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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-08

Maj Berton w. sibley has been cited
for gallantry in action in France. He com
manded the third battalion in its at
tack on the enemy and his excellent
Judgment and personal bravery inspired
his men to redoubled efforts. Major Sib-
iey's mother, Mrs. Harriet Sibley, lives
in Essex Junction.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-08

William Mszzoni, who was seriously
wounded in France recently, was mem
Der of the l02d United States infantry
Co. Fl, enlisting at New Haven, Conn
He has been in France since last No.
yember His mother, Mrs. P, Mazzoni
lives in Burlington. Mr.. Mazzonis broth
err is an instructor at Carnegie insti-
tute, where part Of the signal corps is
being trained.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-08

Sergt. Herbert II. Bell Of Highgate,
who was killed in France recently, was
a non-commissioned officer with Con-
cord company Of the New Hampshire
National Guard at the time the war
broke out and one Of the first Americans
to go across. A brother. Private Ar.
thur Rollo, is a member of the l03d ma
chine gun battalion in France and their
mother, Mrs Henry Rollo, lives in High
gate Springs.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-08

Sergt. j. B. Kendrick, son of Mrs. D. J.
Stevens OF Fairfax, has received the
French croix de guerre and the Ameri.
can distinguished service order medal
for conspicuous service rendered when
the Boches made their raid on Seiehe.
prey April 20-2l. He has been in France
since March 80, 1917, having served with
the French ambulance section before the
United States declared war
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-08

Sergt. Elmer G, Bracket, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Guy Bracket Of st. Adams,
who was seriously wounded in action
July %, was a member of the lOIst ma
chine gun battalion, and had been over
seas about year. Another st. Adams
boy, Pvt. Homer LaCross, son Of Mrs.
Agnes Taylor, who was wounded July
Is, Is also with machine gun battalion,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15
10000 Garment
Workers Prepare
For Long Strike
Committees Organized and
Defence Fund of $780,
900 Raised
Some Firms Give In
5000 Win Demand for An
Eight-Hour Day and 20
Per Cent Wage Increase

Forty thousand striking clothing
workers yesterday sett ted down for
what promises to be a long and bitter
battle for an 8-hour workday and q
20 per cent increase in wages.
One thousand snop chairmen met at
Forward Hall and elected committees
to take charge of finances. halls, speak
ers and picketing. A S250,000 defence
fund has already been raised.
is holding daily sessions at 1872 Bow
cry, where more than twenty firms op-
Grating independe dently of the American
Mems and Boys Clothing Manufacture
ers' Association have applied for per-
mission to sign the demands of the
workers. AS consequence, 5000
strikers will return to work to-day on
The new basis.
separate settlement committee
from the boys clothing workers, who
have been on strike since October 28,
Yesterday announced that 1000 of it's
members would return to the shops
to-day, their employers having agreed
to the scale
1t was said at the offices of DR.. Will
lam 4. Ripley, who is looking after the
interests of the War Department in
the clothing industry, that since his
efforts 20 bring about conference OF
both sides had failed, no further steps
would be taken unless the strike en-
tered a phase to justify government
juriSdiction
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15
100000 in Will
Enables Hospital
TO Reopen Wards
Request by Mrs. Sage to In.
6rmary Announced
at Meeting
Women Plan a Benefit
A..ociation Has Two Of Its
Six Ambulances Ready
to Send to France

AZ meeting of the American
uomen's Hospitals Association, held
,s.te.day afternoon at its headquar-
,.rs. ea7 Madison Avenue. it was an
.ouneed that Mrs. Russell Sage, who
=, r.eantly died, had left 100000 to the
Nav York Infirmary for Women and
children, at 3l2 East Fifteenth Street.
Ths interesting feature of Mrs.
s,ss's bequest, it was explained. is
~ the officials of the infirmary had
s.srducted two weeks campaign
s~sich ended last week for 100000 to
'arrv on the work of that institution
nd had succeeded in obtaining only
$4,000. Mrs. Sage's donation, it was
I'd would enable the infirmary to
ocen it's wards, which have been closed
siuce last March because of lack of
funds.
me executive committee, reported that
n .he six ambulances the American
Women's Hospitals have in construc-
lion. two are ready and will be sent
IA France soon. The unit accompany
ine these two ambulances will each
iuelude ten doctors and one dentist.
Or. Crawford also reported that the
Rcd Gross is preparing to withdraw its
,jd from the civilian populations, who
must be helped, and to concentrate on
tie military, whose need is much more
urgent. She said her organization is
prepared to take care of the civilians
a benefit performance, the proceeds
M which is to go to che American
&oJr
announced for November %, in Aeolian
NIL
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15
Striking Walters Say
Pickets Were Attacked

