old boy in Plymouth, VT
The State nursery has been steadily
enlarged and it is believed that it will
be able to meet all orders this season,
for the first time
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-04-11
FRIDAY. APRIL II, 1913.

The somewhat lengthy article upon
Charles F. Rich, which appeared on
page of the Register last week was
inserted without the knowledge of the
proprietor of the paper.
We call attention to it because the
Register is not accustomed to insert
private articles without consultation,
and we will not permit it to be done by
those connected with the paper.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-04-11
MORGAN STATIONS
SCOTLAND

pounds fald June % 1906 Bred by Joseph Bitn by General
of
1928 Cullen, Wells Vt, by Highland Of
Dikey, Rounds Horse, of Black Hawk
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-04-11
Hereis ReIiefforw om.n

If you have pains in the back, Urinary, Bladder
or Kidney trouble, try Mother Gray's AROMATIC
LEAF. a pleasant herb remedy for women's ills
and great tonic laxative. At Druggists or by
mail soc, sample FREE. Address, Mother Gray
Co., Leroy, N. Y. 1874
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-04-11
Terms strictly In Advance.

Terms strictly In Advance.
ONE YEAR IN VERMONT -------- 81 90
SIX MONTHS IN VERMONT - so
THREE MONTHS IN vEMoNT ----- 40
ONE YEAR Outside of Vermont, 49, 81 %
ONE YEAR Outside of U. s., $3.50 l50
The Register will be found on file at
the Congressional Library reading room,
Washington, d. G..
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-04-11
BEN LOMOND
Full Brother. to Scotland.

IOMoND bay
ankles. old this
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-04-11
Motion I'd, $685.

ankles pounds, foala
Marguerite chestnut by White River Morgan 49,
dam
young uong
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-03

spending the weekend at his coun-
try home in sp~otsyivania-
Mr.. william @. Hayes left Monday
night for Tuxedo. N. Y, where he
WILL toin hts mother, Mrs. James
Hayes. ard Mr., and Mrs. John II.
Wight, and motor TO Wildwood IL
the Green Spring valley, Md.
Miss Margaret Drewry is the guest
Of her aunt. Mrs, william Thornton,
In Staunton.
Mr. william Barksdale. of Lynch.
burg. is visiting his brother, Mr.. c
C. Barksdale. in this city.
MISC Lucy Duke, of this city, is Wis
ting at Hoilins college.
pr. and Mrs. J.. N. Upshur are NOV
ing this week into their new home In
West Franklin street.
Mrs. Rosa Albert, who has been
spending some time at the Bruins
wick inn. Waynesboro, left Monday
for F~luvanna. where she will visit
relatives before returning to Rich
mond-
Colonel Eugene Massie is attending
the conference commission for uni
form laws in Montreal Canada.
Mr aad Mrs. Selden Robertson,
who have been visiting in Forest Hin,
have returned to their home in
Amelia,
Mrs. Haskins Hobson, who is the
guest Of her sister. Mrs. Charles Ash
burner, Of LynchburR. liz expected tc
return home soon
Mrs. John Quarles is the guest ot
Mrs. william Tornpkins at Forest
Hin.
Mr.. A. r.. Holderhy Jr. OF Ror
Air, will leave in a few days for the
Virginia Military institute.
Mlas Annie r. Jones, Of Norfolk
viii be the guest OF Misc De Graffen.
dried Robertson, In Forest HID. dur
ing the state fair.
Mrs. James Lamb. of s27 Yves
Grace street In the guest Of her sis
ter in Warsaw. Richmond county.
Mrs. James +. Blizzard. and her twt
daughters. Martha and Virginia. o
Forest HIN. are the guests of Mrs
Sam Ford In Amherst county, neai
Lynchburg.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-03
To IMPROVE BROAD
STREET NEXT YEAR
FINANCE COMMITTEE EXPECTED
TO APPROPRIATE SUFFICIENT
AMOUNT FOR PURPOSE.

The sum Of s3.3se.77 was left over
from the amount appropriated for
SIN Doth paving on Broad street. This
sum ID not sufficient to pave one
block. II was stated at the meeting OF
the administrative board yesterday,
and the board accordingly decided TO
ask council, through the mayor, to
divert that sum to the improvement
OF streets generally.
The administrative board has spent
much money in the improvement of
streets In many sections of the city,
and this sum will help some. as Com
missioner Folkes said yesterday.
1t ia the idea of the commissioners
TO do all that can be done IN rne
Improvement. and the completion of
work on the various streets, and the
board feels that the sum mentioned
will help materially.
Next year, minated a member OF
the board, the finance committee will
give that body a sufficient amount to
carry the Broad street improvements
farther west.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-03
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
OPEN EARLIER
REGISTERING OF PUPILS WILL
BEGIN ON THURSDAY, ii.
SESSION BEGINS ON 18th.

After a vacation Of three months
from their studies the public school
children will go back to their books
on Thursday. September 18th.
The public schools are beginning
nearly a week earlier than last year
in order that all registering and bust
ness which has to be attended to be-
fore the school session begins will be
finished.
A larger enrolment than ever Is
expected and with the room added by
the new schools being built 1t Is ex-
pected that all of the 10000 pupils
will be cared for.
Single desks have been supplied In
nearly all Of the. schools OF the city
and this arrangement will be of great
use In making room for the pupils.
New pupils will be registered and
assigned to their rooms on Thurs
day and children entering the la
grade will be registered on Friday.
The actual session will begin on
Monday.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-03
SPEEDING AUTO PINS
DRIVER UNDERNEATH

Especial to The Richmond Firginian.)
IRVINGTON. VA, September 2
While speeding around the fair
grounds track at KilmarnoCk Sunday
an automobile driven by Wildly Bon
ner. Of Kilrnarnock. became unman-
ageable, and turned turtle, with Mr..
aaeable, and turned turtle. With Mr..
bonner was Wayland VERIFY and
Misses Nellie Tapscott-and Adele
Kramer. Of the am place,
Mr.. Bonner was caught under the
machine, and ii Is feared is seriously
injured. Drs. Edmonds and Hub
bards, the physicians in attendance.
report his condition as being critical
from internal fractures, and cannot
tell whether there is "a chance OF hts
ultimate recovery.
The other three occupants of the
machine were only slightly bruised.
The machine was badly wrecked.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-03
SMALL INCREASE IN
POSTAL RECEIPTS
WHILE GAIN OVER AUGUST OF
LAST YEAR Is BUT SOFIA, 1T
rs 4 GAIN.

