The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-02-25

IDENTIFY doing well.
At Weybridge we were welcomed by Dea.
Samuel James and presided over by Senator
George E. Childs. Here we had full house
from the start and the interest and enthu-
siasm grew till the last sessions were like
Methodist revival. A picnic dinner and
supper each day at the church vestry kept !
the people well fed, free of all charge, but |
it must have been quite a tax on the good |
| people Of Weybridge. This is one of the !
! rich Otter Creek meadow towns-plenty of |
| fine sheep, fast horses patriotic men and |
| beautiful and helpful women and children. |
| On hill near where the great democratic |
! statesman Silas Wright was raised is
beautiful monument to his memory. Down
! in the valley at the confluence OF the Otter
with the LemOnfair is humber monument
to the early settlers of the town. 1t is To-
Gated near the spot where the families of
Sanford Stow, Brittel and Sturtevant
| lived for ten days in an out-of door cellar
| when their husbands and fathers we're taken
prisoners by the Indians and Tories, No
vember 8, 177S. The houses were burned
and the prisoners taken to Canada. The
best outcome of our meeting was the forma-
ton of a farmers club or union, in which
several towns joined. There is plenty of
local talent here. The papers on Vermont
Agriculture" Horses" and Taxation"
by citizens of the town were all able produc-
tions. They have also sweet singers and
Understanding sweeter than THE Old
Oal1en Bucket =" by two ladies, with Brit
tells cornet in the chorus.
I" Fair Haven next" tine train man said.
Here we have one OF the large thriving
towns of the state, the headquarters of the
slate industry. A good hotel, a large
and pleasant hail. well filed with bright
women and intelligent men, good orches
ira and fine vocal music made this gather
ing a success, thanks to the Western Yer
mont Agricultural Association that man
aged the affair and appropriated S75 to carry
it on. Besides the usual programme of the
board we had " Poultry, by George
II. Northrup of Raceville, n. Y; Read
ing, by Annie e. Adams of Fair Haven;
an Address," by Hon. James f. Con-
verse of Woodsville, N. Y, and several
other exercises, all good and appropriate.
, We also visited the " Vermont dog kennel "
of j. l.. Winchell, where the massive Eng
lish mastiff and the bloody bloodhound are
, bred Their deep-mouthed bayings aud
fierce look made me think of the junges of
} Asia or Africa where the tiger news and
: the lion and the damfurious roar. Pleas
anter and queter far was the fish hatchery
! of DIR. MoorehOuse, where 100000 little
trouts had just broken the shell, and others
from four inches to foot long were sport
2 ing in tanks and aquariums.
, OF the meeting at Wallingford the least
said is soonest mended." There were some
t pleasant things about it, many things that
D were otherwise, 1t was probably mistake
having it there. The good men there
: suffered it to be run by cranks and L" derned
FOOLS" Nuff sed
= DOWH luIOuHu IDb bennington county
d mountains, out through the old battle
O ground at Hoosick, on the Walloomsac,
thence from Eagle Bridge to North Adams.
It This was part of our route to Wilmington,
q but at North Adams we stopped to view
one of the finest manufacturing towns in
G New England, Some 10000 to $1,000 in
h habitants are gathered here, and all
Il seem to work for a living. Great factories
:. print works, shoe-shops and many other
q things are humming. A Vermont boy, Mr.
A. G. Houghton (brother to j. r.. Hough
8 ton "the gentleman from Stamford" in 1890
kindly showed us through the Arnold
: Print Works, of which he is large owner
and general manager. 1T is vast concern
=, making sixty million yards of calico an
" nually, employing 1900 operatives, anC
yearly--pretty good business for man wht
- began life. drawing wood to North Adams
Q thirty-hve years ago with yoke of oxen
# We stayed o'or sabbath With our follow
~ boardman, Sanford of Stamford, who has
g. fine farm aud home five miles from Nortl
] Adams lie keeps some thirty COWS, fou
! bulls, broke to work, and three horses
re mostly on forty acres of meadow, though
they have a bushy, brakey pasture to exer
> else II and view the scenery From thes
s. COWS he gste about 500 eaclr annually, il
M the sale of butter (pripts at thrty-iive cent
W per pound) and skim milk at one cent
n quart, So much for having good HON
. market. Sanford is evidently doing well a
y farming.
.e Monday February o. we started on
49, perilous voyage through the mountains
Il uner the town of Florida Mass, by tn,
ID way of that celebrated "Hoe in til,
: Ground " known as the B." Hoosac Tun
I, neil" Four and a half miles, and from
n one thousand to two thousand feet below
. the suriace--a dark and gloomy place, ye
IL through it goes much of the commerce o
y our country, sixty trains day all heavily
l. loaded. From the east end Of the tunne
Is we turned uorthward to Readsboro by IL;
,f narrow gauge railroad, winding up tn,
Deerfield river 80 crooked as to almost give
L man curvature of the spine. AT Reads
o boro we found a good hotel kept by oul
: fat and Jolly friend Tyler ID. Goodel, mem
. Der Of the house of representatives in 1886
X and 1886. Here also is big chair factory
/, tannesy and an immense pulp mill, grind.
IL ing mp some forty tons daily, paying 81 &C
l. per cord for any kind OF spruce that is four
inches through and sound. From thence
i we took team TO Wilmington, which is the
g banner town of the 9tate for making maple
. sugar-235, 900 to 90, COO pounds being their
annual product, Some twenty samples OF
o syrup, caked and dry sugar were ON the
4 table all tine, mostly very fine. The at
- tendance here wa' very good, some having
G to go away the last evening Tor want of
standing room. Much sugar making ap-
= paratuS Is made here such as evapUrators,
: holders, cans. cakng molds, etc, etc. This
- is also fine farming town, otherwise, and
the people seem awake and progressive.
7 Going back through the tunnel, | took my
seat at the rear cad of the train, where +
= could see the long rows of electric lights,
= making the scere as weird wild and en-
chanting as the " Road to Ruin" How
strangely near 'he west-bound river Hoo
= sick and the east bound Deerfield river,
swing toward each other, only six miles
L apart. 1t seems AS though the finger of
2 Providence pointed to passage through the
range but abs, the finger of Providence
> forgot to purch the hole, and it cost 500
e 100000 and many lives to do it by human
hands. After seeing such towns as North
Adams one oan but wish that manufacture
a ing towns were more common in Vermont
We have the raw material in wood wool
MARBLE granite, slate, etc, etc, and water
/ power in abundance, We live
Where mil sites fill thocountry nm AS thick as Won
4 cram 'em,
. And desperate rivers run about a-beggn folks to
I dam EN-
Why can't we save Vermont capital at home
to develop the mill sites, to improve the
roads, to build up the schools and churches.
10 kW out the hu1nbugS? WHY note Whv