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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10
Details in Railroadinq.

mo one who is not in the railroad
business can possibly understand the
enormous amount of money necessary
to operate a railroad" said Robert
Anderson, district passenger agent of
the Illinois Central lines. "There is
no business that requires more capital
and energy plus brain power to manip-
ulate. The maintenance end of the
railroad business is an immense item.
The excellent salaries paid railroad
employees is another item of large.
ness.
1.-THE railroads are looked upon by
some people as being just one train
after another running along smooth
iron rails with little or no trouble.
The detail necessary to conduct a
railroad properly is almost beyond
comprehension. 1t takes the highest
type of ability to overlook the man
agement of a railroad and each ind-
v1dual working for the road has many
annOyances and troubles to bob up
each day that the public would never
think of."-Washington Post.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10
WOULD MEAN VAST OUTLAY
Change From Wooden Cars to Steel
Ones Matter That Requires Sc
rious Consideration.

There are a number of big economic
problems connected with the change of
the nations railroad rolling stock from
wood to steel, as urged by the inter-
state commerce commission. 1t would
require something like $400,000,000 to
replace with Steel passenger cars
neither worn out nor otherwise I'M
Serviceable. This is huge sum for
railroad expenditure, even if stretched
over ten-year period under the most
favorable financial conditions. A year
ago, it would have been deemed impos-
Sible of accomplishment. The prosper
GUS conditions of today, with the rail-
roads working to the capacity of their
equipment however, may bring about
the change quicker than was expect
ed. According to the latest available
statistics, there are in service upon
the railroads of the United States last
year, 5S660 passenger cars, of which
9,492 were steel and 4,60S were sup
average cost of building a steel passen-
ger car is about $4,000, it will be seen
how quickly the money needed for re-
placement runs into the millions Of
dollars. In addition to this, there are
now in operation something like two
million wooden and part-WOOden
freight cars, the replacement of which
with all-steel cars at an average Of
$1,000 a car makes a staggering sum.
Consequently, while the Pennsylvania
may soon realize it's ambition of be-
coming an all-steel railroad, it will be
some time yet before the country be-
comes an all-Steel-railroad nation, al
though we are now well on the way
towards this most desirable end. The
recent Improvement in business condi.
lions supplies an mpetus.-EXchange
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10
THE INVOLVEMENT BRIDE.

THE melancholy fate of Ellen Sean
/ Ian has been the theme of many
heartrending ballads and tragic tales,
and although it is nearly century
since she died, her story still is told in
Irish homes. She was beautiful girl
so beautiful as to attract much at
tentiOn in a city noted for lovely wom-
en-. She was also clever and witty, and
had many admirers. She lived with
her uncle, a prosperous Dublin rope
maker, named Conery, and when John
Seaman appeared upon the scene she
hadn't a care in the world.
Seaman was a native of County Lin
erick and was closely related to peo-
pie of wealth and distinction. He was
on his way home from the wars, with
his servant, Stephen Sullivan. Travel
ing in those days was an onerous bust
hess, so the young officer was glad to
take a lay off at Dublin. While lOung-
ing about the town, to see what he
might see, he met Ellen and fell in love
with her on the spot. He was an ag-
gressive wOOer, and being handsome
and eloquent, and of higher STATEN
than the girl, it didn't take him long
to win her consent to marry him. While
Ellen was making her few brief prep
RratiOns for the ceremony Seaman
went away to charter a clergyman, and
that his heart was evil is shown by the
fact that he engaged an unfrocked
priest, believing that a marriage cere-
mony performed by such man would
not be valid.
The two were married, and at once
repaired to the little village of Gin,
On the banks of the River Shannon,
where they gave a demonstration of
love in cottage, the faithful Sullivan
being in attendance. For little while
the girl was entirely happy, and her
husband professed to be, but only for
b little while. One day Seaman re-
teived letter from his sister, who was
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10

During the trouble in Mexico it was
feared along the frontier that the Mex
lean desperadoes might destroy Amer
lean bridges, thereby preventing, or
more or less seriously hindering, the
effort of the American troops ordered
across the border in capturing blood
thirsty Villa.
On several occasions bands of ma
rauders threatened to dynamite the
bridge of the Southern Pacific railroad,
which stretches, a delicate steel
thread, across the Pecos river. The
Southern Pacific railroad bridge
which is 800 feet in length, spans the
lower course of the Pecos river where
it flows into the Rio Grande. The
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10
PUBLIC'S DEBT TO DRUGGIST
Many People in Community Fail to
Give Him All the Credit That
is Coming to Him.

