The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-03
nEAurrruL BENNINGTON.
summer visitors Among the Green
mOunfains-The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Legal CSIOny-New summer Hotels
Proposed.

summer visitors Among the Greer
mounfsins-The August InnuT-Th'
Legal cSIOny-New summer Hotel
Proposed.
The summer boarder has once NOR,
become a familiar figure in Bennington
The hotel, the farm houses, many fine
private summer residence and Camp
Comfort turn out scores of these desira
bic additions to the transient popula-
ton. A number of cities are represent
ed. In the morning or toward evening
the gay equipages or comfortable carry
alls or single vehicles of our ''city cous-
ms" may be rolling leisurely through
the streets, thus breaking to some ex'
tent, the monotony of village life. But
vast army of transients is yet to ar
rive. AS the great August celebration
approaches every mail brings applica-
tons for lodgings for those who desire
to come, and our landlords and board
ing-house keepers may soon be confront
ed with the serious problem how to az
commodate ten where there is only room
for five. But Bennington desires them
10 come and will open wide its doors in
welcome.
Bennington Centre is the Mecca of
may Trojans. The pure air, the quiet,
the all-pervading sense of healthfulness
and cleanliness and the grand views-a
tumult of bold mountains-becOme
strangely attractive after protracted
summer visit in that historic hamlet.
Among the Troy people already pleas
antly located for the season are John
Wool Griswold and family, e. NJ. Green
and family, Jonas Heartt and sister, II.
G. Shields and family, L. w. Boughton
and family, Rev. T. A. Snively and fam
lily, Mrs. j. t. Cooper, Charles <. Patter-
son and family, Mrs. Daniel Robinson
and family, and last, though not least
Samuel b. Sanford aud daughter. The
legal fraternity is represented by G. b.
Wellington, f. A. King, Justin Kellogg,
and Seymour Van Santvoord. Mr.. Kel-
logg has not yet arrived, but he is sure to
come by and by, and Mr.. Van Santvoord
dwells in an attractive cottage, near his
brother-in-law. William Shields, at Fur
mace Grove, in the east part of the town.
But the lawyers seem to be as well dis
posed as if there were no trouble or mis-
understanding in the world, though it is
that once, couple of years
ago, the kindly face of Van Santvoord
wore suspiciously pugnaoious look
when he was counsel for one of the de-
PENDANTS in the noted Walder murder
trial. 1t has been facetiOusly remarked
that Bennington claims the lions share
in the citizenship of nearly all these per-
sons and only lends them to Troy for
nine months in the year.
1t may not be long before Benning-
tons facilities for taking care of large
number of summer guests will be sup
plemented by the erection of one or two
fine summer hotels, having all modern
The site of one will
doubtless be on the seminary grounds at
Bennington Centre. 1t is said some
noted capitalists are interested in the
scheme, and the matter had advanced so
far at one time that all the plans for the
structure were drawn. The other may
be built on Grand View Terrace, COM
eminence that overlooks the
teeming valley of the Walloomsac,
walled in by the high, precipitous ranges
of the Green Mountains. An artificial
lake is also among the possibilities. But
there are in town several good hotels,
and many private boarding places where
summer tourists can fare as comfortably,
cheaply and pleasantly as in any place in
Vermont.-Dr. II. C.. Day in Troy Times.