Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-06-30
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alive. and il It succeeds too much cannot be said
or done in his honor.
Gov. Page then spoke of the vast amounts OF
marble. slate, iron ore, kaon, and other products
which lie in the Champlain Valley ready to fur
nish return freghts for wheat vessels; the volume
of whose etfiux by this northern route is already
increasing and will be trebled and quadrupled by
the construction of this canal. He considered
that it would vitaIize every railroad touching
Lake Champlain, and cause manufacturing VIII
lagos to spring up at every suitable place.
Gov. Page said he expected to see the growth
prophesied for Burlington fully realized, and
| acres of shipping at her wharves come from the
far West, for more than two thousand miles of
| water transportation would be opened by this
canal if built, as he fully believed, through the
untiring labors Of the President of the Burlington
Board of Trade, it would. sso
The chairman called on Benz Z. Reed
| of Boston,, one of the directors of the
Caughnawaga Canal Company.
MR.. REEDS SPEECH.
! Mr.. Reed said this was no new project to him,
| for more than twenty years ago, when helping
the inception of the Rutland Road, the late Hon.
Timothy Foliett has spoken OF it as one OF the
great things ere long to be done. He was unable
| to make speech, though he overheard his friend
behind (Gov. Page say If he would only get mad
| he could do it; but with the emblems Of two ma
lions hanging peacefully before him, and all the
smiling faces around, it would take more than
two Governors to make him angry. He fully be-
lieved in the prophecies made. Lake Cbamplain
will be whitened with more sails than ever since
the days of McDonough; you will have not only
your wheat brought to your doors, but your cot
ton, and even your tea from China The speaker
declared himself frankly, little selfish in his
desire to see the canal built being an iron master
and anxious not only to get his iron but to send
off his rails by the cheapest route, that he might
compete successfully with Pennsylvania makers.
He had been across the continent since this mat
ter was first mentioned to him by Gov. Under
wood two months ago. and he had no words to
express the amount of products from fertile farms
which he had seen awaiting means of transporta-
ton to market; and no route can be SO quick
and cheap as that by the st. Lawrence and Lake
Champlain. He had no doubt this canal would
be built, but desired much himself to see it COM
pleted.
After music, the chairman introduced
Hon. e. N. Briggs of Brandon, who made
a few remarks going to show the interest
felt by all who could appreciate the mag
nitude of the enterprise, in project of
so much advantage to the State
A few words were said also by f. G.
Kennedy, Esq, of Winooski, Vice Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade, after which
the President of the Canal Company,
Hon. John Young, explained the condi-
tions of the subscription, and hoping
every citizen of Burlington would do all
he could to aid the matter, called on Mr.
Underwood, as President of the Board of
Trade, to head the subscription, which he
did to the amount of $4,000.
While the subscription paper was in
circulation, Capt. John Nab of Burlington
made a short speech; after which the
President of the company announced that
subscriptions had been made by Lawrence
Barnes of $4,000, and by Hon G. T. Ed
muuds of s. 900. These are in addition
to subscriptions to the amount of $10,000I
made at the organization of the company. |
Resolutions of thanks to the speakers
for their attendance and able speeches
were proposed for the adoption of the
Board of Trade, and unanimously adopt |
ed; also requesting the newspapers of the
State to publish the charter of the Caugh-
nawaga Canal Conspauy.
Lawrence Barnes, Esq, of Burlington.
then made q short speech to say that he
never signed a subscription with more
pleasure than tonight; he had wanted to
be one of one hundred to raise all the
money expected from Burlington, was
proud to be one of the signers and be-
ieved his children would be proud of it
after him. He urged the citizens to take
ng the best enterprise for their advan-
age ever offered them.
Mr.. Underwood said he had thought no.
where could his money be placed mere to
profit than in this canal, and therefore he
bad signed as he had. He said this meet
ing bad cured him of broken back, SO
that he now felt able to leave home the
next day for trip of veral hundred
miles. The subscription books would re-
main here, awaiting signature for several
days. He thanked the citizens of Bur-
Iington and the State, who had so
handsomely responded to the call of the
Board of Trade for this meeting.
THE FIREWORKS.
These consisted of Bengola lights, rock
cts and Roman candles in abundance, vol
canoes and combination pieces in colored
fires, closing with grand piece bearing
the motto, 'The Great West, Canada and
New England" above which came out, in
brilliant crimson fires, the word "Union."
These were witnessed by great crowd,
which joined at the close in three cheers
for the ship canal, with which the occa-
sion ended, and the people dispersed to
their homes. t
PLEASANT AND AGREEABLE.
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