The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-16

sycamore, j. p. Donovan junior sycamore,
George III. Rolfe; prophet, James Il. Curran !;
chief of records, Charles Cummings; assist
ant, G. f. Wilson, keeper of wampum, f.
A. Dwinell; first appointed chief George
e. Hunt; second, Fred e. Spaulding; trns-
tees, James e. Curran, Charles w.
Guernsey and Charles f. Robinson. 1t is
the endeavor of the Massachusetts tribe of
Red Men to extend the order throughout
this state, in the belief that it will become
as popular here as it has proved elsewhere.
1t is a purely American institution, for fra
ternal and charitable objects, and is as old
as American civilization.
CONCORD people have seen Dixey's
Adonis," and their verdict is that of the
larger cities of England and America
Adonis " is great and Dixey is greater.
Neither tragedy, comedy nor spectacle was
ever put on Whites Opera-house stage with
anything approaching in completeness and
magniticence the production of last evening,
and the recollection of the beautiful cos
tunes, graceful marches and dances, versa
tility of star and support and brilliancy of
burlesque will not soon be supplanted by an
equally satisfactory performance. Dixey's
personal appearance, gracefulness and en-
dowmentS as a comedian quickly won for
him the favor of the audience, and his sue
cess was instantaneous and complete. His
Irving limitations alone would have captured
the audience, had there been nothing else
to his part and when to this are added his
capital changes in the store scene and his
perfect work in the earlier parts of the bur-
lesque the reason for the delight of the
audience is apparent. The support was
magnificent. All of the fifty people who
had part in the production sang, danced,
marched and acted with an excellence new
to the Concord stage.-Monitor.
WHILE the question as to the legal right
of the village of Montpelier to lay an addi-
tional water main is pending in court it
may be suggestive to publish the substance
of a conversation which we recently over
heard: No. 1 asked how it was that the
Berlin water was not as good as it was
when first brought into Montpelier. He
filtered his water and had been compelled
to put in two new filters within a short
time. They clogged up and the water
would not run. His filter did not clog so
when the water was first put in. No .
said that it did not concern him whether
or not more water was brought into Mont
pelier. He did not care about motors or
using water for power. He thought that
some means should be taken to purify the
water already brought into Montpelier.
No. 3, person who at least ought to know
something about it, said the trouble was
that the reservoir needed cleaning out.
The water was drawn off every summer,
but the reservoir had not been cleaned out
since it was built; that above the reservoir
there were four or five places where small
reservoirs could he built, in one of which a
small reservoir should be built from which
to fill the pipe and the water from the large
reservoir drawn off and the reservoir cleaned
out twice every year. He said that there
was in the reservoir an accumulation
OF mud and vegetable matter and that it
would take at least twenty-four hours
to clean out the same. From other
sources the matter has been expressed
differently. One said that the village made
mistake when it built the present reser-
voir; that the pipe ought to extend into
reservoir that there would be more power
and the water would be purer. Another
said that whenever there was a hard rain,
the reservoir being small, the surface water
from the land about would run into it and
the water become riled. He thought this
would not be the case if the pipe extended
to the main pond