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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07
Two Killed and Two May Die.

Providence, R. l., Aug. 1.-Two mem
bers of an automobile party of seven
we're killed when the car, which had
been stopped at the top of a hill, slid
down in front of a swiftly moving troll
ley car and was dragged $50 feet near
Long Meadow.
All the other occupants were injured
and two are expected to die.
Those killed were Thomas Kenney
and a whose body had not been
identified late last night. John Kenney
and Rose Dewey sustained internal in
juries and leg fractures and were prob
ably fatally hurt.
Those less seriously injured were Ell
len Murray, Charles Davis and Thomas
Mccarthy. The party was returning
to Providence after a visit to a club
house real Long Meadow.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07

water heater already mentioned and up
The exhaust steam from the low
pressure cylinders on the front unit
p asses through the usual nozzle in the
smoke-box and creates the blast neces-
sary to burn the immense quantity Of
coal.
This giant locomotive is los feet
long, weighs 1913, $50 pounds, has a
tank capacity of 10, 900 gallons, and a
coal capacity of 16 tons. 1t is capable
of hauling $40 cars, which would make
a train a Sd miles long on level tangent.
1t is so powerful that it cannot be used
for pulling ordinary freight trains, even
the biggest, on level roads. If you
fastened this locomotive to one of the
three great freight trains and started it,
it would pull apart the couplings and
ruin the draft gear of the train.
This giant is built to push and pull
heavy loads up steep grades-helping
the ordinary weaker engine. The great
freight train of 100 or more cars that
must go up the hill is divided in two.
And this locomotive is put in the mid
die of the train with one-half of its
power it pushes the cars ahead of it,
taking the load off the little engine in
front. With the rest of its power it
pulls the cars behind it-and so the load
goes up hill-this great engine of power
pushing and pulling at the same time.
New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07

Mrs. Eliza Rich visited friends in Cas-
tleton last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Baldwin have been
spending their vacation at his fathers,
John Baldwin's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moses Todruff were
shocked last Monday morning to find
their little four-months-old babe dead in
bed.
Miss Bernice Fillion of New Haven is
visiting her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Baldwin.
Mr.. Brown of Bennington spent the
week end at Eugene Leonard's.
Little Elizabeth Hammel Of Ticon-
deroga is spending her vacation at her
grandfather's, Mr.. Grimes.
MIR. and Mrs. Fred Baldwin and family
were at James Baldwin's Sunday.
Mrs. Rose Gokey and Gwendolin
Smith were in Rutland last week.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Henry Ward took a par
ty to sudbury Sunday in their auto.
Mrs. Ellen key is visiting friends in
Massachusetts,.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07

Thomas Goodrich Of Plymouth, who
was accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac
Provo and four children, all of Ludlow.
Mrs. Provo, her daughter, Edith, and
Mr.. Provo were badly shaken up, and
the shock rendered Mrs. Provo uncon-
scious for several hours. The husband
and daughter received painful bruises,
but none of the party sustained broken
bones.
The accident occurred on a sharp
bend in the road, the car turning tur-
tie, and being completely wrecked.
Luckily zone of the occupants fell un-
der the overturned machine. The road
is level at the point where the accident
happened. There was no other vehicle
near. Mr.. Goodrich and the other three
Provo children were not injured at all.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07

the war seem puerile to a degree, in
view of the Titanic developments Of the
last day OF two. Of what consequence
is a petty dispute like that which CEN
tres in the Balkans, when the German
war lord is hurting five hundred thous-
and soldiers against st. Petersburg and
five hundred thousand more against
Paris, and when u%ncounted millions
rally to the call of the Little White
Gear and universal France takes up
arms against the invader?
OF course England can not look on
calmly and permit the Emperor William
to become the arbiter of Europe and
gain the power in reality for which the
great Napoleon contended in vain. AT
any rate, it does not seem possible that
England will adopt a neutral course
and furthermore, it is not possible,
humanity speaking, for it to continue
neutral. 1t will unavoidably be swept
into the whirlpool. And on as many ar
occasion before, it will be the champion
of human rights and of the freedom OF
mankind. So at least it looks, three
thousand miles away.
But, oh. the pity of it!--Burllngtor
News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07
OCEAN LINER RETURNS.

