1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
729 
Events of the Week. 
DOMESTIC.—Henry Demorest Lloyd, who died in Chi¬ 
cago September 28, was widely known, not only in the 
United States but in Kurope, as a friend of the wage 
worker, and as an authority on all matters pertaining to 
the toiler and his welfare. He was born in Belleville, N. 
J., near Newark, May 1, 1847. Henry D. Lloyd received 
his early education in New York City, and was assistant 
secretary of the American Free Trade League, organ¬ 
ized by William Cullen Bryant, David A. Wells and other 
famous men. In 1870 the young man was also actively 
engaged in organizing the Y'oung Men’s Municipal Re¬ 
form Association, w’hich contributed its share in the 
demoralization of the notorious Tw'eed maehine. Mr. 
Lloyd then went to Chicago. Within a year he was em¬ 
ployed on the staff of the Chicago Tribune. He was 
night city editor in 1873; financial editor in 1875, and then 
became an editorial writer, a position he held for several 
years. Through magazine articles, lectures and personal 
labors among the masses he came to be considered an 
authority on sociological questions. Several years ago 
he went to New Zealand, where he remained six months 
studying economic conditions. One result of this trip 
was a book entitled “A Country Without Strikes.” He 
was a producer of many books and treatises. “Wealth 
vs. Commonwealth” and “Making Bread Dear” are 
among the creatures of his brain. He was a man of co!i- 
siderable means, of pleasant personality, and had the 
reputation of being a forceful orator.One of the 
most unique legal complaints on record was filed in the 
Circuit Court at Laporte, Ind., September 29, on behalf of 
James Povlock, w^ho asks Judge Richter to enjoin his 
neighbor, Hamilton Hoover, from swearing at the form¬ 
er's ehildren. Povlock is the father of five children, all 
of whom refuse to attend school for the reason that they 
are compelled to pass the .Hoover house and are forced 
to listen to profane language in which he is said to In¬ 
dulge.A number of arrests have been made 
recently in different parts of the country of persons ped¬ 
dling an inferior quality of cigars made in New York, 
but having the marks and brands changed so as to make 
it appear that the cigars were manufactured at Key 
West from Havana tobacco. The practice is in violation 
of the internal i-evenue laws, and officers of that service 
are making seizures of the bogus cigars wherever found. 
.... September 30 five persons were killed and nine 
injured in Chicago by a collision between an electric car 
and a railroad train. The train was running at high 
speed, and crashed into the car near the Hawthorne race 
track. The accident was caused by the motorman’s in¬ 
ability to stop the car on account of the slippery rails. 
The rear end of the car was struck by the locomotive 
and parts of it were carried 100 feet down the track. 
Steam and surface railroads were responsible for 52 
deaths in Chicago in September and more than a hun¬ 
dred persons were injured, some crippled for life. 
The passenger steamer Eric L. Hackley, of Fish Creek, 
Wis., foundered in Green Bay October 3 during a hard 
squall and 12 persons were drowned. The survivors were 
picked up by the Goodrich liner Sheboygan, after having 
drifted about Green Bay for 14 hours. Several of them 
are not expected to live, having become completely ex¬ 
hausted from the exposure.Strikes and lock¬ 
outs at the mines in Cripple Creek. Col., and other gold 
milling districts, reduced the mineral production of Colo¬ 
rado this year at least $2,500,000. One thousand soldiers 
of the Colorado National Guard have been doing police 
duty in Cripple Creek at a cost to the State of $50,000 a 
month. Hundreds of the strikers have left the State 
seeking work elsewhere. Governor Peabody, of Colorado, 
has been made defendant in two damage suits for $100,000 
each filed by Patrick H. Mullaney and Thomas H. Foster, 
union miners, in Cripple Creek. W’ho were arrested by 
inilitary officers and confined in the guard house for 
15 days.An explosion in a distillery at Peoria, 
Ill., October 3, wu’ecked the building and caused seven 
deaths.The town of St. Charles, Minn., was struck 
b.v a tornado October 3, six persons were killed, many in¬ 
jured, and there was heavy property loss. Two’ elevators, 
the principal furniture store in town and the big flour 
mill were wrecked, w'hile the telegraph office and saw¬ 
mill were partly w'recked. It is estimated that 100 houses 
in the path of the storm were demolished. One man 
killed in the street was struck by a plow hurled through 
the air by the force of the storm. The storm swefjt a 
wide section of country, down the river division from the 
Twin Cities to the Minnesota boundary, doing damage 
and cutting off telegraph communication between the 
Twin Cities and Chicago for a time. St. Charles is a vil¬ 
lage of 1,500 inhabitants, on the western boundary of 
Winona County, and is one of the oldest settlements in 
the State.Several inches of snow fell at Fergus 
Falls, Minn., October 5. 
