St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18
Editors and Publishers Meeting.

Canaan in the far West.
Editors and Publishers Meeting.
Dear CdledOnidR
1t being our privilege to attend the
10th annual meeting of the editors anC
publishers of Vermont held at Rutland
July 8th, and to go on the excursion tC
New York and Coney Island the two
following days, | will give you a few
jottings by the way. Leaving St
Johnsbury Tuesday morning at little
past 9 o'clock on the Passumpsic road
we connected at Wells River with the
Saratoga express via. Montpelier and
Burlington, arriving in Rutland at foul
o'clock, distance of about 100 miles
in seven hours, giving time for dinner
at Essex Junction. At Rutland we
were assigned to the Berwick House,
kept by Mr.. c. F. Richardson who
spared no pains to make the stay of the
members of the association who stopped
there pleasant. The house is well kept
and meets well the wants of the travel
ling public. Tuesday evening the an
nual meeting was held in Baxter Hall,
which by the way is an elegantly fin
ished room, and was finely decorated
with flowers and evergreens for the
occasion. The Rutland COrnet Band
was in attendance and added much to
the pleasure of the evening. This band
ranks as third in the State and well
deserve their popularity. The meet
ing was presided over by the president
of the association, Hon. E. p. Walton,
with ID. M. Camp as secretary pro tenn.
The constitution and bylaws and roll
of members were placed in the hands
of a committee last year to revise and
report ut this meeting, and the report
of that committee was the first business
attended to and was adopted. The
constitution and bylaws are to be
printed. The orator of the evening
was HI. A. Huse, Esq, of Montpelier,
who took for his subject 'Trampsn and
if the editors of this state will tramp
right along after his idea of making Il
newspaper we shall have better ones in
the future than in the past. The adj
dress was followed by poem entitled
the yankee by E. NJ. Phelps of Fair
haven; which was quite lengthy, and
was well received by the audience.
The committee to whom was referred
the nomination of officers reported the
following board which were unanimous
ly elected President, Hon. E. p. Wal
ton; vice presidents, G. G. Benedict,
A. H, futile, l.. o. Green recording
secretary, d. w. Dixon; corresponding
secretary, D. NJ. Camp treasurer, c..
M. Stone executive committee, Albert
Clarke, II. C. futile, A. N. Swain.
The following persons were admitted
rs new members of the society F. E.
Smith, Addison County Journal H..
w. Love, Burlington Review Roger
f. Chase, Burlington Crucible; d. X.
SimOnds, Manchester Journal Jas. E..
Cotton, Fairhaveu Era; Charles S.
Baker, Bennington Gazette; II. w.
Hubert, Middlebury Undergraduate Z;
H. L. Inman, Brattleboro Record and
Farmer E. H. Phelps, Fairhaven E.
ID. Upham, West Randolph Herald and
News; d. Leonard, Brattleboro H.
r. Wheelock, Montpelier Freeman; r.
S. Styles, Burlington.
Wednesday morning carriages were
furnished and the members of the asso-
citation taken to the
STATE wORKHoUSE,
and were shown through that institu-
ton by Superintendent Eayres and as
sistants. In this institution a long felt
want of the State is supplied; a place
where criminals can earn their living
Instead OF laying in county jails in idle
ness and on expense to the State. The
buildings are models of neatness and
convenience. The cells are in the cen
tire of the building with space all around
them, and person must make his way
through two sets of grating OF thirty
inches of brick wall to make his escape
and the prisoners are watched over
while at work outside by a guard witt
loaded musket who has orders t.
shoot any person who attempts to es
cape. So we think the public need no
worry much about the safety of til,
prisoners. The buildings are pleasant
ly located and the grounds are bein.
graded and otherwise improved by tn,
convicts. They are also building ;
new workshop and it is hoped soon t,
contract their labor so as to make tn,
Institution pay its own way. There i
large room designed for a hospital il
the building but as yet there has bee
no use for it. There are about 5
prisoners there at the present time
some eight or ten of whom are females
who are employed in making clothin
Tor prison use. They were not a yer
prepossessing looking lot of women