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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-02-24
VERMONT BANKERS
YEARLY MEETING
At ST. J0HNSBURY
Visit Fairbanks Scale Works.
Address by State Bank Com.
Observation-Disclosures at
Avenue House.

st. Johnsbury. Feb 2o-'rhe seventh an.
nual convention Of the Vermont state
Bankers association was held here to-
day with II, NJ. Mcfarland of Hyde Park.
president, in charge, 80 bankers being
present The days program included =
trip through the Fairbanks Scale works
Al two O'Clock. At APO tho convention
was called to order in the Fairbanks
Museum The Rev. Alfred r. Grint pas
tor OF st. Andrews Episcopal Chuch de-
livered the invocation. Judge Walter j..
Smith Of St. Johnsbury extended tho we
come to visiting bankers and the Response
was by u. L. Ward, ex-presidcnt Of Bu,
lington. Following the annual address o.
the president, the reports o. {. s. Web
ster Of Bennington, secretary, and " /
Wells of Orwell. treasurer. were read.
The principal address OF the afternoon
was delivered by the Hon. F. r Williams
of Newport, State bank commissioner
A banquet to the bankers was served a.
the Avenue House at 7:30. The Rev Paul
y. Moody, pastor of the South Congrega
tional Church, was the toastmaster, and
the speakers were Carl Lehman, and
Charles G. Griley Of Boston, Arthur T
Stone, DIR. G. A. Cramton and W. J. Bige-
low of st. Johnsbury. Music was fur.
nishetl by the st. Johnsbury Academr
quartettc.
The following officers were elected:
II. G. Woodruff, Barre, president; a. II.
Chandler Bellows Falls. vice presi-
dent; c. S. Webster. Barton, secretary:
10. l.. Wells Orwell, treasurer: q. p.
Woods, st JohnsburY. n. IT, Webster.
Bennington, Roy A. Bean, Orleans. cx-
ecutive council; ". NJ Mcfarland,
Hyde Park, vice president American
Bankers association; +. NJ. Cory.
Montpelier, vice president National
Bankers association; G.. W. Ruiter. ST
Johnsbury, member OF nominating
committee; j. f. McCarten, Newport.
latornate.
The retiring president urged the i'm
portance OF developing the agriculture
of the State to a higher degree of eff
ficiency and appropriating 500 for
starting an improvement movement
among the farmers of the state.
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, coach of the express. split wide open,
was thrown across the moving freight,
crushing these cars partly down and
then falling over the eastbound tracks.
Caught under IL were the bodies of
Miss Susan r. Hyland of New Haven
and of tho man believed to be Mardu =
ros der Hovhanessian, a graduate stu
dent at Yale. Late in tho afternoon
this car was raised sufficiently to per
nit the removal of the bodies and they
were taken to morguc here.
One Pullman coach narrowly escaped
it's passengers The second coach from
the rear. it was jammcd with its for
ward end hard against one of the
standards supporting the catcnary sys-
term OF the road. In this manner it
hung on the edge of the bank.
, Not a coach Of the express escaped
injury. the forward cars being iammed
together. the windows sma shed. and
showing the terrific force of the i'm
pact, The baggage car of the local
was torn from it's trucks and thrown
on its side. The rear coaches were not
seriously damaged and were hauled
away soon after by a wrccking train.
For several hours the track was COM
pletelv blocked. Later the wreckers from
New Haven and Bridgeport with their
powerful steam cranes began to remove
the wreckage
In the late afternoon the railroad police
roped off the rCht Of way to keep out
| of the danger zone the hundreds who came
by automobiles sleighs trolleys and on
foot to Wow the wreck. Tonight the line
was being cleared rapidly.
| Miss IIylands body was identified by
her seat mate and friend. Miss Anna
Shortz of New Haven, who a moment be-
| fore the crash crossed the car aisle to
speak to some one. Miss IIyland was en-
ployed in the Offices OF the railroad in
New Haven
| Charles F.. Allen OF Groton, who died in
| New Haven hospital later, was sales
| man for firm of cereal makers, making
his headquarters In Poughkeepsie. N Y.
| He was % years of age and is survived by
his invalid wife and three sons. Identif-
cation of one body as that of Maduros
Der Hoxhannesian was not certain to-
| night. There is a student at Yale Of that
family name
| Word came tonight from Bridgeport
that General T. s. Greeley of New
Haven, one of the few surviving
bigade commanders Of Connecticut
troops in the Civil War. is believed to
be dying.
The dead are:
| w. r. Curtis. engineer: George t.
Tourtelette. flaCman. Herrick Mass.
| Patrick Collins. New York city, died in
New Haven hospital; Miss Susan r. Hy-
| land. New Haven; Charles T.. Allen.
Groton. Conn. died at New Haven hos
pital; Edward McGinnis, fireman: male
passenger believed to he named Der
Hovhanssian; one employe yet unden-
titled.
Disregard of q cautionary signal
probably was responsible for the col
| lision according to Charles c. Elwell of
! the Connecticut public utilities COM
| mission. The states investigation al
ready is under way. but inasmuch as
four railroad employees. the most i'm
portant witnesses were killed. it will
bc difficult to fix responsibility, Mr.,
! Elwcll said.
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Driving Club Dimes.

