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BURLINGTON BAILY NEWS VOLUME 45, NUMBER 64. BURLINGTON, VERMONT, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1915. Weather Fair. 8 PAGES, PRICE 2 CENTS. WAR COSTS mm The OLD BEE HIVE September 151915 $17,500,000 BERLIN CLAIMS HESPERIAN WAS SUNK MINE Maintains that it is Virtually Certain that Allan Line Steamer Explosion was Due to Mine No Submarine Near $1.98 French Mirrors 1.19 GOVERNMENT HAS ENLISTED-THREE MILLION MEN SINCE BEGINNING $1.50 to 2.00 Copies of Famous Masters 1.19 The Mirrors are 8x82 inches with heavy gilt frame and French Plate Mirror.

They are a very attractive decoration for the home and are usually sold at $1.98 each. Some of the copies of famous masters are in oil, handsomely framed and include a very large number of subjects that are famous masterpieces in the world's most famous art galleries. These pictures would sell regularly, at $1.75 to $2.50. Choice of one hundred of them See window display. A Special 0 fering of fiyd-Wide Silk Poplin at 59c i r)ard Silk poplin is a very attractive fi Ifor, autumn dresses.

It hag a bright silky finish and is jy. enough to drape nicely and gives exceptionally good get Ci. This poplin comes in white, blacl blue, battleship gray, light blue, pink, Copenhagen la, lavender, sand, mais. 72-inch Full Bleached vimask 1.25 Decisive Battle Expected Soon on the Road to Petrograd, By Which Possession of Railroad Will Be Decided D. ABERNETHY Head of Church St, (- Burlington's Beautiful Store is now preparing forho Annual Fall Opening Exhibition A merchandising event that has become known as a style exhibition of greatest importance.

Authentic and sufficiently comprehensive to offer the identical shopping advantages that would be expected of some of the largest stores in the largest cities in the country With each succeeding year conies improvement, enlargements, a decidedly increasing efficiency and, withal an improved service that is at once apparent in all departments. FORWARD is the word that has, for many years, most fittingly expressed the activities of this store and not at any time in its existence has this idea been more apparent than it will be this season Greater and More Beautiful Stocks in every department closer in touch with the leading manufacturers and fctyle creators of thi8 country and Europe, resulting in an exhibition that represents all that is newest, best and most worthy in every particular and at the same time, maintaining a certain exclu siveness in the merchandise that i8 at once noticeable and particularly important. Those who visit the store now, during the days of preparation for the formal opening will have opportunity for first examination of the handsome COSTUMES, FURS, GARMENTS and FABRICS as they are being unpacked. We cannot too strongly emphasize the "importance of the special service that is rendered by the DRESS MAKING DEPARTMENT. It is under the direction of Madame Desmarest who has had a wide experience in both this country and abroad, is herself a native of France, and, when gowns or costumes of a distinctive and exclusive character are wanted, this department is prepared to produce them in a way that is sure to meet the highest approval.

THE EXHIBITS in this department this season will be particularly attractive. The exact date of the opening is not yet decided upon, but will soon be announced. penyard Extra heavy and a splendid value. London, Sept. 15.

Premier Asquith In the House of Commons today moved a vote of credit of In making the motion the premier announced that from July 18 to September 11 the daily net expenditure for the war had been $17,300,000. Premier Asquith announced that an aggregate of nearly 3,000,000 men had enlisted since the beginning of the war. The destrnotlon of another neutral vessel by a German submarine Is reported by Renter's correspondent at Copenhagen. According to his dispatch the motor schooner, Xorte, of Christlania was blown up near the Naze, off the Norwegian coast In the North Sea. The crew was saved.

Count von Revenlow, the German naval writer, declares in the Berlin CONDITIONS ON BORDER REMAIN DISTURBED AND AMERICANS WARNED This damask is extra heavy, full bleached and has a beautiful satin finish. It ia two yards wide and comes In over 20 very attractive patterns, including spot, thistle, plain centres with-floral borders, satin stripe, clusters and floral borders, Grecian designs and many other pretty floral design8 and combinations. This' damask sold for $1.25 long before the war began, it has advanced in price a great deal since then. We have only thirty pieces to sell at this price. The housewife who contemplates buying a table cloth or two should take advantage of this special 1.35 Bedspreads 98c each This is the third case of these spreads we have had on sale at.

