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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
PREPARING TO LEAVE.
Ambassador Dltmba Expected to Give
Up His Summer Home This Week.

LENON, Mass, Sept. 13.-The am
bassador of Austria Hungary, DR.. Con-
stantin Theodor Dumba, Whose reeaii
was requested by President Wilson,
was preparing today to leave his sum-
mer home within very short time. He
has engaged furniture packer of
Pittsfiefd to prepare his personal ef-
feet for shipment and has also notified
his chauffeur that he would not require
his services after the end of the
week.
1t was said at tn office of the en-
bassy staff today that no formal state
ment on DIR. Dumba S recall was ready
for publication. It / was understood
this would be Withheld until official adj
vices had been received from the Aus
trian foreign office at Vienna.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
FABRE LINER IS
ON FIRE AT SEA
Crave Fears Entertained for the Safety of Her
Passengers, Including 1900 Italian Reseryists =
Great Precautions Had Been Taken Against
Bombs and Internal Machines

NEW YORK, Sept 13.-The steamship
SAINT Anna, bound from New York to
MarseillcS and Naples with some 1900
Italian rescrvists aboard, was atire today
in tie ttla"t,r, t,rcc OF four days sail
ir m tie rryr-.t To's.
A wireless message that reached the
station at Cape Race last night brought
the first news Of her plight. 1t gave her
position as 800 miles southeast of Halifax.
Efforts by the agents of the Fabre line,
TO which the steamer belonged, to obtain
further information had failed and grave
fears were entertained here for her safe
Is and her passengers.
"S.ycml of our vessels have been set
ON tire recently" said Howard Jones of
the Fabrc line eve have had the vessels
under the closest kind of watch while in
port and no Austrians or Germans were
permitted ON the pier. We examined
every piece of freight offered as cargo To
guard against bombs and internal ma
chimes"
The message from the Cape Race wire
less station. as received here by way OF
Halifax, was flashed abroad on the Atlan-
tie and without delay was picked up by
vessels within easy sail of the steamer
in distress.
It was understood here today, however
that the Canadian government was pre-
pairing to send relief ship from llaiifas
unless word was received today that aic
had been sent from some other source.
As the steamship was on the southern
route for the Mediterranean she was fan
from the more Travelled path further norti
used BY vessels plying between New Aorl
and Great Britain. She was due at Ma
pies, her first stop, Sept. Is or 10.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
VAN HORNE NOTED
RAILROAD BUILDER
Started as Day Laborer-Pushed Ca
madam Pacific to Completion as
Transcontinental Line.

MONTREAL, Sept. Is. = Sir Viii
sition of Iaborer in the railroad yards
at Joliet, H., to that of master of
finance and leading figure of trans
continental railroad development in
Canada, died Saturday in the Royal
Victoria hospital, after an illness of
more than two weeks.
He was native of Joliet, born Feb.
3, 1843, and when his father died the
lad was forced to go to work at the
age of Is. His first job was in the
railroad yard. Next he became a tel
egraph operator, and later filed posi-
tions of steadily increasing Importance
with the Michigan Central and Chicago
& Alton railroads.
| His first position of executive inn
portance was that Of general superin-
tendent of the st. Louis, Kansas City
! & Northern railroad in 1872. Before
going TO Canada he also acted as gen
cral manager of the Southern Mime
sofa railway and general superintend-
! ent of the Chicago & Alton and the
! Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul roads.
From 1882 to 1884 Mr.. Van Horne
as he was then-was general manager
of the Canadian Pacific, during which
| period he achieved his triumph oil
pushing that system to its completion
as transcontinental road All this
too, at time when it was the fashlo>
to predict that this road would never
pay for its axle grease.
Mr.. Van Horne personally supervised
the extension Of the Canadian Pacific
to the Pacific coast.
From 1854 until 1883 he was vice
president of the Canadian Pacific, from
1sss until 1899 its president and from
1880 until 1910 chairman o. It's boarc
Of directors
In recognition Of his work as a rail
road builder he was knighted by Queer
Victoria IN 1894 Ills services to tht
Dominion included, in addition to rail
read building, serving as governor O.
! McGill university, the Royal NictOri;
hospital and numerous other institution
and many notable contributions to tn
Canadian store of art treasures, in
cIuding paintings by old masters an'
collections of japanese art object
which alone represent a large fortune
He was an officer or director in man
: large Canadian corporations, as we'll a
in the United States and Cuba. On tn
latter island he formed the Cuba Raj
; way company with an $S,000,0o0 cap
IS talization. and was for years its pres
! ident.
6 In 1910 Sir William resigned tn
II chairmanship of the board of director
of the Canadian Pacific in order
= have more time to himself. It ha
n often been said of Sir William that ha
u he not chosen to become a king {
b transportation he might have won fan
n through his artistic abilities, for
Is slzetched cleverly and was an exper
:, with the brush, both in oils and wat'
colors.
-e3i Lady Van Horne, her son, daught'
- and grandson were at the bedside whe
- = the noted man breathed his last.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13


