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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
SPRINGFIELD AND VICINITY.
There is much agitation just now for
making the Water-street underpass W
feet w^de instead of 36 feet wide, with a
eix-foot sidewalk as was set forth int
previous plan of the board of public
works.
The new overpass at the union station
Saturday grew speedily with the aid of
a huge wrecking crane. The aerial side
walk is divided into sections, "^iih
from the two main buildings of the depot
to the crest of the long shed between
1 ph cks.
Orders were received trom the national
post-office department Monday by I ost
master Ixmis C. Hyde authorizing the ap
pointment of nine new clerks to take .are
of the growing business of rhe local office.
The appointments are to take effect July
1. according to the order.
Plana for the erection cf a vaudeville
and moving picture theater with a< <om
modations on the mam floor am! ill the
balcony for about 1500 people are being
seriouslv . onsidored by the Hampden
realty trust, and there is a strong pro >-
ability that work on the structure win
begin at the corner of Mam and
streets before the middle of the rummer.
William W. McClench. president of the
Massachusetts Mutual life insurance com
pany. went to Cleveland. 0,, last week
to deliver an address on ’ an i
legislative aspects of life insurance” be
fore the department of economics in
the Western Reserve university. The
address will be one of a senes delivered
by eminent experts in various fields of
economic activity.
Capt -Jack" Crawford, the picturesque
westerner who spoke in the City hall
last week Tuesday at the bull moose rally,
staved over Wednesday morning toaddress
the’ students at the American Interna
tional college. His talk was on temper
ance advocating high ideals and right fil
ing. He also read them his own poem
on tbo American flag. Capt ‘‘Jack aft
erward left for Troy. N. A.
Word has been received in this city that
James E. Tower has resigned his position
as editor of Good Housekeeping, the mag
azine formerly published by the I helps
publishing company, and now located in
New York, Mr Tower is well known lo
cally. He will at once start on a tour of
Europe traveling through England. Switz
erland and Italy. He will continue his trav
els indefinitely and will do some writing
en route.
Mr and Mrs-Frederick Harris and their
daughter Miss Helen Harris, of Maple
street who have been staying at Pasa
dena ’Cal. are now motoring through the
southern part of the state and will stop in
Pasadena before their return. They plan
to make a number of visits on the way
back, taking a long time for their trip and
arriving in this city probably the 23d. al
though the date of their arrival cannot
yet be positively determined.
A pretty informal "lion voyage tea" was
given last week Wednesday by Mrs M ilham
C. Taylor of Federal street in honor of
her sister. .Mrs Joseph H. Wesson, who
■will sail with her husband on the 14th on
the steamship Campania for a four
months’ automobile trip abroad. Mr and
Mrs Wesson will land at Liverpool, Eng.,
going from there to Havre, France, where
they will be met by their chauffeur with
their car. Their time on the other side
will be divided among France, Switzerland
and England.
Mayor John A. Denison has received
the official announcement from the secre
tary of the mayors’ club of the next meet
ing. which is to be held in this city the
21st. The members will come on the train
leaving Boston at 9.15 o’clock and arriv
ing in this city at 11.42. The party will
be received at the station by Mayor Deni
son and will lunch at the Nayasset club.
The notice urges a good attendance of
the members in the vicinity of Boston as
a courtesy to the members in the western
part of the state.
The efforts of D. J. Marsh, president
of the park commission, have secured for
the skating pond in Forest park 100 gold
fish from the state fish and game commis
sion. which were placed in the pond Sat
urday. The gold fish are all big fellows,
measuring from eight inches to a foot in
length, and make a fine showing in the
transparent water of the pool. The fish
and game commission have now on the
way 200 brook trout of generous size,
which will be, used in stocking the up
per ponds in the park.
Mr and Mrs David Allen Reed of May
nard street are expecting their daughter
and her husband. Mr and Mrs William
Hillis of the Philippines soon for a visit.
Mrs Hillis was formerly Miss Mary Reed
of this city and went to the Philippines
three years ago, Mr Hillis taking the po
sition there of teacher in the university.
On their way to this country they have had
a most interesting trip, the boat stopping at
<’] inese and Japanese ports and landing at
San Francisco. From there they came
East through the Grand canyon.
Monday marked the 20th anniversary of
the appointment of Postmaster James F.
j?hea as postmaster of the Indian Orchard
office. His was the first appointment in
tliis congressional district under President
Grover Cleveland, and he was the only
democrat to be reappointed as a demo
crat under President McKinley four years
later. He has since received reappoint
ments from Theodore Roosevelt and Will
inm H. Taft. He has made a most
efficient postmaster and has brought the
office up to a high standard and his un
failing courtesy have won him the respect
of the entire community.
I’aul J. Norton of this citv has been ap
pointed adjutant of the 2d regiment to
fill the vacancy caused by the discharge of
Capt Theodor Geisei a month ago. Col
W. C. Hayes made this announcement
Thursday and th^re was rejoicing among
the militia officers that night at headquarters
meeting for Capt Norton was regimental
adjutant once before, and his qualities as
an officer have been tested and found
good. Capt Norton has been out of the
service for two years, but be consented to
the appointment and will take the examin
a Cion before the state armory board on
Thursday of next week.
The first official train to operate over
the Hampden railroad rolled along that
short and expensive line Friday fore
noon carrying a party of Boston and
Maine officials on an inspection trip. The
party reached Springfield at noon and
started for the north immediately, where
they inspected the other stretch of new
Boston and Maine track, which runs from
South Vernon to Brattleboro, Vt.. and
■which is just completed. The officials did
not make any statements about the in
spection. Both lines will begin running
regularly scheduled trains on June 23,
when the summer schedule goes into ef
fect all over New England.
