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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-19
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BUDGET GETS
NOOPPONENTS
House Passed Bill Without
Dissenting Vote
MANY EXPENDITURES
While Bill Is All For War Expenses
Nearly Half of II Is For
Permanent Features.

Washington, Sept. 1S.-With no
dissenting vote, the house today
passed the urgent deficiencies appro-
priation act, giving the administra-
tion $7,120O00,O0O to prosecute the
war. tt.gi.tl t.tl
There was little or mo- debate on
any important section. Chairman
Fitzgerald, aided by Representative
Sherley of the appropriations COM
mittee, pushed the bill through with
the loss of only one committee amend
ment. The house defeated the pro-
posal to give the ordinance depart
ment $4,000, 100000 with which to
make Kent island a proving ground.
Among the important amendments
adopted were:
Additional appropriations for de-
stroyers for the navy of $225, 10000
with authorization to spend $125,-
100000 more. This makes a total
allowance of 1914, 100000 for Secre-
tary Daniels to use on destroyers.
Additional appropriations for the
shipping boards building and COM
Wandering program, $695,0000OO and
the authorization to spend $549, ,000,-
900 more, total of $1,1S4,00O,0O0.
Authorization of s1OO.0O0,0OO addi-
tional for ordinance and ordinance
storec.
Provision of a submarine base at
Panama, and military strengthening
to cost $1.360,S25.
Provision for miscellaneous extra
ordinary expenses in the war depart
ment Is made with an appropriation
of $24,973,S32.
Although the entire appropriation
of s7120,O0o,0O0 was made necessary
by the war, only about half of it goes
directly to the military establishment
$3,347,415,7Ss.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-19
ADAMS-RockWooD
Pretty Home Wedding on Branch
Street Yesterday Afternoon.

Miss Susan Wadsworth lockwood,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred B.
lockwood, and c. Wayne Adams, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Adams Of
South street, we're married yesterday
afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home Of
the bride on Branch street. Rev.
Thornton +. Turner, rector of st.
Peters church, ofIlciated in the pres
ence of the family relatives and a few
close friends of the bride and bride
groom. There were no attendants.
The interior OF the house was taste.
fully decorated for the occasion with
forest green and asters. Miss Eliza.
beth lockwood, niece of the bride
played the Mendessohn wedding
march for the bridal procession.
Miss lockwood made a pretty
bride in quaker gray georgette. Her
bouquet was shower Of asters and
tuberoses.
Following the ceremony refresh
ments were served and Mir. and Mrs
Adams left late in the afternoon or
an automobile wedding trip of two
weeks. They will visit points OF IN
terest in the north Atlantic states, 80
ing as far south as Virginia. Upor
their return they will reside at tn,
home of the bridegroom's parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Adams are both ma
tives of Bennington and have passed
their entire lives in the communit,
where they have acquired larg,
circle OF friends who will extend con
gratulotions. Mr.. Adams Is associai
cd with his father in the hardwar
business.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-19
100000 MEN
Of NEW ARMY
NOW IN CAMP
40 Per Cent of Draft Total
Went Today
IN 16 CANTONMENTS
New England Men Mustered at Aver
and May Have to Wait for
Equipment.

