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PAGE TEN. THE BURLINGTON FKlfJE PRESS AND TIMES: THURSDAY, FEBRUADY 4, 1915. mvimmTRIES T0 BWW I50LITED IS IF ll' up Z line Werner Van Horn, Claiming to Be German Army Dr. Bernhard Dernburg Declares That "the War with Germany Is a War against the United States." WE LOSE $500, Former German Colonial Secrc- Sea Fortifications Include "Fringe of Islands All around" America. St. Paul, Minn., Fob. 2. Dr. Bernhard Dernburg, the former colonial secretary of tho German empire, In an address here to-night argued that the logical eequonce In the Interruption of trade, bo tween Gorninny and the United States, through Great Britain's tommand of the sea, both transportation and communica tion, Is that "the war with Germany Is a war ugatnst the fulled States." Tho speaker, who la making a series of addresses, told to-night of the com mercial embarrassments now suffered by Germany and the effect upon neutral countries. After reviewing the resources of this country and describing it as the chief purveyor to the world of oil, lum ber, cotton and copper. Dr. Dernburg (old of the situation In Germany, where about "0,Ono,(rti people are living in a territory not larger than California, which means, he said, about 33 Germans to one Callfornlan In the same nrea. The country lie said, was rich only In coal tnd potash so far as natural resources wore concerned, "So tiiat German genius," ,ie said, "has had to be applied in the manufacture of highly finished goods, Importing raw stuffs not only for manu facturing purposes, but also for home consumption. "On this basis an enormous trade has been established between the United Rates and my country. Of cotton m less than 3,160,000 bales have been pur chased here during the last year. In copper, Germany is the best customer of the United States. Of wood and lumber her purchases In this country have been constantly increasing." $500,000,000 IOSS TO VS. P. Dr. Dernburg, supported by figures Is sued by tho department of commerce, told how those imports have beon paid for through an exchange for commodi ties such as fertilizers, dye-stuffs, toyR and innumerable smaller articles which Germany by the. most effective system of applied science and technique Is ablo to turn out cheaply and In good quality. "The stopping of German competition on the sea means a loss of S.7Vi,oio,fliO til the people of tho United States," said the speakor, and It was in this connec tion that he declared a war with Ger mnnv Tvns ntr.Miist this country. He wpoko at length of Great Hrltaln's In tentlons In relation to conditional con traband, declaring that country had re versed the doctrine that when conditional contraband Is stopped the burden rests upon the captor to pTovn that the good were destined for the use of tho armies or navies of adversaries. Tie declared that by the reversal of tho recognized doctrines relating to contraband England hoped to starve Germans at home. In this connection he said: "And while the EngllBh will prob ably be balked in thiB Ingenious device by the action of the T'nltcd States as well as by German thrift that will supplement tho needed quantities from other sources, it is a fair example of the spirit in which tho English conduct their warfare. The uncertainty of the status of 'conditional contraband' Is dOlng UntOlU TOnn to a, uuiuiti w. . i t,e,n ctatpa. n.nd Ik larirclv re- t 111 .-- "' ' sponsible for the fearful Increase In uanployment." UNITKD STATES ISOLATED. After enumerating Great Britain's sea fortifications. Including "a fringe of Islands all around the United States," and her control nf trnns-tnar-iiie communication, Dr. Dernburg said: "So not a word of uncensorod news, o'en regarding markets or market conditions, can got through, and the United States Is as thoroughly Iso lated as she would bo wero she In the moon And this system not only dis turbs tbo Unltod States, but all the neutrals, especially thoso who without great natural resources draw a great deal of their national sustenance from their sea traffic. So the Scandinavians probably suffer as much ns any bel ligerent country. "But tho worst of this state of things Is that it will not be confined to tho time of war. It must be expected that the "onsequences will reach far Into tho time when the business shall have been re stabllshedi beeauso if n trade is onco Jlslocated and a customer lost it Is hard to get him back again. "If the source of supply Is cut off for any considerable time, tho customer will provide himself from some other source, or try 1 produce the needed article, him self, therifby becoming Independent as Germany Is now forced to do. If she can not get