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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17
RAY COLLINS QUITS
Boston Red Sox Pitcher Now Out Of
Base Ball.

Rutland, Jan. 16--Ray w. Collins
of Colchester, for the last six years
q first string pitcher of the Boston
Red Sox, will never again don a uni,
form for Boston or any other club.
He made that positive declaration
here this afternoon. He said that
this decision was final and although
he has not yet decided on just what
he will do in the future. he intimated
that he would devote his entire time
TO the management of his property in
Colchester, which includes valuable
farm.
Collins would not say Just what con
sideration led him TO this decision,
but he declared that no specific dis
satisfaction with his berth with the
Boston rendered contract for 1916
by President Lannin and that the
terms named therein were satisfac-
tory.
The big southpaw returned to his
home tonight after having been for
three days in attendance at the ses-
sions of the boys conference, in
which he is greatly interested
1t has been reported from Boston
that Collins was among the several
high salaried Red Sox players who
would have to stand for sizeable re-
duction in salary this year in line
with a general policy of retrerchment
following the conclusion of the war
between the Federal League and or
ganized baseball and that the Yer
monter did not relish reduction of
wagee
The former University of Vermont
man had the poorest year Of his ca
reer last season and rumors have
been rife that Manager Carrigan in
tended to trade him to some other
club, believing that he had outlived
his usefulness in the Hub. Some OF
his local friends believe that Collins
decision to retire is the result of de-
termination to forestall any attempt
by Carrigan to railroad him into
some other less congenial American
League berth or into the minors.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17
BERGEN IN RUINS
Norway Seaport Suffers s15,ooo,ooo
Fire

Christiania Norway, via London
Jan. 1G.-A third of the city of Ber
gen. a thriving Norwegian seaport
with a population of 10000 was de,
stroyed last night by fire.
Two lives are reported to have
been lost and 1000 persons are home
less. The property damage is esti-
mated at s15,000,000.
The confagration is said to nave
been the worst ever recorded in Nor
way. The business district with rs
old wholesale houses, several of the
largest of the hotels, many schools,
the electric plant, and banks and
newspaper buildings was the part
burned.
The difficulties OF the 1000 persons
now without homes were increased by
the fact that the largest storage
houses, filed with provisions for sup
plying the surrounding country We're
burned 1t is harder to obtain sroc-
cries today than at any time since
the outbreak OF the war.
Bergen never was so lourishing as
at the beginning of the present yea,
these conditions being due largely TO
the increased merchant marine
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17

DR.. ABRAHAM c. OSBORN
Former President of Benedict College
Died in North Adams.

North Adams, Jan 16.-The Rev.
DR.. Abraham Coles Osborn, minister,
writer and educator and fifteen years
president of Benedist college of Co
lumbia, S. c., died this morning In
the home OF his son, Harold Osborn,
in East Main street, after long i'll
ness. Dr. Osborn was elghty-five
years old. He was born in Scotch
Plains, n. j., February 90, 1881, AMI
was son of Johnathan and Amelia
Osborn.
DR.. Osborn was graduated from Col
gate university in 1855, receiving the
a. B. degree, and three years later
was awarded an A. NJ. degree at Col
gate. He was graduated from Hamil-
ton Theological college in 1858 and
received from Shutleff college in H.
linois, the degree of LIZ. d., in 1867,
Colgate in 1906 gave him the degree
OF IL, d.
He was ordained to the Baptist
ministry in 1858. DR.. Osborn married
Miss Emma j. Hatfield of New York,
VINO dled seven years ago.
Between the years 1859 and 1894,
DR.. Osborn had pastorates in Louis
vile, Ky, st. Louis, Mo, Brooklyn
and New York city and from 1877 to
1884 he was pastor of the First Bap-
tist church until 1895 when he became
president of Benedict college in Co.
lumbia, s. c., where he remained un-
til 1910 when he retired and came TO
this city to make his home.
He was a member OF the corporal
ion board of Colgate university of
Baptist Educational society OF the
Phi Beta Kappa, the Masonic frater-
nifty and Knights Templar.
II leaves three sons, Harold of this
city. Professor Ralph Osborn of New
York city and Robert of Worcester.
The funeral will take place Tuesday
afternoon at O'Clock in the First
Baptist church and burial will be in
Hillside cemetery.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17
SOLDIERS MOSTLY AMERICAN
Burlington Man Went to the Canadian
Army to Get His Son.

