Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-10
MiddIetOVVn.
IDATED-BUHDING OF HOTELS
AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING.


IDATED-BULDING OF HOTELS
AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING.
1t is well known that there have bee
two spring companies in Middletowr
each incorporated the last year, each OWE
ing springs and each have been dom
business under their separate organizs
tons Each company had also for som
months in contemplation the building O
a hotel, and one of the companies re
Gently announced that their stock wa
taken and that they were then ready t,
proceed with the building of hotel. Blu
in few days the public were very agree
ably surprised with the intelligence tina
the two companies had consolidated ant
contemplated hotel building on a larger
scale than they had designed under theil
separate organizations that they now
proposed to purchase from 25 to so acre.
OF land, have it properly laid out, graded
and fitted for the purpose, and to build q
hotel thereon which shall cost sixty
thousand dollars. To carry this project
into effect, meeting was called and
holden at Middletown on Saturday last.
The meeting was organized by the APP
pointment of B. Frisbie of Poultney,
chairman, and FL. c. Copeland of Middle
town, secretary. 1t was a very enthusi-
astic meeting and was fully attended by
the citizens of the town, and many came
from other towns.
After the meeting was organized the
chairman requested some person who
definitely understood the object of the
meeting to state it. Whereupen w. FL.
Poor of Poultney, one of the members of
the Mineral Spring Company, arose and
said in substance that the two spring
companies had consolidated, and after
full and mature deliberation, had come to
the conclusion that larger and more ex-
tensive outlay was demanded, both for
the interests of the springs and the inter-
ests of the town of NJ. than had been
contemplated by either of the companies.
That the localities of springs must be
made places of resort, and to make Mid
dletown respectable as such, and so as to
compare favorably with other places of
resort, an outlay of nearly or quite sixty
thousand dollars on the start will be
needed to purchase and fit up the grounds
and build such house as would be re-
CURED in this day and generation. But
to do this he said we must call on the
citizens Of Middletown for help. The
people of Middletown will be largely
benefited by the enterprise and it is but
Justice that they should, to a reasonable
'xtent, aid in furnishing the necessary
unds. Mr.. Poor said the object of this
Meeting was to candidly and fairly pre-
ent this matter to the people, and then
especially, but earnestly, ask their as
lstance. He said the two companies ,
nited had perfected plan which would
ow be submitted as distinct PROPOSE
ion to the people. b
Jonas Clark, Esq, of Poultney, then s
cad paper which was in the form of a (
absorption. The paper provides for the /
suing of bonds to the amount of sixty d
lousand dollars in denominations of 800 C
'ch, payable in ten years from the 1st of P
-areh next, with interest at z per cent,
lyable semi-annually, and to be secured b
all the Spring property owned by both Il
'mpanies, also on the lot to be purchased, t
Guiding the hotel to be erected on the Il
me. Mr.. Clark stated that the aid al
ked of the people was that they pur- Sc
use those bonds to an extent of which Il
ey were able. The proposition to the N
ople was simply that they loan their IL
oney for ten years at fair rate of in NJ
rest and on good security, and thereby tt
in an enterprise of which they of all
lers were deeply interested.
After this proposition was submitted, n,
". DIR. Newman of Poultney was called -
to address the meeting, which he did ~.
tn more than his usual force and elo- :.
ence. He alluded to the character of o
spring waters in very happy man. -
:. Their excellence as a remedial ",
mt is acknowledged by physicians and b.,
others who know their virtues, yet -
y must, so to speak, be deyeloped-and
$ must be done by building hotels and H.
pairing the locality as place of resort w
invalids and others. This had been -:
lie at Saratoga, and at all other Springs ml
ich had acquired any celebrity, and it +
st be done in Middletown. His opinion or
:, and in this he was sustained by cd,
ny eminent physicians, that the spring inc
ers of Middletown, though not as D.
lsant to the taste, are nevertheless. as a ri
iicinal agent, superior to those of Sara ue
4. If the enterprise which has called mas
here to-day shall succeed, he had no
bt but il short time an institution Fai
medical treatment will be established for
=. a. thers il az Sara+oo,o a,,d -. IT, fori
rl. bee
Ho n"u iecei'eo ie'eers and
a several physicians asking informa-
, who desired to open such an institu- the
here whenever circumstances would Ver
rant the undertaking. DIR. Newman moo
ed his address with an earnest appeal 10.
he people of Middletown. There is, Con
aid, tide in the affairs of towns as obst
as of men, and must be taken at the L
if success is expected, and for Middle sem
4 that time is nor. iui
enry Clark, Esq, of Rutland, was
introduced to the meeting. Mr.. .
k commenced his address with a feel
allusion to Middletown as the place Oh :
ais nativity; his early associations
} here, and their memory would be rect
ished as long as his reason lasted. He way
e of his ancestors and their associates, pur
now occupied yonder cemetery, with ovv .,