From the nature of the problems
considered by the druggists in their
national convention it is plain that
they take their business with the Sc
riOuSnesS that its intimate relation to
practically the entire public demands.
They seem especially interested in
combating the trend of public opinion
in favor of restricting the freedom of
the druggist to handle his commodities
about as he pleases. The druggists
point Of view is, of course, not that of
the public. Long association with dan.
gerous drugs breeds a certain con.
tempt for their dangers. Yet the drug
gist is mOrally-when not legally
obliged to protect. the public against
it's own folly and incompetence.
An INSCRIPTIONS druggist can be
the means of spreading almost as
much evil in a community as an IN
scrupulOuS physician. And a dishOn.
est physician working in league with
dishonest druggist can become pos.
tive menace to the health and morals
of any community. The druggist is
called upon to observe many laws
This state of affairs has come about
not through any public desire to sin
gle out particular line of business
for careful regulation, but because a
certain class Of druggists themselves
have in the past abused their RESPONSE.
bility. Thus the laws have been forced
upon the people by druggists, para.
doXical as this may seem.
The average druggist is far more
important person in the community
than he gets credit for being. His
store is kind of combination pharm-
acy, cafe, club, cigar store, news stand.
waiting room, post office and tele.
phone station. For many of his favors
to his patrons he receives no pay, and
he is not to be blamed for trying to
educate the public to it's obligations to
him. In his business competition is
strong. He works early and late, Sun.
days and holidays, and still the drug.
gists who grow rich are very rare. The
difference between the reward the
druggist gets and the reward the same
devotion to business would earn in
other lines is his contribution to pub.
lie welfare, and this the public should
not forget.-Indianapolis News.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10

was greatly confused. He didn't know
what it was doing there he said. Then
she saw a large rock with a rope at
tached to it, and she wanted that ex-
planned. Sullivan was more embar-
raised than ever. He didn't like to
explain that it was meant to sink her
body in the water. But the girl had
no suspicion of evil. She was merely
curious. After while they reached an
inlet cut off from human view, and Sui
| Ivan set about his task. He stood up
with the club appraised, to dash out
her brains, and she looked at him and
smiled. She thought he was fooling.
Sullivan threw the club overheard, took
the oars, and rowed back home without
word.
81 couldn't do it," he explained to
Seaman, who upbraided him bitterly
to his failure; when that poor girl
smiled at me my muscles seemed
turned to water"
There was no pity in Scanlan's gal
vanized iron heart, however. He was
determined upon the girls death. His
sister was becoming impatient, and the
heireSs was growing FESTIVE, and dele
CATION might arrive any time, to see
what was holding him at Gin. A few
evenings later he and Sullivan and the
bride went for another boat ride, and
she was seen alive no more. Seaman
told the neighborS that he had sent
his wife for a sea voyage but few peo-
pie believed his story. There was a
general impression that something was
wrong, but nobody knew just what
The whole community knew, though, a
week later, when the body of Ellen
Seaman was washed ashore. She had
been so mutilated that Identification
was difficult. Most Of her bones were
broken. Her skull was shattered, as
though beaten in with q club. Her
teeth had been knocked out and her
once beautiful face was one great
bruise.
Seaman made an effort to escape but
was overtaken. His trial was the SEN
satiOn of the time, and he was found
guilty. He was ordered to immediate
execution, so that his powerful rela-
| tives would have no time to exercise
their pull in his behalf. Those rela-
tives used all their influence, but in
vain. If ever capital punishment was
| justified, it was when this man APP
peared upon the scaffold.
Sullivan escaped for the time. After
selling the dead woman's clothes, and
some small articles of jewelry she had
owned, he fled and concealed himself,
but the law was looking for him, and
found him twelve months after the
crime. After being jailed and brought
to a realization of the fact that his
door of hope was everastingly closed,
he made full confession, and in due
season was operated upon by the pain
less eXeCutiOner.
The story entitled "The Poor Mans
Daughter" in the once famous "Tales
of Irish Life" was one of the innumer-
able printed narratives founded upon
the atrociOuS murder of Ellen Scan
Ian.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10
He Stood Up With the Club Upraised.