Striking walters from eight New
x ork hotels said yesterday that no ex-
tension of the strike would be ordere d
until the attitude of the Hotel Asso-
clat]on was more clearly defined
The international Federation of
Hotel Employees, comprising $4,000
walters and kitchen employees. have
agreed to contribute one days wages
each week to the support Of the strik-
ors, who now number 1900
William karlin, counsel for the
walters, said yesterday that four pick
cts posted at Hotel Astor had been
assaulted by private detectives and he
was preparing to protest to Police
Commissioner Enright
The labor committee of the Hotel
Association issued a statement yester-
day declaring that a strike no longer
existed and all dining rooms were run
ming with full stats.
John Mcdowell, 1853 West 1916
Street, a striking waiter who tried tc
force his way into the Vanderbilt
Hotel last night, was arrested and ir
Mems Night Court was fined $50.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15

noble that it will survive dozen po-
lltlcai revolutions, and which has only
one worthy fellow among the national
anthems of the worid-the English
God Save the King"
Inc French "Marseillaise" provided
the thematic material for Sir Vi.liers-
Stanford's "Verlun," and when its
dlsJecta membra" was gathered to-
gether for coherent and consecutive
proclamation in the coda of the piece
!wnlch the composer wrote for per-
tormance at the festival of the Litch-
neld County Choral Union last june
its swelling s.rains brought the lis.
teners to their feet. The motto of the
composition is the "On ne passers
pas, which is now become historical
ana the music, which never rises above
tne levei of sound mastery in construc-
tlon, consists Of a solemn march and
a spirited fantasia on ''mo.ivi" from
the revolutionary hymn.
A more interesting novelty and one
which invited a fanciful excursion tc
reconcile tne aims and methods OF ths
composer was Roger Ducasse's sym.
phonlc poem emitted "Sarabande.
Signor Toscanini mad purposed to per
form the composition at the concer'
which III health compelled him te
at the Metropolitan Opera House. A
programme, said to have been drawn
from an old French chronicle, lies a.
its base and the story it teas, seem.
as if made for music. A prince who la,
dying in an abbey had begged 70 heal
a saraband with yhich a lute playel
had ravlshed his heart. And the abbo
to obhge him summoned all the viols
hautboys and flutes in the vcinage
and they journeyed toward the abbey
playing as they came, while priests ant
chorlsters chanted psalms to ease hi!
passing soul, the bells chimed and tn,
village fox filled the air with theil
laments. And the princes soul drifteS
into the beyond on the symphony. 4
beautiful conceit and touching. bu
in the mu,titudinous comminging o
the varied voices we listened in vail
t for suggestion of the stately ole
dance of Spain. We wish that Signo
Toscanini mad produced the work; W,
/ should have liked to note the play o
his imagination with the irridescen
tones. Mr.. Stransky also played De
bussy's "Rondes de Printemps"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15

should be cast by each for director
ana that director chosen from the
voters district.
~ was decided to start the election
over again. Mrs. George D. Hewitt, OF
Sarthage, president, opened the ballot
oox and the offending votes were
thrown Uut. Twenty rec women
among them Mrs Whitman and the
honorary president, Mrs. William Tod
Heimuth, were among those whose
votes had to be rccast.
- me nnal result of the election for
e1hcers was; President, Mrs. Hewitt
lIrst vice president, Mrs. Walter S
Somiy, Fort Chester; second vice
pres,den1, Mrs. Asa Wynkoop, Albany;
Ihlrd IN wee president, Mrs A. Bage, PSI
Slty; recording secretary, Mrs. Edward
Z. Whitrneyer, Schenectady; CORE.
spondlng secretary, Mrs. C. j. Reader
Carthage; treasurer, Mrs. Julius Pot.
Ter, Buffalo, and general federation
York City.
Mrs. Smith Invited.
The partisanship feeling which hae
dominated the convention. which is
strongly Republican, the day before
when Mrs. Alfred E. Smith appeared
On the platform with Mrs Charles S
whitman led to rumors during the day
that Mrs. Smith had come to the meet.
ing without the invitation of the
president. A note was sent by one ot
the members asking whether this were
true. Mrs. Hewitt, though unable te
take the matter up before the conven.
ton, announced later that Mrs. Smith
had been formally invited severa
weeks ago, that she was there as the
guest Of the convention, and that il
was the announcement in the morning
papers Of the probable recount OF
votes which made it impossible to in.
troduce her as wife of the next gov.
ernor.
Speakers during the day were: Mrs
Percy Pennybacker, former president
of the General Federation, who spoke
on "What Our Country Asks To-day OF
Its Young Women" Rev. O. f. Bartho
low, of Mount Vernon, "Civic Patriot.
ISM" DR.. Mary Gage Day. Dr. Dougla,
c. McMurtrie, of the American Rec
Cross; DR.. Edgar M. Rose, New Yorl
State Department of Health; Mis-:
Sophia Carey, of England; Miss Heller
Varick Boswell, DR.. William Einsteir
and Mrs. Thomas II. Preston, ir.
DIR. Anna Howard Shaw was unabl,
10 be present hocauso Of illness
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15
Music
New Compositions at Phil
harmonic and Symphony
Concerts
By II. E. Krehbiel

