Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-08-02


new ships for coastwlse and overseas
service with their entire personnel
including masters, deck officers. crew.
engineer officers, f1reroom force,
stewards, cooks and messmep.
Three and one-quarter million gross
tons of anthracite coal were moved
to New England during April, May
and June, the fuel administration
announced. The total allotment for
New England for the year is 1881
O2O tons and the fuel administration
Is endeavoring to ship two-thirds OF
the amount before winter sets in.
The Brockton, Mass, manufacture
ers' association have granted the re-
cent request of the shoeworkers.
other than the cutters, for a 20 per-
cent increase in wages to be paid AZ
war bonus. This affects 11,5Oq
workers in Brockton and, as the scale
prevails in the Old Colony district,
about 1900 more will be benefited.
Letters favoring a special session
of the Maine legislature to pass law
similar to that in Massachusetts, and
other states, which would compel
men between the ages of 81 and 81
years Of age to have some useful &C.
cupation, have been received from
lao of the ISL members of the legis-
lature by the Maine committee on
public safety.
President Guy Potter Benton of tho
University Of Vermont, Burlington.
who has been in France since early
last September, will sail for home
august "a, arriving early next month.
1t is expected that President Benton
will ask the trustees to renew hts
leave Of absence, as it is understood
he is DESTROYS of returning to the
service Of the War Work Council OF
the Y. NJ. C. A.
A message from the League to En-
force Peace, addressed to Esperant-
lists of the world, was made public at
the opening Of the annual congress
of the Esperanto association Of North
America in Eliot, Me. The message
which is entitled, Let us have war
that we may have peace" Is being
sent in Esperanto to several thous-
and Esperantists in every large coun-
try outside Of Germany.
The price of domestic sizes Of
hard coal in Boston has been In
creased from $1025 to $11 ton
For lots of one hundred pounds or
less, however, the price remains vir-
tually unchanged. The committee
gave as a reason for the advance the
increases in freight rates which be-
came operative last month and
steady advance in the cost Of iabos
since January.
The first woman to seek a positon
in the crew Of vessel Of the new
merchant marine has sent her appIica-
ton to the headquarters Of the United
States shipping board recruiting SER
vice in Boston Miss Madge Drapes
Of Portland, Oregon, aspires to be-
come an oiler aboard ship. Miss
Draper probably will not be accepted
for service, according to recruiting
officials, as hundreds Of men are
coming forward from all parts OF the
country to man the ships.
Experiments In prepayment can
are to be made at Concord, NJ
H., and on the Christian shore iins
of the Portsmouth street railway
Four old cars are now being cenver
ted into prepayment cars at the rail-.
road shops in Concord and one Of ths
cars destined for Portsmouth is prac-
tically completed. One other car wiz
go to Portsmouth and the other tive
will be used in Concord, 1t Is said
The entire library Of Daniel Butles
Fearing, who died recently at New
port, R. l., is to be presented to Har-
ward university, under the terms Of
his will. The Widener library al
Harvard already houses two Of Mr.
Rearing . COlltCllOuS VI DOOhoI ths
Persius collection, assembled by Mr.
Fearing and the late Prof. Morris II
Morgan and the Fearing collection OF
books on angling. The latter consists
of more than 10000 volumes In
twenty languages, including a fun
representation Of editions of Isaaf
Walton.
President Richard Maclaurin Of
Massachusetts Institute Of Tech
nology, Cambridge, Mass. has accepted
the appointment Of director of col
lege training, to have charge Of the
students army training corps. In an
effort to mobilize the higher institu-
tons Of learning to help win the war
war department committee Of i've
army officers will establish traininI
corps in all colleges next fall. The
committee will make a complete sur
vey to ascertain what proportion Of
the students are being turned ouf
with technical or other scientific
training and to And out what needs to
be done to increase that proportion
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