The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-04
An Outing.


July Goth party of seven left Montpelier
for a summer excursion, which proved
every way and everywhere so perfectly agree
able as to serve as an excellent example to
others like minded. A large part of the trip
was over the land and water covered by the
late editorial excursion, which has been
noticed generally by the Vermont press, but
with variations in detail which should be
noted. The party left Montpelier at fifty
minutes past three P. NJ, were joined by a
Northteld gentleman and his wife at Mont
pelier Junction, and supped satisfactorily at
the railroad restaurant at st. Albans.
After supper we took the train of the Ogdens-
burg railroad to Malone, where we lodged
at a capital hotel. The morning was spent
in viewing that beautiful and thriving
village, thanks largely to the enterprise of
Vermonters. At ten A. NJ. we took the cars
for Ogdensburg to dinner, waving a
tempting offer of a parlor car at MORA,
bound for Paul Smiths, amid the Adiron-
dacks, where President Cleveland is to
spend his summer vacation. After dinner
the steamer Lotus bore us to the Thousand
Island House on Alexandria Bay. Thurs
day was wholly spent on the river, in a
steam yacht, admirng the scenery of that
more than acknowledgement as well.
Fridey we covered the river over the rapids,
past Montreal, and landed at Quebec to
breakfast at the st. Louis Hotel. In our
| host at that famous hotel, Willis Russell,
! Esq, two of our party recognized friend
/ who dwelt in Montpelier in 1925 then, with
! three brothers, an apprentice to Goss u
| Reed, in the paper-making business. The
brothers have been largely successful as
paper-makers, and the son of one Of them is
now member of congress from Massachu-
setts. Willis, the youngest, has been
equally successful as a hotel-keeper, and
now runs two at Quebec, the st. Louis and
the Russell, the two best hotels in the city.
He gave us " the best in the house, and
after breakfast sent us off ia carriages with
! intelligent drivers, to do" the qpeer old
city, and we did " it to our hearts con-
tent. Quebec is specially interesting to
! Vermonters. 1t was founded July 3, 1908,
by Samuel de Champlain, who was the dis
| coverer of Vermont in July, 1909 In 1920
! Fort st. Louis was built and it stands to-
day as it was in 1775 with few additions),
when General Montgomery and Benedict
Arnold, with Major Timothy Bgelow of
| Massachusetts (the first grantee of Mont
peler) and Lieutenant Ira Allen and other
Vermonters and New England men assailed
it in vain. General Montgomery lost his
life; the house to which his body was taken
| is still pointed out, though his remains rest
under a monument in lower Broadway
New York. A part of the walls of the house
of Montcalm still stand, beside the road to
the Falls of fMontmorency-Mon whose
armies passed through Lakes Champlain
and George, and who fell with Wolfe in the
latter's attack upon Fort St. Louis. A mon
ument to their memories in common has
been erected in Quebec, and another to
Wolfe on the spot where he fell A visit tO
the beautiful Falls of Montmorency CON
cluded the days ride. Sunday was spent
in service at the English cathedral and in a
visit to the French cathedral. On Monday
we returned via the Grand Trunk and Cen
trail Vermont railroads to Highgate Springs
where we spent Tuesday, and reached home
on Wednesday-giving eight days of con
slant enjoyment of greater variety of grand
and beautiful scenery than can be found in
any other direction at the same cost. This
trip could easily be extended so as TO EN-
brace the Saguenay, or even through the
Gulf of st. Lawrence and round by sea to
Boston, but we were fully satisfied with oul
brief, but every way delightful, outing.
e. r. W.