Mr.. Lamb resigns to accept a call to-
the associate pastorate of the churches
in Woodstock and Bridgewater This
call has been given several months of
consideration, Rev. Mr.. Lamb having
visited the churches by invitation in
June.
According to the arrangements Rev
Benjamin Swift, the present pastor in
Woodstock, viii become the pastor Of
both churches. while Rev Mr. Lamb
will he associate pastor of both
churches. The church in Woodstock is
one of the leading churches in the state,
while the Bridgewater church is the
only church III the town, and a fine
field is presented. Rev. Mr. Swift and
Rev Mr.. Lamb have been personal
friends for several years, and the full
est measure Of cooperation is antici-
patcd by both. Rev. Mr. Lamb will
live in Bridgewater, the parsonage
there being fitted with modern inn
provoments.
Mrs. Lamb is confined in the Memo
rial hospital, following a serious sur
gicaI operation, and this fact prevents
| the naming Of a definite time for tax
= ing up this new work.
! land Feb. :, 1882. Upon graduation
| from Studlev academy he became a
student in Dinsbury college His theo-
/ logical course was taken in Handsworth
i Theological seminary. Owing to a
nervous breakdown, caused by over
| study together with pulpit supply work
! he had to relinquish his studies after q
/ little more than two years work. AT
4 ~ 1. 4 l. Ia.
| in all subjects. He then came to this
/ country to visit relatives and liked
| America so well that he decided tC
make it his home. He was called to the
I pastorate of the Congregational church
in Bridport in 1905 and was ordained
there in April of that year. During
4 his pastorate Of almost five years the
attendance at all the services was NOR,
than doubled He organized very
successful Brotherhood, and a Boys
Improvement club. He was presiden
: of the Addison County Sunday Schoo
, association two years. He was als'
very active in town affairs, being in
strumental in establishing a good lib
rafy.
! In 1910 he accepted a call from tn
church in HYDE Park After having
lived there only a few weeks the vii
laoe suffered the loss by fire of som
10 buildings, including its beautiful
church and other public buildings. Dun
5 ing Rev. Mr. Lamb S pastorate of tw
: wears there the church was rebuilt a
a cost Of over 81 900, and was dedi
Gated free from debt only fey
months before his pastorate ther
closed.
/ For more than a year Rev. Nj
Lamb was probation officer for La
| moilIe county.
Rev. Mr.. Lamb has won many prize
for public speaking, and at one tim
/ won a prize of $50 for an essay 0
1 Ministerial Character against % con
i petitors. This essay was published
4 The Preacher 5 Assistant few year
II ago.
gan sunday, May ), 1912. He is
Il man of much breadth of thought an
4 has made many friends III this villag
II as wen as in West Brattleboro. He hi
served as president of the Windha
U County Sunday School association ar
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
IN ODD FELLOWS HALL

Monday night at 7.3o - Regular
meeting of Wantastiquet lodge. Official
visitation Of grand warden.
Tuesday, Sept. IA, 7.30 p. m. - Reg
ular meeting of Dennis Rebekah lodge.
Tuesday, Sept. II, at , p. m.-Ali
Odd Fellows and Rebckahs arc request
cd to meet preparatory to ceremony of
laying corner stone of the new temple.
Grand officers. First Regiment band
Canton Palestine as escort.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
Frank Lawrence of Towns
hend Arrested Following
Automobile Chase
GAINS LIBERTY AGAIN
IN SHELBURNE FALLS
Came to Townshend from Massachus
setts Yesterday to See Wife-Jumped
Bail Several Weeks Ago and Disap-
peared.