Carnegie Hall resounded to orches-
tral music for five hours yesterday.
The Symphony Society gave the second
OF It's thursday subscription concerts
in the afternoon and the Philharmonic
the nrst or Its par in regular course
IN the evening. Both affairs afforded
lovers or hlgh class music an oppor-
tunity to ADMIRE the exce44ent mate
rial emp.oyed in the ORGANIZATIONS
which have occupied an attitude of
rivalry for forty years, and also to be-
come ;qualnted witt some new music.
The Symphony Society's contribution
IN the latter respect was negligib. e,
however, being confined to a vapd and
splneless show-piece, entitled "A Cali
fornia ldyl," by Edgar Stillman Kelly,
on which Miss Mabel Garrison wasted
the sweetness of her voice and art.
The sentiment of the song was undis-
coverable from the words, for they
were unlntelligible. though supposedly y
English, and unproclaimed by the
of pinchbeck glitter. Metal more at
tractive was in Mozart's mia spe-
rama adorata," which, though com
posed by German, was, we hope,
found free of an infectious taint since
the music is Italian in style and the
composer has been dead for more than
century and quarter. May his soul
rest in peace and his music live for
ever AS for the American composer
who was thus lifted into noble COM
pany. may his idyl rest in peace and
he live to green old age. The rest
of the music, with which Mr.. Dam
rosch and his excellent men enter
tanned the audience. was the symphony
inspired in the French mind of Berlioz
by Lord Byron's "Childe Harold" and
the familiar excerpt from "La Redemp-
ton" by the noble Belgian Cesar
Franck.
The Philharmonic concert, conducted
by Mr.. Stranskv, seemed to have been
planned on international lines. Mr.
George w. Chadwick's sound old MEL
pomene" overture. Americana music
long in the local repertory. opened ii
right worthily, and it was continued by
the Symphony in G by Antonin Dvorak
whose simple Czechish heart would be
leaping with JOY to-day were he alive
for he was of such patriotic stuff that
his gorge rose at the mere thought OF
being obliged to speak German, though
his musical idiom in this symphony. as
in other works which we love. is that
of that sweet child of nature Schubert
There followed two novelties, on which
a few words of comment seem impera-
tive, and at the close came Tschaikotf-
sky's Slavic March compounded of ar
old Serbian foksong and the melody OF
the dead Russian Empire, a melody s.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15
Memorial at Trinity Church
For Two Slain Lieutenants

Memorial services for Lieutenant
Philip Newbold Rhinelander and Lieu
tenant Harry Campbell Preston. killed
inside the German lines north Of Yer
dun on September 26 while on a special
aerial mission. will be held at Trinity
Church tomorrow noon. The services
will be conducted by Bishop Rhine
lander, of Pennsylvania. and the Rev.
DR.. William 7. Manning. rector of the
parish.
The officers were members of the
10th Aero Squadron OF the lst Bombing
/ Group OF tie American First Army
Lieutenant Rhinelander was pilot and
Lieutenant Preston Observer.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15
Plays and Players

