The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-12-10
FROM THE CENTENNIAL CITY.

htOhh thO Ntcb anu hOi ttihOots a cCOtAOn
of country that for the last few years
has been formidable competitor with
New England in inaugurating cold
terms. 1t has been long term of years
since il has been as frosty hereabouts
rs it has been for week past at this
season of the year. Thanksgiving day
was ushered In with snow storm, the
feathery flakes of the "Deautiful snow"
descending until the earth was carpeted
nearly half-foot in depth; but the
huge sweeping mschin of the street
railroad companies soon laid it in mir
ialure winrows along the cutters, which,
ogether with sweeping of side walks,
operated to the discontinue of the
"small boy" with his sled.
1t was estimated that 410 tons of
poultry were disposed of by the deni-
zens of this city, besides any quantity
of other edibles, knick knacks &C.. on
Thanksgiving Day. The churches were
generally opened for services, i'm some
instances two or three congregations
uniting.
An effort is being made to break the
will of the late Edwin Forest, the great
tragedian, who died at his residence in
thio Nitf oOOub cONOh lCCio uEOy Whitii
if successful, will result in depriving
the ''Forest Home" for the aged and
INDECENT actors, of several hundred
thousand dollars, which will be transfer
ed TO cousin of the deceased now living
in Scotland. 1t appears large proper
ton of the amount bequeathed for
building the Actors Home, near this
city, was the avails ofproperty that Mr..
Forrest owned at the time of his death
in New York, and 1t is said that a law
of that state prevents a testator from
bequathing property to a corporation not
in being, or as the lawyers say, not an
esSe. If the will should be annulled on
such technial point as that it would
prove unfortunate. The Forest Home
for INDECENT and aged actors is a fine
structure situated near this city, and is
noble charity. The cousin claimant
of Scotland has commenced suit in
the superior court of New York against
the Forest Home, claiming that he
is the only surviving relative of the
the dead actor, and as such is entitled to
that portion of the estate that was situa-
ted in New York.
During the last eight months The bust.
h0oo Va 'he Ohho wanna aiioau Coh-
pany has been phenomenal. 1t is ex-
pected that the company will have q
surplus of fully ten millions over last
year, to meet the extraordinary expens-
es contemplated in this city and else
where along the main line. The travel
between Philadelphia and New York
over the New York division of the
pennsylvania Railroad is getting to be
simply enormous. The railroad COM
pany haves lately added another fast
express train; now making nineteen
passenger trains daily each way from
city to city, some OF the trains going
through III two hours. In addition to
the travel, the Bound Brook route runs
twelve passenger trains daily each way
making thlrty-one passenger trains daily
each wayIbetween the two great cities.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works in
this city are now employing about 250C
hands; 1t is the most extensive estab'
One of the partners is Vermonter,
Mr.: Williams, son OF the late Norman
Williams OF woodstock, who was sec
rotary OF state from time immemorial,
as | thought during my boyhoo1.
Many of your older readers will with
out doubt recollect that as many as
twenty live or thirty years ago Green,
the reformed gambler" figured largely
III the public prints OF that day, produc-
ing qulle a sensation throughout the
country, on account of his reformation,
he being such notorious gambler. 1t
appears he is still living aud resides in
cny. "Record reporter laIel! found
hls whereabouts and Interviewed him ;
he found his residence TO be ut 1902
South Juniper ST., in the down town
section of the town, and found him in
INDECENT circumstances, at sixty-eight
years of age, with wife and seven
children, all of them under age, and
mostly dependent OIL him for support.
He told the reporter that although now
in poverty, when he quit the gaming
table he was worth over $50, 900,
nearly every cent of which he refunded
in the way of restitution to those who
had been his victims. lie likewise told
the reporter that never during his life
had he used particle of tobacco in any
form, neither had hc ever touched drop
of liquor. and added, II promised my
mother when boy of six years of age,
as l stood by her dying bed, never to
drink drop of liquor, and have never
broken that promise.
Mr.. Green was born in Kentucky, and
his grandfather was cousin of Gen.
Nathaniel Greene of Revolutionary
fame. Out of consideration for his
family name he dropped the final G
in penning his autograph. He narrated
the circumstances of his reformation to
the reporter, but it would be too
lengthy for this letter; but suffice it to
say, that he remarked, that on board a
steamer between St. Louis and Cincin.
nate, in his state room, on a Sabbath
evening, he began thinking over his
past career; the shame he had brought
on the name of his mother, and the de-
graduation he had reduced himselfto in
the estimation of the honest and moral
portion of the community though he had
an abundance of wealth. In that state
room he said aloud, sitting alone. Phi
never touch another card to gamble.
and to this day had kept his void.
Since that time Mr.. Green has written