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court at the Biltmore, beautiful and gay
with the uniforms of all the Allies and
the lovely evening frocks of women at
the Vanderbilt, the McAlpin. the Astor,
the Plaza and the st. Regis.
Every theatre in New York was
jammed to the doors until the walls
fairly bulged. Al Jolson at the Winter
Garden was called upon a dozen times
to repeat his srappy patriotic stun.
Marjorie Rambeau at the Republic The
atre could not escape from the stage I'M
til she had made speech. At the
Metropolitan Opera there was a wonder
full outburst of Joy and patriotic spirit
when Caruso. Mime. Homer and Rothier
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-12

Kaiser has surrendered. and that the
war Is over with. and that Wilson will
be hailed throughout the world as the
great liberator. o..
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appeared in Samson ct Dalila." In
front OF every theatre crowds struggled
and hammered, and spectators reaped.
as is usual with these canny and fore
thoughted gentlemen, a handsome har-
vest.
But one always returned to the streets
to the shrieking. swirling crowds In
the streets-for the great amakements Of
the night. There were times at Broad
way and Forty-second street and at
Broadway and Forty -fourth street and at
Broadway and Forty sixth street that
the crowds tammed like a great run OF
logs in a blocked stream. There was
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-12

Kaiser has surrendered. and that the
war Ia over with, and that Wilson will
be hailed throughout the world as the
great liberator. D..
World Freed OF Monsrchs.
"I know that you are looking forward
to the time when the boys on tn eother
side will be coming home. We all will
be glad 70 meet them and to welcome
them home to their families and their
loved ones.
an times gone by people left Europe
to come to America, Inhabited by wild
men and Indians, where they would have
an opportunity OF exercising their politi-
cal and religious rights free and I'M
trammelled. To-day our boys In Europe.
under the guidance OF that great Presi-
dent, Woodrow Wilson. and Gen. Per-
shing, have brought about condition
whereby the whole world is free from
the rule OF moparchs. and we will have
liberty and democracy throughout the
world"
Historians writing the chronicle Of
this great city long after this adnnis-
tration and this generation shall have
passed away will no doubt find In the
itinerary followed by the victory parade
inspiration for some paragraph or two,
as the following:
1T was in every sense a popular pa
rade In the fullest application and ex-
tension OF that term. Without the blare
OF brass or the suspicion OF that mill
tarism which upon that day had gasped
its last suspir alton the parade took its
way from Lafayette street. to Fourth
street, to the Washington Arch and there
debouched into historic Fifth avenue.
Fifth avenue up to, but, as the event
was TO prove not including the day In
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-12
PEACE RIOT IN NEWPORT NEWS
overjoyed soldiers ana Sailor,
Wreck Cars ana stores.

NEWPORT NEWS, Nov. 1i--Riotous
scenes attended the pesce celebration
here tonight. Thousands ct soldicra
and sailors took possession OF the city.
wreck!ng street cars. raidinG restaurants,
breaking plate glass windows ard build
ing bcnflres In the streets from Emashed
delivery wagons and other wreckage
No casualties were reported.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04

tankaae. S,ooo,o9o pounds Of slycerin
and 2,oooooo,0o0 pounds of soap-mak-
my material. The waste throughout
the country is proportionatclv large
Twenty cities, with total pop
ulation of l7.u0b,c0o. are utilizing an
nually l2uo 0oo tons OF garbage. This
is producing annually 7o,0oo,ueo pounds
of graasa, valued At - ,5oo,ooo. and
10000 tons Of fertilizer, valued at
81 ,2j0 0UO There are - cities. with a
total population of 100000, which do
not utilize their garbage. They are
large enough for establishing reduction
plants which would recover grease
worth 100000 dollars and taHkagc or
fertilizer worth $4,000 GOO annually.
Excluding cities Of 100000 popuIa-
ton and over, the garbage available
much of which is wasted. would pro.
duet annually l2O,000,G00 pounds ot
cork, worth S2o.00o,0oO At prevailing
u.itcs. The output of glvrerin il gar
hagc BOW wasted would supply 5000
600 pounds of nitro-glyceria annually
and would weld soap stock for the man
ufacturc OF 2ooO0o,00n commercial
cakes Of soap weighing l. ounces each
t-Providcncc Tribune.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
Work and Play.

