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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-08-20
EQUIPMENT NEEDED TO MOVE ARMY
6229 CARS REQUIRED To MOVE FIELD FORCE

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Aug. 2O.-Some
idea of the adequacy OF the equipment OF
the railroads OF the United States Tor the
movement of troops may be obtained from
"a statement prepared by the quartermas-
ter corps, and distributed TO the railroads
OF the country by the special committee on
national deIe.se OF the American Railway
Association.
To move one field army of 1000 men
consisting of thre infantry divisions, one
cavalry division. anda brigade, technically
known "a brigade of field army troops
troops auxiliary to the infantry and cav
AIRY divisions requires Il tvl.4 OF 6,229
ears made up into 500 trains with as
many locomotives.
These 6,229 cars would be made up of
2,ll5 passenger, $50 baggage, 1865 boz.
l,o99 stock and l15 flat ears.
This quantity of equipment represents
q of / per cent of the locomotives owned
by American railroads, 4.2 per cent of
their passenger cars, and = Of l per cent
of their freight equipment.
The railroad equipment 10 move various
organizations OF the army at war strength
Is "a follows:
Infantry regiment, including % officers
/ $50 men, III animals and - vehicles
Cars required: Forty-eight passenger
ears, 5 baggage ears, 8 stock ears, ; flat
cars. Total, So ears.
Cavalry regiment, including 81 officers
,2S4 men. l,436 animals, 20 vehicles
Car, required: Thirty-six passenger
ears. 5 baggage ears, Pc box ears, -
stock ears. . open ears. Total, 80 cars
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-08-20

Artillery Reglmcnt-Light including 40
officers, LILO men, l,l5l animals, 81 We
hIeles- Cars required: Thirty-two pas;
Scngcr ears, = baggage ears, % box ears
% stock ears, 10 flat ears. Total. 40
ears.
Artillery liegimcnt-lIorsc, Including A
officers, l.l5O men, l,329 animals. u
guns Cars required; Thirty passenger
ears, Z baggage cara 80 box ears. OIL
stock ears. Total, III cars.
EngIneers-Pioneer battalion. Including
10 officers, SOP men, i65 animals. II We
hicles. Cars required: Fourteen passen.
ger ears, 2 baggage ears. 10 box ears. :
stock CARS, 1 fiat ears. Total, 81 ears.
Signal Corps-Field battalion. including
. officers, lalmen, 200 animals, Is We
hlcles. Cares required: Six passenger
ears, : baggage ears, ) box ears. 10 stock
ears, D flat ears. Total, IS ears.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-08-20

", ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS mat the DON~ OF Inc
medical detachment will leave this after
noon for Dallas has caused 4 hustle Of
preparation in the home of the city. The
Red Cross Workers are busy completing
enough housewives To outfit the or.aniZa-
ton. The members of the Girls Honor
Guard reported early this morning nj the
home of Miss Una Young 10 secure ma
terials with which To make the three
pounds of candy each has agreed to do
nate To the organization. The ladies VIII,
have been approached by Mrs. Wells and
her committee from the entertainment
committee of the recreation board are
busy preparing lunches. The detachment
leaves on the four-five train this after
noon.
Mrs. Y. J. Camiade will entertain the
Tuesday Bridge club tomorrow.
o
Miss Ernc>tine Faux arrived today
from Corpus Christi where she has been
visiting Miss Mayme Browne. Miss Faux
will be the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. f.. W.
Truwitt.
The officers hop at the Fort Brown pa
by both civilians and officers. The
Fourth infantry band furnished excellent
dance music for the occasion.
There will be a meeting of the Eastern
Star at the Masonic temple tonight mt
eight o'clock.
The Red Cross work room Mt the city
hall this morning presented the busiest
scince its opening. Many ladies were on
hand to complete the work of Quitting
the medical detachment with housewives.
The ladies present were:
Mrs. Katherine Stringfellow. Mr.. Kate
Leahy, Mrs. j. I. Craig. Mrs. Lizzie Pute-
gnat. Mrs. O. III. Snyder. Mrs. Rafael
Cowan. Mrs. VI. Beard, Mrs. Louis Bru-
lay, Miss Hattie Hopper, Miss Doty, Miss
Bcrnice Stell. Miss lone Walton, Mis- Lois
McChesney. Miss Marian McChesney. Miss
Chandler. Miss Sylvia Spivey. Miss Lllie
Spivey, Miss Letta Spivey. Miss Odessa
Dancy, Miss Mary Rich and Miss Bernice
Stell.
o
The MANY old friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert T. Woodhouse. former residents Of
Brownsville, welcome the news that they
have returned with the intention of max
ing their Tome here agairn For a number
of years past. Mr.. and Mrs. WoodhouSe
have been living on the Wooihousc ranch
near Raymondville. Mr.. Woodhouse j.
the eldest son of the late III. ". Wood
house, who was for many years r fore
most merchant of this place. The Wood
houses were prominent socially a well a.
financially in the twon throughout those
DAYS when Brownsville. unique in her $50
lation from the outer world through lack
of rail connections. yet was one of the
most delightful places on the globe a. a
place of residence. by reason Of the charm
ing and cordial hospitality Of the leading
American society people Of the town. Mr.
Warehouses; mother. Mr.. Mary II
Woodhouse. now residing in San Antonio,
was prominently a social leader in those
days. Her elegant hospitality. her queen
ly head crowned with prematurely white
hair. her gracious manners. made her 4
figure in Brownsville's social life that will
never he forgotten by those who had the
privilege Of being entertained nj her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert WoodhouSe think Of
building y home here. Fer enc present
they arc domiciIod at the home OF Mr.
and Mrs. ". IT, yanIlorn on Washington
street.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-08-20