American wheat, sho must eat rye. If she can not get lumber, she must use steel, or ccmont, or some other sub stance. If sho can not get copper, she must help herself with alloyB of cheaper metals. If she can not get cotton, she must go back to tho uso of flax. There won't be a patch of Germany, which is capable of bearing anything, that will not bo cultivated this year In order to make her Independent. If she does not like It, ihe has nevertheless got to continue do ing It In order not to lose tho investment, the tin of thoia substances." Th net receipt of the two perform nees of "The Runaways," given last Wdneedy and Thursday evenings at Th Strone theatre for the benefit of th NeUrhborhood House, amounted to nearly 91.000. One-half of this amount foe to Tmii Phllbroolc of New York, who staged Ihe production, National provislonor says that 16,000 rattle, 47,OuO swine and 7,000 sheep had been killed up to Decrmber 31, In effort I to wipe nut the foot and mouth disease; r Hicir acrcre sato valuo waa 3.1.300,000. Officer, Uses Dynamite at St. Croix River, Boundary Between Maine and New Bruns wick Receives Explosive in Satchel from Unknown Man International Issue Raised. Vanccboro, Maine, Feb. 2. Another international problem incident to the war was thrust upon the United States to-day by the action of Werner Van Horn, who, operating on the Canadian side of the border, dynamited the railway bridge over the St. Croix river and then escaped into this State. A few hours later in a room at a hotel here, Van Horn quietly submitted to arrest, but immediately proclaimed himself an officer of the German army and set up the claim that he had committed an act of war and having fled to a neutral country, could not be legally surrendered to an enemy of the father land. The Canadian authorities took a different view of the matter and at once instituted proceedings to obtain the ex tradition of the prisoner on a charge of destruction of railroad property. Pending the outcome of these efforts Van Horn is held at the immigration office here in custody of Deputy Sheriff George W. Ross of Washington county. The brii'jiro which Vnn Horn sought to destroy was not gTeatly damaged. Within n few hours cars were shunted across one at a time, the passengers walking over on the Ice. By morning, railroad officials said, the bridge would be strong enough for trains to use It without uncoupling. The St. Croix river for some distance forms the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick. Tho bridge Is owned Jointly by the Maine Central and tho Canadian Pacific railways nnd is on tho direct route of the Canadian 1'aclflc from western Canada to the maritime provinces. Over this road have been shipped large quantities of war materials for the allies "which were placed on board ship at St. John 1 and Halifax. Acccudlng to tho police, Van Horn, a man of middle ago and of military bear ing, told them ho left Germany five years ago and for the past four years had been managing a coffee plantation in Mexico. Kecently he made unsuccess ful attempts to return to his natlvo land. DYNAMITE IN SATCHEL. Friday night he left New York city, arriving here Saturday night and putting J up at a hotel. That same night by np polntment he met a man unknown to him personally at the east end of the bridge. Tho man gave him a satchel con taining dynamite. Van Horn suspended the satchel from the Insldo of nn end post of tho bridge and about two o'clock this morning discharged the explosive. This done, he planned to go to Lambert Lake, from which point he Intended to drive thirty miles to Princeton. Tho night was intensey cold nnd he suffered so much that he was unable to carry out this purjiose and so he returned to the hotel. There the police found him In bed at seven o'clock this morning. At the request of the Canadian offlceis he was taken Into custody. O.N'U OFFENCE EXTRADITABLE. To-night Attorney-General William A. Pattargall sent word from Augusta to Deputy Sheriff Ross to hold Van Iloin until further orders. S hlle there wut no formal charge preferred against him ; at first, arrangements wore made to have Trial Justice George H. Smith Is sue a warrant against Van Horn If necessary, In order to make certain his detention. Van Horn, tho officials state, could be charged with damage to a railroad bridge, Oliver I'cciir Snhl to lime Married Womnn In Montprllcr while lie Mini Wife In Middlesex. Montpclier. Feb. 2. Oliver Pecor of 1,1c ..I,,, lo l 1Vnal.l..rTr, rnltnti, loll. ... . . .1 enarge of Digamy, Doing unnoio, i furnish bonds of 1,000 fixed by ii u: Hnrvey In city court, beforo Ii'.mi pecor was arraigned. The re suondent was arrested on a warrant Issued by tho nnwiy elected State's at torney, Fred E. Gleason. Pecor was married last week In this city to Dela Agnes Ward of Montpollor and It Is alleged that ho has a lawful wife, nee Ulancho She.wall, to whom ho was married October 14. 