106 
1911. 
NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
Governor Dix earned for himself the 
enthusiastic approval of the farmers at 
the annual meeting of the New York 
State Agricultural Society meeting in 
Albany last week in several strong state¬ 
ments of policy. First of these was his 
unqualified demand for a parcels post. “I 
believe,” he said, “in doing away with 
the profits of the middlemen and secure 
the benefits for the producer and con¬ 
sumer.” He suggested a committee to 
meet in Albany with the Chamber of 
Commerce and other organizations to 
find means to get products of agriculture 
to the consumer with less profit to the 
middleman. . He said he wanted to meet 
such a committee and do what he could 
to further its work. It was a plea for 
a large share of the consumer’s dollar. 
The Governor also said he was prepared 
to encourage the teaching of agriculture 
in the common and high schools of the 
State. He has a plan to ask the grad¬ 
uates of the agricultural college who 
get their education at the expense of 
the State to teach and lecture for a 
week or more in their local schools and 
home neighborhoods. His hearers were 
impressed with the evident sincerity of 
Governor Dix in his assurances of help 
in the promotion of the agricultural in¬ 
terests of the State. 
President G. C. Creelman of the On¬ 
tario Agricultural College, Guelph, Out., 
injected a brand new thought into the 
agricultural educational methods of this 
State in recounting a Canadian experi¬ 
ence. His observation was that the grad¬ 
uates of medical colleges and of the law 
schools devoted their time and energies 
after graduation to public services, while 
the graduate of the agricultural college 
was expected to take up individual farm¬ 
ing on his own account. In Canada they 
believe the agricultural graduate should 
have an opportunity to work in the same 
way for the community, to do those 
things for the farm community that the 
individual farmer cannot do for himself. 
The experiment was tried the first year 
of putting six young men into six dif¬ 
ferent counties with instructions and 
means for renting and furnishing a room 
in the town, where farmers may call for 
papers and bulletins, and such informa- 
tion as they may need. The young man in 
the rural 
charge teaches agriculture four half days 
in the high school, and for the remainder 
of the work drives out to the farms and 
there confers with the farmer and sug¬ 
gests improvements, and often helps the 
farmer put the improvements under way. 
Pie helps plan new buildings and im¬ 
provement of old ones; furnishes plans 
of drainage and various other improve¬ 
ments. The work has been so success¬ 
ful and profitable that they now have 
15 men doing this work, and each of 
these now requires an assistant during 
five months of the year. 
Mr. N. P. Hull, Master of the State 
Grange of Michigan, made a strong 
plea for the conservation of farm fer¬ 
tility. He is afraid that at our present 
pace consumption will outrun production, 
and that the people will go hungry and 
become the victims of waste. 
The meeting is in progress as we 
close our forms, and further reference 
must be deferred until next week. In 
many respects it was one of the best 
farm conventions that we have ever at¬ 
tended. The spirit and the interest was 
distinctively and sincerely agricultural. 
There was none of the throwing of 
bouquets that so often prevails in meet¬ 
ings of the kind; but a sincere purpose 
to discuss problems as they exist and to 
find a remedy for them. The farmer’s 
share of the consumer’s dollar was the 
prevailing subject. It came up in every 
session, and in some way in practically 
every discussion, besides absorbing the 
entire attention of the convention for 
one whole day. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC. — Joseph de Champlain, 
president of the New England Investment 
Company, a holding corporation, capitalized 
at .$500,000, was arrested at Manchester, 
N. II., January 11, charged with fraudulent 
use of the mails. The corporation owns 
and controls seven different companies, sup¬ 
posed to be operating in various parts of 
New England, with an aggregate capitaliza¬ 
tion of $685,000. Stockholders in the con¬ 
cern are numbered by the thousands, be¬ 
ing mostly working people. Alluring prom¬ 
ises were made by De Champlain to float 
the stock of the concern. “Notwithstand¬ 
ing the fact that no surplus had been 
earned, the company declared dividends last 
year of 25 per cent., fraudulently report¬ 
ing to the stockholders a profit for the year 
of $230,000. The corporation during that 
period was receiving enormous sums for 
stock through efforts of its own agents, 
and as a result of advertisements inserted 
NEW-VORKER 
in the publications of the Le Reveil Pub¬ 
lishing Company, one of its subsidiaries, 
which contained many statements not borne 
out by the facts.” 
Fire in a factory building at 108 and 
110 Duane street, New York, January 11, 
caused a loss of $150,000, and resulted in 
injuries to five firemen. 
Fire in the Chamber of Commerce build¬ 
ing, Cincinnati, O., January 10, caused 
heavy loss, and the death of six persons. 
January 12 i spectacular fire destroyed 
the fifth and sixth lloors of the building 
occupied by Thos. Cook & Sons, the tour¬ 
ist agents, opposite City Hall Park, on 
Broadway, New York. The fire, which 
caused a loss of about $100,000, was ex- 
tremely_ spectacular, and was watched by 
about 25,000 people, being at the time when 
business houses were closing. A number of 
persons in the burning building had to 
leave by the fire escapes. 
