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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-03-13
MAJOR-GENERAL CLARENCE R. EDWARDS,
WAR COMMANDER Of THE 18TH Division.
RECEIVES AN ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME

Unitarian Church Packed to the Doors Wher
Distinguished Soldier Sounds the Praises OF
Vermont Boys in Their Stand against Ger.
manys Picked and Unbeaten Troops-Re-
ception at Ethan Allen Club House and
Luncheon at Van Ness Other Features of
Busy Day.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-03-13
ABOL|SHES LOCAL
HEALTH OFFICERS
Bill in House Authorizes State
Board to Appoint District
Health Officials-COmmittee
of Whole Hears DIR. Dalton
MEASURE IS ADVANCED

Districts In the state, Each in Charge
of Competent Official who Would
Give All His Time to the Work
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-03-13

(C0ntinued on page four)
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-03-13
AFTERNOON A SESSION

Ihe afternoon meeting, which was
open to the public, was largely at
tended. Miss Mildred Shattuck, who
was to sing, was unable to do so. and
MISS Margaret Whittemore accom-
panied by Miss Marion Killam, sang
Mother o. Nine and, when forced
to give an encore. Passing BY"
summary of Nermont's progress
was given by Mrs. Annette w. Par
melee.
The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1919-11-23
RuffIeS Here and
RuffIeS There
By Margaret Robe

by ISdIcI
written for the United Press)
Belinda is very much ruffled these
days
Up one side, down t'other and devil
Gus ways.
And not just her garments are ruff
fled It's true
Belinda's sweet temper is oft ruff
fled, too.
NEW YORK, Nov. E.-An erup-
ton of ruffles has become almost a
universal epidemic in the fashionable
world. They are breaking out on all
sides-feminine sides, of course-and
faunting their flamboyant fluffiness
with fetching fascination.
Ruffles are used most effectively
as first aid to hips-sort of rein
forcements on the side lines. They
run up and down, in diagonal cascades
and foregather in clusters and tiers!
They present a diversity of edges
pluhSu, IdNSlSu, SCOIlopcu, pIpcu,
blanket stitched in wool, silk or me-
tallic threads and even finished with
an ordinary selvage.
Accordion pleating is new wrinkle
or rather an old one revived and en-
tire skirts composed of three deep
accordion-pleated ruffles are very
smart in serge with den.ure little old
fashioned basques buttoned down the
front to top them off. Knife pleat-
ing of the narrow ruff1es that are
omnipresent as hip trimmings cut
quite a figure as the ruffle finish,
and they are as apt to be used up
side down as right side up when they
finish the bottom of skirt or sleeve. |
In fact you can't go wrong on what
you do to a ruffle. The more per-
verse and eccentric and even bizarre
it is the better to break the monotony
of hitherto unruffled existence.
Ruffles are no more confined to
light and fluffy materials either. De-
signers this season are ruffling duve-
tyns, velveteens, serges and gabar-
dimes with unbiased impartiality but
often biased ruffles. A Pompeian
red duvetyn with cascade ruffles over
each hip extending to the knee shows
the edges of the ruffles raveled to a
depth of an inch and half. The
short skirt is raveled on the edge as
are also the edges of the short tight
sleeves.
A mahogany velveteen has three
short ruffles piped in orange over
each hip while an orange piped panel
of the velveteen extends plainly down
the front and back to give the neces-
sary flat effect to the fore and rear.
Something to fasten our best ruff
files to is the cartridge silk that is
left over from the war the govern
ment is now offering to the best
dressers for piece of peace dress
goods. Of purest silk weave and of
natural color it offers great possible
ties as a perfect dress material since
it takes to dye as duck to water.
AS most, if not all, of our regular
dress silk is practically all tin and
tint, silk that is as guiltless of any
thing save what the silkworm spun,
as is this cartridge silk, is sure to hit
the bulls eye of popular favor and
fire both Beau Brummell and Dame
Fashion with a mad desire for some
1t is a question whether the men will
beat the ladies to it and use up its
shimmering lengths for Palm Beach
suits, silken shirts and pajamas but
she will be wise virgin indeed who
hastes and buys up all the glistening
wards she can. Incased in cartridge
silk with dash of powder, too, what
a wondrous chance is here to set all
hearts aflame.
The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1919-11-23
BUILDING RESTRICTIONS

