Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-05-28

Main street has lately received fresh
stock of the best Of groceries from Ne +
York and Boston. \ thorough-going,
reliable business man as he is, Mr..
HYDE deserves the large patronage he is
receiving.
THE weldon SpRING.-Wc noticed
last week the fact that the propretors
of the Weldon spring were building a
bottling house for the convenience of
their business, but we had not then
made any personal examination Of their
premises. in which we are behind the
majority of the people of our place and
vicinity. A personal inspection of the
place is in the nature of pleasant rccrea-
ton, and IL well worth the time of any
one. The building now going on to-
wards early completion is placed over
the spring, aud is twenty by thirty-siX
feet upon heground, with the addition
of piazza and she'd, and is one and q
half stories in height. The ground floor
il being divided into three rooms one,
on the north end, in front of which is It
pleasant piazza, is 20 10y II feet, and viii
be fitted for the reception of visitors,
who despite the present comparative III
conVCniCncCs, arc numerous ana con-
slant; one, the middle room, will be 20
by II feet, and will contain the bottling
and corking apparatus and the south
room will be used for packing The bottles
of water and will have IN inclined rail-
way leading TO a platform beside the
street, for the convenience OF the trans
portation departments. The shed a1toin-
ing is intended for the storage Of empty
boxes, preparatory to their use, and for
king we presume. In the partition
between the bottling and packing rooms
there will be two openings, above tables
on each side of the partition, through
one of which the empty bottles will be
passed into the bottling room. and
through the other the filled bottles will
be returned to the packing room. The
upper story will be devoted to the man
ufacture of boxes for the bottled water.
The arrangements of the rooms for the
business to be carried on, and for the
convenience of visitors, are excellent.
a house adjoining is already completed,
to be occupied by the superintendent of
the establishment, and the worllmen.
The lot upon which the spring and build
ings are located is on the corner of Ed
wards and Weldon streets, and will be
so arranged and graded as 10 afford
ready and easy access ut all times TO car
rages.
Until we visited the Weldon Spring,
and from that point took in the view OF
the village we had no idea of the love
illness of the scene, which recalled viz
idly to our mind the lines of Emerson
'Around this lovely valley rise
The purple hills OF Paradise"
The hills to the east of the village, the
mountains across the lake, the lake it.
self shining like broad mirror, anC
near at hand the village cmbowcret
amid the trees, made picture not to bt
eXcelled for beauty; and the place from
which we took in the view seemed tC
Us admirable in its power OF conveying
pleasure and health. Ifthe famed foun
tain of Youth which Ponce de Leo1
sought to find earnestly and unsuccess
fully, can reasonably be supposed to ex
lit anywhere on this steady-going plan
ct we do not know of any reason VIII.
we have not visited it; for if a plac
where the most beautiful in nature ant
the most beneficial for the body vii
not tease back bloom and the pulses o
our lost but not forgotten youth, thel
we may well attend an auction with Mr.
Toodles, and buy what he bought 70
it twill be handy to have about tn
house,