The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-23
NUMBER.I2.

willing to come to Montpelier, and II he
does he wants to have the business running
by July l. His desire for a change of loca-
tion is influenced by the following consid-
erations: Increased capital, immunity from
constant labor troubles. cheaper power, ex-
emption from taxation, and the lower cost
OF labor. He proposes to increase the mum
Der of employees to 300, two-thirds of whom
shall be men and the other third women,
all earning good wages. The daily OUTPUT
would be increased to 1900 pairs of shoes
per day. MIR. Priest would bring with him
from eight to twenty skilled workmen to
start the new force. He has fully $4,000
worth OF machinery, which he offers to put
into stock company of $4,000, the balance
OF the stock TO be raised in Montpelier. He
wants a building 100 feet long, fifty feet
wide, and three stories in hight, with a
power approximating twenty-five horse.
Two OF our water motors would undoubt-
ediy furnish the desired power. Mr. Priest
will arrive in Montpelier on Friday of this
week, and will meet the business men to
talk the matter over. The question is, will
Montpelier fail to grasp the opportunity
which Fall River, Mass, is anxious to
secure and for which that city has made a
strong bid Just consider the boom Mont
peller would receive from an industry EN-
ploying 300 hands. Figure up the annual
earning. capacity of those workmen. At
local prices for labor 1t would amount in a
year to S122, 800. The ardent friends of this
promising movement have too much faith
In the sagacity of Montpeler's business
men to doubt that they will act pl omptly
and effectively unless some excellent rea-
son for not doing so materialzes. AS we
said before, in recent article on the sub
ject, money talks
No other saint is so honored nowadays as
good Saint Patrick and last Thursday, the
18th of March, the day that commentaries
his translation to heaven, was celebrated
all over Ireland and the United States. In
the pmnral1 iqla tla itnaua of ba oint
was raised everywhere. In America there
were services in thousands of churches
professions, bands of music banquets,
and so on. The sons of st. Patrick in
| Montpelier pinned the shamrock to their
coats. and Montpelier contributed her cee-
bration to the thousands of contemporaneous
| festivities 1t was rather disappointment
to find number OF vacant seats in Blanch-
ard opera-house on Thursday evening.
| The Barre delegation that was expected
failed to materialize. The audience, how
ever, made up amply in enthusiasm what
they lacked in numbers. Rev. w. j. O'Sul-
livan had most interesting address on
Ireland and Her Wonderful Vitality"
He referred to the history of the United
States as the first book of the kind he ever
read, and in it he was surprised and grati-
fed to find the names Of so many Irishmen
prominent in the Revolution. Ireland has
been fighting for her liberty for 700 years,
and through it all has won glorious vic
tory. The history of that country before its
capture and subjugation by the Danes was
dwelt upon at length. During those 400
years every foot of the soil and every meas
ure against the Irish and their religion was
stubbornly resisted. The fears expressed
by some timid and foolish people that the
pope might come to this country and take
away the liberty of conscience of those not
Catholics was elaborated upon. The great
number OF citizens of Irish birth now in
this country was referred to in detail, with
the places they are now filling and the part
they took in the civil war. In closing
Father O'Sullivan dropped tear for Par
nell and his downfall, and propbesied that
before another year home rule would pre-
vail in the land of the Cet and the sham
rock The musical performance rendered
was appropriate to the occasion. The
Montpelier orchestra opened with rousing
medley, Memories of Tara" and supple-
mented it with Braham's overture to
Reilly and the Four Hundred" c. P.
Pitkin also gave cornet solo and 7. w.
Donahoe selection for xylophone. "The
Harp that Once through Tara's Halls" by
Miss Rose O'Snlliyan, Kathleen Alanna,"
by Miss Nellie Kelleher, Z" The Lost Chord"
by Mrs. A. Gaaise, and Believe Me-" duo
by Misses Kelleher and Sullivan, were
very warmly received and encored. All
the ladies have excellent natural voices,
A. Galaise sang Lanes When the Liphts
are Low" The timbre of his voice Is Of
excellent tenor quality, and should be- kept
within its proper compass. Fred W. Ban
croft was in fine voice and spirits. "The
Minstrel Boy" Oft in the Silly Night"
The Cruiskeen Lawn afforded the audi
ence rare satisfaction, especially the last
song, which brought the house down with
a roar. Ray w. Huse scored a distinct sue
cess in his violin solo, Dancla's Air Varie,
K flat" He has made marked improve
ment since his debut last fall. la response
to an uproarious encore he played Wieg-
and's Cradle Song" Horace H. Scribner
was the accompanist Of the evening,
"'TIs sweet to see the evening star an
pear So rhapsodized the author of Don
Juan in one of those refreshing excursions
up out of the miasma of his dusky narration
of the wild adventures of his hero into the
purer atmosphere of poetry and sentiment
And the evening star is now the sweetest
spectacle in the skies of opening spring
High up in the southwestern heavens she
shines out long before any other star is
visible, and indeed before " the shades of
night" begin to fall. When twilight deep
ems into night she glows with brilliancy
that must arrest the attention of the most
casual observer. No eye can be raised to
the starlit skies without taking in the gori-
GUS vision She is more beautiful than the
full moon, and she is more rare. Hesperus
the ancients named her; Venus, her mod.
ern appellation. She is Earth's nearest, as
she is her most brilliant sister, and re-
sembles Earth in many interesting parlicu-
lars Her diameter is 800 miles, and her
lion miles. Her day is about twenty.three
hours long, and the period of her journey
round the sun about two hundred TWENTY
five of the days of Earth. So to the dwelers
upon the latter she is always an object of
liveliest interest, enhanced by the prob
ability that If any of the other members of
the planetary family is inhabited like
Earth, il is Venus. Some twenty-five mil
lion OF miles nearer the sun than is Earth,
II beings with organisms like ours dwell
tlara V4nua will afford "a g.,
Earth's surplus ice when interpanetary
communication shall be established A
cloud-burdened atmosphere, quite impene-
trable by telescopes, astronomers tell us,
appears to invest this brilliant sister and
conceal her physical aspects from the far
reaching gaze of curious mortals. To the
sunlight reflected from these clouds the
planets exceeding lus'er is ascribed 1he
light tat so attracts our admring gaze may
traverse an atmosphere stirred by the hum
of industry and resonant with the songs of
birds Enveloped by it, millions of ,entient
beings may be enacting the drama of life,