Postal receipts from the sale OF
stamps, from the handling or other
classes of mail and for box rents at
the Richmond p~ostoffice during the
month OF August were slightly in ex-
cess of those for the month of August.
1919 Total receipts for the month
were $84,b19.l7.
The sources of revenue. and the re-
ceipts from each were;
Sale of stamps and stamped paper,
s59.912.30.
From second. third and fourth
class matter and box rents. $~4,60e.s1.
The receipts during August, last
year. were ~$54,421.4b
This shows q gain In favor of the
month just closed yer that OF a year
& of 297.T2, an increase OF about
one-quarter of one per cent.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-03
MANNING COMPANY
To PLUMB CITY JAIL
CONTRACTS FOR OTHER NJ
PROvEMENTs WILL BE
:
LET LATER

After looking over the bids FOR
plumbing at the city jail. the admin
istrative board yesterday awarded the
contract for whatever work Is neces-
aary, to the c. Manning Plumbing
for $1,000. The company
which received the contract was or
ganized by the late Christopher
Manning. Jr., member of the police
board, and whs was for IA long time
considered a leader in local politics,
Recently the administrative board
ana the city council appropriated
$4,000 for improvements to the city
tAii. Aside from the amount named
for plumbing, there was a sum men,
toned for the improvement of cells
and locks to the same, The contract
for this fas not yet been given.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-03
NEW RIM. W, G.. HEAD


Especial to The Richmond V~irginian.)
1tiNCHBURG, VA, Sept. a.
DR.. william A. Webb, who was re-
Gently elected president of Randolph
Macon Woman's college. arrived in
Lynchburg last night, Mrs. Webb. and
three of their four children accom-
panying DR.. webb. They went TO the
college, where they will reside until
M arrival OF their household effects
from their former home in Kansas.
The college authorities have leased
a residence on Rivermont avenue OPP
posite the college, where the presi-
dent and his fanny will live until a
presidents home can be erected or
the college premises,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-03

tn take part in e-exerciSeSatth
day.
Commissioner Hirschherg. who Ia
considered the father of the play
grounds, will be on hand to shake
hands with the youngsters who will
in time be the men who control the
municipality.
Their will be seventeen directors
present to see that everything lis con-
Quoted properly.
In tn various athletic and recreation
events there will be record makers, and
clerks OF the course. The winners In
any event will be entitled to whatever
Is coming to them. and may win at1-
letic badges, which will entitle them
10 high honors, and which will count
a whole lot next year when the con-
tests are pulled off. There will prob-
ably be several hundred youngsters on
hand. and many hundred spectators
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-03
DRUG STORE FIRST
TO FEEL FAILURE
CLOSING OF COMMONWEALTH BANK
REFLECTED IN DRUG BUsI-
NESS OF ,. II. LEWIS
ASSIGNMENT IS MADE
NOTES DISCOUNTED IN COMMON
WEALTH BANK AGGREGATE
ss, EXPERIMENTATION DRUG
co. LARGEST CREDITOR

The first business house Of Rich
mond to show that II has felt the eff
fects OF the closing OF the doors Of
the Commonwealth bank last Friday
night ,is the drug business of J. T.
Lewis at 4 East Broad street. The
company made An assignment In
favor OF Robert l.. Powers and II. S.
Morris yesterday. the deed of trust
being flied in the Office Of the clerk
of the Chancery court.
Among the creditors whose ac-
counts are secured pro rata by the as
signment are named the receivers of
the Commonwealth bank. holding
notes a~Egregating $3.50, discounted
by that bank.
The deed assigns all the stock and
fixtures and business and accounts OF
the drug store TO Messrs. Powers and
Morris. who will make an inventory,
collect accounts due and s~traighten
out the business.
Creditors Secured.
First secured by the assignment are
the fees for the deed M Its re-
cording, commission of FIVE per cent
to three trustees. rent luz Mrs. Henry
G.. Cannon, the landlord, and one
months wages, sS5, to r. s. Lewis,
clerk at the store.
Second, secured pro rata, are the
accounts of Powers-Taylor Drug com
pany, holding notes amounting to 81
255, and open account of $t.020.A3;
| Richard G~wathmey q Co, notes oil
$321.0S and open account, $l51.60;
Vaughan Robertson Drug company
notes $500. open account, $3.50; Cliff
Well Cigar company. open account
sS4.1s; Strauss Cigar company. open
account. $50.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-03
BIG DAY FRIDAY
FOR THE CHILDREN
BYRD PARK TO BE THROWN
OPEN FOR AN ALL-DAY
PLEASURE-FEST.

The administrative board yesterday
agreed to permit the children OF the
Fairgrounds league to have q full
day at Byrd Park on Friday.
At that time they may do whatever
they please in the line Of recreation.
They may also. under the direction
Of Superintendent Calder, have h use
OF the baseball grounds. The day will
prove to be one OF much benent to
the youngsters of the city.
This will be about the last Friday
before the opening of school, and 1t
is anticipated hat there will be thous-
ands of youngsters ready and willing