New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-17
VERMONTERS MAKE MERRY.
EATING THEIR SECOND ANNUAL DINNER
spFrcprs BY COLONEL vHAzEy, DR.. W II

SPEECHES By COLONEL vHAzEY, Dr.. w n
BUCKHAM AND OTHERS.
Che SIMS Of Vermont who call themselves the
Erooblyn society OF VermOntcrs ate their sec''
annual dinner last evening. in Art Association nam
No Ia Montague St. Brooklyn. Inc nan w"
decorated with evcrgreenS. and the coat oI ARMS VI
the Green Mountain state was suspended over .
presidents chair aanked by National hags' be,iuo
each pla:e was a srrlg of hemlock from the mus
OF Vermont About 100 men and women So'S Vi
1,o,nopt mr. sons wives, were seated AT the tables
,rbe nr,>ident OF the society, Robert d. Behedlc''
presided. eo,oro,
ON the right Of President Benedict was Colohei
w e. yeazey. and his left President putnam
OF The University Of Vermont. Colonel y l. opras"e
Judge Pratt Geuelal j. q. Mccullough anu nay u
Booly we're also at the table Of homer Among these al
IN. other fables were Surrogate and Mrs ADpo't' 'ne
Rev John C. Allen Mr. and Mrs. b. Lincoln beheui'''
Mr. and Mrs A. T. Chandler. Nv. II. Cotton Mr. anu
olrs +. II. EdgcrtOn. the Rev. Tim"'hy L. f'"S'' vi
and Mrs John F. Henry. Mr. and Mrs. IL. w. ll''r'
Mr. and Mrs. John II. Flag, Mr. and Mrs. n. a. N'
bail Mr. and Mrs : f. Knc"land, Mr. ana Mo u. D.
Morse Mr. and Mis-. f. II. Orm-bee' MIS- - =
Bir. and Mrs Tleophilus Olena and Miss oena' r. A.
Pratt Charles a. Tinker, Prescott L watson "uu '''S'
Watson and Sanford II. steele
President Benedict began the speech-iahlhe' laying
that the date for the animal dinner hah oerh ser Ve'
because on that day ID years ago the peopie 4" i'
NewlIamps shire Grants declared te" "'fu"'' W Wv
state II was hoped that there would Dc loos me
Of such rsnnions Of tie descendants OF vermont a ohA
Doubt,s.s many u them hsd forgotten That Vermont
Was once known as Newt Onnectcut and that the
Igslnure ouce met Oh the east side ' the 'one' ucu
River and Dartmouth College WAS within ltS D'uhu
ares Other states had organizations OF sols oil YER
m, Mt SAID Mr. Benedict, snd he read the gieethsa oi
the Chicago society and the Rhode Island Soc"V'
Letters were read By Robert J. Kinhan. the secre
tarv from Governor Carroll ,. Page senators JuSuh
: Morrill,. ard RodfeM Proctor, Congressman "''"''
Henry F. Field, W. ii. y. Ingraham, and Others
In the absence of the Assistant secretary oil war
General L. A. Grant the toast 10 the fresdeht Vi ln'
United states was drunk but not responded TO- TO
the toast vermont" with the sentiment " MAY her
prosperity flourish like her pines and continue un'
shaken os her mountains Colonel w. g. |eazey
Of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Responded
" H. Buckham president of the University oi W.T.
mont smoke upon "VermOnters at Home ine
toast "Vermontcrs Abroad" was assigned TO "ehe''i
/ g. NcCullOuSh OF burlington. who saiu III par
But here and tonight. 81. George and ST Andfs" -
Nicholas and ST. Patrick ami all the oSher SAINTS o' y"
calendar must stand aside and give room Tor Nel""h'
>aintor Snnr-F Ethan Allen no: him alone dor vernon
;, rot much given worship. not MIN alone out M
budrd 9th mt, and he hPmcd and unnamed kho"
and un known Who the founders ana buaefs ana lie
fenders NJ that little Commonwealth I'D "i"hs
the SHOWS OF New. England, who's pToude, ooas' was "
that while she to, rated no -lave within her borders
neither did She acknowledge Any master lhtse hero'
went into the wilderness. tuidtd Their log nuts D" Wv
Hsmp.hira Grants, paid honestly once and only once o'
their titles and when uniusty assailed nan'aheo u'
rights against all comer. and stood for their own as r
a. rock-rbbcd Mansfield itself -,
Iudec Calvin F.. Pratt of the supreme Court, spoke
tor :. The soldiers OF Vermont Mayor boouN Mcis
away before the last toast The CITY OF nioo"'S"
reached.