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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17
SPORTING

Know who is the hardest hitter
among the infielders of the big minor
leagues? None other than Larry La
joie, who is managing the Toronto
club. Rumor has it that Larry will get
another call into major league society
when this season closes and club
line-ups are made for 1918
One OF the pitching stars Of the
present campaign is Wilbur Cooper
OF the Pirates He has turned in
about ore.third Of the victories by
his club. The team has been con-
s:stent loser, but Cooper wins quite
regularly.
ROYAL Amber fell in steeplechase
at Saratoga and was destroyed. August
Be.mont's Stromboli won the Schuyj.
erville Handicap.
There is talk OF Mathewson return
ing Jim Thorpe to McGraw, now that
he has Sherwood Magee, but it is
no sure thing
Major Waldorf Astor's Sunny Jane
won the War Oak Stakes at New
market, Eleven horses ran.
Ed Geers won his first race this
season in the Grand Circuit, at Kali
amazoo, Mich.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17
V E r M o N T
STATE NEWS
PROVIDENCE GOOD TO VERMONT,
SAYS FLETCHER.
Former Governor Optimistic In Re-
gard to Crop Conditions.

Burlington-Allen M. Fletcher of
Cavendish, former Governor of Yer
mont, is optimistic in regard to crop
conditions, not only in Vermont, but
throughout the country, and says that
in his opinion the country is especi
ally favored in the abundance of corn
potatoes, wheat and oats that are now
coming to maturity.
'Three weeks at the longest will
be necessary to make a fair estimate
of the harvest" said Mr.. Fletcher,
but there is every indication that
Providence has been very good to this
country, agriculturally speaking.
There will be greater crops than was
anticipated, corn is coming on especi-
ally well and oats are almost record
yield"
But it is in potatoes that the biggest
prospects are apparent. Vermont po-
tatoes at the present day fairly cover
the ground. Hay is also very heavy
all through the state"
The governor believes that within a
month, business men will see that the
situation is improving and will pro-
coed to buy goods more freely. Bust
ness generally will be excellent said
ne.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17
GERMAN-AMERICAN WAR

President calls for speed in com
pleting machinery for fixing wartime
prices to this Government, the Allies
and the consuming public Visits Fed
eral Trade Commission and urges
haste in production cost Investigations
which are now being conducted by
that body.
President Wilson is declared to
have indicated i'll d conference with
Senator Lewis at the White House
that he does not consider the time
ripe for peace discussions and that
he is not to be deceived by inslncere
proposals emanat:ng from Berlin.
Aliens, excepting Germans, will be
enlisted in the new army
One hundred ana fifty specialists
have been selected b" Surgeon Gener-
al Gorgas to weed out men nervously
or mentally unfit for service in the
army
Head of Belgian Mission tells Bos-
ton that entry OF United States in the
war means ultimate victory for the
allies
Communicating program OF the
United States is said to contemplate
seizure of all ships but to leave their
operation in private hands.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17
PLAN COMPACT FOR VICTORY
Railroads Unite in Effort to Produce
Maximum of National Transpor-
taton Efficiency.

One of the great compacts for VIC
tory which have been entered into in
this early period of the war is tho
pledge taken by the railroad executives
in session in Washington. The execu-
tives pledged that during the present
war they will coordinate their opera
tons in a continental railway system,
merging during such period all their
merely individual and competitive ac-
tivitieS in the effort to produce maxi
mum of national transportation eff
cheney"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17
WASHINGTON

Miss Rankin urges United States
to take over copper mines for war pur-
poses and to check labor troubles in
the West. Her first speech in Con
sress.
Draft army will not all be in camp
until the last OF October, according
to announcement from Washington.
The $2,006, 10000 war tax bill was
reported favorably to the Senate,
with the warning of other heavy
leyies yet to come.
America has 100000 men ready for
service on the battlefield of Europe.
Secretary Daniels said the navy
would abandon construction OF sub
marine chasers in favor Of destroy.
er5.
Seven hundred ships COmmandeered
in yards by Emergency Fleet Corpor'
alton as first step in $125, 100000 seiz-
ure programme,
Southern pine producers and United
States Shipping Board in work Of
Fastening ship building
Shipping board commanders yes.
sells under construction in American
yards, that building may be rushed to
make way for contracts.
President Wilson reiterates his con-
fdence in the loyalty of German citi-
zens in responses to complaints by
Representative Dyer Of injustice
George Pratt Ingersoll, of Ridgefleld,
Conn, was nominated by President
Wilson as minister to Siam.
Roland S. Morris was confirmed as
the American ambassador to Japan by
the Senate.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17
GENERAL

