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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
TO COMPLETE TRUNK
LINE IN VERMONT
State Road to Be Constructed from
Bellows Falls TO Springfield
Next Season.

SPRINGFIELD. Aug. 2S-To COM
plete the trunk line up the east side of
Vermont through the Connecticut valley
and to do away with crossing into New
Hampshire at Bellows Falls and back
into Vermont at Cheshire toll bridge.
about two miles above Charlestown.
stretch of about eight miles of narrow
and very hilly country viii need to be
improved.
This highway starts from the Bellows
Falls-Chester road, about three miles
north of Bellows Falls, and joins the
road from Springfield to Charlestown
about four miles from this city and one
mile from Cheshire bridge.
Engineers from the Vermont highway
department are going over the road and
taking levels, and later when the leaves
are off the trees a survey will be made
and it is expected a federal road will be
built sometime next year To straighten
the curves and to bring the road on the
hills to not over a Z per cent grade about
one-half of the road viii have to be re-
located
This link of road in addition to making
the trunk line up the valley wholly in
Vermont will add much to the scenic.
beauty of the route. The road will be
well shaded by grand old trees and it
passes through a prosperous farming
community
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
THE EAR IN FLYING.
A Careful Study of a Factor the Layman
Might Overlook.

Few people realize that a small part
lof the inner ear has much to do with
seasickness and that this same portion
of the ear affects the ability of man TO
handle an airplane or airship.
Since the close of the war the national
resear rch council has had several projects
centering on the studying of human fac
tors in flying, involving 'behavlorlstlc
experiments on man and ANIMALS; ana,
tomical, physiological and psyehologlcai
studies of the functions OF the ear ana
associated eye movements; the writing OF
q history. and the collection of complete
photography on the subject, Last year
the workers in this field came together
and organized themselves into commit
zee on yestibular research for the purpose
oe encouraging and co-ordinating work In
this field. This committee has formu-
lated a project on The Experimental
Study of Habituation to Rotation, which
has been approved by the national re-
search council This project forms nat
uraI nucleus around which may be gath
cred data from field expericene, clinical
records of flyers. etc.
| The project will be administered by an
| executive committee. at the present time
composed of Dr. ]. Gordon Wilson chair
imam. DR.. Raymond Dodge and DIR. +. III
Pike, i'm cooperation with the chalrmeI
Of the division of biology and agriculture
medical sciences and anthropolgy ant
/ psychology in the national research coun
Gil.
| The air service is giving its active co
operation to the investigators through ;
special committee.-From Aviation.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
LAND PLANT FIRST sEEDER
Although Aquatic Plants Developed
Earlier, Says DIR. Barnhart

While the earliest plant life on the
earth was probably equatic, the earliest
seed plants were without doubt terres
tial plants, said DR. John Hendley Barn
hart in a recent lecture in the museum
building of the New York Botanical gar
den, Bronx park.
DIR. Barnhart. who is the official bibli-
ographer of the garden, is interested in
the study of water plants-the subject
of his lecture-haying spent several
years in the study of one small group
alone. i. e.. the bladderworts.
CAS- all animal life" he said. lis de-
pendent directly or indirectly upon AMI
NAL life, it follows that the earliest
life on earth must have been plant life,
As at that time there was little or no
land, the earliest plant life was prob
ably aquatic.
But the water plants of earlier geo.
logic time were very simple minute or
canisms, which if they now existed
would he cIassed as algae. The earliest
seed plants. howi.veT. were probably
terrestrial. from which it follows that
all aquatic seed plants are derived from
terrestrial forms and have thus acquired
character
The lecture was illustrated with
aboue l20 lantern slides. of which about
half were eolored. Among the
views shown were groups of cultivated
water plants. aoratic shrubs and aqua
tic herbs such as cat-tail flags, water
cross. blue flag, water lilies and blad
derworts.-New York Times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
CANADIANS
IN NORTHERN VT.
Census Figures Show Foreign Popula-
tion-More Women Than Men in
RrattIehOro Village

