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OBITUARIES OF THE WEEK.
FRANKLIN CENTENARIAN DEAD.
CLESSON C. SEVERANCE OF LEYDEN
Oldest Resident of the Town fusses
Away Suddenly—.-Wits 100 A ears
Old in April.
ClessOn C. Severance, the oldest resi
dent of Leyden and one of the oldest in
-Franklin county, who passed his 100th
birthday April ‘JO, died at the home of
his son S. (’. Severance, in that town.
Sunday evening. Mr Severance fell
and fractured his hip last .Time, and ho
had since been coniined to his bed. The
death was very sudden, as there was no
apparent change in his condition yester
day. Ho ate his supper as usual last
eccnins, but died a snort time later from
heart failure.
Mr Severance was horn April 20. 1812,
in Levden. in the same house where he
died, and where he had lived during! his
whole life. Ho was the son of Matthew
Severance and .the grandson of Joseph
Severance, who was the tirst white child
born in the state of Vermont. He was
a farmer by occupation and was held in
high esteem by the people of the town.
1 p to within two years he had been in
excellent health and had a very dear
memory relative to historical events. He
was a member of the Methodist church.
Mr Severance was twice married, his
first wife being Harriet Miner of Leyden
and his second wife Nancy Legate of
t liarlemopt. He is survived by two sons
Samuel C and Charles F. Severance, of
Leyden, and he had seven grandchildren
and 10 great-grandchildren. Mr Sever
ance's moth birthday was celebrated last
April with a large gathering of relatives
and friends, ________
DEATH OF ELIJAH COPE.
gullilen Bull After Street Car Accident.
Elijah Cope, 64, for 12 years deputy
sheriff in East Longmeadow, died at the
Hampden hospital, this city, between 3
and 4 Monday morning from injuries re
ceived Sunday, when an east-bound State
street car split the switch at the junction
with the St James-avenue line opposite
Oak street, Mr Cope had been attending
the South church vesper service, singing in
the chorus, of which ne had been a mem
ber for several years, and met Mrs Cope at
the corner of Main and State streets, tak
ing the car up State street together. Mrs
Cope sat near the door and Mr Cope stood
near the entrance when the accident oc
curred. He was the only one seriously in
jured and Mrs Cope's first knowledge that
her husband was thrown was after she was
assisted out and saw men carrying him
away. He was carried to Hampden hospi
tal, where she followed him.
From the first he did not recognize Mrs
Cope and he was not conscious after. The
examination did hot reveal any injuries
which the doctors thought likely to be
serious, although when he was thrown from
the car he struck the back of his head,
making a deep cut. Mrs Cup® was told he
would probably be home in a few days.
The news of his death was a great shock
to his wife and to Mr Cope's many friends.
Mr Cope was bom In Kidderminster, Eng.,
coming to this country when about eight
years old, living in Thompsonville, C't.,
with his father. He located in East Long
meadow about 40 years ago and married
Rosa Ainsworth, daughter of the late Mrs
Oliver Wolcott. Mr Cope was well known
in this city and vicinity, his duties as dep
uty sheriff for years bringing him into the
courts often, and he aiso had important
real estate holdings. He owned consider
able property in East Longmeadow and at
one time was in the stone quarrying busi
ness. He leaves one son, Frederic W. Cope
of Cambridge; a granddaughter, Muriel
Cope, aged six years, and four brothers,
Thomas of California, Frederic and Abra
ham of Thompsoqville, Ct., and Edwin of
Lowell. Miss Edith Cope, a teacher in For
est park school, Miss Ethel Cope, in the
Hampden savings bank, and Mrs (leorge
Webster of Keith street are nieces of Mr
Cope.
DEATH OF H. W. MUNSON.
Promtnent tlantlnglan Farmer Passes
Away,
Horace Willard Munson, 72. one of
Huntington's well-known and life-long
citizens, died suddenly about 0 o’clock
I- riday morning. Mr Munson had driven
to the home of TV. C. Phillips, oue of
his neighbor*, and had just stepped from
liis wagon when bn complained of feel
ing faint. Mr Phillips helped him to the
sieps, where he sat down and died in a
few min lies, before medical aid could be
obtained. Mr Munson was born in Hunt
ington 111 Ulp Munson homestead in the
Norwich Bridge district, December 24,
1840, tli* son of Garry Munson and Har
riet Lyman. He obtained ids early educa
tion in the public schools and later took
a course at Wlllfston seminary in
Eiisthampton. Ho went to Brook
dale, Pa., where lie engaged in
tin' tunning business with an uncle in the
laic ’6os. Me returned to Huntington in
1809 and bought t’ Munson homestead,
where he had since made his home.
He was married May 28, 1868. to Nancy
E. Avery of Westfield, the daughter of
Mr and Mrs Horace W. Avery. Mr Mun
son was considered one of the leading
farmers in the Huntington section and his
will-kept fields and buildings were a
source of much pride to him. He was a
republican in polities and voted for Taft
at the recent election. He was a member
of the Second Congregational church and
hud served as trustee of that society. Mr
Munson was one of the prominent mem
bers of the Huntington cemetery associa
tion and had held all the offices of that
Organisation, it was during his term as
president that the vault was built at the
cemetery. Besides his widow lie leaves
two daughters. Mis Maude E. Hubbard of
Huntington and Mrs Walter G, Wood of
Springfield, three sons, Wilson A. of Hunt
ington. Gurry W. of New York and Mark
H. of Littleville, two brothers. Key Myron
A. Munson of New Haven. Ct.. and
Samuel L. Munson of Albany, and one
sister, Mrs John K. Judd of Holyoke.
.DEATH OF AMOS H. ROBBINS.
Well-Known Orange Clllsen Pa«*e«
Away After Kong lHnes*.
Amos 11. Robbins, 60, a well-known and
respected citizen of Orange for 40 years,
died Tuesday afternoon a few minutes
•liter o o’clock, the result of Bright’s dis
ease and heart failure, witii which trouble
lie had been ill for. over a year. He made
a strong tight to overcome his trouble and
underwent an operation besides receiving
treatment in a sanitarium at West Keene,
hut It proved of no avail. Mr Robbins
was horn in Athol and when lie wpnt to
Orange nearly half a century ago he
found employment in the New Home sew
ing-machine factory and he ai once took
mi important part In the community life.
