Essex County Herald from Island Pond, Vermont • Page 3

THE ESSEX COUNTY HERALD, ISLAND POND, VT. FORESTRY COMMISSION F. E. Mace Declares Protection Needs Attention. WANTS THE LAW CHANGED Recommends Increase of Lookout Stations and Cutting Away of Brush--Mentions Other Important Changes.

Augusta, protect Maine forests from fire more money is needed, according to Frank E. Mace, State forestry commissioner in his annual report, "It is evident from the experience gained since the passage of the act incorporating the Maine Forestry District that several changes in the law could be made. Particular attention should be given to the provision of funds with which to carry out the spirit of the law," states Mr. Mace. "As the law now stands it is very evident that the tax of one mill and one-half will not produce sufficient funds to meet the bills of the forestry district in any particularly dry year in which forest fires of any magnitude may occur.

"In 1911 when, in the brief period of a few weeks, all of the appropriation was entirely exhausted and had it not been for the fact that the timberland owners came forward and settled the fire bills, the Maine forestry district might have received a blow from which it would have been hard to recover, as men who have worked could not have been paid, and not receiving their pay it would have been impossible to ever induce them to work again, no matter how great the danger. "In making a study of the working system of the Maine forestry district my observations lead me to conclude that the best service is obtained from the lookout stations. The number of these stations have been added to until there are twenty-six stations in actual service and the results from each have been highly satisfactory. Some improvements will have to be made at the old stations, but in the main they are in very good repair and working order. "I believe that cutting over the land, taking trees down to the size of twelve inches to the swell of the roots, means that the remaining growth will be sufficient to produce another crop of merchantable timber within a reasonable number of years, This is brought about by sawing down the trees before the snow is deep.

"While the patrol system has its value, I think that much more can be accomplished by lessening the number of patrols and building more lookout stations. "In 1903, as a result of considerable agitation for public instruction in forestry, in which the women's clubs of the State took an active part, an appropriation of $2500 was made for the work, It was decided that the best way to accomplish the desired result was to establish a chair of forestry at the University of Maine. In the nine years much has been accomplished, but, as stated above, it certainly seems that this work should be wholly under the direction of the president and trustees of the institution. "Agitation was started and an attempt was made at the last session of the Legislature to establish a State nursery. I believe that such a nursery should be established, as the demand is growing among farmers and owners of wood lots in the State for some place in Maine where they can obtain seeds and seedlings." NEW HAVEN REFUSED OFFER.

Control of the Bangor Aroostook Railroad Not Wanted. New Haven, report is confirmed in railroad circles here that the New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad Company was recently offered by financial interests control of the Bangor Aroostook Railroad. The offer was refused on the ground, it is understood, that beyond projects to which it is fully committed and development of the Rutland system the New Haven's policy hereafter would be contraction rather than expansion and the improvement of the properties that it already owns and controls. Too Many Buoys To Care For. reason advanced by the lighthouse department against the establishment of a buoy to mark a shoal spot southeast of Shovelful Lightship, Vineyard Sound, is that there are too many buoys and that the lighthouse tenders cannot take care of all of them.

Progressives to Meet in Boston. Progressive party will hold a State conference in Boston on the evening of Feb. 22. At this conference it is expected that there will be present representatives from every section of the Commonwealtn. New Putnam Textile Enterprise.

Hartford, Waterman Worcester Company of Putnam has been incorporated to manufacture various yarns, as well as cotton, wool, silk, flax, hemp and other fabrics. News Throughout New England Forecast Weather 6 Months Ahead. Boston. -Not at all deterred by the scramble Uncle Sam has to furnish weather day by day, Henry Helm Clayton, in charge of the Blue Hill Observatory until Harvard took it over, has a plan for an international weather bureau to forecast the weather six months ahead. This plan is now being considered, according to despatches from New York city, by the Carnegie Foundation.

It will take money to do it- about a $5,000,000 endowment. SIX RECOMMENDATIONS. Important Changes Suggested in Re. port of Bank Commissioner. recommendations for legislation are made in the annual report of Bank Commissioner Augustus L.