ADMINISTRATION.—The Federal Grand Jury, which 
has been considering charges of fraud in the Post Of- 
lice Department, returned three more indictments October 
1, one jointly against George F. Green, State Senator of 
New Y’ork, and George W. Beavers, former Superintend¬ 
ent of the Salary and Allowance Division of the Post Of¬ 
fice Department, for conspiracy to defraud the Govern¬ 
ment, and two against W. Scott Towers, former super¬ 
intendent of a branch of the Washington Post Office, 
for his connection with frauds growing out of the intro¬ 
duction into the postal service of the Hatch book type¬ 
writer. It is understood that the indictment against 
Green and Beavers relates to the same frauds as were 
charged in the former indictments. Shortly before ad¬ 
journment, October 5, the Federal Grand Jury finished 
its work in the postal service scandals by bringing in 13 
indictments, some of them the I'esult of months of per¬ 
sistent detective work against the following persons: 
James N. Tyner, of Indiana, former Assistant Attorney- 
General for the Post Office Department, who was sum¬ 
marily dismissed last April for official misconduct and 
who is now in a dying condition at his home in Wash¬ 
ington. Harrison J. Barrett, Tyner’s nephew and a 
former assistant attorney for the Post Office Department, 
who for the past several years has anneared as counsel 
before the Department for various alleged fraudulent 
concerns. James T. Metcalf, former superintendent of 
the money order division of the Post Office Department, 
who was summarily dismissed some time ago for en¬ 
deavoring to divert a contract for printing money order 
blanks. Harry C. Hallenbeck, of the New York 
iirm which formerly had the contract for printing 
the blanks used in the money order service, and to which 
Superintendent Metcalf endeavored to divert the con¬ 
tract mentioned above. Norman R. Metcalf, son of former 
Superintendent Metcalf, who is alleged to be involved in 
the printing contract frauds. William D. Doremus, in¬ 
ventor and proprietor of the Doremus cancelling ma¬ 
chine, who is alleged to have used bribery to introduce 
his machine into the postal service. State Senator George 
E. Green, of Binghamton, N. Y., who is alleged to I ' 
mvolved in the Doremus machine frauds. George W. 
Beavers, former superintendent of the salary and allow¬ 
ance division of the Post O'ffice Department, who is al¬ 
leged to have received a commission on sales of the 
Doremus machine to the Government. August W. 
Machen, alleged to have received a commission on the 
purchase of rural free delivery carrier badges from 
Gharles J. Heller, of Philadelphia. The indictments 
against former Superintendent Metcalf of the money 
order division, Norman Metcalf, his son, and Harry Hal- 
knbeck, of New York, are based on these alleged 
facts: The three men entered into a collusive agreement 
that there should be no inspection of the books or paper 
furnished the Post Office Department by the Hallenbeck 
firm, and that the company in executing its contract 
should use paper inferior to that required, and which 
cost four cents a pound less, and should print the face 
cf the money order blanks by lithographic process and 
the backs by the typographical process, but charge the 
Government for the full lithographic work. Througn 
the aid of Metcalf the company was to receive payment 
without the knowledge of the Postmaster-General and 
was to pay Metcalf one and one-sixth cents out of each 
four and a half cents excess received by the concern. 
Several cases are mentioned in which the company 
shipped smaller books than those required by the specifi¬ 
cations and thus acquired additional profits. In one year 
800,000 books w'ere shipped, from which the company made 
about $50,000 over the regular contract price. A portion 
of this excess profit was also paid to young Metcalf at 
the rate of two cents for each book shipped. Hallenbeck 
is also indicted on the char.ge of presenting false claims 
against the United States in charging the Government 
for full lithographic work on the money order blanks 
which were actually printed partly by the typographical 
or cheaper process. The additional Indictments against 
former Superintendent Beavers charges him with having 
entered into a “corrupt and unlawful agreement” by 
which he received $25 out of every $200 received for ma¬ 
chines purchased by the Government from the E'lliott and 
Hatch Book Typewriter Company. W. Scott Towers, 
former superintendent of a substation of the Washington 
post office, is indicted on the charge of paying over the 
bribe to Beavers. The additional indictment against 
former Superintendent Machen of the free rural delivery 
division of the Post Office Department charges him with 
having accepted bribes in the purchase of badges for 
rural free delivery carriers’ uniforms from Charles J. 