Variation of types of work properly
adjusted Will often substitute for what
Is generally known as play, says the
New York Times For instance, ones
brain center may become weary at
monotonOus occupation, and decided
change Of occupation, Notwithstanding
1t be what we usually call work, will
permit the first brain center involved
10 rest while another works. But We
come back to the fact that what most
people regard as play is m occupation
that they are not required TO perform,
and ii would seem from pSEcholog-
zeal standpoint to give greater rest if
If be an occupation that is particularly
useless from the standpoint Of produc-
ing economic results. Therefor there
should he time set aside in the work
of the day. no matter whether 1t be
varied or not. Wnen the environment
nav he changed and play should be
taken up.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
CHESTER'S PLAGUE OF. CATS
Felines Set Ancient City on the River
Dee in an Uproar, Following Call
n for Rat Killers.

About fourteen miles from Liverpool /
on the River Dee stands the city of
Chester, which was founded by the |
Romans. 1t is surrounded by high |
wall of old masonry, and contains the |
celebrated "Rows of Chester" which |
are arched passageways higher than
the street, through which the sidewalks
run. There are also many other Pc
culiar features in this sleepy, antique
and very interesting city.
One of the historic legends of old
Chester is an amusing story relating to
cats, Mary Hall Leonard writes in Our
Dumb Animals
When Napoleon was defeated by the
English at Waterloo, in 1915, he was
sentenced to exile at the Island of st.
Helena, where he finally died, May 10,
1921. Just before the ex-emperor and
his escort were embarked at Plymouth
so the story runs-a curious hand
bill was circulated up and down the
old Rows of Chester. 1t stated, in eff
feet, that the Island of st. Helena had
been found to be dreadfully infested
with rats; that his majeSty's ministers
had determined thst it should be forth
with cleared of these obnoxious ami
mails; and that an agent had been APP
pointed to purchase such cats and kit
tens as could be secured for this pur-
pose. All citizens who had cats that
they were willing to sell were invited
to bring them to the market place,
where the purchase would be made.
At the time appointed the staid old
town of Chester presented curious
4 appearance. The streets were filled
/ with hurrying crowd carrying sacks
or baskets from which issued fearful
! noises. AS the crowd grew denser
and the people jostled against each
| other the cat concert grew louder And
as the people themselves grew excited
by the din, they also grew quarrel
some. AT last they dropped their bur
/ dens in the effort to extricate them
selves and an indiscriminate scrim-
mage was the result
Then the boys Of Chester, who were
as fond Of amusement as American
boys would be. opened the sacks and
baskets, and several thousand of fright
ened ana angry cats rushed squalling
and scratching through the streets of
the city. The excited citizens opened
their windows to see what was the
matter, and in rushed the cats. break
ing china, overturning furniture and
making general uproar.
Then the people, reused to ven
geance. Joined in defensive warfare
against the disturbing felines, and in
the morning the bodies of some hun
1reds Of cats were floating down the
| river.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
Why Cobb Is in Demand

Irving Cobb is back in New York
from his Ossining-ncar Sing Sing
prison-farm for the winter speaking
season in New York. Cobb has on an
average Of fifty invitations a week to
be the chief speaker at dull banquets.
lie settles on about two.
1t is said that these constant re-
quests are what drove him to leave
his Riverside Drive apartment for the
country. At luncheon recently he
told of laborer on railroad disput-
ing the right of way with a limited.
AS Cobb expressed it he was total
loss"
A claim agent scurried to the widow
and pressed five 500 bills in her
hands and had her sign on the dotted
lines. The next week she blossomcd
out in gay widow weeds and met a
friend:
MANY yo shorely must be lonesome
with Jim gone"
Indeed / is"
"GWine to get hftched again."
II dunno. Railroad men doan' have
much time for coffin and doan' want
no other kind of man."
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
Sixteen New American Cities.

Scme idea of the vast extent Of the
work iny olvcd in building environments
fer the new national army is given in
the following paragraph from Edward
Hungerf0rds THE Camps OF the First
Half Million" in Everyb0dy's:
sixteen new cities for America !
Sixteen cities. each of the size of Eas-
ton, Pa. or Elmira, \. Y, or Kalama-
200, Mich; each built to definite and
fairly common plan. and all completed
within from 100 TO 120 days. Here.
then. was some slight measure of the
problem. TO measure it in still an
other way, consider the building of a
community of wood equal in popula-
ton to Cleveland or Pittsburgh or St.
Louis; then the division of that grea
town into sixteen separate Commun-
ties or cantonments-an average of
one for each three states-and spread
all the way across the face of the land
from the commonwealth of MasSa-
chusetts to the state of Washington.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
TWO NOTED Rivers
TagIiamento and Livenza Become
important in Italy.
One Stream of No Value Commercially
While the Other Is Known for
Many Tributaries.