1010, at Mid dlesex and who Is now living In Pitts ford. When Pecor took out his mar riage license last Wednesday he gave his ago as 21 and his prospective brldo as tho same, and stated that his mar riage was tho first. Complnlnt was lodged soon after with tho State's at torney and tho arrest followed. Pecor claims, It Is said, that he se cured a divorce In Maine, but the au thorities In that State wero communi cated with and no such divorce Is on fllo. In tho county clerk's office horo. a dlvorcn case, Blanche Pecor vs. Oli ver Pecor, is entered for tho Septem ber term, 1014, but the case was not tried owing to tho Illness of tho potl tlonor. It Is understood that tho first Mrs. Pecor Is now rocoverlnfr from an operation for nppondlcltls nt Plttsford. Tho caso will probably bo taken to county court. FELLS WIFE, HURLS BABY FROM WINDOW, JUMPS TO DEATH Boston, Jan. 31. After felling his wife with a blow on the hoad, William Steele, according to the police, picked up his 20-months-old baby and hurled it from a three-story window to the ground to-day. As tho officers were about to arrest him Steele retreated to the roof and Jumped to his death. The baby suffered ft frac tured jaw and possible Internal Injuries. The woman's condition I not considered serious. Steele had not been living with his wife but was In the habit of calling at her home to see the children. The police say he had a quarrel with hti wife to-day. Steele, who wu a elreui and vaudeville acrobat, mad his jump In th sight of hundreds of people on their way to church, Governor Manning of South Carolina will sign act limiting cotton acreage on nny farm to ono-thlrd area now under ! cultivation. which is an extraditable offense under an agreement between the United States nnd Canada, or with dnmago to property on the American side of the border, where windows were broken by the ex plosion. Up to this evening, howev?r. no wnrrant had been Issued. Van Horn had not seen a lawyer and appeared to take his detention coolly, apparently Indifferent as to what charges may be preferred against him. Deputy Sheriff Ross communicated with John S. P. H. Wilson, United States marshal for Maine, and with Arthur Chapman, assistant United I States district attorney, both of whom reside In Portland. In the meantime the attorney-general of New Brims- wick, J. B. M. Baxter, had telegraphed to officials of tho Canadian Pacific railway here, asking them to make a complaint ;?alnst Vnn Horn which might be the bnsis for examination proceedings to be begun forthwith. Ottawa was also advised of the situa tion. QUESTION OF AltMY RANK. It is understood that a preliminary move will be made to determine wheth er Van Horn has nny standing ns a German officer nnd If It cun be estab- llshed that he hns not, the matter of his general responsibility will be In quired Into. Federal Attorney Chapman, in a tele phone conversation to-day, said, "This office has received a telegraphic re quest from Deputy Sheriff Hoss for Instructions in the case of Van Horn. Tho offense was not committed In American territory and no information has reached me officially that will call for any action on the part of this of fice." The attempt on the bridge by Van Horn was well timed. Up to a few days ago It was constantly guarded. Then the watchmen were withdrawn. A suggestion that Van Horn was awaro of this set afloat endless rumors of tuples and this feature of the case also Is re ceiving the attention of tho New Bruns wlck officers. When Van Horn was searched the po lice claim to have found upon him a. drawing of the bridge. He has stead fastly refused to mako any explanation on this point nnd denied thnt he knew the Identity of the man who supplied the dynamite. The police aro warchlng for this man, but had found no traco of him to-night. SiriEHEEOOBT OPENS I"ir(j- Conch Mated on Trlnl Calendar Decision Handed Down. Montpeller, Feb. 2. With Ioveland Munoon as chief Justice and with Justice Seneca Haselton seated beside him, as tbo nanli or tlm n-eent election bv tho : , , ' , , J . , .in,. lf'Klsiaiure, wnicn ciuwirvu huivvkihij the personnel of the bench since the Jan uary sitting, tho February term of su premo court opened this morning at ten o'clock with a largo representation of bar members present. Devotional exer rlse.1 were conducted by tho Rev. A. W. Hewitt, representative from Plalnfleld. Forty cases were listed on tho trial cal endar nnd of theso 20 are set for hearing nt this