Bella Vista-'The Tract
Beautiful lis the first
Tract ever offered in No
gales with building restric-
lions. The restrictions vary
in different parts of the
Tract.
There will be no "shacks"
nor unsightly buildings in
Bella Vista Terrace.
Bella Vista Terrace-"The
Tract Beautiful"-is dis
tinctive and attractive to-
day, and each residence
erected will add that much
to it's beauty and value to
the surrounding property.
VALUES IN RESTRICT
ED DISTRICTS ALWAYS
INCREASE THE FAST
EST.
The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1919-11-23
CONTOUR DRIVES

A feature that is distinctive
to the Tract. Beautiful
Hereford Drive is a wide
street beginning at Craw-
ford, and runs in a south
easterly direction to Inter-
national Street. A ten per
cent grade (due to the
knowledge Of the topogra-
ply and engineering) is the
steepest on this magnificent
drive. Intersecting with
Hereford Drive Dunbar
Drive, rapidly nearing COM
pletion and equal in beauty,
runs in a southwesterly di-
rection to international
Street. International Street
has been put in first-class
shape.
The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1919-11-23

Electrical Apparatus, Appliances
and Supplies: Russell Electric Il Ma
chine Co., 233 Morley Ave. 1921 tt
The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1919-11-23

Eye Trouble. See Arizona Optical
Company.
The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1919-11-23

Power, Gas, Lights and Ice. Ari-
IONA Gas & Electric Co.
The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1919-11-23
ORNAMENTAL
STREET LIGHTING

Engineers are at present
perfecting plans for orna-
mental electric light posts
to be installed throughout
the Tract. This will be the
only residential section in
Nogales with an ornamental
lighting system.
The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1919-11-23
PARKED DRIVES

Landscape Gardeners will
soon start parking beautiful
Hereto I'd a n d Dunbar
Drives-they are to be uni
formly parked with fast
growing trees.
The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1919-11-23
ENGINEERING