Taft now Major General, because of
headship in the Red Cross.
War conditions have created a new
atmosphere in which soaring prices
OF fOodstuifs and other necessities no
longer terrify the rank and file of
the nation.
Labor council planned by the Coun-
Gil of National Defense to prevent de-
lays to Government war work by
strikes or other labor disputes will
consist Of nine members.
Foreign trade Of the Philippines
during the last fiscal year was 1892.
100000.
The l. W. w. lynchiug is Gripping
all Butte.
Wall street believes the Govern.
ments price fixing plan Oh materials
will be more satisfactory .aan has
been expected.
Managers are planning to employ
women bakers in Washington aid the
vicinity owing to labor shortage.
Federal Reserve Board reports the
imports of gold to the United States
from January | to July total $685.
500, 900
Twenty-Five thousand battle planes
in ten months is now the American
programme to wrest mastery of the
skies permanently from the Kaiser's
forces.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17

Fairfax Harrison, the railroad man
who is at the head of. the war board
of the American Railway association,
has issued notice to all railroads, as
follows:
"First-ConsoIidate, where practical
bic, through passenger train service,
aid eliminate those trains which are
cot well patrOnized.
SeCond-ReduCe the number of spe-
cial trains, and give up running eXcur-
sion trains.
"Third--On branch lines, where two
trains are operated. try to reduce to
one train day.
"Fourth-Where practicable, substi-
ture mixed train service for separate
passenger and freight service ell
branch lines. Closely review number
of scheduled freight trains where ton
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17

The du Pont Co. announced that the
salaries of all its employees would be
increased The lowest salaried men
were increased about % per cent. and
the higher 10 per cent.
Two masked burglars held up the
cashier of the First National Bank
of Medical Lake, Washington, and
robbed him of $4,000.
The second strike of the machinists
in an attempt to save the fast dying
miners union of the l. w. w. proved
a fizzle at Butte, Montana.
A fleet of steel barges with a cargo
of coal of 5000 tons left st. Louis
for ST. Paul 1t is expected the trip
will be made in about eight days.
Iron ore will be shipped back to ST.
Louis
Under the present plans OF the de-
partment not even a secondhand
army of 100000 will bring the number
up to the force TO: which the quarter.
master corps has been asked to pro-
vide. A third draft before next sum
mer is indicated.
A Quartermaster Corps training
camp soon will be established. About
5000 officers are required, and the
camp will accommodate from 10000
to 10000 applicants.
Senator Pomerene of Ohio has in
troduced a bill to have a special flag
for every house that furnishes man
for the United States army or navy,
Marshall, Field & Co, the biggest
dry goods firm in the West installed
women as flOOrwalkers. Other big
department stores announced their
intention of doing likewise. Reports
from employers throughout the state
show that women viii be paid the
same wages as men.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17
FOREIGN

Shake-up in British Admiralty. Ad-
miral Burney replaced by Admiral
Wemyss as second sea lord Alan
Anderson made controller Of naval
construction.
London newspapers declare Kaiser's
message to Wilson ingenious and men.
dacious.
Dutch newspapers printed pastoral
letter urging Prussians to comport
themselves as Christians toward their
enemies, and In parallel cnS"sr,n the
details of wanton murder ,nsy are
guilty Of.
Five German Ministers Of State and
four secretaries resigned office, in
GLIDING the Food Dictator and the
Foreign Secretary, DR.. Alfred Zinl.
hermann, who is replaced by DR..
Kuehlmann Ambassador to Turkey.
German socialist, August Mueller
offered under secretaryship.
Louis Malvy, French Minister of
the Interior, reviewing the three
years of war, praised the work of
civilians during the conflict, who he
said, had never failed men at front
The acting President Of China APP.
proved the unanimous decision of the
Cabinet to declare war on the Central
Powers. and such a declaration Is
Argentine ultimatum sent to Berlin
on question of sinking of steamship
Toro.
Scant hope for Russia seen unless pc.
litical order is soon restored.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17
GIRLS Do BIT ON RAILROADS
Young Women of Ohio Are Working
at Manual Labor to Fill Jobs of
Men Who Have Enlisted.