Lyndonvlle, Feb. 29.-Folowing the
matinee of the Lyndonville Driving club
which was held on the snow path this
afternoon, the club tonight entertained
nearly 100 guests at banquet in Gable
hall, Prominent horsemen were present
from Vermont and New Hampshire and
Massachusetts, and the event was one
of the most successful in the history OF
the Driving club. DR., H. NJ Smith
acted as POSTMASTER.
This season has been a very successful
one on the snow path and some excellent
sport has been furnished Saturday after
Moons. Keen racing has been the rule
and former records have gone down at
nearly every meet Ruth D., owned
and driven by DR.. D. r. Brown. has
four times set up new marks, The first
new record hung up by this spunky
little mare was 3oi. seconds for the
quarter. This was considered good time
until the next matinee when the same
horse clipped off "A quarter OF second.
turning the track in 30h Not content
with this DR.. Brown drove his speed
marvel in 81 seconds fiat in the next
weeks meeting, beating out Colt Eft,
which had been imported from Mont
pelier, with the one idea OF showing
Ruth ID. his heels. 1t was only natural
that horsemen thought the record or 81
nat would remain for sometime. but on
fepruary Il, Ruth ID, was forced TO
even faster pace to retain her su-
premacy on the local snow path This
tlhe she was matched against 'Skloo
the property of Ruggles Bros, and was
given the race of her life, In the Sec
ohd neat of their matched race, the
horses finished neck and neck and the
winner was clocked in &s, by four
| judges.
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BODY OF COMPRESSED
AIR VICTIM FOUND
with Two Others He Was Shot through
40 Feet OF sand and Water.

