Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-06-19


Monday and Frday;-fare Sc through the
Lake emo persons taken on board and put
on shore however short the distance for less
than IS cents Thirty years ago the Cham
PLAIN Glass works, just started, offered ten
dollars reward for information of II bed of
sand suitable for their use, and ten dollars
for information of bed of clay suitable for
melting pots.
Thirty years ago the Advertising columns
Of the Burlington papers Afforded very
complete directory of the business of the
place. why should it not be 50 now The
business men Of that day, as we gather their
names from the Free Press, were Mayo
follett, at the Wharf, Flour, Pork, Grain
&C.; John Peck, Medicines, Groceries, Nails
| DC; Samuel lIickok, o. Buel & Son, j. Il
| &. Wickware, S. Il. Howard, p. Doolittle,
| George Moore, Loomis & Bradley, Sidney
| Barlow, Arrabart Fobes, Emerson Il Orvis
and j. Durkec, all in Dry Goods, Groceries
| Crockery and Hardware Alexander and
Moody occupy over column with offers of
| Hardware, Paints, Drugs &C., Curtis and
Dunning advertise Watches q Jewelry w.
| |. Seymour, Hats Truman Seymour, Coach
| and wagon factory Chauncy Goodrich, books
and India rubber overshoes, then new ar
ticle Geo. Allen, Blacksmithing j. Mans
field, boots and shoes; Ira Burdck, tanning
and morocco; lsham and wilkins, tanning
harness and shoe making j. j. Starr, tin
ware W. Wainwright 4 A. NJ Higgins,
tinware and comb factory; Il. 4 j. Vain
wright, stove warehouse Bingham & Page,
marble and grave stones Fiold Il Bartlett,
jolners, on white church ST; Guy Catlin,
wooden factory at Onion River Falls; p.
| Backman, ice cream and soda water ; n. b.
| Ilaswcll. auction room and auction sales
of all sorts John johnson, millstones and
plans for buildings Zadock Thompson pri-
vatc school; j n, Pomeroy, W A Griswold
| Foot 4 Austin, John Storrs insurance agents
and attorneys.
| In addition to the above Marcus Hull ad-
advertised new store at lInesburgh But
Ter Il Mcintyre, store in Essex; Eddy, Mum
son Il Hooker, store, and & Edgcumbe. grist
mil, at Onion River Falls and f. Brewster
Il Co, factory in Colchester, (swept away in
the flood of ls30)
Our readers cannot fail to notice the en-.
tire change in the business men Of Burning
ton.
| The men named above have, with barely
single exception, passed from the stage
! E l,,.,,
of the list, can be said in any sense t. be
still in the same business, and his business
has almost completely changed rho rest
have paid the debt Of nature, or re
tired, som, on fortunes apmo on nothing,
or removed and passed from the sight and
some from all remembrance Of the men who
fill their places
The changes IN tho place tsclf have been
equally great. OF the more noticeable
buildings of the present village hardly II
dozen were standing thirty years ago. The
stores were more widely scattered then.
Then three or four stores on Pearl Street,
the Eastern side OF the place, were doing a
thriving trade. Then the plain north Of
Pearl Street, now cut up into streets and
dotted thickly with houses, WAS covered
with pine woods without a dwelling. On
the South E,st OF the ravinc the brick
dwelling house of W. Harrington, ON the
site of the present Seminary buildings, was
the only building IF any Importance ;
College Street, now one o.. the handsomest
avenues in New England, was then hardly
thOroughfalc at all Elst of the present
track Of the Vt Central Road where a simple
foot path crossed the precipitous sides Of
the ravne. The small stream which now
shares with the Railroad the occupancy of
the :" hollow, - was then crossed by ~ small
wooden bridge on Pearl Street, at much
lower level than the present one, and by a
larger bridge on Main Street, OF our
present public buildings mono then existed
with the exception Of the Unitarian Church
and the College. OF the structures built or
entirely rebuilt since then We may mention
the Court House Town Hall Custom House,
the Congregational, Methodist, Baptist,
Episcopal, two Catholic Churches, the
Exchange Hotel the biggest part Of the
American, the Female Seminary buildings,
the middle College building and the
Medical College, Bank block, Lcaven-
worth Block, all the stores at prose-
ent occupied, with one or two excep-
TONS and the Banks, with the exception of
the Bank of Burlington the private resi-
dences of j, n. Pomeroy, c. Baxter d. d.
Howard, ID, a. SmAlley, John Wheeler,
Mrs. j. H. Peck, DR., Peck, j. W. Ilckok,
tho former residences of Timothy FoIett,
and of Harry Bradley, and many other taste
full dwellings, in different parts Of this town
the Pioneer Mechanic Shop, Steam Saw
Mill, the Pottery, r. R. Depots, and four of
the five wharvcs
The place has had its reverses, but 1t has
grown steadily in size and constantly i'm
proved in appearance Its situation remains
unrivalled its broad slope to the Lake is
still the same. The Lake stretches out be
fore it as of yore the islands sleep upon
its bosom the Adirondacks rise "in all
the pomp OF mountain majesty" beyond,
and the Green Mountains look down upon
us from the East , the beauty of our later
Wales and river scenery the glory Of our
sunsets-these are ours and cannot be taken
from US and while these and our CHEAP
and easy modes of communication with East
and West, North and South, remain, Bur
llnston must be most desirable place of
rcsidence-and of business Our town Is
now substantially prosperous, Every year
adds new business concerns, and tasteful
and expensive residences are yearly occupy
iag the many beautiful sites ON every hand
we return again to the Free Press. The