the wife of a nobleman, in which she
notified him that she had engineered
a great match for him. There was an
heiress in the nObleman's neighborhood
who was prepared to surrender as soon
as Seaman laid siege to her. There
fore, his sister reasoned, it was his
duty and privilege to get busy at once.
None of the young mans relatives
knew anything of his marriage. That
had been made profound secret.
He must have been a peculiarly cold
blooded individual. If he had heart
at all it was made of galvanized iron.
Even while his beautiful girl-wife law
ished her caresses upon him he plotted
her destruction. One day when she
was in the garden gathering roses
Seaman called Sullivan into the house
and told him, in so many words, that
the woman would have to be put out Of
the way. 1t is creditable to Sullivan
that he made a protest, and was
shocked. But Seaman was his heredi-
tary lord, so to speak, and obedience
TO MS master was the nrSt principle
Of his life. He soon yielded to his
masters persuasion, and the inhuman
butchers sat planning the crime, while
the victim, smiling and singing, was
ransacking the garden under their eyes.
Seaman had u pleasure boat on the
river, and riding in it was one of his
wife's chief pleasures. They took an
excursion every evening. On a July
evening in 1919 Seaman explained that
he had been called away on business,
but Sullivan would take her for the
customary boat ride. She took her
seat in the boat, and Sullivan took the
oars, and presently she noticed heavy
club in the bottom Of the boat. She
asked what that was for, and Sullivan
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10
Appreciated Title.

Of one of the visits of the Empress
Eugene made to the Paris hospitals
during the cholera plague that affiict-
ed France in 1865 the following pretty
incident is told: At the Hospital Beau.
jon the empress took the hand of a
dying victim, who, mistaking her iden-
tity, kissed her hand and murmured, II
thank you, sister," The nun who ac-
companied the empress whispered:
"You are mistaken, friend; it is not
I but our good empress who speaks"
"Nay, sister," retorted the empress
quickly, "he has given me the sweet
est of all Names"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10

down the back and wipe them with
damp cloth, no birds should be washed
unless the wild tishy taste is too strong,
then they may be parboiled with lit
tie onion in the water. This applies
to wild birds like ducks, not to squads.
Soda and charcoal are sometimes used
IN the parbOiling water to remove oh
jectionable flavors. BrOil twelve min
utes, having the breast side toward the
lire in the first ten minutes. Spread
with butter dust with salt and pepper
and serve each on triangle of fried
hOminy.
For roast squad lay lardoons of salt
pork upon the breasts of the birds, dust
with pepper and salt and put them in a
hot oven. If there are but few birds
little water will be needed, but if
q dozen or so, the birds will supply
their own juice. After 80 minutes
pour tablespoonful of fruit juice over
each bird basting often with the liquor
in the pan. Serve with bread sauce.
Quail Stuffed With Pate de Foe
Gras.-Prepare the birds as for roast
ing Mince a little cold veal, season
with minced celery, parsley and chives;
add little pate de foie gras and a few
slices of truftle, season with salt and
pepper. Stuff the birds and put them
in baking pan, cover with thin slices
of salt pork, add stock or water, cover
the pan and steam the birds for an
hour and three-quarterS. When the
birds are about half done sprinkle
them with fine bread crumbs and dust
with pepper and salt. Basic them often
after they are taken from the oven
until they are cold. Split them at the
breastbOne and serve surrounded with
cubes of aspic jelly. A green salad
with French dressing is best served
with this DISH
Bread Sauce.-Simmer an onion In
one and one-half cupfuls of milk, strain
and add a half a cupful of soft bread
crumbs; season with salt and pepper
add a little cel@y salt and few drops
| of Worcestershire sauce. Put a spoon.
full of this at the side of each bird
and cover with fine bread crumbs frieG
in butter. In serving a squad for an
invalid cover the breast with butter.
season and serve on toast.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10
Nermont Paws $40. 900.

