St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-09
GREATER ST. JOHNSBURY.
The Keynote of Mondays Board of
Trade Meeting.


organization for good in this COM
munity, he ought to have been present
at the meeting Monday night. The
meeting was the largest ever held
and lasted over two hours. Matters
of the greatest Importance to St.
Johnsbury's future were discussed,
and all seemed to feel that now was
the best time to strike for larger
growth and more progress.
In opening the meeting President
Turner spoke of the work in vii
lage Improvement planned by the
Woman's club and thought that
public sentiment was quietly yet
unmistakably working along the
line of general Improvement. He
referred to the fact that in almost
every part of the village our citizens
were improving their yards; that
the park opposite the Academy was
being beautified at private expense,
and suggested that the school chill
dren do something to beautify the
triangle at the top of Hastings hill.
Rev. c. H. Bradlee and DR.. |. L.
Perkins were admitted to the Board
of Trade, making the present mem
ship 116.
George H. Cross then introduced
the following resolution:
Resolved, That we recommend to
our town that any new company or
corpora ton formed since Jan 1 :,
1892, or to be formed in St.
Johnsbury under the laws of our
state, with a capital of $4,000 or
over for the purpose of manufactur-
ing or doing business in St. Johns
bury, shall be exempt from taxes for
the term of ten years, commencing
Jan. 1, 1892.
After an informal discussion on
this resolution, in which all the
speakers heartily endorsed the idea
conveyed of eXempting new concerns
from taxation, the resolution was
referred to the committee on legisIa-
ton, who will report at the next
meeting on any legal points connect
ed with the entire matter. The
same committee was also instructed
to draw up an article to be inserted
in the warning for a town meeting,
embodying the matter of exempting
new concerns from taxation.
On motion of F. 6. Bundy, the
committee on legislation were in
structed to present at the next meet
ing any changes desired in the vii
lage charter and bylaws.
E. L. Hovey brought up the Port
land street bridge question by intro
ducing the following resolution:
Resolved, That it is the opinion of
this Board of Trade that the town of
St. Johnsbury, in connection with the
St. J. & L. c. r. R. Co., and the Pas
sumpsic division of the Boston and
Maine railroad company, ought to
Railroad street across the tracks of
those companies and the Passumpsic
river, to the vicinity off. V. Powers
store, as soon as satisfactory ar
rangements can be made between
the parties.
Capt. Hovey then made a stirring
address for greater St. Johnsbury,
tracing its steady growth during the
40 years he had resided here, and
predicted a population of $4,000
here within the next twenty years.
He urged the building of the bridge
because it was doing business on
grand and permanent scale; because
it was demanded for public safety
and also for business purposes; be-
cause any improvement in st. Johns
bury brought more people in here;
because St. Johnsbury in the past
had grown famous by the liberality
and philanthropy of a few citizens,
and the time had now come for all
the citizens to put their shoulders to
the wheel and carry on the work
which had been so we'll started by a
few wealthy citizens; that the annex
alton of Summerville had united all
sections of the village and it was an
injury to the whole town to have
the grade crossings and the old bridge
there.
Capt. Hovey'S remarks were greet
ed with prolonged applause by the
members present.
Charles A. Calderwood moved the
adoption of the resolution and Drs.
Calderwood and Stiles seconded the
motion.
Rev. Edward T. Fairbanks con-
graduated Mr.. Hovey on his speech
and said he was in favor of promot-
ing the scheme.
Robert Mackinnon said most of
the directors of the Board of Trade
were in favor of building the bridge.
He did not know how much the Bos
ton & Maine would pay, as nothing
had been said definitely about that.
E. L. Hovey said the bridge could
be built for 100000 and the addi-
tional expense would not be over
$4,000 He had plans for such
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