Bar Harbor, Me-, August 4.-The
North German-Lloyd steamer, Kron-
prinzessin Cecile, carrying more than
$40, O00,0 900 in gold, whose whereabouts
has been more or less of a mystery
since she sailed from New York last
Tuesday, arrived in the harbor here at
6. a. M, today after a forced run of
four days without lights, her officers
fearing capture.
With a cargo of $40, 900, 900 in gold
and a million in silver consigned to
French and English bankers, with an
estimate value of over SIS, 900, 900 in
herself, the vessel has constituted pro-
badly the finest sea prize ever opened
to capture.
The vessel was within two days OF
Plymouth, England, when her captain
received orders to return to America.
A group of ~financiers aboard offered tc
buy the ship and sail her under Ameri-
can c%olors, but the offer was refused.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07
MCFARLAND FOR CONGRESS IN
FIRST DISTRICT.

An interesting and important event
at the conference of Progressives at
Burlington Monday was the announce
ment of the candidacy of Raymond Nc
Farland of ,Middlebury for member of
congress from the first district.
The Progressives of Addison have
long been minded to present his name
for that office and last week a petition
from leading members of tn party
asked him to be their candidate. His
answer given at the conference was in
the affirmative.
Professor Mcfarland was born in
Lamoine, Me-, graduated from Amherst
college in 1897 and received an A. M.
from Yale in 1902. Mr.. Netherlands
career is an interesting record of
progress-promotions earned by a man
with definite aim, methodical proceed
ure, and inspiring energy. Here are
the items: Superintendent and teacher
in Maine secondary schools, 1897-l901
teacher at State Normal school, Castle
ton, 1923; Principal at Leicester,
Mass, and Ithaca, New York, 1903-'9;
Professor of Secondary Education at
Middlebury College since 1909, and
director of the Summer School of that
institution for the past three years.
His History of New England Fisher
les, the only authoritative work on the
subject, is the result of five years OF
research, during which time he visited
the coast towns from Maryland to Nova
Scotia and made a trip of a thousand
miles through Newfoundland to verify
the information. Beyond the Height
of-land is another book, a report of eX'
~ploration in Labrador ~one-hundred miles
beyond the region familiar to white
men. In recognition of the SCIENTIFIC
value of this service the Canadian CAM
of New York entertained Mr.. McFar
land with Paul RaineY and Prof. Bling
ham, the explorer of Peru. He is alst
the author of several works on educa
ton and more recently a pamphlet OF
Secondary Education in Vermont Civ
ing a result of his investigation of thu
secondary schools in this State.
Mr.. Mcfarland has been a Progress
sive from the organization of the part.
and president of the M~iddlebury Pro
gressive Club. He did effective worl
for the cause on the stump and il
organization in Addison County ant
vicinity. He stands for the best ele
ment in the best party in the State. -
Burlington Advance.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07
SCRAMBLE TO LEAVE PARIS.

London, August 4.-Scenes attend
ing the sudden departure of Americans
and other foreigners from Paris when
the mobilization order was issued Sat
urday were described by Louis Ralston,
the picture dealer, New York, who ar
rived at Charing Cross with his family
yesterday, Mr.. Ralston said to the cor
respondent of the New York Sun:
81 never wish to see such a scene
again as the fight to get aboard the
train which left the Care du Nord at
half past nine o'clock last night.
my wife, my son, his bride and
myself were stopping at the Ritz and
decided to leave Paris when we were
informed that luncheon would be the
last meal to be served there, as practic-
ally the entire staff of the hotel would
have to reply to the mobilization call.
The barber who shaved me in the morn
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07
M~iohisan's Legislative Committee.

Michigan grangers through their leg
islative committee have been at work
framing bills for the tonnage tax, the
TOrrens system Of land transfers and
the constitutional amendment prOvid-
ing for the recall of judges. Petitions
will be circulated and an effort made
to initiate these measures. Provided
the necessary signatures are secured,
1t will be up to the Legislature either to
pass the measures or kill them within
forty days after the opening of the
session. These measures cannot be
amended, and if the Legislature refuses
TO act favorably the bill will go TO Il
direct vote Of the people. This is the
first time the initiative has been used
to promote legislation in Michigan, and
1t is being watched with interest.
Houlton grange of Maine still bears
the palm for the largest membership.
This grange has LOO members, Last
year their cooperative work amounted
to 100000,
The grange is a good place to ger
IDEAS TO help solve life's serious prob
lens. 1t is a good place for recreation
too.
Sparta grange, of Crawford county,
Pa, is the largest grange in the Key
stone State.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07
Four Hurt in Auto Crash.