The work Of the Engineers
who laid out the Tract has
been as near perfection as
possible. A topography map
of the Tract was first made,
and after careful study Of
the topography of the land,
they proceeded. AS a result,
bella Vista Terrace-The
Tract Beautiful with
unique Contour Drives,
Parks and large view lots, is
a credit to Nogales.
CITY WATER
Water mains will be laid in
the very near future.
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which contained the skeletons of two
dogs, which together with some pot
terry lay under a mass of oyster shells,
beneath which lay the remains of a
puppy. Across the avenue a shell pit
of shells and debris contained the
skeletons of two puppies. These dog
burials may have been not an uncom-
mon feature of the aboriginal life of
some local tribe"
Some time later Mr.. Bolton and
Mr.. Calver found many evidences of
Indian occupation on the site of the
Century House." on the river bank
at 21Sth street, around and below
quantities of Revolutionary and CO.
lonial relics. The interesting banner
stone" now on exhibition in the mu-
scum was found there in 1906, about
two feet below the ground. Other ar
ticles dug up in that section were a
fine stone tomahawk. a war head ar
row of black ebert, small cup and a
needle. But the greatest of the finds
made in that neighborhood was made
by Mr.. Calver at 214th street-a
fine jar of 1roquois pattern, about
thirteen inches in diameter and height.
This jar slightly protruded from the
surface OF a newly graded bank, and
had been missed by the spades of the
laborers by no more than a foot.
1t was intact with the exception of
a break in the rim, which probably
had been used as a spout, and a hole
about three-quarters OF an inch in
diameter in the body. The jar is now
at the American Museum of Natural
History, and is considered one OF the
finest examples of Iroquois pottery
that has yet been discovered.
Garden Yields Human skulls.
n find that proved OF extraordinary
interest to antiquarians was made by
Mr.. Bolton and Mr.. Calver in 1907 in
n strip OF ground extending from Sea-
man avenue to Cooper street and Gull
uvated by a gardener named Corbett.
1t was there that Mr.. Bolton found
the first evidence OF human remains, a
fragment of skull and a vertebra.
This find excited attention and other
fragments soon were found at the
corner OF Academy street and Sea-
man avenue, among them a tooth and
fragment Of jaw. other fragments
were discovered in Hawthorne street,
and Mr.. Bolton set to work in earnest
to discover the Indian burial ground
which he felt certain was in the vi
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Manhattan Island and the main land
of the Bronx than any one else in
New York, several more or less valu-
able finds have been made by work.
men eXcavating for subways. In
1916 part OF an old ship was discov-
cred while worbmcn were digging the
new subway at Greenwich ana Dey
streets, together with a number Of
cannon balls, and some of the old
wooden water mains laid about 1900.
The timbers OF the vessel were found
twelve or fifteen feet lower than the
mains, but antiquarians of the His
torical Society said after examining
the vessel that II probably did not
date back further than Colonial times.
Owing to the expense. no effort was
made to unearth the whole of the YES
sci, although some OF the timbers were
taken for preservation.
Found Ruins of Jail.
Workmen excavating for the sub
way in 1914 discovered, in Church
street, between Dey and Cortlandt
streets, part OF the wall Of an old
Colonial Jail built in 1895, when Ben
jamin Fletcher was Governor Of New
York. This wall had three windows
fortified with iron bars, and, curiously
enough, nearby was a log cabin"
campaign button worn in 1889 by
some admirer OF William Henry Har-
rison. Another find made by subway
engineers in 1915 consisted of a dozen
cannon balls which were discovered
at the Battery about 200 feet from the
Municipal Ferry house. These were
presented to the Historical Society
by George H. Pegram. Chief Engi-
neer Of the marlborough Rapid Tran
sit Company. All of them were found
at a depth of six feet, and near them
was found also an English penny bear
ing the date of 1854. The cannon
balls were In a bed of cinders, and
antiquarians believe that the subway
excavating crew dug into the site OF
an old Colonial blacksmith shop, where
the cannon balls had been brought to
be hammered down into some useful
article of commerce or household use.
In the many years during which
Mr.. Bolton and Mr.. Calver and their
colleagues of the Field Exploration
Committee have been poling their
steel rods into the bosom OF Mother
Earth on Manhattan Island they have
discovered, besides the innumerable
Revolutionary and Colonial relics, many
evidences of the Indians who occu-
pied the island before the white man
came. Most OF this sort of stun is
now in the Museum of the American
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ctal envoy was sent to that country,
and Oriental patience worked with
Yankee ingenuity over the problem.
No hint has been given out regarding
the method that is to be used, but
the silk men here are confident that
Thieves & Co. have one noble surprise
coming to them in the very near
future.
Silk robbery now has reached a
point where its own efficiency is going
to bring about general downfall,
many OF those interested in the legiti-
mate industry declare. While the
bandits have been welding their elab-
crate machine the Silk Association has
been just as active. A huge fund has
been obtained to fight this ever grow
ing menace. and such careful watch
has been kept that the gangs have
been forced to give over rendezvous
after rendezvous to avoid capture.
John j. Hamil of the missing prop
erty bureau of the association, who,
with Ramsey Pousnet, secretary OF the
organization. has hunted down much
stolen property, is a square jawed,
heavy listed. middle aged man, with
eyes that are capable Of peering
through the camoufiage of the minor
crook into the nest at the top of the
trees
"They think that they are safe" he
said when referring to the Masters, -
"but there is sad awakening coming
10 them and that in a very short time"
He was extremely averse to talking
about his work. emphatically stating
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Marketing Stolen Silk
Amounts to Vast Industry

