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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-09
CHANCERY TRANSFERS.

Joseph W. Stewart to Garnett =.
Bowden. 80 1-2Xl0O feet. known as
3424-26 Street. December 4, 1917;
tax, $3.50; $40.
Marshall l.. Boyle to Carrie ]. Cecil
ct al. lot % block V. Battery Court
addition. December 3. 1917; tax. 81:
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-09
COUNCIL SCHEDULE.

The following meetings OF Council
committees had been called yesterday
for this week:
Monday-Streets, S p. NJ.
Tuesday-Board Of Aldermen, Z.
NJ.
Thursday--Docks. Rivers and Har-
bors, L. NJ.
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FOR SALE-Renl Estate

n Scft1 Sa .ni fS5 ss II in
en G'9ss' asv fS
WORKING or metal MISUNDERSTANDING purposes.
hall soE FSr pnf
A sears wS Ra II antome i"d Vn
FI.oRlDA-We VIII bliiL your home rich
farm near Jacksonville. at only s. monthly.
Write Jacksonville Heights Co. Jacksonville
FOR sale. I'VE acres suPqrban land on, r.;
T. * r. Good automohils roads. Ashland
a% Ss rTGs sSg BOX y see va from
asy,Sr ru reeS and sarden owne
Il. care car Zines: 6!sps!c ii.9 10y, -D'ess
Ns!i q The ton ssa at Ssf
gain. i. :. Purcell. Jr" Co. Inc. ioi.
$40 per per- year. at bargain. Price. $500 90.
W. L. Purcell, Jr.. Co. Inc, 1914 East Main
FOR sale cheap, two-ztory frame nat on
Mosby Street; near Jefferson Park: Price.
ACRE building site overlooking beautiful
500. c. {. Lewis. Tsko,na Park. y. &
@ dao% a9aS r r. 5rsp aHa %si
located about II miles from Richmond. near
Southern Halfway station. Has good water.
and both places would make ideal SUBURBAN ,H :u,
depth. Apply Lea Lumber Co, Richmond.
NEW and up,to-ds,e Groom house win
Main street, IVES, of Boulevard SsI Price ,;u, IS
Wauehan- whi:ehurat CO. inc.
ur:To-DATE new home on h,noysr Ave .ys
price: ~
per cent ,,. less , than cost at this time.
small piece Of rsy, as wi Ts1
Park sTi moi.water heat. sleetric iishts' gas:
he he S S'h na GA and @ sold n"
Address D 81 care Times: Dispatch.
500, ACRE farm near station: about 50 miles
will exchange for city property
acres near city and bus line. 500 per acre.
easy terms.
EXCELLENT small dwelling and lots in
Highland Springs cheap: easy terms.
45l acres; go good bottom lind. on fine road
SO per MoS 81. dwelling Less tina"
dwelling and G"thniIdags all ns15ly nsW
almost pay for property: $3.50.
roLLARD s RAGBY.
FOR SALE.
G.56o ACRES IN FLORIDA.
W WlEn Nor nE EFafE:
LOCATED on on the East Coast: in vOlusia
branch of tho Florida East, Coast Railroad.
22I9 acres are prairie land" Has an ele.
top, soil is u black sandy loan. underiaid
with clay S;,, Would make make, an ideal stock
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-08-29
MAINE STEAMSHIP LINE
NOT ICE
TO CONTRACTORS
State Highway Construction