Opinions by Hannis Taylor and William 
L. Chambers that the. bequest by the late 
Mary Baker G. Eddy of $2,000,000 to the 
First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston, 
is forbidden by the laws of both Massa¬ 
chusetts and New Hampshire are expressed 
in documents given out January 12, and 
signed by these men. as well by original 
counsel for George W. Glover and Dr. E. 
J. Foster Eddy, namely, William E. Chand¬ 
ler, John W. Kelley and De Witt C. Howe. 
De Witt C. Howe, attorney for George W. 
Glover, Mrs. Eddy’s son, filed with the clerk 
of the Superior Court a petition in equity 
setting forth that Mrs. Eddy’s will was il¬ 
legal and praying for a construction there¬ 
of. It also asks that Henry M. Baker be 
enjoined from paying out any money on 
account of the estate until legal questions 
are settled and that Josiah E. F'ernald, 
resident trustee of the Eddy property, be 
enjoined from allowing any of the $2J)00,- 
000 of property which he has possession of 
to be taken outside this State. 
Three indictments against Charles J. 
Knapp, former president of the Binghamton 
Trust Company, were returned by the 
Broome County (N. Y ) Grand Jury Janu¬ 
ary 12. Each charges him with criminally 
receiving deposits in the Knapp private 
bank at Deposit on April 9, 1909, knowing 
the bank to be insolvent. Pleas of not 
guilty were entered and $2,000 bail was 
furnished. Two indictments were returned 
against Mr. Knapp in May, 1909. He was 
tried last November in Cooperstown under 
a change of venue. Justice Gladding di¬ 
rected a verdict of acquittal on the first in¬ 
dictment and dismissed the other, which 
District Attorney Meagher refused to move 
for trial at that time. 
As a result of a rear end collision be¬ 
tween two passenger trains on the New 
York Central Railroad at Batavia, N. 1’., 
January 13, five passengers are dead, and 
20 injured, two of whom are not expected 
to live. The railroad officials say that the 
accident was due to the engineer of the 
second train running past signals. 
German and English firms that lost 
heavily by reason of forged bills of lading 
issued by the bankrupt cotton firm of 
Knight, Yancey & Co., of Decatur, Ala., 
brought suit January 14 against the South¬ 
ern Railway and the Louisville & Nash¬ 
ville Railway in an effort to recover their 
losses. The amount sought to be recovered 
is more than $200,000. It is charged that 
the. officers of the roads were aware that 
Knight, Yancey & Co. were issuing forged 
bills and that the railway officials con¬ 
nived at the fraud. It is asserted that the 
fraud would have been discovered quickly 
but for the connivance of the railway of¬ 
ficials. It is charged that Knight, Yancey 
& Co. had been uttering the spinner's bill’s 
-for five years before the fraud was dis¬ 
covered and that nearly half a million 
bales of cotton were involved. 
After a tramp of 1,200 miles almost 
without food over frozen wastes, 15 geo¬ 
logical surveyors under Prof. James Macouu, 
sent out by the Canadiau government, have 
reached Gimli, Manitoba. The party set 
out in the steamer Jeanie from Montreal 
in September, 1909, and until September 
9 of last year all went well. At that time 
they were at Wagner inlet when a sudden 
storm came up and wrecked the Jeanie. 
The geologists and crew managed to get 
safely to shore, but from the far north 
end of Hudson’s bay they had to trudge 
1,200 miles to Fort Churchill, where they 
received the food they needed badly. At 
the time of the shipwreck the majority 
of the men weer asleep in their cabins. 
Several of them swam ashore, to shiver in 
their wet clothes while they organized for 
the trip to civilization. 
Twenty-six men were Injured, two fatally, 
by the explosion of .a stick of dynamite in 
the Southwest land tunnel under the lake 
at Chicago January 16. A workman who 
hit the dynamite with a pick caused the 
explosion. The tunnel which is under 
construction leads to the Seventv-first street 
crib, in which seventy men were killed dur¬ 
ing a fire on Jan. 20, 1909. 
Fire which destroyed the three-story 
wooden sporting goods factory of Draper 
& Maynard at Plymouth, N. II., January 
16, seriously threatened the business sec¬ 
tion of Plymouth. The factory, machinery 
and stock were valued at $125,000. Four 
hundred persons were employed at the 
plant. 
A bill for the segregation of Asiatic 
pupils in the public schools of California 
has been introduced in the Btate Legis¬ 
lature by Assemblyman Hall, Democrat, of 
Bakersfield. It provides that education 
boards must establish separate schools for 
children of Mongolian. Chinese, Japanese, 
Malay or Hindu descent by providing sep¬ 
arate buildings or separate rooms in the 
same buildings. Indian children are also 
included in the ban. The bill further pro¬ 
vides that no adult Indian. Chinese, Japan¬ 
ese, Malayan or Hindu shall be admitted to 
any public school in the State. It was a 
measure similar to this that led to pro¬ 
tests from the Japanese and the interven¬ 
tion of President Roosevelt at the last ses¬ 
sion of the Legislature. 
A serious accident occurred January IT 
iu the fire room of the battleship Delaware, 
bound from (Uiantauamo to Hampton Roads. 
Eight enlisted men were killed and one 
badly injured. No commissioned officers 
were hurt. 
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