MONTPELIER, Aug. 2S.-The extent
of the French-Canadian migration across
the border into Vermont is indicated by
census figures recently made public A
great number of farms in northern Yer
mont have been occupied by French
speaking people, but one of the surprises
il the number of Canadians who are not
French. Three counties, Essex, Orleans
and Washington, report n foreign born
white population varying from 10 to %
per cent; four counties, Caledonia, Chit
tenden, Franklin and Rutland 10 to 10
per cent; seven counties, Addison, Ben
nigton Grand Isle, Lamoille, Orange,
Windham and Windsor, ) to 10 per cent
Tle foreign born population of Essex
county is 1.426 out Offa total of 1864, or
about one-fifth. This consists of 6JS
French Canadians and $50 other Cana
dians, total Of 1.247 from the domin-
ion. Orleans county has 5.TSS foreign
born out of a total population of 23,913.
or nearly one-qUarter of the whole. OF
this number 2.S01 are French Canadians
and 2.170 other Canadians, or a total
of 1871.
The Negro population of Vermont has
decreased from 1,62l in 1910 to 572 in
1920. About one-siXth of the Negro pop
ulation Of the state resides in Burling-
ton.
Another interesting feature of the cen
sus figures is the preponderance of women
in most of the cities and larger villages.
Although in the state at large men ex-
coed women by margin of more than
o.OeO and IN only two counties Chitten-
den and Rutland, do women exceed men.
The number Of Vermont soldiers killed.
or who lost their lives as result of
serving in the World war was only about
GOO and this would hardly account for
the excess of women in the more populous
communities. The figures for these cities
and Incorporated villages are as follows
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS.
Recorded in Town Clerks Office for
Week Ending Aug. 26.

Real estate transactions recorded
during the week ending Aug. 26, in the
town clerks Office are as follows:
Henry R. Brown TO Clarence ID Moon
and wife. by warranty deed. place on
Frost place. Consideration 81, revenue
s..
Elbridge L. Knowlton to William T..
DOlan and wife, warranty deed. place
at the corner of Washington and South
Main streets. Consideration 81, revenue
$3.50
Ernest S. Hall and wife to Mrs. Eliza
beth B. Bailey bv warranty deed, place
on Bullock street. Consideration 81,
revenue $3.50.
Lucy A. Cox and others to Benjamin
w. Newton and wife, bv warranty deed,
land on South Main street. COnsidera-
tion 81. revenue 30 cents
John 0'Connor and wife to MaTv +.
Cook, by warranty. deed, place on Clark
street. Consideration 81, revenue $3.50.
William Parker and wife to Frar1- 7
Barber by warranty deed. place In West
Rrattleboro Consideration 81, revenue
90 cents.
Marguerite T. Clifford and husband t.
John A. Lindsey, by warranty decd. lot
at p Oak Grove avenue. Consideration
81. revenue so cents.
Leslie w Miller to Emma Miller. con-
veyance of interest in Miller property
Consideration 81.
Nathan w. Miller and wife to Emma
Miller. conveyance of interest in Miller
property. Consideration 81.
Charles r. Miller and others to Emma
Miller conveyance of interest in Miller
property Consideration ST.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
STREET BLOCKED
TEMPORARILY
Seven-TOn Girder Pulled Into New
Arnory Building Opposite POstoffiee
Supports Gymnasium F10i.

Main street in the vicinity of the new
Armory building was blocked an hour
and half this morning while one of the
big seven-ton steel girders was being
pulled into the building. The girders
viii support the gymnasium floor. They
are being pulled through the front open
ing of the new structure In order to
accomplish this feat each girder has to
be pushed into a position across the
width of Main street, and from that
point it is pulled into the structure on
rollers with the help of the donkey engine.
a heavy wire cable is run from the en-
gine to az pulley near the front entrance,
thence to the foot of the ginpole stationed
in the cellar in the rear and then out
through the front entrance again to the
girder. As each girder is taken into the
building it is put in place. The work Of
placing the girder taken in today prob
ably will consume the greater part of the
day The placing of the girders is being
done under the supervision of Butler
Seednen of Hartford. Conn. who has
charge of truss and girder work.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
SEAPLANE SURVIVORS
NARROWLY ESCAPE SHARKS.

HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 2S-The
crew of the seaplane Sampaio Corre-
ia would have fallen prey to sharks,
if rescue had been delayed another
hour, according to the story told by
the members of the New YOrk-RiO
dc Janeiro Aero expedition upon
their arrival in Havana last night
from Guantanamo.
Darkness overlook us Tuesday
night while we were trying to reach.
Port-Au-Priuce, Haiti. from Mas
sau," said Walter Hinton, pilot of
the airpIane. 81 saw a light which
thought was from a lighthouse
and attempted a landing, but the
darkness and mist deceived me aud
the force of the plunge ripped the
bottom off the hull.
1t was lucky for us that the light
was from the Z. S. S. Denver and
that we managed to attract the ships
attention.
FINALLY the cruisers search light
picked us up and fooled the sharks,
which had gathered around the
wrecked plane"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
PLANS NEW WORLD
COMBINE OF STATES
Institute OF International Law Suggests
Scheme to Absorb League
of Nations

GRENOBLE, France, Aug. 28 (As-
sociated Press A new plan for
world association of states" to link to-
eether the league of nations, the Pan
American union. and those governments
which are members of neither was sub
mitted today to the institute of interna-
tional law at its meeting here by Prof.
Alexandra Alvarez of Chile. The new
association would be superimposed upon
the present league and panAmerican
union and would seek to encourage re-
gional and continental groups rather
than attempt to replace them entirely.
1t is designed to meet the American OBJ
lection to the league of nations with the
primary purpose of co-ordinating the
states Of the world-not establishing a
super state.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
STATE HOTEL MEN
TO MEET IN OCTOBER
Plans Discussed by Committee at Ches-
teT-ENtensiFe Advertising
Next Spring.

CHESTER, Aug. 2s.-There was a
full attendance at the committee meet
ing of the Vermont Hotel Mems associa-
tlon held at the Fullartont here Friday
afternoon. Plans were discussed for
holding the fall meeting of the associa-
tion in Manchester on Oct and D.
The headquarters viii be at the Wor-
thy Inn. Robert Derrah, publicity di-
rector Of the association, outlined to the
committee plans for a huge advertise
ment next spring. The association Is
to put forth an attractive booklet of
boarding houscs in the state They are
also to take part in the "See America
First. campaign that is to be launched
in Chicago next spring by the National
Travellers Outdoor Life association. They
are to invite the marble. granite, slate
and stock farm industries to take part
In the project.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
MRS. M'GREEVY BUYS
ONE OF HALL HOUSES
e. GIiLlden, to Move There from
Guilford i'm Few Days.

Mrs. Elizabeth (Gidden) McGreevy,
formerly of Baltimore, who is with her
father. Charles Il. Glidden in the lat
ter's home in Guilford, has bought of F.
s Hall the easterly house of the two
lot on High street. She and her two
children and her father plan to move
there after Labor day. Mrs. McGreeyy
bought the place on account of the
school advantages in Brattleboro.
Mr.. Glidden plans to keep his home in
Guilford which is the Alexander place
between Guilford and Guilford Center,
at least for the present and to occupy
it summers. He has lived there the past
four years. For three years before
that he lived in the Colonial on High
street after selling Canoe Brook farm in
Putney
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
A Chance for Philanthropy.
tNewport Express and Stan

tNewport Express and Standard.)
If the coal strike should be settled to-
morrow the fuel situation is certain to
be felt in the homes of the people before
many days Up to now it has been
something to read about but not to make
any particular impression ON the general
public, because of the reason requiring
no fire in the home.
But the frost win soon be gathering
on the punkin, and fires must be started
up in the home To take off the chill of
the morning and evening. Then the
cry will be for fuel, as it was in the
DAYS of the war. The state fuel admins
traitor at Montpelier advises everybody
so far as possible to lay in supply of
wood, which will make a market for
that commodity. But the question now
arises, where are the people to get wood
to say nothing of coal.
The Brattleboro RefOrmer writing on
this subject calls attention to a matter
which must have impressed every one
who has gone about the country on foot
or by conveyance, the reckless. wasteful
way in which the wood of the country is
destroyed. Within a few minutes ride
of this city there is wood enough to
supply all the inhabitants of the place.
that is literally rottlng on the ground.
CD past any wood lot of anv size and
notice the fallen trees living about slowly
decaying. doing nobody anw good vet
families. How few are the woodlots
which have been cleaned UP by the
owner of underbrush, of trees crowding
each other. of partly dead trees yet con
tanning cords of good fuel Year after
year goes by. the woods are constantly
being depleted of timber. falling and rot
ting on the ground. of no possible use to
anyone.
As the Reformer puts it: There is
one available supply of fuel too gen
orally neglected, not in the remote for
ests, but right in the ordinary groves
and woods of the country 1t is the
fallen branches and timber and the
standing stuff. dead or beginning to die
which should be cut and gathered before
! decay has proceeded so far as to render
| the wood unfit even for burning. There
are many sections where by systemat''
| picking up and chopping down, enough
| wood could be accumulated to last many
! q community a long time The ques
! tion of haulage, once prohibifive.. is les,
! vexing with motor trucks and good
| roads running in every direction.
Owners of woodlots would Verv likely
! object, anu rightly too. to allowing peo
| pie to wander into their grounds cut
| and haul away wood at their pleasure
! hut it ought not to be a very difficul'
! thirg for such one to oversee th'
| gathering up of useless timber. falleI
| logs. partly decayed trees, the rernova
, Of which would only add to the value o
| the remainder. and thus help ont th
| fuel situation for hundreds of people
The fuel that is wasted by being al
| lowed to lie on the ground and deca'
would care for the HEATING arrangement
| of scores of peaple who otherwise vii
be likely to suffer in the DAYS that ar
| Just ahead of US.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
NEW ENGLAND,s FERNS.
Picked While in Prime for Use by City
Florist Following Winter Yield Profit.

