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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-21
TO help
YOUNG GIRLS
A Mother Wants Her Letter
Published.

Eaton. Ill.-'1 wish you would pub
lsh this letter for the benefit of young
girls. My daughter suffered greatly
from female trouble with cramps, and
headache, and backache most of the
time. She never felt like working. and
It seemed as though she was sick all the
time. decided to try Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and it has
helped her in every way, in fact it has
really cured her, for she no longer has
periodic pains, and no more headaches
or backache, and want all young girls
who suffer as she did TO know about i"
Mrs, ALMA MILLS, Eaton, Ill.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-21

collector is the latest official to be add
ed to Frances long list of functionaries.
One will be appointed in each commune
of France to verify the quantities of
horse chestnuts collected by school chill
dren and turned over to the state in the
interest of the national defense. The
crop is immense in France. Heretofore
it has been only partially utilized as
fodder. The bulk of it found no other
employment than that of munitions for
boys battles.
The government has appealed to the
school children to see that not horse
chestnut goes to waste, Their use as
fodder will be extended to replace corn,
rice, barley, ETY., in the manufacture of
alcohol and scrtone
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-21
STRIKE AGAINST CONSUMPTION?
Canadian Trades and Labor Congress
Considers Resolution Along That Line.

Ottawa, Ont, Sept. 2l.-Delegates here
at the Dominion Trades and Labor Con-
gress had before them for consideration
Wednesday resolutions to the effect that
a strike should be called throughout Cam
ada if the government attempts to en-
force the CONSUMPTION law without first
establishing effective CONSUMPTION of the
wealth of the country. The debate on
the subject indicated that most of the
delegates were in favor of the resolu-
tions, which were to be UP for vote
later.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-21

they are getting sufficient number of
men to do the work that only men can
do. Female workers are all very well,
they say, but woman cannot handle
riveter or swing sledge.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-21
BRITISH AFTER LUxBURG
Great Britain Does Not Intend to Ap.
prove Application for Safe Conduct

London. Sept 2l.-It is learned that
Great Britain does not st present intend
TO approve any application for = safe
conduct for Count Won Luxburg, the
German minister 70 Argentina, whose
passports have been handed 70 him by
tire Argentine government
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
Mrs. Tiffany to Head
Local Sufrag ists
Assembly District Conventions
Will Be Held Here
Next Week

Mrs. Charles Tiffany is slated to be
the new chairman of the Woman Suf-
frage party for Manhattan Borough, in
place Of Mrs. j. Humphrey Watkins,
who has refused to run for Office again.
Mrs. Watkins was made chairman for
Manhattan a year ago, having served
before that as chairman of the COM
mittee to raise $4,000 for the suffrage
campaign in New York City. Her res
ignation is made necessary by her pros
pective absence in the South during
the coming year.
All other borough chairmen will run
for Office again, including Mrs. Daniel
Appleton Palmer, Of The Bronx, who
caused a furry in suffrage headquar-
tiers recently by having hrr name con-
nected with a phantom Congressional
boom-a place in BOSS" Mary Gar
rett Hays organization and place in
the national Congress at the same time
being impossible.
Assembly district conventions will be
held in the sXty-two districts of the
suffrage party, beginning on December
4. At these conventions plans will be
outlined for the drive for the Federal
amendment and for schools for citizen
ship, and election OF district officers
for the year will be held. The candi-
dates for borough officers will also be
nominated at these conventions. but
there is not likely TO be any contest for
the important Offices. On December 7
the borough conventions will be held.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
. lammany Reaches
For Women's Votes

/, The executive committee Of the
'snOerstie County Committee met IN
snHsny Hall yesterday and appointed
ltoumiitee Of eleven members TO work
~ plan Of cooperation IN party or
eaHaiion and management with the
'soea voters disposed 20 align tnem-
yves with the Democrats. Members
NE committee are TO confer with
s''age leaders and report detailed
81 10 he executive committee as soou
Asonyen:ent.
me committee consists Of Senator
vert 7. Wagner. Sheriff Alfred +
~Ih' Senator James A. Foley, Charl ;
Guy. representative Thomas +.
Elm' DOH z. Curry. Commissioners
.afc ?. Boyle. Of the Board OF Elee
80 John l.. Walsh. Samuel Marx,
isise L. DonncllGn and Cambridge
~.sgs,on.
a. We will be glad 10 cooperate with
~ =. somer voters and want their sup
. - 70 the organization" said Senator
ayaer ave cannot announce definite
80 until our committee meets.
~. sure that the leaders in the vari-
80 assembly districts will be glad 70
Co.. Go an Invitation 10 the women 20
- INTO their clubhouses. or they
s ~ 0fganize Assembly district clubs
s,ef own, they prefer Some Of
leaders have already invited the
, seh 70 Join their district clubs"
n,sas said that members Of the COM
49, would confer with the suffrage
49, 70 ascertain their wishes in the
49,. Il Is likely that women will
g. PAGES on the Democratic County
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
Opera for the People
Sousa, Hitchcock and Others
Incorporate Company

