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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-01-14
Y. M. C. A. Notes.

Two men have been called by the
County Committee to become asso-
ciated with Mr.. Hendry as YMCA
secretaries for Burlington county,
William H. Richie, of Moorestown,
and Willard M. Rice, of Jefferson,
Maryland.
William II. Richie has for a number
Of years been a member of the Bur-
lington county YMCA committee and
before the war very successfully
practised the profession of landscape
architecture. At the outbreak of the
war he felt that he could no longer
give his time to this profession and
accepted call to the secretarial .po-
sition at the West Branch .YMCA in
Philadelphia. But county YMCA work
has always claimed his interest and
very gladly did he accept the position
offered by the Burlington County
YMCA Committee. Plans for occu-
plying more thoroughly the entire
field in Burlington county will make
it expedient for Mr.. Richie to have
supervision of activities along the
riverfront.
Mr.. Rice was associated with Coun-
ty Secretary Hendry in YMCA work
at Washington, D. c., where they be-
came very well acquainted. There
Mr.. Rice was private secretary tc
William Knowles Cooper, general
secretary of the YMCA of Washing
ton.
Mr.. Rice is a graduate of the JEFF
ferson high school; following that he
took special work at the Frederick
high school and then entered the Citi-
zens' National Bank of Frederick as
teller. where he spent three years
During his stay in Frederick Mr.
Rice lived at the YMCA and one of
the very helpful pieces of service
which he promoted there was a night
school for employed boys. In the
fall of 1917 he entered Western Ma
ryland College and completed his first
years Work there. In January, 1918,
he enlisted in the aviation corps and
was called to active service in June,
when he spent three months in train
ing at the Princeton Aviation School;
then he was sent to Texas for further
training and while there received his
discharge from that branch of serv-
ice after the signing of the armistice
Mr.. Rice will make his headquar-
tiers at Mount Holly and be closely as
sociated with Mr.. Hendry in promot-
ing county YMCA activities through
out the county with the exception of
the riverfront which will be Mr..
Riches field.
Mr.. Richie and Mr.. Rice will begin
their relationship with the YMCA
work of the county January Is.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-01-14

|, Walter l. Dill, Cashier OF the above
ma med bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best OF my
knowledge and belief.
WALTER l. DILL,
Cashier
9th day of January, 1919.
HELEN A. HUGHES. Notary Public
J. AQUILA JONES,
HARRY HAWKINS, JR
CHARLES B. BALLINGER,
Dfrecfar
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

to engage In the business Of bank
ing.
On the second floor Of the west half
of the building at 40 and AZ Wall
Street sections Of the old wood
mains which were laid by Burr and
his friends to provide the city with
pure, wholesome water" are still
to be seen, and they occupy honored
places within the railing shutting
off the Offices of the company.
Directly across the hall on the
second floor is the Office of the bank
founded by Hamllton-the Mer-
chants National-and there, too, an
cient mementos are to be found. On
the walls are drawings of the old
sailing ships whose owners were the
first borrowers and depositors. In
a case over the wainscoting are the
giant keys which commanded the
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

Merchants and that both permitted
their accounts to reach a very low
ebb at times.
Hamilton was virtually penniless
when Burr's bullet ended his career.
and his dealings with the bank
show that his savings never were
very great. Although brilliant
lawyer, his fees were always ex-
tremely moderate, as is shown bv
his deposits. His first was S25,
but he almost immediately made a
loan of $1,000, and at the time Of
his death and the departure of
Burr both accounts were slightly
overdrawn.
Among the records of the Mer-
chants National Bank. also, is a
letter written by Hamilton which
throws an interesting sidelight on
his attitude on the establishment of
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
lme Writes Sequel to Bitter Political Feud
The Enmity of the Two Ended
in the Fatal Duel Just
Across the Hudson

other banks, such as Burr contem-
plated and ultimately succeeded in
establishing. The letter was written
at Philadelphia on January 18, 1871,
and was addressed to William Seton,
the cashier Of the Bank Of New
York. 1t read:
my Dear Sir: have learned with
infinite pain the circumstances OF
new bank having been started in
your city. It's effects cannot but be
in every view pernicious. These ex-
travagant follies of speculation do
injury to the government and to the
whole system Of public credit by
disgusting all sober citizens and Civ
ing a wild air to everything. It is
impossible but that three great
banks in one city must raise such
mass of artificial credit as must en-
danger every one Of them and do
harm in every view.
~ sincerely hope that the Bank
OF New York will listen TO no coali-
tion with this newly engendered
monster. A better alliance. am
strongly persuaded, viii be brought
about for ii, and the joint force of
two solid institutions will, without
effort or violence. remove the ex-
crescence which has just appeared,
which I consider as a dangerous
tumor on your political and COM
mercial economy.
II express myself in these strong
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