Thorndike. That chapter 399, Acts of 1910, which requires the bank commissioner to take possession of delinquent corporations and individual bankers under his supervision, be amended so that he may be authorized to relinquish his possession when the bank is ready to resume and at the same time continue the prosecution of cases begun by him while in That the statute relative to investments by savings banks and institutions for saving being amended so that such corporations may retain for a reasonable and proper time investments in certain bonds, stocks or notes which at the time of their acquisition were legal investments and which have subsequently become illegal through failure of the issuing corporation to comply with the requirements of the law. Also that bonds which have been legal investments shall not become illegal by reason of temporary failure to meet legal requirements. Tuberculosis Death Rate. Boston.

-Maps of Boston showing the death rate from tuberculosis by wards in three different periods1885 to 1890, 1901 to 1903, and 1911- is an interesting feature of the ninth annual report of the Boston Association for the Relief and Control of Tuberculosis, just issued. In the 1885 to 1890 period the highest rate was 58.76 deaths per 10,000 inhabitants in Ward 13, South Boston, and the lowest rate 9.36, in that section known as Beacon Hill. The 1911 period finds the highest rate shifted to Charlestown, where Ward 3 shows a rate of 25.186, while the lowest rate, 7.66, is found in the Back Bay, Ward 11. To Repeal Hatters' Case. Hartford, appeal in the famous Danbury hatters' case, this time to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, is certain, as Judge James L.

Martin of the United States District Court, who, with a pury, heard the case in this city some months ago, has granted a writ of error on defendants' appeal. The recent verdict was for the plaintiffs to recover $250,000 damages from Martin Lawlor and 188 others. Dartmouth To Get $170,000. New appraisal trans mitted to the surrogate's court in this city under transfer tax proceedings in the estate of William A. Pierce, a former resident of Portsmouth, N.

disclosed a bequest of $170,000 to Dartmouth College tc create a fund for the benefit of poor students. Mr. Pierce died on Jan. 31, 1910. Practically Exterminated.

Lincoln, J. Clayton, taxidermist had an opportunity recently to buy two passenger pigeons for the small sum of $200. Probably members of the older generation can remember when these birds abounded in large numbers all over the country. They are now nearly extinct and are prized very highly. Woman Wins Her Suit.

verdict of $23,000 has been awarded Miss Charlotte Fairfield, Salem's woman coal dealer, who has been trying for the last three years to recover from the city for damages for the loss of her business by lack of dredging in the South river. Providence To Oak Bulffs Line. daily steamship service between Providence and Cottage City (Oak Bluffs), Martha's Vineyard, will be conducted next summer by the Providence and Cottage City Steamboat which has secured a charter. Dances at Age of 96. Maynard, prove he was not old at the age of 96, Wesley Bent, a native of Annapolis, N.

got up and danced for the benefit of his family. Then he recited a piece of poetry he learned in school 90 years ago. Everyone Wants Telephone Inquiry, Boston. -By a vote of 228 to 0 the House has passed the Hays order for the investigation of rates and service of the telephone companies in Massachusetts. STATE TO LEASE SHELL FISHERIES Purpose Outlined in Report by New Commission.

SINGLE HEAD FOR BOARD TO URGE WORK AT NAVY YARD Meettng to Aid in Having Contract Given Out Here. COMMITTEES ARE NAMED Appeal Will be Made to Port Directors, Business Men and Others With Support of Naval Officers. Boston--One of the largest meetings of navy yard employees ever held in this city voted to make an organized effort to aid in having a naval collier or supply ship built at the Charlestown yard. The meeting was attended by nearly 1000 men, representing all branches of yard work. Many of the men present recalled that the Charlestown Navy Yard had been the lowest bidder for a revenue cutter and the United States steamer Sacramento, but was not given either of the jobs.

That the citizens of Massachusetts and the navy yard employees would not again be given such an unfair deal was the expressed hope of many of those present. It was officially reported that the Boston Navy Yard was today far better equipped to begin shipbuilding than was the New York or Norfolk yards when such work was started there. The meeting appointed committees to take up the matter with the Boston city officials, the Chamber of Commerce, Directors of the Port, Charlestown Improvement Association and with the business men of the city, as well as with the committee on Federal relations of the Massachusetts Legislature. That the effort had the hearty cooperation and support of the naval officers and master mechanics of the yard was reported by a committee appointed at a previous meeting of some of the trade unions of yard employees. The fact that the Charlestown Navy Yard was the birthplace of the American Navy, that more United States naval ships, including many of the most famous, were built there in the old days, and that it can today build better than either New York or Norfolk was brought out in the discussion by those present.