Sealed proposals addressed to the State
Highway Commission, Augusta, Maine.
for building sections OF State
highway, in the towns of Camden pa
miles. gravel surface; Auburn AT miles.
bituminous macadam surface; Lisbon and
Topsham one mile gravel surface, each
endorsed with the name of the town, will
be received by the commission at its
Office in the State House, Augusta, Maine.
until II o. clock A. NJ. Sept. s. 1917, and at
that time and place publicly opened and
read. The work will consist Of grading,
drainage and surfacing.
Each proposal must he made upon a
blank form provided by the commission,
for copy of which one dollar VIII be re-
CURED and must be accompanied by a
certified check for 10 per cent Of the
amount bid, payable to the Treasurer of
State of Maine. The certified check will
he returned to the unsuccessful bidder
undess forfeited under the conditions
stipulated.
the commission, Of not less than one
fourth nor more than one-haIf Of the
amount of the contract, will be required
Plans may be examined and copy of spec
ifcations and contract may be obtained
at the office of the Commission, Augusta
Maine
The right Is reserved to reject any or
all proposals.
PHILIP ]. DEERING. Chairman.
WILLIAM NJ AVER,
FRANK A. PEABODY
state Highway Commission
PAUL D. SARGENT. Chief Engineer
Augusta, Me-, Aug. "a. 1917
augN -9-31sant1 q
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Railroads and Steamboats,
MAINE CENTRAL R. R.
In Effect June IS, 1917.
TRAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA:

TRAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA:
r.-E=S@El GOING WEST-3.Co A. Nj,
lE vHEI%l Portland and Boston; o 70
|TTl asyr4t774 ~ A. NJ, Pennington, Rock
LS3 IAl{A9l land, Portland. Boston.
IHH3t1ESyEJ Montreal and quebec; 9.3S
u@A NJ, Brunswick. Bath,
Lewiston, PORTLAND, Boston; LOO +. NJ I,
HaIlowel, Gardiner and So. Gardner; 5.o'
p, NJ. local; 4.O5 2. M, (expressl Bruins
wick, Rocllland. Portland. Boston; 5lo +.
NJ. Halowell, Gardiner and so. Gardner;
SIS p NJ, local. to Portland, connects
there for New York and Washington
1o40 F. NJ. Lewiston, Bath, Portiana d
Boston. Sundays 500 and lo.22 A; NJ o.i1
CNew York; and l0.4o z. NJ. .ortiaho anu
Going EAsT-1.o3 A. NJ, Bangor. 81
John. Halifax, Aroostook Co. Sunday
morning at ia A. NJ, does not connect
beyond Bangor; 81 \. NJ, for Watervlie'
Bangor. Bar Harbor, Calais; 635 A. NJ
local to Moosehead Lake (via Oakiana),
belfast. Foxcroft ard Bangor; $50 a. NJ,
local TO Belfast, Bangor and Skowheeani
- 10 noon. Waterville, Bangor. b q A n;
r.. Bar Harbor. Calais, st. John ana
Halifax; 245 +. NJ, express to WatervlIe'
Themes local to Bangor and Matta"a
keag; 7.2O i. NJ. Waterville. SKowhesan
md Bangor. Sundays 327 M, Tor
Waterville, Bangor and Bar iaroor; 80
A NJ. 2S3 P. M, for Waterville. skowhe-
gan and Bangor. ,,ouo.,,
Trains cave Augusta for Hai 1s 8 %
Gardiner and South Gardiner az 20 a3'
A NJ 12.55. 3o7, 5.15 6.2S, l0.4. 7. NJ dai-
lowell and Gardiner only 405 P. M. Gar
diner . lily 200 A. NJ. daily.
NJ L. HARRIS, Cenl Passenger Az.
y. c. Dou lass. Gen'l Mgr, Portland. me-
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rot? Why unnecessarily chance the
U.boats with men and supplies. when
they can be better fed and housed al
home than In France while training
The first contingent of regular
American troops has been in France
since July and they are still study
ing French methods. Reports from
their officers insist that it is futile te
send more Americans there INSULT
ciently trained because they must bt
fed and clothed from the United
States.
A Washington special to the Boston
Globe on Tuesday said
Hereafter it is the intention of the
War Department to keep the men in
this country until they are At to &C
into the trenches.
1.-The new regulations sent out &c
commanders of the student camps
which formally opened today indicate
clearly that the old fashioned train
ing given former American officers is
to be superseded by the French sys-
tenn"
The same dispatch says:
when the United States entered
the war France offered instructors for
the American armies. England did
the same. The offers were fatty. but
politely, turned down by Mr.. Baker at
the direction of the General Staff.
1.-THE result Of this refusal Of the
French offer has been that 27,00C
American reserve officers have been
turned out Of the first officers reserve
camps with little more than a few
hours of actual trench work. Some
foreign officers who looked at the little
bitches which American officers
caused to be dug at Fort Myer to rep
resent a trench were astounded by the
failure of the War Department &c
grasp the necessity for real wal
trenches. These trenches looked like
bitches for Pinch sewer pipes: they
were barely big enough to accommo-
date man standing, while the
French trenches are built like cata-
combs"
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war masters and junkerdon, realizes
that even patient. long-suffering and
kindly-disposed America nrmly re-
fuses to consider a peace OF pan-Ger-
man construction. the worst fears of
the German and Austrian people will
have been realized-America's ire
.nendous power is to be fully enlisted
against them when their last resource
es are rapidly dwindling.
No longer can the people OF Ger
many and Austro- Hungary be cheered
by the assurance that their last
trump the pirate U-boat, Is winning
the war. There is the evidence OF u
boat failure-the American flag at the
front and England and France al
ready swarming with American SOL
diers recruited from college athletes.
physical giants from the forests of
New England, the farms Of the Cen
trail West. the mines and the mills OF
an Independent people Of 100 millions.
No longer can Germany and Aus
tria be kept in ignorance Of the ap-
preparation Of score Of billions OF
dollars for war by the American Con-
gress, of plans for navy capable Of
controlling the seas, Of an air fleet to
cost hundreds of millions, OF an army
to number nearly six million men CT
Americas best physical specimens.
Already the dread is upon the people
of the central allies of the avalanche
Of man power, financial power and in
Gustrial power to be dumped upon
them at an hour when their own bur-
den is crushing them to earth.
Should we marvel that Austria is
on the verge Of panic" or that her
emperor and empress are openly cry
ing for peace?
Peace at any price" r. soon 70 be
heard from Vienna-and then from,
Eerlin.
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Steamer Islander