Burlington, Jan. 15.-Elroy j. Zeno
Of 81 George street returned yester-
day from st Johns, p. O., accompani-
ed by his 1S-year-old son, Francis,
who LETT his home on December 81,
and enlisted at st. Johns as a mem
Der of the S7th regiment of Grena-
diers. A week after his enlistment
young Zeno notified his father of
his whereabouts. and Mr. Zeno i'm
medately took up with the state de-
partment at Washington the matter
of obtaining his sons discharge.
The boy, who was member of the
machine gun troop of the regiment
says that it is composed principally
of Americans from the northern New
England states who have been at
tracted by the thoughts of the danger
and excitement of participating in the
war. The regiment receives several
hours Of drill instruction each day.
and will be part of the contingent
of Canadian troops which will be
sent to the front in the spring.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17

been smouldering for hours, creeping
along the wall and up into the attic
and finally breaking out around the
ventilation shafts. Had the building
! been of ordinary construction It
would have spread so rapidly that the
building could not have been saved,
but the wire lath and cement walls
held it from spreading until the fire
men could dig through the walls and
drown it out.
1t was at first thought that the Are
might have started from the chemi-
Gals In the laboratory closet, but
when access was gained to this closet
the chemicals were found unchanged.
The wires seem to have been the
only thing inside the partition that
could possibly have started the G:o
This wiring had been inspected and
approved by a representative OF the
New England Underwriters associa-
| ton so 1t was not open to suspicion.
The loss has not as yet been esti-
mated by anybody whose opinion is
entitled to any great consideration,
but is guessed by local citizens with
out technical knowledge all The way
from $4,000 to 100000.
A large proportion of the loss is due
to water. Hundreds of tons of water
were poured into the building for
hours. The smoke was so dense that
it was dangerous for the fremen,
who repeatedly risked their lives ii
efforts to get at the fire. When the
ceiling fell in Miss Hoffman's room,
two firemen narrowly escaped Icing
crushed under the blazing debris.
The wind was strong during tho
fire, but the firemen by keeping doors
and windows mostly closed in spite
OF the smoke kept the wind from
driving the fire into the north end Of
the building.
All the ceilings, walls and floors IN
the south part of the buildins are
ruined and the roof in the sontlieast
part of the building is destroyed.
The water poured in floods down in;o
the basement and at L o'clock IL was
necessary to call out the steamer u
pump the water from the basement
and boiler room. There is pump
in the boiler room and this did gool
work in keeping down the watel until
| the steamer cane.
Janitor John Lister was in the
boiler room fixing the fires when TIC
laze was discovered and ass ..ed by
two young men who came in off the
street had three streams on tie fire
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17

The new high school building was
badly damaged by fire Sunday night.
That the district has any high school
building left today is due to the splen-
did construction of the building and
the magnificent struggle put up by the
fire department.
The fire was discovered and an
alarm rung in from Box 16 at $50 o.
clock and for three hours the firemen
fought valiantly against blaze that
worked around in partitions and un-
der the roof where it was Just
about impossible to get at 1t. The re-
lease was sounded about 1890, but
Chief Harry B. Spear and several
firemen remained on guard. At 8 o.
clock this morning the blaze started
up again and another alarm was
pulled in, but the fire boys soon had
it under control.
The fire apparently started from
the electric wires in the wall back Of
the laboratory and presumably had
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17

ed by Knights OF Columbus and his
offer will be accepted for the teacher
training class. Rev. T. F. Turner has
also offered the use Of st Peters
parish house.
At the graded school Supt. Varney
and Principal Mabrey have cleared
the top floor by com mbining the two
rooms of each grade with two teach-
ers to a room Tho business depart
ment will be placed in the corridors
and work will go on until the high
school building is repaired.
The domestic science and manual
training departments are worst
crippled, but will struggle along as
well as possible under difficulties. F.
This morning it was a serious prob.
lem to get the water off the various
floors, but Principal Mabrey had a
dozen high school boys and few old.
er men at work and by sweeping the
water out OF the rooms and down
stairs considerable gain has been
made A temporary roof will be put
en- where needed and by keeping the
building heated it will be gradually
dried out Desks aud furniture are
being wiped and placed in dry places.
The books. which were mostly in
desk drawers, are not much damaged.
A big crowd turned out at the first
alarm, but most OF them thought the
fire was under control and went
home before the worst stage of the
blaze which was about 1880. Several
OF the school trustees. Supt Varney,
Principal Mabrey and Janitor Lister
worked with the flremen, and veteran
ex.fremen greatly aided the active
members Of the department.
The building was erected during
the year 1914 and the building was
opened for school purposes Nov.
, that year.
George Harwood retired from the
! fire department few days ago after
over so years service, but when the
I steamer call came he responded with
the alacrity of boy and took charge
OF the steamer
The fire walls, fire stopping bases
and the wire lath proved their worth
delaying the spread OF the fire.
Chief Spear and assistants Sears
and Briggs and the members OF all
the companies and the ex-members,
who aided them. deserve the thanks
of the community.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17
SEEK EIGHT-HoUR DAY
New England Railroad Men win Vote
On Question.


