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Evening star., 1915-05-02
Thought Japan Might Yield.

Observers here familiar with far east
ern affairs did not believe that crisis
had been reached. but that with the ex-
preston by each side in the negotiations
Of its extreme position the way would be
opened for compromises. In this respect
it was thought possible that Japan might
yield some points in group V relating to
the appointment of japanese as political,
financial and military advisers in China
as a whole. if she could be sScompensed
by an acceptance by China of me of the
main articles. asking for special priv
ileges in Mongolia, Of which the Chinese
have thus far refused. If Japan could OBJ
Evening star., 1915-05-02
$4,000 ARE HOMELESS
IN COLON AFTER FIRE
Ten Persons Killed-Bread Lines
Established - Troops to
Prevent Looting.

COLON, May 1.-The city of Colon.
half of which was destroyed by fire
yesterday. presented scene of desola-
tion today According to the police
records, ten persons lost their lives,
two of whom were Panama policemen.
and many We're injured. The loss is
still estimated at $1,000, 900
Countless persons are homeless. and
are wandering about the streets. Bust
ness is almost at a standstill. although
merchants are making an effort to re-
sumo. Bread lines have been estab-
lished and the homeless women and
children are beng cared for as far as
possible \ huge tent city to shelter
them has been erected under the au-
thorities.
Troops to Prevent Looting.
Gen. Clarence r. Edwards. military
commander of the Canal Zone, has
ordered two more companies Of infan-
try on patrol duty to prevent looting
and a train load of supplies. Owing
to the fact that the largest importers
of foodstuffs were located in the
burned area, there is perceptible
shortage of supplies, which, however.
are being augmented from the canal
commissary department, which has es-
tablished temporary stores in the
burned district
A canal commissary. located near the
burned district containing a stock
valued at Sl.000,000, was saved from
destruction with which 1t was threat
ened by flying sparks.
1t is said that only a few Of the es-
Establishments were insured, and the
losses will fall for the most part on
local company. Foreign companies are
only slightly affected. having refused
to insure the wooden buildings, OF
which the town was composed
American Consulate Destroyed.
The American consulate was among
the buildings destroyed by fire in the
business section of Colon. according to
a cablegram to the State Department
yesterday, which said the fire spread
over an area of twenty-five blocks,
that two persons were killed and twen-
ty injured, and that $1,000 people. most
ly negroes, were homeless.
Evening star., 1915-05-02
DR.. Dernburg Protests.
Germany's Attitude.

DR. Dernburg went on to explain that
Germany had only complained of tho in
equality of treatment that his country
is receiving In that foodstuffs are shut
out of Germany. whereas there Is a free
transit of arms to Great Britain.
The former colonial secretary. speak
ing on permanent peace. said he favored
any scheme or sort of compulsory ar
bitration. whereby nations through
economic pressure would be compelled to
arbitrate their differences before going
to war.
The subject under discussion at the
morning meeting was the relations of
the United States with Central and
South America as affected by the war.
A paper prepared by James A. Far
rell president of the United States
steel Corporation and chairman of the
National Foreign Trade Council, was
read in which Mr. Farrell wrote that
the investment of capital in the
central and southern republics is nee
essary to increase the export trade of
this country. He warned against the
extension of excessive credits to for
eign commerce.
Americas for Americans.
DR.. Luis f. Corea, former minister
of Nicaragua to the United States. de-
clared that IL the United States were
to be involved in foreign war 1t
would not be alone. for the Latin
American republics would, In his opin-
ion, demonstrate that the territory of
this continent cannot be attacked with
impunity.'
''I-hese republics" he said. would
manifest In no uncertain fashion their
Interpretation Of the Monroe doctrine
that is to say, America, the conti-
nent.:, for the Americans OF the conti-
nent."
DR.. Corea urged a closer study by
the government of the United States
Of the customs and ideals of the people
in Central and South America.
Evening star., 1915-05-02
Urges World Federation.

Oscar 8. straus. former American
ambassador to Turkey. reviewed the
Evening star., 1915-05-02
PREDICT new YORK
FIRST IN FINANCE
CONTINUED from First Page.)

sition to reap throughout long Sc
ries Of years to come the benefits
which should accrue to 1t as the only
great world power not engaged in the
war.
"Ry adhering to this course. by re-
sisting the not unnatural desire to get
rich quickly, by exercising patience
and self-control and by adopting a
policy of wise craftsmanship in hus-
banding our resources and applying
them only In directions which will
tend toward bringing the best ulti-
mate results. not to the Individual. but
to the nation as a whole. our posi-.
tion upon the re-establishment of
peace will be far stronger than 1t was
before the war began. We shall be
able thereby to hold and to follow up
advantages gained. and shall reach
ultimately not second or third. but
first place, in the field Of international
finance"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-03
Citizen Blueiackets.