The old toll bridge has again been made
the subject of an unfavorable report as
regards its durability, safety and oth-r
desirable qualities. Twice before, in 1898
and in 1004. the bridge has been examined
and declared to be very decadent and in a
condition unfit for use. And in spite of
these it continues to serve a very notable
purpose at its old location at the foot of
Bridge street. The latest report on this
champion veteran of Springfield has been
made by the Eastern bridge and construc
tion company, w ho were employed for that
work by Superintendent Fred H. Clark
of the department of streets and engineer
ing soon after he- assumed office.
Springfield was much lie-flowered Sat
urday wheu the workers for the People's
Institute turned loose 240 women and girls
to sell 25,000 roses and carnations to
every sort of citizen from newsboy to
banker. At the close of the accounting Sat
urday it was announced that a total of
|IBW had been collected. The high cost
of flowers and the other expenses make
the total cost of the campaign about $1290
in that the net gain to the People’s in
stitute is about si>oo. Four tellers for
the Springfield safe deposit and trust
company did the counting for the institute,
mhare were a few flowers left at night
at headquarters. Most of these were
sent to the hospitals Sunday morning.
Resolutions drawn up by the board of
trade committee on national legislation
condemning the prohibition of prosecution
of labor and agricultural organizations
under the appropriation act for the en
forcement of the antitrust laws, and fa
voring the establishment of a permanent
tariff commission, were unanimously
adopted by the hoard of directors Thurs
day night at a meeting held to act on the
two propositions as submitted to them in
referendum by the chamber of commerce
of the I’nited States. This action of the
directors records the 12 votes allowed to
the local board in referendums of the na
tional chamber in opposition Io the one
measure and in support of the other.
Memorial services were held in superior
■ court Friday afternoon in honor ot
j Judge Alfred M. Copeland and Charles L.
I Gardner, two highly-esteemed members of
i the Hampden county bar who have died
recently. The services were simple and
impressive, and several lawyers spoke high
ly of the two men in whose memory the
services were being held. Judge Richard
W. Irwin of Northampton presided, and
with him on the bench was Marcus P.
Knowlton, formerly chief justice of the
supreme court. The meeting was attend
ed by about 35 members of the bar, who
listened with interest to the tributes paid
to their colleagues and after the meet
ing expressed their approval and concur
rence in what was said.
The smoke nuisance question is up
I again, and the city is to set out on a cam
, paign against violators, with Mayor John
। A. Denison and Smoke Inspector M. r.
। Gale on the warpath. Prosecutions are to
। t»e instituted against any whom Mr Gale
I finds guilty of violations of the law. ana
especial attention is to be paid to the
Springfield gaslight company, the New
I York, New Haven and Hartford railroad
| company and the Springfield street rail
i wav company. Against these three the
complaints are the most frequent, but
there are a number of other offenders, al
though some are careful that when smoke
appears in dense black clouds it shall cease
within the two-minutes’ time allowed. The
conditions about the Court square exten
sion are the worst, and a covering of soot
is appearing on the buildings in that part
of the city.
The mystery surrounding the murder
of Mrs Minnie Powers, the young colored
woman whose body was found in her
apartment at 183 William street Wednes
day morning, was cleared up Friday
afternoon, when her husband, Samuel
Powers, confessed to the crime. Powers
was arrested by Inspector Frank W.
Quilty Wednesday afternoon and charged
with murdering the woman, nut until Fri
day, though repeatedly questioned by
Capt John H. Boyle, he held out and re
fused to admit even the slightest connec
tion with the erime. Friday he told
Capt Boyle in detail how he choked his
wife to death. They had some angry
words, which according to his statement
eventually resulted in a fight. Powers
claimed that his wife took a long hatpin
from the bureau and ran toward him. He
grabbed her arm and wrested the pin from
her. She then ran back to the bureau and
began to throw’ articles at him.
The people of the church of the Unity
Sunday extended a warm welcome to
Rev Bradley Gilman, who preached at the
morning service. Rev Mr Gilman tilled the
pulpit at the church for a number of
years and is well known in the city. He
came to Springfield Sunday for a brief
visit and preached in the absence of Rev
Augustus P. Reccord. The church was
filled to the last seat and the minister
held an impromptu reception at the close
of the sermon, when he was surrounded
by almost the entire audience, who had
waited to greet him. Rev Mr Gilman has
just returned from a tour of the South
with Booker T. Washington, having
gained a new and interesting view of life
in that region. Besides introducing
bits of his southern experience into
his sermon. Rev Mr Gilman afterward
addressed the pastors’ class in the Sunday
school, giving them a brief review of his
tour with the famous negro educator.
The Good Will home, which has had its
headquarters for the past year at 38 Hall
street, will move during June to a new
house at 52 Wellington street, off Wil
braham road, which has already been
bought. The new home is a 14-room
house which will accommodate twice as
many young women as the former home,
and is splendidly located, being near a
pleasant grove. It will be ideal for sum
mer, which is as busy a season at the
home as any other. The opening of the
new home will probably take place about
July 1. although it is hoped that it may
be occupied long before that time. It is a
nonsectariau home for young women,
and aims to supplement the work of the
Young Women's Christian association and
the home for friendless women. The aim of
the home is to tide girls over a special time
of need, the basis for the board charge
being the modest requirement that a girl
shall give one-half of her earnings to the
home.
Bids for erecting the new standpipe
which the water department is to build
at the Ludlow reservoir were opened
yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The
standpipe is to be 16 feet high end 60
feet in diameter, with a capacity of 318,-
000 gallons, about a day’s supply for the
town of Ludlow. A force of 20 men is
already working in Ludlow on the im
provements and the new pump has been
installed. The water department is now
laying wood block paving on the passage
way through its yard beside the Colton
street building. The paving will bo 20
feet wide and the entrances to the garage,
stable and platform will also be paved.
A wire net fence has been ordered to go
on top of the low concrete wall which
surrounds the yard. The sidetrack con
necting with the New England road will
soon be completed and is now in use.
