St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-04
VermOnters' "Sugaring or at
the National Capital.

publican, the annual "sugaring off" at
the national capital seems to have
been a decided success. The dane
ing-hall was prettily decorated with
flags and flowers, with hanging bask
cts pendant from the ceiling, singing
birds in cages, and, the Republican
says, beautiful Vermont girls. After
ten o'clock every table in the spacious
dining hall was filled. President
Arthur was expected to be present
but circumstances prevented his at
tendance. In order that there should
be no slip-up as to the maple sugar
being melted to a proper consistency
and not burned, Henry A. Willard and
some of those who had in the days of
their youth had large experience i'll
this respect went themselves into the
subterranean recesses of the kitchen
and superintendent the operation. 1t
was IA novel sight, the report says, to
see these gentlemen in full dress suits
directing the movements of the men
in their shirt sleeves, who were stir
ring with big ladies the liquid sugar,
but their supervision resulted in all the
sugar being melted without any of it
being burned, and when it was brought
to the table and placed on the blocks
of ice the maple wax was complete.
Among those present were Senator
Morrill, and Colonel Joyce.
The Republican speaks as follows
concerning the influence of the
Green Mountain state at the capitol
The Green Mountain state, though
small in area and sterile as to soil, has
played no unimpOrtant part i'll the his
tory of the country from the days OF
the fearless and intrepid Ethan Allen
the hero of TiconderOga, down to the
present time, when one of her sons
occupies the presidential chair and an
other was just before the adjournment
of congress elected vice president
pro tempore. Many men who have
been subsequently claimed by Other
states owe their birth to Vermont, and
perhaps the greater portion of Green
mountain boys who have won distinc-
ton have been those who have gone
out from their native state and sought
their fortunes elsewhere.
Not to speak of many names which
have passed into history, but to men
ton those who are at present identi-
fled with the district, the Republican
mentions in Il complimentary way
Henry A. Willard, of Wizards hotel
Caleb Willard, brother of Henry A
Willard, of the Ebbitt house Com
missioner of Pensions Dudley Public
Printer Rounds Hon. Asa o. Adj, o
| the Franco American claims commits
sion, formerly one of the Justices o
the supreme court of Vermont ; Gen
Stuart Van Welt, quartermasterg gen
eral Deputy Second Comptroller j
). Delano Major Merritt Barber, as
sistant acknowledgement on duty il
the war department, who was appoint
ed to the regular army for faithful
services in the Vermont volunteers
during the war Fred Mack, chief o
the eastern division of the pension of
flee, which comprises the New Eng
land states, New York, New jersey
and Delaware Senator Foot, unde
whose administration as chairman o
the senate committee on public build
| ings and grounds, the extensions o
the capitol were made, who requested
upon his deathbed, that his bed NIGH
be rolled to the window, so that hi.
last look upon earth might rest upon
the dome of the capitol John r
Thompson, who has been president o
the local state association since it
organization, chief of an impOrtan
division i'll the third auditors office
having entered that office after serv
ing in a Vermont regiment during the
war NJ. NJ. Packer, the vice presi
merly assistant city postmaster, anC
who made gallant record i'll the Is
Vermont cavalry Senator Morrill,
who, as chairman of the senate com
mittee on public buildings anC
grounds, succeeded Senator Foot as the
champion of the adornment of the city
Hon. Luke p. Poland, who, wheI
chairman of the committee on the
judiciary, by his mastery report o
June / 1874, upon the legal relation
of the District of Columbia and the
United States, secured legislation by
which the United States assumed it:
Just proportion of the burden of taxa
tor imposed upon the property of the
district; Hon. George w. Hendee
who, as chairman of the committee Oh
the District of Columbia, assumed the
championship of the interests of the
district; Col. Charles II. Joyce, who
has just completed his fourth term il
congress as representative from the
first district of Vermont, has Just en-
tered into business relations which
will make him prominent resident O
Washington Col. George w. Hooker
late sergeant-at-arms of the house
who will hereafter make Washington
his winter residence, served with dis
tinction as an officer in different Yer
mont organizations during the late war
Editorial Notes.
Only ten degrees of heat remain be
tween life and eternity with the mel
who work i'm "A nitro plycerine factory