Since it is our first line of defense,
why no Plattsburg for the navyl Off
GERS and men of the navy are subject TO
even larger peril of wholesale diminu-
ton than officers and men of the land
| forces. Ships are now under recruited
| because the law limits the number to
what a day of fewer ships required.
| That no doubt will be corrected by the
next Congress; but it will not obviate
the need of citizen jackie reserve to
supplement the naval militia as the citi
zen soldiery plan would supplement the
National Guard. Technical training is
more necessary on sea than in the field,
and statistics of the lessening number OF
native sailors Indicate the narrowing linn
its of resources for naval emergency.
Among merchant marines, yatchmen, mo.
torboaters, marine engineers, shipping
agents, electricians, machinists business
and professional men with salty tang
in their blood, the opportunity for the
plattsburg sort OF preparation should be
popular. The navy league suggests that
the training station at the Great Lakes
could accommodate 1000 patriotic volun.
teers for schooling in naval elementals.
As for that, various ports on the sea
boards are equally adapted to the enter
prise--and at least one should be in New
England, where the sea traditions hold
strongest. Naval militiamen viii under
stand, as National Guardsmen did not
understand at first, that these enterprises
and experiments are for rousing portions
OF the public hitherto thoughtless or in.
different to sense of their responsible
ity in defense, realization that since
they, in crisis, would be drafted for
service. some details of that service
would better be familiarized- even If, so
to say, they learn little more than "the
difference between the shifter rod and
the strake, the scuttle butt and the fire
ntrol"-Boston Transcript.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-03
Calculation of the Strength of Electric
Currents.

Washington, D. c., Sept. 3.--Probably
the most accurate method for the deter.
mination Of the value of the strength OF
an electrical current in absolute measure
| is by means of the Rayleigh current bal.
ance, in which the current to be meas
ured is passed in series through two par
allel circular coils of unequal radii, one
of which is suspended from the beam of
a balance. The distance between the
planes of the coils is varied until the
force OF attraction between the two coils
il maximum, and the value of the force
is obtained by adding weights to the
other arm of the balance until its equili-
brium is restored Since the maximum
force obtainable depends on the ratio of
the radii OF the coils alone, and not on
their individual dimensions, it is only
necessary TO determine further the ratio
of the radii of the coils. and this may be
done with great accuracy by electrical
means.
The constant of the instrument, that
il, the maximum force for unit current
for the coils in question, has been OBJ
tanned in the past by Interpolation be-
tween values of the force, calculated for
various assumed distances of the coils, in
the neighborhood OF the critical value for
which the force is maximum. For, al
though the general formulas of Maxwell
and Nagaoka give the value OF the force
for any two given coils, at any assumed
distance with great accuracy, no formula
has been heretofore published for calcu-
lating at what distance the force becomes
a maximum. To supply this lack there
is derived in paper just published by
the bureau of standards, department of
commerce. entitled. "The Celebration of
the Maximum Force Between Two Paral-
lei Coaxial, Circular Currents formula
which gives the critical distance as
function of the ratio OF the radii The
latter part of the paper is devoted TO
the development of methods for faciltat.
ing the calculations. The formulas are
Illustrated by numerical examples and |
tables, and the new formulas are shown |
10 give results in agreement with those !
derived by more indirect and laborious |
method Of Interpolation.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-03
The Clutter Of City Fire Escapes.

In the September American Msgazin,
John A. Moroso writes a splendid story
about New York City fremen. In the
course of the story. Mr.. Moroso de-
scribes In part as follows the cluttered
condition OF FIRE escapes in the crowded
east side Of New York;
"Mhen the spring comes there amt
an inch al space on the fire escapes.
what for the soap box refrigeators and
the ambition Of each signora 90 have
a prettier swinging garden than her
neighbor
1--WE seen red gcraniums growing in
little pots on Elizabeth street FIRE es-
capes that were 50 bright and BIC that
YOU would stop and look twice. think
ing the window castings were ablsze Il
is easy enough 10 imagine about Fifty
men. women and children on each Of
SIX floors trying 90 get 10 the sidewalk
through the window 90 make room for
servo, top heavy cerauiums. bottles Of
milk. and perhaps the baggage Of the
latest arrival from Italy pushed
through the window 30 make room for
The new citizen during the night"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-03
Says Automobnes are Making FERN Life
More Attractive.