term, five were passed and nlno wero continued for various causes. .The following decisions wero handed down during tho morning: Lena Lovln vs. H. S. Peck, appeal from Burlington city court, Chittenden county. Judgment affirmed, opinion by Munson. Nicholas Locnsso vs. Jones Bros., Washington county, negligence, Judgment offlrmed of county court for 4, for plaintiff, opinion by WVitson. Erwln G. Piper vs. Boston & Maine railroad, Addison county, ordered re-argued, Albert Carlcton by next friend. Prentiss Carleton ve. E. & T. Fairbanks, Cale donia county, negligence; Judgment af firmed for plaintiff to recover $1,50 and costs. James Canning vs. Martha Canning. Washington county, dlvorco, Docree granting divorce set asldo pro forma and cause remanded for trial. Mutual Life Insurance company vs. Foster, Addison county; Judgment affirm ed nnd causo remanded, Catherine Celley vs Georgo Bacon et al, Orange county, Judgment for defendant affirmed. B. C. Kendall vs. Central Vcrmont, Franklin county, ordered re-argued. Cases heard yesterday were dtlrens' Savings -Bank & Trust company vs. Northfleld Trust company, trover; fltato vs. Eugene Shaw, adultery, both Cale donia county cases, SUSAN L. AVERY DEAD AT AGE OF 97 Rochester, N, Y,, Feb. S. fiusan Look Avery, writer and prominent stiffraglst and advocate of single tax, ll dead at her home In Wyoming, near here, aged J7 years. FAHEY NAMED TO COACH NORWICH Boston, Feb. 2. Howaril S. Tfchey, former Daitmouth athlete, signed ft rnntraci to-day In coach tho Norwich University basuball team. STORM OF VAST EXTENT BRINGS New England, Canada and East ern Part of United States Suf fcr from Tie-Up of Rails and Wires. GOLD WAVE FOLLOWS Some Trains Nine Hours Late Pittsburg Partly under Water Business Near Standstill at a Few Points Dominion Snowfall Worst in Years. One of the worst storms of the winter is general from the middle West to tho middle Atlantic States, New England and throughout Canada. Haln, sleet, snow and wind have all contributed their quota to the disrupting of railway trafllc, tho hampering of wire communication and, In some section;), tu the raising of rivers to the Hood point with considerable dam age resulting. There havo been heavy snowstorms In tho northern tier of States from east to west, In some sections several feet of snow having fallen. As a re sult, railway traffic either has boon al most suspended or greatly retarded. As as example of conditions might be cited tho plight of a Chicago and Northwestern train filled with pas- scngcr.s which was held In n hukte bank of snow near Marlbol. Wis., from ton 1 o'clock Sunday night until Tuesday af tcrnoon. No train reached Green Bay SNOW AND FLOODS Wis., over the Northwestern line for f)Uot0 nfrutV! n(! , tne number that vote a period of fourteen hours. Western In nilnuis. A good proportion of regls Mlssourl. Kansas and southern No- tered womon voters did vote. It Is true, ornsKiv report, mat a neavy snow storm has set In. WIRES ARK DOWN. In tho Middle West many tolcphono ami telegraph wires havo been carried down by sleet and Ice, and a fall in temperature Is causing additional trou ble. The Increasing cold has contract ed the lines, heavily coated with lc?. and large numbers of wires are breaking as a result. AVIre communication from Chicago to many points was difficult for a time and in some Instances entirely cut off. This traffic has now been re stored to all points in the West, how ever, although In many cases It has been found necessary to resort to Indirect routing. Northern and western New York and New England have been hit hard by a snow storm which almost reached th? proportions of a blizzard. Traffic of all kinds has suffered severely, the electric lines being the hardest hit. Ogdcns-burg, N. Y., reports that business there hai vote in municipal elections. et the mil been nlmost entirely suspended as a re- Itnnts have recently destroyed live mil suit of the northerly gale and drifting Hi' t dollar.- of property In their ef snow. Sleet and snow borne Into the (trl to obtain parliamentary suffrage. section auoui itocncsier ny a j.