After leading Sheriff Mann, States At
torney O B. Hughes and Deputy Sheriffs
N. p Benson and Earl Davis Of Newfane
and w. NJ. Sparks of Townshend a chase
fall over southeastern Vermont all last
might and finally being caught in Shell
burne Falls, Mass, this morning, Frank
lib. Lawrence, Gnce Of Townshend, escaped
from the chief of police of Shelburne
Falls between 6 and { o'clock, the officer
having left him alone in the hotel a min
| ute or two.
Lawrence i wanted by the Vermont
authorities for jumping a bail bond of
$500 furnished by James NJ Gilbert of
! ITownshend after Lawrence was arrested
lin troyer suit brought ny O. L. Parker
| of South Londonderry as the result OF one
/ lI-awrence's numerous shady financial tram
sactions. His favorite method of obtain
ing money was to mortgage property he
| did not own or to sell property that was
mortgaged. Several prominent men Of the
county are said to have been victims of
| his methods OF thigh financing
/ Late last night Deputy Sheriff Earl Da-
Ivis Of Newfane telephoned Sheriff c. F.
/ Mann that he had seen Lawrence in an
lautomobile near his home and asked for
instructions. That started proceedings
and all night officials Of the county fol
flowed the trail Of Lawrence through this
lsection of Windham county and by tele-
lphone located him in Shelburne Falls
After Sheriff Mann had left town before
daylight TO get his man came information
THAT he had escaped from the clutches Of
r,he chef of police OF Shelburne Falls
$50 far as could be learned here this after
noon at press time the sheriff and Massa-
ichusetts officers were searching for their
man in the wilds near Shelburne Falls
Not only is Lawrence wanted for jump
. ing his bail bond, which becomes formally
, due tomorrow upon the opening OF county
court, but he Is being sued by his wife,
. Jennie A Lawrence of Townshend. for
divorce on the grounds Of intolerable Sc
fverity and desertion. In the event that
: Lawrence is not in court tomorrow his
+ bail viii be called but need not necessarily
t be paid then.
! Ray Marsh. who works for Deputy
, Sheriff Earl Davis of Newfane, and Mr..
Davis were trying to make some slight
!. lepairs to the automobile which Mr..
] Marsh was driving in front Of Mr.. Davis :
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
JAMES M. LEWIS A SUICIDE.
Aged st, Johnsbury Man Was Former
ly Resident of Armonk, N. Y.

ST. JOHNSBURY, Sept. 13.-James
NJ. Lewis, =, committed suicide here
yesterday by hanging. Lewis came to
St Johnsbury four years age from Ar
monk, n Y, with the family of Louis
]. Long, with whom he mas lived for
Il years. He had three brothers and
five sisters, but had lost track of them.
1t is thought he was despondent be
cause he was dependent en- others.
Mr.. Lewis semed in his usual health
at breakfast, shortly after which he
went to the barn and hanged himself
from a beam in a horse stall.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
BAILEY SUSPENDS
WARES LICENSE
Secretary of State Takes Action as
Result of Accident Labor Day on
Road to Spofford Lake.

Secretary of State Guy w. Bailey
has written that ne has suspended the
automobile license of Bert 0. Ware
of Brattleboro. Mr. Ware was driving
his Ford care when it ran off cui-
vert cn the West Chesterfield road TO
Spofford lake the afternoon of Labor
day, fracturing his ankle and causing
injuries to II. A. Streeter of Water
bury, Conn, which terminated fatally.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
TURKS POSITION
IS PRECARIOUS
Heavy Losses Make Difficult Task of
Of Holding Lines Against French
and British.

ATHENS, via Paris, Sept 13.-An
American citizen of standing in Athens
has received advices from Constantinople
which he says are trustworthy that the
position of the Turkish forces defending
the Dardanelles is precarious.
1t is said that the Turkish front. thin
ned by heavy losses which the fighting
has cntaiIed on both sides, is finding it
increasingly difficult to hold its lines
against the French and the British
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
GOV GATES RETURNING.
Called Back to His Home in Franklin
by Death OF His Mother.