New England representatives of the
big four hrotherhoods announced at
Boston Saturday night that prepara-
tions We're well under way for taking
general vote OF railroad men on the
proposition to submit a demand for
an eight-hour day
BY Tuesday, it is expected, all the
locomotive engineers. firemen and en-
ginemen, trainmen and conductors.
included in the brotherhoods on the
New England lines of the New York.
New Haven and Hartford, Boston and
Albany. Boston and Maine, Central
Vermont, and Maine Central railroads
will have the ballots in hand. a vote
will also be taken on proposition for
time and half pay for overtime work
in the freight yard and hostler ser
vice.
The proposed action of the big
four organization involves virtually
all the railroads OF this country, Mex
leo and Canada, and ballots viii be
SSHt W lhS HRp'Ii'thpVu HSdlludF ~ .
at Cleveland, O. 1t will proba bly,
lie February before the New
England ballots can be forwarded AS
the vote of other districts in the coun
t.y will probably be delayed, union Of
deials believe that If the proposition
is accepted by the men. no formal
demand on the companies can be
made before April l.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17
SOUTH AMERICA SOLID
In Support Of Wilson Mexican
Policy.

Washington, D. c., Jan l5.-Pan-
American sentiment here, as voiced
by the South and Central American
diplomats, seems to stand with Pres
ident Wilson as to Mexico This is a
restraining influence and a support
not to be lightly regarded at this
juncture. Mining interests and the
soldiers OF fortune. who abound alcng
the border, We're first to jump to the
telegraph wires and TO the postofices
They helped in the big acclaim of the
last few days. But the president is
now hearing from other quarters.
from people whose opinions may be
affected less by their occupations.
Representative Kent of California.
the most indebendent man. perhaps,
in Congress. who has. large invest
ments in Mexico and knows Chhua-
hua thoroughly. today telegraphed II.
+. Hollis. an eminent mining ensi-
neer at I'll Paso, saying View is
generally held that murder was part
Of shrewd plot to involve us in inter
vention, to the end of gripping Car
rama. Cannot predict what action
will be taken, but matter is being
most carefully considered. Situation
seemingly delicate | am unoffcially
informed that pan-American friends
do not favor our invading.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17
U.s.. SUBMARINEE2
Irt",'0!OOES ~ AND
KILLS FOUR
Three Of Ten Injured at New York
May Die
CAUSE NOT Yet DETERMINED
Three Of Victims Civilians Who Were
Repairing Vessel-Hydozen Prob
ably Responsible.
CAUSE NOT Yet DETERMINED

New York, Jan. ia statement
indicating that the new Edison stor
age battery was not in any way re-
sponsible for the explosion on the
submarine Ed at the New York navy
yard yesterday was made tonight by
Miller Reese Hutchinson, chief engi
neer for Thomas A. Edison and a
member of the naval consulting
board
The preliminary inquiry into the
explosion took place in secret today
by the board OF inquiry appointed by
Rear Admiral Nathaniel X. Usher,
commandant of the navy yard. Meth
er Admiral Usher nor any OF those
present would discuss what tran
spired Persons on board or near the
E-2 at the time of the explosion were
questioned at length
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17
ST TUBBORN NIGHT FIRE DOES DAMAGE
ESTIMATED At $4,000 TO NEW
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
Believe Blaze Caused By Light Wires
Loss Not Yet Accurately Determined But Is Fully
Covered By Insurance-Hgh School To
Be Held In School St. Building
Excellent Work By Fremen

from the hose in the building inside
a minute, but the fire was so hard to
get at that the small hose did not
have much effect.
Except in the silence room and in
the teachers training department the
furniture is not greatly damaged and
a part of this furniture is being teams
ferred this afternoon to the Graded
school building and high school
classes will be resumed there torior-
row morning in all save one or two
departments.
The building and equipment cost
sS5,000 and there was an insurance OF
$4,000, all in good companies and
distributed in the local agencies, The
adiustors are expected here tonor-
row. The architects OF the building
have also been sent for to aid in
figuring the loss.
Rev. I. r. Carly promptly offered
Supt. Varney the use Of the rooms In
the Academy building recently yacat-
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17
TIPPED OVER LAMP
Saxton's River Man Burned and His
House Wiped Out.