The National Geographic society al
Washington has issued the following
war geography bulletins on the Taglia-
mento and Livenza rivers. mentioned
in the cable dispatches concerning the
German drive into Italy:
THE Tagliamento river whose flood
ed banks served as a rampant for the
retreating Italians for only few DAYS,
and which was crossed by the Austro-
German forces, is a stream of no value
commercially. It is one of many small
rivers rising in the Carnic Alps and
flowing through the Venetian plain into
the Adriatic. It's hcadwaterS are
near Mount ClGpsavon. about sixty-five
miles northwest Of its entrance into
the Adriatic, but the course of the
stream is meandering. flowing first to
the east and then south through n
marshy valley, thus traversing a dis
lance of 100 miles.
Just 12O years ago the Tagliamento
figured prominently in another great
military campaign in northern Italy. It
was during Napoleon's campaign of
I 1897 that re-enforcements We're greatly
needed by the French. Bernadotte.
who afterWard was placed by Napoleon
on the throne of Sweden as Charles
s! NV, led his army with signal dispatch
from the banks of the Rhine to his
! commander in chief. and at the pas
4 sage of the Tagliamento won enduring
distinction.
THE Tagliamento passes no import
ant cities of Yenetia. The most import
ant of the small towns that squat upon
It's marshy banks are Eenzone, 20 miles
i by rail from the Austro-Italian frontier
Spilimbergo and Latisana. The last
I named is Cquidistant from Venice and
Trieste on the 100-mile railway which
connects these two important cities
The Tagliamento flows IL miles TO the
west OF Udine, the first Italian city OF
Importance TO fall before the onrushine
Teutonic forces in the present often
siye
"In ancient times the Tagliamentc
was known as Tilaventus.
THE LivenZa, like the Tagliamento
Is one of many streams which rise il
he Carnic Alps and flow through the
ielta region of VeGetia. Its course i,
aot more than seventy-fiye miles il
length. but it has numerous tributaries
chief among those on the east beins
he MEDINA. the Fiume and the Sile
while the Montlcano and the Meschi;
are aflluentS of the west bank. TIL
point ut which the LivenZa minglcs it.
waters with the Adriatic is only 3D.
niles northeast of Italy's priceless
jewel city, Venice.
THE plain lying between the paral
leI courses Of the TagIiamento and tn
Liyenza is dotted with italian town
IF great historic and art interest. Chic
mong these are Pcrdenone. probabl
The Poutus NuoniS Of the ancients, bu
, uow many miles from the sea Porte
J gruaro San Vito. Azzano and the ruin
I If Concordia Saggittaria, the ancien
, Roman military station"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
BIRTHS.

In Brattleboro, March 3. daughter to
Henry, jr., and Ellen (Naughnarnl Whit
In Auburn, Me, March ;, q daughter
to Elmer G. and Mary (Bane) smith
the latter formerly of Brattlcboro.
In Philadelphia, Pa, March l, a
daughter, Charlotte Anne. to Rev. and
Mrs. George f. Tomkinson, formerly
of Brattleboro.
In New York, Feb 81, a daughter,
Marie Grace, to David NJ. and JESSIE
6Shoemaker) Titus, granddaughter TO
Mrs. Martin Titus of Nyack, y. Y, and
great granddaughter to the late Mr..
Mrs. Thomas w. Titus of Vernon.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
Oldest European Royalty.