Vermont paid the members OF the
1st Vermont regiment while in fed
eral service from June 10 to October
10 at Eagle Pass. Texas, and Fort
Ethan Allen, the sum of $4,000 ac'
cording to figures available at the
state treasurer's office. This pay, it
will be remembered was voted at the
special session held two months ago,
The actual amount paid out will ex-
coed the sum stated above by $500
and included everything paid the
troops and their assignee.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10
Sincere Appreciation.

IT was told that you people wouldn't
approve of my coming out here with
all these brand-new wild West
Clothes" said the tenderfoot con-
ciliatingly.
"Well, son." said Centipede Bill,
"you're all wrong. Them clothes is
the admiration of this entire metropo-
lis. I'm heart broke this minute be-
cause l had to let go in a game of
freezeout we was playin' to decide
which Of us was to possess the
outfit"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10
V E r M O. N T
STATE NEWS
Vermont Chaplain Left Service.

Vermont Chaplain Left Service.
Middlebury-It has become known
that soon before President John M
Thomas of Middlebury. College resign.
ed as chaplain, while serving on the
border with the LIST Vermont infantry.
there were forwarded to the war de-
partment complaints concerning Ger.
tain newspaper articles in which DR.
Thomas had criticized President Will.
sons Mexican policy.
The Rev. DR.. Thomas was formerly
of the Presidents own state. and was
called to Middlebury College in 1908,
while he was holding pastorate in
East Orange, N. J. On his removal
to Vermont he became chaplain OF
the list regiment, and had held thai
position for several years before he
first resigned, in 1915.
When the troops were ordered to
the border last summer, he accepted
re-appointment and left his academ-
lie surroundings for tent near the
Rio Grande. Later there appeared
In the Middlebury Register certain
articles bearing his name, in which
he gave a rather full opinion of con.
dit1ons in the Southwest.
1t was rumored that these critic.
isms did not meet with the approval
of certain readers and when 1t was
announced that Or. Thomas had re.
signed and was returning from the
border the report also gained ground
that another chaplain had been APP
pointed in his place, after complaints
had been made to Senator Hollis OF
New Hampshire.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10
HUNT FOR TRAFFIC
Modern Methods of Getting Rail-
road Patronage.
Otd-Timer Used to Go Out and Grab
Passengers-Today the Solicitor
Must Be Gentleman and
Diplomat.

Modern nursing of passenger traffic
on the big trunk lines is fine art. In
former days, as veterans both of the
railroad service and many of the pub
lie will remember, it used to be case
of grabbing patronage bodily.
The difference between the then and
the now in this department of railroad
service will readily be grasped by con-
trasting the titles given those engaged
in it. In the SOS and '70s they called
them runners. Today they are solicit
tors, though between themselves they
still call it boosting.
The old-time runner was a back
slapper, table-pounder, bit of Kan
sas breeze that other states refer to
as a cyclone. The modern solicitors
manners have the smack which marks
the caste of We're de We're. He does it
so politely that you feel honOred in
riding on his road.
The passenger department Of the
big lines in training young men to be-
come efficient boosters like to catch
them young. The railroad game is
a swift one, and has to be learned
from the bottom up. Moreover, there
is no line of effort which presents bet
ter chances of climbing to the right
man.
The way of the traffic acceleratOr
today is more difficult in some re-
spects than was the job of the old
time runner. The latter could offer
concessions that helped him materially
! road. Many passes were given in
securing the influence of leaders of
/ touring parties, convention groups and
the like. The interstate commerce
commission has stopped this practice.
Also, the rates of transportation over
different systems to big terminal points
are made uniform by law.
These changes render the job of the
booster in 1916 ono emphatiCally of
the personal equation. Surprising the
members of a certain secret society in
New York are going on a certain date
to visit a national convention in Chi
cago. All the big systems are hungry
for that business. The brightest of
the lines passenger boosters are on
the job. They must all be golden
tOngued orators; silver isn't enough
here any more than in politics.
The bright young mans sole asset is
his nimble tongue, trained in the fine
art of spreading the glad tidings that
his road is the best in the country, bar
none. This he must believe, to have
any chance of making others believe
| it. He must discourse to the commit
! tee of scenery, of palatial cars and ar
engagements en- route, of the fact that
his road gives the passenger the most
! for his money.
Some men can be cajoled; others
would resent it and want instead
brisk, businesslike treatment. The
mistake. A glance at the face of the
man approached will usually give him
his cue; if not, he feels him out like
a boxer in the first verbal round.
Your all-round traffic booster may
visit in day committees of reli-
gious convention, one of saloonkeepers
and another of a secret society. There
are to be these three conventions in
boosting friend must be versatile.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10
Dies In British Army.