Saxtons River. Jan. l5.-The two
tenement house OF John Minard on
Grove street, was destroyed by fire
which started about o'clock last
night, when Mr.. Minard tipped over
a lamp. He was badly burned and
was taken to the house of Dr. w. D..
Bowen.
Mr.. Minard lost practically all his
personal belongings and Oscar
Gamble, who also lived in the house
lost 500 in money, valuable papers.
his bank book and all the siIrerware,
linen and many Of the fixtures lie
used during the summer in a restalr-
ant
The occupants of the house We're
driven out with the thermaneter
registering 10 degrees below zero
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17
MONTENEGRO WON'T GIVE IN
Denial of Armistce or Separate
Peace.

The Montenegrin authorities offici-
ally deny that Montenegro ever ad-
hered to or intends to adhere to any
separate proposal of peace or to any
armistice with Austria, says n dis
patch from Rome. 1t is declared that
King Nicholas and his army and peo-
pie will continue to fight until the
last man.
A recent dispatch from London said
that after the capture of Mount
Loycen by the Austrians advices had
been received to the effect that Aus
tria and Montenegro had arranged an
armistice
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17
oATMAN CASE ARGUMENTS

Began This Afternoon at Opening OF
County Court for Week.
The arguments in the case of c. p.
Oatman under suit for $4,000 dam
ages for shooting Walter Hollster
with a charge of peas last summer
while the boy was stealing fruit
were begun at the opening of this
weeks session of County Court at
o'clock this afternoon.
The argument for the plaintiff was
begun by Daniel j. Guiltinan, assist
ing Collins NJ. Graves, attorney for
young Hollister. Atty J. *. Batchel-
der is attorney for the defendent, as.
sisted by Clarke c. Fits of Brattle
EorC
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17
TURKS WHIPPED BY
ENGLISH ARMY IN
MESOPOTANIA
First British Victory Scored in
Many Weeks
- ~-~--s-a
OTTOMAN SOLDIERS RETREATfD
British Relief Force Goes to Relief of
$4,000 Allied Troops Surrounded
in kutel-Amara.
OTTOMAN SOLDIERS RETREATfD

Berlin, Jan. l7.-Reports from Con-
stantinople admit the retirement of
the Turkish forces before the Rus
slams in the Caucasus, but do not men
ton any gain by the British in the
Tigris valley.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17

FIR SALE Flock of as well bred Exhibition
and UuIty, Rose Comb White Leghurns as
can be found Ia Vera ont, for less han they
are worth for eggs alone. Also Fi1hels,
Worlds Rest, White ri mouth Rocks. cocker r.
els nd puilets, th.t would improve your mock,
Tor sale Oh ap George 4. Lawrence. Man
chester, Vermont. 72tla+
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17
Card of Thanks

We wish to express our thanks and
appreciation to the friends and neigh
bors who so kindly assisted us during
the illness and death Of our beloved
father and grandfather.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. a. Folland,
Edith Folland,
Hilda Folland.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17

London. Jan. 16-The war office an
nounced today the nrst British sue
cess in Mesopotamla to be scored in
many weeks. The British relief force
which recently started from lami-Ali-
Cher6i to the aid of the $1,000 Brit
ish troops bottled up at Kutel-Amara,
river, defeated the Turkish army on
January and 9, after the Turks had
considerably hampered its progress.
1t then forced the Ottoman troops
TO retreat northwesgward along the
river to point astrIde the Tisris,
twenty-five miles belew stream from
Kutel.Amara. Three days ago the
British attacked the Turks there and
forced them 10 retreat farther. At
last accounts they we're still pursuing
them
This success represents gain for
the relief force OF more than twenty
I'VE miles after il had been defeated
by the Turks at Sheik Said recently,
the latter point being about fifty miles
below kut-ol-Amara Moreover. it
places it in the Immediate neighbor-
hood OF Kut-el-Amara. so that the
Turkish main force is now between
the main British force in that strong
hold and the relief force. II the de-
tenders Of Kut-elAmara through a
successful sortie manage TO break
through the Turkish lines the Sui
tan's army would be put into a peril
Gus plight,
On the ether hand if the relief
force is able to push its pursuit and
effects its aim OF relieving the mar
British army, then the latter will be
out OF immediate danger, despite
Turkish superiority, because of its
strategical position. a new British
drive on Bagdad would be the logical
consequence.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17