DIVORCES IN NEW ENGLAND. One to Each 12 Marriages and Steadily Increasing. the proportion of divorce to marriage is steadily increasing was brought out at the annual meeting at the Diocesan House of the National League for the Protection of the Family. Rev. Dr.

Samuel W. Dike, corresponding secretary, showed from figures that there was one divorce to every twelve marriages here. The following table of figures was given for New England: Marriages Divorces 1907 60,637 4,717 1908 53,631 4,560 1909 56,833 4,710 59,374 4,834 1911 60,707 5,204 Women Organize Federation. Portland, -An organization to be known as the New England Conference of State Federations of Women's Clubs was permanently effected here at the final meeting of the conference of New England club women. The new organization, which represents 55,000 New England club women, elected Mrs.

George H. Fowler of Pawtucket as secretary-treasurer. The New State Treasurer. Concord, N. E.

Farrand of Concord, recently elected state treasurer, assumed the duties of the office Saturday. He will retain the services of J. Wesley Plummer, the present deputy treasurer. Col. Solon A.

Carter, who retires from the position, was elected treasurer in 1872 and has held the office continuously ever since with the exception of two years. Parcel Post Hurts Express Business. New Haven-Since the opening of the parcel post a notable decrease in business has been shown by the private express companies in this city, and in one today '28 employes were discharged from the main office and 12 from a branch office. Gov. Foss 4th Largest Taxpayer.

Boston-Governer. Foss this year rates as the fourth largest individual taxpayer, instead of third a year ago. He pays a tax of $35,492.88 being the amount levied on $1,564,200 on real estate and $600,000 on personal property. Stork Visits Police Ambulance. Boston.

-While a police ambulance on Carver street was carrying Hilda Vestrom to the City hospital, the stork descended on the hurrying vehicle and caused some embarrassment to the police officers by leaving a seven-pound boy. NEWS OF THE GRANITE STATE Items of Interest Culled From Here and There FOR THE BUSY READER Legislative Reporter Meets With Peculiar Accident--Quarter Million for Licenses -Killed by Bar Harbor Express Train. More Than a Quarter of a Million for Licenses. Concord, N. report of the license commission was filed with the legislature on Thursday of last week.

It shows that the receipts for the year ending April 30, 1912, were $288,362. Of this amount there was divided among the counties and municiralities $271,527. Since the last report nine bonds have been paid amounting to $5500, and the amount received from forfeitures of bonds since the law went into effect, is 345.29. The commissioners believe it would be beneficial to have a definite standard for liquors, which they recommended in their report of 1910, and upon which no action was taken by the legislature of 1911. They again recommend that such a change be made in the law, and that also a provision be added prohibiting misbranding or improper labeling of packages or bottles containing liquor.

iKlled by Bar Harbor Express. Exeter, N. Bracey, residing on Valley street in Manchester, was struck and instantly killed by the Bar Harbor express at Exeter on Thursday of last week. Mr. Bracey was travelling salesman for the United Shoe Machinery company, and was in Exeter on one of his regular trips.

He was walking beside the track when the express whistled, and evidently becoming bewildered he stepped directly in front of the train which dragged him about seventy-five yards. Mr. Bracey was a widower and lived with his father. He had one daughter. The Way of the Transgressor.

Franklin, N. on the theory that the world owes him a living, Wallace Langley of Franklin entetred the store of E. W. French in that city one night last week and helped himself to such articles as he stood in immediate need of. A raid upon his home by the police disclosed a large quantity of booty and Friday Mr.

Langley was arraigned in police court. He plead not guilty to a charge of breaking and entering, but the judge thought otherwise, and in default of $500 bail he will await the April term of court in jail. Albert Reumely Remembered. Manchester, N. Ruemely, who has been keeper of records and seals of Golden rule lodge No.

45, Knights of Pythias, of Manchester, for twenty years, retired from the position last week and was presented with a Morris rocker by members of the lodge. The presentation, which took place on the regular meeting night, was made by ex-Mayor Edward C. Smith. Mr. Ruemely is one of the best known lodge men in the state and stands high in a half a dozen different orders.

