Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-07-19
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Up to the arrival Of the party in Mont
real, not jar Of any kind had come up TO
disturb the good feeling Of any one, but IN
fortunately the matter in regard TO hotel
assignments was most mIserably managed =,
creating much dissatisfaction among many
Vermont. New Hampshire and Massachusetts,
men. We could give many most annoying
cases that came under our observation, of
unsYstematIc, unfit and ridiculous assign
ments made BY the committee who undertook
this matter, but refrain from it. The fault,
in our opinion was not entirely with the
committee from Massachusetts and Vermont,
who were sent in advance. but we think the
proprietor Of tie st. Lawrence Hall (whO Is
tlso proprietor Of the St James HOteD tried
TO do more than ne Co~I4 ID decantlv and
wanted to mOnopolize the party in his hotel.
The committee were greatly in fault that
they did not know for certainty what he
could do, and do well, and to give him no
more than he could entertain well, and as
sign the balance to the Ottawa, Albion or
other good hotels IN Montreal. We are
aware that the work done by the committee
s hard and almost thankless, but what a
man accepts 70 do, in this line, he should do
well or had better not undertake it at all.
The above, the heading excepted, is from
the Rutland Herald Of Friday evening last.
1t is continuation Of the unhappy and un-
looked for demonstrations which its editors
began and pretty well followed up during
the stay Of the Editorial Excursionsts il
Montreal The occasion for it, they find a.
the extract shows, in the fact that some OF
their numbers were assigned to the St james
Hotel for lodgings and some to St. Lawrence
Hall Or rather in the fact that all Of them
had not lodgings al St. Lawrence Hall. The
blame Of their misfortune, in this respect
they freely charged to the bad faith or bad
management of Mr.. Secretary Horkins, and
even insinuated that he was governed by
local and political prcjudices in the matter.
Now that the excursion is all so success
fully and pleasantly over, and answered 90
well the terse description given Of it by the
e iitor Of the Boston Jour1,al-.s one grand
ovation all through, 1t is Of very triding
Consequence to say much Of any little annoy
ances which individuals might have expert
enced but as the editors and publishers OF
the Herald have remembered them and brought
them to their columns, it may be well, in a
line or two, to indicate that they, above all
others, were not justified in finding fault
The attention and favors which they re-
ceived at the hands of the Secretary were
more than those extended to any other par
ties
The Vermont delegation numbered at
Montreal, about eighty persons Eleven Of
th5se, five gentlemen and six ladies. or almost
n, Of -
tle Herald Office. The number was Just
equal to that from the four Montpelier pa
p;rs-equal to that Of the Windham, Windsor
and Orange county delegations combined
and two less than the delegations from Add
son, Bennington and Chittenden counties
combined. Two Of the gentlemen-the senior
proprietor and the Rev. Mr. Cyr-werc
never members OF the Association, unless the
action of the Hon. Henry Clark in applying
for accommodations for them, and the kindly
intentions of the Secretary in issuing tickets
to them, make them so. Out of the five
only two made application for tickets accord
ing to the terms fixed by the Central commit
tee at Boston. OF the six applicants for
passes, who came late and whose cases, there
fore, required especial attention. three were
from the Herald office. And the three ap-
Piled for within the week preceding the ex-
cursion, and which it took the best endeavors
OF telegraph, IN all and express to procure
and deliver in time, were issued to that same
office Add to this, the fact that one of the
proprietors wrote the Secretary on Saturday
letter reached here the very day that the
excursion set out-that he could not 20 be
yond ST. Adams, and the fact that be was at
Montreal with two ladies, and we believe it
will be seen, as before suggested, that they
are not the men to complain
This personal matter, we can assure our
contemporaries of the Herald, is distasteful to
US, and we have been urged to it only by the