He was always an active and conscien
tious member of the Baptist church, where
•Lis usefulness will be missed. He was a
man of energy and ability and one who
many prized as a friend. He had been
deacon and treasurer of the Baptist church
for about 20 years and was a musician
and public speaker of much ability.
About 20 years ago he became associat
ed in the firm of the Boston dry goods
store, located in Stowell’s block. He, the
late Lyman Cross and Joseph Cross com
posed the members of the firm, and the
business was successful from tins start.
Me was a member of the New Home band
for 20 years, during which time he was
the treasurer. He played the cornet and
tor several years was drum major. He
was a prominent member of Social lodge
of Odd Fellows, Fall Hill encampment
and the Three Links quick relief associa
tion. Besides his widow ho leaves three
children, Mrs Charles Patterson of Or
ange, Harvey Robbins of Athol and Mrs
Hazel Millet of Orange, besides a brother,
Charles F. Robbins, and a sister, Miss
Ella Robbins, both of Orange.
REV I. P. KELLOGG FOUND DEAD
in Hnnac a I Northampton—death due
to Asphyxiation.
Rev Ira P. Ktdlog, 31, was found dead in
a bedroom of his house on Park street,
Florence, Monday at 8.15 p. m. by Dr Wal
ter Taylor, who lives near by and had been
asked to go to the house and ascertain
whether illness might have prevented Mr
Kellogg from returning to his family, who
are now living in Gilbertville. Mr Kel
logg had gone from Gilbertville to Flor
ence to preach in Cosmiau hall Sunday. Dr
Taylor found the outside door of the house
unlocked, and upon opening it, was met by
a strong smell of gas. Going upstairs to
a bedroom he found Mr Kellogg lying dead
upon the bed.
The police were notified and Medical Ex
amined Seymour viewed the body. Dr Sey
mour found a gas tube lying upon the bed,
and that the gas fixture was permitting a
full escape of gas. The window was closed.
The medical examiner thought it best Mon
day night to simply state the facts and not
to undertake to say that there had not been
some peculiar kind of accident. The body
was placed in charge .of Undertaker Oscar
Ely.
Rev Mr Kellogg was placed in charge of
the Free Congregational society of Flor
ence three years ago, a few months after
his graduation from the Harvard divinity
school. He was born in Vermont and was
graduated from the university of Vermont
before entering divinity school. A few
months ago Mr Kellogg bought a farm near
Gilbertvilie, in New Braintree, and had
resigned his pastorate, thp resignation to
take effect in the spring. It is understood
that it was his intention to leave the min
istry, although his pastoral work appeared
to he successful and he was well liked hy
the people of his parish and by the towns
people. Mr Kellogg and has family had
been living on their farm and had intended
to return to Florence for the winter. Mr
Kellogg went to Florence from Gilbeitville
Saturday and preached Sunday. He attend
ed the evening service at Cosmian hail also,
at which Rev R. E. Birks of Deerfield
preached. He did not return to Gilbertville
yesterday and Mrs Kellogg, becoming wor
ried over hie failure to reti'rix. telephoned
to Dr Taylor last evening. Air Kciiogg’s
father, Rev Ira P. Kellogg, a Baptist min
ister, whose home was in Monkton, Vt.,
died about three weeks ago at the home of
his son in Gilbertville. His mother is liv
ing and he is survived by his widow and a
daughter about two years of age.
DEATH OF CHARLES DEXTER.
A£ed Man Was Long Prominent In
Affairs of Gilbertville.
Charles Dexter, 80, a prominent citizen
of Gilbertville, died at his home of heart
failure last week Wednesday. He was barn
in 1832 in Killingly, Cty son of William
and Eunice (Park) Dexter. He was edu
cated in the Killingly public schools and
at Woodstock academy. Woodstock, Ct.,
and Danielson academy in Killingly, Ct.
He married Miss Frauees Harriet Gilbert
in Pomfret, Ct., in 1863, and after pur
suing farming duties in Killingly he went
to Gilbertville 42 years ago.
After serving several years as general
superintendent of the George 11. Gilbert
manufacturing company mills he went into
the coal, wood, ice, grain and cattle busi
ness, in which he was successful. He was
a great lover of school children, by whom
he will be greatly missed.
He always enjoyed good health until
three years ago. He was confined to his
bed the past week, but was able to get up
Wednesday and do a few chores. He was
lip early yesterday morning, returned to
bed about 6 o’clock, then failed rapidlv,
death overtaking him about 8 o’clock.
He leaves, besides his widow, two
nephews, Dr Fred F. Dexter of Springfield
and Dr William C. Dexter of Middletown,
Ct. _______
MRS WRIGHT’S SUDDEN DEATH.
Wo* Stricken With Apoplexy at the
Thayer Homestead Saturday.
Mrs Elizabeth Thayer Wright,s7, wholived
on the Thayer homestead on East Main
street, North Adams, which the city
council last ' week voted .to buy,
was found dead kneeling beside her
bed at about the time that the coun
cil was passing the order which after
one more reading will transfer the prop
erty from the Thayer estate to the city
of North Adams. Mrs Wright, who was
born in the house in which she died, was
found by the care-taker, Henry Canfield,
wild, when he called to fix the furnace,
saw no lights in the house, anil investi
gated. He found her in a kneeling posi
tion at her bed with a hat on ana dead.
Dr Brown gave it as his opinion that
apoplexy was the cause of death, and that
she had been dead for two or three hours
when found. Mrs Wright was the daugh
ter of the late Shepard Thayer, a former
judge of the district court in North Ad
ams, and the divorced wife of Edward A-
Wright. For several years she had made
her home in North Adams at the Thayer
homestead, and since the death of her
mother had lived there alone. Her only
near relative is Garry Thayer of New
York, a brother. She was a graduate of
Drury high school and a woman of artis
tic temperament, being profleient In paint
ing.