terms to you contidentially. not that
have any objection TO my opinion
being known as the nature and ten
dency Of the theory.
Yrs, with real regard.
tSigned) A HAMILTON"
VIM. Seton. ESQ"
Ihe bank also has brought To
light letter which was written nv
Daniel Webster to his son. D rlef-
cher Webster, showing that in his
case, as we'll as in that of Hamilton
and Burr, the exchequer occasion
ally fell perilously low, and that
not lnfrequently his bank account
was overdrawn This letter was
written by Webster in 1859. and
showed that the writer had then
overdrawn his account in the Mer-
chants Bank by 5000.
II have written Porter Wright
that you would let him have 800
have not one cent" Webster wrote
IN his letter to his son. Il am. be-
sides, overdrawn at the Merchts
Bank $200-Could you and our
ever kind Mr.. Hervey raise me $500
on my acceptance, payable here. at
80 or 80 ds? Pray lose no time in
letting me know, as ! fear ] shall
fall into bog.
Yrs d. W.
Il am glad you are going to cele-
brate the 4th Make something Of
it.
The duel which ended in Hamil-
toms death was not the immediate
result of the founding by Burr of
the Bank of the Manhattan Com
pany, or the Manhattan COMPANY
as it was known at first, but had an
important bearing on it. Hamilton
when Secretary of the Treasury,
had founded the nations financial
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

Gas as an illuminant did not come
into use until several years after,
not until 1925, in fact, when Samuel
Legget, the first president Of the
New York Gas Company, lighted his
house at Cherry Street in this
manner, thereby causing much as
tonishment and considerable con-
sternation among his fellow resi-
dents, who thought it hazardous
experiment and likely to increase the
danger of fires.
William Jauncey had what was
looked upon as very imposing resi-
dence at 25 Wall Street. and boasted
Of the fact that it was valued at
least at $4,000. William Seaman,
living at Sd Wall Street, valued his
John Outhout, at 13 Wall Street.
Edward Livingstone house, at 45
Wall Street, and William Bayard's
residence, adjoining it, were each
put down at $4,000, while that Of
the Constantine family, at 6 Wall
Street, was figured to be worth
$4,000 and that Of Francis B. Win
throp, in Broadway, near by, at
$4,000.
But the outstanding vision recalled
by the newspaper item was that in
which those two gladiators of Amer
ica's early history-Hamilton and
Burr-fought to finish their strug-
gle for the mastery Of New York
and, in way, Of the nation.
Who was it that said Wall
Street is not sentimental? A great
many years have passed since that
tragic episode on the Palisades
ended the contest, but numerous
souvenirs of the struggle survive
and are highly treasured in the
financial district.
Entering the building at 40 and ~
Wall Street, one of the first re-
minders Of that fatal contest to
greet the eye is the seal of that
company Of men who, under the
leadership of the astute Burr, made
the first successful invasion of the
field Of finance. dominated up to
that time by Hamilton and his fol-
lowers. The seal is that of Oceanus,
one Of the sea gods, sitting in
reclining posture on a rising bit of
ground, pouring water from an urn
which forms river terminating in
a lake.
Students Of New York's early
history will recall that it was through
the formation Of a corporation or
ganized ostensibly to provide the
city with water that Burr created
the Bank of the Manhattan Com
pany. A ''joker' in the charter,
permitting the company to employ
all surplus capital in the purchase
of public or other stock, or in any
other moneyed transactions or opera
tions not inconsistent with the Con-
stitution and laws Of New York or
of the United States,' was the wedge
which enabled the Burr adherents
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

doors. In another Is the original
lock. Near the front windows
CRATE fire burns cheerfully on every
cool day, recalling the system of
heating that was in use at the first.
Pictures of some Of the stalwarts
who sided with Hamilton hang from
the walls.
In making preparations for the
completion of the merger mentioned
in the newspaper, and which is the
final sequel to the Hamilton Burr
feud, ancient documents of great
value have been brought to light.
Great ledgers, dating back to 1908,
bound in massive leather and forti-
fed at the back by cords, were
brought out of the vaults, and two of
them show that Hamilton and Burr
both had accounts at one time in the
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