OAKLAND, Calf, Sept. 13.-Gov.
Charles W. Gates of Vermont, who
was here to preside over the Pan
American road congress, was on his
way today 90 Franklin, Vt, to attend
the funeral Of his mother, Mrs. L. Re
hccca Gates, VINO died Saturday.
james II. Macdonald, director of tho
congress and "a former member of the
Connecticut state highway commission
viii act MS presiding officer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
A Rare Offer.

Speaking Of blood-thirst-as who is
not?-the Orpheum Theater program,
Denver, carries this al: Don t Kill
Your Wife. Let the Western Columbia
Laundry Do the Work. New York
Tribune.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13

as registrar of the county association
of Congregational churches and has
taken an active part in the work of
the Brattleboro Ministerial union.
Rev and Mrs. Lamb have one son, Hal
sey, about five years old.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
STILL ADVANCING.
Auatro-Gofman Armies Make Progress
Except on Galician Frontier.

LONDON, Sept. 1.-the Austro-
German armies on the eastern front,
still striving for definite results, are
making progress everywhere except
along the Galician frontier, where the
Russians report a further success.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13

paid as messenger.
WASHINGTON, Sept 13.-Acting un-
der instructions from the White House,
agents Of the department Of justice will
meet James T. J Archibald, the Ameri-
can correspondent involved in the case of
DR. Dunba, the Austrian ambassador,
when he lands at New York on the steam
er Rotterdam from Holland
Archibald carried DIR. Dumba's letter to
the Vienna foreign Office disclosing plans
to cause strikes in American munition
plants
All officials here are maintaining the
case, but it became known today that tho
United States marshal at New York has
been instructed by the department of jus
tice, which takes the view that there j,
ground for considering whether Archibald
violated federal law.
The question OF whether he actually
| knew the contents of the papers carried
! probably will be the deciding factor il
what action the government ultimatel,
| takes toward him. The statute on whicl
! they are proceeding fixes a fine of not
more than $4,000 and imprisonment o
not more than three years for its viola
| ltion
! There was no indication today Of any
further move by the government IN th
| case OF Capt. Franz Won Papen militar,
attache of the German embassy. for whom
! Archibald also carried a letter and vii,
was mentioned in Dumbas report as bcin
connected with the strike plan.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13

sOue of the inducements offered by
Princeton, Me, to automobiists is the fact
that there is no speed limit there
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
AT THE CENTRE CHURCH.

Tuesday, Sept. 14-Mr. and Mrs.
George l.. Durham viii give a lawn
party at their home on North street, to
which every one in the parish is most
cordially invited.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13

Rev. Henry Lamb, for over three
years pastor of the First Congrega-
tional church in West Brattleboro, ten.
dered his resignation at the morning
service yesterday, the resignation tc
take effect some time in October. Rev
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
Whether He Knew Contents
of Papers Carried Is I'm
portant Question
STATUTE FIXES FINE
AND IMPRISONMENT

There Are No indications Today OF
Any Further Move in the Case OF
Capt. Won Papen, Who Used Archi
bald as Messenger.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-13
Rev. Henry Lamb to Accept
Call to Bridgewater and
Woodstock
TO BE ASSISTANT TO
REV. BENJAMIN SWIFT

Home VIII Be in Bridgewater, Where
Modern Parsonage Awaits Family
Came to West Brattleboro in 1912
Mrs. Lamb in Hospital
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-12
Continued next week.
The Beers 10 Fight In Franc.
From the New York word.