SUICIDE OF BOSTON LAWYER.
Alfeeil S. llaye*’* Body Fonnd at
Ilopklnton,
The body of Alfred S, Hayes, a Bos
ton lawyer, was found Saturday lying in
a pasture of his large estate at Hopkin
ton with a bullet through Ids head and a
revolver clasped in his right hand. Medi
cal Examiner L. M. Palmer of Framing
ham said that Mr Hayes probably shut
himself Friday afternoon. No reason is
known for tlie not.
Mr Hayes left his home Thursday morn
ing, telling his wife he was going to
Boston. Gunners came upon the body
yesterday. He was 43 years old, a gradu
ate of Harvard. 18!*1, and the Harvard
law school, 1894,
RICHARD WHELAN DROWNED,
Carried Over the Conneettcnt River
limit at Vernon—Hi* Brother and
Thonia* Owen* Re*ened.
Richard Whelan, 29, master mechanic
sml assistant superintendent of the Con
necticut river power company, stationed in
Vernon, Vt., was drowned there about 2
o'clock Sunday afternoon. Whelan to
gether with his brother, Martin and
THE SPRINGFIELD WKEiiLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1912.
Thomas Owens, all employed hy the same
company, went out into tlie Connecticut
liver in a boat for the purpose of repairing
the flash boa I'd on the power company s
dam at Vernon. Their boat became un
manageable and carried Richard Wlielaa
and Owens over the dam. The latter
succeeded in swimming ashore. Martin
Whelan caught on the flash board, where
he was rescued.
Richard Whelan leaves a widow and
three children at. Vernon, where ho lias
been employed by the power company for
the past 2', 2 years. He formerly lived
in Utica. N. V.
Death of Mis* Ellen B, Smith.
Miss Eliza B. Smith, 77, died Thursday
at her home in Westfield at the corner
of West Silver and South Maple streets.
She had been in poor health for about a
year, and her condition had been regarded
as serious for several weeks. Miss Smith
was the daughter of Daniel and Nancy
(Fowler) Smith, and was born in a house
that stood on the site of the house in
which she died. The present house was
built by ber father when she was a small
child. Her parent* were natives of West
field. Miss Smith was educated in the
town schools and the Westfield academy.
One of her teachers in the Silver-Street
school-house, which stood about opposite
the present Silver-street school building,
was Henry Fuller, who taugh school ns a
young man before he began practicing taw.
Miss Smith was for many years a devoted
member of thp First Congregational church
and was constant in her attendance at
the various services. She joined the church
in 1850, or nearly 63 years ago. She leaves
one sister, Miss Lucy C. Smith of West
field.
Death el Former Dana Man.
Ezra Comee, fromerly a well known
resident of Dana, died at the Farren hos
pital at Montague City last week. Mr
Comee was born in Dana in 1823 and
was a son of Thomas and Lydia Towns
Comee. He was one of a family of
It children. He leaves one brother,
Frederick T. Comee of Woonsocket, It L,
and u sister, Mrs Nancy Tuttle of Bos
ton. In 1844 Mr Comee was married
to Miss Arbella Whipple and oue child
was horn, E. T. Comee. Mrs Comee
died in 1894. In his early years Mr
Cmnee was closely identified with town
affairs in Dana and served a number
of years as chairman of the selectmen,
ns assessor, tax collector and town ngent.
He was also a justice of the peace for 13
years and trustee of the Barre savings
bank for a number of years.
Death of Mis* Helen A. Chandler.
Miss Helen A. Chandler, practically a life
long resident of Brattleboro, Vt., died Mon
day evening, after a serious illness of two
months. She had been In poor health for
about a year. She was horn in Chester
field, N. H., and was the daughter of H.
N. and Louisa (Gilson) Chandler of that
town. When young her parents moved to
Brattleboro, where Miss Chandler was
educated. In point of time Miss Chandler
was the oldest member of the Methodist
church of Brattleboro. having been a mem
ber for 46 years, Bhe is survived by two
brothers, 11. H. Chandler of Charlestown,
Mass., and .1, G. Chandler of Malden, Me.,
one sister, Mrs E G. Park of .Somerville,
Mass., and one niece, Mrs Charles Guild
of Brattleboro, who lived with Miss
Chandler for many years.
Death of Sunderland Man.
John S. Woodbury, 65, died Sunday
afternoon at his home in Sunderland of
heart failure, following an attack of
pleurisy. He was a native of Leverett,
but went, to Sunderland over 40 years ago
with his father, the late Jason H. Wood
bury. Since that time he lind engaged in
farming, and had been .successful In
1874 he married Abbie .1.. daughter of the
late Melzar Hunt, on whose place he lived
Besides his widow he leaves three sons,
Harry H. and Ralph .1, of Sunderland
and Melzar H.. who is at present with a
construction company at Maucli Chunk.
Pa., aiso a sister, Mrs Alvin Warriner
of Sunderland. He was a member of the
Congregational church, also of the Sunder
land grange.
Death of Mr* Electa Clark Poiueroy.
Mrß Electa Clark Pomeroy, 87, died
at the home of her son, Hiram L. Pom
eroy on Williams street, Chester, Tues
day afternoon. Mrs Pomeroy was
born in Chester and her entire life had
been spent in the town of her birth. Her
death was due to natural breaking down
of her system owing to her advanced
age. She had not been confined to her
room and called on neighbors Sunday and
was about the house all day Monday.
She had been a member of the Metho
dist church for 61 years and during her
earlier life was one of its most active
members. She is survived by only one
son, Hiram L. Pomeroy of Chester.
Gottlelli Yloltenbrey Dead.
Gottleib Moltenbrey, one of the most
prominent German citizens and a well
known and respected resident of Turners
Fulls for the past 35 years, died at vlie
Hotel Moltenbrey, of which lie was the
proprietor, at midnight Thursday night
after a several months’ illness from hard
ening of the arteries complicated with a
shock. He had been unconscious siuce
Monday and did not regain consciousness
before he died Mr Moltenbrey wns horn
in Weillieim, XVurTemberg, Ger., in 1818
and when a young man of 19 years he,
came to this country, coming at once to
Turners Falls and that place had been his
home ever sinee.