"The New York Commonwealth
Opera Company" a community insti-
tuition, obtained a certificate Of in
corporation yesterday from Justice
Golf. The incorporators arc Lieutenant
John Philip Sousa, Tyrone Powers.
Sylvia Helm, Raymond Hitchcock, Van
Rensselaer, Wheeler, Ronald Sapio.
Jacques Pierre. Clarence Fullerton
and c. (. lie Massena.
The petition gave the purposes OF
the new institution as ito encourage a
taste for musical literature and the
arts, as well as social and educa-
tional sense among its members, to
erect, maintain, purchase and rent one
or more buildings for its purposes, 20
give a course in the City Of New York
or any other city of the United States
and elsewhere. Of operate or dramatic
representations, concerts or other en-
tertainments, and 20 acquire, equip
and maintain By purchase. lease or
otherwise one or more theatres or
opera houses, to carry on the business
OF managers or proprietors of theatres
opera houses and other similar places
of amusement"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
Benefit for Seaside Home

A benefit for the Seaside Home for
Crippled Children was held at the
Strand Theatre yesterday morniAs at 10
o'clock. A delightful programme had
been arranged, for Evelyn Goldsmith,
the president of the home. said that
she did not wish to have the people
feel that the entertainment was not
really worth the prices charged.
The tickets sold for % and 80 cents
and a few at 81, but the war tax was
waived for the nOnce. Programmes
sold for 10 cents, but here, too. Miss
Goldsmith had managed to make the
programme of real value by printing
thereon n recipe for war cake.
The performance opened with "The
Star-Spangled Banner" played by the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band, tots
so tiny they are hardly big enough to
hold the instruments which they know
how to manipulate so cleverly.
Following came a Strand topical re-
view, some picture postcards of Japan
and a comedy called "Balloonatics."
Knud Dalgaard, the Danish viOinist,
played the Meditation" from "Thais."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
deacon" Terry,
Dean of Reporters,
Dies Suddenly
Popular With Statesmen,
Judges, Policemen, Prize
fighters and Crooks

Deacon" Terry, kindly, able and
shrewd, dean of New York newspa-
per reporters, died from acute indiges-
ton yesterday at his home, SO Booraem
Avenue. Jersey City. On Thursday he
had worked as usual as reporter for
"The New York American" at the Dis
trict Attorneys office. He had been
employed by 1.-THE American" for TWEEN
~ years.
Ex-Presidents, Governors, prize fight
ers, crooks, judges and policemen were
among those who had counted "Dea-
con" Terry as a friend. He never be-
trayed the confidence of any of them.
He was born in Jersey City sixty
two years ago and was christened
Henry Clay Terry. He was admitted
to the bar in New Jersey, hut chose
to enter the newspaper business. At
the time of Y. S. Grants last illness
Deacon" Terry was member of the
city staff of The Tribune. He had been
a friend Of General Grants and was
on n footing which enabled him to
drop in on him for a chat when he
felt like it.
When General Grant was dying The
Tribune sent Deacon" Terry to "cover"
the story. The bulletins which the
physicians issued were brief and un-
satisfactory, but deacon" Terry had
made study of cancer and was able
to interpret the bulletins so truthfully
that his accounts Of the progress of tn
disease caused furry among the
physicians and attendants who accused
enc another of breaking faith.
Founding of Fifty Million Club
Information became still more mac
cessiblc. and it was then that Terry
founded the Fifty Million Club"
"Who wants the information de-
manded the Deacon" impressively Of
the hunky who sought to rebuff him at
the door. young man, you go back
and tell them that so 100000 people are
waiting here for news of General
Grants condition"
The 50,000000 got the news.
They generally did when the
Deacon" was their delegate. In 1889,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01