Leaves Augusta every day at 7o0 A. H.;
Hallower Con signaD. 713: Gardiner 7.o;
South Gardiner Con signaD, $50; Cedar
Grove, SOS; Richmond. $40; Bath s'4o'
Arrives Boothbay Harbor about ll.So.
Return, leaves Boothbay Harbor every
day at l30 P. NJ; Bath BIS. stops at
Richmond, Cedar Grove and South Hardi-
ner on signal; Gardiner; Halloweh on
signal. Arrives at Augusta about
O. clock Z. / Walter NJ. Sa- born, Angus
ia; Fran. S. Wingate. Hallowel; W. l."
Tozier. Gardiner; Agents.
t.1Sdff
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least important. People from the
mainland also freQuented the place
and one night a man came on Morse
back with his wife behind him on the
same horse. The man imbibed rather
freely and on his return to the main
land either misguided his horse or fell
from the saddle dragging the wife
with him. The horse was found rider
less next morning before the stable
door, and search discovered the bodies
of the two locked in each others arms
on the bank, quite dead. from cold
and exposure. The man had tried tc
cover his wife with the skirts OF his
swallowtail coat ere they sank into the
slumber which knows no awakening.
Calvin HI. Norris, an artistic. stone
mason, who cares more for the beauty
of the thing created than the reward
of creating it, who has let his fancy
have its own sweet way on his lot and
bungalow, near Glen Mary Park. has
leased a lot of land on Alley island.
and has built upon it a quaint little
bungalow doing all the work with his
own hands. Here Mr.. Norris loves to
spend his week ENDS and il there is
no other way he will frequently walk
the IL or Is miles from Bar Harbor.
Mr.. Norris after long years OF hard
work, takes pleasure now only in the
more congenial tasks, like cutting step
ping inches in the shelving rocks on
some winding mountain path or max
ing drinking fountains in artistic ce-
ment designs for birds. Perhaps the
most colossal task he ever undertook
vas to take down Birch nest" the
summer log house of G. Douglas Sher-
ley and rebuild it exactly on the Sher.
ley estate in Kentucky, after 1t had
been transported there. 1t took Mr..
Norris the greater part of year to
complete this
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Train Our Soldiers at Home.