Heller, of Philadelphia. Heller was not indicted. 
P''ARM AND GARDEN.—The Philippine Bureau of Agri¬ 
culture has forwarded to the Bureau of Insular Affairs, 
War Department, a report on the introduction and dis¬ 
tribution of seeds and plants in the islands, which shows 
that much has been done in the way of introducing new 
food and forage plants, as well as new fruits and other 
growths of economical value. The experiments already 
conducted demonstrate that many garden vegetables of 
northern origin may be grown in great perfection in the 
Philippines. 
Action for the expansion of the work of the Illinois 
Farmers’ Institute for the ensuing session was taken at 
a meeting of the board of directors of the institute in 
Springfield. A committee was appointed, consisting of 
Edward Grimes of Montgomery County, B. F, Wyman 
of DeKalb, Israel Mills of Clay, E. W. Burroughs of 
Madison and E'. N. Cobb of Warren, to wait upon the 
World’s Fair Commission to ask for room in the Illinois 
Building on the world’s fair ground for headquarters 
for the Farmers’ Institute during the fair. Arrange¬ 
ments were completed for Frank H. Hall, of Aurora, to 
act as superintendent of institutes, his work to be largely 
field work. Along the line of expansion the secretary 
was given authority to procure from time to time addi¬ 
tional free libraries, to be equipped on the same general 
lines as heretofore. The libraries are becoming a me¬ 
dium through which rural school-teachers and farmers 
are learning to cooperate for the benefit of the schools. 
It was urged to act to increase interest in certain con¬ 
tests for boys, and a larger sum of money for the purpose 
of seed to be given away will be expended. The recom¬ 
mendation was made that the directors and institute 
speakers, when they attend an institute meeting, en¬ 
courage the boys to further effort in experimental and 
practical farm wmrk. In comparing the Illinois Farmers’ 
Institute methods with those of other States, it was found 
that they are weak relative to institute speakers. Here¬ 
after institute speakers will be secured who have given 
their entire time, thought, energy and investigation to 
farmers’ institute work. 
Mrs. Cornelia Ellwanger, wife of George Ellwanger, 
died at her home, in Rochester, N. Y., recently, in her 
eighty-seventh year. She W'as the daughter of General 
Michael Brooks, of Livingston County, N. Y., and was 
married to Mr. Ellwanger in 1846. She had four sons, 
two of whom—Geo. H. and William D. Ellwanger—sur¬ 
vive. Mrs. Ellwanger was prominent in church and 
charitable wmrk, but shrank from publicity. Her hus¬ 
band, the venerable senior partner of the firm of Ell¬ 
wanger & Barry, survives, in his eighty-seventh year. 
Z. K. Jewett, a prominent nurseryman of Sparta, Wis., 
died at Rochester, Minn., September 11. He was born 
at Aurora, Portage County, Ohio. A widow, one son and 
two daughters survive him. 
'I'he old Couper place, near Brunswick, Ga., consisting 
of thousands of acres, and one of the best tracts of fruit 
and vegetable land in the peach belt, has been pur¬ 
chased by Sir Thomas Lipton, and will be made a truck 
farm to supply the markets of London. The purchase of 
this place is in connection with the scheme of the Great 
Britain and Southern States Cattle and Abattoir Com¬ 
pany, which proposes to scatter cattle farms and abat¬ 
toirs through Georgia. It is a branch of the Lipton 
Company, Limited, which will find a market in England 
for all products of the company, and which proposes to 
become a strong rival to the Beef Trust, in addition to 
being a large raiser of fruits and vegetables. 
The New EVigland Milk Producers’ Union is to be in¬ 
corporated under the laws of Massachusetts. The pre¬ 
liminary steps have already been taken, and the matter 
is now in the hands of a committee consisting of R. M. 
Scammon, Stratham, N. H.; M. T. Palmer, Groton; 
fi’homas O. Elliott, Elliott. Conn.; Christopher Duncan, 
Hancock, and Secretary Walter A. Hunter, Worcester. 
There is also talk of reviving and absorbing the embryo 
New England Milk Producers’ Co., organized in 1900 by 
J. Briggs. _ 
COLORED BUTTER IN COLD STORAGE, 
Will the Vegetable Colors Fade? 