98c each. They are heavy crocheted spreads with hemmed ends, full bed size, in a neat and attractive design, worth regularly 2. 00 Corsets 1.59 per Pair This is one of the new fall corset styles made of a light weight coutil and trimmed with a silk embroidered top. It has a medium high bust and long skirt and is good model for the average figure--six strong hose supporters attached, every pair guaranteed. This lorset wa8 made to sell at $2.00, you cannot buy a better onafor that price, all sizes, 20 to 30, specially priced at $1.59.1....,.

Men's Linen Handkerchiefs 17c each Women's Linen Handkerchiefs 8c each Two vary special Handkerchief values, one for men and one for women. They are all linen handkerchiefs with hemstitched edge. Everyone perfect. The handkerchief for men is actually, a quarter value- For women, they are the regular 12 l-2c value. Today 8c and 17c each.

San Benito, Texas, Sept. 15. Heavy artillery and Infantry patrol, which was rushed to this city during last night, kept off a threatened attack by Mexican bandits. Evidence of a plot to terrorise the rtty was re-IKirteiT to the armed patrol during the night of activities of Mexicans outside the'town. i Mexicans here have told citizens about an organization ot revolutionists which planned to make a demon-! Btratlon at some other place to draw the troops from San Benito and then fire into the town.

For that reason I San Benito will be closely guarded 1 for several days. Army patrols here 1 or in the Immediate neighborhood number three companies of Infantry I and two troops of cavalry. Threats also have been made against tha town Mercedes, about 20 miles from i here. DAILY Zeitunc that the Zeppelin attache on London are legal and of a military character as London Is a fortress. He argues that the Brltieh government has been remiss In not ordering the" evacuation of the city.

The attacks are aimed at the destruction of property torving military purposes, be asserts. Developments in the vicinity of Vilna lead foreign military observers to expect a decisive battle there soon to determine whether the strategic railway lines of the region1 shall be controlled by the Germans or the Russians. The German armies, separating on both Fides of the Niemen, have not yet formed in the trenches. Russian military fighters are warning the people not to expect too great developments on the Gallclan offensive movement. San Benito citizens yesterday asked Colonel Robert L.

Bullard at Har-Iington for more troops. Col. Bullard sent in response to San Benito's call Infantry and cavalry and Col. A. JBIocksou Brownsville ordered out a troop train to bring more troops.

Washington, Sept. 15. Regarding official advices to Americans to re main out of Mexico, the state department today made the followiug announcement: "Owing to disturbed conditions prvalling along the Mexican border, the State Department repeats the advice heretofore -given to American citizens to remain on this Hide of the Internationa line for the present." Officials reiterated denials that the announcement had any bearing on the Mexican political situation. Roter'g machine Is splndle-shape, 12 feet long and 2 feet in dit-meter, and can carry a weight of 90 pounds. It Is said to remain motionless In a wind of considerable velocity, but if the wind becomes very strong It rises automatically until It reaches a calmer region cf the air.

The Invention Is based upon reaction obtained from the electro-magnetic forces of the atmosphtre. GERMAN HOTHEADS WOULD DESTROY AMERICAN SHOPS Sept. J5. via wireless to Pay-vllle. The Overseas News Agency anys: "German newspnpers whirh arrived recently In the United Statea contained pamphlets advising the destruction of American munitions factor- lea Such a practice Is designated officially as stupid and dangerous, i Evidently this ws the work of mls-guided and hot-headed private cltl-I zens who attempted to condect an agitation In this manner.

No news paper office waa responsible." HEALTH BRAND MARKET CO 4 North Wlneotkl Ave. Complete line FRKRH and PAT.T MEATS, CANNED GOODS, and the choicest COFFEE to be obtained In the market. k. WHITE, Proprietor.V J. H.

STUART, Distributer of 1 8T. PAUL STREET URUNQTON, NO OFFICIAL OBJECTION TO FRANCO-BRITISH LOAN ON EITHER SIDE OF SEA Berlin Paper also Declares that Britain Must Give Up Hope of Serious Differences Between U. S. and Germany in Future feerlin, Sept. 15.

