The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-07-25

Through the Boston Office OF i,s
free s,R Service bureau the shipping
Board Recruiting service has IN tho
last few days equipped tonf brand
new shlps Tor c,. ,sis, and overseas
service With their entire personnel,
including masters, dock oaieers. crew.
ems tneer otlco,s, hreroem force,
stewards. cooks and mcssmen
Three and enc quarter million gross
tons o. anthracite coSl we're moved
to New Eug and durnS APRIL May
and Jane. at fuel decentralization
aurouu td gae total allotment for
New England tor the year Is lo,S5l,-
go tons and the fuel administration
ia end ayer'-r 20 ship two thirds Of
The ahla4ui fore winter sets 10
The nruei on. Mass. manuisrtur-
ors association have F.anted "" re-
cent request OF the ehoeworh"rs,
other lhun hr cutters, for a 20 per
cent inetes n wages 10 be pai~ -
war tgHs This affects 1850
workers IN ilocktcn and, AZ the scale
prevails IN tile Old Colony dalrict,
about 5000 more viii be benvhted
Letters favoring special session
Of the Maine legislature 10 pass a law
similar &c that IN Massachusetts, and
other states, which would compel
men between the ages Of Il and 81
years Of age 70 have some useful oc-
cup8tion have been received from
14O of the Isl members Of the legis-
lature by he Maine committee on
public safety
President Gay Potter Benton of tho
University oe Vermont, burlington,
who has been in France since early
last September win sail for homo
ugust "A, arriving early next month.
II Is expected that President Benton
will ark the trustees to renew his
leave Of absence, as II Is understood
he Is DESTROYS Of returning to tho
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 pubic AZ
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 nous
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 sl025 TO I'll ton.
i For lots OF one hundred pounds or
less. however, the price remains yir-
,uallv unchanged. The committee
rave as a reason for the advance the
increases in freight rates which Do
came operative last month and
steady advance In the cost OF labor
since January.
The first woman TO seek position
in the crew OF q vessel Of the new
merchant marine has sent her applics-
ton TO the headquarters OF tho United
States shipping board recruiting scr-
vice In Boston Miss Madge Draper
Of Portland, Oregon. aspires to DO
come an oiler aboard ship. MISS
Draper probably will not be accepted
for service, according to recruiting
ofbcials. a. hundreds OF men arc
coming forward from all parts OF mo
country TO man the ships
Experiments In prepayment cars
are to be made at Concord, N,
H.. and on the Christian shore llne
OF the Portsmouth street railway
Four old cars are now being CONVEX
ted into prepayment cars at the rail-
road shops In Concord and one OF me
cars destined for Portsmouth 10 prac-
tically completed. One other car VIII
10 TO Portsmouth and the other TWO
will be used In Concord, IL ID baid.
The entire library OF Daniel Butler
Fearing. who died recently at New
, port, r. l., Is to be presented 10 har
r ward university, under the terms OF
. his will. The Widener library AZ
: Harvard already houses two OF Mr.
Fearing's collections Of books, ths
persius collection, assembled by MT
1 Fearing and the late Prof. Morris II.
. Morgan and the Fearing collection OF
books on angling The latter CONSISTS
A on more than $4,000 volumes 10
4 twenty languages. including full
: representation OF editions OF lssaA
Walton.
E President Richard Maclaurin o.
I Massachusetts Institute OF Teen
D nology. Cambridge, Mass. has accepted
the appointment OF director OF col
y lepe training, TO have charge OF the
r students army training corps. In al
z effort 10 mobilize the higher institu'
1 ,ions OF learning 70 help win the wal
a war department committee OF nv
army officers will establish training
: corps in all colleges next fall INT
= committees will make complete sur
. yey 10 ascertain what proportion o
' tho students are being turned on