Eloped and Arrested. Tilton, N. P. White, an instructor at Tilton seminary, who went away last week with Catherine Hourin of Boston, a girl of 18, was found in New York Saturday and the couple were arrested. The girl's father appeared in court when the couple were arraigned, but declined to press a complaint on the man's plea that he and the girl be allowed to marry.

The three left the court room together. Veteran Railroad Man Retires. Gen. George D. Waldron, who has been connected with the railroad for something like a quarter of a century, retired from the service Friday and was presented by the clerks and housemen at the freight office with a fine alligator skin travelling bag.

Gen. Waldron was recently appointed to a good position at Lawrence, but resigned it in order to go into the insurance business. Oldest Conductor Dead. Manchester, N. -John J.

Sullivan, the oldest conductor in point of service on the Manchester street railway, dropped dead at. his home in that city Friday. He was 41 years of age, and had been in the employ of the street railway for 22 years. He is survived by a wife and several children. Caught in the Shafting.

Nashua, N. Smith of Nashua was caught in a revolving shaft in the Nashua's company's mills in that city Saturday and whirled around half a dozen times before the machinery could be stopped. He lived but a few minutes. He was 60 years of age and had a wife and one child. No Dartmouth-Harvard Game.

Hanover, N. announcement last week that there would be no Dartmouth-Harvard football game to this lot year of came as a surprise a people in this state, especially of the college. There is an alDartmouth graduates and friends most universal expression of regret regarding the matter, not only from the friends of Dartmouth, but Harvard men as well. It is hoped that this suspension of the annual contest may not be of long duration. A PECULIAR ACCIDENT Capt.

Win Davis, Well Known Legislative Reporter. Manchester, N. Win Davis of Manchester, the well known legislative reporter for the Mirror, met with a singular accident on Thursday night of last week which may result fatally. As near as can be ascertained Mr. Davis went to his room in the evening with a newspaper, and after removing his outer garments put on a bath robe and apparently laid down on the outside of the bed to read and smoke.

In the morning his daughter went to call him and was horrified to find the room filled with smoke and the bed nearly consumed. She found Mr. Davis on a bed in another room and a pane of glass smashed from the window. He was unconscious and the sleeve of his outside garment was burned through at one elbow. Otherwise it showed no marks of fire.

It is supposed that he went to sleep while smoking and after the bed caught fire inhaled a lot of smoke, and only realized his condition when the fire reached his elbow. Then he left his room, shutting the door after him, and going into the other room broke the window to get some air. He was at once taken to the hospital, where the doctors pronounced his condition entirely due to the smoke he had inhaled. The bed clothes and mattress were entirely consumed, but the bedstead being of brass and the room closed the fire did not burn freely enough to communicate to the woodwork of the room. Mr.

Davis had just returned from Suttin, where he went to attend the funeral of his mother, and his wife was there at the time of the accident. Two Boys Wanted. Manchester, N. police of Manchester have been appealed to by the parents of two boys, Eddie Gorman, aged 11, and James Lane, about the same age, both of whom have been living at their homes, to find some trace of the missing' youngsters. It is supposed that they have gone away together.

Will Reside in Massachusetts. Concord, N. is stated that ex-Governor Bass, who sailed on a trip to Europe Saturday, will upon his return hake his home in Massachusetts. It is expected that he will spend his summers in this state as was his custom before he was elected governor. UNPLEASANT HAPPENINGS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Thomas Welsh, a veteran of the Civil War, died in Manchester of burns received in a fire at his home. A loss of several thousand dollars was caused by a fire in the plant of the Impervious Package company at Keene. Lloyd Narramore, a teamster, was killed at Keene, when a load of lumber tipped over upon him on a steep hill on the Chesterfield road. Charles R. Conkrite, one of those convicted in connection with Nashua's anti-vice crusade, has gone to jail for a year and must pay a fine besides.

Rockingham county officers arrested Alberic Demaraic at Plaistow on a charge of keeping liquor and gamecocks. The man when arraigned, promised to leave town. James E. Nash was arrested for drunkenness in Portsmouth and developments afterwards led to his being held on a charge of entering the house of Miss Pauline Bradford. Stephen Kimball, 32, and his fatherin-law, George Hanscomb, aged 60, of Campton, were burned to death when Kimball's farmhouse in West Plymouth was destroyed by fire.

