The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-13
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The 2atland Daily Glohe.
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1878.
Memory of Hydc,s Tavern,
SOME VERMONT "REMINISCENCES.

The mention of "Liberty Hail." at Sud
bury, VT, now among the things of the
past, will call to the memory of many of
our readers ways of pleasantncss and paths
of country peacefulness. Years ago. when
board could he had at SO 80 week. with
three meals day, dance every evening.
except Sunday Ga sermon on that) and free
rides in his wagon thrown in" lIyde's was
ut its highest state. Whole families. from
every part of Tie country, with innumera-
bic children. ate, drank milk. and "slept
ON to themselves coatings of fat, and en-
| Joyed freedom and freshness that did
then, as it now does, in remembrance.
soothe the sutfelings of dyspeptic. AS in
all virtuous communities, nature seemed to
do its best in bringing the best down upon
that quiet old place. The wind blew fun.
and when it rained, fun poured upon all.
| 1t was the easiest, heathiest. quietest, COST
est old place in New England. Men. wo-
men and children did as they pleased. and
| the tithing men of the village helped them
kilograms never appeared in the town, and
the meat of the daily journals came but
once week, in the shape of the Middle
bury Banner, the Orwell Bugle or the
Rutland Mercury. No one cared to know
of things before they happened, and, like
| ancient prophets, they gave lengthy con-
them. Once or twice in the many sum
mers we passed there, two people only were
| anxious enough for the news to drive old
Jack and the blackboard seven miles to get
them. Life there was as near vegetation
and perfection as it well could be. But we
are allowing our feelings to run away with
us, for the old house, with its twenty-onc
gables, has gone, and we must think of it
as the children of Israel thought upon the
homes of their fathers, and wish to ret
back.
Hyde was character lie was at once
the most respected and richest man in the
| community Long before the railroad sys-
TEN was introduced in the country. his
father, who met an untimely death from
rolling off a log, and allowing the log to
roll over him, established himself as a
keeper of the halfway tavern on the stage
road between Albany and the upper end of
Lake Champain. Here, as the ancient
register shows, Silas Wright, Webster,
Mangum, b. f. Butler, of Sandy Hill
Levi Woodbury., Emmons (surnamed Pop,)
Van Buren,, John Quincy Adams, and hun
dreds of Others known to political fame,
put up for the night or waited change
of horses and the services of a good dinner.
The original Hyde always had a story at
hand in which some one of these worthless
bore conspicuous part but that fatal log
put at end to them long ago. Hyde, the
son, who recently died, full of honors and
associate Judge of the county of Rutland.
inherited the property, and the most excel
lent characteristics of his father Reared
among the daily chances of associatin~
with the great. the intellectual and tbe
witty of our country. he seemed 10 have
become saturated with their most Winning
peculiarties. He could not only tell n
story without hatchct. but he could han
die one that cut both WAYS in telling IT
About twenty wears ago ON the suggestion
and Recommendation Of the late Isaac O.
Barnes, we went to Hyde's to ..see for orr
selves, and take rooms for the season." A
pleasant ride from Bellows Falls over the
Green mountains, on soft June morning.
was enough in itself to make us fall in love
with our anticipations. Our uncle John
(who is weighty authority on epitaphs)
was along with us, to ''see for himself
whether fishing was really what it was said
to be, slept all the way through the marble
quarries, and didn't see a tombstone and at
about four in the afternoon we reached the
end of our railway travel. A small boy,
with hair of orange hue, eyes and habila-
ments of gray, stood upon the platform
eating domestic gum drops. As he appear
ed to be willing for something, we asked
him the route to Hyde's for we yet had
seven miles more of mountain riding to do
before we should reach that desired point.
"Hydes." said he, "Im come for YOU. |
s'pose; the wagons round t'other side the
buildin'; horses are Altered O. them en-
gines."
We soon ratified up into the town of
Brandon, and passing through were in
formed by our Youthful driver that s.Dou-
glas was born in this place: s'pose Won
know him?"
1t was Stephen A. Dauglas he referred
to, and that was the last reference he made
to anything until we reached the foot of n
long and tedious hill, when he said it was
usual in hot weather for .fat men TO Get
out and help the horses by ascending ON