Shortstop Fabrique, who had a trial with
Brooklyn earlier IN the season. ha- be
come one of the leading lights # the
American associations He Il pa~timnS
with the Toledo team.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-08-20
AMERICAS REPLY INDEPENDENT

'if A~~Hftlttp frfSS.i
WASHINGTON. n. C.. Aug. THE
United States reply to the pope'> note
will be sert independently of the answer
from any other belligercnt, Secretary
Lansing Indicated today.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-08-20

\ Pittsburg rumor has the Pirate,
changing ownership before the opening OF
the 1918 season.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-08-20

The st. Louis Browns appear To bc the
one team IN baseball made TO order for
Clark Griffith's Senators. Ii would seem
that ITO matter how well the Jones BOYS
perform against the Senators the latter
come through a winner.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-08-20

THIS REMEDY is SOLD IN BROWNS
VILE BY THE EAGLE PHARMACY
PHONE 26.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-08-20
The LIMIT REACHED.

4 woman entered a Chicago savings bank
and placed $50 in front Of the teller. lie
pushed out the book Tor her signature and said.
Sign on this line"
My whole name:"
Before | was marriedt'
M. just a. ii j. now"
An my husbands name. too: Why. the
mrn has been dead seven years.
You should sign your name Mrs. followed
by your Christian name and then your nus
bands name. ar Mrs. and your husbands full
name. ~ You might simply sign your Christian
name and your husbands surname. Write it
"a you are ia the habit III signing it,
IL can't write. Exchange.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-12
TO TEACH ARMY MEN
Seven United States Army officers
Back from France

An Atlantic Port, Sept. 11.-Seven
United States Army officers, promot-
ed to majors or lieutenant colonels,
returned here today on French
steamship from the American train
ing camp in France to take commands
in the national army and teach the
new men the modern methods of war
fare.
A lieutenant colonel declared that
every man from the youngest recruit
up to the veterans who had seen serv.
ice in the Philippines and Mexico,
were anxious for the day when they
could take their places on the front.
1T will be no childs play, though"
he continued. 1T is simply a bust.
ness of the army working In unity,
and mistake means disaster We
will break that German line, how.
ever, just as soon as we get suiii.
cient number of men; and we get
started we will go right through IL"
The lieutenant colonel, who de-
clined to allow his name to be used
said that he had been under actual
fire on the French and British fronts
for more than six weeks. and that he
had even made ventures out into NJ
Mans Land under cover of darkness
in company with French officers.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-12
SEPARATE NEGRO UNITS
Most Of National Army viii be On
Lines Of Communication