New York. Feb. n.-The body Of
Michael Mccarthy. one OF three work
men hurled up through mud and water
to the surface OF the East river yes
terday by a blowout of compressed air
in a subway being constructed 100 feet
under the river. was recovered by the
police to-day after they had spent ~
hours dragging for it with graphing
hooks Frank Driver and Marshall
Mahey were tho other two workmen
catapulted out Of the tunnel Drivers
body was recovered soon after the
blowout while Mabey escaped with
few bruises.
Persons crossing Brooklyn bridge and
others at work along the lower East
river front Saturday afternoon saw a
Seyser suddenly rise from the river.
some 81 feet from the foot of Mon
tague street, Brooklyn. mount high into
the air, and then suhsde to a fountain,
10 feet in height, rising from a turmoil
Of bubbling water. The startled spects-
tors saw dark objects In the first squirt
ing column. which were carried p feet
into the air and then sank back into
the river.
Presently the Watchers saw that two
lllcT were SWlIIrnI1S Ipl inc bTDpklNl1
shore And then they realized that
the dark objects had been men and
that somehow they had been blown W.
out OF the river. But Il was only the
few officials at the Montague street end
of the new Broadway-Seventh avenue
subway tunnel where terrified work
men rushed into the compressed air
caisson. clamorng TO he let out who
realized that a part of the river bed
had given way and the swimmers had
been catapulated upward by the force
of the compressed air through "A feet
of sand and silt and Is feet OF river
water,
1t was many minutes before the eN-
tent OF the accident was learned. Then
it was found that one man had been
killed. two injured and one was missing.
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provide also for doubling the cadet
corps at West Point and creation of 70
companies to he attached to the reg1-
monts to be trained for entry into an
officers reserve corps. Chairman Hay
already had prepared rough draft Of
the measure as proposed and he thought
tonight it could be whipped into final
shape acceptable to all members within
two weeks
While the House committee was busy
with this plan, the Senate military COM
mittee was working on its proposals for
the regular army, framing its measure
on the basis of the Chamberlain bill
which provides for an army of APP
proximatey 10000 mon on the basis Of
the war college plan Of 1912 1t is under
stood the committee plans to make its
bill authorize a thorough reorganization
Of the army with a peace strength of
from 10000 to 2O0,OO men. a compromise
between the bills of the two houses will
he the decision of Congress AS to the
regular army. 1t is understood that the
House committee will accept the larger
regular army plan Of the Senate pro-
vided its scheme for fedcralizng the ma
tional guard is adopted by the upper
House.
The House measure will authorize a
maximum strength for the national
guard Of 49, 6J ON a basis of $40 men fer
each member Of Congress. will specifically
prohib. the disbandiug of any organiza-
ton by the State authorities and remove
present limitations on the use Of the force
outsid" the country. The bill will add
provision for national guard reserve
and for recruiting regiments sent to the
front. and fix the peace pay of pr!vates
at $tS a Year; second lieutenants, $50.
first lioutenants, $500: captains, $50, and
higher officers in proportion.
1t is proposed to empower the President
TO draft members of the national guard
into the federal service in war time. set
ting at rest Immediately any question Of
conflict of authority over the troops when
they are needed for purposes of the ma
ton.
To train the national guard. to supply
sufficient officers for instructors at all
military schools where a sufficient body
of cadets is under instruction to warrant
it, and to meet countless other demands
on the commissioned personnel Of the reg
ular army. the bill will add 1S6 officers.
bringing the total up to 100. as proposed
Wy the war department in the Garrison
plan. It also will provide for an increase
in the medical corps and the medical re-
serve corps and for the detailing of three
army officers for duty with the American
Red Cross.
The enlistment period for the regular
army will he fixed at seven wears, divided
into four years with the colors, and three
in reserve. Provision will be made. how
ever for the discharge of efficient men
into the reserve with less than four years
service.
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YOUNG ORPET is
HELD FOR GRAND JURY

Chicago, Fen. 2l-William Orpct. Uni
Versity of Wisconsin Junior, was held
to the grand jury to-day in connection
with the death of his former sweet
heart, Marion Frances Lambert.
The coroners inquest ceased suddenly
this afternoon and returned a verdict
finding that the girl came to her death
by cyanide of potassium poisoning. and
recommending that Orpet be held. Orpet
is 20 years old, and Miss Lambert a
high school pupil. was Il.
A liason, according to Orpet. existed
between the two, It appeared from a
letter introduced into the case that the
girl feared approaching motherhood
Orpet, after arranging an alibi to make
II appear that lie had not left Madison.
Wis, visited Miss Lambert at Lake
Forest. a suburb. two weeks ago. The
noxt day her body was found.
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BANKRUPTCY PETITIONS.

rutland, Feb 2l.--An involuntary
pet't'on in bankruptcy has been filed
IN United States court against Henry
= toss of Irasburg, dealer in grocer
les ana grain. 1T Is alleged that Mr.
Goss committed an act of bankruptcy
on november 20, 1915, by giving w. b.
Guild OF lras burg a chattel mortgage
Tor $500 on his stock in trade. Frank
d. Thompson of Barton Is attorney for
the petitioners.
A voluntary petition was filed to-day
by Frank James Of st. Johnsbury. His
schedule shows liabilities OF sass
and assets Of $67.S7 with $50 ella aimed
exempt
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-02-24