Women of Cleveland are doing their
bit by working at manual labor to fill
the jobs of men who have enlisted.
Fifty of them. clad in overalls and
dark-colored MILDLY blouses, are wiping
engines at the Erie roundhouse. Two
dozen or more are working in the
shops, running lathes and the such.
Thirty-fve more have gone to work as
checkers for the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad. And everyone of them like
their work. mo harder than washing
or ironing" Is the chorus.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17
Poliomyelitis Losing Ground.

er-Poliomyelitis In Yer
mont is losing ground daily and with
the recovery and release from quaran-
tine of the cases at Montpelier and
in other parts Of Washington county.
1t is believed by the State Board of
Health that the spread of the disease
in Vermont, except for sporadic cases.
will soon disappear.
The Health boards in the several
towns cooperating with the State
Board have kept the spread of polio
myelitis down to the minimum, and
the public generally. according to Of
ficials of the Department, have backed
ZIP the State Board in the strict quar-
antine measures adopted.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17
SEAL ATTACHMENT FOR CARS
Goods in Transit Cannot Be Tempered
With or Fraud Committed With
out Detection.

The Scientific American in describ-
ing a car seal, the invention of P.
Schmitz Of Cowletz Prairie, Wash,
says:
'The seal is for attachment to
freight cars and the like, whereby the
goods therein cannot be tempered with
or fraud committed without detec-
ton, and to this end the invention
includes a main casing in which is
inclosed and locked part of an iden-
LITIGATION strip, the other part being
detached before the seal is locked, and
separately forwarded to the same
destination as the goods"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17

mage is insufficient to load them fully,
with view to reducing the number of
trains.
"Fifth-Where passenger trains are
double-headed for speed, a readjust
ment Of schedules or cutting off cars
where possible will release locomo-
tives for freight service.
"SXth-Reduce, as far as practica-
Bile, luXuries, such as observation cars.
In the interest of economy, reduce the
present rather elaborate and luxurious
bills of fare on many dining cars.
"Seventh-MOve company freight
on underlOad trains. Operate work
trains in slack times, as far as pos
sible. Store coal in slack times.
"Eight'l-Make proper train loading
of primary importance with officials
and train crews. Give publicity to
those making good and poor records"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17
BIG UNDERTAKING IN CHINA
American Engineers and Capitalists
Working for Greatest Railroad
Scheme Ever Known.

American engineers and capitalists,
acting for the Chinese government, are
working on the greatest railway under
taking that China has ever known. The
plan calls for line two thousand
miles long, to cost more than one hun
dred million dollars. 1t will cross half
dozen mining and agricultural prov
inces in the central part of the empire.
The Youths Companion.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17

place in Nigeria, the Kamcruns, north
ern Rhodesia and probably the Bel
gian Congo. The total mileage that
has been added for military purposes
is difficult to estimate, but it would
hardly be in excess of from % to -
per cent of what would have been built
had the peaCetime rate of construction
been maintained. Moreover, like all
strategic railroads, this military con-
structiOn is worth far less as an Geo.
monte asset than an equal mileage of
line built for purely commercial pur-
poses.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17
BUILDING IN africa
Complete and Evenly Developed
System Is Outlook.
ROADS HAVE Bright future
More Transcontnental' Lines Than in
South America or Asia Are Expect
ed Within Course Of About
Ten Years.