Another of the land damage claims in
North Blandford was settled Friday
when M. V. Baab of that place trans
ferred his property to the water depart
ment for $3900. With the land the de
partment bought some tools and a team
of horses. There were 106 acres in the
tract. The water board, with Chief En
gineer E. E. Lochridge, Mayor John A.
Denison, City Solicitor Scott Adams and
Attorney William H. Brooks, went to
North Blandford by automobile Saturday
to make a personal inspection of the land
involved in the various unsettled damage
claims.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
HOLYOKE.
The plans of a few weeks ago hare been
carried to completion and a new corpora
tion was organized at Holyoke Friday
to be known as the Chemical paper man
ufacturing company, which will occupy
the place of business of the Chemical pa
per company. The new corporation has
a Massachusetts charter and an authorized
capitalization of $2,000,000, of which
SSOO,<JOO is first preferred stock, $500,000
is second preferred and the remaining sl.-
000,000 common stock. The officers of
the new corporation are as follows: Presi
dent and treasurer, Clifton A. Crocker;
vice-president. R. F. McElwain: clerk,
Ralph W. Ellis. The board of directors,
consisting of Holyoke and Springfield bus
iness men, are C. A. Crocker, J. S. McEl
wain. R. W. Ellis. Henry H. Bowman,
Charles H. Beckwith, Philip W. Bridley
and R. F. McElwain. Messrs Crocker and
McElwain will assume management of
the business at once. This corporation is
entirely distinct from the Cracker & Mc-
El wain company.
The annual "sugar eat" of the Holyoke
canoe dub was held’at Smiths Ferry Fri
day evening and was a huge success. Inci
dentally. the event marked the opening
of the summer season at the club. The
“eat” was again in charge of Mr Par
menter. From 7.30 to 9 the substance
from the maple trees was dissolved, rnd
was followed by a minstrel show-. Miss
Faith Trombly acted as interlocutor and
the end girls were as follows: Eleanor
Heyward, Marion Schuster, Gertrude
Franz. Bertha Lauckner. Carrie Wolfe
and Alberta Fay. The chorus was made
up of the following girls: Ruth Parfitt,
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The local post-office has been notified
that the E. M. Humphreville construc
tion company of Westfield has been award
ed the contract for the changes at the
post-office by the government, the ■'on
tract price being $4542. Flic changes
called for include the cutting off of the
north corridor of the building where the
postmaster’s office is now located anil the
building of a now postmaster’s office on
the Main street side of the building. The
space now occupied by the office will be
a ’rfod to th work-room. Two small rooms
will be built on the second story, one
over the present post-office and th’o sec
ond over the mailing vestibule. The on
tract calls for the work to bo completed
in 90 days and will commence ns soon
as the bond to bo furnished by the con
tractor is approved,
A case of smallpox was discovered Sat
urday night at 217 Main street, the victim
being Pierro Tanguay, a man about 28
years of ago. The board of health were
notified and made an investigation at
once. Mr and Mrs Tanguay keep a room
ing house in the block at 217 Main street
i and in the block where also lived two
other families. It was found that Mr
Tanguay’s sister came from Canada about
six weeks ago, having just recovered from
an attack of smallpox. While the man
has a u ell-dcvcloi dl case, yet his condition
is not serious, and his quick recovery is
expected.
The result of the investigation of the
ice question by the alilerm.inic committee
and the conferences held with the retail
ice dealers is that the City ice company
agrees to give 15 pounds of ice at the
cart for five cents or to put it in pails
lowered from the upper tenements of
blocks where lire cents is placed in the
pail before it is lowered! that they will
give 39 pounds of ice for 111 tents at the
■art and will deliver a minimum of 23
pounds for 10 cents. the balance of prices
to remain the same as at, present
The American writing paper company
are planning to secure enough papermakers
to put the three-tour. eight-hour system
into operation in the immediate future, and
are making every effort to enrol a suf
ficient number. Some time ago the com
pany announced that eventually the three
tour system would be inaugurated in the
several divisions, but it will take some lit
tle time to secure the number Of men
necessary.
Bernard Paiz of Holyoke, who has been
serving a life sentence in the state prison
for the murder of Mrs Helena L. Fehring,
was pardoned last week by Gov Foss, the
pardon committee of the council having
recommended clemency. It is understood
that the mental condition of the prisoner
had a bearing on the decision.
The Indepeudeuce-day committee met
Friday evening aud voted to hold a cele
bration on July 4. The election of of
ficers was postponed until the 16th. when
committees from the civic improvement as
sociation. the board of trade, the veteran
firemen and the board of aldermen will
be present.
Mothers’ day was observed at the First
Methodist church Sunday and the pas
tor, Rev O. W. Hutchinson, in an in
teresting sermon advocated that girls
should l>e trained for their sphere in life
and that separate high schools should be
established, one for girls and one for boys.
CHICOPEE.
The board of aldermen at a special ses
sion Thursday unanimously overrode the
veto which the mayor had banded down
to them on their bill of Monday night,
authorizing the payment of $902 due Mar
shal John C. Barnes during the time when
he was suspended by order of Mayor Riv
ers. Since the matter was taken up by
the courts and the mayor’s suspension
was declared to have been illegal, the
aidermen have consistently held that the
marshal was entitled to the salary which
he should have drawn during the nine
months that he was unable to fulfil his
duties, and they unanimously passed a
bill Monday authorizing its payment. The
mayor promptly vetoed this hill, but last
night’s action was a final unanimous vote,
ouly one aiderman being absent. The
meeting was largely perfunctory and there
was little argument. The mayor now says
that he will refuse to sign the voucher,
which is essential before the bill can be
met. In this case the matter would prob
ably go to the courts again.