YOU VIII IUu ACICSS one
4 n occasionally in the financial
district-stopped on the
sidewalk opposite 80 and AZ Wall
Street and. staring up at the twelve
story building. said, softly:
"Pshaw After all these years.
Who would have thought it"
The noon crowd buffeted the little
man, scowling at him for obstruct-
inr the traffic, but he didn't seem to
mind. He was indulging a whim.
As some persons go in for collecting
butterflies, bright colored neckties
or Satsuma vases, he had hobby
for -- "reminiscences When not
studying the stock ticker or watch
ne the boy post quotations, he liked
to send his mind over the back trails
Of this strange little thoroughfare,
repeople it with its former inhabi-
tsnts and cause them to reenact in
his mind the stirring old episodes
which are the warp and woof of its
character. It was a harmless recre-
alton, and he had an infantile fond
ness for indulging himself in it.
On this particular morning he had
read an item in a morning news
paper which had caused his mind to
90 back to It's favorite amusement.
and he had hurried through lunch
TO find time to saunter past the
building in Wall Street which was
mentioned in the article.
"ShucksI' he said, shaking his
head at the lofty stone front, things
work out curiously. After all that
happened, too. Who would have be-
iieved IT,"
Thereupon a curious thing hap
pcned 70 him. Although to the cas-
ual observer he remained mild
hammered, white haired little man
staring at an Office building, he had
sudden vision. Within the full
glare Of the midday sun the tower
ing structure opposite seemed to
shrink until it had dwindled to one
Of those high gabled houses with
dormer windows which were the last
word IN architecture in the Geor-
F'an period. Nassau Street with its
dense throngs f1ickered out like a
scene In motion pictures when the
hlm snaps. Important buildings
ike those occupied by J. P. Morgan
& Co, the Sub-Treasury and the
First National Bank were trans
formed into absurd red fronts be-
lore which leisurely gentlemen in
knes hreeches and buckled shoes
were engaged In conversation. One
I" the seven carriages of which the
city hoastcd in those days was pass
ing.
i hear they are to fight In the
morning" one of the gentlemen was
saying, although it is known to few
besides the principals and their sec
onds.'
At the words the scene changed
again, showing this time the Hudson
hIver-but with what extraordinary
changes The 1,0O0-foot piers and
The big transatlantic steamet
were nowhere to be seen. A giant
hand must have smeared out the
Woolworth and Singer buildings
and other towering structures. for
the skyline on the Manhattan side
was singularly fattened and blank
Not single tug, pouring black
smoke from It's tunnels. or an AL
bany excursion boat was to be seen
anywhere, and the blue waters, pliut-
ing under the rays of the July sun.
were deserted from the Battery
north as far as the eye could reach.
Suddenly, however, barge con-
tanning two men besides the boatman
moved out from the Manhattan
shore, and about thirty minutes
later was followed by another, in
which were three passengers. Ar
irving on the New Jersey side, at a
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

Ane TWO nodded, drew apart the
allotted distance and faced each
other.
1t must have been entirely in the
imagination Of the spectators. but
1t seemed to them as if the skv
knowing the melancholy character
OF the tragedy about to be enacted
took on more somber hue as the
principals waited for the word,
The four stood in a cleared space,
surrounded by a tangle of cedar
trees, from which good view could
be had of Manhattan Island. Below
the grassy ledge, at the waters edge,
rode the barges in which the two
parties had crossed the river.
/ In one Of the barges man, obvi-
ously physician, from his surgical
and medicine kit, kept casting anx-
ious glances in the direction of the
t spot where the armed men confront
ed each other.
For an event Of such nation -shak-
ing Importance, the tragedy on the
grass ledge was over in surpris-
ingly short time.
One Of the "seconds" She was at
terward identified as Nathaniel Pen
dleton--stepped forward and asked
the two men with the cold, set
faces II they were ready" Both
nodded assent. Pendleton sharply
cried, "Presentw and almost simul-
taneously shot cut through the
| deathly stiffness, followed almost i'm
mediately by another.
At the sound of the first shot one
Of the men rose slightly on his toes,
turned little to the left and fell
! fat on his face
The "big scene" in the tragedy
was over, and with it reality flashed
back upon the sentimental little man
standing on the sidewalk in Wall
Street, reminding him of his ex-
! pired lunch hour and waiting duties.
"Goodness" he said, coming to
himself with start, 81 must hurry
back to the Office or I'll be late"
The item responsible for the side
walk reverie" was printed in The
Tribune on December II last. 1t
read, In part:
"The Manhattan Company, Of
which Aaron Burr was the founder.
and the Merchants National Bank,
founded by Alexander Hamilton.
Burr's opponent in the fatal duel
under the Palisades, were united
yesterday by vote of the directors
of the two banking institutions.
:. Stephen Baker, president Of
the Manhattan Company, will be
president Of the united banks
Raymond Jones, president OF tho
Merchants National Bank, will be
ranking vice-president"
A great many persons other than
the sentimental little man were at
tracted by it. 1t had such an i'm
mediate relation to what had long
been regarded as Americas great
est political tragedy. 1t conjured up
so many visions of the past-visions
which are sacred to the nations his
tory because of the personages in
volved and the issues effected.
Washington, Daniel Webster, Burr,
Hamilton, De Witt Clinton - giant
figures and giant struggles which
had shaken the very foundation Of
tho nation-peeped out Of the past
at the call Of that newspaper item.
You saw again Bowling Green as
the center of the residential section
of the city, where gentlemen engaged
IN the game of bowls. Fulton had
not yet made his first trip by steam
between New York and ALBANY. 1t
cost 8 cents to send a letter COM
posed Of single sheet of paper
over distance of forty miles or un-
der, and 25 cents to send it 500 miles
Wall Street was a residential thor
Cuehfare more than a business
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