As stated last week the Dairy Commissioner of Min¬ 
nesota has ruled that hereafter butter colorji which con¬ 
tain aniline dyes cannot be used in that State. It has 
been said that such d.ves are necessary because butter 
colored with annatto will fade when it comes out of 
storage. In order to learn what dealers think of this 
w'O asked a number of leading commission merchants 
about it. The following replies are typical: 
We have never noticed that the color of butter held in 
cold storage faded or changed in any way. We do not 
know the kind of coloring that was used. 
New York. hunter, walton & co. 
Our know'ledge of the color in butter is only of an 
ordinary commercial nature. It is doubtful if a judge 
of butter could recognize the character of the coloring 
matter in any butter examined. gude brothers. 
New Y'ork. 
We are not familiar with the merits of the different 
kinds of coloring matter used. The trade here requires a 
light-colored butter, what we term a light straw shade. 
As long as this can be produced without injury to the 
flavor of the butter, it will be entirely satisfactory to 
the trade. james Rowland & co. 
New York. 
In our opinion these dairy laws amount to nothing. 
About all the butter coming from the West, Minnesota 
included, is colored, and it goes into cold storage and 
carries without change in color. New York legislators 
would do well to let the dairy folks manage their own 
business; they could depend on its being done intelligently. 
New York. d. w. lewis & co. 
In regard to the law recently passed in the State of 
Minnesota, taking effect January 1, prohibiting the use 
of butter colors containing coal tar dves and the effect 
of this law upon other States, no doubt Pennsylvania 
and other dairy States will follow in line. We do not 
think the change from aniline to vegetable colors will 
have any effect on the sale of butter either for immediate 
use or for storage. It will take more vegetable than ani¬ 
line color to produce the same tint, but the tendency of 
the trade has been to demand a lighter colored butter 
than formerly, and our experience of storing butter col¬ 
ored with vegetable matter has alv.’ays been satisfactory, 
as we never had any trouble to dispose of any June 
butter colored with vegetable coloring. As most of the 
butter is stored during the grass season, we do not think 
the change will affect the trade in any way. 
Philadelphia. john jamison. 
I always believed annatto or other vegetable coloring 
matter in butter was injurious to health; in fact. I am 
opposed to adulteration of any kind. Uncolored butter 
in Winter may affect the trade for a while, but it does 
not take long for consumers to understand that natural 
goods are far better than adulterated. The coloring 
matter will positively fade when butter is taken out of 
cold storage, and if too much annatto is used w’ill injure 
the flavor of the goods. e. b. woodward. 
New Y’ork. 
We are unable to judge of the effect on the butter trade 
in this city in the matter of color. This business is sub¬ 
ject to so many varied influences in these times that it 
is quite impossible to hazard an opinion. Nearly all of 
the Winter-made butter, especially that coming from th« 
Western States during that period, is colored to a greater 
or less degree, as is required in the market to which 
shipment is made. In the South and Southwest a higher 
grade of color is required than in the eastern markets, 
where during the past few years the taste has grown tc* 
a much lighter shade than heretofore. In fact, all that 
is wanted here now is a straw color. As to colors fading 
in butter held in cold storage, w'e have not found it to 
be so, though we may not have given as close attention 
to that feature as had we been disposed to be critical. 
When goods are taken from cold storage, and the color 
is satisfactory to the buyer, the degree of color, whether 
more or less, at the time the goods were put in cold 
storage, has little significance from a practical standpoint. 
New York. john s. martin & co. 
MICE AND TOBACCO.—For years we have had quan¬ 
tities of tobacco stems about our barns and elsewhere on 
the Experiment Farm, and have never observed mice 
y.'orking among them. Where experimenting with boring 
insects we have at times placed heaps of stems about 
fruit trees, and have never observed anything but good 
come of it. ii. garman. 
Ky. Exp. Station. 
A SPRAYING NOTE.—We have never used a dust 
spray, aithough we have been watching them very close¬ 
ly, and at times we were almost persuaded to take them 
up in place of the liquid; but spraying is a very import¬ 
ant item to us, as we spray to prevent insects, and the 
liquid spray has given us the very best of satisfaction. 
Wo believe, however, that we would recommend dust 
spraying, as being cheaper, just as effective, and can be 
used at times when it would be impossible to operate a 
liquid sprayer on account of the ground being too soft. 
Lee’s Summit, Mo. m. Butterfield & son. 
There is now' being harvested the largest and finest 
crop of apples that has been grown here for many years, 
if it ever has been equaled. This has been a bad season 
on account of so much rain to grow the linest fruit, but 
a large proportion of our crop is going into cold storage. 