The big meeting of the union of French
societies which was held in ■ ity hall Tues
day turned out Io lie a surprise testi
monial tn Mayor Rivers, at which about
500 French citizens came together to ex
press their admiration for the mayor and
present him with a liandsbme testimonial
of their esteem and friendship. The pur
pose of the meeting was generally kept
secret and it came as a surprise when it
turned out to be such a big demonstration
for the mayor. The hall was handsome
ly decorated with yellow and white stream
ers which were draped about the hall and
festooned from the ceiling with a pair of
American flags crossed above the plat
form. The mayor was presented with a
gold watch and Mrs Rivers with a dia
mond ring, while the couple were also
given a pair of handsome silver trays.
There was a series of eulogistic speeches
with an attractive musical program inter
spersed, and a buffet luncheon and recep
tion at the close.
No bill was returned Thursday by the
grand jury against Arthur Tullar on the
complaint of manslaughter on which he
was bound over to the superior ■ court by
Judge Luther White of Chicopee. Tullar
was the driver of the machine which on
December 6, 1912, struck and killed Miss
Blanche Roy as she was crossing Center
street in Chicopee. Miss Roy was re
turning to her home from work on that
evening, and crossed the street in front of
a Springfield-bound ear. At the same
time Tullar was driving his machine past
the car on the right-hand side, and she
stepped out in front of the automobile.
The position of the car was such that
she could not see the machine and Tullar
could not see her until the accident hap
pened.
WESTFIEID.
A branch of the parent-teacher associa
tion was organized at the Franklin-street
school Thursday afternoon. There were 26
present and 25 signed cards agreeing to
join the proposed branch association. Mrs
Charles M. Gardner explained the object
of the organization in a Hear and con<i«e
manner. A social time followed th- meet
ing. during which all present were given an
opportunity to view tin exhibit of school
work. The officers of the Franklin-street
association are: President. Mrs E. S. Par
dee; vice-president. Mrs James Ryan ; se ’-
retary. Miss Jennie Blech: treasurer. Mrs
I'. J. Mc.M bon.
The committee on building tho new 12-
room school-house for which ?75JMM> was
appropriated at the last town-meeting
had an important conference hist week ,
Wednesday with .Lunes Knox Taylor, who ।
is ut the head of flic architectural depart- |
ment of the Massachusetts institute of i
technology of Boston and who was for 15
years supervising architect of government
buildings in the treasury department.
LONGMEADOW.
A bit of Longmeadow history is recalled
with special interest this week by the plac
ing of the marker on Long Hill street,
where the Indian fort once stood, by Mer
cy Warren chapter. It would seem'as if
some patriotic person or organization
would also have placed some marker at |
Pecowsic to designate where John Keep
was slain. It was Sunday morning, the
20th of March, 1070. just 190 years before
the independence of the linked States.
John Keep and his family and some of his
neighbors, a party of 18. had reached Pe
cowsic on their way to Springfield on
horseback to attend church, when they
were startled by the war-whoop of the
Indians, while Indian arrows were show
ered upon them. John Keep was killed
and bis wife and son, Jabez, mortally
wounded. The records of the event differ
somewhat, one saying John Keep his “wife
andllieir war-Jabez." ami-the-other "Mr
and Mrs John Keep and two children"
were slain. One account also says they
wore killed “while descending Peeousic
hill." and the other account says “a little
northward of Pneousiek brook.” At that
time and until not so long ago the Loug
mendow line was a little beyond the foot
of Pecowsie hill, but with the great ex
tension of Forest park with the consent
of Longmeadow-, the dividing lino was
moved some distance south to the south
erly end of Forest park. There are now.
as far as known, no representatives of the
Keep family in Longmeadow, although
many stones in the old churchyard bear
the name.
PALMER.
The annual meeting of the Palmer his
। torical society was held in the vestry of
I the Congregational church last week.
The curator announced the following
gifts: A promissory note, framed, given by
H. Gardner in 1779 for £ls to obtain
money to finance a lottery scheme, then
allowed by the colony. It is payable to
the state treasurer. The penalty for counter
feiting the note was death, as stated on
the document; two shuttles, presented by
Mrs Mary Fisherdick Rogers, were used
about 100 years ago in the family of Fran
cis Fisherdiek of Ware. The front door
key of the old white church was also given.
Nine volumes of vital records were received
from the commonwealth;
David F. Dilion' is to erect a fireproof
building 16 feet by 38 feet in the rear of
his block on Mairi street. It is the pres
ent intention to use this structure as a
lockup. On the ground floor will be four
cells, in which will be built steel cases for
male prisoners. On the second floor will
be a detention-room. 12 feet by 16 feet,
for women: also a clerk's office, consult
ing-room find officers’ quarters. This
building will be connected with the present
block by an eight-foot bridge, inclosed,
MONSON.
The diphtheria epidemic in town has
reached rather alarming proportions, there
being at present cases in all sections of
the town. The health officials have been
very careful of quarantine, but regardless
of this new cases are being reported near
iy every day. Dr J. V. W. Boyd of
.Springfield, a member of the state board
of health, has been in town to look over
conditions. The state official found that
the epidemic could hardly be from the milk
used. It was found that in the different
families visited by the disease, the milk
used was from various places, practically
all the milkmen having one or more cus
tomers on their route, with diphtheria in
the family. Children not attending school
ami adults have also been affected.
The differences between the W. N. Flynn
granite company and their stonecutters,
which have prevented operations in the
company’s cutting sheds for the past five
weeks, have been settled to the general sat
isfaction of the company and the cutters.
A wage agreement covering a period of
four years has been signed. The liability
of any trouble for that period is very re
mote. The cutters returned to work Mon
day, and busines si going on at the
company’s yards as usual.
FEEDING HILLS.
The prospect for an abundant crop of
fruit of all kinds has seldom been better
than it is this spring. Apples, pears,
plums, cherries and—for a wonder —
peaches, have shown a very remarkable
bloom, and strawlierries indicate a very
large return. Weather conditions, how
ever. have a controling influence, which
must be taken into account. It is not
too late for a killing frost. The season
has been favorable for the germination
of seeds, such as onions, beets and car
rots, and early beans and sweet corn are
coming up and some potatoes breaking
through.