A letter received at So. Franklin,
tells of the death of Ernest Yates,
who was former resident of that
place.
Mr.. Yates, with his family moved
to Regina, Saskatchewan few years
ago and from there enlisted in the
army. His death occurred Septem-
Der 26. Full particulars have not
been received.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10

bridge is one of the most important
connecting links in the southern
branch of the Texas division of the
railroad, and its demolition, a compar-
atively easy matter, would cause a
tremendous loss because of the delay
in freight shipments. To forestall the
plans of a possible Villa dynamite
squad, troops were stationed at regu-
lar points along the roadbed of the
river. At several places underneath
the bridge, powerful acetylene search
lights were turned on at night. Be-
cause of the vigilance of the Nine
teenth United States infantry, which
was stationed on the bridge, the Mex
leans made no attacks.-PopuTar
Science Monthly.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10
U. V. M. Has Deficit for Year.


The report of the treasurer of the
University of Vermont, Burlington
shows deficit of $6,459 for the year.
The total income was $233,905 and the
expenses were $240,364. Of this lat
ter amount a little more than one
half, $122,O25, went for salaries of the
teaching force.
President Benton has sent out a
letter to the alumni of the institution
asking for pledges of from SO to $40
from each one in order to wipe out
the accumulated Indebtedness, which
now amounts to $24,819. He calls at
tention to the fact that growing
student body means increased de-
mand for new departments and added
equipment.
In order to build the gymnasium
annex it was necessary to borrow
13,409, and the deficit in running ex-
penses for 1914-15 was $4,951.
The university has about 5000 liv-
Ing alumni and an average subscrip-
ton Of So from each one would wipe
out the Indebtedness
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10
Mixture of Many Races.

Not only in their features, but In
their language, do the natives of Sar.
DINA retain traces of the many races
which have occupied the island through
the centuries-Phoenicia Carthagin'
ians, Romans, Saracens, Italians and
Spaniards. Many dialects are spoken,
but Italian is now taught in the
schools and the men acquire the Off
cial language during their period OF
compulsory military ervice.--National
Geographic Magazine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10
Reckless Charley.

"Charleys a terribly reckless man."
said young Mrs. Torkins, admiringly.
"When did he prove it?"
LAST night. told him there was a
burglar in the house and he said with
out hesitation he'd bet me fifty dol
lars there wasn't. If had taken him
up, he might have lost all that
mOneYW
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-10
Will Have $4,000 for Rural Schools

1t will be $4,000 or more and not
$4,000 that the department of edu-
cation Of Vermont will have on hand
for expenditure under item "(g)' OF
section 1T of the Laws of 1915.
State Commissioner of Education Mi
10 B. Rillegas, Of Montpelier, an
nounces. The discovery was made af-
ter little investigation which show
ed that the balances OF the various
funds would be considerably larger
than was supposed. Item "(9)" pro-
vides that "The balance Of the con-
solidated school fund provided by
section 176 of this act is hereby
placed at the disposal of the state
board of education for the purpose OF
aiding the rural schools of the state
and for the purpose of equalizing edu-
cational opportunities and advan'
tages."