Africa already has the foundation
for one of the completest and most
evenly distributed railway systems of
all the great continents of the world,
observes writer in World Outlook.
Save Europe, the railways of all the
other great geographical divisions are
largely located in certain highly devel-
Oped areaS-aS in the United States
and southern Canada in North Ameri-
ca, while other regions are left blank
and promise to remain so indefinitely.
In Africa u vigorous pushing of any
considerable proportion of the projects
that were in contemplation before the
war will give that continent, d decade
hence, not only Il fairly even network
of lines over the greater part of its
area, but also more tranScOntinental
lineS-both latitudinal and Longitude
nathan either South America or
Asia will be able to boast OF at the
same date.
Railroad Building in Africa.
In the imminent completion of the
Cape-to-CairO projcct-a consumma-
ton which will be considerably accel-
Grated by certain work done during
the war-Africa will have a line ira
versing its entire length from north to
south long before any continent but
Europe can lay claim to such rail
way. The Cape-tO-Cairo-with metals
all the way and steamer transport on
Nile and the lakes eliminated-migh
easily bring CapetOwn within ten or
twelve days of London and Paris, and
a day or two could certainly be cut
from even this schedule by a line the
French plan to run from Tangier-op-
posite Gibraltar-acrOsS the Sahara,
via Lake Tchad and the Belgian Con-
go, to northern RhOdesia.
At the outbreak of the war Africa
had a total of something like $4,000
miles of completed railway, and was
building new lines at the rate of about
1000 miles year. At the firing of the
first shot much important construction
work was dropped instantly, not to be
resumed until the war Is over. This
affected what would probably have
amounted to 1000 miles of new line
that would have been completed in the
two and half years that war has
lasted so far.
Lines for Military Purposes.
This loss Is partially Offset by the
new construction purely military
lines for the better prosecution of GER
tain campaigns-that might not have
been undertaken for many years had
not the war. rendered it imperative
from strategic standpoint Such was
the linking up of the Union of South
Africa system with that of German
Southwest Africa by Botha in pushing
his campaign for the conquest of the
latter region; and such the running to-
gether of the railroads of branch
from the Uganda railroad and the
USambara line at the frontier of Ger
man East and British East Africa,
Similar construction has also taken
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17
state Meeting POSTPONED.

The Vermont branch of the Wom-
ans Board of Missions of the Con-
gregational church, which was to have
met in Barre the latter. part of Au-
gust, will not hold its meeting at that
time.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-08-17
Goinu to Land Him.

"He was engaged three times before
he proposed to her"
"Yes."
"And she accepted him?"
"Yes, but she's insisting on an i'm
mediate marriage. Protiting by the
experience Of the other girls she isn't
going to take any chance on his
breaking another engagement"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-21
GARIBALDI OFFERS TO
 SERVE WITH AMERICA
Italian Patriots Son Tenders Services of Himself and Four Sons Under
 Stars and Stripes.

Rome, April 19, via Paris, April 20. Ricciotti Garibaldi, last surviving son of the Italian patriot, has offered himself an four sons, all officers of the Italian army, to service with the United States. He says:
 "I would be proud to draw my sword under the Stars and Stripes"
 He proposes the formction in America of 100000 Italian, Spanish and American volunteers, to be thrown into the Balcans from Salon;- ca. and open route for the regulars Q follow. He thinks it will be possible thus to capture Constantinople in a short time,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-21
ARCHBISHOP DIES: AT NEW ORLEANS.
 OF COMPLICATION
Most Reverend James Gil
 bert Blenk Had Done Great Work for Church.

New Orleans, April 2O.-Most Rev. James Gilbert Blenk, since 1906 Catholic archbishop of the ecclesi- astical province of New Orleans, di ,,l tonight, aged 62 years. Death was due to complication of ailments, superinduced by heart trouble. He had been in ill health the past two years.
 He was born at Neustadt, Bavaria, Germany, July 2S, 1856, of Protestant parents and came to New Orleans when child. At 12, was pabtised in St. Alphonsus church here. After graduating at Jefferson college under the Narist Brothers, he went to France to study at Gaulois. He came back as instructor at Jefferson CO., lege and later was it's president
 In 1897 he became rector of a New Orleans church and later was made bishop of Porto Rico, the first und ,r American rule. On July 1, 1896 he be- came archbishop. Under him were ten bishopricks, New Orleans, Mobile, Natchez, Little Rock, Galveston, San Antonio, Dallas, Alexandria, La, Cor pus Christi, and Oklahoma.
 During his administration he was credited with aiding materially in church and education building in ths various dioceses and he strongly urged the education of negroes.
 When the priests and nuns were driven from Mexico he offered them shelter here, many accepting.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-21
MAKE OBJECTION TO INCREASE IN
 fREIGHT RATES
Shippers Express Opinions to Interstate Commerce
 Commission in Question.