AGAWAM.
Norman Rowley, the seven-years-old son
of Mr and Mrs Artfiup H. Rowley of Aga
wam. was daowneiMg Factory pond Sat
urday afternoon. He had gone to the
pond alone in search.of a fishpole which
he had left there au<J it is supposed that
he attempted to cross the bridge near the
dam and fell in. The bridge is unprotect
ed. having no side-rails, so that this theory
is entirely plausible.
WEST SPRINGFIELD.
The question as to whether the local
grammar schools should hold joint grad
uation exercises this year has at last been
settled. The teachers of the 9th grades
of the Main-street, Park-avenue, Mittin
eague and John Ashley schools, the per
sons most intimately concerned in the
question, met Friday afternoon in the
high school and voted to hold joint exer
cises of a very simple nature.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
NORTHAMPTON.
The annual meeting of the Smith chari
ties was held last week Wednesday ami .Ue
trustees, D. W. Wells, Homer F. Cook
and Arthur W. Ball, submitted their an
nual report to the electors from the city
and eight towns purticipatiug in the
benefits of the charity funds. Dur
ing the past year 38 boys have been
indentured. Loans of SSOO each have
been made to 37 apprentices; the notices
of 38 others surrendered; two apprentice
loans have been recalled; and two appren
tice boys have died. Seven girls have been
indentured: nine girls have married and
received their marriage portions. Ad
vances to defray sickness expenses have
been made to seven of the same class.
One hundred and twelve widows have
been paid SSO each; 167 young women
have received marriage gifts of the same
amount, making tho. total amount paid
as gifts $36,075’ There are now 98 boys
and 12 girls serving under indenture. The
names of 12 boys and two girls have been
stricken from the list of beneficiaries.
George Wright Clark and George S. Swift
have continued their efficient services to
the institution, and prompt payment of
interest has been maintained.
The children’s home association has
elected those officers: President, Mrs Will
iam F. Ganong; vice-president, Mrs A. L.
Sessions; secretary, Mrs 1.. M. Scoville;
treasurer, Miss Clara P. Bodman: di
rectors, Mrs Edward T. Barrett, Miss
Clara P. Bodman. Mrs Stella E. Camp
bell, Miss Ruth Cooper, Mrs Charles F.
Emerick. Mrs Charles N. Fitts, Mrs M.
L. Burton. Mrs William F. Ganong, Miss
Gladys Gaylord. Mrs R. B. Hills, Mrs B.
B. Hinckley, Mrs A. J. Lamontnigne, Mrs
Frank Lyman, Mrs Alice B. Montgomery,
Mrs George Noble, Mrs A. L. Sessions,
Mrs James Morron Smith. Mrs L. M. Sco
ville. Miss Helen Story, Miss Adine M ill
iains, Mrs Arthur Warner. Tho demands
upon the association have so largely in
cregaed that larger quarters than those
now afforded by the home ou Arlington
1 street will be serorod either by building or
। hr moving. The income of the aasoemtion
' during the past year amounted to $2384,
and the expenditure to $2311.
SOUTH HADLEY.
A special town-meeting was held in the
Engine-house hall at South Hadley Falls
Monday, th-' voters coming ont in large ;
numbers, and after discussion it was voted
not to take up municipal lighting, the nec
essary two-thirds missing fire by 15 votes.
It was voted to erect a combination town
and school building and to provide for a
bond issue for the same.
The labor legislation affecting children
passed by the New York Legislature at
its re-ent session is pronounced excellent
by the national child labor. committee. In
deed. New York is now given the credit
of having the best child-labor laws in the
country. This is a great gain for the
cause the national committee represents,
and New York's example should be highly
influential with more backward states.
Under our state system, progress is made
in these matters even if it be uneven.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
GREENFIELD.
Five hundred thousand porch fry, 100,-
000 of the pike perch and 400.000 of the
white perch varieties, were received in
Greenfield last week for distribution in the
near-by streams. Earlier in the weak there
were received 100.000 pike perch fry and
400,000 of the white perch, which have
already been placed in the Deerfield river,
the pike perch at Gaidnor Falls and tlio
white perch at West Deerfield. The
fry are from Iho state hatchery and are
distributed through the state fish and
game commission.
It was announced Friday ’list an
agreement had been reached between the
contracting builders of Greenfield aud the
carpenters’ local union, whereby the strike
which was declared May 1 is called off.
The demand of the striking carpenters was
for the establishment of a miuimuui wage
of $3 n day for eight hours, for all car
penters who have qualified by serving an
apprenticeship of three whole years. An
agreement has been made with a majority
of the contracting builders establishing this
condition.
SOUTH DEERFIELD.
The Congregational church were the
recipients of a beautiful gift at the com
munion service Sunday morning, an
nounced by Dea A. M. Rice in memory of
Mr and Mrs Andrew Dutton, formerly
of South Deerfield, ami former members
of the. church. The gift consists of a
black walnut communion table with a
heavy plate-glass top. a flow;er and a
Bible stand of the same and four silver
communion plates. The table and the
plates bear the inscriptiou: "Presfuted
by Mr and Mrs Andrew Dutton '1912.”
Rev Langley B. Sears accepted the gift
in behalf of the church. Mr Dutton
survived his wife by only a few months,
dying in Melrose in the spring of 1912.
Previous to his death he expressed a wish
to remember the South Deerfield church
in some way and bis daughter, Mrs Al
fred Colby of Melrose, in this gift has
carried out her father’s wishes.
NEW SALEM.
A large force of men was called out
last week Wednesday to fight a forest fire
which started beside the road leading from
New Salem Center to Millington. A strong
breeze was blowing and the fire gained
considerable headway; burning over 75 or
100 acres of woodland belonging to Frank
Fitts of Orange, Henry A. Cogswell and
the Julia Smith heirs of New Salem. The
buildings on the Smith place were
threatened, the tire coming within about
20 rods of them. A request for help
was telephoned to Orange, and about 25
Orange firemen came over in automobiles.