Death of Mr* F,unice B. Moore.
Mrs Eunice B. Moore, 88, died last week
Tuesday, in the home of her granddaughter.
Mrs Alden Field, in Russellville. She was
the oldest woman in North Hadley. She was
born in West Stockbridge and educated m
Bennington, Vt. She moved to North Am
herst iu 1873, where her husband died m
1903, and had since lived with her ch 11-
dren in Amherst, She leaves four daugh
ters. Mrs Joshua P. Hobart of Amherst,
Mrs B. M Pooie of Holyoke, Mrs John
R. Hibbard of North Hadley and Mrs
Sophia Billings of Springfield, and a son.
Emory Moore of Greenwich Village: 15
grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren.
Death of William 4. Fuller,
William J. Fuller, 60. died very suddenly
at his home, 53 Buckingham street; this
city, Monday night. Mr Fuller had lived
in this city practically all of his life, and
had for many years been prominent in the
lively stable business. This business was
established by his father, William J. Ful
ler, Sr., in 1882, and has always been
carried on as William J. Fuller A Son,
the son now being Alvin W. Fuller, a
grandson of the founder. Mr Fuller's
death hist evening was entirely unexpect
ed, and was from heart weakening, re
sultant upon some other affliction. He
leaves his wiitew. Mrs M. V. Fuller, and
one son, Alvin W. Fuller.
Mrs Mo Hide C. Mixter.
Mrs Matilda Mixter, 87. widow of
Gilbert L. Mixter, died at her home, 61
Rutledge avenue in this city Sunday after
ail illness of several weeks. She was born in
Agawam, where her early life was spent,
and after her marriage removed to i’hico
pee. where she lived until ibe death of her
husband. She later removed to Wakefield,
where she lived for several years, remov
ing to Springfield, where she has lived for
the past 20 years, after the death of her
daughter. She was a member of the State
street Baptist church. She leaves one
brother, Newton Converse of California,
and several nephews and liieees.
Mr* Mary F.llaabetb Kluelt,
Mrs Mary Elizabeth Klwoll, 71, widow
of I'rederick Elwell, died Thursday at the
home, 49 Broad street, this city. She had
been an invalid for the past three years and
was taken seriously ill three weeks ago, She
was born in Chatham. N, H., but spent her
early life in Limington. Me. She came to
Springfield 46 year* ago. She attended the
State-street Baptist church. She leaves
one daughter, .Mrs William F Harwood <>f
Palmer avenue, and one son, Homer F. El
well of the Elwell ironworks in Bright
wood.
Death of Mr* Alible C, Mallory.
Mrs Abbie C. Mallory, 73, of Wilson
court, Greenfield, died last week alter a
king illness. She was widow of Truman
Richmond Mallory, a business man of
Greenfield for many years, and was a na
tive of Colraln, the daughter of Asu Jones.
After iter marriage in !Bii4 she lived in
Nltelbltrue Falls and Athol, and for more
than a quarter of a century she made her
home in Greenfield with her family. Her
husband and daughter died a few- years
ago. She is survived by her son, Fred W.
Mallory of Greenfield.
Charle* Dnnforth Pomeroy.
Charles Daiiforth Pomeroy was found
dead sitting in a chair In the barn at the
Crafts homestead on Northampton street,
Holyoke, last week Wednesday. He w as born
in Southampton in 1828 and had been a
resident of Holyoke for the paßt 20 years.
He leaves two daughters. Mrs Fannie
Hoggins and Mrs Nettie Wiley of Elroy,
Wis., and a son, Charles, of Appalachi
eola, Fla., and one sister. Mrs James P.
Ball, with whom he lived. Medical Ex
aminer Teahau viewed the body, finding
death due to henrt failure.
Death of Mr* Margaret H. Hooker.
Margaret Hargreaves Hooker, 50, wife
of William Hooker, died Thursday morning
of pneumonia and kidney trouble, after an
illness of a week, at her home on Elm
street. East Longmeadow. Mrs Hooker’s
early life wns spent in Peru, X. Y.. and
she went to East Longmeadow to live
about 15 years ago. Beside* her husband,
she leaves one sister. Mrs Charles Smith
of East Longmeadow, and a brother,
Richard J. Hargreaves of Townsend.
Death of Ml** Sadie Piper.
Miss Sadie Piper, 34, daughter of the
late Mr and Mrs Fidey Piper, died at the
Westfield sanitarium Tuesday. Miss Piper
was a graduate of the Belehertown high
school and was of exceptional ability in
many respects. An invalid for many years,
ber patient endurance of intolerable pain
was remarkable. Two brothers, Winslow
of Belehertown. Arthur, whose home is in
the West, and a sister, Miss Ethel Piper
of White River Junction, constitute the
family.
Gnetav H. Schwab Dead,
Word was received at New York Tues
day that Gustav H. Schwab, head of the
film of Oelrichs & Co. New York agents
for the North German Lloyd steamship
company, died yesterday morning at Litch
field, Ct. For a year or more he had not
been in active business on account of ill
health. He was 61 years of age and had
been prominently identified with public
affairs in New York.
Death of Pittsfield Woman,
Mrs Sarah R. Gorton, 76, widow- of
George L. Gorton, died nt the House of
Mercy hospital in. Pittsfield Saturday
morning. She sustained a fail while vis
iting her son, John I’. Gorton, at Stock
bridge, some weeks ago, and failed to
rally from the shock. She leaves a daugh
ter, Mrs Cecelia Pratt, and a son, R. W.
Gorton of Pittsfield, and another son,
John P. Gorton of Stockbridge.
Williamsburg;' Man Dies From Over
dose of Knndanom.
Dwight Marks, 40, who took an over
dose of laudanum at his home in Will
iamsburg Sunday morning, died Mon
day afternoon at the Dickinson hospital
in Northampton. He is survived by his
mother. Mrs Charles Marks, of Williams
burg. a brother. Harry, and a sister, An
nie, both of Northampton.