Riverhead, l.. l., August 3.-John
Bagshaw had his collarbone broken,
Harlan Brown had his face badly cut,
Frank J. Corwin of the Long Island
House is badly bruised and shocked,
and Clarence j. Young is likewise
bruised and scratched, as the result of
an auto accident at Jamesport at 1870
Saturday night. Two handsome cars
are also smashed.
DIR. Payne attended Mr.. Bagshaw,
setting his collarbone, and also dressed
the wounds of the other men, all of
whom are prominent citizens here.
They were riding with Frank M.
Newins, a wealthy manufacturer of
this place. He alone escaped injury,
and he alone stayed in the car when il
collided with the big touring car owned
by E. Herbert Jennings of Greenport.
In attempting to get out of the way OF
the other car he ran his machine into a
cornfield, but he could not get entirely
clear of the road before the impact
came.
The R%iverhead men were thrown ir
all directions, except Mr.. Newins.
With Mr.. Jennings were his wife and
daughter, Catherine. They were not
thrown out, neither were they injured.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07
THE LARGEST LOCOMOTIVE.

The largest locomotive in the world
was recently completed by the Baldwin
locomotive work and has just been put
into service on the Erie railroad. This
1.-The c~entipede" locomotive, has "a
driving wheels of 63-inch diameter.
There are two distinct sets of driving
wheels under the locomotive itself, and
the weight of the tender is utilized for
adhesion for a third driving gear of
eight wheels. The operating mechan-
isms are all coupled so that the engine
can be operated as readily and with as
little labor as a single locomotive.
The coal is fed to the fireboX by a
mechanical stroker, so that the fireman
simply sits in the cage and operates the
lever and the coal is automatically car
ried into the hrebox. This locomotive
will consume so much coal that it would
be impossible for a single fireman to
supply fuel without the aid of some
mechanical device.
The water is fed to the boiler by
pumps connected with the middle
driving wheels and in its passage to the
boiler it passes through a feed water
heater, the heat being supplied by the
exhaust steam from the rear pair of
low-pressure cylinders. Thus an
economy is affected by returning much
of the waste heat from the exhaust
steam to the boiler.
Another very interesting thing about
this engine is that it excels the old
Mallet type in having three sets of
cylinders instead of two. The cylinders
on the central unit or high pressure
cylinders. One exheusts into the two
lower-pressure cylinders on the front
unit while the other exhausts into the
two lower-pressure cylinders on the
tender unit. The exhaust steam from
the latter unit passes through the feed
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07
FRIDAY, AUGUST I, 1914.
ACTION, NOT

A party of JOY riders stopped on
Barre street last evening and accord
ing to reports of residents of that sec
ton of the city some members of
the party were in an intoxicated con-
dition. The car bore the number of a
machine owned in the northern part
of the State. So many machines have
come through here in which rum in
stead of gasoline appears to be the
motive power that the careful owners
and drivers of machines about here
are getting alarmed and believe that
drastic measures should be adopted by
the authorities. Montpelier Argus.
This is the second time within a o u
pie of weeks that an opportunity
has been given for The authorities of a
Vermont community to make an exam
pie of the highway, menace, to wit, the
careless, negligent, brutal, selfish or
intoxicated automobilist, and for the
second time the opportunity has been
allowed to lapse.
What is wanted in such cases is &C.
ton not argument; punishment, not
recovery of property damage. An
overnight experience in a Vermont
county Jail with a whacking fine for
breaking the State law, is what is nee
essary to check some of this highway
barbarism.
In the Middlebury case, the authori-
ties apprehended the passing automo-
bile menace and compelled him to set
tie for smashing up a carriage, but
failed to prosecute him for breaking
the law by operating his car in a care
less and negligent manner
In the Montpelier case under observa'
ton, nothing whatever seems to have
been done except by the reporter, who
observed the condition of the JOY
riders. Section 8 of number 1l3 of the
public acts of 1906 reads as follows:
Sec. s. No person shall operate OIL
attempt to operate a motor vehicle
while in a state of i~ntoXication.
There is no penalty attached to this
section, but certainly any court would
hold that intoXication was prima facit
evidence of negligence, and certainly
the statue provides sufficiently for tax
ing away the license of an offende.
found intoxicated on his car.
1t will not do much good for tn
newspapers to chronicle these hundred
of examples of careless and negligen
running unless the local police do some
thing, and in the Middlebury and Mont
pelier cases there must have been ampl
chance for action. Rutland Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07