Chemical extinguishers were used freely
and the fire was soon under control.
COLRAIN.
Engineers have surveyed aud staked the
highway width connecting with the new’
state road on the south, beginning in front
of Philip Herrig's house at Lyonsville ami
running northerly past the Griswold mill
at the M’iUis place to the vicinity of Col
rain City. The distance is nearly a mile.
It is expected the work of building the
extension will begin as soon as possible.
When completed, there will be a continu
ous state road from Shelburne Falls to
Colrain City.
SHELBURNE FALLS.
Operations will soon begin on the pro
posed enlargement and improvements at
the Gardner Falls plant of the Greenfield
electric light and power company. F. T.
Ley & Co' of Springfield have the contract
for the instalation of two units and cor
responding turbines, enlarging the station
proper and the deepening and widening of
the canal. It is understood that the pro
posed alterations and additions -still prac
tically double the capacity of the plant.
DEERFIELD.
It has been decided that Deerfield is
to have its second historical pageant at
the same place, on the grounds of the
Misses Allen, and under the auspices of
the village improvement association. It
will be under the management of Miss
Margaret MacLaren Eager and will take
place on August 15, 16. 18 and 19.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
PITTSFIELD.
The bacteriologist of the state board of
health has made an examination of the
water used by some of the residents of
the eastern part of the city and has an
nounced that it is polluted. There are
about 80 families using the water and
it is urged by tbe board of health that
they boil the water before using it. Milk j
should also be boiled. Much water there
is obtained from wells. Conditions at
West Pittsfield in regard to water and
sewers are much the same as at the Junc
tion, and it is in these two sections that
the typhoid fever has arisen which has
given local health authorities so much
trouble. The health board has the situation
well in hand, but believes that due wis
dom is exercised in giving this warning
to the citizens of these sections. Water
supplied through the city mains is per
fectly pure, according to examination. In
vestigation of the West Pittsfield section
has not been completed. The elimination
of wells in sections is one of the city’s
problems.
The annua! meeting of the associated
charities was held Thursday night and the
following officers elected: President, Ar
thur N. Cooley; vice-president, Charles
W. Power; treasurer, Oliver Root; clerk,
S. Chester Lyon. Miss Gilman of the so
ciety gave a lengthy report on her work
for the past 20 months, since the society
was organised, outlining the principles
and objects of the association. She stat
ed that 415 cases had been cared for in
that time, giving as causes, desertion, in
temperance and others, and illustrated the
talk with anecdotes of her experience. The
treasurer’s report showed a small balance
on hand.
Many new veterans' graves will be marked
this year on Memorial day. The flagging
committee is now marking them. The fol
lowing Pittsfield veterans have died since
May 30, 1912: William H. Snell, 68, June
29, 1912; Walter B. Smith. 84, June 13.
1912: Fred J. Ziegler, 74, July 29, 1912;
Peter J. Roberts, 75, January 12, 1913:
Fred A. Francis, -78, January 29. 1913:
George H. Jackson. 73, February 15,
1913; Levi Bradford Goodrich, 75, Feb
ruary 27, 1913; Moses H. Foster. 68.
March 27. 1913: Chester H. Hopkins, 80.
March 28. 1913.
The Pittsfield park and playground as
sociation met Thursday afternoon and or
ganized for the year, and plans were ar
ranged for as successful a year ns is
possible. It Is hoped Hint some of the
workers who helped to so Hiievessttilly con
duct the grounds hist year may be secured.
Deeds have been placed on record trans
ferring from different owners to the as
sociation three lots on Springai-le avenue
and six lots on Abbott street, nujotning
Springside park. The association felt that
this land was needed to make a good field.
The thermometer at Pittsfield started to
drop Friday night and Saturday people
were wearing overcoats again. The mer
cury was down to freezing point and a
flurry of snow struck the city early yes
terday morning. Anlold resident recalled
that on Muy 27. 1877, Pittsfield was vis
ited by a snowstorm and the ground was
covered with flakes. Apple trees were in
full bloom at the time and the sight was a
prettv one. He also recalled that on June
9, 1875. there was a heavy frost.
Chairman Eisner of the hoard of health
said Thursday that the citizens of Pitts
field are generally observing the order is
sued recently making the present week a
clean-up week. Thomas J. Davis, “clean
up week inspector," reports that the |>eo
ple arc busy all over Pittsfield getting
their yards ami walks in a neat condi
tion for the summer.
Forty-two journeymen electricians failed
to report at their respective shops Mon-
day morning, as the result of the refusal
of contracting electricians to sign the code
of rules submitted to them by the union.
Tile city and surrounding towns are al
most tied up for want of those workers.
The Hudson navigation company Ims In
vited ex-Senator Chauncey M. Depew of
New York to make the speech of accept
ance on the Berkshire excursion after Sen
ator A. T. Treadway makes the presen
tation of an oil painting that is to be
given for the new boat on_ June 7. Sen
ator Depow lias the invitation of the com
pany under consideration, aud it is hoped
that he will be a guest on board the steam
er on the occasion.
The Pittsfield Journal company has
withdrawn its suit against Mayor I’. J.
Moore of that city for an alleged account
for which the inavor's salary was at
tached. and it will not he entered Ml court,
as it has been settled.
NORTH ADAMS.
Commissioner Locke said last week that
he is in hopes the section of the state high
way over Florida mountain from the top
of the mountain down to the Five roads
would bo built during the coming summer.
As the matter now stands, the road is
being built only to the summit of the
mountain, but it is expected by the com
missioner that as soon as the survey from
that point to the city is completed and
estimates on the cost of the extension ob
tained. the city and state w ill agree on the
respective share of the expense that each
should bear and the line wall be built.