Edward R.'tlfohhard.
Edward R. Hubbard, son of W H.
Hubbard in this eity died on the
6th in Washington, D. C. He was born
in this eity and was auite well known
here. Besides his father he leaves two
brothers, Henry of Kentucky and AValter
of Montana, and two sisters. Mrs H, S.
Bennett, who lives in New Hampshire,
and Mrs E. A. Moore of Fitchburg.
Death of Mrs Mary H. Stock well.
Mrs Mary H. Stockwell, widow of Fred
erick A. Stockwell of Northampton died
Thrsday morning at the home of her daugh
ter, Mrs Backus, in New York. She is sur
vived by two daughters, Mrs Elizabeth
Backus and Miss Edith C. Stockwell of
Philadelphia, and two sons, Fred F. and
Harry C. of Philadelphia.
Death of Mrs Mary A. Porter.
Mrs Mary A. Porter, widow of Samuel
Porter, died Monday night at her home in
Florence after a long illness. She had been
a resident of Florence about 55 years.
Mrs Porter is survived by three sisters,
Mrs Stetson of New Bedford. Miss Mar
garet Stahl of the Center and Mrs Fanny
Noble of Florence.
Benjamin B, Stillman Dead.
Benjamin It. Stillman, GO, for the last
11 years secretary of the National fire
insurance company of Hartford, Ct„ and
a former secretary of the New England
insurance exchange, died at his home
Thursdav night. He hud been ill a year.
A widow and daughter survive.
Death of Voted Shipping Man.
Clement A. Griseom, chairman of the
hoard of directors of the International
mercantile marine company, died at his
home at Haverford. near Philadelphia,
at 5.30 o’clock Sunday afternoon. He
was 72 years old.
Mrs Harriet K. Bradley.
Mrs Harriet E. Bradley, 72, of 214
Fort Pleasant avenue, this city, died Fri
day morning in the Wesson hospital. She
was a former resident of Mouson, and
had been ill hut two days.
Christopher Furness Dead.
Sir Christopher Furness, first baron of
Grantle.v. died Sunday. He was head of
Furness, Withy A Co, and the "Furness
line" of steamers.
Franklin Chase, 55, died suddenly at 7
o’clock Monday evening in his home at
Washington, his death being due to heart
failure. He had t een at work during the
week. He is survived by his widow, one
soil. Lewis, three daughters, Mrs W. ,J.
Smith of Springfield. Miss Ruth Chase
and Miss May Chase of Springfield, and
six brothers. George and Ransom of Wash
ington, Albert and Walter of Becket, John
of New Milford, Ct.. Charles of Feeding
Hills, and two sisters, Mrs Mary Mon
tague of Westfield and Mrs Esther Blod
gett of Wisconsin.
Word has been received in Greenwich of
the death of C. Alfred Powers. He had lived
most of his life in Greenwich, only mak
ing his home for the last few years iu
Oklahoma, where he dleu. He was the
first station agent at the village when the
railroad was first built, ami held that
position more than 26 years
Elishu L. Palmer, 74, a member of the
fitm of Palmer Bros, cloak manufacturers,
and a well known art collector, died at
his home in New London. Ct.. Sunday,
after a short illness. He was a lieutenant
in the 7tli New York volunteers in the
civil war.
Dr Thomas 8. Henry, said to be the
last surviving grandson of Patrick Hen
ry, died early Monday at Red Hill. Vtt..
the famous ancestral homo of the Henry
family. He was 80 years old.
The British Medical Join us 1 thinks that
the cut which kills rats max be doing a
greater service than in mere killing of the
rodents in kitting the fleas tnat infest riie
rat*. For our part, wo slum’ 1 US' to
know the effect* on the eat. If pussy is
in danger, we must have our rat* killed by
science.
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.
AS SEEN BY DR F. W. WILEY.
Mode of Kite of American People Re
sponsible —. Adulterators of Food
Attacked in Address In This City.
It is not the tariff, but rather the arti
ficial life and living of the present-day
American to which the higii cost of living
was attributed Monday night hyDrHarvey
TV. Wiley, formerly head of the national
bureau of chemistry. For over an hour
Dr Wiley, sometimes wittily and some
times liitingly. beraled the American peo
ple for allowing the ignorance as to pub
lic health and the food supply to hand
over to death every year its enormous toll
of human lives and to decrease the aver
age number of our year* from 60 to 40.
Speaking at the high school hall
in this city under the auspices
Young Men’s Christian as
en. he made a strong appeal to the house
wives to consider the source and the char
acter of the food with which they nourish
their husbands and their children, rather
than to think only of the price, for econ
omy in food has often been shown to lead
to the most disastrous results.
Dr Wiley said that the tariff cannot be
blamed for making domestic meat cost the
consumer five times what the farmer re
ceives for it, and lie urged everyone to
unite in a great crusade to simplify our
scheme of living and endeavor by provid
ing natural, nutritions food and to fight
for a fair return to tne lauorer for his
money rather than to seek to raise his
actual wages. The large hall of the high
school was crowded to the floors and the
audience listened with deep attention to
the attacks he made on the food adultera
tors and on the American people who have
not had the foresight to rise in their power
and demand pure, simple and inexpensive
food.
He began his address with the statement
that our peculiar economic conditions have
given rise to two' classes of men, the la
borer and the man of leisure, of whom the
former is hv far the more indispensable.
Manual labor is not a curse, as a passage
in the Bible says, but it is on the other
hand the greatest blessing ’ that has ever
been conferred on mankind, the salvation
of the human family. How ignoble it is
indeed to have only to open one s mouth
to have food drop in, as though we were
little birds, whose only occupation in life
is to eat wbat the mother brings to the
nest. Riches only increase the obligation
which their owner owes to society, and he
who is well endowed with worldly goods
is under the heaviest responsibility not to
be a drone in the life of his community.