-miie , iiirtheastr caused one of the worst tie-ups In the hlMory of Interurban traf fic there. Massachusetts and Connect! cut points reiHirted similar tyiir,'-up of I tiafflc on electric lines by the snow storm. RIVERS OVERFLOW. Tho Monongahela and Allegheny rivers havo reached the Hood stage ns the result of the snow and rain. At the point where they Join to form the Ohio considerable damage has been done. The low lying sections of Pittsburg aro inundated and trolley nnd railroad tralllc there wero at a standstill Tuesday night. Hundreds ot families havo left their homes In this sec tlon nnd at points up the Allegheny. Many manufacturing plants located along the three rivors have been forced to cease operations temporarily. At Martin's Ferry, Ohio, 4, men havo been forced to quit work and at East Liverpool the mu nicipal pumping station and four potter- es have been Isolated. However, the rain having leased and tho temperature hav- ng fallen, the weather bureau expresses tho hope thnt tho fioods's crest will not reach 30 feet The Rarltan river In Now Jersey also is out of Its bonks nnd at New Brunswick two manufacturing plants havo boon forced to close. Considerable damage has been done there as n result of cellars being flooded. CANADA HARD HIT. What the Canadian railway authorities characterized aH tho most severe snow storm to visit the Dominion in years has partially demoralized railway traffic on tho main lines throughout tho country and has tied up operations completely on branch lines. All trains are arriving In Toronto from four to nlno hours lato and some ore still held up by drifts. Telegraph and telephone companies state that wire communication has not been seriously hampered. New York city has not been a severe sufforor from tho storm, although for a time traffic was considerably affected by sleet and snow which frozo to tracks and trolley wires. Tho stroet clonnlng department has set to work Its vast army of men to remove tho two Inchos or more of frozen slush and Ice from tho streets. Seabrlght, N. J,, again suffered con siderable from tho seas which caused destructive washouts at several points. A number of buildings nlong tho water front havo been so undormlned It was expected they would go to pieces. HE KNHW. The teacher waa giving tho geography class a lesson on tho catUo ranches. She spoke of their beef all coming from the West, and wishing to test the children's observation, sho asked: "And what else comes to us from thoss ranches t" That waa a poser. She looked at her shoes, but no one took tho hint. She tried again. "What do we get from the cattle be sides beef?" One boy eagerly rained his hand. "I know what it Is. It's tripe!" ho an nounced, triumphantly. The Youth Companion. 80 LID eOMTOPvT. Daughter (looking up from her novel) Father, In time of trial, what do you sup pose brings tho must comfort to a maliT Father (who Is a district Judge)-An ao- jLiuittal, I think, (Christian Roister. WOMEN DO NOT WANT THE BALLOT, SAYS MRS. GEORGE MontnH. TTV.H Afrit. A. T. nnnrin. secretary of tho Massachusetts Society I nr,,..i .,. wm ffm ,. .v,tho leKlsiators and one "affinity" as 1 speaker at a large nntl-suffrage meeting In he chamber of the (louse of Rcpre- nviiuuni'n ur-uiHiiit Jilt; tH'iUB ui nit; legislators were reserved for them, bo moro wero able to hear than In tho caso of the suffrage meeting. Her two main points wero that women do not want to vote and that whore they had voted they had not Improved conditions. Tho methods of tho suf fragists In many legislative fights, she asserted, did not augur well for tho conditions which would result when women got Into politics in tho future under a suffrage regime. In showing that the majority of women wero Indifferent to woman suffrngo in many States and under all circumstances, Mrs. Georgo laid It down ns a general proposition to which nil would agree that It was a great political evil If tho majority of thu voters wero Indifferent as to their political obligations. When men stay away from tho polls It Is Imwltnbly a hindrance to good govern ment. This opinion was quoted from the Pan Francisco Chronicle, and she read a clipping to the effect that no one denies the ability of women to vote, but the question Is "Do they want to?" The Chronicle concluded from California results that they did not. She considered the history of woman suffrnge In States of limited nnd un limited suffrage. Vermont's voto on school questions was noted. Here women with a property qualification could vote but havo seldom exercised their rights. In Massachusetts they can vote on school questions without any property qualifica tion, and of 200.000 ellgiblo women In tho last election In Boston, 3T,0M wont to tho polls. The number who have voted In Massachusetts has been smaller and smaller proportionately. In lirookllne, for example, 184 out 5,500 Ij tho record number of voters. As to tho women who have municipal suffrage In Illinois they have not bettered con(Utons for women, for children ;r for good government. The suffragists, ' Mrs. Genrue reminded lh, lpultit.itnr.c. but a vcry smnll pr0portlon of them reg istered. The Chicago commission of elec tions said that a smaller percentage of women registered In Octobor than In the provlous March, and it