| Milford, Conn, Feb. Flight persons
lost their lives and 30 were injured in a
| rear end collision of passenger trains on
! the New York, New Haven & Hartford
| railroad near here to-day. Four Of the
| victims were railroad employees and four
were passengers.
The trains were No. "a the Greenfield
! Express. scheduled as the CONNECTICUT
| River Special" and No. 5, local train,
between New Haven and New York.
| a broken air hose on the express be
| tween the electric motor which was haul
| ing it and the leading car stalled the
| train on the west end OF a curve and rock
| cut near tho Woodmont station and the
| local rounded the curve and crashed into
It at a. miles An hour. 1t is said that
NJ. r. Curtis engireman of No. .. ran
| past a signal ZOO feet in the rear OF the
express and when he saw the home
signal go feet in the rear of the stalled
train he could not hold his train. In an
instant IT had rounded the curve and not
only We're the passenger trains wrecked,
but freight train passing west on tho
next track was buckled up by wreckage
thrown upon it.
George L. Tourt Gillette, hagman on the
stalled train, according to witnesses
went back with his red flag and saw the
local approaching He stood in the trac ok
! frantically waving the flag until it was
too Ia te to escape and he was ground
to death a moment before the terrific
crash.
schedule on arrival here from the east
q lotn nd h.
express 30, but the former left at II
o'clock and the latter at 1l:O9 the loca
having station stops and using the outer
of the west bound tracks. The express
on the inner track, passed the local and
at Woodmont was three minutes in the
lead and had been crossed over to the
outside track so a freight train could
proceed west on the inner track. Beyond
Woodmont is the curve on which at the
westerly end the express became stalled
! The makeup of the express was q
heavy engine. three steel coaches, three
, pullmans and another steel coach added
Mt New Haven The local had a smaller
engine and five wooden coaches, three
having been added at New Haven to
accommodate the large number OF per.
sons bound for waypoints.
Both trains were we'll filed with pas
| scnSers. Many Yale alumni were in
! No. 70 as they had attended alumni day
at the university and were there last
night for meetings Of the senior socie
ties. They We're returning to New York
| The local train had many boart
bound for Bridgeport TO attend the din
ner Of the Sons of the American Revo.
luton.
AS the crash came the boiler of the
! local exploded and HURTING through the
air over the freight on the next track
dropped right side up at the bottom of
the deep embankrnent. The rest Of the
engine was a mass Of twisted and
| splintered iron. The bodies Of the fire
man and ongineman. mangled and scald-
ed, We're picked out ot the wreckage.
While the roadbcd was not torn up
it was literally covered with the ruins
of tho engine and freight cars. Heavy
iron bars were twisted like wire and
steel frames of the rear coach of the
express We're ripped apart The rear
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-02-24

Washington. Feb. 2I.-National pre-
paredness legislation took long step for
ward In Congress to-day when the House
military committee reached a practical
agreement on the outline OF the army bill
1t will unanimously present for passage.
Chairman Hay was authorized to frame
the measure. which is n compromise for
the continental army plan advocated by
former Secretary Garrison and President
Wilson.
Complete liberalization Of the national
guard will be substituted for the proposed
continentals and the White House was
Informed during the day that the CONF
mittee was a unit in supporting the plan,
only the language and minor details re-
naming to be worked out. Tho measure
will grant virtually the entire program
mapped out by Secretary Garrison for the
regular army and go even farther than he
recommended in providing for reserve
military supplies A total peace strength
Of $1,000 men in the standing army and
the guard combined will be provided for
with reserve systems to more than double
the force in war.
The expense for the whole establish
ment this year is roughly estimated
at s174,0O0,O 900, exclusive Of Panama
canal defenses. carried in another bill,
proposals for additional military
schools in all States. carried in the
Mcclellan bill. favorably reported to-
day by the committee with an appro-
priation of s3,s4O.O00 for this purpose
and whatever may later be decided on
in carrying out a scheme to foster the
fixation Of atmospheric nitrogen in the
United States. giving the country its
own supply Of ingredients for eXplos-
ives. The first. year of the garrison
plan would have called for "A total ex-
penditure Of 1882. OoO,O 600.
Whether the new bill will be accept.
able to President Wilson has not been
indicated. but the committee believes
its plan will override every objection
to the substitution of the National
Guard for the continentals and that
Congress has legal authority for its ac-
complishment.
To complete the committee compro-
mise with President Wilson on the con-
tinental army. the bill will authorize the
increase of the regular army to total
peace strength Of $4,000 by adding ~
regiments Of infantry, four regiments
of field artillery. 81 companies of coast
artillery. IL companies of engineers and
four aero squadrons. This is tho exact
regular army program mapped out by
former Secretary Garrison before the
unfavorablc reception of the contincn-
tai army scheme led to his resignation.
Under the tentative bill. the regular
army would have an organization capa =
BILE Of being expanded to G5oo men In
"a iSin
be included designed to produce an
nually 900 reservists. obligated to re
turn to the coors under call. II will
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4 TEST THAT COUNTS.