As the French eay, it is a case of
’’noblesse oblige,” and it is good to see that
some of our richest men are the hardest
working members we have among us.
important Doty for Women,
Turning to the sphere of women. Dr
Wiley said that be held the deepest re
spect for woman's work in the home, but
he also felt that women have another duty
of a tremendous social import. Those
women who have no occupation or end
in life had better be dead, both for their
own sake and for the sake of the com
munity. And it is in matters of food that
women have their greatest opportunity,
for as mistresses of the home they have
under their control the kind of food that
enters the house and goes to nourish the
men and the children. But the women do
not feel this responsibility, and in most
cases they consider only the price of ar
ticles of food rather than the nutritive
qualities and purity. In this way they
serve definitely to debase vitality, demoral
ize health and make themselves and their
families easy victims of disease.
Pure food is, indeed, the most certain
safeguard against disease. Dr Wiley cited
a case where at a church festival on Long
Island a man who sought to be economical
bought cheap oysters which were poisoned
with typhoid and brought about the deatli
of 10 persons and the sickness of 70 oth
ers. The oysters, it turned out, were sold
by a man who bad caught them just off
the place of discharge of the sewage of a
large summer colony where there were
several eases of typhoid, and they car
ried the disease to 300 people, caused the
death of 30, and brought about a monetary
loss of close on to $20,000.
Villainous Food Product*.
Massachusetts, with its culture and its
fine school system should lead in the cru
sade against such crimes, but no ease has
yet come to Dr Wiley’s attention where
there has neen a single conviction for any
violation of the pure food laws in this
state. The teachers in the schools make
no mention of such matters, and the chil
dren in their homes receive no instruction
on the most vital subjeet in life. He in
stanced the case of a Boston firm, which
says never to throw anything away, no
matter what its condition, for a little glu
cose, benzoate of soda, or the like will
make anything salable. Pie-filliug has be
come an industry of the most despicable
character, and some of the vilest materi
al*. already far nlong in decay, are doc
tored up with poisons to be sold iu large
barrels. Rotten eggs, for instance, have
been found to make the best wedding
cake, while a short time ago 176 large
cans were confiscated by the government
which had been deodorized, frozen ami
mixed with 10 per cent of sugar to kill the
taste.
If women would only study nutrition,
the returns to the laborer for what he
pots out for food would be more than
doubled. Could we but free ourselves
from the waste of time occasioned by
memorizing barbaric systems of weights and
measures through the introduction of the
metric system, we could put the time
saved into the teaching of nutrition, which
will save the country from the danaer of
strikes, starvation, ami possibly bloodshed
which the sharp division of our people
into labor and capital is bringing on. It is
the consumer who has to pay the bills for
the heavy foods advertising which appears
in all our papers, street cars and maga
zines, ami it is small wonder that prices
are wickedly high. That is the reason
why lamb, which the cattle-breeder sells
for five cents a pound, costs the consumer
35.
Dr Wiley then said that he had made
every effort to get the hotel* and dining
oars to cut down the size of their menus
and provide a plain, simple meal, but
lie had always been met by the state
ment that the American people would not
stand for it. Selecting a meal from one
of these menus is as bewildering as hav
ing to select a wife from Vassal- college
in a hurry. Out- people are ruining them
selves by malnutrition and poor, ill-cooked
food, and yet they make no effort to pre
vent it. They see that cars for steers
are fumigated, but they make no com
plaint when Mrs Pullman washes the
blanket* of tbe sleepers only twice a year.
Good health will destroy immorality and
vice, lint as yet the American people
are making no concerted effort to secure
it and save themselves from food adultera
tors and others who are undermining our
constitutions and increasing our cost of
living.
GOV WII.SON'S SPEECHES.
To the Editor of The, h’rpublican:
Two years ago The Springfield Repub
lican said that Gov Woodrow Wilson
would make it fashionable to be a demo
crat. Your prophecy has conic true. The
good effect of his speeches will endure far
beyond the cantpaigu ol 1912. lie appealed
to men of all party antecedents. While he
clarified and confirmed the faith of uien
of his own party, he persuaded many a
man without the fold, not only, almost,
but altogether, to he a democrat. From the
beginning, in expounding the good old doc
trine of equal rights for all and special
privileges for none, aud applying it to pres-
ent-day conditions, he was as happy as a ,
general who saw a great victory won.
Robust Moffatt Cbawfobo.
Minerat Point. Wit., Voice) ber ,0. 1912.
WESTFIELD MAN’S LONG LIFE.
FREDERICK MORAND IS 90.
Ha* Interesting Heeollectinn* of
Westfield Before the War —The
Election >■ Viewed Koeally.
From Our Special Correspondent.
Westfield, Saturday. November 9.
On Friday of the coming week, the
15th, Frederick Merged will observe his
9<)th birthday. This is an event that falls
to the lot of but few men. and he bears
up well under the weight of his four
score y»ars and 19. Mr Morand is one
of Westfield's best-known citizens and he
has had a long and interesting career,
lie was born in Buffalo, X. Y,. Novem
ber 15, 1822. and when but three years
old his mother took him to Windsor, Ft.,
to live with hi* grandfather. (»eorge
Allen. As was the custom in those days,
the lad was bound out at an early age,
and when eight years old he was thus
placed in tbe family of a farmer and
worked for bis board and got what school
ing he could pick up in the winter months.
He worked for a number of different
farmers and, like many other boys, had
his experience at running away. He trav
eled up the Connecticut river by boat
and in (Springfield obtained a job as
porter and bell boy in the old Exchange
hotel. He later returned to Hartford
and then obtained r job working on Re
sell mountain. This was when he bad
started out to walk from Connecticut to
Biandford. and he stopped on the way
for the Russell mountain job. He changed
his mind about going to Biandford and
when walking through Westfield he was
attracted by the whip industry and de
cided to try his hand at the trade. Hr
started in under tbe late Hiram Harri
son and for a time lie worked at the busi
ness in Portland, Me. He is thus one of
the veteran whip men of the town, a
fact known to but a few of bis friends.