was necessary to re-register In October In order to voto In November. Everything was done to bring out a big registration, but there was a 2." per cent, decrease. Graham Tfivlnr. Noctril WfirW.r In f'hlpntrn In cv. i,,, ,, .i ( itvj, knife itii; omu. ii JVU jvj,i i register tho cause of woman suffrage will be sot back a generation." They did not register and the women candi dates for "municipal housekeeping posi tions," the care of the Insane, almshouses, etc., were defeated. "And so," said Mrs. George, "I claim that the cause of woman suffrage was set back a genera tion. " TUB CASH IN ENGLAND. In England they have had municipal woman suffrage since the CO'?, Women who are not otherwlso represented may "e.i- ... w ' clslng their municipal franchise, and fewer and fewer women are being elect- ed to the boards to which they are eligible. As tho result of thu mad pranks of tho militants neither men nor women will voto for womon In municipal elec tions. Mrs. George compared laws In suffrngo and non-suffrage States to the disadvan tage of the former. As for prohibition, this movemont got a long wtart and swept tho nation before tho suffrago movement gained headway. North Da kota, a prohibition State, recently turned down woman suffrage. And Montana and Nevada, the "wettest" States, accepted it. WOMEN AND LAWMAKERS. Tho mothods of tho women In the Ulslatures does not give promlso of NEWS TOLD IN BRIEF. Isaac Kohnnsky of Bayonne, N. J,, who declares thnt a Pennsylvania agent pulled his beard llvo times, has sued tho Penn sylvania rutlrond for .".0O0, or $1,000 per yank. Hailed Into court to answer his wife's , TV,, .,.,. x- t .-'i , h.j i ii his money on the Athletics In the last world's series Georgia farmers aro planting food crops Instead of cotton exclusively, Nine Chtcngoans sat down to luncheon which consisted of one egg served "with Its eyo open," or "sunny side up." It was an ostrich egg, and was an Inch thick, The city of Cleveland has formally front land, estimated to bo worth $20. 000,000, nnd for which the city has fought tho Pennsylvania and tho Now York Cen tral Railroad companies for 23 years. The United States Supremo Court on October 18 decided the land whb tho city's property. The will of Miss Agnes A. Connolls, late of Now York, leaves $50,000 to Cath olic charities. Horbort Graves, six, waa run over by a B. and M. locomotive whllo coasting In North Adams, Mass. Great Britain has bought the entire wool output of Australia to prevent Ger many from getting any of the staplo, Hobson, In a speech, terms Wilson and Bryan "the greatest obstacles to the na tion's defense." Chlcn.Ro special says higher prices for bread will be charged there next week If project of Master nakers' association Is put Into effect. Five-cent loaves will cost six rents and ten rent loaves twelve contb. No docree In size Is con templated, W. A. Brady, tha playwright, asks Gov ernor Whitman to pardon a former cash ier who stole money front on of his thea tres. The engagement Is announced ot Mls Georgia 8. Abbott, daughter of Casper f. Abbott of South Royalton, to Hniold if. Pcgrv'o of UJa ultv. ImHnr thlnrrs. said Mrs. Genri-n. Thft Illinois fight with the card Index of signed to each lawmaker wore touched u a,ao tho "nlncU,8f. on which no Vcrmont aonator nl)0arg. whcn the domocrats turned down suffrage In Congress, tho womon conducted an antl-democratlc campaign in eory congressional and senatorial fight. Thoy did not show results, for all but ono Stato so contented showed In creased democratic majorities. Their methods, she said, wero those of cor rupt big business. The cost of woman suffrage was pointed out by Mrs. George. "If It accomplished good things it would bo worth the cost, Utah, a state about equal in population to Vermont. The last senatorial vote cost two nnd a half times as much In Utah as ! In Vcrmont. ltli increased expenses and taxes this side Is Important. Only the suffragists, Mrs. George assert ed, made the claim that anyone considered women ns inferior. They are simply fitted for different responsibilities than the men. Mrs. Clarence Morgan presided at the meeting. During the evening It was an nounced that over 2,200 names had be.n signed to a petition which wns now In the hnnds of Senator Carver of the Senate committee. These names are from repre sentative business men and women of voting ace. A largo percentage of the women are wapo-earners. MR. MATHEWS SPEAKS. Mrs. George wns grci d with frequent applause. The second speaker of the evening was John A. Mathews, a New Jersey legis lator. He took for his subject the failure of suffrage elsew here nnd Its Inexpediency In Vermont. Woman suffragists, he said, have