GNNo W
A Washington despatch says that
negro troops of the national army
will be organized in separate units as
is done in the regular army, and as
fir as possible will be trained in the
states wrehe they are raised. The
call for drafted negroes to mobilize to
allow officers at the camp to arrange
for the organization of these separate
units.
Both white and negro men of the
selectiye forces will be given an op.
portunity to volunteer TO battalions
for service on the line of communica.
tion, their work being military but
not combatant. There also will be-
however negro lighting regiments Of
the nationol army, as there are Of the
negulars and the national guard.
or the $4,000 men called for as
the first increment of the national
army II is estimated that approxi-
mately 10000 will be negroes. In all
the army in France will need, Il has
been estimated more than 100000
men behind the lines for use along
the roads and railways or on other
special work A great many bat.
tallons OF both white and negro
troops will be necessary for those
purposes and the war department
feels certain that many of the
negroes of the selective draft forces
will volunteer for this duty in order
to be sent quickly to France.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-12
MRS. KEN|STON
FOUND GUILTY
End DEGREE
Was Charged With Murder
of Alice Bradshaw
JURY ACTED QUICKLY
Took only 40 Minutes to Consider
Case Of Woman Who Denied
Her Guilt.

St Johnsbury. Vt. Cept 11.-Mrs.
Alvin Kenniston was found guilty in
the second degree today, for partici-
pating in the killing July of Alice
Bradshaw, the crippled eight year old
daughter of a neighbor. The jury de-
liberations lasted but forty minutes.
Mrs. Alvin Kenniston, a neighbor Of
the Bradshaw family was arrested
with Miss Eta Hicks, housekeeper
for the girls father John Bradshaw,
on July 6, according to the police, the
woman confessed to killing the child
because she was bother.
Later John Kerwin, a farm hand,
was arrested He has since pleaded
guilty as an accessory after the death
and testified at Mrs. Kenniston's
trial that under her direction he had
carried Alices body from the spot
where it was hidden beneath some
brush to the field in which it was dis
covered in August.
According to Kerwin, Mrs. Kennis-
ton told him that she choked the girl
while Miss Hicks beat her with a
club. Mrs. Kehniston testified in her
own defense that she loved the little
girl.
She declared that the alleged con
fession made to private detectives
and others, had been obtained by
threats. The contention OF the de-
tense, that the crippled child had
wandered away, and perished from ex-
posurc
County authorities planned to start
the trial OF Miss Hicks soon.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-12
CHANGES AT THE POST
Fort Ethan Allen May Become Base
Hospital.


Definite plans have been made for
converting Fort Ethan Allen into a
base hospital. but owing to other
changes that are proposed for the
Post it has not yet been possible to
put the arrangements into effect.
Word has been received that the
squadron of cavalry which was sent
to Pennsylvania about two weeks ago
for guard duty may return. If they
do come back they will be quartered
in their former places in the barracks
and this will prevent the medical
corps from using them, as they had
planned. AS soon as some definite
arrangements have been made by the
military authorities for disposing of
the entire Second cavalry the Post
may be converted into a base hospi-
tai
Colonel Gosman, in charge of the
Post hospital. has just received let
ter from a friend in Washington stat
ing that no further assignments of
Red Cross hospital corps or units will
be made from this country to France.
The reason for this move Is unknown
but it may be an indication of peace
in the near future
No trace of the prisoners who es-
capped from the guards Friday morn
ing has been found, but n searching
party is out hunting for the two men.
Each one of the party is acquainted
with the prisoners and the officers at
headquarters are fully confident that
they will soon land the men.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-12

As workers, Col, Kevilles say his men
can't be beat. and he says the same
of them as soldiers in keeping dis.
cipline, for he has yet to bring his
first charge against man in sum-
mary court.
Tent homes of the officers have
been fixed up handsomely. The sol
diers found some clam shells which
were left at a bake in the ancient
past OF Hampton Plains. These they
whitened and placed in rows along
the front of Col kevile's tent. Then
they made a garden, dug some pine
seedlings and set them out. These
are real war gardens, and the we'll or
dered and bordered paths lead the
length of officers row. Col. Keyille
took so much pride in their effort,
which was voluntary on the part of
the boys, that he pointed It out in par
ticular today when Gen. Cole visited
the Ammunition Train to inspect the
road building.
The entire camp shiyered this
morning There was an inch of frost
on the grounds, ice on the water In
buckets and wash basins and some
of the taps from the water mains
we're frozen. The cold weather has
apparently checked the spread OF the
measles and mumps, and there were
fewer cases reported today. The
health Of the camp is excellent.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-12
MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE
Lifeless Body Of Thomas F. Smith
Found-Autopsy Today.

