The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-10

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sion was one OF great interest.
IT is gratifying to announce that the
much.talked-of brick-making industry at
Montpelier is an assured fact. g. G. Smart |
of Rumney, N. H., has leased a tract OF
land in the Sabin pasture for term OF five
years, and as soon as the spring softening
comes, is to begin building brick-yard that
will give employment to fifteen or twenty
men. Mr.. Smart is a brick-worker of many
years experience. He formerly did busi-
ness at Woodsville, N. H, and all the brick
in the Blanchard opera-house came from
his yard. About century ago there was a
brick-yard in the Sabin pasture.
LAWYER GEORGE e. HOLDEN files excep.
tions to the item concerning him in last
weeks WATCHMAN. His decision to have
nothing to do with the money making ma
chine was given in the first interview with
Mr.. Bowers and there was no second visit.
Some romancists would weave bits of ic-
ton into their web of facts in order to make
good story, but the local scribe of the
WATCHNAN believes truth to be stronger
and more to be cultivated than fiction. He
would not consciously impugn LAWYER Hol-
den's honesty, and could not If he would.
1t is as rugged as the everlasting hills.
THE annual meeting of the board of trade
was held last week Tuesday evening. The
principal business was the election of Off
GERS, who are as follows. President, l.. Bart
Cross; vice-president II. w. Kemp; secre-
ldIN, u. N DIONn, LTedSuIbT, a. Ii. Eaton,
directors, M. K. Smile, w. II. Cowell M
w. Wheelock; committee on real estate
and manufactures, w. e. Adams, f. NJ
Cory Thomas Marvin, A. j. Sibley, George
l.. blanchard on transportation, L. Bart
| Cross, +. l.. Eaton, Fred Blanchard, C. II.
Deming and j. H. Senter; on finance, j. A.
DeBoer, M. e. Smile, Thomas Osborne.
II was stated in the obituary notice of
| Mr.. George Howes, last week, that only
one other person born in Montpelier at so
early date November Ia, 1914, remains
Hon James X. Langdon." A local chron-
icler informs us that this statement is er-
roneous; that Mr.. j. Q. A. Peck ("Quin y,
now living, was born in November, 1908, in
the DIR. Putnam house, on Main street; that
Mr.. w. N. Peck (' Mel y, also now living,
was born in September, 1911, in the house
now occupied by Benjamin Daley in the
rear of the Methodist church. Possibly
there are others, but the chronicler mem
! tons these two as certain.
PROFESSOR BURGESS, dean of the school
| of political science in Columbia College,
and the owner of " Redstone," Montpeier's
handsomest residence, has come to the
conclusion that there has been a great
decline in the quality Of the public service
of the several states in recent years There
are many reasons for this, and among the
foremost, Professor Burgess believes, is the
free railroad pass, which strikes at the very
vitals of prompt, efficient and honest service
in behalf Of the commonwealth. An ex-
! tract from an editorial in the Sprinqtield
Republican, printed in another column, con-
tains some pertinent references to the evil.
1T is an incident of frequent repetition at
this season, when renewals OF subscriptions
are more generally made, to hear remarks
like these 1.-THE WATCHhAN has been in
| our family ever since it was first published .
l learned my letters from it,; or, We
have taken the WATCHMAN continuously
| now these fifty years the time ranging
between quarter and three quarters of a
century. D. Fl. Massey of Worcester, who
was at the WATCHhAN Office ON Saturday
is one of these veterans. He is now sixty
nine years old, and his memory of the paper
goes back to earliest childhood, when it
was brought to his fathers house by carr-
ers on horseback. Mr.. Massey, having as
sisted his neighbors through the assaults of
the grip, was himself compelled to wrestle
with the malady, but triumphed over it.
AT the meeting of the Apollo Club last
Thursday evening some new bylaws and
amendments were adopted. The admission
fee was raised to $40, instead of IS. The
proposed amendment restricting the mem
bership to 1bO was rejected The number
of the board of managers is hereafter TO be
seven. M. K. Smile, the retiring president,
was the ex-officio member elected, and
George II. Rolfe the elective member. The
managers have authority to tender any per-
son not resident of Montpelier or immedi-
dto NlClulty tue IDerty Vi NlsltiuR Jn6 TOOu1b
at his pleasure as guest Of the club for a
time not exceeding two months the presi-
dent must issue to such person card of
admttance. Herbert Chapman, Il. w.
Thompson and Hiram s. Huse were elected
to membership, and the applications of
twenty-eight gentlemen received.
THE Courier of Littleton, N H., speaks
in fiattering phrases of the part George H.
Wilder took in the recent twenty-fourth
musical convention at that charming sum-
mer village. Says the Courier: The fea-
ture OF the matinee was the flute solo OF Mr..
George III. Wilder this talented gentleman
receiving the heartfelt and most spontane-
ous applause OF any artist who appeared
during the convention. IL Mr.. Wilder's
performance be excelled, or his ability
questioned, we should be tempted to make
use of the words used by the elder Wallack
to his son on a memorable occasion: My
boy, yoa cannot excel PERFECTION" The
Courier also observed that ian agreeable
surprise was experienced by the audience
in the singing of Mrs. Miller OF Montpelier,
vt. She would certainly be an acquisition
to any concert" Probably Mrs Miller of
Waterbury is the lady alluded to.
WE have a frst-class nuisance In this
otherwise well-ordered town,-the oongre-
cation of loafers and bummers at the cor.
ner OF State and Main streets. They lean
against the United States mail box and
spread themselves all about the corner
|
posed to the fire of lecherous eyes, and,
quite often, to that Of vile tongues. Many a
lady. rather than subject herself to insult
has crossed the street below there and pur
sued roundabout way to reach her dest
nation. We do not wish to attribute any
blame to the truckmsn on the corner
They are in the places assigned them, and
are respectable and well-behaved class o.
people. All we have recited occurs in
broad daylight, and after nightfall it is inf
nitely worse. There Is an opportunity fol
our newly-elected board of trustees to dis
tinguish itself by abating this crying evil.
MANY and devious are the routes used by
: the wide-awake officials Of the Montpelier
post-office TO deliver at its destination in the
, shortest space of time, mail matter intrusteC
to them. For instance, matter mailed here
for Woodbury., South Woodbury. and North
Montpelier after the afternoon train ovel
the Wells River railroad has left IL sent
north on the afternoon mail. At Essex
junction it Is changed for Cambridge juno
tion; from Cambridge junction IL takes q
, trip over the St. Johnsbury II Lake Cham
I plain road to Hardwick; it leaves the latter
r place at $50 the following morning, reaches