always argued tint Industrial betterment, moral and social uplift fol lowed In he wake of womnn suffrage. In refutation of this ho mentioned anarchistic and chaotic Colorado with a spineless government which had come as tho result of too much mothering; the polygamous States of the West where Mormonlsm and polygamy are spreading ami the votes nf the women havo not been an inlluenco against It; two States with no child labor: the elec tion of "Bath House John" of Chicago as alderman and democratic committee man by the votes of women; and several Instances whero expediency rather than moral issues determined the positions of women when choosing candidates. Wom en soon become wily politicians instead of non-partisan social workers, after they get the suffrage. WOMEN DON'T WANT BALLOT. "It Is a serious thing to double the electorate. You double tho vicious nnd tho stay-at-home vote ns well as the good vote. You double the foreign vote which Is n serious thing In tho large cities. Are you going to double the vote out of a spirit of false gallantry"" "The majority of the women in Ver mont don't want It, as Mrs. George has shown. Aren't you of the opposition I starting In wrong to forco It on the State by coming to the Legislature with your bill?" In New Jersey, said Mr. Mathews, women had first cried for equal rights i anil equal opportunity. He went Into ' tho statute books nnd found no In- equnllty. So their cry then was, "We I want the vote." Another old cry was ngnlnst "man-made lnws;" ns if indlvt V'.". . minis wero me creators nnu auinors oi laws, instead or public opinion. Their next cry Is "votes for women." The speaker quoted Senator Helen Robinson of Colorado, who when nsked what suf- frnge had done for that Stato, said that it had produced "a higher grade of spiritual comradeship between men and women." When he looked at their divorce rnte, said Mr. Mathews, he doubted this. "You can't legislate morality," said Mr. Mathews. "Morality begins at home, at the mother's knee. Most so cial evils come from defective mother ing. Tho womon In tho home aro a greater moral forco than when they drop In their little slip of paper." Thore wero no questions nsked, nor any discussion at tho closo of tho meet ing. PITTSFIELD CHURCH EDMS Bethel, Feb. 1. The Methodist Church at Pittsfleld was destroyed by flro yes- I terday afternoon at n lo.s of $l,00f. The I fire caught from the furnace soon utter the service. A large crowd of towns - people gathered and did good work In protecting neighboring houses. Nothing could be dono toward preventing tho de - "tructlon of the church because of tho headway of tho flames. The church was enlarged about IS vears ago by thn nddltlnn nf n ehnnoi nnriiic- tho nresnt pastorate of tho Rev. Robert Heseltlno tho church has been prosperous and an effort to rebuild will probably be mad. Revenue Fulls Off. Washington. Feb. 1. Revenue collected by the government In January fulled by ments. Receipts usually are low at till' time of tho year, but last January tho excess of disbursements was only $4. C12.W2. Customs receipts amounted to JltUwS.lM, ,uiiijim .,, month last year and $ll,S90,fW2 In Decern- ber. 1514. Ordinary Internal revenue re- cetpts were $27,00o,irf, or less by J5,.tu"" than In December and only anout rwi vi 1 1. ,U. u..lnla frrtnl Ihit ij.,ju mill I Liiiii, iiim ,-,., ,,.., same source In January, 1014, although revenue from the emergency tax was Included. The first seven months of the fiscal year show an excess of disbursement over receipts of 70,SSB,S70. compared wltn corresponding excess for the same per iod last year of about 17,W7.r HE DON'T. Poter DeGroot advertised for an office boy, tho other day. There weren't nny replies thnt amounted to anything till a dirty-faced urchin presented himself JuM at tho hour whon ho should not havo applied. "What do you want?" growled Peter. Tho child answered: ' I don't supi to yon don't know about no man thnt don't wnnt to hlro no kid nor no feller to do no work nor nothing for him. do you? Or don't you?" "Tea." answered Mr. DeGroot, "I don't " Cleveland Plain Dealer. By new federal order, no livestock susceptible to foot and mouth disease can be shipped from within quarantined urea to froo area, as hns been possible Ut da Uu- JjmiindU1o sUuehter. BURLINGTON STEAM LAUNDRY DAMAGED BY STUBBORN FIRE Blind Attic and Temperature be low Zero Made Fighting of the Blaze a Long and Difficult Task. Mm BADLY BURNED Machinery and Contents Soaked by Water but Probably Not Much Damaged Tenant Savea Furniture Property Owned by W. H. Englesby. 