confirmation. They did this TO gain
revenge for the part he had played
as member Of the Electoral Conven-
ton in placing Rutherford y. Hayes
in the White House.
In 1892 he was appointed Secretary
Of the Navy by President Arthur and
began the notable work for which he
is chiefly TO be remembered.
Tribute from TilIman
Senator Tillman, Of South Carolina,
although a Democrat, paid the follow
ing tribute TO Mr.. Chandler in a SPEECH
in the Senate January 26, 1915:
Senator Chandler really began the
construction Of the new navy. lie was
on the Naval Committee when ] first
came 20 Washington in 1896 and was
at that time one of the ablest men in
the Senate. Necessarily he Is better
posted on naval affairs than almost
any man in Washington. not excepting
even the Navy Department itself"
IL was on June II. 1888, that Mr.
Chandler approved the plan for the re-
organization Of the navy which re-
suited in the development Of the pres
ent fighting feet. While Secretary Of
the Navy Mr. Chandler also organized
the expedition which. under Captain
Winfield S. Schley's command. went 20
the relief Of the Greedy Arctic explora-
ton party.
Becoming Senator first when APP
pointed TO FIJI an unexpired term in
1887, he held his post until 1901, when
he was defeated for denomination By
Henry +. Burnham. The opposition OF
leaders of his own party TO his views
on railroad legislation was responsible
for his defeat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01

Borodn's "Prince Igor" grows on ac-
quaintance. To conquer the first preju-
dice aroused by its utter incoherence is
difficult. Indeed the Russians seem to
have IN their opera librettos the same
regard for form and sequence that they
do in their politics. a Russian libret-
fist is a sort Of illuminated Bolshevik.
It does not matter where he begins, and
he certainly does not care where he
ends. He wends his way hither and
thither amid brutality and alcohol, his
eyes fixed on the stars, his feet IN the
mud.
Luckily, we do not need to bother
about him, if we will only keep our
ears open and listen TO the composer.
We will then hear something, If il is
sung by a chorus or danced by a ballet,
that will sweep away the miasmic fogs
Of the boudoir and the gutter. We will
hear the surge OF democracy, crude,
with small regard for legato, but Wig
orous ard telling. 1t is music such as
Walt Whitman would have loved.
No one knows how TO write of the
joys of drink like Russian. Borodin
IN the scene in the old market place
lays on the colors thick and unstinting.
Men 20 him are animals and little else.
And Mr.. Segurola, who, as far as Rus
sian opera is concerned, appears to be
doomed to an eternal bottle, makes the
most of his vodka in the enthusiastic
company Of Mr.. Bada Mr.. Didur, too,
makes the most OF il. In fact, every
body makes the most Of it. And every
one enjoys it. the audience most of all.
The Tartar dances are another glorious
orgy, with Miss Rosina CALI and Signor
Bonfglio heading the proceedings. For
sayagery of spirit and barbaric rhythms
there is nothing in musical literature
more appealing. The dances, with their
choral accompaniment, alone make
Prince Igor worth the giving. If only
the artists were as skilful with their
voices as Miss Coli is with her limbs
The great days of singing may be
passed, but the great days of dancing
are not. so long as Miss Coli remains
TO US.
Mr.. Didur knows the Russian spirit,
but his voice seemed emitted from the
depths Of a barrel, and Nine. Aida, too.
was in far from good voice. Mr.. Alt
house was moderately effective as the
young Vladimir, though the measures
allotted TO him indicate that Russian
composer knows more about drink than
he does about love. Mr.. Badanzky gave
an incisive reading of the score.
prince Igor" is an introduction into
the mysteries of Russian democracy.
We may not like it, but we can't dodge
it, and all the paint and perfume of the
world will not be able to make us for
get that IL is there.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
LAFAYETTE PARKS

LAFAYETTE Parks. well known among nnn
No Va" York newspapermen and one
, Nem nyonrietor Of the Fitchburg
W s,. ppI naIiiv News" died at his home
oI p',o street. Brooklyn, YESTERDAY,
following an operation for intestin ma
trouble. He was forty-three years n,s oye
and was the author Of seVerai pay
and stories. -, p.rLs was
Several years ago Mr. Farhs "o %
connected with the editorial s." bc
the Evening Telegram H. o,,a,
W. "Da;Iv News" and succeeded IN
.naki,c II one of the leading newspa.,
ma ma, Of that part Of Massachusetts =
pa AGO he returned TO New YORK and
"a since been employed by The Asso,
ciated press. lie was born in osw sl.o
Comfy. New York. His wife and hV'
oh1drcp survive him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
w. E. Chandler,
Father of u. s.
Navy" Dead at IS
Secretary Under Arthur
Passes Away at Home
in Concord

