The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-06
At Brandon.

The first thing to he said of the celebra-
ton at Brandon is that it was triumphant
success. The citizens planned it and car
ried it out in all the details With energy
and spirit. Nothing was forgotten or left
ram mlerIlrtu with III the evening, were
the Gully unsuccessful thing of the day, or
rather two Gays, for the celebration really
began the night before. The village was
illuminated with Chinese lanterns, the band
played, serenade was rendered the orator,
Hon. N B. Bryant, and the air was alive
with firecrackers and enthusiasm.
The drum corps of the Rutland military
institute, which had arrived that noon on
their march to Lake Dunmore, serenaded
Capt. A. s. Cook, marshal, on the follow
iug day; c. d. Pitts and Col. E. A. Hamil-
ton. AT Capt. Cooks they we're invited in,
after the custom of that hospitsble gentle
man, and passed an hour very pleasantly
with music, refreshments and fun.
From this time till the sunrise salute the
next day there was no quiet. The hotels
we're full to overlooking, people were on
the streets oil night, and the boom of can
non, shrek of cornet or buele summoning
70 a rendezvous some company, or worse,
the incessant snap, snap, snap of the fire.
cracker, made futile the attempts at sleep of
the few who sought that refreshment
Early in the morning the town was alive
and begun to fill up with visitors from sur
rounding towns. The town at that time
presented beautiful appearance. Every
place of business and almost every resi-
dence in the village was decorated in some
way, with flags, streamers, evergreens or
notices. Some of the decorations were
expensive and elaborate and some we're
simple, but everyone had done something
in honor of the day. We give below list
of
THE DECORATIONS.
1t is,of course, incomplete, as in the limit
ed time at the reporters command, 1t was
impossible to do more than pass through
the principal streets, and it would be mir.
| acle if some decorations had not been over.
| looked and if others were not incorrectly
| given. But the list IL, in the main, &C
| curate.
PARK STREET
Over the corner IF Park and Center
streets large double arch was erected,
profusely covered with red, white and blue
bunting, and decorated with evergreene.
One side bore the inscription "WashIng.
ton" and the other "Llncoln," and over
the one was hung crayon of Washington
and over the other one of Lincoln. The
crayons were finely done, the work of q
young man in Brandon whose name we did
not learn.
All the business places on Park stree,
were decorated, the store of Ross & Pitt.
very deliberately. The motto "As God was
with our father SO may he be with us" be.
tween the dates 1776, 1876, looked down
from mass of bunting and the building
huttered all over with small flags, and was
hung with festoons of evergreen and
streamers The Brandon house was deco.
rated with Number of flags. The park
opposite it had arches over the entrances
trimmed with evergreea and the national
colors.
The following residences on Park street
we're decorated Il. j. Ormsbee, DIR. +. w
Page, DR.. ID. w. Prime, John Simonds, z
Clark, DR.. G. l.. Case, w. G. Simonds
Mrs. Hines, Charles Phelps, Frank Hunt
@. s. Boynton, John Vail, Mrs. John Howe
sylvester Moulton, Charles Fay, james
KNAPP, Henry Wright, 30. Bascom, A. w
Co.'s, N. IL. Eddy, ID w. Kidder and II.
II Williams, John ingalls,, William Lahee
Mrs. John Slmonds, Samuel Spauldng, E.
!. Sargent, II. @. Copeland and tle0rgt
Parmenter. John Simonds and E s. Sar.
gent. threw out large flags, John Vail, e
j. Ormsbee and A. W. Goss had the mos,