The opening performance of the
Shakespeare Playhouse has been post
poned to Friday afternoon, November
p, because more time is required on
the production of Hamlet" with
which the season opens.
Bert Williams is to be a star of the
New Ziegfeld Frolic. which opens on
the top of the New Amsterdam Theatre
Roof on Thanksgiving night. The en-
tertainment will start at sharp.
There will be a special performance
of The Riddle Woman" with Bertha
kalich, at the Harris Theatre next Sun
day night for the benefit of the Stage
" omen's War Relief.
The 15oth performance of every
thing will be reached at the Hippo
drcme tomorrow night.
Yesterday the Friars and Lambs in
vaded the Stock Exchange to hold an
auction of seats for the Friars' Frolic
for the benefit of the United War Work
campaign. George Nj. Cohan, William
Collier, Sam Bernard and Louis Mann
were the auctioneers.
The old Fourteenth Street Theatre
Is again to house spoken drama. Next
week the Emma Bunting Stock Com
pany takes possession with THE Brat"
to be followed by "Rebecca of Sunny
brook Farm" and other successful COM
edies.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15
Women lndorse Bill Opposing
Death Penalty for Minors
o'ate Federated Clubs, on Closing Convention Here,
Approve Bill Based Upon The Tnbune's Fight to
Save Life of Paul Chapman

With strictly patriotic Americana
zation programme prepared hastily in
honor of the historic week just past
the New York State Federation of
Women's Clubs brought to a close last
night its twentyfourth annual conven-
ton at the Hotel Astor.
Among the important measures in
dorsed by the women was one favorine
the bill, already prepared for legisla-
1--WE action, to prevent the electrocution
OF minors in this state. This measure
was directly prcolcated on the case OF
faui chapman, sixteen years old, SEN
fenced to death for murder. The Trib-
une has been seeking for months to
nave TINS case made the basis for bill
against killing children for crimes.
Equal Pay for Teachers
Other resolutions were passed favor.
ing equal pay for women and men
teachers in the state; indorsing the
Bankhead and Smith bills, which refer
to the eradication of illiteracy in New
York; the appointment of health in
structors in the public schools; the in
PRODUCTION OF compulsory establish
ment of kindergartens on the demand
" ~"~''~y 1iFS Phi SIiC XII OuC iVCdllty
the uphol ding of American ideals BY
cooperation in the study of Federal
and state constitutions; the establish
ment of compulsory continuation
schools for children who leave school
at an immature age to enter industry;
the establishment of special pena
homes for pregnant women condemned
to prison until a certain period after
childbirth, and other minor measures
in the educational field.
Politically, the women deem it wise
to have, as in Oregon, state publica.
tion of all candidates records Before
election. This is measure which
women lawyers of New York are fos.
tering. Important resolutions were
also passed with reference to hours OF
labor, living wages, health insurance
and protection Of women while al
work. All these measures were report.
ed briefly in the afternoon session by
Miss Hay and passed without dssen-
sion.
Election Confused
In the morning there was some con,
fusion over the election of officers
After the polls had been open fol
some time it was learned the ballots
were illegal, inasmuch as they did not
instruct voters that only one vote
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15
1900 Nurses Needed
For Overseas Work
Recruiting Over Country Is
Being Done by Units of
Red Gross

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. - Fifteen
hundred nurses aids are needed at
once for service overseas. The call
hss gone out for them from the Sur
geon Generals Office.
Recruiting is being done by units
Of the Red Cross in connection with
the nationwide survey that is being
made Of nurses.
These nurses aids must be from
thirty to forty-five years. They will be
appointed to hospitals in their home
towns and will be able to live at home
during training. The Red Cross in
structIon in home care and one month g
experience in hospital service are re-
qured. The service will be with the
American army in American hospitals
overseas.
The wives of soldiers, although they
afe eligible as nurses aids, will not be
sent overseas. They will be used in
envalescent hospitals in America.
Uniforms and transportation will be
lumshed for the women who go into
asmrvice as nurses aids. They will
'aIye maintenance and $50 a month
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15
Opera
Daughter of the Regiment
Sung at Metropolitan
By Grenville Vernon

