Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-03-03
lie OLD PAVILION.



The Argus gives the following rem ms
| cences OF the Old Pavilion
The second Thursday of Oci0bcr, l-u-
was an eyentlul day in Montpelier IHe h-~.
State House had then jus. been eJmpl.r.l
and the town became the Satc lrui
TwO-thirds of the population Of tie l,I- .-
boring country. fifteen or twenty mur-
around. came pouring In. fine artillery
company. commanded hy lsI-c Pdtaar.
who stood SIX fee: in his bJOts.aud we.-lri
nearly two hundred pounds. WAS organ q !
from among tie first citizens VI tl- ST.
and vicinsge. The company wore pllu.-
BOnaparte hats, and the full dTe-- ut l..l
officers all except epaulette7 On the private
This company was designed - --rse Is Oh.
Governor Guard, AMI be in e-ptci4. az.
tendance on election days. An Ir1n "a
FOUNDER fe!d-piece was procured, When
was repeatedly discharged. to the a-rlal-.-
ment of all the little boys, when the county
sheriff, Israel p Dana, proclaimed The
election of Hon. Isaac 1icheu r. COS.
ernor. Hon Paul Brigham, Le.-..-
ant Governor, and other State 1h-er.
Thomas Davis new Pavilion, was opened
the public on tllt eventual day, al wtiL
we have the impression . series q anna
Election Balls was iraugurat1t tlar even.
ing We have dIligeuty inquired O. lean,
the particulars. but can gather ycIs H-.
from the only three persons then ami 30
living in M1utoelier-rle widow % l.r
Ezekiel Parker Walton, the Hon D41t
Baldwin. and William " Caldwell e..
The two latter remember bot htl a5.--.-
Madam Walt1n's memory Is peJt r. Nls
IN her oith year. she remembers tlat lla1
in her 10th year, she had learned % dance
CT one LIbbeus Sherman, who taught ~. Z
old-tishiOned contra dances and reel-. -u
plOying fiddler. a. was then the custom
He was an excellent teacher F4m.lzs -srs
were then scarce, and Young aiil- W-.
knew how to thread the may iw ana
far between. Hence. she says tlty wei 6.
balls and dances earlier than they On r1v
She recollects attending that ball. While
the Pavilion was building said she Of
walked over every stick Of timber Ia -s
roof This was about the ir,t AMI l.t
her dancing experience. In 1910 there W.
a revival OF religion. and as a c1nstqleucr
young ladies were still scarcer q attend
balls. Judge Baldwin tells u thar IN 1911
and lol2 1t was necessary u scour tle yl.-
lage and neighborhood TOR i've miles AROUND
u find "a bakers dozen Also tina, 10
lo20,Or thereabout, a great hue and eng W.
made against dancing. Rev Cus--r
Wright, on one occasion, after d ball BIZ.
broke up, caused a hlod Of tract. O. b..
thrown into the hall. on the tile page &
God ~ met the gaze Of tie astlni-lci par
ticipant.
For some time previous to 1925, Slmua
Mann, of Oxford. y. IL . kept the Pav.-
with his sons George and William. lie g--
on the high gable roof Of the from, par;
formerly hipped, and perhaps added a tl.r!
story The elder Mann dying in l,3j j-s
property fell into the hands OF llahicn tI.-
trell and Ira Day, who purchased IL 10 tie
Ia. Ct 1926. OF Langdon ant Spau.llu.
and increased its size near.y Two thirds b
the add. ton Of long three story hrics !
This was completed IN the Fall Oh l>3l l.
contained a handsome hall. designed BIS 8
;. Post, which was afterwards divided &
into chambers This hall cos. over 5000
An " election ball was held there 900 --e
second Thursday OF October. l-2g It--t
were SIX managers Robert Tempi7 t--a
Pension Agent at Rutland. F Z .IrE o.
editor of the Commercial 4drerfissr az TIA.
place. Lucius B. Peck. Dr. j g. Dew.
Charles Lyman, Of Montpelier aul So.
other. Temple shot himself the Cav t.t
the ball, being accused Of z $1,000 1a'--
canon. which was subsequently more t.-a
two-thIrds refunded by the bank oi va.-.
be was president. The attendance a. ta-
ball, the first given after Mshlcn C.--e.-
taking the Pavilion, was not large. boz G.
lect Again, twenty years age. February
y, 1856, being the anniversary ot N-s
birth, Col Levi B0utscl gave .a
opening ball on his accession as lana Cd
Of the Pavilion, which ne had purchI>-.ei
Mr. Cottrell The dancing, however, tI.s
place at Washington Hall, 80 thenu. ami
new, over the present Central Hsrm nJra--
way station