Edward J. Patenode of West Swanvey was held for the grand jury because of an alleged assault upon John E. Taylor of Marlboro, from whom it is said that Pattenode took $23. Harry A. DeVaux of Worcester, has sued Arthur E.

Dumas of Manchester for $30,000, basing his suit on an 1 article printed in a Manchester paper, which resulted, it is claimed, in DeVaux losing a contract worth $4,000 a year to him. A case of cruelty to a four year old child, unearthed in Nashua by the New Hampshire Woman's Humane society, led to charges against Mrs. Ernest E. Williams, while her husband was arrested on- a much more serious charge, involving also his stepdaughter, Annie Hunt, aged 15. Dover painters will, on Feb.

21, formally demand of their employers a minimum wage of $2.50 for a day of eight hours for journeymen, with over time work paid for at the rate of time and a half. The minimum wage has been $2.50. Conclusions Unique in That an Income for Commonwealth is Provided -Increased Yield Per Acre. Boston--A reorganization of the state fish and game commission into a single-headed commission with the present chairman, Dr. George W.

Field at the head, and a plan for development under state auspices of the shell fisheries in the waters of the commonwealth are recommended in the report of the new commission on economy and efficiency filed with the Legislature. The commission's report on shell fisheries is in line with the recommendations of Dr. Field, who has urged that the state lease the land available for mollusk culture. The commission finds that there are at least 110,000 acres available, 31,000 for scallops, approximately 21,000 for clams, and 89,000 for oysters and quahaugs. In this the first report covering the operation of a state department, the efficiency commission provides, as Chairman Norman H.

White points out, a means of securing an income for the state. In this the report is almost unique. The income is from the leases of land for the shell fisheries. It is provided that the small fishermen in the seacoast towns shall be given the first right to lease flats. An increase of salary from $3000 to $5000 is recommended for Chairman Field when the commission is converted into a single-headed body.

The present organization, the commission holds, permits friction between members of the commission and causes unnecessary delay in the conduct of the business of the public. A deputy, the report says, could very often and very properly care for certain phases of outside work which now occupy the time of the full board. The commission says: "A single commissioner, with trained and competent secretary or deputies, we believe would give more efficient service in this department of the state's service, and would create economies in administration and greater ease and directness in securing results." In support of the recommendation relative to the shell fisheries the commission says it offers increased opportunity for employment of labor. At present, about 2700 persons in Massachusetts get the whole or important part of their income from the mollusk fisheries. The new arrangement would pro vide an increased yield per acre and greater value through sanitary handling guaranteeing freedom from dam, ger of typhoid and other diseases.

RECENT DEATHS. Mrs. Calista Robinson Jones, former national president of the Women's Relief Corps, and a once president. also of the Vermont branch of that society, died in her home in Bradford, last week. The Rev.

Dr. George Dana Boardman Pepper, eighty, for many years known as "Lincoln's double," because of his close resemblance to the martyred president, died in Waterville, 'last week. Dr. Pepper was a former president of Colby College. Mrs.

Mary Barber Woodward, who is believed to be one of the first women in the United States to receive a widow's pension from the Government died at her home in New Haven, last week. She was ninety years old. Her husband, Lieutenant Kirby Woodward of the United States Navy, was killed in the service in 1850. 'Three years later she received the pension papers. Mrs.

Mary Maynard, said to be the oldest woman in New Hampshire, died last week of old age at St. Joseph's Hospital in Nashua, N. H. She was in her 102d year. Cyrus L.

Barker, one of Lewiston's most prominent business men, who died recently at his home on Main street, was one of the best known mill men in New England. Oiler "Shorty" is Left $65,000. C. Frissell, known as "Shorty," a track oiler for the street railway company here, has come into a sudden and unexpected fortune of $65,000, left him by a brother in the West, whom Frissell had not seen or heard of for twenty years. Sends Letter, Then Ends His Life.

Portland, sending a letter to his father, Dr. William Cammet of this city, Stephen Cammet, 29, saturated his handkerchief with chloroform and inhaled the fumes until he died, in a camp in the Deering district near Stroudwater. Boston Has Best Milk Supply. C. E.

North, a New York sanitarian, speaking before the joint Committee on Agriculture and the joint Committee on Public Health, said that "Boston has the best milk supply of any city of its size in the country.".