Farm and Preside. TIE national farm
rarer published a. Springfield. a.. has
been offering prizcs far the best letters
entitled. What's an Automohils
Worthf- u tire current Jessie fhs rrize
SHINING lsftsrs ere putlisbsd Foiiou-
iar b. an eHtract from one 81 these Bet
tsrss
By this s4seadv tireleas tsirer vuu
haze isrrer ard better market Cor buf-
.tef. rrrs. roaiirs. fruit. tsrstalle 81
fiss sn1silfr uraduefs Of she farm. snd
eua doHt need e. Nh q whsls daT 20
sra 81 t0vr stlaf The lags ear ~ o.
sse mos M TiEtmfes eft tire wnr. bear q
esn--t 81 @ausats hsns. - go -. the
STATE irsruf lau game. uhHn The umk
IS 40 SO FressirE
HT5s 90 i.an1sataaf hes tsoorns ths
Hsast attrarfifs rlass ri eaFth far birth
taa tseFs ard slu girls The &c folks
nvt twettr resss Fuunrsr. sna srs-lasE
80 Hks runnx fniks Tee wFrs rutq
= Ftffrs al TO ctT trf tsuuzii tsrt1t
81 & uhsr thsg s1uEit ths So
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-03
circumspection.

"My boy" said the editor OF the Bills.
vile Bugle TO the new reporter, "you
lack caution. You must learn not "a
state things as facts untL they are
proved facts otherwise YOU are very apt
to get us into libel suits. DO not say
the cashier who stole the funds; say,
the cashier who Is alleged 20 have stol-
en- the funds" That's all ..ow, and-ah
turn in a stickful about that second
ward social last night"
Owing 20 an influx Of visitors il was
late In the afternoon before the genial
editor Of The Bugle caught a glimpse Of
the great family daily. Half way down
the social column his eyes liz on the fol-
lowing cautious paragraphy 1T Is ru-
mored that a card party was given last
evening 20 a number Of reputed ladies Of
the second ward. Mrs. Smith, gossip
SAYS. was the hostess, and the festivi-
tics sre reported 20 have continued un-
al 1880 in the evening. II IL alleged
that the affair was a social function Civ
On 20 the ladies II the second ward Cinch
club, and that. with the exception 81
Mrs James Bilwiliger, who saws she
comes from Laavits Junction. none but
members were present. The reputed
hostess insists that coffee and waters
alone were served a. refrrshments. The
smith woman claims 10 b. the wife Of
John smith. the so-cailed Honest Shoe
Man q as Fast state street
Shortly sfterWsrd q whiriing mass.
claiming g. b. . reporter on The Rugls
Dew is feet into TIE street. and landed
aith whsf tystaudcrs assert Was = DUN.
siekaninR thua Puck
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-03
WORCESTER

Schools W town began Monday viii
Paui Wells and Miss Gramfeid az a.,
CORNER. Josepllime Fisk On Minister brook
End Miss Fiorsnce smiti On Hampshire
.hM.
TIE play given ~ ths vpanr people
Tuesday evening vas suessHs IN every
waW.
Ms Hssri snith frosn svrs0uss. y. v,
e VISITING hsr sunt Nrt. Charles Csns.
Miss gnHfh az Middishury is ths
ruest ~ bog sunt Mr.. Chester kslia9g
~ and Mrs. Ansr srtt ans sor ard
aMnrhtnf nra Trnrv swasrf we're callers
s. tuwr FndaF
wrs Trurt Hufehiusnn e ~ ths srk
So niso Ernasf Ttfnr and Eafl Hous-
sen-
Mr.. Maiss Isunard sd asurfltaf. In
as nnH suu Hluti srum Msw HHrsFr
tisfeg 81 NJ. q wsnhsnf iust wssk
Eifs rF 80 guusr reaTls ti.at rsss
ttt SIS ruseEHr rrerIrg Fast a. Ger
Is f.nnE We1ssefHa.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-03
BETHEL