What the sentimental little man
intended to say in his Sidewalk
reverie.' just before his vision Of
the duel, was this:
Who would have thought that
among all the institutions in the
world two such rivals as these
should haVe been brought togethero
1t Ike Hamilton ana Burr shakinpl
hands across the grave and making
peace at last. Wall Street certainly
is an interesting place, isn't it?"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Rival Banks Started by Hamil-
ton and Burr United After
: More Than a Century

A SENTIMENTAL little man
~ you will run across one
4 ~ occasionally in the financial
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-02
BUSINESS CARDS

d. A. PERRY, Auctioneer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-02
CITY LICENSES
AND REGISTRATIONS

In compliance with the city ordinances
every keeper of hotel, cafe, restaurant
lunchroom or lunch-cart; all peddlers
and itinerant vendors, including peddlers
of meat, milk, fish and provisions; all
owners of billiard and pool rooms, bowl,
ing alleys or shooting galleries; those
owning and operating public hacks
trucking or express wagons, and all per
sons or firms doing plumbing in the city
or auctioneers, are required to take out
licenses by April Is, 1919.
And all physicians, surgeons, dentists
midwiyes, undertakers, sections, palmists
mind-readers, fortune -tellers, clairvoy.
ants, mediums, and hypnotists practicing
as such in this city who have not pre-,
viously registered, as required by ordi
nance, shall do so by April Is, 1919.
JAMES MACKAY, City Clerk.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-02
DON'T TREAT ASTHMA LIGHTLY |!
RED CROSS NOTES

Giving information to families of sol
diers and sailors is part of home serv-
ice, Jackson block, room a, Monday,
Tuesday and Saturday evenings and Sat
urday afternoon. Office telephone
523-M.
Every soldiers or sailors family and
every discharged man needs information
about legislation or regulations for the
benefit of soldiers and sailors or their
families. Ask the home service section
of the Red Cross.
A supply Of information bulletins No
!, issued by the bureau OF war risk in.
suranee, relative to conversion Of pres
ent insurance certificates, have been re,
ceiyed at the home service section. Call
or send for one.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-02
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

FARM FOR SALE-Known as the Charles
Erskine farm. or Gilbert Smith farm, situated
in Wlliamstown on Baptist street, ] "a miles TO
Graniteville. 21s miles to Williamstown, and 9
miles from Barre City: this farm contains 40
acres, of which rs acres is wood soil is very
productive and all machine moved; this farm
has cut over 100 tons Of hay and has kept 90
to so head of stock; never-failing running wa
ter TO house and barnyard also large COW
barns and silo. also large horse barn and hen
house and tool and carriage shed; | granary /;
farm HIS orchard Of $50 well-grown apple
trees stock consists of IS head of young
stock and | Holstein bull. well bred, and 10
cows. all Of which have freshened this month ;
also horses, 2 gray mares, good workers, and
also Coco colts. being years in June. the
other years in June; these 2 could be mated
we'll also pigs and 30 hens and turkeys /;
this farm has all the tools necessary 70 farm
with; farm also shows favorable signs for
quarrying. being u mile TO j. X. Pirie quar-
ry; this farm IL one Of the most desirable in
this vicinity for home and TO do business,
being near stores, churches, 5 minutes walk
to school; for particulars apply TO or call up
d. ID. Theriault, Williamstown, VT. tel. $685.,
r. F. d. No 2. l2t6
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-02
HAVE COLOR IN CHEEKS
Be Better Looking-Take
Olive Tablets

