Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-16
Vermont Editors.


land the 9Th. Mr.. Walton was reelecte
president in the evening and there was al
address by IL. A. IIuse, and poem by z
IL. Phelps. The next morning the com
pany visited the House Of Correction an,
the Howe Scale works and during tn
whole stay in Rutland were most hospi
tally entertained.
After the meeting at Rutland, the asso
citation, in charge of F. C. White, Esq.
superintendent of the Rutland and Ben
ningtOn railroad. left Rutland for Troy
where they were to take the steamer fol
New York. The trip from Rutland tC
Troy was pleasant and made with nj
mishap, and on arrival at Troy the party
was met ut the depot by carriages and
taken to the Troy House, where n fin,
supper was served by the proprietor, B
+. Stiles Esq, who Is, or ought to be. d
native Vermonter, and this generous hos
pitaliy to the members of the press of his
native state should make them proud to
own him as one of her sons. From the
Troy house, the party proceeded to the
steamer Saratoga, and ut 81. NJ. steam
ed down the Hudson, past the various
iron manufactures, whose lurid lights
made a scene of wild, weird beauty. The
passengers grouped on the decks evidently
were all enjoying the scenery till darkness
settled over the landscape. Then in the
spacious saloon of The steamer. iu social
converse and in music from the grand
piano, the evening passed pleasantly till
time for country people to go to bed, when
The piano was closed, and soon no sounds
were heard save the throbbing of the great
engines and the beat of the paddles. At
IN early hour many were Oh deck viewing
The beauties of the lower Hudson, the
palisades, the fine residences so numerous
hele, and at 1880 the steamer reached her
wharf on North River, when the party
took carriages for The St. Nicholas Hotel
where a very handsome breakfast was
part,lten of. Mr.. WEIGH, the proprietor,
is also n Vermonter by birth. After
breakfast the party took the Elevated
railroad for the boat running for Manhat-
tan Beach, Coney Island, where the grand
banquet was advertised to come off at the
Brighton Beach Hotel. We preferred
quiet lunch and good frolic on the surf
md so were not present at the grand
banquet, but clip the following descrip-
ion of it from the Free Press:
The banquet was of Ten courses.
There was no bill of fare. and all were
erved ike. without partialty or choice.
The first course, served after long waiting,
Was vegetable soup. The next course
was plates. These, after a quarter of an
hour or so, We're whipped off by the
Walters and second course of plates of
EXCELLENT stoneware, very much like the
'thers, only little warmer, was served.
The fourth course was boiled fish, very
veil cooked and palatable; but without
auce or dressing. Fifth course, white
)lates. Sixth course, raw tmatoes in
ices-a single dish being set in the centre
If II table of fifty persons. 1t proved
Lmple, however, us no small plates or
orks or other means of getting the slices
o the mouths of the guests were provided.
sixth course, more fish. Seventh course,
Dlates. Eighth course, plates, Il little
warmer than course seven. Ninth course,
ce cream and cake. Tenth course, tooth
,icks.
There was plenty of fun between the
CURSES at the tables, and it was allowed
hat grand banquet is very fine affair.
ome thought that as between banquet ,
nd a dinner, they would prefer dinner; {
ut it was insisted, on the other hand, that
grand banquet is good--as preparation
II dinner. The dinner, however, was s
OF forthcoming GU this occasion; and, in ,
'ct none was promised-only grand
;tnquct.
Col. Ihos. r, Sharp, the receiver of the
ong Island railroad, had Offered the
ourtesies of his road 10 the party, and we
,und Il train of palace cars ut our dis
nsal, in which the party were whirled up
le island in short order, running at "a
,eed of fifty miles an hour. At the ferry
IT. w. Nj. Latfan, the New York agent
the road, who had accompanied the
arty from Brighton, took the party in I
large, &C oss the ferry, and In omnibuses ;
} the elevated railroad, where we were
Jet by Col. Stewart, the general superin-
ndent, and an extra Car placed at our
'rvice, and with Mr.. Letf,n still in the =,
'mpany, we made the trip to Harlem and i
'ck in good style. Mr.. Lift ms courtesy ;,
as appreciated by the members of the :,
lrty and deserves special recognition +
ON them, which we are happy ON our =,
.rt to give. y
At this point the party, as party, was f
oxen up, some to return home on the q
ght boat, others TO enjoy themselves,
me in one way, some in another. Hav. :,
g received from Mr. Laffln an invitation i
visit Fire Island, we, with II. w. Lore,
the SATURDAY, Ecening ReUiew, and i
life, accepted the invitation, and at t
clock p. NJ, we left the station at Hunt
s point for " B lbylon," where we took !,
e boat Tor The island, which is nine miles a
ON the main land, and where we arrived v
about three quarters of an hour after I
e left the train. The account of our !
sit there we must defer for Il future v
lmber. when the remainder of the trip Il
ay be described T. =