Nearly all the best orchards were sold early in the season 
to Chicago dealers. We have also had a fine crop of 
peaches, which have sold at high prices. Elberta, Craw¬ 
ford and that class have sold at $1.50 and upwards in our 
local market, packed in bushel baskets. Good stock is 
now worth $1.25. Buyers have been here from many dif¬ 
ferent places. Many carloads have been billed to New 
Y^ork and Boston. Kieffer pears are now worth 60 cents 
per bushel basket. harry middleton. 
Fennville, Mich. 
YVe are under full swing with our debate on the Canal 
bill, and had a stirring meeting at our Grange. I think 
it rather one-sided, as popular opinion is against it. 
Gov. Odell spoke at our Plattsburgh (county) fair in favor 
of the bill. Those Grangers who heard it were not con¬ 
vinced; did not seem to think his arguments very sound. 
All through the northern counties there is a great sflr- 
up among the Grangers on this subject, and strong 
speeches against the bill. They do not intend to be 
frightened into such a debt by the St. Lawrence Canal 
bugaboo on the one hand; or coaxed into it by the 
niii-age of low transportation charges and improved busi¬ 
ness conditions on the other. f. 
Chazy, N. YL 
BUSINESS BITS, 
The value of meat and bone for laying hens is well 
understood. Hens require such food in order to keep up 
their egg yield. Green cut bone supplies this food, and 
where refuse meat and bone.s can be obtained at a fair 
figure a bone cutter will save many dollars during the 
season. 'The Mann bone cutter, made by the F. W. 
Mann Co., Box 15, Milford, Mass., is the old reliable. 
Everything under the sun to make poultry comfortable 
and profitable can be found in the new illustrated cata¬ 
logue of Excelsior Wire and Poultry Supply Co., 26-28 
Vesey St., New York City. This house is sole New Y'ork 
agent for the Prairie State incubators and brooders and 
everything in the catalogue is of the same high order, 
'i'he catalogue will be sent absolutely free, but may save 
you a good many dollars. 
The Rhode Island Agricultural College has arranged 
for short courses in farm practice, poultry keeping and 
farm mechanics. 'I’he first two continue six. weeks and 
the last 12 weeks, and all are thoroughly practical, 'i'hey 
offer fine opportunities for men and women to study the 
principles of good farming at a moderate cost and with¬ 
out great loss of time. We fully believe in these short 
courses, and advise those who would like to spend part 
of the Winter in helpful study to write President Kenyon 
E. Butterfield, Kingston, R. 1. 
'fHE Toledo Plow Co. is an extensive manufacturer of 
all kinds of farm implements, but a specialty is cattle 
stanchions, which the firm is selling at the present time 
on special delivered prices. These stanchions are made 
v/ith a steel latch and can be easily operated with one 
hand. When the stanchion is open it is locked securely 
so that as the cattle come in, there is no adjusting of 
the stanchion needed. Write for free circulars and prices 
Cold w'eather is coming and the barn should be made 
ready for Winter's use. Address 'Toledo Plow Co., Dept. 
R, 'Toledo, O. 
The Monarch French burr and attrition feed mills have 
found their way into the feed barns of many who read 
'The R. N.-Y. If there had been any note of dissatisfac¬ 
tion we should be sure to know it. 'These Monarch mills 
are admirably adapted to the feeder’s purposes. We have 
no hesitation in recommending them unreservedly. But 
an intending buyer need not buy on faith. Note the 
liberal time given to try before consummating the pur¬ 
chase. It shows the confidence the manufacturers have 
in their product. Catalogue with full description can be 
obtained by writing the manufacturers. Sprout, Waldron 
& Co., Box 214, Muncy, Pa. 
We call special attention to the offer made by the 
Kalamazoo Stove Co., of Kalamazoo. Mich. 'The com¬ 
pany is composed of some of the best-known business 
men in Michigan. 'They guarantee a saving of 25 to 40 per 
cent in price, and their stoves are not excelled by any. 
All stoves are polished and ready to set up. Freight 1:4 
prepaid. A special feature of the cook stoves and ranges 
is the oven thermometer, enabling the cook to control 
the baking or roasting without opening the door. Goods 
are sent on 30 days’ trial, and if after 360 days’ use the 
buyer is not satisfied the stove may be returned at 
makers’ expense and money will be refunded. Send to 
the company at above address for Catalogue 114, and 
special prices. 