The Overseas News Agency says it is virtually certain that the steamship Hesperian was not sunk by a German submarine, and adds: "If, as Is heard by a London newspaper, one member of the Hesperiaa's crew pretends to hae seen a Gnnan submarine, this means nothing as the explosion occurred at about 8:45 p. when it waa dark. Moreover, It has invariably been the case recently that when an explosion has been known to have been due to a mine several so-called eye-witnesses pretend to.navo seen the periscope of a submarine." Berlin, via Condon, Sept. lB.In the German government's explanation of the Hesperian case, Germany sees the way made clear by President Wilson a ultimate position regarding the German' note concerning justification for the sinking of the Arabic." The newspapers declares that the British press must give up Its hope nf serious differences between Berlin and Washington. It praises President Wilson for having refused to be Influenced by British reports of a new menace to German which had just been guided into a more peaceful channel, and adds: "The President's cool self-containment is now justified.

The British scue of lies Is at last torn to pieces ao regards the entire question of responsibility for the misfortune It will probably rest Immediately, as we expected, on one of Britain's excellent anchor lines!" ASSERTS ENGLISH SHOULD ABANDON LONDON AT ONCE Berlin, via London, Sept. 15. Count, von Revenilow, the naval writer, replies in the Staats Zeitung to British-criticisms to air ship raids over London. He states that London is a fortress and that 81r Percy Scott, the newly appointed defender of the city from aerial attacks, should order the civil population of London to depart. The failure of the British government to order the people to abandon the city shows a "painful disregard of the principles ot humanity." The airship attacks Count von Revenzlow asserts, are legal and of a purely military character aimed at the destruction of vessels of war, magazines and other property, serving war purposes directly or Asserting that against such operations not one.

ay liable can be said, he conclii Je "We hope that the saying 'tluv bombs on London, will soon be -h trite as the phrase, 'carrying coal to EXTRACTS BULLET LODGED IN FRENCH SOLDIER'S HEART Paris, Sept. 15. Means by which he extracted a shrapnel bullet from tha right auricle of a French soldier's heart waa described to the academy o( medicine la.st night by Or. Charles Insirolt. The Instrument enables the surgeon to locate foreign bodies in the tissues with mathematical precision, and permits their extraction without injury to the neighboring organs, he told his volieugues.

GERMAN AIRSHIP MEETS DISASTER London, Sept. IS. A German airship badly damaged by Russian fire, had descended at Konlgsberg, East Prussia, according to an Amsterdam dispatch to the Central News. It 4s believed to have been one of (those which participated in the air raid on the Gulf of Riga. A German official statement issued September 10 stated that a naval airship dropped bombs on the Russians at a Baltic port and returned undamaged, although it was fired upon.

ANOTHER BRITISH STEAMER SUNK New York, Sept. 15. The steamer, Prlnz Wllhelra which arrived today from Amsterdam via South American ports and the West Indies on August 3 at 4 p. m. picked up a life boat with 9 men of the crew of the British steamer Ranza, which had been torpedoed by German submarine two days previously about 40 miles southwest of Oulssant, France.

Eight hours after picking up the life boat a French cruiser held up the Franz Wilhelm V. and took the shipwrecked seamen into Brest. ST. ANNE'S SOCIETY' MEETING. The regular monthly meeting of St.

Anne's society will be held Friday evening at 7:34, Instead of Thursday even In a. on account of tha laetura at Washable Doe Skin ular 1.50 White Washable Doeskin CONTRIVANCE WILL HOLD ITSELF WITHOUT MOTION HIGH UP IN THE AIR the efforts of the Anglo-French banking commission. i Officials in close touch with the administration asserted that the question has not been formally considered by President Wilson or Secretary of Hate Lansing. They hold the vlow that Inasmuch as the purpose ia to raise the money for purchase of goods in the United States it is unlikely that the government will interpose objection. A few communications criticising the loan reached the state department e'fO, but none was from a representative of any foreign' government.

It was stated on authority that the department has no objection to creOt loans. fall wear. are dressy, can be washed daily if necessary and give excellent wear and satisfaction. This glove is a regular $1.50 pique sewn, one button, all sizes, $1.19 per pair- Black Fibre Silk Boot Stockings 25c per pair The fibre silk boot of this stocking is two inches higher than any other silk boot stocking sold for 25c. Then it is a trifle heavier, has a reinforced heel and toe and is a very special value at 25c per pair.