ing said to me-: III be with my regi-
ment tomorrow
81 had no money except useless 100
franc notes and did not pay for our
luncheon at the Ritz. The, hotel man.
agement paid for the four taxicabs to
take us and our baggage to the rail-
way station.
"Al Hayman and his wife had ar
rived at the Ritz the evening before
from London on the way to Carlsbad.
1t seems hat Hayman had not read in
the papers regarding the critical situa-
ton. We hurried to the Boyd Nee
bank ii Hayman's automobile, in which
he intended to make a dash to Dieppe
to get back to England. The bankers
gave Hayman 500 francs ($100 for a
ego note, saying: That's the last.
we're closed
"Just then Reginald C. Vanderbilt
dashed in and cried: Give m 10000
froncs ga, 0O0. we can't give you
twenty confines -four c%ents), was the
reply.
1--WE went out and found that Hay.
mans automobile, which he had en-
gagged in France, had been com.
wandered by the military authorities.
as were all taxicabs and autobuses Z
little while later. We returned to the
Ritz, where | saw Oscar Straus, who
said he had intended to finish his stay
of three weeks in Paris, but who wa.
rushing to get an automobile to taxi
him and Mrs. Straus to the coast. One
of the Ritz porters said to me: He'l
never get out. The Paris gates ar,
closed That's the last | saw Of Mr.
Straus.
I'VE finally made our way to tn
railway station. We had to bride porter
and fight our way to the platform. Thu
station was packed with hysterical
clamoring men, and children.
had reserved a firstclass compartment
for my party. When we got to it w
found ten persons already there.
This was at a O'Clock in the after.
noon. The corridors of the train ant
lavatories were packed. In our com
partment was a lady in waiting to tn.
Queen of Italy. She was crying in fea
of being shot at en- route.
1.-The train pulled out at $3.50 leavinI
hundreds of persons, as well as on
baggage behind. The baggage is regis
tered. We bad to abandon it, as di
scores of others. The CHANNEL boat wa
crowded. Women lay IN the decks an
men had to stand"
Mr.. Ralston had been at Aix-les-Bain
before going to Paris. He was at tn
Casino, where many Americans wer
indulging in high play, when the wor
was suddenly passed that gold woul
be held.
"Whiskl" said Mr.. Ralston. "In
second not a gold coin was left in sigh
on the tables"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07
A

The trumpet has sounded, and soon
all the nations of Europe will be cutting
each others throsts, and not only that,
but scenes of horror and blood will be
enacted in the remotest East and in
furthest Antipodes. We of the United
States will be fortunate if we are not
dragged into the vortex, and it will
require the coolest, calmest manage
ment at Washington to prevent it.
Not only all Europe, but Asia and
Africa are to be visited with death and
destruction. No one can foresee the
end. No nation car be sure that it will
not be drawn into the vortex of blood
and lust for power in which great
empires are about to be whirled around
like driftwood in a whirlpool.
The sickening waste of worldwide
war is simply Northumberland only
the waste of human life but of visible
property and of the hard-won savings
of generations. And at the end of all,
Europe, in the impressive words of
dnOIneT, Will ne DOWtu anu DtHl Dt-
meath the burden of waste and debt for
a century to come. Arts, progress,
culture, civilization, all that depends on
wealth and prosperity, will be sacrificed
to the red demon of war. 1t is-again
we quote, the Chicago Record Herald
being our originate sacrifice of hui
mainly and human progress on a scale
to stagger the imagination, to pierce
the moral sense with its crimina.
iniquity like a sharp sword, to reawaker
the sense of kinship with the unfor'
tunate AUTHORIZATIONS of our blood
too about to be offered up as a sacri'
fee to pride, power, monarchy anc
crime.
The primary cause of the war, the
Austria Servia dispute, in view of later
events seems childish, trifing, and the
British and other attempts to "localize'
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07
IDAHO GRANGE.
lite Annual Session at Nampa Elects
and l~nstalls Officers.

