Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-03
Letter from st. AIbans
ST. ALBANs. VT, }

10 oegin with must beg your pardon
for introducing this subject or this place
to you or your readers, for fear you will
at once say "this is too thin" for the 10
tent public have had this place served
out to them morning noon and night. dsv
after day, since the most famous Of al
her raids, that of the New England eai.
tors, and you will say at once, that by tbs
way the editors write about their fare Al
hotels here, they had certainly eat m
Everything fit to be eaten. And not onIr
this, but you would naturally suppose
they would also exhaust every subject of
interest in this region within the reach
of their pens, and what is beyond their
reach?
Now gentlemen, 1 verify doubt, with all
my rashness, whether would venture IN
write at all from this village, were it not
that 1 see by the morning paper, that
your worthy editor, Mr.. CLARK, has gone
to Portland to help build the great rail.
road to Rutland, in which l hope be will
have good luck. AS he is away and will
not see it, venture to slip in my letter
from st. Adams. As I am only private
individual, travelling on my own response
bility, coming unberalded aud unlimited
of course things look to me different from
what they did to the excursiorists travel
ing in palace cars on free passes, 'heralded
for DAYS and yearned and waited for by the
entire tswn standing with open arms to
welcome them to the freedom of the whole
village. l had not sent any word that
was coming, yet I found all the porters %
the four hotels in waiting for me-. each
anxious that should share TIE hospital.
ties of their several house. vet I suspect
had they known ho"-y short l was for
stamps their cor2lislity would have cur.
died to conteU. pit. However, as l could not
accept the hospitality of each, without
quarter ing myself too much, 1 took free
carr age to the american" where nov
I'm. By the way, speaking of Porters' did
YOU ever see a bigger lot of nuisanses
taking into account size, than sflict The
travellers who have occasion TO stopin
Rutland? If you ever have, you must
have travelled long ways.
: But to come back to st. Albans. have
no doubt but the editors had a tip top
good time. 1 am glad of it ; they deserve
/ it. If there is any body of men of whom
much is required and to whom littleis
2 given. they are the men, but any one
reading many of the accounts in the pa.
pers. who had never visited this village,
! would think the New Jerusalem had slid
down Mount Mansfield and landed o.
; the shores of Lake Champlain, and if the
, inhabitants are not all governors OF rail.
road uperiutendents, or what Is better
yet perhaps, newspaper editors, they are
all fit to be.
t have been looking this very pleasant
village over, and think it might be a very
good place TO live in, particularly in sum.
, mer. Everybody knows it Is the head
quarters of the largest railroad interest in
. New England and within the last ten
, years has doubled its population, addiog
, largely to the laboring class, while there
are but few more merchants than ten
, years since, which makes a healthy pros.
perity. 1t seems almost a pity that the
town or the railroad had not been built
down by the lake SO as to combine ~ he
advantages which might have been a.
cured. As it is, it il pleasantly SITUATED,
and has just one very pleasant main street.
nearly two miles long, running north and
south, adorned by fine shade-trees, with
many pleasant houses on either side s
Adams has one of the prettiest parks p,
be seen in New England, though if the
walks were improved as they ought tobs
it would add much TO its beau - ~
public buildings the place has b o., 1;,-la
10 boast, and is not nearly as W. II of e.
Rutland. Ii hiss better pul lie .cbo,l
building, and very fine Cor gregsrioBsI
church. Now guess have 1nantione5
all the good public buildiD % miles, We
include the hotels, of whiG5 ,bo Wd3an
is frst-classs house, th.oO xh it was una
bic t.. accommodate '4ll che excursioui.ts.
as 1 am told they filled all the other pub
lie houses beside manyI private ones. The
old antiquated CONT b ouse,4 presume, /:
useful, though far from being ornamental
The Jail is loathsome disgrace TO civil.
lied community. Ms ny of the streets are
: pleasant and good Many of the side
O walks are poor and dangerous, made Of
wood and rotten with age, which should
. suppose would PrOdu ce a good crop Of
4 broken legs, not to say necks. TIE ed.
>. tors have given their impressions Of tie
= town and it's people; have only int
q mated few of my ideas OF the place and
the folks like the place and Its inhsb-
itants, yet like everything pertaining 70
a humanity, there is a chance for improve.
Il ment l don't know how l can better
!, close my letter than to tell you what the
e people here thought of the newspaper
f. men. They say they were pretty good
looking, especially the wives and cousins
tolerably well dressed, aud all were a.
% sober and well-behaved as could reason
(, ably be expected under the circumstsncss
Y, and on the whole, though they came 10
70 unexpected numbers, the people would
lust a little rather have the editors mske
{. raid than to be visited again by the con
ID federates or the Fenians. If hear OF THIS
L. crowd again 1 will let You know.
y C.A.B.
New York STATE RAILROAD stats
TICs.-The report of the New York stale
Y engineer and surveyor for 1870 eonta"s