Washington, Sept. 1S.-Marshaled
for the last time as civilians and un-
der civilian authority, more than SO0,-
900 men of the national army will go
forward tomorrow to the 16 canton
ments to be trained for the battle
against German autocracy. Their
next move will be as fighting men
toward the battlefields of France.
The whole Nation will be astir with
the movement of the selective forces.
The men represent approximately 40
per cent. of the total quota under the
first call from each of nearly 5000 To-
cal boards. Already at the camps is
the advance guard of 5 per cent. OF
the total, composed of experienced
men, including cooks. Out of this
has been created skeleton organi-
zation will begin to be absorbed to
morrow with little confusion When
the last men of this increment arrive
the camps will house half of the first
call forces, or 343,5000 men, and the
other half will follow as rapidly as
quarters and equipment are made
available.
In a statement tonight the War De
partment says the enormous task OF
obtaining equipment and supplies for
the army is moving satisfactorily
Some OF the men of the national army
may be only partially equipped for
some time after they are modified,
and no attempt will be made to fur.
nish them with full war equipment
until the eve of their departure for
Europe. Some civilian clothing. such
as overcoats, will have to be used for
a time, as the clothing industry has
not as yet caught up with its work.
With the mobilization of one half
of the $4,000 men of the first call
under the selective service law in
progress, the question arises as to
whether that number of men will be
sufficient to fill all units of the Ma
| tional Guard and national army
There are indications that deticien'
| cy in men will be disclosed when Of
fetal reports from all the 80 training
camps are available
Seventeen divisions Of the National
| Guard have been organized. but with
| the exception OF the New York, Penn
sylvania and few others, and the
AID division. which soon will embark
for France. they are not maximum
war strength. The fighting strength
Of the II divisions under the new
tables OF organization would be f23,
900 men. supplemented by many
thousands of auxiliary troops. What
ever deficiencies there are will bs
supplied promptly from the nationa
army, as the guard will so first 10 tht
front
Since the President called the frs
1900 men of the national army, thu
signal corps, including the aviation
section, has been greatly expanded
Nearly 100000 additional men mus
be transferred to this service alone
The medical corps also has beer
greatly increased and numerous nece
sary auxiliary units for immediate
duty abroad, not thought of whel
the call was made, have been orga
nized Where enlisted men Of III
guard or the regular army have beel
taken. their places will have to b.
filled with national army men.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-19

FIRST DISTRICT REsEkAHs
Annual Meeting to be Held at South
SALISBURY Tonight

Annual Meetlng' 10 De Held at Soutn
.sShaftshury Tonight
The annual meeting Of the Rebekah
lodges, L. og o} F. district No. l, is
to be held al odd Fellows hall in
South SALISBURY this evening The
program follows:-
Banquet, $3.50.
Meeting called to order at SIS.
Opening exercises, Crescent,
Introduction of Grand and Assembly
officers.
Address of Welcome, Mrs. Anna
Amidon, N. g., Crescent.
response, Mrs. Nellie Osborne, N. G.
Miriam.
Exemplification of Reception of a
Visitor from another Jurisdiction,
Crescent Lodge.
Exemplification of Degree Work by
Miriam Lodge.
Examination of Unwritten Work.
The Examination for Certificates of
Perfection in the Unwritten Work
to be held in Reception Room be-
fore the Meeting
EXemplification of the use of the Bal
lot, Excelsior Lodge.
Report of last District Meeting, Mrs.
Orrie +. Covey, p. d. d. p.
Report OF Lodges.
Exemplification of Unwritten Work,
Mrs. Emma l.. Rand, President
Rebekah State Assembly.
Remarks by Grand Officers and Wis
itors.
Closing Ceremonies, Crescent,
The lodges making up the first dis.
trict are Miriam of Bennington, Ex-
celsior of Manchester Depot and
Crescent of South SALISBURY. The
meeting will be in charge of the fol
lowing committees: Reception com
mittee, Mrs. Laura Galusha, Mrs.
Rose Mirfeld, Edgar Griffis; banquet
committee Mrs. Martha Hawkins,
Mrs. Nora Griffis, Mrs. Anna Amadon.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-19
MESSAGE TO CHILDREN
President Wilson Asks Them to Join
,4apit Red Cross Fn

Washington Sept lS.--President
Wilsonlissued a proclamation tonight
calling on the school children of the
nation to do their part in the war by
joining the junior Red Cross TO assist
in the mercy work of the senior or
ganization.
The president says the chlldrens'
branch of the Red Cross win give an
opportunity for relief work for the
benefit of both the community and
country; will teach how TO save in
order that suffering children else.
where may have chance to live, and
will make possible the best work in
the great cause of freedom to which
We have all pledged ourselves
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-19
WAR LIBRARY WEEK
Campaign to Furnish Books for coun-
try's Fighters.