CONCORD, y. H.. Nov. 3O.-William
Eaton Chandler, who as Secretary Of
the Navy in President Arthur's Cabi-
net was largely responsible for the
beginning Of the modern United States
navy, died at his home here to-day.
While in Washington last March, Mr..
Chandler was stricken. He was able
to return to New Hampshire and spen.
the summer at his country estate in
Waterloo. This fall he came TO his
home here, where his health steadily
failed.
One of his sons, Captain Lloyd II.
Chandler, L. :. ~, is in command OF
a battleship. Three other sons sur
vive, William d. Chandler, publisher
of THE Concord Monitor; Joseph e..
Chandler and John p. Hale Chandler,
all Of this city. Funeral services for
Mr.. Chandler will be held at the Con-
cord Unitarian Church Sunday after
noon at o'clock.
William Eaton Chandler. often
called 1.-THE Father Of the United
States Navy" and a member of the
United States Senate for fourteen
years, was born in Concord, n. H..
December %, 1885.
Classmate of Joseph II. Choate.
Senator Chandler in youth was pre-
cocious. After an education in New
Hampshire and Vermont academies, he
entered Harvard Law School and was
graduated at the age of nineteen, Jos
II. Choate being one Of his classmates.
Immediately entering politics, he
served three terms in the New Hamp.
shire House of Representatives and, az
the age of twenty-seven years, was
elected Speaker of that body.
He was one of the founders of the
Republican party. President Lincoln,
whom he had supported theoretically,
appointed him solicitor and judge
Advocate General of the navy in 1865
and three months later he became
First Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury.
President Garfield appointed Mr..
Chandler solicitor general in 1881, but
tho Democrats IN the Senate prevented
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01

when the deacon" was n reporter on
the staff of "The Recorder" Don {.
Setz, his city editor. sent him to md
out whether reports concerning I'll
treatment of patients in the Blooming
dale Asylum were true.
The deacon" went 10 the institution.
It was late in the evening when he ar
rived and rain had been falling for
hours. He was soaked from head to
foot and plastered with mud TO the
knees. lie hammered at the iron gates
Of the asylum with p rock, and at last
aroused an attendant.
Let me inl" shouted the Deacon,
"Im soaked through"
This is an asylum for the insane,
beloved the attendant.
81 know that" was the "Deacon's"
stentorian reply. ITS the one | got
out Of, but I'm ready to come back
now"
The superintendent was called, and
though neither he nor any of his help
ers recognized the confessed fugi-
tive they decided after looking over the
mud-smeared wayfarer that he belonged
in some asylum and locked him up
until they should discover what institu-
tlOH GlalHtu Ilfis L OF Three uaES the
Deacon" pursued his investigation
practically unhindered. Then he made
his escape, and the information he
brought out with him resulted in a COM
plete reformation of methods in the
asylum.
Played Many Parts
Many story of how the Deacon" got
by posing as n priest, clergyman or a
deacon, and the whole-hearted fashion
IN which he threw himself into the
part won him the soubriquet that stuck
through the years. As a priest he sat
on the same cot with a murderer con-
demned to death and heard his confes-
sion of guilt, story that in those
days would have been a newspaper
classic.
The story never was printed. When
the feat had been accomplished and
the Deacon" had time for cooler re-
Election he decided that it would not
be "the square thing" TO publish that
story. He lied cordially and convinc-
ingly to his city editor. and it was not
until years afterward that he even re-
ferred TO the incident to his friends
Even then he would not name the muir
derer nor identify the case.
One of the stories as to the origin
OF MS title was that the deacon" was
sent to ascertain whethey Cyrus w.
Field really was dead. Rumors to that
effect were current, but, If true, re-
NAMED unverifed for financial reasons
"I'm Deacon Terry" said the "Dea-
con" solemnly to the maid who an
swered his ring. ~ happened to be in
town and knew that Cyrus never would
forgive me if | didn't stop TO see him.
With convincing and affecting mani
festation of sorrow and with inward
iubilation deacon" Terry obtained
proof of Mr.. Fields death, and with
drew, as soon as his dignity would per
nit, to send the story to his paper
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
Keep on Knitting
Says the Red Cross