Mr.. and Mrs. Royal Hazard and their
son Fred. of 81. Adams returned home
yesterday after weeks visit with rela =
! tiyes and were accompanied by Mrs.
Hugh e. Wilson and her two children,
who went for a visit.
The Sunshine society met yesterday
with Mrs. p. o. Williamson.
Miss Mary A. Smith. after spending
two months at J. II. Patterson's, went
to-day 10 Boston TO visit friends
Mrs. Frank Hardigan and Roy Hardi-
gan Of Montpelier and James Martin Of
Norwich have been visiting at Julius {.
Moriartys.
Lorenzo Morale, when working on the
Central Vermont railway track vster.
day slipped and fell backward heavily
upon rail. and was treatea at Dr.
Greene's Office, where il was thought bic
injuries were not serious and would Law
him Of only a day or two.
Mr.. and Mrs. John O'SuIlivan and their
daughter, Mary, went yesterday 10 York
Beach for two weeks.
Rev. DR.. and Mrs Y. A. Greene and
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Greene returned
today 70 Medford, Mass after q visit
With relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. y. Chatfeid and two
sons retHrned yesterday 90 Ssatous River
after visiting relatives here snd ~ Ran
dolph Center.
Miss Ms1F TeWksbury returned hone
Tussdnv aftsr spending the sumrrsr a.
Wfimet. n. ~
Clyde Hloasan uent last wesk a. she
e ansdisn Northwest. sKrlesfinr a. w0k
- fhs uhsat felas
a n Cadr sftendef ths state cuurer
tior IF urffrtaksFs ~ Hsrrs
HaFnlt tsasksnss iTinf.s -sleH ct
Wht-unb hirh sefuoi was hsrs vestrr
aas auiiiinriKinr hiulssIf N6fh eoursas AZ
stuar and ~ isar arsnIs
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-03
CURRENT COMMENT
Buying Bulgaria.

II Bulgaria enters the war on the side
of the quudnplo entente II will be only
after she has been we'll paid by the four
neighbors that surround her, From each
OF them she demands u cession OF terri
tory. Turkey is believed - have CON-
piled already, ced!ng the strip Oh which
the railway runs from Adrianoplc down
the west side of the Martha to the
Kgean port of Dedeagatch. II this has
been done IL must have been for the pun
pose of securing the neutrality, II not
the aid, of Bulgaria for the triple al
lance. But the astute spider who weayes
his webs under the crown at Sofa throws
his fllaments farther, and will doubtless
at the last be found where he can get
the most.
Ferdinand of Bulgaria wants Ferdinand
of Roumania to restore the small terri
torial wedge extending from Turtukai on
the Danube to Cape Cheligra ON the
Black sea, which Roumania acquired I'M
der the treaty of Bucharest, and compli
ance is probable, though the Roumanians
will be very reluctant to part with the
fortress of Silstria. Bulgaria demands
from Greece the port of Kavala, with the
hinterland which includes the towns of
Sores and Drama, district in which |
the population is mainly Greek, and in
which the Bulgarian troops committed |
excesses before the Greek forces drove
them back to their borders in the war of |
1918. There is good reason for the dis
inclination of Greece to let Bulgaria have
this region, which, however, may ult-
mately be given under guarantees.
Serbia is required to make the larg
est sacrifice. In 1912 she fought her
way to the Adriatic, but was ordered
back by the great powers, and she pushed
southwark to within 40 miles of the
Egean, but had to let Greece step in
between at Salonica. OF course, Serbia
,annot possibly get Kavala, from which
she is distant 100 miles-a distance which
will be increased to 100 miles If she cedes
Ter Vardar valley territory to Bulgaria
md retires westward to Monasitor. The
luadruple entente ought to make sure of
Serbia receiving Bosnia Herzegovina as \
Bulgaria Is seemingly to
ret all she asks for as the price of her
word. 1t is not very edifying spec
aele, this buying of Bulgarian aid. But
here is no other way of getting the L
entral state to stand with the other
members of the former league against
he Austro-German project of drive
through the Balkans to save Turkey
,oston Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-03
White River Junction. September H. Is, 16, H. 1915

tells the following story in connection
with his first performance OF don Quix-
ote:"
ION the opening night there were
calls for the authors-loud cries for De
koven and a few moderate ones for
Smith-and then, after we had made
cur bows and were on the point of re-
firing, quite number of persons in the
audience called loudly for Cervantesl
This reminds me of what happened
to Lee Arthur, the playwright. Mr.. Ar
thur was walking rapidly along Broad
way when manager accosted him and
demanded to know where he was GO
ing
"'Out to New Rochelle to see Charles
Dickens replied the playwright brisk
~. i am writing play with him.
"'The deuce, you say said the mana
ger with sincere surprise. i didn't know
he lived in New Rochelle
Don Quixote' met with considerable
success, but in trying to get as nuch
of the novel into the play as possible,
we had introduced great deal of the
humor that might be called 'acrobatic =
the fight with the windmills and the ike.
We had Mr.. Barnabee falling of horse
and being knocked by the arms OF the
windmill into the middle of the stage,
and a lot of stuff of that kind that
seemed very funny to us at the time.
But that actor, being no longer youth-
ful, used TO find the work too strenu-
Gus. After every performance he would
show up with new assortment OF
plasters and poultices. Finally he de-
,lared that he could stand it no longer.
that he would quit playing Don Quix.
ote' or go to the hospital. And, absurd
rs IL may seem, this was really the rea-
.on for giving up Don Quixote.'"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-03
QUALITY OF ILLINOIS WATERS.
Large Amount of Pollution in Most OF
States Surface Water Supply.