Montpelier, Sept 17.-Gov. Graham
has issued a proclamation designa
ting the week beginning Monday, Sep
tember "a, as War Library Week"
when the people of the state will be
asked to gice $4,000 toward the mil
lion. dollar war library fund. Theo-
dore n. Vail OF Vermont has been
named by the secretary of war as a
member of the national library war
council The proclamation I follows;
"The secretary of war has appoint
ed as a national library war council,
Frank g. Vanderlip, chairman, Theo-
dore n. Vail. John. II. Finley, Asa G..
Gambler, I, P. Claxton, J. Randolph
Collidge. jr,. Mrs. Josiah E. Cowles,
James A. Flaherty, e. T. Stotesbury
and Harry A. Wheeler. The purpose
OF this council is to raise from the
people of this country, one million
dollars for libraries for the use OF our
soldiers and sailors, wherever assem-
bled.
THE week beginning the twenty
fourth of September has been select.
ed as the date to raise this amount.
This campaign will be carried on
throughout the country in charge OF
state committees and will be con
Quoted in towns by local committees.
The plan and scope of this campaign
will be made known TO the local COM
mittees by the state committee. Yer
mont will join the states in this cam
paign for funds; therefore, /, Horace
f. Graham, Governor, designate the
week beginning September "A War
Library Week.
The share which Vermont is called
upon to raise is twenty thousand dol
lars, or only about five cents for each
person in the state. Will you not do
more than this? To all the calls yet
made upon us, you have responded
freely and literally Your Legislature
by its million dollar appropriation for
war purposes, set an example not yet
equalled by any other state in the
Union, when we consider our popula
ton. our size and our resources. You
subscribed more than your assign
ment of the Liberty Loan. You came
up to and passed the mark set for you
in your Red Cross subscription. Your
sons by their voluntary enlistments
gave to Vermont the seventh place
among the 4S states.
"The purpose of this call is that
these men in all branches Of military
service may be provided with goot
books. books that treat the technica
side OF their new life; books that viii
aid them in their preparation for tho
performance Of their duty; books al
so that will amuse them in the few
hours rest that may come to them
| and that will take their minds off thu
dull routine of camp; books that II
the hospital may help convalescent
sooner to become we'll and Mt 70
i service; and lastly, books that VII
tell OF the home land and for tim
make our boys see and feel tn
scenes and friends at home. Goo
books are great instruments in sus
tanning the morale of an army; an
the moral OF an army is one OF th
greatest, II not the greatest elemen
that makes for its success. TIL
hour of idleness is the real menac
TO the soldier A book lessons tn
temptations of this hour.
"Will you not respond to this goo
cause as you have responded In tn
past to other good causes, and a
you must continue to respond unit
| America wins this war"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-19
KINGDOM GOULD IN ARMY
Member Of New Jersey Draft Quota
80. Called for Today.

Kingdom Gould, son of George J.
Gould, win be among the 1863 recruits
for the new national army who
mobilized at Toms River, n j., last
night, preparatory to entraining for
Camp Dix at Wrightstown today.
Mr. Gould requested he be included
in the first quota of 40 per cent from
Ocean county to be sent to the camp.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-19
ALLEGED BICYCLE THIEF

Raymond Lapolnt Alleged to Have
Operated About Manchester
Raymond Lopoint, who is alleged 20
have been stealing bicycles in the VI
cinity OF Manchester, has been into
custody by Deputy Sheriff James d.
Purdy. if
Lapolnt is charged with having re-
Gently stolen two bicycles. He is 21
years old and married, coming to
Manchester some months ago from
New Haven. Conn.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-19
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

LoST-Small purse with sum OF
money.--Herman Sharpe. 96tt
FOR SALE-Two Morgan mares, 1
black and one dark bay, sound. afraid
OF nothing. safe for women to drive.
Also one chalmers 1917 auto In good
condition. Price right DIR. s. +.
Dunn. Wilmington, VI. gGtG
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-19

The dance craze would soon die out
if
IL what7
II you could pass law compelling
husbands aud wives TO dance with each
other all the tlmo.-Detrolt Free Press,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-19
GERMAN ENDS HIS LIFE
Suicide at Baltimore Follows Short
imprisonment.