lfyour skin is yellow--complexion pallid
tongue coated-appetite poor-you have
bad taste in your mouth--a lazy, no-good
feeling-you should take Olive Tablets.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets--a substitute
forcalomel-were prepared by Dr.. Edwards
after IL years of study with his patients.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are purely
vegetable compound mixed with olive oil.
You will know them by their olive color.
To have clear, pink skin, bright eyes,
no pimples, a feeling of buoyancy like
childhood days you must get at the cause.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets act on the
liver and bowels like calomel-yet have
no dangerous after effects.
They start the bile and overcome consti.
patton. That's why millions of boxes are
sold annually at 10c and 25c per box. All
druggists. Take one or two nightly and
note the pleasing results.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-02
MISCELLANEOUS FARMS
FOR SALE
Aged Owner Must Sell
200 Acres $500, Including

COWS. calves, horses, wagons, harness, long
list implements, hay, fodder, etc. miles
town. Mschine-worked tillsge 40-cow pas
ture, estimated 1000 cords wood. 100000 feet
timber. 1850 apple trees, also plums. pears.
cherries. Good l0-room house big stock barns,
silo, etc. $500 gets everything, easy terms.
Details page "a Spring Catalog Bargains 10
States, copy free STROUT FARM AGENCY,
GLOBE, Old South Bldg, Boston. l5t1
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-02
Says He Can Tell Man By the WAY He Walks

There is an old expression; "You can
tell by his walk, David B, Ash, of Bur.
lington, VT, who is one of the best
known citizens believes in the above
statement. He says: q believe you can
tell man by the way he walks. When
you see man holding up his head and
is stepping along briskly you know he's
business man and amounts to some
thing | suffered for four years with
pains in my feet, legs and joints and I
used to shuttle along when ! walked.
q finally heard of G0LDINE and
thought would try it, 1t certainly did
wonders for me as it has taken the stiff
ness out of my legs and now step along
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-02
Cheerful Home With This
Proposition - No Lo S t
Time, the Year Round, as
Far as Money-Making Is
Concerned.

II is drn wing near the time Of year when
people are planning summer pleasures, such rs
bathing. boating fishing. etc, and 7 would
like TO invite the public TO investigate this
proposition nice summer hotel. with IN
miles shore rights on q rood automobile road
between Barre and Hsriwick the house is in
nice share and has all modern improve
ments. including electric lights, sewer eonncc-
tions, hot and cold water bath. wash bowl
and three. telephone connections this place Is
situated so that II gets four mails each day I;
there Il a small store that goes with the
house, and II also has large, wide piaxzns |;
there is also a nice dancing pavilion and
handstand lighted by electricity, there Is also
plenty of never-faing spring water: with
this property there Is a good icehouse all
flied: and li0-aere farm with lots Of soft
timber and plenty of hard wood about 80
acres tllage plenty of good pasture land and
fruit orchard there Is barn 4Sx52. with 10
stanchons and % horse stalls at present
there are 9 head Of cattle and a pair OF
horses good basement and large new shed 70
store automobiles large hcnhouse and siio
there are also IL boats that 30 with this prop
erty, and the house Is partly furnished any
further inquiries regarding this proposition,
such price, etc, will be cheerfully riven
II you will call at my Office or write regard
ing same.
A GOOD HOME or for investment 2-tene-
ment house on Maple avenue home in good
shape with large lot, for garden, for sale at
right price. for the owner wants to leave the
city.
HERE IS ANOTHER GOOD HOME near
stoneshed. It's on the bargain counter. with a
large lot with a little store building, all in
good shape, for the small sum OF sl,40O.
Better get busy, for these properties will not
be long on the market. For further informa-
ton apply to
j. J. DASHNER
REAL ESTATE AGENT
Rowland Building
Telephone $40 Barre. Vermont
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-02

FOR SALE-Two bedroom suites, good con-
dition also tub, wash board, clothes wringer
tsmalD sewing machine and bicycle call aft
er D. M. "a Summer street. upstairs. Off