Washington. Sept. 15. Protests against the Anglo-French credit loan telng negotiated In this country were received at the White House today in telegrams from various parts of the country. One man in Mlohisan wired that runa would be started on banks participating in the loan, and that a panic would be precipitated.

No indications of organized opposition however, have been made apparent here, officials assert. No protest or communication of ay l.lnd regarding the proposed loan has cc.me from the German government so far as can be learned and the American government la said to have no present Intention of Interfering with WORK ON STATION Progress Rapid and Structure Will B. 3 Ready for Occupancy Nov. 1. Swift la now being mode in the new union station and will be continued from now on until Novem-l-er It is erpected thai the building will be ready tor occupancy.

The Rutland railroad are bringing great IralnlnatU of sand and gravel -to ballast the road and nil some three feet all along the way from College street to King street to bring llio hacks to a similar height as the new rlatforms. 1 A train of ten cars arrives dally and is distributed along the tracks. The gravel Is dug from a pit some half mile from Brandon, loaded onto caia and hauled here. It Is unloaded from the cars with a 20-foot shovel operal- rd by a stationary engine and cable aboard the The gravel as it, reaches the ground Is distributed by a large gang of shovellers. -j The two platforms beneath the long-; train sheds are being built of concrete -THE EYES OF THE are called upon to do their hardest work In school.

Now la the time to have them examined, Optometrist and Optician 185 College Street, Burlington Gloves 1.19-Reg. Kind Gloves are very desirable for SCHOOL CHILDREN- A Word oi Comfort There Is more solid enjoyment In a Lord Nelson Cigar than any other yon can find for the price. real long leaf tobacco Is the kind used In tta makeup. Try one and be convinced. For sat by all dealers.

THE RX. PARKER CIGAR CO. rent BUTO TBI CHCRRY fcT. "PHONE 367 Whan you daslra to mak a purshar yeu should tok wall through tur ad- and woijk on them Is well along. The tower at the front of the station which has been used from the beginning of the job in distributing material for the side walls.

Is now being taken down. Moses Dominick, the New York steeple Jack in employ of the Swallow company has had charge of all the derrick work on the Job. The tower Is 121 feet high. When IMS removed the electric clock will be plaeed in position In the circular opening above the main entrance ca Main street. Men are employed placing partitions and permanent floors in the tuildlng, wiring, plumbing and decorating.

Chittenden county court was in session an hour. this forenoon when the Jurymen appeared and were instructed as to their duties by Judge Miles. They were then excused until two this afternoon and further excused until tomorrow morning at nine it appearing that no cases were ready tot trial reset mam eftpflTiMt price the world over." McMahon'siPalaceCafe THE DAYLIGHT CORNER CHURCH COLLEGE STS. Especial care Is taken to serve only the best at our fountain, where refreshing drinks of all kinds may be found. Regular meals and lunches served at all hours.

Paris, Sept. 15. An Italian engineer, Louis Rota, has solved the problem of holding an object motionless, according to a Marseilles correspondent. Roter Is credited, with haling con- I rtructed an apparatus, which, by the action of electric currents, can be I elevated to a height of from 2,000 to i 8.000 feet and kept motionless or pro pelled In any direction at a speed of more than 100 miles an hour. SUPPOSED BOMBS PROVE TO BE FIRE EXTINGUISHERS New York, Sept.

15. The two glass beakers found beside the hatch of the White Star liner Lapland, lying at her pier here, were today learned to have contained liquids for refilling fire extinguishers and not acid calculated to set fire to the ship as police and private detectives believed last night. The supposed bombs were hurriedly removed from the ship, taken to the police bomb bureau and analyzed when It waa found that the liquid tn the beakers could not possibly cause an explosion or fire. The ship's officers reoognlred the beakers at once. Some 500 similar ones were loaded yesterday and It Is supposed the two found by a detective were accidentally placed by the ship's side.

ANOTHER BILLION DOLLARS FOR WAR London, Sept. IB. Official announcement is made that Premier Asquith will ask the House of Commons to rote a credit of 260,000,000 pounds, $1,250,000,000, not only to support the army and nary but the civil list crowing out of wax operations. StyleplusjH7 The Mine are coming on now in our own greenhouses. Carnations DO YOU WANT A GOCL.

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