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8o-Harvey d.
cb,en. general manager Of the Amer
iun Red Cross, to-day authorised the
following statement;
"A reat number Of inquiries are be-
M received by the Red Cross from
b vs-ss knitters throughout the Cnlted
S,te, as 10 whether they should dis
nntinue knitting.
aThs Red Cross. therefore, desires to
place before the women Of this country
is conception Of the knitting situation:
As is well known. 10 is the policy OF
he Red Cross 10 supplement, so lar as
i has the power. the efforts Of me
iTry and navy in conserving the health
ssd comfort OF our soldiers ana sailors.
Sweaters and other knitted articles
utdesigned primarily forwarmth. Ihey
Certainly are not ornamental. There
foe. il must follow that when there
ssr slmost universal demand on the
nr Of our soldiers and sailors Tor
sweaters and other knitted articles the
y dsnrd is a real one. Such articles,
hTit4NIts NaN Why ne AAttNaNN So N'i~--i
b nsst supplementary though they may
X, 10 that furnished by the army and
lsTy. And they undoubtedly constl-
;sis equipment that will add greatly 10
he health and comfort Of our men
uder conditions generally met with.
The Red Cross knows that the sol
tsrs and sailors want sweaters and
elAer knitted articles. These goods can
X obtained from the Red Cross IN
single garments only upon individual
request; or II in bulk. then upon the
inquest Of a commanding officer. How
Essi the need IS is best evidenced py
he fact that in addition 20 the hun
lsts Of thousands OF knitted articles
Esduced By cur Red Cross chapters IN
ss last few months we have been COM
Nled to purchase $4,000 extra sweat
~ alone 10 meet the Dsistent demand
SAGE upon US by our men for them.
We are sorry that we had TO do any
llfchasing at all, because we know no"
sEch the soldiers and sailors Of THIS
pentFy prefer the sweaters and other
Eteles knitted by the women of this
stgntry.
we cannot too strongly urge all
Yemen who are now knitting TO keep
= Knitting"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
William H. LOOMS
New York Newspaper Artist
Dies From Pneumonia

William II. LOOMS, one OF me mos
widely known illustrators IN ihe cGuh.
try died suddenly late THURSDAY nIsm'
at the Heincmann Hospital rom PM Ha,'s
monia. He had been Ill only TWO ua a, . /,
lie worked as an artist on Insny
prominent papers in the onltea ot 49,.
one of his best known chatacIei 49,
t;ons was the widow wise VIII WIZ 7.
anneared in The New, YORK n lo,"To5
8 NAV. "The Widow WISE, louI iaI
on his drawings, was produced IN a. a.
with success. In recent Yeas 49,; az,
yotod much time TO advertising an
work. puo,,;dorce and was
lie was born in ProV'q Wis x,; d@D who
forty-fve years old. MS p W.
was Miss Mabel Fabyan' oil fro''ue''''
MA - 1911
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
Miss Elizabeth J. Wyeth
To Wed Cass Gilbert, Jr.

Miss Elizabeth Jarvis Wyeth, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Stephen G. Williams, will be
married TO Cass Gilbert, jr.. this after
neon in st. Bartholomew Church. She
yill be attended BY her sister, Miss
Caroline L. Wyeth, Miss Emily Gilbert,
Miss Julia Talcott, Miss Emily Della
field and Miss Elsie Croll. J. Sanford
Saltus will be best man, and the ushers
will be Malcolm Scott. Meredith Wood.
Frederic c. Carnochan, Henry Morgan
Post. f.. Kenneth Hadden. Lloyd Meyer,
Daniel Drake-Smith and Herbert Groes-
beck.
A reception at the home OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Williams. East Seyenty-ffth
Street, will follow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-01
David William Higgins

Victoria. b. c.. Nov. 3O:-Dsvid viii,
3. ', i'I Eig ,% veteran Pacific Coast
, ,'o,rspan amer man. died here to-day ms
h ''s,i,' iPSi,d birthday. A native Of Hal.
~ ;tgy he vent 20 San Francisco in lsS9 :,
li .'.i s"n,ded "Thc San Francisco Call;
Ar IIn ,ses npblisher Of "The Victoria Col,
nc W. y" fJo,o 1880 to 1885. For several
o ',nar, he WINS editor of "The Vancouver
S Worid - He was a member Of the Brit,
isb Columbia Parliament from 1850
until 1898.