Gotthold Prusse, Al, one of the de-
signers of the German merchant sub
marine Deutschland, who came to Bal
timore on the first voyage of that
craft, committed suicide in the city
jail at Baltimore yesterday by hang
ing. Prusse has been imprisoned as
an alien enemy. He was arrested by
the United States authorities August
20, for leaving restricted zone with
out permission. He was born in Ger
many.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-19

The first charge Of dynamite as the
explosive is now known was prepared
In 1858.
A good camel will travel 100 miles a
day. An ordinary camel travels only
seyenty.nve miles.
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-06

William f. Bernstein, founder and presi-
dent of tho Bernstein Manufacturing Com
pany, Third street and Allegheny avenue
died Of heart disease today in his home
Sixty-eighth avenue, Oak Lane.
Mr.. Bernstein was stricken at 1.15 this
morning and died at O'Clock, Fe is sur
vived by his widow and a son and daughter,
Il. Arthur Bernstein and Mrs. Charles Arm
strong
When a boy, Mr. Bernstein learned the
trade Of carriage maker, and he was en-
gagged in that business until 1882, when he
founded the Bernstein Manufacturing Com
pany, makers OF beds, cots and hospital
furniture.
The company IL now engaged in making
airplane parts, army cots, army and navy
mattresses and other supplies for the
Government on June IA a son, William r.
Bernstein, died after a short illness
The funeral will take place on Sunday
afternoon from Mr.. Bernsten's late home.
About a year ago Mr.. Bernstein was
obliged 10 retire from active supervision of
tho business because of IN health. His son,
T. Arthur Bernstein, became active head
of the business.
For more than twenty years Mr. Bern
stein had been n member OF the Susque-
hanna Presbyterian Church. lie was a
deacon In the church. and was active In All
branches OF church work. He was a mem-
Der Of the old York Rosss -s-su4try Club.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-06

continuous stream Of messenger bows.
mon with suitcascs. brief cases and callers
OF all kinds and an air Of rcpresscd cx-
citcmcnt ana speed
NUCLEUS or THE PLANT
In the purchase of the property above
Bristol was included the Standard Cast
Iron pipe and Foundry Company. This
plant has two large foundrics ana machine
shops II will form the nucleus Of the ship
building plant and the facilities offered
there will hasten the work Of construction.
Tho plant was bought - month ago for
$l20O,o00 Judge Thompson in the United
states District Court confirmed the raIo
from the receiver. Robert Wcthcrill. Of
Chester TO Carl w, Hamilton. of New
York
Hamilton is the mystery figure in the
whole project.
In January he quietly bought control Of
the chester Shiphuilding Company lie
transplantcd executives of the Chester COM
pauy into the Finance Building 10 help got
the new plant under way
Whom he represents Is unknown. even to
the men associated with him. Hartman
interests are credited with having picked
Mr. Hamilton to organize the great plant
at Bristol lie says he represents himself
The National city Company, development
and holding company for the National city
Bank Of New York, was also said TO be
behind him lie looks no older than thirty
or thirty-one and dsikes the newspapers
TO mention him or any Of his projects
lie Is president Of the Amcricau-Philippiuc
Company, Of New York.
Structural plans for the Bristol plant are
In an early stage. As the project is 20
supply the small ships for the Government
the plant viii be designed with that end
i'm view Uncertainty about the ultimate
type to be adopted by the Shipping Board,
however. is delaying the planning at Bristol
There is n twenty-five foot channel off the
docks Of the Standard Cast Iron Pipe and
Foundry Company. and n similar depth at
Bristol and on down the river until the
greater depth is reached. As the Standard
plant Is at the lower end of the two-milc
stretch it may be necessary to dredEe
further up the river
Most of the property bought is the tract
owned by David Landreth and relatives
who had n big seed farm on the land, The
construction office occupies the Oliver Lam
dreth home on the river side Of Bristol turn
pike, about in the middle Of the property.
sHIPwAYS AND BARRACKS
Shipways. according to gossip around the
plant will point diagOuully down the river.
How many there will be is unknown, even
to tho engineers They are concerned now
with building workmen's barracks, regrad-
ing the present siding from the New York
division Of the Pennsylvania Railroad and
putting in another.
Eight Of the worllmens bunkhouses are
nearly finished and work on more Of them
is going forward at top speed. The steam
boat Cape May, which formerly ran be-
tween Philadelphia and Cape May has been
tied up below the construction office For
the present it provides sleeping quarters for
the men. Unless present plans are dis
located the plant will be launching ships
by November
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-06