When you see beautiful fresh green
fern leaves on the luncheon table of some
hotel on a cold winter day, do you ever
wonder where they came from? Per-
haps you suppose them to be greenhouse
ferns and so give them no thought be-
yend a casual glance of admiration, says
the New York Sun But if you are any
thing of a botanist you recognize at
once that they are friends of our native
evergreen fern, commonly called by
country folk the Christmas fern.
Possibly you have been in some little
hillside village of New England and
know what an industry fern gathering
is for country dwellers who have pone
too many ways of earning ready money.
Whole families start out in the morning
with horse and wagon or the useful Ford
and drive up on the mountains, where
they alight and push into the woods,
each armed with knife and basket.
Experience has taught them where
the best ferns are TO be found and with
deft fingers they gather the glossy green
leaves until baskets are full. These are
then emptied into the wagon and the
hunt is continued until there is load.
The ferns are then taken to a she'd
where the pickers receive pay for their
work at so much a hundred. The rate
is not large enough to tempt one who
expects to get rich quick, but is more
than the piekers could earn in any other
wav in these remote hamlets.
The ferns are then sorted and packed
| in bales or crates and shipped to whole
Salers in large cities, where they are
| put in cold storage and retailed to the
florists throughout the winter. This ex-
plains how it happens that you find
| fresh fern fronds in the box of cut
! flowers that comes to you in a raging
January snow storm when you know the
woods are deep with snow
| 1t is said that New York city alone
uses 1900, ,Oe0 of these fronds every
| year. so it is no wonder chat botanists
| and nature lovers are fearing that these
varieties are in danger of determination.
| Already in some places il is necessary
/ to post" the woods where the ferns
grow. However, one can't help feeling
glad for the young girl whose new hat
/ came from fern gathering.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
SUMMER HOMES LOOTED.
Fred L. Ley of Springfield Loses Over
5000 Worth of JeNeII-Y

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Aug. 28.-The
summer homes of Fred T. Ley of the
Fred T. Ley & CO., and w. ". Taplev.
president of the Milton Bradley Co, at
Watch Hill,, R. l., were looted Saturday
night and Jewels valued at more than
$4,000 taken. Both burglaries were
committed early in the night, it is be-
lieyed and the members Of the Tapley
family, with Mrs. George ID. Gilbert,
their guest, were in the house at the
time. The only article lost at the Tap
ley home was a suitcase belonging to
Mrs. Gilbert which contained valuables.
Mr.. Lev last night estimated that
loss at his home amounted to more
than 1000 but could not definitely state
the exact amount. The only articles
taken at the Ley home were jewels.
among them some valuable pieces, Mr.
Ley said. No trace of the burglar was
found and the loss was not discovered
until some time after the family had
returned from a dinner engagement.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
CARS DAMAGED
AND WOMAN HURT
Studebaker and Ford Come
Together on Put
ney Road
MRS. CROSIER OF
HALIFAX INJURED