One writer from westheld camp
says:
The officers of the LIST Mainue Regiment
which was addressed by Gen. Edwards
yesterday. are wondering if the General
was really serious when he mentioned
charlotte as their eventual training
camp. He also told them that to be good
soldiers they should work like the devil,
play like the devil, but not to let the devil
get them"
Another says that the camp is set
ting down to six weeks of good hard
work.
Both these reports may be true, and
we cannot resist the conviction that
almost wholly green soldiers are not
to be sent to France to train-raw
recruits to be fed and provided for
thousands Of miles from home with
cut being Of further service than to
arouse the enthusiasm Of the French
people.
The homes Of New England were
dled with sinking hearts, last week
when the report was sown broa IDEAS,
France "at once A prominent Au-
g,ista business man called the Kenne.
bee Journal Office to inquire IL the
street rumor was true. He was in.
formed that that was as passed on,
from official sources. He exclaimed:
1T is iaconceivable! The idea Of a
sane official sending those boys over
there without even q months train.
ing. without equipment Of any sort
without ever even having seen a field
gun! I don't believe i'll"
Today it is allowed to leak out from
Washington that the War Department,
has asked the French government tc
send a corps Of officers. fresh IRON
the trenches. to teach the new Amer
; tHan ofHcArs modern warfare. WHY
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Editors Letter Box
Protest Against DINNER Law.

Editor kennebec journal:
Will you allow me to make a protest
against the SO called "dimmer-law"-the
new regulation that requires the lights OF
autos and electric cars to be inclosed In
frosted glass? Probably the idea is to
dim the glare Of these same lights, but.
to my mind it has created a new danger
TO trafiic-a danger the travelling public
is not as yet awake to. If the new lights
had been tried out before the law be-
came operative it would have been plain
to any one that the use of these lights as
required is an enforcement of law that
will defeat its own ends
l have had % years experience in oper-
ating public conveyances-having been an
engineer and motorman on various lines
and ! am certain that with these new
lights a motorman cannot operate his car
with even the normal degree of safety.
The trouble lies in the fact that as
DINNERS" that they are too effective;
the light does not ilume far enough
ahead OF the car to give the motorman
warning Of something on the track. ="
The nerve and eye strain will be an evil
II the something on the track" should
be the cause of an accident 1t will be toe
late then to wake up" and think OF
safety first
The DINNER isn't fair to the compan-
les, It isn't fair to the motormen, and II
isn't fair to the travelling public who
want fast time on these lines. In the IN
terests Of all 1t should be either repealed
or modified, and without loss OF valuable
time.
It is really serious th;ng-this element
Of added danger that the new law has
created-but, probably, nothing short Of a
more or less serious accident will make
our law makers take notice of the fact.
Must we watt till then?
--Motorman.
Hallowell, Aug. Is.
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Teaching Protection in tho South