The playground idea has been receiv
ing consideration by the school authorities,
according to Superintendent Hull, who
said in an interview that an effort will
be made to provide suitable facilities on
the school grounds for the children to play
this summer. Some repairs have been
made on the different grounds of late and
it is expected that definite action toward
the engaging of a supervisor w ill be taken
by the school board before the close of
the school year.
The impression is gaining ground that
no new high school building will be start
ed this year, notwithstanding the agita
tion for one and the appropriation for
plans passed by the council several weeks
ago. A member of the school committee
is authority for the statement that there
is no likelihood of asking for an appropri
ation during the present fiscal year and
tho chances are that nothing will be done
until next year.
In the county court of Portland, Me.,
last week the indictments against Jolin M.
Lavin, formerly of North Adams, for big
amy, w ere nol pressed.
LEE.
A meeting will be held on the 22d at
Knights of Columbus hall to perfect the
new Lee high school alumni association.
At the preliminary meeting a committee
of six was chosen to solicit membership
subscriptions from former pupils. It is
thought that a large society can be formed.
At the coming meeting full organization
will lie perfected, and it is hoped that all
former pupils will make an effort to be
present.
Game Warden Sargood got 600,000 fish
spawn Thursday from tho state hatchery
nt Palmer and the. sportsmen’s associa
tion furnished teams'to take them to upper
and lower Goose ponds. This lot includes
pike perch and white and yellow perch.
Mr Sargood secured the same amount for
Lake Garfield.
LENOX.
Clark G. Voorhees of Lyme, Ct., son-in
law of George Winthrop Folsom, who has
the commission for the $1250 painting
for the steamer Berkshire, has arrived and
will begin the sketches for the picture this
week. The point of view for the painting
is from ' the south shore of Onota lake,
Pittsfield, showing the lake, Constitution
hill and Greylock. The painting will be
five feet seven inches by five feet one
inch, and will be placed at the head of
the grand staircase. It will be unveiled
by a prominent Berkshire county woman.
The town of Lenox has sent its contri
bution to the picture fund. It was $42.60,
an oversubscription of $19.28.
GREAT BARRINGTON.
Game Warden Eargood arrived last
week with 600,000 white and yellow perch
spawn, which had begun to hatch in the
cans. The allotment is one from the state
hatchery at Palmer. Mr Sargood. who
has been more than liberal to this section,
made arrangements with Dr E. W. Stock
well to care for the fish, aud Dr Stock
well furnished his automobile and they
were taken to Lake Garfield at Monterey
and to Lake Buel. The game warden fig
ures that 70 per cent of the fish will live
until they are either caught or devoured
by larger fish.
STOCKBRIDGE.
. The members of the high school senior
class, consisting of Helen Backus, Lucy
Corcoran, Helen Farley, Augusta Har
kema, Norah Healy, Gertrude Kilduff,
Helen Kilduff, Charles Fellows and
Frank Punderson, with the principal. Miss
Grace L. Edwards, will leave Stockbridge
this morning for Washington. D. I!.,
arriving there the same day. The party
will remain in the national capital until
Saturday night and arrive home Sunday
nooD ' —— _
ADAMS.
There was a sad fatality in Adams last
week, when Leo. tho eldest sou of Mi and
Mrs James Kearnahan of Howland ave
nue, was drowned in the raceway near
the pond at the power station of the
Berkshire street railway company in
Zylonite. The boy was 11 years old and
was a pupil in the Zylonite school.
BECKET.
The local Baptist church has been noti
fied by the Massachusetts Baptist mis
sionary society of a fund of SSOO which
has been deposited with the state society
by Mrs Blanche P. Alger of Dorchester,
the income to be paid semiannually to
the local church. Mrs Alger is a native
of Becket.
WORCESTER COUNTY.
NORTH BROOKFIELD.
Mr and Mrs John A. Rice celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary at their
home on Elm street Saturday afternoon,
when a large number of friends called
and refreshments were served. Miss
Clare Rice, granddaughter of ti.o couple,
received at the door. Mr and Mrs Rice
received many presents, including different
pieces of gold to the amount of $93. Mr
Rice was born in Windsor. Vt.. October 12,
1830. and Mrs Rice wns born in Canaan.
N. H. on March 13. 1839. The couple
were married In Philadelphia in 18113.
The school committee lias recently voted
to raise the salary of the prmcipai’of the
high school from SI3OO to $1509. The
committee has also decided that it is not
in a position financially to repair the
grounds about the school building, and
will ask for a special appropriation.
ATHOL.
The second death in the measles epi
demic. which has been raging in Athol
several weeks, took place Sunday morn
ing, when the one-year-old son of Mr
and Mrs Daniel Britton of Main street,
Athol Highlands, died, after a short ill
m ss. The boy was an only child.
CONNECTICUT.
The will of R. E. Holmes was admitted
to probate Thursday afternoon. By the
terms of the instrument .each of bis four
children receive $60,000, and the Young
Men’s Christian association $15,000 tor a
new building when $35,000 additional is
given for the sain-- purpose.
VERMONT.
X’ 1 — J
Brown-fail moths in large numbers were
discovered on the E. B. Corbett place in
West Brattleboro Saturday by A
Sweeton, ngent for the Windham county
agricultural association, and he immedi
ately wired Harold Bailey, who has charge
of exterminating the insect pests. The
work of exterminating them was begun
Monday morning by Mr Bailey and Mr
Sweeton and several assistants. They fin
ished their work there in the forenoon and
then went to Guilford, where moths were
discovered last year.
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.
It is prudent for every Englishman now
adays to look under his chair before sit
ting down.
U? rs London ’ Eng., has lost
BhO,OOO of its population to outside di»-
tricts.
A scientist says that the bassoon play
er is always cranky and the drummer
generally lacks humor.
It may be hoped that no oratorical rival
will steal the plans of Mr Bryan's hyper
superdreadnonght Friendship.
