Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-01-27

Hastings. Densmore and MIR. Horace
Alden's, Clark, all young men of worth
and enjoying the confidence of their su
periors. Besides these named there are
at the shops, the foreman, Mr. William
Mack; Mr.. Lawrence in charge of the
yard help; Mr.. Green from the wood
shop and the older workmen in the ma
chine shop and the round house whose
names | have not yet learned, whose gen.
tlemanly bearing and workman like hab
its are calculated to impress one with |
the truthfulness of the remark often
heard from gentlemen from abroad who
have visited the works, that the whole
character and bearing of all the employ
es here is far above the employees in
works of similar corporations through
out New England. Profanity and i'm
moral conversation one seldom hears in
the whole round in which ] have so
imperfectly taken your readers Mr..
| Horace Alden under whose management
most of the works come. is christian
gentleman actively engaged in church,
sabbath school and philanthropic enter
prises, and carrying into his business
his christian integrity and uprightness.
His popularity with his subordinates and
the respect in which he is held by them
attest the practicability of ones main
tanning in the daily business life, his
christian character. What is true of
the company here at head quarters and
with visitors here. is equally true the
whole length of the road and with the
travelling and business public generally.
The policy of the road is the most be-
nifeent and humane firmness tempered
with moderation. AS matter of course.
there are some that grumble. Not every
one who transacts business with the
company in the course of the year is
perfectly satisfied, nor is every stock
holder entirely sure that the management
has been just the best, neither are all
the employed, at all times, quite pleased
with their salaries, or with the require
ments made of them; yet as a general
thing | think it is admitted that the
rates Of transportation are reasonably
moderate; the passenger tariff is no
higher than on other roads, and less than
on some; that all claims against the
company for damages or for losses or for
mistakesin overcharges are carefully and
properly adjusted, in justice to both par
ties; that considering the increase in its
business, necessitating the running of
trains more frequently. and the increase
of its rolling stock, occasioning an in
crease of wear and tear, the road was
never managed more economically; that
for its length. the frequency of its trains
and the connections to be made at both
ends, no road in New England can COM
, pete with it in the fewness of its serious
and fatal accidents, and the regularity
and promptness of running its trains.
1t has no ''make or break policy and is
alaoayS "on time.
If my account were complete now, l
. would stop, lest should weary your
! readers; but no history of the Pass.
Road is fully written, certainly not when
penned here, without full description
= of Lyndonville itself. the youngest and
most promising child of this fostering
mother Beautiful for situation is the
exclamation of the stranger when view
ing it for the first time Of its location,
] however, must say but little 1t is
nearly seventy miles from White River
Junction and some more than eighty
! from Sherbrooke, P. @, the terminus Of
the road, north. When the Co. first
), came here six years ago. the site of the
village was medium farm of loam and
sand, which, after reserving ample yard
and building localities for their own
purposes and for public square. was
apportioned into building lots and rapid.
-. ly sold to employees and business men
desiring to locate here The Co. itself
also erected. the first year, several tene
ment houses, and has increased the mum
Der nearly every year since; has erected
r the past season, six neat little cottages
) Business of all grades has rapidly cen
!, tered here, and almost every branch ha:
: enjoyed years of uninterrupted prosper
: ity. Soon after the first activity in thu
way of building up, commenced tn,
school and church question, following
:. ever the wake of civilization and prog
ress, began to be agitated. and religion,
;, meetings were regularly held nearl,
from the first. About three years after
:, church was formed, holding Sabbath
and other religious services in. the pub
lie hall. A school house was erected
the village in prospect was neatly lai(
out in streets and squares and Lyndon
> vile began to be. Men of energy ant
. business sagacity like Mathewson, tn
:, Weekses, Fletcher & Applebee purchas
=, ed lots and erected or rented in build
ings already up, and the business hun
:, was heard in the late wilderness. Hard
ly had the sound of the hammer die,
- away from their own dwellings, indeed
oro ,yoc hood e., ,,,oor eo,1o A.