II is strange circumstance that in
the North we frequently find in the
public school text books which teach
the doctrine of free trade while in the
South the situation is as often re-
versed. In one of the most pronounced
of the free-trade states Of the South,
we find high school history impart-
ing information which cannot be 9TH
crwise than calculated to establish
opinion in favor of protective tariff.
Speaking Of industrial conditions in
the United States at the time Of the
outbreak Of the Civil War, that text
hook SAYS:
The South was essentially an agricui-
tural region depending for its income
chiefly upon its exports Of cotton and to-
bacco -. The supplies which the South
had been in the habit of importing could
prices, and in very small quantities.
This condition of affairs might have been
prevented ii the South before the war had
gwen itself to the development of varied
oher haed cond II the Sorh on the
ent. At the beginning OF the war. high
protective tariff was established partly
to provide increased revenue and partly
10 encourage the rapid spread of home IN
dustries. The consequence was great in
dustrial activity throughout the entire
period of the war AS the Northern ports
were all open, intercourse with foreign
markets was easy. and the rise Of prices
was not SO great anywhere as to cause
considerable Inconvenience. In fact the
North grew steadily In wealth during the
war"
At the outbreak Of the war in Eu-
rope we had, in a small way repe-
tition of the experience Of the South
after the outbreak Of the Civil War.
America, for instance, had not de-
Veloped a dye industry and was de-
tendert upon Germany. Just as the
blockade during the Civil War pre-
vented the South from getting those
supplies which it had not learned to
produce for itself. so the United
States, owing to the blockade estab-
lisled by Great Britain, was unable to
set dyestuffs from Germany.
The principle of the protective tar
if does not depend upon the assump-
ton that Wc shall build up our in
: dustres as a protection against want
in time of war. The protective tariff
is primarily a peace measure designed
| to encourage the building up Of home
Industry with the consequent profit
able employment Of home labor. and
the prevention OF the export of money
ir return for the import Of goods.
We have both reason and experience
in support Of the conclusion that for
the purposes Of either peace or war, a
protective tariff is our soundest econ
cmic policy.
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EASTERN STEAMSHIP LINES
keNNEBEC LINE

Leave Gardiner 3.45 T. M. Dresden SOW
P. NJ, Bath $50 2. NJ, tuesdays AHoiS
DAYS and Sundays for Boston
Return-Leave Boston 8 7. NJ. Moneys
and Wednesdays 40 Z. NJ. Saturdays lor
Bath, Gardiner and intermeola,e lanu p,I
On Fridays leave Boston ~ nm M 81 M NJ.
Landings made at Popham beae ,a
weather permitting, and at Richmond
tide permitting
Leave Bath $50 A. NJ Tuesdays, Thurs
days. Saturdays and sundays LOT Sirise-
mas cove and intermediate landings.
leave 9 A. NJ and 3 +. NJ. week days only
for Boothbay Harbor and intermeaia'e
landings. Co,,, AZ
NJ Roothbay Harbor s p. M. Tuesdays.
Thursdays and Sundays for Bath ana
intermediate landings: Leave Chrso On ~
Cove 100 A NJ, Boothbay Harpor 5oV r.
NJ Saturdays only for Bath and inter
nediate landings. Leave Boothbay Har-
hor I A. NJ. and 1890 p. NJ. week Gays
only for Bath and intermediate landings.
sOSToN e. PORTLAND LINE
Leave Franklin Wharf, Portland. Week
Days at 7,3o 2. NJ. for Boston. ~
Return leave Central "harl' bostoi''
Day trip leaves Portland Tuesdays.
Thursdays and caturdays at a. H. due
Boston T. NJ.
METROPOLITAN LINE
Direct between Boston and New York
via Cape Cod Canal.
Leave North Side India Wharf every
dav at 6. p NJ, due 7,30 A. NJ.
Same service returning from Pier 10. n.
r. New York.
MAINE STEAMSHIP LINE
Direct between Portland and New York.
Leave Franklin Wharf, Portland. Tues
days Thursdays and Saturdays at $50 p.
NJ. Leave New York, Pier 10 \. r.. ca
daES at 5 z. NJ,
NJ. A. HARADEN. Supt.. Bath.
H. A. CLAY. Su t.. Portland.
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f.. j. Roberts, D. D. S.
DENTISTRY
TELEPHONE CALL ss7.w.
tan12 mon wed.tf
TENNIS TOURNAMENT
AT SQUIRREL ISLAND

squirrel Island. Me-. Aug. A.--1n the
squirrel Island tennis tournament for the
southern Maine championship Monday
great interest was aroused in the finals
IN the mems singles. won by Robert
Davis OF the Amherst College tennis
team. The summary:
Mems singles-semi-dnals w. Edmunds
neat Hooe. la-l1, 2-s 81, Sd; Robert
Davis beat Robert Proctor, g. s-4. 80
Finals, Davis beat Edwards, "a, 80
Ss
Mems Consolations-semiAna STAN
wood beat Morss by default; Bartholo-
me" beat W. E. Stanwood, 6-3, s4, 49,
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Esterbrook- Bell Wedding, Portland

