1908. 
<T H K RUK-A.L, NEW-VOKKEH 
763 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DO MIC STIC.—For interfering with a funeral becanse 
the driver of the hearse was a non-union man Recorder 
Frost of Albany, N. Y., sentenced John Fahey, a union 
man, to two months Imprisonment In the Albany Peniten¬ 
tiary September !). There will be an appeal and Fahey 
will be admitted to ball. Because the union drivers of the 
carriages stopped after the funeral cortege had started 
from the house the funeral procession was stalled on the 
public street until the undertaker secured another hearse 
with a union driver anti transferred the coflln. 
Five children of .1. C. Ilurdette were suffocated September 
9 in a farmhouse fire near New Brighton, Minn., while 
(lie neighbors, ignorant that the little ones were In the 
place, were endeavoring to save the household effects. 
The parents bad spent the evening with friends, leaving 
the children at. home. ... A threat to set n lire 
which would have swept Mount AVblteface bare of timber 
was the method which It Is charged John St. flair of 
Bloomlngdale, N. Y., employed to extort money. In a 
letter signed L. If. Murphy he wrote the J. & J. Rogers 
Company at Ausablc l-’orks demanding the Immediate pay¬ 
ment of $200, adding that if It were not forthcoming he 
would set. lire to the company's holdings of about 19,000 
acres of heavily timbered lands on (lie sides of Mount 
Whltefacc. As a means of apprehending the would-be In¬ 
cendiary a check for $100 was sent him and when he 
called for and attempted to cash It lie was arrested and 
lodged In the Elizabethtown Jail. . . . Fire In the 
ICmplre fork Company’s factory, Brooklyn, N. Y., Sep¬ 
tember f), caused a loss of $190,000. . . . Forest (Ires 
at: Pesbtlgo, Wls., September 9 10, caused a loss of $200,- 
000, the business section of (he town being destroyed 
Croat damage lias been done in Wisconsin, Minnesota and 
Michigan. . . . Flro In the Proctor Building, As- 
bury Park, N. J., caused a loss of $00,000 September 10. 
. . . It came out September 11 In the Government’s 
suit ngnlnst th Standard Oil Company of New Jersey that 
many employees of the Standard in the southern field did 
noL know they were working for the Standard while ail 
I lie time they were working up trade for that company. 
This remarkable slate of affairs was explained by the fact 
that a number of oil companies there were operated under 
names other than the Standard Oil Company, although 
they were controlled by that concern. ... A warrant 
was Issued at Reading, Pa., September 1.1, for Mrs. Harriet 
10. Munroc of Washington, owner of the copyright of the 
entertainment, “The Scottish Reformation,” which was 
given in Rhodes Opera House at Boyortowli, Pa., Inst Janu¬ 
ary, when 171 persons of the 400 present were burned to 
death. Mrs. Munroe was not present, but it is alleged that 
ghe employed Incompetent help, and that they caused the 
JUsaster. The prosecutor Is Frank Moyer, who lost a daugh¬ 
ter In the lire. I>r. Thomas J. 15. Rhoads, owner of the 
opera house. Is already under arrest for criminal mgll- 
gcuce. . . . Final arrangements for the Government’s 
attack on the so-called L’owder Trust have been made. 
Hearings in the Federal suit aimed at the K. I. duPont de 
Nemours Company of lHdaware, and about .'{0 other-powder 
concerns which are alleged to he more or less controlled 
hy the Delaware corporation, will begin in Wilmington. 
Del., on September 22. The Government’s complaint Is 
that an association composed of practically nil the manu¬ 
facturers of gunpowder and other high explosives In the 
Hulled States was formed In 1872, the object being the 
elimination of nil competition between the members of the 
association. The only companies which did not enter I lie 
agreement were the California powder Works, the Syca¬ 
more Manufacturing Company, and the I.ake Superior 
Powder Company; hut, according to the Government’s 
complaint, those three companies afterward became parties 
to what Is termed “the combination and conspiracy in re¬ 
straint of trade and commerce.” The association became 
known as the Gunpowder Trade Association of the United 
States. The Government alleges that the association en¬ 
tered into a “fundamental agreement" Hint nil compel it ion 
should he suppressed. . . The factory and warehouse 
of Enoch Morgan’s Sons, Bank si reel, New York, was dam 
aged hy fire September II to the amount of $190,000. When 
the water from the high pressure mains and from the 
streams pumped from the river by two lirebonts mingled 
with the soap stock in the building and Mowed Into Hie 
street all West street for two blocks was covered with 
lather, and the men were wading about in the foamy stuff. 
. . . The sale of an entire township of limber land Is 
not very common in Maine, so that the purchase by Joseph 
G. Gray of Franklin, Mass., of Township 7, Range '•*. North 
Waldo’patent, Is an event of much Interest. This township, 
lying north and west of Kutnhdin Iron Works township, 
Includes besides the 21,650 acres specified In Hie deeds the 
customary school land and several beautiful ponds and 
lakes. The woods have been tramped over and over hy 
hunters from Massachusetts for :i(t years. The price is 
believed to he not far from $180,000. . . That Inst 
remnant of wild Western life, a land opening, will be 
modernized in the Rosebud allotments at Dallas, S. D., 
October 19, when several thousand acres will he thrown 
open to settlement. Some enterprising young men will 
rrinke the rush to the laud In automobiles. A Minneapolis 
agency shipped a half dozen cars to Dallas which *vill lie 
rented hy land seekers. The old-fashioned way of dashing 
to a land opening was on horseback or In a prairie schooner. 