The greatest shpbuildnE plant In the
world is quietly under construction on
the Delaware at Bristol, Pa, twonty-thrcc
miles above Philadelphia The company
that will operate the plant is not yet in
corporated. the officers have not been
chosen. executives in charge have only
vague ideas about the details Of the plan.
But they know that II comprchends build
ing a plant that win be the greatest in the
country and probably larger than any In
the world. II will build ships for the United
states Shlpbuildng Board The project is
being surrounded by the greatest secrecy.
Those behind the project have bought two
miles Of river front above Bristol. The
property runs back from the river over
this distance TO an average depth of mile.
It nanks both sides of the Bristol turnpike.
In area alone the plant is nearly twice
as large as any existing. The property is
big enough 10 make room for as many
shipwayB as there are in the combined
shipyards Of the United States. II is re-
ported the plant may even mako its own
steel There will be eleven miles Of rail-
road in the yard.
BRISTOL STUNNED BY PROJECT
Bristol is mystincd and somewhat stunned
BY the activities north Of the borough
line Professions Of umber-ladcu motor
past summer-dulled stores and quiet homes,
Telephones at the plant office carry thirty
minute conversations and ring far into the
night and the telegraph office is doing a
business OF dimensions never thought pos
sible.
There is n standing order with every
real estate man in Bristol TO rent every
available house in the town for the COM
pany SO far the company has got about
forty in this way. They will provide homes
for part Of the force of 5000 men who will
be employed at the plant when II is finally
completed.
Mysterious strangers ride Bristol's main
streets in powerful automobiles. They have
come to be known as the men Interested in
the plant northeast Of the town. Who they
are no one preteuds to know.
PYoUNG HARTMAN" AFTER THEM
There IS a story that young Hartman. .'
from New York, has been to the plant sew
eral times and that he has ridden to Phila-
delphla I'm an automobile with Alfred l.
James a Bristol attorney, who represents
the Interests locally.
Activity is not limited to Bristol, how
ever. Three floors on the Finance Building
South Penn Square. were recently occupied
by the officers FOR the man behind the prof.
ect. They stand in the name of the Chester
Shipbulding Company of Chester But
new name will go up on the door when the
organizers have finished their work
So anxious were the organizers to make
sure of their Office accommodations that
they negotiated for the seventh floor Of the
Finance Building, occupied now by the state
Public Safety Committee, at the time it
appeared likely the Public Safety Commit
tee was going to close up for lack Of
funds.
The offices are furousy active all day
long now and far into the night There is
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-06
FLEES FATHERS WRATH,
BUT WELCOME AWAITS
Youth Disappears and Parents
Believe He Has Gone to
Farm Job

Stanton Fuld, fifteen years old, Of 3i24
North Twenty-ninth street suddenly drop
ped out Of sight on Sunday afternoon,
June "a. When last seen by his mother
he was wearing dark suit with a wide
stripe of smoky white. Another neigh
Dor saw the youngster later during the
same evening at the Falls OF the Schuyl-
kill bridge. Since then the family has
had no trace Of him.
Young Fuld was n student OF the Gem
tral High School and had just rounded
out his freshman year lie has often eX-
pressed a desire 10 go south on some Of
the farms This, the boys mother believes,
Is one of the reasons he left home. An
other reason is that the lad and his father
had a slight misunderstanding early dur
ing the day Of his disappearance.
Stanton left a note saying he was not
going 10 stand the punishment that his
father had threatened him with and was
going South to some State and try TO get
q Job on the farms.
The parents are trying every means
which may reveal the whereabouts Of the
missing youngster. It Is their belief he is
afraid TO come home now for fear Of con-
sequences but his parents say they will
forget the past If Stanton viii only let
them know he is alive and we'll