Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-07-11

an enduring shaft to worthily commem1
rate the valor uf our fallen soldiers the
other an impulse Of renewed business in.
dustry, vigor and prosperity
70 the sentiment, The Orator Of the
Day, Col Haskins responded with brief
acknowledgment Of the honor conferred
upon him, urging the young men Of vii
mington to stay at home and to find there
their true measure Of success in life Bar
ring accident he himself should die and be
buried where he had always lived, among
the hills of Vermont.
In answering for 1.-THE Legal Fraternity, "
Hon. A. A. Butterfeld Of Jacksonville
made many felicitous local illusions and
wove in with them Il vein Of playful wit
which put his audience in cheerful humor
His story Of one Henry G. Boyd who once
made the solemn declaration referring to
his future career, 81 shan't stay in this
country | am going 10 Nottingham, ," was
particularly good one
E. NJ Forbes, ESD, of Winchester, n.
H., answered to Briefs" expressing his
pride at having studied with lawyer like
o. l.. Shafter and paying a tribute to the
accomplishments and high character of that
distinguished jurist
At this point Mr.. Russell read letter
from Hon. o. f. Butterfeld now of Haig
ler Neb. and a poem sent by Mrs. Butter
field.
One Of the best little speeches Of the af
ternoou was Fred A. Flqggs response to
The Old Church Choirs Of Wilmington. -
The music Of those old choirs, Mr.. Flagg
said, was free, like salvation" " but it had
in it a quality which was an index of the
interior life and character of the times.
We could have no better wish than that our
own lives may be true to the lessons incul
Gated by those old singers.
In answering to the sentiment, "Ver-
mont, the first born of the Old Thirteen,
sends greeting TO Massachusetts, one of the
oldest states of the Union" Hon. Clark
Jillson of Worcester, Mass, paid feeling
tribute to sons of Wilmington like Rev.
Hosea f. Ballou, Rev. Jeremiah Clifford
and Norris l.. Stetson, whom he had known,
and also to the towns steadfast loyalty to
principle and tO the spirit Of freedom and
herOism always shown by her children.
Austin II. Watson of New York, himself
a veteran, made a spirited response to
THE memories of the soldiers who fell in
the war for the Union, alluding especially
IN the heroic part borne by the Whining
ton soldiers in the battle Of Gettysburg,
and giving the list Of II sons Of Whining
ton who died in the great struggle from 81
to 60
Rev J. NJ. Lord of Weymouth Mass,
responded in finished and graceful verse to
his sentiment, Life at the Seaside and Life
among the Mountains
4 strong and wholesome quality pervad.
ed the answer of Byron A. Stone Of Mo
hawk, n. Y, to the toast Travelling men
and Business Life" Mr. Stone traced the
history of that remarkable feature Of our
modern commercial life, the travelling man,
from its beginning 40 years ago when
young Jew took case of watches and Jew
elry samples and started out from New
y ork, making a success of their sale, up to
the present tune, when the commercial
travellers are an army 300, 600 strong. He
himself entered the ranks in 1869 and could
testify to the generally high and upright
character of the men who thus act as a me-
dium between the sellers and buyers. De
ducing from this certain principles of life,
he said impressively to the young men, "Go
forth with honesty, integrity, persever-
ance, purity and temperate habits as your
steadfast rule of life
c. H. Davenport, speaking for The
Press, found its greatest influence aud
grandeur in the fact that it is the work of
men and women. Realizing what an i'm
press a newspaper makes upon a family he
urged that it should be clean pure and
wholesome in tone and tendency
The chairman here read poem contrib
uted by Mrs. T. b. Deming.
The Old Schoolmasters Of Wilmington"
was the sentiment to which +. NJ. Bruce of
Philadelphia was asked to respond Mr..
u
of Abel Smith his first teacher, and from
that went on to speak of the abiding inhu
ence which the teacher exercises upon the
life and character of his pupils, and laid
down the moral and personal qualities
which the teacher should possess. In clos
ing, Mr.. Bruce sang a song, Just fifty
years ago, aud evidently touched a re
sponsive chord by its effective rendering
ltwaS an impressive sight, which touched
the hearts of all who saw and listened,
when Ashley Stone a Wilmington teacher
of ~ years ago, now afflicted with total
blindness, stood up to speak, acknOwledg-
ing with a voice filled with emotion the
debt Of inspiration he owed to certain of
his old schoomasters, and especially to the
inscription on the tombstone of Zephaniah
Moore at Amherst, Mass.
IL hduAf j. hlOhG On lut vi
Wilmington saying that his subject was
limited only by eternity itself-and by the
future he meant nothing so distant but
that the younger men might see it real
lied The telephone, the telegraph, and
the newspaper have already brought vii.
mington in line with the drift of modern
times. Several promising new business en-
terprises have been established bringing
enu1af hinrr lib q AthAnnnN tO tho
A railroad connecting with the outer world
is the next thing to be sought for and it is
already in sight
Charles f. Boyd, whose wit and wisdom
have entertained many a circle at court
time" responded to "The Ladies'" Mr..
Boyd carefully avoided his subject in his re
marks, but brought down his house" in
the old familiar way.
Hon. James X Batcheder Of Arlington
answering for Vermont" found the good
old state not only the best one to be born
in but the best one to live in.
Henry d. Whitney of Chattanooga, Tenn,
responded for The South and its Hub. "
The hub is Chattanooga, as a matter of
course, and the rapid growth and brilliant
future prospects of that thriving city were
sketched with a strong and graceful hand.
Starting with 10000 population in 1870 it
has 80, 900 in 1890, and is bound TO have
100, 900 in 1895. The North and the South
are healing their differences, and each is
coming to have better appreciation of the
other.
The last sentiment was England and
America" Rev. William Spencer respond
ed with the appreciative words of an Eng
lishman who finds much to admire in Amer
lea and its people
Rollin S. Childs briefly saluted the old
who had come back TO this home
gathering, and spoke with appreciation of
the great labor which had been used 10
make the occasion success. In looking
the village carefully over he had found that
only two houses remained as they were in
his boyhood, those of Mrs. Norton and
Horace Hubbard.
Capt F. W. Childs declined to speak
when called upon, out of Difference, he said,
10 the childhood admonition of his mother,
that "a Child should be seen and not heard "
One of the most earnest and effective ad
dresses of the afternoon came at the last
when Lewis p. Stone of Philadelphia un-
iertoOk the task of thanking the people Of
on behalf of the boys and
girls who had come back for this day of re
union, for all their labOrs of love and kind
ness. Mr. Stone sketched the history of
the reunion and showed how it grew to the
which it finally assumed. He
referred fittingly TO the preliminary work
done by so many Wilmington people, and
10 the part so admirably taken by the
speakers and officers of the day. In clos
ing Mr.. Stone said
II will borrow a sentiment from one beautiful
line Of poetry by my first teacher and Us / stand
here Just over the meridian Of life having for
three days looked out of the 81 Fast window" un-
M my heart is full and my brain almost Whirlng
having met friends have not seen for many
years, and some that never expect 10 see again,
too happy TO turn my eyes even toward the
West window and leaving the future to the
kind Providence that has favored us In all things
can only say on behalf OF all old residents pres
-nt and abroad, 10 all OF you aud 10 n, A. Fitch,
'Ol. Haskins, Prof Buttertled, Mrs. Forbes, q.
NJ. Russell H. Mann, ir., J. II. kidder, +. NJ
Haynes J. NJ, Bassett o. w. Boyd D. q. Hub
hard, A. NJ. johnson, A. l.. Childs, &. d. Spencer
and many other guapiallV flnf Ne gratefully and