Following the installation of officers
on Jan. % the Idaho state grange ad-
tourned its annual session, which was
one of the most enthusiastic and sue
cessful ever held by the organization
II. Harland of Payette was reelected
state master, NJ. n. Webb of Weiser
reelected overseer, d. c. Mullen of
Nampa reelected lecturer, II. vii
leneuve Of Nampa elected steward, c.
e. B. Roberts Of Rupert reelected
chaplain, ]. f. McBurney Of Wendell
elected assistant steward, George Gull
lens Of Gooding treasurer, E. c. Pres
ton of New Plymouth secretary, Guy
Smith of Nampa g~atekeeper, Mrs. H.
Harland elected Ceres, Mrs. d. w.
Rothrock of Weiser elected Flora, Mrs.
]. P. Bates Of Wendell elected Pomona
and Mrs. T. A. Allen Of Meridian elect
ed lady assistant steward.
No changes were made in the ex-
ecutive committee, but a new legisla-
tive committee was elected, consisting
of w. G. Scholtz of Boise, w. w. Deal
Of Nampa and the master ex oficio.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07

The automobile took its terrible week
end toll again in Vermont. The acct
dent at the extreme southern end
of the State, wherein Miss Mary
Houghton, talented daughter of A. c.
Houghton of North Adams, Mass, a
Vermonter, and Mrs. Hutton, wife of a
New York physician, formerly of North
Adams, were killed, was one of the
most frightful of. the season, both vic
tins being unutterably mangled by the
overturn of the machine. This acct
dent happened at one of the most beau
tiful spots in all Vermont, on the road
that winds around Pownal far above
the valley, opening to the view "A scene
of surprising splendor. The concom-
itants of this casualty were a heavy
car, high speed, a soft spot in the road
in process of improvement, a steep de-
clivity at the roadside. This accident,
and the others of less consequence, en-
phasize again the need of more care
UPON the part of automobile drivers,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07
$50, 600, 600 IN GOLD.

Philadelphia, August EVERY great
money shipment previously made by
the United States Mint here dwindled
into insignificance yesterday when the
mint officials sent $50, 600, 900 in coined
gold, exactly fifty-eight tons of eagles
and double eagles to the New York
Sub-Treasury to be subjected to the de-
mands of American business in the ex-
traordinary financial strain that has fol-
lowed the var developments in Europe.
Two express cars of the regulation
type were required to carry the treas
ure. They were attached to the noon
New York express from Broad street
station.
No previous train ever left this city
with so rich a cargo. A big force OF
secret service men, each armed with
two magazine revolvers, watched the
transfer of the gold from the mint tc
the railroad station and accompanied
the money bags on the trip to New
York.
This shipment makes $50, 900, 900 ir
gold which the mint here has sem t
the New York Sub-Treasury within
three days.
1t is understood that $40, 900, 0O(
more, representing the remaining sun
of the gold reserve in the mint vault:
here, will be shipped Monday.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07
Autoist Sentences for killins Boy

Judge Thompson in the County court
today, in imposing sentence on Fred
erick Moeslein, denounced c~hauffeurs
who, through their mania for speed.
turn their high powered machines into
''death-dealing instruments, as more
dangerous 10 the community than gun
men and stickup men,"
Moeslein was sentenced to not less
than one year and six months and not
more than ten years at hard labor in
Sing Sing. On the evening Of June
"a he drove his machine, owned by
Edward A. Kelly, manager of the Clyde
Line, through Fifth avenue at a rate of
60 miles an hour. At Seventeenth
street he struck and killed ~ten-year-old
Leopold Strauss, who was standing by
the curb, playing ball. Moeslein sped
on without waiting to learn how badly
injured the lad was. He was captured
the next day and indicted for man.
slaughter in the second degree to which
charge he pleaded guilty on July "a
Brooklyn Eagle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-07
Chauffeur Commits Suicide.

North Adams, Mass, August 8. - Evil
IDENTIFY crazed by grief on account of
the death of Miss Mary Houghton, vic
tim of an automobile accident near
Pownal on Saturday in which he was
involved, John Widders, who drove the
car at the time of the accident and who
has been in the employ of the Hough-
tons for nearly so years, committed
suicide yesterday morning by shooting
himself in the head.