The quality of the water that may
be found at any point along the larger
streams within or bordering the state Of
Illinois is shown in a report which
may be obtained, on application, from
the United States geological survey. The
investigation that led to this report was
carried on under cooperation between
the federal survey and the state water
survey of Illinois, and the report was
first published several years ago as wat
er.supply paper, No. 239, but the large
demand for it has necessitated its re-
lease.
The state of Illinois is well provided
with water supplies, but nearly all Of
them are surface waters, and most Of
them are so greatly polluted as 10 be
unfit for domestic use without purifica-
ton. They also contain 50 much dis.
solved mineral matter and so much sus-
pended material as 10 be unsuitable for
many manufacturing purposes, yet by
proper treatment they may be rendered
safe for drinking and suitable for all
industrial uses.
The average amount Of water used
each day in cities Of the United States
varies from 80 10 $50 gallons per capita.
OF this the amount used for drinking
Is not much over one-half gallon per
capita. II Is Of the greatest importance
that this one-half gallon shall b. free
from the germs Of disease. notably those
Of typhoid fever. and shall be roasona-
bly, clear and reasonable free from taste.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-03
EAST ORANGE

| The school in the village will com.
mence Tuesday, Sept 7, with Mrs. Ethel
Dickey of Massachusetts, as teacher. who
comes highly recommended. Miss Hogan
| of Poultney, who was expected to teach
was in an accident and hurt so she can
not walk and therefore, could not teach
the school
Bernard Simpson was in Barre on
business Wednesday.
Joseph Bission and family of East
Barre visited at Corliss Trombly's Tues
day.
Corliss Trombly was Barre visitor
the first OF the week.
Mrs. Frank Mason visited her cousin,
Mrs. George Felch, Monday.
o. A. and II. A. Prescott, Mrs. Nellie
Bailey and Nina Bohonon were in Brad
ford on business Tuesday, visiting Mrs.
Emily Prescott while there.
Bert Davis of Barre was a business
visitor at Corliss Trombly's and Frank
Burroughs Tuesday, while passing
through here with other parties en- route
for Chelsea.
Enos Felch was in West Corinth and
Corinth Corner the last of the week, So
Letting orders for nursery stock.
f. A. Burroughs and son, Arthur, were
in Barre, East Montpelier and Plain
field on business Wednesday. Mrs. Bur
roughs accompanied them to Barre.
Mrs. Lizzie Corcoran is visiting friends
in Washington for few days.
II. S. Smith, Fred Bartlett, Ernest
Frost and Miss Myra Eastman were in
Plainfield and Barre Sunday.
Miss Bernice Alley of West Topsham
ia visiting her sister, Mrs. Bernard Simp-
son, a few days.
f. L. Sanborn and daughter, Miss
Alice, and Miss Evelyn Richardson were
in Barre Thursday,
Mrs. Jane Fish, who has been visiting
friends in East Barre returned home
Wednesday. Roy Coleman of that place
bringing her. Miss velms Coffin, who
has been visiting her uncle. c. NJ Colby.
and family, returned 10 Barre with him.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-03

This is all that is required to make
this one half gallon satisfactory wat
err. But in planning waterworks sys-
TEN for home factory, or municipality
it is not enough to know whether the
water is safe for drinking. To deter
mine the best water for all purposes it
is necessary to know the amount and
character of the mineral matter il con-
tains. Without such knowledge no es-
innate can be made of the cost of puri-
flying the water and making il suitable
for drinking and for industrial uses. In
this report a large number of analyses
of the various Illinois waters are Civ
en-.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-03
PLAINFIELD

Mothers club met with Mrs. Neil Neil
son Thursday afternoon. Nine members
were present. Two new members were
admitted. Last Saturday evening so.
cable was held al the home Of Mrs.
w. l.. Davis. secretary Of the club and
ell reported to have had very pleasant
evening.
Miss Elsie Davis and Eli Swinger Of
Lisbon. y. H., are visiting al the home
OF Will Davis.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-03
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