that he was not detective and merely
worked in conjunction with the police.
He seemed to have a great deal of the
love of the game in him and to regard
the contest with the crooks as a battle
OF wits, the more to be enjoyed the
harder it is fought
His inside assistant" Miss S. Sarna,
a slip of girl who looks as If she
might lead the high school debating
society, has more knowledge concern
Ing silk thieves concealed in her head
than the average detective. Several
times she has traversed the East Side
keeping a wary eye out for the mys-
FERROUS gentleman with the still more
mysterious bundle of paper wrappers
under his arm. Whether she has con-
tributed to the captures made by the
association cannot be told, as she re-
fuses TO say. But she keeps a care
ful watch on many miscreants, for in
the big brown portfolio Miss Sarna al
ways has at hand are the names of
the convicted, their crimes, the loot
taken and their punishment. On
neatly ruled sheet she balances the
losses and all that had been recovered.
That the silk thieves are growing
more daring each day is shown by tho
rapid increase In the leaves of the
portfolio, although there has been more
than a hundred convictions within the
last year. By their own peculiar sys-
tenn each carload is spotted" long be-
fore it reaches its destination. When
it does arrive the obtaining of the con-
tents almost narrows down to a race
between the owner and the crook to
see which gets the goods first
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
Historical Society's Experts Can Tell
by Feel of the Probe Whether
Relics or Oyster Shells
Are Under Foot
w TORKMEN excavating for the
M foundations Of a new NOV