Charles NJ Schwab, congratulated in his
native Loretto on war contract, said
modestIy: This success was due to our
organization. We only hire, you know,
men that are not to be had. or, as Mr..
Morgan put it when branch told him
they couldn't spare n certain man: I
only take the kind of men who can't he
spared. Yes Mr.. Schwab went on, there
was lot Of truth in the reasoning OF the
countryman who walked mp 10 the boxof-
office of a fashionable Broadway theatre
and said Have YOU got two front row
orchestra seats, center aisle, for tonight p
Yes, sir, said the salesman. Keep em,
said the countrNman, The show can't be
no good New York Telegraph
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-02-24
ONCE CHAMPION
BILLIARDIST DEAD

Chicago, Feb. 22,--Calviu s. Demar-
est. former champion amateur billiard
player and later a leader among the
professionals, died at Elgin asylum
for the insane last night. it was learn
ed to-day .Demarest suffered a nervous
breakdown last June and attacked his
wife with a knife. She was saved from
serious injury by Demarest's mother.
The billiardist was taken for treatment
to rest cure. but failed to improve
and was removed to the asylum
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-02-24
HOUSE ARMY BILL
WOULD FEDERALIZE
NATIONAL GUARD

Committee Agreed on Outline of First Prepared
ness Measure-No Continental Army
$4,000 Regulars Capable Of Expansion to
275,0O0 Men-75OOO Reservists Produced
Annually-Iotal Peace Strength of Guards
West Point Doubled-EXtra Officers for In
structors at Military Schools.
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RESOURCES OF NATIONAL
BANKS S13.167,SS7.223
DepOsits At the End Of the Year Reach
Total Of &1O.3.8.O,.O. OOu.

Wa shinSton, Feb. "..--Total resources :
all the national banks in the United states
which repC-tst, % &c controller Of TIA
currency December 81. 1915, aCgr eGated
s13, 49, ST. an increase during the yea
of about s2,1l0HH,Hl, There We're ,"'
banks reporting as compared with aN n
December, 1914.
Deposits at the \ld OF last year rcache
a total of slo519,ro,0ph an increase IN
the year OF about g. 1853 ,nN,0Ho and an in
crease over November, 1918, of ABOUT
S2230O,olo Loans and discounts in the
year increased about $l,oloOo."O and over
November, 1915, about sl2S, 0NOO. Specie
holdings by the national banks increased
in the IL months sl5A,00H,"S
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Old Stage Driver Dead.

Brattleboro. Feb. 22-Sidncy l.. Morris,
Sc years old, an old-time stage driver
between TOwnshend and Brattleboro. and
for many years n retired resident OF West
Brattleboro, died here this morning He
was born in Wilmington OF late years
he had spent the winters i'm the South
His wife, who was Miss Martha Taylor
of Wardsboro, and one daughter Mrs
Ira knight Of New York, survive him.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-02-24
RUTLAND RURAL CARRIERS.

Rutland, Feb, 1.-The Rutland County
Association Of Rural Carriers held their
annual convention Ia this city to-day, 80
per sons being entertained with a dinner
at the home Of the president, j. II. Huff
nliye of Rutland. The following officers
were elected: President T.. II. Hmffmre;
vice-president, w. A. Humphreys, Wells;
sec retary. Claud Gibbs. Castleton; treas
nrer, John Barnes, Pttsford; new member
OF executive committee, A. II. Stewart,
Whllingford; delegates to State conven-
ton, Mr., IIuffmire. Mr.. Stewart, James
N1ark. West Pawlet.
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Gray'S Inn Burned.

Jackson, ~ H.. Feb. 2l.-Gray's Inn,
n well known resort in the White noun
tains, was burned to the ground to-
gcther with its casino, late to-day,
while many OF the $50 guestS at the
house joined the volunteer fire de-
partment in II vain effort to stay the
flames. The loss was estimated at
100000. The flames started in the at
tic. probably from spontaneous com
bustion or a defective chimney.
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BOY WALKING TRACK
HIT BY LOCOMOTIVE

Bellows Falls, Feb. 22.-Charles Tidd,
aged 10, son of Mrs. Nellie 1fdd OF %
West street was walking on the tracks
of the Boston and Maine railroad
about 3:45 this afternoon when he was
struck by the locomotive of passenger
train while getting out of the way of
a freight train. lie was taken to the
Rockingham hospital. whore it was
found he had sustained n fractured
bone in the left leg above the knee.