St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-07-10

in Portsmouth, one of the most rich
" appointed hotels in New England
and like the Wentworth the property
of Frank Jones' The New Rocking
ham is said to have cost 81 500, OOC
to build and furnish OF course such
hotel cannot be a paying invest
ment in a city like Portsmouth.
The sail of an hour to Appledore
the largest of the Isles of Shoals was
in the highest degree enjoyable
though the motion peculiar to a
small propeller steamer and the
swell of the open Atlantic, which is
! felt even in the fairest weather,
brought an i'll concealed pallor to
| the faces of some of those whose feet
are firmer on the rock-ribbed Yer
mont hills than on a vessels uncer-
tain deck. At Appledore the guests
were made comfortable at the Apple
! dore house, one of the pleasantest
and most hOmelike hotels on the
business meeting was held, the rocks
were clambered over, and the sailed
ozone of the sea was inhaled with
evident relish These bits of rock in
the ocean are rare health resorts.
No land breeze reaches them in their
perfect isolation, no mud fats are
uncovered to give out unpleasant
exhalations at ebb of tide, and the
free sea air is undiluted by any noxi-
Gus element. At the Appledore, near
which is her cottage, Celia Thaxter,
the poet Of the islands, is familiar
figure and many of the Vermonters
saw for the first time her fresh,
healthy face, bronzed by the air of
the sea she loves and crowned by its
wealth of white hair.
Some at least said goodbye re-
gretfully to the Shoals, when the lit
tie steamer bore them away on the
return trip at $50 o'clock. The sea
fog which had been heavy in the
morning had been gradually clearing
and the return trip was made i'll a
clear atmosphere and freshening
breeze, that with an inflow
ing tide made a lively sea in the
Narrows running into Portsmouth
harbor. Here we pass, close on the
left, on the outer point of New Castle,
Fort Constitution, now partially
dismantled and looking as if it had
been bOmbarded Back from this a
little is a considerable remainder of
the circular wall of the old Walbach
tower, thrown up here in a night
during the war of 1912 when an at
tack was expected from the British
who were cruising off the harbOr.
Quaint old houses there are too on
this old island of New Castle, houses
that date back to the days when it
was the seat of the provincial gov
ernment and when the stated old
Gov Benning Wentworth held his
court in the great rooms of the large
yellow house of curious architecture
which we see SO plainly across Saga
more creek from the modern hotel
which bears the fine old family name.
This same old Gov. Wentworth
house is the centre probably of more
poetry, romance and tradition than
any house i'll New England in an
equal state of preservation.
After the return the visitors pre-
pared for the evening festivities and
the members of the association COM
pleted the transaction of the business
begun at brief meeting held at the
Appledore The business transacted
included the election of the following
new members: Lewis p. Thayer of
the Randolph Herald and News; E.
H. Walcott of the Burlington Free
Press; S. c. O'Conner of the New
port Sentinel; L. V. Greene of the
Tuttle Company, Rutland; and Ed
win A. Start. The following officers
were chosen: President, Hon. l.. O.
Greene of the Woodstock Standard ;
vice-presidents, George E. Crowell of
the Household, Brattleboro, w. F.
Scott OF the Barre Enterprise, War
rem Gibbs of the st. Adams Messen-
ger; secretary, Arthur F. Stone of
the st. Johnsbury Caledonian; treas
urer, l.. H. Lewis of the News and
Citizen, Hyde Park and Morrisville;
executive committee, H. E. Parker of
the Bradford Opinion, c. S. Forbes
of ST. Adams, and r. J. Humphrey of
the Poultney Journal.
The association voted to hold a
business meeting in the Pavilion
hotel at Montpelier the third Tues
day in October at 4 p. III. 1t was al
so voted to Join the National Edi-
torial associa ton and Col. @. @.
Benedict of the Burlington Free Press
and Harry E. Parker were chosen
delegates to the next meeting of the
association in Indianapolis. Reso
lutions were adopted thanking the
Boston & Maine, Concord & Mont
real, Central Vermont, Vermont Val
ley and Montpelier & Wells River
railroads for their ceurtesies; Man
ager Hill of the Wentworth, Leigh
ton Bros. of the Appledore, Capt.
Robinson of the Oceanic and the
proprietor of the Portsmouth Times
for attentions shown the nartY ON