4 One of tho most stubborn fires thai tho Burlington department has ever con tended with broke out In tho Burlington Steam Laundry Friday night about o'clock und did several thousand dollars' worth of damage before it wns finally subdued, which was not far from mid night. To add to the difficulty of getting ut the lire, which hid itself in a blind attic, the temperature was about ten degrees below zero nnd tho firemen eained a good month's salary by Just staying on the Job. The damago was chiefly to the building on the corner of College and St. Paul streets, where the Mulshing rooms are located. The roof was badly burned and there was a lot of damagu by water. The dry cleaning dcpaitmcnt is damaged by water and a portion In the rear of this part Is badly burned. The fire did not get to the en gine house In the rear. A tenement ovet the laundry offices on St Paul street was burned out but tho furniture was removed. ORIGIN NOT KNOWN. Just how the lire originated Is not known. Several people observed tha first outbreak at the same time, when a numo was seen to snoot up irom the rear of the dry cleaning department on St. Paul street. The alarm was rung from box 44 by Edward Klley, driver for the American Express company, who lives at 109 SL Paul street Tho ap paratus from station one was first on hand and the llremen, under tho direction of Chief Stockwell, broke open the street door of the dry cleaning department and strung the chemical hose through to where the Are was burning fiercely. Tha bluze died down at onco on application of the chemical but It subsequently ap peared that the lire had crept up tha woodwork Into thu blind attic over tha building on the College street side. Mrs. Harrington, who occupied the tenement over tho laundry offices, heard tha crackling of the flames about tha same time they wero noticed by Mr. Klley but did not think at tlrst that thu bulldlnr was burning. She was soon notified of the fact, however, and mada hasty preparations to move out. Mem bers of the police force and others helped her to move out the furniture and practically .ery article was saved, 'ha . - . . : 1.1)V Piiti 1 1 n ,, cl tn tiMcc, t Altfnr-eiTit parts of th" blind attlr and the firemen experienced great difficulty In getting to this pnrt of the building Holes were, chopped In the rqof nnd on the sldea and eight streams of water were turned on in an attempt to drown the flames but It required two hours of hard worfc before the fire wns under control. Tha firemen put up a great fight but were) badly handicapped by tho smoko In tha Interior of the building and the fact that the water from the hose froze almost a soon ns It left the pipes. The hydrant nf fhn rnrner of St. Pnnl trAt nnA Main refused to work, probably becnusa It was frozen. Another feature of tha program wns the cutting of a line ot hose on Church street by an electrla car running over It. SEVERAL BUILDINGS INVOLVED. Tho steam laundry plant occupies sev eral buildings. The original structure nn tho corner of St. Paul and College stree's had been lengthened westward by an addition built some years ago extenTmj westward to the Englesby office building; and irom the south side of tho structure , is Duilt an office which connects wita 1 the building occupied by th' dry clean- IriK department, the connected structure forming an ell which partlnlly encloses 1 the small building, used ns ennrina j room. It Is "vldcnt that the blase did not originate in the engine room for ' that building Is not touched by fire or ' water. Its origin to nil appearances waa In the woodwork back of the tumbler. It as thought by many that the fire had started In tho chemicals, gasolene, etc., which nro used In th" dry cleaning de partment, but this wns not so for they nre In underground tnnks. Had the flames got to them the resulting explosion would I probably have blown up a large part I . V. . ..-.. Imn.o.lla.nt.. 1 . wiem CONTENTS WATERSOAKED. There are probably some people of tha city who will not have their Sunday laundry on time as there was n large quniiwi ui ii u,i ikviiu ii-.ui? iui unlivery t0.jn., This was all watersoaked. but ' not 0herwsa damaged, and will bo all rBnt M so0 aa ceansP,j ngaln. Ono Qf tnt, fow pionwint parts of the . . ..... .. . . . i nvi.iiina pvnnifl wuh inn unrv nr nni coffno to the firemen, the coffee havInU teon donated by Gus Poulos of tbo Boston Lunch. C. R. Huntley, proprietor of tho laun dry, und Mrs. Huntlev are now In Cali fornia, and the business Is being con ducted by E. Dana Huntley i ill, DiuiuinK ih uwnm ov . n- Englesby, Both It and the contents ars covered by Insurance. IS SENTENCED TO THE STATE PRISON il r aruo u i rt"'i?i viiik bluish kuui b from E. P. Hill. ia nisi hi m n-B m inuna k ii 1 1 1 v ru i n Iibii two years In the Stat prison. a,.iro estliuaiM