The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-05


adjustments testify, people are realizing
that money can be invested pro6tably and
safely at home. And the more the people
awake to this fact, the more will Montpelier
increase in wealth, industry and population.
Mr.. j. r. LANGDoN is building the largest
fire-proof bank vault in town, in the old
post-office room on State street, for the
Capital Savings Bank and Trust Company.
The trustees of the bank voted on Monday
to have one hundred burglar-proof deposit
boxes, for rental, placed in the vault Such
boxes, which are new in Montpelier are
very popular in other towns. The person
leasing box is furnished key which gives
him access to IL at all hours when the vault
is open. The rental charged for boxes is
generally less than the interest on the cost
Of a small safe for home use, while the pro-
lection is much greater than any ordinary
safe offers The rent Of boxes varies from
so to $40 year, according to size.
JOHN SMITH of Moretown, who was in
carcerated a week ago last Friday fined for
intoxication and held for non-disclosure,
was brought before Justice j. II. Senter
last Friday, and, thinking silence was no
longer golden, disclosed on George West
an employe of A. G. Spaulding. The case
against Smith for cruelty to animals was
tried the same day, 7. r.. Gordon appearing
for the defendant Smith pleaded guilty
and was fined So and costs, or S1O41. This,
added to his previous fines and costs, made
total of S4.77 as the cost of one little
spree. West was arrested Saturday, and
his trial deferred until Monday, W. A.
Lord going bail in the sum of S10O The
trial on Monday was by jury and West was
acquitted.
A DICKENS character appeared on the
streets last week He gave his name as
DR.. Brainard, and said he practiced med-
cine in Montpelier forty years ago and
boarded with Lewis Burnham, then owner
OF what is now the Exchange hotel The
Doctor wore plug hat, swalow-tail coat,
a white vest, and had feet shaped like a
pie" He is six feet and four inches tall,
and, according to Adams, the clothier,
measured forty-seven inches about the
waist. He had one tooth in his head, and
that was in the middle of the upper jaw.
The Doctor is at present delivering temper
ance lectures, and offered to hold forth "
in Montpelier for his keeping only. Failing
to get keeping for nothing he attempted to
! hire cheap board of III. w. Kempton. Fail
ing in this also, he shook the dust from his
feet and departed for quarters unknown.
THE Montpelier Military Band will give
a grand concert in the Blanchard Opera
house. on Thursday evening, August 10.
A full programme will be arranged and an
nounced later, one feature of which will
| be Reeves " "Night-Alarm," representing
night fire-alarm in the city, with stage
! lights and spectacular effects. This has
never been given in Montpelier, and will be
worth the seeing. This concert will be given
to raise funds to cover the expense of at
| tending the Bennington celebration and
muster, and ought to draw packed house
The band will consist of forty pieces, as fol-
| lows: One piccolo, one E-t1at clarinet, eight
B-fat clarnets, two saxophones, one E-fiat
cornet, five B-tiat cornets, four E-tlat altos,
seven B-hat trombones, one G trombone,
two baritones, one B-fat bass, three E-hat
basses, one double B-tlah bass, bass drum,
snare drum and cymbals.
LAST Saturday evening, a swiftly moving
team struck a vehicle belonging to W. F.
Waterman, and broke the axle short off.
Mr.. Waterman's team was htched to one of
| the granite posts on South Main street.
This episode suggests the question, Why
allow teams to be hitched on the streets 10
the extent that they now are? Montpelier
ought to be superior to the primitive coun-
try town. To be sure, the people who come
to market from the towns roundabout must
have places to fasten teams. But why not
have amarket-yard, near the street and easy
of access, where transient teams can be fas-
tened with some degree of safety? 1t would
not require the fortune of a CrGsus to ar
range quarters which would meet all Or
dinary demands. Then those grim granite
posts could be removed, and those unsightly
holes filled, and South Main street made to
appear like street in modern village.
THE Berlin .Almy proved to be another
case of mistaken identity, and the real
Almy is as much will-o -the-wisp as ever
The man Sheriff Howe lodged in Jail, last
week Tuesday evening, was Fred Dudley, a
farm laborer, who spends his leisure mo-
ments peddling snuff. He was kept be-
hind the bars until four o'clock Wednesday
afternoon, when Deputy Sheriff j. II. Fos-
ter of Hanover, y. H., came to identify the
prisoner. Mr.. Fosters farm joins Warden's
and he knows Almy well. The ..soner
was not Almy and so was provided with
shoe-boX full OF eatables and let loose from
back entrance to the Jail, thus cheating
! "a crowd m a cyli irpn of
him. When last seen, the hero of the hour
was Looping up the Worcester branch road,
with the shoe-boX under his arm and the air
of a truant loose from school. Sheriff Howe
performed his duty as an Official and the
crowd enjoyed the excitement. The only
loser was Dudley, and he was provided
with papers to protect him from future ar
rests.
The following cases came before the po-
lice court during the past week: Alec Baird
was tried on Friday, on a charge of intoxi-
cation. He pleaded guilty and was fined
S100l, Baird had child sick with diph-
liberia and got an order on the town agency
for pint of alcohol, which he drank in
stead of using for his child. Moses Du-
mas and Jerry Brudenell, who were ar
rested last week Tuesday, were brought up
for trial Wednesday, pleaded guilty and
We're fined the usual sum. They at first
disclosed on one John White; but their sto-
ries not agreeing, they were returned to
lall TO consider tne matter over nlgnU, Inc
next day they disclosed on I. NJ. Lynch,
& Co. This case was tried by jury, before
Justice j. II. Senter and Grand Juror I. j.
; Boynton, and the respondents found not
guilty. NJ. j. Fitzgerald was arrested on
: Saturday for drunkenness, and tried on
Monday. He pleaded guilty, and was fined
50 and costs, or $10.51. He disclosed on
! friend on the street, said friend being still
at large.
REPRESENTATIVES of the granite cutters
of Barre and Montpelier are talking of
building for athletics and amusement, TO
be erected on the Nicholas meadow. Mr..
Nicholas will rent a lot Of ground large
enough for the building, with right of way
thereto, for $50 year. The idea is to erect
building large enough to practice base
ball in during the winter; to construct a
bicycle and running track; and to furnish
the building with various gymnastic appa-
ratus. Such building, well furnished and
rightly managed, could be made source of
much benefit to the younger men of the
community. The matter of organizing a
polo club has also been broached. Steps
will be taken to organize a state league, in
Guiding the towns OF Rutland, Burlington