Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-01-28
STATE NEWS.
Vermont Railroad Scales Incorrect.

Federal inspection of 16 railroad
track scales in Vermont has disclosed
that allowing ''for reasonable toler-
ances of four tenths of one percent of
the weighing machines would be
rejected. Inspectors of the bureau of
standards reported that on loads of
IS, 600 pounds the Vermont railroad
scales were 1,349 pounds off. The
report points out that empty freight
cars weigh about $4,000 pounds and
that the errors ''are greater than
should be permitted" Their report
has been forwarded to the Vermont
commissioner of weights and measures.
Vermont High School Book Circulation.
The pupils in the Marshfield high
school, Mrs. Della G.. Saxby, princi-
pal. have had &c books to help in their
Vermont free public library commits
sion, and have made excellent use OF
them. The books were on travel,
history. biography, nature study, etc.
The principal kept careful record of
the years circulating, both outside
and in school with this result:
Fiction (three books 16; non fiction
(63 books $50; total 866 among 81
readers.
Does the library in your town help
your boys and girls, in grades and
high school, with books to add interest
to their lessons?
Criticism of Brattleboro Retreat
That the system of ventilation at
the Brattleboro retreat is radically
wrong and always has been and should
be changed, also that sanitary condi-
lions are bad, is set forth in a report
to Gov. Allen M. Fletcher by the state
board of health. There is some criti-
cism also of the dining room, the
wards of untidy patients, and an
abandonment of all basement wards is
recommended. Comparison is made in
the report between the old buildings
and the new one. not yet occupied,
which is considered a model of its kind.
The institution has several hundred
inmates, some of whom are maintained
by the state and others at private
expense. The inspection was made
late in December.
Barre Hotel Burns.
Twenty guests at the City hotel,
Barre, were driven from their beds
out into a temperature of "a degrees
below zero Friday morning by fire
that destroyed the building. w. H.
Snow, the proprietor, his wife and ter
guests were rescued from an upper
window. The loss is estimated al
S25, 900. The fire was discovered ir
the basement shortly after O'Clock
in the morning and spread rapidly
throughout the tWo-story structure
driving out into the cold every CUES
in the establishment. Men and womer
grabbed whatever was at hand in the
way of apparel and fought their way
through dense columns of smoke tt
the street The fremen were ham
pered in their work by the severe cold
Clements Side of the Case.
Percival w. Clement of Rutland ha
given to the press a statement relative
to the two suits brought against hin
in the New York supreme court b!
Mrs. Marion Egbert, of New York
who has begun an action in trover t,
recover a diamond ring valued a
$4,000 said to belong to her, which sh'
claims Mr.. Clement holds. The othe,
case is to < recover about $12.OO
alleged to be due for wages in looking
up the Clement genealOgy.
Mr.. Clement said that he considere
that there really were no suits, be
cause resident of New York stat
cannot sue a Vermonter in New York.
Concerning the ring he said "Mrs
Egbert boarded at the Hotel Wood
stock in 1906 (Mr. Clement owns tn
hoteD and ran up board DILL of som
$3.50 which she could not pay. He
trunks were held and later she returne
with ring, which had been in paw
for $500, and w. H. Valiquette, tn
proprietor took it, wearing it unit
last summer, when he sold it. | neve
saw the ring
Mr.. Clement said that Mrs. Egber
was at one time on his payroll to cop
some genealogical records and that sh
did satisfactory work. He declare
that if suits were brought in prope
form he would be prepared to answe
them.
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