The man who can love Debussy,
Wagner and Donizetti with equal fer
vor is disconcersing person. He has
no fixed standards. he pigeonholes
nothing, he is an ,mmortalist. yet he
is strongly human. Ferdinand Bruns-
there and Matthew Arnold long ago
cast such as he into the pit within
which the pendulum OF their high
straw men into bits. Yet somehow
he succeeded in avoiding the pendu-
lum and climbed out of the pit, and
today he is enjoying himself as usual,
taking his enjoyment wherever he finds
it, regardless of messages or Of schools.
Call him hodonist, artistic agnostic or
what YOU VIII. he is the sanity of the
race. Fielding understood him, and
Walter Scott, and BslZac, and greater
than these loved him-William Shake
speare. He is the average sensual
man." and If the Puritans and aesthetics
alike hate him ne can stand it,
He was out N force last night at
the Metropolitan Opera House, for he
dotes on Donizett's Daughter of the
Regiment" on the coloratuya aeropian-
ing of its soprano, on the length OF
her skirts, on the percussionary per
sitlage of her drumming, bluff, old
Sergeant Sulpice, who is also dear to
his heart, for he. too, is a hedonist.
Tunes which sing themselves, light
hearts and the Tricolor-France via
Italy, the Latin entente cordiale'
this is The Daughter of the Regi-
ment."
There were. however. strange do
ings on the stage Miss Frieda Hem
pei, who sang the title part, has re
Gently become an American citizen.
but she had better be told at once that
the introduction of such phrases as
Gee whiz! What are you fellers dom
here and such songs as Keep the
Home Fires Burning" into Donizettian
opera will not endear her TO her adopt
ed countrymen. The bestowal of
American citizenship ought TO be
thought an honor and not patent OF
vuigarity. Miss Hempel is sn artist OF
the first rank and she ought to behave
like one.
But the Sulpice of Antonio Scotti was
q delight. There is a Napoleonic gro
gnard' for youl Seeing him. we real
ize why the Old Guard never surren
dered. Signor Scott, by the way. Is
the last of the old guard of the Met
ropolitan and histrionically the Ma
poleon of the barytones. with his Water
loo nowhere in sight. Signor Carp
was the Tonic. singing the music with
excellent style, and Miss Kathleen
Howard gave distinction 10 the March
ioness. Mr.. Papi conducted with fine
feeling for the eifervescence of the
score.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15
Despite Scenic Defects,
"H. M. S. Pinafore" Pleases

The good ship Pnafore again put
into port last evening as feature of
the Gilbert and Sullivan revivals by the
Society of American Singers, at the
of the famous vessel, due, it was said,
to delays caused by the victory cele-
bration last Monday.
Mr.. Gilbert's humor and Sir Arthur
Sullivan's music in themselves, how
ever, sufficed to make the performance
enjoyable, in spite of the scenic def
cjencies. crudities in stage management
and individual representations that
were far from being steeped in the ira
diticns of the old Savoy.
The most mellow and genial per
formance was given by William Dam
forth as Sir Joseph Porter, X. c. B.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15
Woman Peace Envoy
To Be Advocated
Suffragist Meeting to Launch
Campaign for Female
Conference DELEGATE

The appointment Of woman as one
of the peace delegates from the United
States will be discussed at a meeting
of members of local women's organiza-
tons to be held at the Hotel McAlpin
Monday evening under the auspices of
the National American Woman Suffrage
Association.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait will be
one Of the speakers.
1t is believed the meeting is the fore
runner Of national campaign to have
woman appointed to the final peace
conference as one of the representa-
tiyes of the United States.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15
Italian King Receives
u. S. Admiral In Venice

ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS.
Nov. IS tBy The Associated Press)-
IS y. m.).-Admiral Henry T. Mayo,
commander of the American Atlantic
fleet, visited Venice to-day and was re-
ceived by King Victor Emanuel. with
whom he had dinner. The admiral ex-
pressed to the King the admiration
generally felt for the victory attained
by Italy. Later the admiral left for
Paris.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15
Leaves $25O,OOO to COLLEGE

GORTON, Conn, Nov. 14.-Connec-
tIcut College for Women, of which the
late Morton F. Plant was a trustee. re-
celyes c. S25o,ooo by the terms of the
wlll OF the millionaire, admitted to
probate here to-day, The Lawrence
nm0osp11al n0o ia, OF New London receives $780,
600. The widow and sons are provided
Tor in trust fund and Mr. Plant's
employees are literally remembered.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15
Miss Chisholm to Wed

Mrs. John Alexander Chisholm, of
go west Seventy-seventh Street, has
announced the engagement of her
daughter, Hazel Elizabeth. to Captain
montgomery Locke Hart, U. S. A., now
statohed IN Toronto. The wedding
VIII take place on December 7.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15

eral hundred more applications for
adoption than there were babies.
Most of the applicants want baby
or young child. Some Of the or
phans on DR.. Copeland's hands are
eight, ten and even fourteen years old.
DR.. Copeland explained yesterday
that the process of child adoption is
not such facile one as some persons
imagine. At best it will take about
wear he said
New-York tribune., 1918-11-15
Edwin Hughes, Pianist, Gives
Recital at Aeolian Hall

Edwin Hughes, pianist who has Of
ten been heard here before, gave re-
cital last night at Aeolian Hall. He is
an excellent artist. q little dry, per
haps, in some of his interpretations,
but possessed of an excellent tech
nioue. Among his numbers last night
we're a group of Chopin and the List
B minor Sonata. He was warmly greet
ed by an audience of moderate size.