Miss Irene NJ. Bell and Lieut.. Charles
H. Esterbrook, U. S. A.. were married
at st. Stephens Portland, Monday
evening by Rev. George c. Demott, the
pastor, the attendants being her sister,
Miss Lillian I. Bell, and Eugene C.
Merrill. They will depart at once for
the Philippines, where the groom is an
officer In the 7th Battery, Field Artil-
lery. He was commissioned recently
at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga The groom
and ushers were in military uniform at
the ceremony.
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Maybe He Did

The couple had stopped before the bril-
liantly bejeweled window Of a shop In
Fifth avenue, near Thirty-seventh street,
New York. The girl. petite and altogeth-
er treat to tho passing masculine eye
passing. but hesitatfngly so--was gowned
charmingly in something which chung to
her affectionately, pardonably so.
"oh, Harold" she exclaimed, did you
know that knee vanity boxes were be-
coming all the rage?"
80 I see," replied the unashamed
Harold.
You horrid thing! You do not
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HaIlowell. Aug. g.
Answers Ants.

Skowhegan. Maine.
Aug. 81, 1917,
Editor Kennebec Journal:
1t is next to impossible for any sane
woman to understand or find any log
ical argument in the statements
against woman suffrage as made by
the antis in the pamphlets which they
are mailing so promiscuously. Their
statements are not and can not be
proved by any truthful argument.
therefore we sanguinely hope that
men readers, whose keen minds are
supposed to penetrate so easily to the
heart of any political question, will
see the shallowness Of these non-pro-
gressive ants statements.
AS it would consume too much OF
my valuable tiine7 as I am a house.
keeper, also too much space in Mr..
Editors columns I shall simply dis
pute a few Of the strongest and most
influential statements and prove my
argument.
Ants statement: Mature has
marked the weaker sex for protection,
rather than the direction of govern
ment."
How many women. in our man-law
governed cities, who work in sweat
shops to support drunken. disselute
husband. and family This dep1orable
condition could be done away with
under equal suffrage, for no true
woman, and It is those who desire the
vote, would vote for the manufacture
Of liquor Without the article men
could not debauch. Many men inter-
ested in the production Of liquor do
not desire woman suffrage as they
forsee the downfall Of their business
interests if women have anything to
do with the vote. We suspect the
ants are Influenced by these big men,
morally, politically and financially.
The Russian Brigade Of Death. COM
posed wholly Of women, which did
such noble work with arms in a recent
battle, really shaming many OF the
men regiments with their enthusiasm
and ardor in pressing their attack.
proved beyond a doubt that women
as we'll as men, can when occasion de-
mands, arm. train. and ably defend her
Country. If capable to do so by force
then why not by the more peaceable
means, the ballot?
Another. IL is py tHe pIOHlulSd-
ton Of sound morals in the commun-
ity and rore especially by the train
ing and instruction OF the young that
woman performs her part toward the
preservation Of a free government"
How MANY mothers have reared
good moral families and then has seen
her boys and girls enter the business
world and there meet the terrible
vices which present laws allow to ex-
ist? How many mothers have watched
with terrible heartaches the gradual
downfall Of her once pure and true
boy or girl? Too many to count. The
fathers. too. must have suffered with
the mothers and we sincerely hope
that all fathers will listen to his bet
ter self and vote to give his wife an
equal voice with himself in making
laws to exterminate the vices which
corrupt his children. Men are more
easily influenced by political bosses
than women ard when women have