It. will take nn 1100-horse-power tug to
nose the big liner Imperntor to her oock
111 New York. In close quarters it is no
joke to handle a ship nearly 1000 feet
long.
The grand jury learn that about 200
New York city employes and hotel men
have been enjoying about $200,000 a year
in tree taxicab rides. Still, as taxi fares
“iM! S S ° w hen split among
Senator La Follette is reported to be
clamoring for a prolonged agony of tariff
hearings by the finance committee. The
committee should outvote him aud then
give him ample time to talk on the floor
of the Senate. The stage has been reached
when bearings are played out.
The proposal to have a separate depart
ment to deal with gambling and “vice” in
New York looks from the outside a good
deal like a policy of desperation. If the
regular police force is not fitted to deal
with such matters, it ought to be thor
oughly refitted.
The proceeds of King Victor Em
manuel’s hook on coins. "Storia Numis
matica,” the publication of which is an
nounced for the near future, are to go to
the fund for the benefit of orphan chil
dren of the victims of the war with
Turkey.
The signing of the loan contract by the
provisional government of China while the
permanent government was on the point,
of organizing was a bit of sharp practice,
to say the least, and if threats of im
peachment should be carried out there
need be no ground for surprise.
Prof Muensterberg's loyalty to his em
peror, of whom he is still a devoted sub
leet, is commendable, but his apprehen
sions of ulterior motives of the peace ad
vocates directed against the fatherland are
to be taken as somewhat overheated patri
otism rather than the best quality of
Harvard psychology.
Licensed saloons were approved and mu
nicipal ownership of public utilities was
disapproved in the city election at Lin
coln, Neb., last week. The saloon men won
by a majority of 834. The municipal
ownership league elected but one of its
candidates for the city commission, the
first in the history of the city.
Mutual congratulations are being ex
changed in New York between the police
and the suffragist leaders for the success
of the suffrage parade last Saturday. .As
traffic officers it is still true that New
York has the finest police in the world.
It is not altogether their fault that they
are not the finest in every other respect.
Abraham Edelowitz, 14 weeks old, is
the latest infant prodigy produced by the
Jewish race in America. He has just
scored a perfect record of 1000 points in
the “healthy baby contest” on the New
York East side. Mental alertness was
part of the test, so he may enter college
at 11.
“Miss Civic Pride,” as the architects
have named Adolphe Wideman’s allegor
ical statue, placed Thursday on the pin
nacle of the new municipal skyscraper in
New York city, is a graceful and spirited
figure, suggestive of alertness and prog
ress. That it faces the setting sun is not
to be taken as part of the symbolism.
That was an important decision of Sur
rogate Fowler in New York Tuesday when
ho ruled void a provision in a will by.
which any legatee contesting the will was
disinherited. It is rather curious that the
point has never been thoroughly settled,
but it may be that legatees have usually
been afraid to take such a will into court.
The Chinese, it appears, have valued
turtle extract as a specific for consump
tion for something like 2000 years. Recent
ly, it is further said, they have found
the American variety of turtle more ef
ficacious than the home sort. Dr Fried
mann. so far as known, has only found
the American public better material to
work upon than that in the old country.
A serious aspect, of the Friedmann case
is the increased difficulty reported by .sev
eral physicians in securing proper hygienic
and remedial action according to the well
established principles. A great proportion
of tho cases of tuberculosis can be pre
vented or cured by simple means and there
should not be the slightest relaxation of
precaution.
Why should it be so astonishing for a
mnu to decline to give up a $4000,-job for
a SIO,OOO job? A job that just suits is
worth more than the difference. There is
no happier man on earth than the one who
can do the thing he wants to do and get.
out of it what ho needs. —more would ba
superfluity. By and large, there are a
eood many men in the world who have not
time to make money.
That sturdiness has characterized the
Dutch race in America from Stuyyesant
to Roosevelt is a tradition that will not
lie disturbed by the arrival of hun
dreds of Netherlands immigrant farthers,
equipped with drafts calling for sums
“ranging from SSOOO to $25,000. ' with
which to buy new homes in Michigan.
High ground rents in Friesland have
driven them to a country where land is
cheaper.
The establishment of a French theater
in New York is to be welcomed for other
reasons besides the opportunity it will pro
vide for hearing weli-spoken 1-reuch and
seeing well-trained actors. The civiliza
tion of no other people is. upon the whole,
so well represented in its drama as that of
the French, and the French theater should
therefore, to a peculiar degree, be a new
French embassy among us. There has
been u prosperous German theater in ^ew
York for years.
The collision, happily not serious, of the
steamship Chiltern Rance with an ice
berg off the Newfoundland banks was nrob
nblv a fortunate encounter from the stand
point of general shipping interest. It has
emphasized the fact that the danger which
caused one of the greatest of marine dis«
asters a year ago has by no means been
fully guarded against. The fact needs to
be emphasized and insisted upon until the
possibilities of modern science for safety
at sea are exhausted.
There is a young woman in London
who keepp steadily on her war despit#
bombs and riots. This is Miss Belleville,
who inherited from her father the curious
business of supplying watchmakers with
the exact time from the Greenwich ob
servatory. For 50 years the family has
pursued this specialty, and every week
Miss Belleville makes the rounds carrying
a chronometer which cives the exact time
to a 10th of a second or so. even after
a trip by ’bus and tram. Its greatest
deviation was 15 seconds in a week, but
flint was exceptional.
In his address to the graduating class
of the Johns Hopkins training school for
nurses Sir William Osler concluded his
address with an outline of the ^Severn
nursely virtues”—and the enumeration is
pood for nurses everywhere, as follows:
Tact, without which no woman could be
successful and her chief protection in the
mechanism of life; tidiness, it being the
primary duty of a woman in this world
to look well; taciturnity, which should be
cultivated as » rift: sympathy, gentle-
I noss, the birthright of a nurse: cheerful
i ness and charity, the last and the greateat
| of all.