Washington, April 20.-Representa- lives of shippers from all sections of the country gave the interstate com- merce commission today their views regarding the tentative order permit ting the railroads to file rate in- creases of 15 per cent, effective June 1.
 Many favor an advance of some sort if the railroads could prove 1t was necessary and some advocated an immediate increase on the ground that it will be cheaper to pay an in- crease now than to suffer losses later through lack of equipment.
 The primary purpose of the hearing was to bring out the shippers opin- ions regarding any general investiga- tion before final decision on the tentative order.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-21
New Offensive Puts TricOlor Into Second Line German
 Entrenchments.
19,00O GERMANS
 TAKEN PRISONER
Teui0nS Abandon Additional Positions. Berlin Announcing This as Part of Prearrangcment - British Stiil
 Successful Against Turks.
Associated Press Summary.)

1 Steady progress is Icing made by | the troops of General Neville, driving back the Germans in the region of Soissons and Rheimes In a new of 1 fcnsive, the French also have entered gonne forest.
 German counter attacks on the Vau- clero plateau, south of Leon, Ina 'e been repulsed.
 Since the beginning of the French offensive last Monday, more than 19,- 900 Germans have been taken prisol- CTS. The guns taken in the last five days exceed 100, not including ma chine guns.
 Northeast of Soisson. the French occupied the village of Sancy, a mile east of the Nanteuil le Posse, and continued advance toward Themin-1es Danes, a road parallelling the Aisne, four miles north of the river On the Vauclero plateau in the re- zion of Eilles and Hertebis, the Ger mans are reported by Paris to have launched an attack with large ef- fectives." The effort was frustrated by artillery and machine gun fire. The artillery fire in this region IS reported to be continuing very ac- lively.
 East of Rheims, in the region of Moronvilliers, the, French have taken several important points of support. German resistance here is reported lo | have been stubborn. In Argonne forest, a French de- tachment penetrated the German po- sition as far as the second trenches. A number of German dead were found
 The abandonment of the banks Of the river Aisne, between Condo and Soupir, is admitted by Berlin, which declares that the action completed the occupation of the Seigfried posi- tion. Berlin says the French follow hesitatingly."
 Sancy, captured by the French Fri day, is three miles north of Condo.
 Berlin says a second French at- tempt to break throug.l in the Cham pagne was frustrated and the late st statement adds that new engagements have developed between Brosnes and the Suippes valley, which district is toward the region of lMoronvilliers.
 There has been little activity on the northern front in France and London reports no further progress for the British anywhere.
 From the eastern front, there are no reports of fighting.
 Both in Palestine and Mesopotamia, north Of Bagdad, British forces have added to their former successes. North oP Nuoddo Nhu,1o (No1o\ io Palestine, the British in their ad- vance have occupied Turkish posit ions on front of 6h miles.
 General Maude continues success fully his advance on Samara, 40 miles north of Bagdad, on the Tigris, and his troops have forced the passage of the river Shatt el Adhem, twelve miles southeast of Samara. More than 1900 prisoners were taken by the British in this operation.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-21
BRITAIN CALLS EVERY DOCTOR l0
 SERVICE IN ARMY
Establish Hospitals Over sea, Result of Sub Fight
 on Hospital Ships.

London, April 2O-The war cabine decided today that every physician and surgeon and every man with med ical training, of military age, must be called up for service immediately.
 In reference to this call, the follow ing official explanation is given:
 "The enemy, in total disregard of the accepted tenets of civilized war fare, has deliberately instituted a submarine campaign against hospital ships, and it is therefore essential that a large number of hospitals should be established overseas at the various theaters of war. for the treat ment of wounded and sick.
 "In order to allow tfis to be done with great rapidity, it is essential to secure the services of every doctor who can possibly be spared from the United Kingdom