The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-23
The 8utland 9ailu Globe.
49,
WEDNESDAY, JULY 90, 1873.


the grounds near the new freight depot, in
our village. They have graded up, and
laid number of switch tracks, which
looks like business. No better grounds
could have been selected for depot pur-
poses. In taking survey of what has
been done it will he seen that it takes but
very little grading to bring it up level which
gives room for tracks over Il large stretch
of country, and supplies need that has
long been felt.
Mahan, Cardell Il Co., have started
new enterprise in this village. They have
erected large two story building on Rail
road street, and commenced the manufac-
turc of Mahan's Improved Fruit Syrups,
both for wholesale and retail. We are glad
to learn that their goods meet with ready
sale, as all goods will that are made "'pon
honor" There is no reason why the coun-
| try towns cannot manufacture goods of
this kind and send them to the city, in
stead of the country towns being obliged to
send to the city for their supply. Let the
people look to their own interests, and s,ls-
tain and foster such industrial enterprises
The hay crop in this region is far better
than was anticipated two or three weeks
ago 1t is now thought that we shall get
heavier crop than last year-perhaps not
more in bulk, but of better quality and
more nutritious. The hay crop in Vermont
is a valuable one and when it is cut short,
it produces depression among all classes.
Mr.. Helper in his book which created such
great sensation in the South a few years
ago, said what seemed to astonisl king
cotton, and set him in rage, that the hay
crop in Vermont, alone, was worth more
than all the cotton in three of the largest
cotton states. If that be so, it may well
be source of rejoicing to get full crop.
There seems to be mistaken notion in
the heads of some business men, that what
ever they pay for advertising is thrown
away, or nearly so. Now no greater error
can possess the mind of any man. A. T.
Stewart, it will be seen, advertises largely
in all the best papers in the country. The
class alluded to above, would argue that his
reputation was such that he did not need to
tell the people where he did business, and
what he did but he thinks otherwise, and
hence his success Nearer home we have
instances which prove that Stewards prac-
tice is the true course. Frank A. Bond,
about five years ago, engaged in what was
then, comparatively, new line of business
in this town,-the selling ready made
clothes and furnishing goods on large
scale. 1t was thought by some that his
large piles of goods would never be wanted
in this market. He advertised literally.
and his heaps of goods grew smaller until
he was compelled to order and recorder
over and over again. To make long story
story short, Bond was encouraged and in
creased his advertising from year to year
until his store has become the great centre
in Addison county for ready made clothing
and furnishing goods. The past year, he
was compelled for want of room, to relin-
quish quite profitable trade in dry goods
for the better accommodation of his main
business. All this increase and success
may be attributed to his liberal expendi-
lures in the right direction. He not only
advertised literally in the papers, but pro-
cured large supply of handbills and scat
tered them broadcast, so that the trees and
rocks, and fences by the wayside all speak
of Bonds fame as dealer, SO that a ''way-
faring man., etc.
Our selectmen bave been repairing the
village bridge, end have put it in good Or
der. They have done another thing, which
those that worship ether things besides the
horse, will thank them for. For year or
two beck is has been made trotting
conrso, to the great annoyance of the
passers, saying nothing about the peril that
children were in of being hurt or killed. They
have suspended a sign at each end of the
bridge, so that she that reads may not
rin," and ordered the town police to look
to it and see that the rule be enforced. 1t
is laughable to see them draw up their
lines when two dollar fine stares them in
the face. One would think that the plank
in the bridge were up by the effort made to
stop. BY this precaution the town will be
saved vast expense in the wear and tare
of the bridge.
Mr.. Hill, our street commissioner, has
moved in the right direction in repairing
roads. Our streets are made almost wholly
upon clay soil, hence they need peculiar
treatment. Until within few years our
path-master drew gravel long distance
and spread it upon wide flat surface and
before another year the same course would
be pursued, and so it went on from year to
year, and our roads were celebrated for be-
ing bad ones, even in our thoroughfares.
But the system of first grading up the
roads and then putting on gravel is being
pursued to the great benefit of the travel
ling public We have in our mind piece
of road on Seymour street. that was for
mcrly celebrated as bad one, that was
graded up about three years ago, and the
residents contributed sixty or seventy dol
lars worth of gravel to cover 1t with, that
has remained in good order although not
ten dollars has been expended upon the
three-quarters of mile snce thus show
ing the economy of such system as well
as convenience This year Mr.. Hill has
converted the road on High street into a
very pleasant driving road by this same
system, aud instead of being road filed
with rocks and boulders, the size of a pail
and smaller you can drive over it with
safety, ease and comfort. Before the re-
pairs it was shameful-as you would
avoid some of the untravelled, torrent
washed roads in the Businesses of the Green
Mountains. Let the work go on, and by
and-by we shall have highways that we
shall not be in danger of being engulfed in
mud on the one hand, or dashed against a