Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-21
BENNINGTON.
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ed guests, were arranged two large Amcri-
can flags. under which sat the President.
GOV. Page and others. In the larger tent
plates were laid for 2400 people, and for
400 in the smaller, but the number of
tickets sold was not as great as was antici-
pated. When the repast was finished, Col.
Neazey raped the company of 2000 or
more auditors to order and introduced
President Harrison as the first after-dinner
speaker The Presidents speech was one
of the most forcible of all his reported ut
terances on impromptu occasions. He paid
an elegant tribute to the Green Mountain
boys of 1777, and to the patriotic, self-re-
speeding sons of Vermont of today, recog-
nizing the source of strength which they
have been to the country in their migra-
tions to many distant states. In speaking
of national affairs President Harrison de
clared, in the strongest terms, his belief III
an honest. conservative dollar for the cur
rency of the countTy,-a currency every
dollar of which issued by the government,
whether of paper or of coin, ''must be as
good as any other dollar" In his closing
sentences Mr.. Harrison paid feeling and
admiring tribute to the courage, devotion
and patience of the women of Vermont.
cit was an easier fate, he said, ''to march
with barred breasts against the IIessian
ramparts at Bennington than to sit in the
lonely homestead, awaiting the issue, with
fearful eyes upturned to God for those
who periled their lives for the cause. All
honor to the New England mother, the
queen of the New England home At
the conclusion of the Presidents remarks,
Judge John V. Carney, chairman of the
citizens committee of fifty, arose and pre-
scented to the President gold badge or
medal concentrating the days celebra-
ton and the battle monument. In reply
ing Mr.. Harrison said, at needed not this
memento to remind me of this auspicious
OCCASION
The speakers who followed the Presi-
dent were Gov. Russell of Massachusetts.
Gov. futile of New Hampshire, Gen. O.
O. Howard of New York, Secretary Proc
tor, Attorney General Miller, Gen. A. 5.
Webb, Gen. Mccullough, ex-Goy Rice of
Massachusetts, Col. Albert Clarke f. b.
Sherman of Chicago and others. Gen.
Alger of Michigan, who spoke for the
women of Vermont, felctously said that
the only trouble about rearing monument
to their memory is that the skies are not
high enough.
The speaking was finished at about
O'Clock. At $ o'clock began a magnificent
display of fireworks, the finest ever seen
in Vermont, on the grounds beyond the
Soldiers Home.
This lasted until $3.50. and then the
great day, a day of proud and happy mem
cries for all who participated in its pro-
ceedings was at an end.
While the number in attendance was
very large, upward of 10000, doubtless,
the inpouring of strangers from distance
did not approach the -, 900 or more which
many had anticipated. The numerous OBJ
servation stands erected along the line of
march must have been a losing venture,
for in many cases they were almost empty.
The broad country spaces, free as the air
and water, were too large and numerous for
visitors to be tempted to pay fee for other
points of outlook that were no better.
The people of Bennington worked with
great zeal for the success of the celebration.
Their enterprise and eXertion knew no
bounds, and to them, aiding and seconding
the official state committee an unstinted
need of praise is due