COR SALE-Best home made sausage, Far
mers are RIBS, home smoked Bacon and
Ham all l6c "A pound -alt PorS, l2c Lard lic,
box Honey Ice, fte n Ions, Hams .l6c Deliver
ed Wednesday and Saturday. Try some. 72tl2
Ernest Mattison SALISBURY Vt.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17

FOR SALE Don't pay rent; $500 per month
for 20 years, with inter 81, am UNITS 10
S6,72i 80 Buy lot and save this. I can sell
you building lot on Main ST.. Grant St. I'll N
ST., Weeks St.. De vey St.. Putnam 81, Wash
ington St Mckinley St. Dunham ST.. Eve ett
St.. Convent st, Monument ave. and several
new streets. Geo III. Dewey, Agt. Sstf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17

-Four men were killed and 10 9th
ers injured. five of them dangerously.
in an explosion which occurred yes
teIday afternoon on the submarine
E-2 while the craft was undergoing
repairs in dyydock at the New York
nayy-yard One OF the men killed
was an enlisted electrician and the
other three civilian workers. At
least three of the 10 now in hospi-
tails are not expected to live. The
dead.
Roy B Seaher electrician sec
ond class, OF Cleveland. o.
James fl Peck, Civilian general
helper, Of Brooklyn.
J. p. Schultz, civilian, machinist. Of
Brooklyn.
Joseph Losan, civilian, general
helper, of Brooklyn.
The injured. l.. T. Miles chic.
electrician Of Brooklyn: Raymond
Otto, electrician, Of Middleburg,
Nd; Guy H. Clark, Jr, of Frank
fort n. Y. John Holsey of Balt-
more, Mr.; James Lyons. civilian;
Henry Zoll, civilian; Otto Hasert,
civilian; Richard Heyne, civilian;
Michael Peyser, civilian; August
kapin, civilian.
Although the detonation was ter
rife, the submarine itself, from the
outside, shows none OF the effects OF
the explosion the second fatal acci
dent of its kind in the history OF the
United States navy. The interior
apparatus was shattered but so
tight was the shell that there was
no means of escape for gas which
accumulated and 1T was more than
an hour after the blast before the
work of recovering the bodies could
be completed. A ladder was blown
up through the coming tower and
fell 15O feet away. The injured men
and one body We're removed soon
after the accident. but three bodies,
far down in the craft. could not be
reached until the gas had been blown
out by compressed air, Soon after
the explosion several naval officers
led a rescue party into the drydock,
but were partly overcome by gas
fumes when they attempted to de-
scend into the vessel 1t was then
that compressed air pipes were run
into the she'll and the gas forced out
The number OF men inside the sub
marine at the time of the explosion
is not definitely known About 20
were working on the craft, but all of
them were not on the boat at the
same time. 1t is believed that nobody
who was inside could have escaped
injury What caused the explosion
has not been definitely decided
Rear Admiral Usher made the fol.
lowing formal statement tonight:
The board of inquiry met today
and went aboard the submarine,
where they conducted a thorough in
vestigation The investigation was
not finished, and therefore the board
will meet again tomorrow No con-
clusion was reached
Secretary of the Navy Tosephus
Daniels, who is expected to name To-
morrow board of inquiry to conduct
a formal investigation, left for Wash
ington this afternoon, without making
any statement regarding the explos-
ion. Al the navy yard, inquirers We're
turned away with the statement that
Rear Admiral Usher and the Others
conducting the inquiry had nothing
to say"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17

To Rent-Small tenement on sec
ond floor, bath with hot water, 119
Jefferson Ave, after Jan. %, suitable
for man and wife. Apply on premises.
78tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-17

r X SALE-Everyl hing in my second hand
store must be sold at great sscr flee as the
store must be vscated on the 22nd. S wins ma
chimes, couch SC OK snd rariOr stoves. furni-
ture eCc. James Fox River st. s2tG-