Though the late Emperor Francis
Joseph was the oldest reigning sover-
eign in Europe. he was not the oldest
royalty, says London Tit-Bits. The
Empress Eugene is four years older,
while the Dowager Grand Duchess
of Mecklenburg- Strelitz. the grand
mother of the grand duke, is eight
years older. Thus the last surviving
grandchld of George III was the old
est royalty in Europe. The elder SIS
ter Of the late Duke of Cambridge, and
consequently the aunt of Queen Mary
Of England. it was June %, 1913, that
her marriage took place at Bucking-
ham palace. She received an annuity
of $4,000 a year from the British ex-
chequer, which, being paid since for
the period of seventy-three years,
would amount to the tidy sum of ST.
095000. But when the war broke out
it was announced that the annuity, as
the lady was living in Germany, would
be stopped.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
DiI Is-d "Pit" for FIao,

After going without tobacco several
weeks, 50 the money could be used to
purchase a large American flag, the
old inmates of the Hampstead a.. ~
poor farm recently had the pleasure
of seeing the colOrs break from the
fagpole in front of the only home they
know
Some of the men are cighty-1iyc
years old and the loss Of their tobacco
was great hardship. The old fell
lows talked of the deeds they had
seen done for the colors in the Civil
war and heard Of in the Revolution
AIRY war. rs they planned the pleasure
that was to be theirs. The oyerseers
of the poor, Daniel ]. Morrison had
Frank Hammill, after the flag raising
gave the patriotic old men fine cigars
ard they started to make up for the
lost smokes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
BIRDS AND CONSERVATION.
Submarine Wakes and Insect Pests
Alike Prey for Fowl

State Orrithologist Edward H. For
bush disclosed q secret of Submarine
hunting before the legislative commit
tra ON federal relations at Boston yt,-
t7rday. Urging that the state co np.
CUte Vitb the department Of acrieul
ttte ggd Talit" the proposed chae.p
tJ the lasrd season oa vafe- fossil.
be said. "Sra grl's are the best sub
r'orinc dc'cctors in the world They
follow submarines 30 pick mp garbage.
AifplanC. see the gulln and signal to
dp1trovers 20 come up and take care
Of the submarine, News Dispatct.
Perfectly simple. isn't IL? lIuatiug
submarines hereafter viii ha merely
child Is play. But why not discard TIC
airrlaocs aud dca.roycrs and let The
Culis also take care of The submarine!
Montpelier Argus
The Argus speaks LIGHTLY but il has
come % BE recognized that cycn q
,Ut marine cannot hide long from the
sharp-eyed Culls who have had cen
t1rtas of hereditary training in fol-
lowing anything at sea that Is likely to
furnish food. IN submarine hunting
more attention ia paid to tho sea gulIS
thal 10 any other ono thing. The val
ne OF birds is only recently coming 10
be understood Farmers sons and VII
lag' boys hunt crows, hawks and owls
careless Of the fact that these bird :.
except for a few days in corn planting
end baby chicken season, are the best
helrers Che farmers have, dcstroyin
millions Of mice, erubs, larvae, etc.
that prey ON the farmers crops Insect
eating hirll dCs'rcv amounted bill
lions of dollars worth Of farm proIuc,
every year, .'ct thotghtlcss boys an,
reckless mru destroy these birds an,
their nests without conjunction. /
the birds were permitted to incrcas
naturally they would pretty nearly WIN
oN' the insect pests of the war 4 fev
birds are If no value The Englsl
Spar-ows mud English staylings sheul
hc BILLED whenever i. can be done with
out risk to other birds The presaa
winter is a hard one for birds an
farmers boys Should every day or tw
spread a tcw shovcls Of chat from ~
bottom Of a NOW on the snow for tn
birds. Village people have some ta5l
waste which they can use in a simila
manner. The birds arc cur allies {
both peace and war aud should b
treated az such. Bennington Banner
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
Gre Woman VINO Knows.

There IS one German woman in Wis
consiu who does not hesitate to call
epade by its common or garden name in
commenting upon the land of her birth
\ letter from Neill5ville, in that state.
printed in the Tribuntc, quotes her as
saving:
If the Germans here don t like
America, let them 20 back to Germany
whore the poor people live like swine
It took me three years TO save enough
moncF to get TO this country, and ]
had to borrow little then to get .
ticket for the trip. The people there
wear wooden shoes, held on By q strap
across the top, and | wore a pair when
/ / came here; but | saved enough ont OF
! my first week IS wages to buy Il pair Of
/ leather ones. That was more than !
could save i'll "A month in Germany
4 They live like hogs over there, whole
] families in two small rooms. where they
! dress and undrcsl before each other l.
seemed like heaven when got to Amer
lea and had a room all to myself.
The American people have trcate!
m" fine and never once made me feri
lake lieksrittle, as the rich mon DO j
Germany. The German people here
mss not take the American courtesy
aud forbearance for fear or cowardirt
no, sir. or they will get an awfn
bump soon. ! know the American re
serve and s,rergth better than most
peoplc Of my nationality. ] think thcy
have given US every chance in tn,
world to get along and prosper, and i
is mean and dirty thing now to 90 t.
Dragging and encouraging our com
Try 5 enemy, Germany country tina
is SO conccited that il thinks it cal
run the world. Germany is the wors
place in the world for person to live
and | would as soon be in He'll thi
minute as 70 20 back where ] cam
from in Germany.
When the women Of Wisconsin obtai
'ull suffrage rights Their is one a
Neillsvilio who eau be counted aaains
La Follettelsm New York Herald
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
WHY TEACH?
A Teacher Himself Tells Why He In
vites Others Into the Profession.