Founu-Nutopsy iOudJ'
Brattleboro. Sept 10.-Attracted by
the barking of his dog, John Blake,
sexton of Monringside cemetery, this
morning found the lifeless body Of
Thomas +. Smith of 10 Lawrence
street, in wheel-barrow On the barn
floor at the cemetery under conditions
indicating suicide Death apparently
was caused by double-barrelled shot
gun which lay between Smiths legs
on the front edge of the wheelbarraw.
There was a gunshot wound over the
heart. around which the flesh had
been burned and the body had fallen
backward.
Relatives cannot account for the
shooting. States Attarney William
II. Daley has arranged to have DR., b.
II. Stone OF the State laboratory per
form an autopsy tomorrow. Where
the shotgun came from is a mystery
Smith was 33 years old and a former
employe of the Central Vermont rail
way company in the yard here. He
returned Saturday from Berlin, n. H.,
where he went two weeks ago to take
employment He was unmarried and
lived with his parents
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-12
WARM PLACED ON TRIAL
Soldier Charged With Numbering Jen-
ME Hemingway In st. Albans

st. Adams. Sept. 10.-Rufus Il.
Brown of Burlington, former attorney
general of Vermont, will assist in the
prosecution OF Robert Warm, the o.
S. cavalryman whose trial for the al
legged murder oi IA year old Jennie
Hemingway is TO begin at the conven-
ing of the September term of Frank
lin county court tomorrow morning.
Attorney General II. G. Barber, who
would ordinarily assist in the case, is
in st. Johnsbury on the Bradshow
murder trial.
c. G. Austin & Sons. counsel for
Warm. announced today that every.
thing is in readiness to begin the trial
tomorrow morning Warm, who since
the finding of the girls body August
49, has been I'm the county Jail, re.
mains calm He was taken down
town to barber shop this morning.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-12
FROST DAMAGE
IN BENNINGTON
WASNOT HEAVY
Loss In This Vicinity Com
paratively Light
MAIN CROPS ESCAPED
Hn Sections Of the Country, South
and West, Loss viii Run
Into Millions.

Weather reports predicting frost
last night were not verified to any
great extent in the immediate vicini-
ty Of Bennington. Vegetation in exss
posed places suffered but the dam
age was slight
Reports received Tuesday from 9TH
er states show that Bennington was
not nearly so hard hit Monday night
as other sections. In localities a con-
siderable distance to the south the
damage was enormous. The loss in
corn, tobacco and other crops suscep-
tible TO frost VIII run into millions.
In the vicinity Of Bennington the
damage is not so great as was at
first supposed Silage corn, except
on low land, has not suffered badly.
Some buckwheat that was sowed late
will experience a loss but the crops
that are grown in quantities in south
ern Vermont have mostly escaped.
There is hardly a section of New
England in which the frost was not
more severe than in Bennington
county and the entire northern sec
tion of the country apparently suffer
ed more than the southwest corner of
Vermont Certain kinds of garden
produce are not expected to survive
even the lightest of frosts, such as
tomatoes and cucumbers, but in the
village and on nearby farms even
the beans have apparently not been
entirely killed.
Observation from year to year
bears out the contention that the
mildest climatic conditions in Yer
mont prevail in and around Benning-
ton. The season may not be much
earlier in spring but they are usually
long enough to mature a crop of corn
and the winters are less sereve.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-12
SUBMARINE
STORY BADLY :
EXAGGERATED
Only One U-Boat Sunk and
Maybe Not That
ANOTHER CREEL YARN
Secretary Daniels Apologies For
Another Falsehood From His
Department.
ANOTHER CREEL YARN