~.
Having checked rebellion in their own
race; having pressed through waterless
wastes, taken stout forts and beaten the
kaiser's troops planted on their borders
ready for war; having added to the en-
pre- q and as vast as Germany and the
United Kingdom combined, General Botha
and the Beers. 1t is said, will set out FOR
the Hghtfng line in France.
whether or not they offer this supreme
sacrifice, what they have done Is amazing.
n Ivy tney the power Of England
TO subdue them and called out for that
purpose forces greater than have vet
Tor King George. They drew the
world wide sympathy expressed In Queen
Wilhelmina's reception OF Boer DELEGATES.
kaiser's telegram to Kruger, and planks III
In this country. s1~
Less than IL years after peace war made
q new issue came which for the Beers was
Imply: Should the Cape nqu German
Africa or DO annexed to it? II,
main British subjects It was because
learned some Lessons OF political freedom.
They learned from uH Engiand's abIegi
and noblest men favored the American
cial and political ostracism. They learned
from q when after Papinean's re-
beiiion. the report that meant Canadian
freedom earned for Lord Durham the
abuse OF silly ~lordlings, They learned
5 5Tom t srs Beers g yxnsr the Absrsls bESaved
Afr1cs legal Reif-sovernrnepfs
Is The anfdfang ara the lowe OF the
British troops at Ypren, II Australians and
New zeafanders leIped clear the sea 81
Gernnars ard q now batterinR at The
eAuss, II a beca1se the British liberais
h&ve had the vfSfon, and atetfmes thA pow.
ersMt0 trust In the rule OF the peoplos
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-12
Too Many Restrictions
In the Classified Service

7 corporation. T h civil service plan.''
continues Mr.. Mitchell, restricts our Sc
lection, and 100 per cent results can not
be obtained with such restrictions clog
ging effort until the selective process has
been carried to a much higher state of
perfection than it has yet attained"
By criticising the classified service Mr..
Mitchell does not mean to attack 1t. Rath-
er would he improve it by raising the
standards of civil service requirements
and improving the method of examina-
tons. competitive and otherwise" This"
he ACIDS, lis exactly what my civil service
commission Is trying to do" But in any
case we do not want a return to the
old 'spoils SYSTEM" Mr.. Mitchell has al
SO found that the rigidity of the classified
service stands in the way of disp1acing the
inefficient or lazy employee. This is wrong,
from a public service or private stand-
point. There is often a strong tendency
to adopt such an undoubtedly good reform
as the classified service and then rest
content. expecting the mere system to give
beneficial results. This will not do. 1t is
not the instrument, but the hand back of
the instrument, that is ccountable TT
should be clearly borne In mind" says
Mr.. Mitchell. that communities are them
selves, always responsible for the quality
of their governments. I doubt, indeed,
any community can bring into
an administration Of It's public
of higher standard than the moral
standard of its average citizens. I think
may safely assert 1t can not. No adj
ministration can rise higher in operation
the source from which it sprang."
There is much in his observation for GER
tain indian cities to ponder.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-12
Those Spectacular Runs,

From the Cedar Rapids Qa.) Republican.
We have been educated to believe and
We have educated city officials to believe
mat q police or e fire wagon has to go
any one or anything else. But 1t is only
pne OF our many Authorizations. A man
aas neen lying IN a stupor for
called to it-and then time becomes pre-
efous and the police cart must almost run
pye we ey gsegoae to to get Fstn to the the run nike dot It
would realize how silly the whole per-
.ormance Is. But we don't think-not even
policemen do that.
Al fire truck going at 20 miles an hour
Is safe enough; going at 80 or more 1t is
9 menace to everyone in the way. II the
fire happens to be a mile out. which lis
about the average run, In he one case it
would AXE three minutes to get to 1t, and
In the other two minutes The difference
pose that that one minute Is SO precious iop
that for 1t all traffic In the city must be
suspended and everybody get out of tho
way or be dashed to pieces?
You see again, when we stop to think
about 1T, the matter becomes ridiculous,
utterly so and we realize that we have
as by our policemen. They haven't been
thinking about 1t and neither have we.
And now that an accident has caused us
we will make an end Of the fooIishness.
be permitted to run a little faster than
faster. We believe that 20 miles an hour
ought to be the limit down town where
they cross streets flied with people. many
Of them women and children: One baby
is worth more than all the houses that
might burn up in that one minute OF time
which marks the differences between a
break-neck speed and q decent speed.
Our flremen and policemen have simply
been imposing upon us and intfmfdating
uH-and they have been aug that II was
But Is ft7 We would like to see II made
their duty to operate their Ju~ggernaut cara
decenSly.