The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-28
The New and Old Pavilion.


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The New and Old Pavilion.
The grand opening and house warming
of Montptler's new and fine hotel, on
Tuesday evening, was notable affair. Mr..
Bailey, to whose enterprise and public
sDiil is due the existence OF the new Pa
vilion, had made The most complete ar
engagements for the entertainment of his
cuesis The smaller dining room of the
hotel, and the parlors on the opposite eide
| Of the hail were filed with tables for the
supper, while the large dining hall bad
been transformed into a room for the dan
cers, and with its polished and waved floor
ami ample proportions, made 'Tp, ndid"
ball room. The balls pirinrs and waiting
rooms we're decsed with bouquets of costly
flowers. The kitchen arrangements were
perfect, and the I'LL of fare wAs one Of
great variety with no attempt 1T display.
The number present at the supper table
wes about FIVE hundred, and ebuut two
hundred and thirty tickets were sold for the
dance OF ihtse, about one hundred
couples were from abroad.
Among tho prominent guests were Judge
Powers and wifo of Morrsville, H,n. W.
II. II. Sortwell, esq, and wife OF Boston,
Generals Wells. Henry and Foster, J. a.
Arthur, d. c. Barber, r. W. Fisher, and
r. c. Rove Of Burlington, with their
ladies' Gen. l.. G. Kingsley of Rutland,
George II. Chapman, s. :. Gaines, and r..
j. Talbot and wife of Vergebnes II. X.
Weeks OF Dtnvile ex-Goy. Dillingham;
of Waterbury ; y p. Bowman of st.
.Iohnsbury Hon. w II. II. Bingham OF
Stowe; Hon. a. II. Camp Of Minneapolis ;
Judge Redield, Treasurer Paige, United
Stsies District AttorHty Field, State Au-
ditor ferrin, and other prominent citizens
of Montpelier Mrs. Governor Smith and
daughter Of ST. Adams Miss L. G. Ashley
and Mrs. M. G. Weeks of New York A..
| w. Rsnley and wife of Boston, and many
others.
The music consisted OF Houses band,
and gave unusual satisfaction. Thc Ger
mania" baud OF Boston had been engaged
| for the occasion, but were unable to fulfil
| the engagement. The Wdichmdn says :
ain our opinion, the general public was as
well satisfied with the music present, as
they could have been with the Germsnia.
Houses band was supplemented by the ad-
| diion Of Dir. Holmberg, the violinst OF
| JuEllUptnU, MDitii Nbulu NC Chiitu tlt tuul-
| ton to almost any hand we are acquainted
with" All went off pleasantly.
TIE OLD PAVILION.
The -irgus gives the following Iemins-
ceuces Of the old pavilion
The second Thursday in October, 1903,
WAS The eventful day in Montpelier. The
first state house had then just been com.
pleted, and the town became the state cap
ilal. Twothirds of the population ef the
ntighboring country, fifteen or twenty
miles around, came pouring in. A fine al
| tileiy company, commanded by Isaac
Putnam, who STOOD six feet in his boots
and weighed nearly two hundred pounds,
was organized from among the first citizens
of the town and vicinage. The company
wore plumed BonapaIte hats, and the full
dress of field officers. all except epauleltel
On the privates This company was de-.
signed TO serve az the "Hovernor's Guard.
and be in especial attendance on election
days. An iron six-pounder fleld-piece was
procured, which was repeatedly discharged,
to the asionishment of all the little boys
when The county sheriff, Isratl T. Dana
proclaimed The election of Hon. Isaac
Tichenor, governor Hon Paul Brigham
lieutenant governor and other stale Of
opened to the pull on the eventful day
MT which we have The impression series
Of annual election balls wss IN
augursled that evening We bav,
very diligently inquired to learr
the particulars, but can gather very It'll,
from the only three persons then and still
living in Muntpeler--tbe widow of Gen
Ezekiel Parker Walton, the Hon. DAME
Baldwin, and William w. Caldwell, esq
I be two latter remembered but little abou
II. Madam Wsl'on's memory 10 better
Now in her 94lb year, the remembers tina
then, In her 18th year, she had learned Il
dance of one Libheus Sherman, who tauRh
good old-fashioned contra dances and reels
employing 1ddler. AZ WAS then the Gus
tom. He YVES An excellent teacher. Fam
lies here were then scarce. and yOunj
ladies who knew how 10 thread the may
few and far between. Hence, she say
they went 10 balls and dances earlier thai
they do now. She recolects attendin,
thai ball. "While the Pavilion was build
ing" ssid she ~ walked over every sticl
OF timber in the roof" This was abou
the first and last OF her dancing experience
In 1910 there was revival OF religion, ant
as n consequence young ladies were still
scarcer to attend balls Judge Baldwin
tells us that ia 1911 and 1912 it wa
necessary to scuur the village AM
neiphborhood for five miles around T.
, find "a baker's dozen" Also that in 1920
or theresbout, great hue and cry wa
, made against dancing. Rev. Cheste
Wright, on one occasion, after ball ha
broke up, csused food nj tracts TO b
thrown into the hall, on the title pages O
' which the words. "Prepare 10 meet tn
t God." met the gaze OF the astonished par
' Elephants.
For some time previous to 1925, Same
Mann Of Oxford, N. H., kept the Pavlio
t with his sons George and William. He pu
Y on the high gable roof of the front pal
formerly nipped, and perhaps added thir
: story. The elder Mann dying in 1925, th
property fell into the hands of Mahlon Co
!, irrll and Ira Day, who purchased it In tn
: fall of 1926, Of Lsngdon and Spauldnl
and increased it's size nearly two-thirds. b
the addition Of long tbree-story brick
: This was completed in the fall Of 1929,
Q contained handsome hall, designed by |
!, S Post, which was afterwards divided o
!, into chambers. This hall cost over 90 00l
a An ''elecIion ball" was held there on Ii
a second Thursday of October, 1890. Thei
. were six managers Robert Temple, the
pension agent at Rutland, who died befor
the hall, e. II. Jewett, editor OF the Co,
: n,ercial Adpertser At that place, Luclus
Z Peck, DR.. ]. Y. Dewey, Charles Lyman