Her Siudebaker Touring Car Damaged
and Ford Truck Driven by Miss E. G.
Buxton Rendered HeIpIess-Accident
on Curve Near Milk Plant.
A Studebaker touring car owned and
driven by Perley e. Crosier of Halifax
and containing Mrs. Crosier, their daugh-
ter. Clara, and Mrs Bertha White was
run into at 10 o'clock this morning
on a curve near the milk plant on the
Putney road by Ford touring car
driven by Miss L. c. Buxton and con-
tanning two other women. Mr.. Crosier
was driving north and the Ford was
coming from the opposite direction, and
on account of the bank Of the west side
Of the road it is claimed that the Ford
encroache too much on the wrong side
OF the road, resulting in the collision.
Although both cars were not going
fast at the time of the accident. Mrs.
Crosier who was riding in the tonneau,
was thrown forward and struck her
shoulder and chest on the robe rail, by
which she was hurt and bruised severely.
She also received a bad bruise on the
left hand.
The Studebaker was damaged to the
extent OF bent lett mudguard ana
bent front axle. The Ford which
slowed around in the ruts and the mud
when an attempt was made TO stop,
crashed sideways into the Studebaker,
the front axle and steering apparatus
being so badly twisted that it was rem
dered helpless Both cars were towed
into town. the Studebaker being taken
to the Tenney garage and the Ford to
Moshcr's garage.
1t IS claimed that Miss Buxton was
afraid of the steepness of the bank on her
side Of the road, which caused her to
drive on the left side. The three women
in tho Ford, it is said, were all riding on
the front seat and the tonneau was
loaded with baggage Miss Buxton for
merly was a school teacher in Brattle-
| boro.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
BURIAL OF COLLINS
AT GLASNEV|N
Greatest Demonstration of
National Grief at
Dublin Service
KITTY HERMAN
OBJECT OF PITY
COllins's BetrOthed Attracts Much Atten-
tiOn Officials and Dignitaries In
Attendance - Officers Guard Body In
Cathedral During Night.


DUBLIN. Aug. 28. (Associatcd Press.l
Michael Collins was laid to rest today
in Glasnevin after a demonstration of
national grief such as has been seldom
seen III the long centuries of Ireland's
troubled history Collins went to the
grave amid the tears of nation that
worshipped him personally as a gallant
young patriot. While immense throngs
filled the great cathedral and lined the
route to Gasnevin congregations gath
cred in every city, town and hamlet
throughout the land to mourn his pass
ing.
1t was military funeral Fellow off
GERS last night had borne the body into
the cathedral. They stood guard all
night and were there this morning when.
tie solemn requiem high mass was ceIe-
brated before multitude which over
flowed into the street
1t was upon trembling young woman
that the eyes of all fell most pitvingiy
kitty Herman. ColliRs's betr6thed.
In the church sat various officials and
dlgnItaries. including the American con-
SUI. Outside thousands took part
spiritually in the solemn mass of
requiem, many kneeling on the pave
ments.
After tho service the body was placed
on a gun carriaqe and was taken to
Glasnevin. The body was buried in ~
hlot of ground reserved for those who
have fallen in the cause of the Irish
Free State in the existing war of rebel
lion.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
TELLS OF ATTEMPT TO
STEAL PRIVATE HARB0R.

WESTWOOD, Mass, Aug. 2s.-
The story of the seizure of Joshua
Cranes private harbOr ON the Is
lard of No Mans Land. off the
southern Massachusetts, coast, by
seamen who manned small steamer
ard more than 10 motor launches
was told by Mrs. Crane at her home
here today.
Mrs. Crane said that the intrud-
ers refused to vacate the harbOr
when ordered out and threatened the
farm superintendent, Samuel Batty,
who delivered the order. Mrs. Crane
said that reports that her super'in-
tendent had been threatened with
firearms and harpOons when he at
tempted to cast of the intruders'
lines from Mr.. Cranes buOys prob
ably were true.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-28
OPEN INQUISITION
INTO MINE MASSACRE
Special Grand Jury Contains Neither
Miner nor Coal Operator to
Insure Fairness.

MARION. H., Aug. 2S (Associated
Press) More than two months after
26 non-upion workers at the Lester strip
mine We're killed. in what has come to be
known as the "Herrin massacre. an Off
cial inquisitiOn was started today. Ed
ward ]. Brundage. Illinois attorney gen
eral, announced that neither miner nor
coal operator had been put on the spe-
cial grand jury to insure fairness.
Mr.. Brundage announced that in his
opinion the evidence was conclusive and
should lead to the issue of indictments
County officials predicted that upward
Of 100 indictments would be voted.