w TORKMEN excavating for the
M foundations of a new NOV
ing picture theatre along
Broadway between 169th and 10th
streets last week came upon a guam
uty of stones and heavy pieces of
timber six or eight feet below the
surface of the earth, and a few min
utes later one of the men scooped
up in his shovel what appeared to be
bullets and a number Of buttons of
one sort or another. The ground they
were digging in was soft, there was
no evidence or rock below the top
soil, and it was apparent Immediately
that find of considerable historic
import had been made.
Looks as If there were a lot of
houses under here" remarked one of
the workmen to the foreman of the
construction gang.
Fortunately the foreman was an
intelligent man who knew something
of the traditions of Washington
Heights and who knew that the
Heights was one OF the big battle
grounds of the British and American
armies during the Revolution. He
Immediately stopped all digging in that
particular section OF the work and
telephoned to Reginald Pelham Bolton
and William l.. Calver, both members
OF the field exploration committee of
the New York Historical Society. and
asked them to investigate the find
and determine " ~ had erv historical
value. Mr.. Bolton and Mr.. Calver
came-for twenty years they have
been called to excavations where they
nave found innumerable things of
great historical and sentimental in
terest-and found that the SCOOP OF the
Dig steam shovel had dug into the
camp OF one of the Hessian regiments
winch fought with the British against
the Americans during the Revolution.
Camp of Eleventh Milestone.
The find proved to be of considerable
Importance. For many years it had
been known that a Hessian camp
known as the Camp Of the Eleventh
milestone, meaning that il was sit
uated eleven miles distant from what
was then New York, was located dur
Ing the fighting around Washington
Heights somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of Broadway and 10th street.
and available records had proved to
the satisfaction of both Mr.. Bolton and
Mr.. Calver that the Hessians had
erected between forty and fifty shuts
FOR the accommodation OF their soldiers
somewhere in that vicinity. Some ten
years ago the two men, exploring
that section of the city. dug up sew
eral cooking pits, but were unable to
locate the huts, although they have
searched for them at intervals ever
since.
1t developed as soon as they ar
rived at the excavation last week that
they had not dug deep enough. The
steam shovel, plunging its scoop sew
eral feet deeper than Mr.. Bolton and
Mr.. Calver had gone with their picks
and shovels, had dug into the floor OF
one Of the huts. and had brought out
with a great mass of dirt some of the
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stones which formed the fireplace to-
gether with a few bullets and a num-
Der of buttons. Mr.. Bolton and Mr..
Calver went to work, welding picks
and shovels themselves and super
vising the efforts of the workmen on
the job. After several hours of hard
digging they uncovered two of the
huts, obtaining the fireplaces prac-
tically complete. one of them a large
one constructed of brick and stone and
with the hearth intact. In addition,
on the floor of the hut, which presently
came into view, they found three gold
buttons which had been worn by Of
ficers of the Hessian regiment of Van
DonCp. one pewter button which APP
peared to have been worn by a pri-
vate soldier, bullet of the type used
in the muskets of Revolutionary days,
an axe head, a spoon, a jackknife of
curious and unwieldy, clumsy con-
strrction. and several other interest
ing relics of the regiment.
Got Photographs of Camp.
Washington Heights boys prac-
tically obliterated all traces OF the
huts within the next two or three days
but not before Mr.. Calver had OBJ
tanned photographs OF the find and
not before both he and Mr.. Bolton
had been able. from study of the
| timbers and fireplaces and parts of
the huts found, to obtain a very good
| idea of the general layout OF the Hes
sian camp. Military camps in those
days were huilt in much the same
manner as armies of the present day
build them. following pretty much the
contour of the ground and with well
defined streets running between the
rows Of buildings. With this knowl-
edge they will presently begin digging
again and hope to uncover all OF the
forty or fifty huts that the Hessians
under command of Van Donop are
known to have erected on this site.
There is every probability that in the
huts when they are carefully I'M
earthed will be found a wealth Of
regimental buttons and all sorts OF
articles which will be OF great value
| as historical relics and as relics of
| this particular regiment
Historians say that Manhattan
Island. particularly the Washington
Heights section, is richly underlaid
with evidences of the Revolution and
the battles fought here between the
British and the Americans. Their
contention is amply borne out by the
fact that within recent years many
important discoveries have been made,
usually by accident through workmen
excavating for building foundations
striking portions of houses or un-
earthing old timbers. stones, buttons
or other articles. The field eXplora-
tior committee of the New York His
torical Society was organized some
years ago for the particular purpose
of exploring New York, and especially
New York city, for relics Of historical
value. With the aid Of Revolutionary
war maps. particularly the map OF
Won Kraft, they have been able to
locate the camps Of the various Eng
fish regiments and many OF the Amer
lean regiments that were on the
! Heights from time to time.
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Shells are the easiest of all substances
to tell by the rod. AS you press down
through the soft earth you come 10 a
sudden solid obstruction; you press a
little harder and the rod suddenly
pushes through the obstacle and down
into soft earth again. II is unmls-
taxable. And when we feel sure that
we have hit something We pull up the
rod. measure the length of the boring,
make other borirgs nearby and then
dig. Almost always we have been
right, and have found some valuable
relic or other"
One Of the most important discov-
cries made by Mr.. Bolton and Mr..
Calver was about 1915, when they
found the camp of the Seventeenth
English Regiment of Foot In the VII
cinity OF 204th street and Broadway,
north of Dycllman street That same
year they unearthed between fifty
five and sixty huts, together with an
amazing collection Of regimental but
tons, camp utensils and equipment and
valuable articles of great historical
value. So much was learr ID through
eNcavating there of the methods used
by the English troops of those days
in constructing camps that Mr.. Boil
ton and Mr.. Calver were able to re-
construct one of the huts on the Dyck-
man farm and furnish It completely,
exactly as such a hut was furnished
during its occupancy by British or
Hessian troops. In each of the huts
unearthed enough articles Of various
sorts were found TO enable tho his
torians to tell fairly accurately the
habits of the soldiers who occupied
that particular building and their pas
times. With this information John
Ward Dunsmore. the noted painter of
Revolutionary and Colonial scenes,
painted a picture of the camp of the
Seventeenth, which shows as anthem
tically as possible just what ranspired
on a summers day in front OF each
hut. This painting is considered one
Of the best of the sort in existence.
JumeI Mansion Display.
The collection OF Revolutionary and
Colonial relics on display in the Jumel
Mansion, as well as that in the Dyck-
man House. were also found by the
Historical Society's Field Exploration
Committee under the leadership Of Mr..
Bolton and Mr.. CaNer. This consists
OF muskets, bombs. shot, buttons and
innumerable other articles, all dug up
in Washington Heights after their To-
cation had been discovered by means
OF the steel "divining rod" Among
tho interesting articles in the Dyck-
mar House are a bullet mould, with
several bullets made from it, and the
drippings of lead that fell from the
mould while the bullets were being
made. buttons of the Seventeenth and
Twenty-eighth British regiments. and
counterfeit Spanish milled dollar,
which is mentioned in the diary OF a
British officer who served in the Sew
enteenth Regiment. This sort of stun
Is peculiarly interesting historically,
as 1t establishes the authenticity OF
various diaries and enables the his
torian to piece many things together
and get a connected idea of the move
ments of the various British and
American troops who camped or
fought in the Washington Heights
district.
Although Mr.. Calver and Mr.. Bolton
probably have done more discovering
Of Colonial and Revolutionary relics on