Washington, Sept IA typo
graphical error in transcribing state
ment for the press today from an Off
cial report to the Navy Department
made it appear that six German sub
marines probably had been sunk off
the French coast when they attacked
a fleet of merchantmen including at
least one American vessel. The facts
are, so far as kncwn tonight, that one
submarine probably was destroyed
and two of the steamers went down.
A corrected statement was issued by
Secretary Daniels as soon as the er-
ror was discovered.
The department has only a meager
account of the fight and additional
details have been asked for by cable.
The report came from the American
tanker Westwego through Paris, the
vessel apparently having reached a
French port after the fight The
names and nationalities of the two
ships lost were not given.
The Westwego was enroute to Eu-
rope and from the fact that she was
cruising with other merchant craft,
navy officers assumed that the fleet
was under convoy of naval vessels,
probably of American destroyers.
The tanker reported Sept. 8, the fight
having occurred Sept. 5. The brief
statement received from Paris said
that six submarines had made a
massed attack on the merchant flotil-
la; that two of the steamers were
sunk and that one of the submarines
probably was lost
The Weswego is an armed vessel,
but there was nothing in the message
to indicate whether the other ships
also we're armed.
In preparing for the press in the
bureau of operations of the Navy De-
partment, statement of the contents
of the dispatch, it was written that
"all' of the six submarines probably
had been lost Later, on checking
over the message and the statement
issued to the press. it was found that
the word was zine" in the dispatch.
officials were interested In partic-
ulars of the fight If the vessels were
under convoy as is supposed, and
either of the two steamers lost were
American, the first conveyed Ameri-
can merchant craft has fallen victim
TO the submarines.
The fact that the submarines at
tackled the merchant fleet in such
force led to the conclusion that the
German commander enormously
thought he had to deal with troop
transports or with army supply ships.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-12
POTATO CROP SHORT
Aroostook County Has Suffered From
Blight.

Houlton, Me, Sept. 11.-Judging
from present indications, the potato
crop of Aroostook county will be far
below normal this season. When the
farmers planted sthe spring they ex
pected TO repeat last years perform
ance, when record prices prevailed,
and make a CLEANUP Rust and blight
have done their work, however, and
many farmers saylthe will be salts
fed If they break .even.
Some growers declare the crop for
the county VIII be so per cent below
normal. They say there viii be a
heavy falling off i'm the field Of the
Green Mountain variety.
Some of the eark varieties, such as
the Cobbler, have done well, showing
good crop but ehe kinds that were
planted late are hard hit by rust
Shippers have begun to buy for out
side markets. Many carloads have
been shipped at the low price of 81 a
parrel. 1t will not be possible to get
a good estimate of the probable yield
VI int Npult4 lbi ANu udSo i<di 81
quantities of potatoes will be dug be-
ginning the latter part of the week
Other crops are good and will bring
high prices, 1t is believed. The har-
yesting of wheat, oats, barley and
buckwheat is now under way. The
farmers are pleased at the way in
which these cereals have come
through.
Although the labor question was a
bugbear during the early part of the
season. farmers fearing they would
not be able to get enough men to har-
vest their crops, little difficulty has
been experienced in getting good help
at regular prices. There is no danger
from that source.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-12
DRANK DENATuRED ALCOHOL
John A. Holden, 60, Died in Few
Hours at Rutland.

JONn ~ NOluCU, U.s. OlGu IN rev
Hours at Rutland.
Rutland Sept IL John A. Holden
a wagon painter well known in this
city. where he had passed the MAORI.
ty of his 60 years, drank almost the
entire contents Of an eightounce bot
tie OF denatured alcohol yesterday af-
1ernoon shortly after | o'clock and
died at the Rutland hospital at Z
o'clock last night.
He was first discovered In the yard
of the Levi f. Miner place on Pine
street, where he had been employed
in years gone by, and 1t was at first
supposed that he was under the in
fluence of liquor He asked to be
sent to the Morse stables, where he
worked up 20 two weeks ago, but
later returned to the Miner premises,
where he collapsed.
The bottle found in the mans
pocket was plainly marked Poison
and was purchased at the l.. A. Min.
er drug store, where the clerks had
complied with the law. the poison be.
Ming properly registered in the book
kept for this purpose.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-12

MRS. CELIA PADDOCK
Longtime Resident Of Bennington
Died Last Night.

Mrs. Celia Paddock, widow of the
late Zachariah Paddock. died last
night at her home on Elm street
Mrs. Paddock, who was 63 years of
age. suffered a shock of paralysis
last Friday and had since failed rapid
ly until the end came shortly after
10 o'clock.
Mrs. Paddock, who had been resi-
dent of Bennington for AZ years, was
a native of Wisconsin born on the
frontier of the middle west During
her long residence here she had ac-
quired large number Of close
friends who will learn of her passing
away with sincere regret. Her hus-
band died about two years ago
Surviving are six children, all resi-
dents of Bennington, Fillmore NJ.
Charity F., Mrs Jessie Manuel,
Charles F., Warren E.. and Fannie
Paddock and six Grandchildren,
The funeral willfbe held from the
Methodist church Friday afternoon at
2 o'clock