In 1840 Mr Morand journeyed to Roches
ter, X. Y.. and had the distinction of
making the first whalebone whip ever
turned out in that city. He was there
a year. Returning to Westfield, he was
engaged in the whip business and also
conducted a store and fish market. Aftet
the civil war he wrs in Washington, Li.
C.. for about 15 years and conducted a
cigar stand at the <apitoi. He thus came
in touch with many of the big men of
tile reconstruction period. Returning to
Westfield he began looking after bis va
ried property interests and for a time was
interested in the livery stable business.
At the present time Mr Morand owns
some of the most valuable business block
sites on the east and west sides of Elm
street, on whieh are located numerous
buildings. In his younger days Mr Morand
devoted considerable attention to auction
eering and he still possesses remarkable
lung power. He keeps well posted on
current events through the newspapers
and his keen memory goes back to th*
early days of the last century. He re
calls with interest the great invention'
and the instalation of the canal, the rail
roads, telegraph, telephone, electricity,
etc. For some time Mr Morand ha* been
engaged in the preparation of an autobiog
raphy which is soon to appear in book
form and which will be read with inter
est by his friends.
PHILO P. MARSHALiTrETIRES.
Engineer of Twentieth Centary
Limited Ends 48 Years With the
Road Without Hosing Had a
Reprimand.
Philo P. Marshall. 70. with a record of
48 years' service without a reprimand, is
about to retire on the pension list of the
Boston and Albany railroad with a record
which is considered little short of mar
velous by the officials. Having worked his
way through all the various stages of
railroading, he is soon to retire as the
trusted engineer of the Twentieth Century
limited, considered the fastest and most
perfectly appointed train in the world.
From 1894 till 1909 he ran passenger
train No 10, and his record of 16 years'
continual service as driver of one train
is considered as hardly less remarkable
than his 48 years of uninterrupted serv
ice. In 1909 he was successful in nis bid
to become the engineer of the new Twen
tieth Century limited, and as driver of
that wonderful train he has had an un
excelled record, especially in his ability
to make up lost time.
Were it not for the old-age rule, Mr
Marshall would still be driving, as he is
considered to be as efficient to-day as
ever. Though the eye is the first organ
to be affected by old age, Mr Marshall
has the reputation of having the best vis
ion of any man in the railroad’s employ,
and never onee has been conditioned in
the severe tests which the railroad im
poses annually for sight, hearing and
recognition of colors.
Mr Marshall's son, William X., has be
gun an equally good record of railroad
service, aud is now the night train dis
patcher in the Granite building of this
city. The father will probably take up
his home in Rensselaer, with occasional
trips to various parts of the country, iu
which railroad men all over will be glad
to turn out and give him a cordial wel
come.
TESTIMONY AGAINST GUNMEN.
Chnuffeur identifies Ruartet lu Trial
at New York.
William Shapiro, codefendant with the
four gunmen indicted in New York as tbe
actual splnyers of tbe gambler Herman
Rosenthal Tuesday turned states evi
dence. Testifying at the gunmen's trial
for the murder. Shapiro identified tbe quar
tet-" Lefty Louie,” "Gyp the Blood.”
"Whitey” lvewis and “Dago Frank" Cir
ofiei—as his passengers in the "murder
car” which lie drove to the Hotel Metro
pole, where Rosenthal met his fate. He
saw them gel out of the machine, he swore,
heard the shots fired, and declared that
when they came back to the machine they
lcid revolvers in their hands.
"Gyp the Riood.” Shapiro said, had
placed a revolver to his head and ordered
him to "hurry up aud drive away.” He
hud heard "('ago Frank" say, he testi
fied, that Police Lieut Becker, since con
victed of instigating ilie murder, had "fixed
the cops." Shapiro's appearance as a slate
witness was one of the results, according
to District Attorney Whitman, of the
death of "Big Jack" Zelig, leader of the
gang of East-side thugs to which the four
gmjtnen belonged. Shapiro testified on the
stand Tuesday that lie had heretofore re
fused to identify the gunmen because of
fear of ticing killed.
"Shapiro told me," explained Mr Whit
man, after court adjourned, "that lie was
afraid if he testified against the gunmen
•Rig Jack’ Zelig would have him 'croaked.'
When Zelig was killed Shapiro got his
nerve baek and decided to tell the truth.”
Mr Whitman added that the indictment
against Shapiro would in all probability be
dismissed.
The witness told his story in a low
monotone, looking straight ahead and
avoiding the angry glare of the four gun
men. who sat bent far forward in their
saats all the time he was testifying. Each
man of tile quartet, except "Dago Frank,”
was identified earlier in the day by Louis
Krause, a waiter, as men whom he tiad
seen tire at Rosenthal, anti "Dago Frank"
was thus identified by Morris Laban, an
other eye-witness.
Within an hour after the opening of
court. Assistant District Attorney Moss
had completed his address to the jury amt
four witnesses had taken the stand.
Among these was Dr Otio Scimitar, the
coroner’s physician, who performed the
autopsy. Dr Sr hit Itze produced the bullets
-wjmhv shapeless bits of lead—which hr
had taken from Rosenthals bruin, and
held them up for tbe inspection of the
court where the defendants conid see them.
THE VERMONT LEGISLATURE.
Gov Fletcher Herotnmevids Commis
sion to *i oil j- Etl oca t lon* i gntstlva
—Committee Approves Plan.
special Dispatch to Die Republican.
Mo.VTFFr.iEE. Vt., Friday, November 8.
Gov Fletcher to-day sent to the Legis
lature a sitccial message, the most im
portant part of which related to the edu
t at.tonal system of the state. The gc.-
ernor said: "In view of the fact that the
superintendents ami principals responsible
for the direction of rite elementary and
secondary school* of the state have pro
posed legislation for tbe improvemejit of
our common schools, it would seem wise to
proceed still further. Our institutions
of higher teaming, witii each returning
biennial session of the General Assem
bly, are requesting larger appropriations
for support and maintenance, anil it is
important that tile status of these in
stitutions in their relations to the state
should tie clearly and speedily estab
lished. 1 therefore recommend that an
educational commission he t reated, whose
duty it shall he to inquire into the sub
ject of public education in Vermont. I
further recommend that flits comission
reiwrt nt thp enrllesf possible date on the
several necessities or the university of
Vermont and state agricultural college,
Middlebttry college and Norwich univer
sity. with such recommendations as will
prevent unnecessary ttnpjieation. As soon
as practicable after making report on the
institutions of higher learning the eora
missiou should recommend, hy •
erw ise. such reorganization of the ele
inentary and secondary public schools of
the state, in adjustment to the entire edu
cational system of the state, as will pro
mote the ends of economy, harmony and
unity."