. . . An organisation similar to the tobacco night riders 
of Tennessee and Kentucky has been formed in Arkansas 
to reduce the acreage, of cotton next year and Intimidate 
growers Into holding this season’s crop for the minimum 
price fixed by the farmers’ union at Fort Worth. . . 
A spectacular lire caused a property loss estimated nt 
$300,000, destroyed more limn 19 acres of lumber yards, 
more Hum a score of tenement buildings, several factories 
and some railroad property September 19, on both sides of 
the Saco River In the cities of Saco and Biddcford, Me. 
It Is very dry here In Chemung Co. Tobacco Is a fair 
crop. Grasshoppers In some fields have done considerable 
damage*. Some farmers are reporting yields of 100 hush- 
els of potatoes per acre, and are selling them here In 
Elmira for 79 cents per bushel. Oats were a very poor 
crop, as well ns buckwheat. Corn for silage is a very 
good crop. Field corn is riot matured as well as It 
would have been had the season been more favorable 
and not so dry. Apples are perhaps a half crop; this 
county Is not noted for apple growing though. K. A. 
Elmira, N. Y. 
Recently about .’59 representatives of the larger vinegar 
manufacturers and numerous smaller producers met in the 
office of Commissioner of Agriculture Pearson, Albany, 
N. Y., to dismiss the provisions of the vinegar law and 
various propositions relative to the manufacture and sale 
of vinegar. It was agreed that rulings under the New York 
State law, relative to the manufacture and sale of vine¬ 
gar should be as near the requirements of the National 
pure food law as possible, except the acidity should bo 
4 Vi per cent, which Is Mi per cent above the requirements 
of the National law. The use of second and third press¬ 
ing from fermented pomace was severely condemned, and 
the Department proposes to Institute means to prevent I ills 
practice In the future. The vinegar makers also agreed 
Dial coloring of vinegar should not occur. 
CANADIAN FRUIT CROP,—The Canadian August re¬ 
port indicates less than an average Winter apple crop. 
Nova Scotia conditions Indicate an Improvement as to 
prices; "Early tipples have been selling for 79 cents 
to $1 per barrel. The co-operative associations have, in 
some eases, doubled these returns to tlielr members. A 
great many carloads have been sent from Ontario to the 
Northwest in baskets averaging the growers 29 cents per 
11 -quart basket f. o. b.” 
FRT’IT IN KANSAS. A condensed report from the Kan¬ 
sas Stale Horticultural Society is, For the State, apples, 
41 per cent; pears, 37 per cent; peaches, 4(1 per cent; 
grapes 94 per cent of a full crop. Owing to the very 
favorable weather conditions apples show a gain of two 
per cent for the Stale since last report was made; pears 
have improved II per cent. Peaches have declined five 
per cent and grapes elglil per cent In quantity. There 
are not many wormy apples in the State, and hitter rot 
lias affected hut few. Some correspondents have re¬ 
ported their apple crop as the largest and lines! they 
have ever grown. Scab and hall have damaged the fruit 
in some localities. The western part of the Sixth and 
and Seventh Congressional districts have no fruit, as It. 
was all killed by severe Spring frosts. All fruit ac¬ 
credited to those districts is In the extreme eastern coun¬ 
ties. 
ASPARAGUS IN MASSACHUSETTS. The past season 
lias been a good one with our asparagus growers. I rices 
have boon good, and we are getting some good grass 
now from the more resistant varieties. I would like to 
gel some light on the following manner of starting an 
asparagus plantation. Will it pay to pinut the seed in 
permanent beds instead of growing and setting a yearling 
root? Any information on this subject will he welcome. 
On the grounds of the sub station here plants started in 
the greenhouse March. .1907, and set here May 10, 1907, 
are far ahead of yearling roots set this Spring, !90s. 
Practically they are of the same age, hut now are to all 
appearances one whole year older. This Is very Interest¬ 
ing. and as many of your renders may have practiced this 
method perhaps they ca„ throw some light on tlu* sub¬ 
ject. The rust lias appeared and some hods are brown and 
itead, others are fast going and some are still quite green. 
Some whole rows on the breeding area are all rust ami 
those on either side are still nice and green. The 
seedlings from seed Imported last Winter have made a 
wonderful growth, many being nearly four feet tall, 
and with roots over three feet long. These seedlings are 
tstill green, and give promise of good results next, year 
when over 20,000 of them will be set for experimental 
purposes. c. W. PRBSCOTT. 
Rl'lNOl’S DROUGHT. Many of our renders do not 
realize how disastrous the drought In central New York 
has proved tills year. The following note from Schoharie 
County tells the. story; 
“The drought from which Ibis section has been suffering 
greatly since the beginning of June I found greatly Inten- 
slflcd on my return. Two weeks more of hot weather with 
more or less high wind lias made conditions already very 
laid really alarming. Fields are all brown and the soil is 
cracked open; wells are giving out a 11 over; nearly all 
streams are dried up; corn and potatoes have actually 
died, and the forest trees are following suit. The woods 
on the hills have in many eases an absolutely dead ap¬ 
pearance. The leaves all on the trees have dried up, Him 
wood seems dead, and to add to this a heavy pall of smoke 
hangs over tills locality, almost obscuring the sun. That 
lias lasted already four days, and is becoming worse every 
day. People are desperate, as there, is no feed whatever in 
the fields and pastures and in most cases no water also, 
and really water for household use is getting scarce, in¬ 
deed Is drawn long distances in many cases.” 
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You can’t always tell from the looks, 
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don’t need painting when first laid, 
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