(E Dudley Parsons in the Education
al Review
At the risk Of offending my friends
in the profession who, like me, believe
that teachers are over-worked and I'M
derpaid, I invite young people to be-
come teachers. When asked why l
seek to steer them away from the sup
posed glittering prize of the market
place or the supposedly better-paid pro-
fcssions. l reply somewhat like this:
First, teach school because | want
TO. IT is unnecessary to expound the
proposition already worn by the process
of exposition, that teaching gives me
an opportunity to meet boys and girls
of all sorts and conditions on ground
that is foreign soil to the minister, or
piouely to exclaim that | love boys and
girls despite their faults, or to protest
that | have a message for them. Let
me merely repeat that | want TO teach.
The exercise of explaining to others
what /. at leass, think that ! under
stand of working upon living models,
of making them respond to me whether
they will or not, and express them
selves even when they declare that they
have nothing to express-thls is as dear
to me as is the conquest OF customer
to salesman, or the triumph of a mod
eler over an obstinate piece of clay
Though tAcae pupils of mine grow away
into what they will be ples1ed to call
their successes, and receive full credit
for their accomplishment, they and the
world that crowns them together for
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
The Blue Cross.

The Blue Cross fund was organized
in 1912 in Constantinople by Lady
Lowther, the wife of the British am
bassador in Turkey at that time. At
the beginning the fund was used for
the Balkan wars and at the beginning
Of this war was turned over TO the
British and French governments TO
work in cooperation with their army
veterinary corps and was Immediately
accepted The president Of the organ
ization is Lady Smith Dorrien, but she
has authorized Mrs. Eiphinstone Matt
land to come to this country to form
the American branch of this fund and
rails funds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
DIVISIONAL CITATION.
American General Wants Each Member
of Raiding Party Honored.

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Sunday.-An American bri-
gade general said today he had asked
Cor an American divisional citation for
each member of the raiding party of
26 of his men~which assisted the French
in the raid on Feb. % in which two
German officers and q men were cap
turcd. Two officers and two men of the
-aiding party already have been decor
ated BY the French with the war
arOSSpa
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
CHECKS TO DEPENDENTS.
Renittances Eeing Sent Out to Rela
tives of Soldiers and Sailors.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE first
of the February checks for pay alIot-
ment5 and government allowances to
dependents of soldiers and sailors have
just been placed in the mail Probably
two weeks more win be required to
complete the preparation and distribu-
ton of the remittances. In announcing
this today, Officials of the war risk in
surance bureau explained that much de
lay has been caused by Irregularities in
applications and erroneous addresses.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
M!l.ene wasted in Garbars.

Smc interesting facts about garbage
waste were recently lail before g con.
ference Of wag'e.dispoyol expert in
Chicago ty IL head Of the waste dis
paSal conscrlati y section of the food
administration
Twenty five cities III this country.
through moderation or dumping OF
their garbage, throw away 50 100, 001
worth Of grease, 100000 worth OF
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

Clarence Merrill found a dead doe
near West river, opposite the Williams.
willie railroad station Yesterday. and se-
ported the matter t. County Fish and
Game Warden T. IT, McteaIf The doe
had been chased hy dogs
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04
Goodnow, Pearson & Hunt

getting my part in their suceess-I do
not forget. Rather / take keen JOY
in my workmanship, even though, like
an Athcnian artificcr, carve in the
dark; for in the craftsmanship my soul
is satisfied that could not be satisfied
except through tho suffering of the
teacher.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-04

The forestry office at Portland, Ore,
received from one OF the Washington
rangers a specimen OF Douglas fir known
to be 5l5 years old. The tree, when l25
years old, fell to the ground, where a
cedar tree took root in the log and grew
undisturbed for 200 years.