At the afternoon session of the House.
Mr Watson of 8t Albans submitted a
resolatlon providing for the appointment
of » commission of nine members to in
vestigate the educational system and sub
mit a report. This was referred to the
House committee on appropriations,
which this evening decided unanimously
to make a favorable report on the reso
lution.
FROM THE GOLDEN BOOKS,
8 k*t It I* That Makes l * Love Life.
[R iliiani Haxtitt: "The Hound Tzble."J
We are not going to enter into the ques
tion whether life is, on the whole, to be
regarded as a blessing, though we are by
ne, means inciinad to adopt the opinion of
that sage who thought that "the liest thiug
that could have happened to a man wns
never to have been horn, and the next best
to ha'e died the moment after he came
into existence.” The common argument,
however, w hich is made use of to prove the
value of life, from thp strong desire which
almost every one feels for its continuance,
appears to lie altogether inconclusive. The
wise and tbe foolish, rbe weak and the
strong, the lame am 1 the blind, the pris
oner and the free, tbe prosperous and the
wretched, the beggar and the king, the
rich and the poor, the young and the old.
front the little child who tries to leap over
bis own shadow to the old man who stum
bles blindfold on his grave,—ail feel this
desire lu common. Our notions with re
spect to the importance of ife and our at
tachment to it, depend on a principle which
has very little to do with its happiness or
its misery.
• • *
The love of life is. in general, the effect
not of onr enjoyments, but of our passions.
Me are not attached to it so much for its
own sake, or as it is connected with happi
ness, as because it is necessary to set ton-
Without life there can be no action—no
objects of pursuit—no restless desires—no
tormenting passions. Hence it is that we
fondly ding to it—that we dread its ter
mination, as the close, not of enjoyment,
but of hope. The proof that our attach
ment to life is not absolutely owing to the
immediate satisfaction we find in it is that
those persons are commonly found most
loth to part with it who have the least
enjoyment of it, and who have the greater
difficulties to struggle with, as losing game
sters are the most desperate. And, fur
ther, there are not many persons who with
all.their pretended love of life would not.
if it had been in their power, have melted
down the longest life to a few hours. "The
schoolboy,” says Addison, "counts the time
till the return of the holidays: the minor
longs to be of age; the lover is impatient
till he is married.” “Hope and fantastic
expectations.” says Jeremv Taylor, "spend
much «,f our lives: and while with passion
we look to a coronation, or the death of an
enemy, or a day of joy. passing from fancy
to possession without any intermediate no
tices, we throw away a precious year.”
W e would willingly and without remorse
sacrifice not only the present moment, but
ail the interval tqo matter how long) that
separates its from any favorite object. We
chiefly look upon life, then, as a means to
an end. Its t ttmrnou enjoyments and its
daily evils are alike disregarded for any
idle purpose we have iu view. It should
scent as if there were a few green sunny
spots in the desert of life to which we are
always hastening forward; we eye them
wistfully, in the distance, and care not
witat perils or suffering we endure, so that
we arrive at them at last.
• * »
However weary we mav he of the same
stale sound—however sick of the past,
however hopeless of the future. —the utind
still revolts at the thought of death, be
ta use the fancied possibility of good,
which always remains with life, gathers
strength as it is about tobe torn from usfor
ever and the dullest scene looks bright
rempaved with the darkness of the grave.
Onr reluctance to part with existence evi
dently does not depend on the calm and
even current of onr lives, but on the
force anti impulse of the passions. Hence
that indifference to death which has been
sometimes remarked itt people who had a
solitary sad peaceful life in remote and
barren district*. The pulse of life in them
does not beat strong enough to occasion
auy violent revulsion of the frame when
it ceases. He who treads the green moun
tain turf, or he who sleeps beneath it.
enjoys an almost equal utiief. The death
of those persons lots always been ac
counted happy who had attained their
utmost wishes, who had an.vthiua left to
regret or desire. Our repugnance to
death increases in proiatrtion to our con
st sonsiiess of having lived in vain—to the
violence of our efforts and the keenness
of our disappointments- and to onr
earnest desire to find in the future, if
possible, a rich amend for the past.
** * -
The love of life is. iu fact, the sum or
nil out* missions and of ail our enjoyments:
hut these are by uo means the saute
thing, for the vehemence of our passion is
irritated not less hy disappointment than
by tie prospect of success. Nothing seem*
to l,e a match for this general tenacious
ness of existence but such an extremity
either of bodily or mental suffering as
destroys at onee tbe power both of habit
and imagination. lit short, the question
whether life is accompanied with a greater
quantity of pleasure or pain may be fairly
set aside its frivolous and of no practical
utility: for our attachment to life depends
upon onr interest itt it, and it cannot be
denied that we have more interest in this
moving luisv scene, agitated with a
thousand hopes ami fears, and checkered
with every diversity of joy aud sorrow,
than in :i dreamy blank. To lie some
thing t» better titan to he nothing. Pas
sion imagination, self-will, the sense of
power, the very consciousness if an exist
ence. bind us to life, and hold us fast in
its chains, as by a magic spell, in spite of
every other consideration. Nothing can be
more philosophical than the reasoning
which Milton puts into the mouth of the
fallen angel:—
And that must end us. Hint must be our
rare—
To be no more. Bad cure! For who S’ Oil id
lose.
Though full of pain, tills intellectual being.
Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
To perish rather, swallowed up and tost.
It* the wide womb of uncreated utgbt,
Devoid of sense and motion 1
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