Columns, Weeks Gone By

From The Hardwick Gazette, January 29, 1925

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Factory in Lower Cabot Village Goes Up in Flames

CABOT – One of the old landmarks, the old Haines Woolen factory, burned between eight and nine o’clock Tuesday morning. The factory was used as a shop for making butter boxes and was owned by Harry Clark and gave employment to almost ten men. The origin of the fire is unknown. As the first workers came, on entering the building and starting the machinery, the interior burst into flames. Although people gathered quickly to lend assistance, the fire had made such headway that no aid could be given. The building was of wood and burned fiercely. Besides the building itself all the machinery was lost, a quantity of lumber and several loads of finished boxes. Mr. Clark had been ill and had to be assisted from his bed at the time of the fire. The loss was only partially covered by insurance.

Our Northern Border

VERMONT – The northern border of our state is one of the favorite frontiers in the United States for the smuggling of aliens. The entire northern border of Vermont and New Hampshire, a distance of 121 miles, is guarded by a force of ten men, and these patrols interviewed 26,600 people during the period between July 1st, and November 30th, last year, according to a statement recently made public by W. W. Husband, commissioner-general of immigration.

The vigilance of these patrols, the number of whom would seem inadequate to handle the situation, resulted as follows for the above-mentioned period: The men captured 20 smuggled aliens, 11 alien smugglers, four Chinese and 18 Chinese smugglers; seized eight automobiles for violation of customs and prohibition acts, seven automobiles for smuggling aliens; arrested 35 aliens on warrants; turned 251 aliens back to Canada, without resorting to warrants; examined 300 freight and passenger trains; stopped and examined 7,200 automobiles with 21,600 passengers, and 400 automobile busses with 5,000 passengers.

This record of accomplishment is much better, according to the number of men employed and the territory covered, than that reported from the Maine border.

Mr. Husband, speaking before a committee of the National House of Representatives, told of the hordes that lurk on the northern border waiting a chance to get across the line. They prefer this location because it is nearer the eastern cities, which are their goals, than are the Mexican or northwestern borders.

The committee learned that there are 10 border patrol districts, with headquarters at West Montreal, Canada; Buffalo, N.Y.; Detroit, Mich; Grand Forks, No. Dak.; Spokane, Wash.; Seattle, Wash.; San Antonio, Tex.; El Paso, Tex.; Los Angeles, Calif., and Jacksonville, Fla.

In these 10 districts, 35 inspectors and 449 patrolmen cover 5,740 miles, at a cost of $1,000,000 a year. The inspectors are paid $2,400 a year and the patrolmen $1,750 after six months. Out of this the men have to buy their uniforms, which cost about $70.00 each.

“Along the Canadian border a very considerable percentage of the Europeans arrested by our officers, who are found to be without passports, are taken over by the department of justice, under the passport act, tried, convicted and sentenced,” said Mr. Husband.

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