The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-01-01
CORRESPONDENCE.
Vermont at Ihe Worlds Fair.
WORLDS COLUMBIAN COMMISSION, !
nR VERMONT

OF VERMONT.
DECEMBER, 1891.
To the Sons and Daughters Of Vermont.
The Green Mountain State was lin
1890 the first of all the 5 ates called upon
to appropriate for the Worlds COlum-
bian Expositian of 1898. Little was then
known of the Exposition's scope and
plan, and our Legislature, failing to APP
preciate the magnitude and require
ments of the enterprise, appropriated
only the small sum of $1,000. At its
next session, with more knowledge and
in more generous spirit, itincreased this
amount to $4,000.
But with this larger sum at their COM
mand, your Commissioners find them
selves handicapped at the beginning of
and urgently appeal to you for assist
ance.
New Hampshire has appropriated
$25, ZOO, and set apart $4,000 for the
State building. Names appropr' alton
is 100000, of which $4,000 will go into
her buildings. OF the $4,000 apprO-
priated by Massachusetts,, $l5, 900 or $780,
600 will be expended on a building.
Rhode Island and Connecticut are doing,
respectively, no less to uphold State
dignity than their sisters to the north of
them.
Within this group of New England
State buildings, upon beautiful site in
Jackson Park, Vermonts building, if
she has one, must be erected.
Can Vermont afford to go there under
less favorable auspices than her neigh
bors Do you want your Commission
ers to erect for Vermont, from the in
sufficient appropriation, a building be-
fore which you will stand ashamed? Or
would you prefer to have them build
none, at the risk of being, at last, still
more ashamed of your native State?
With these questions in mind, we ask
each and every loyal VermOnter, whether
residing within the State or out of it, to
examine the accompanying guarantee,
sign it without hesitation, and forward
it Immediately to the Commission. More
than one-fourth the required number of
guarantees are pledged to sign before
these papers issue. We believe that the
next Legislature may be depended upon
to do what is right in the premises. 1t
will not serve the purpose to sign in the
future, because it must be known prior
to making plans, what amount may be
expended.
Vermont is rich in natural resources.
Her building stone, fashioned by the
skill of her architects and artisans, is I'M
surpassed, and from it may be erected
building which snail be the pride and
glory of her children. But this can be
accomplished only through your gener-
Gus assistance.
G. S. PAGE,
Governor, er-ofcio, Chairman,
B. b. SMALLEY,
HIRAM ATKINS,
II. II. MCINTYRE,
Executive Committee Worlds Column
bian Commission of Vermont.
The Worlds Columbian Commission
of Vermont, by its Executive Commits
sioner, H. H. Mcintyre of West Ran
dolph, is moving energetically and prac-
tically togards securing the erection of a
creditable State building at Chicago. He
has recently asked the architects of
Vermont to submit designs for struc
ture to be built wholly of Vermont stone,
and now proposes that one hundred Yer
monters shall each guaranty the pay
ment of 500 towards its cost, provided
the next Legislature fails to appropriate
$4,000. The following appeal and
each of the distinguished one hundred
who have been selected by the Commits
sion as having the requisite wealth and
generosity to enable them to take pleas
ure in signing. The Commission feel
assured that no one in the list will fail
to respond favorably to the appeal.
We, the undersigned one hundred sons
and daughters of Vermont, in considera-
ton of the mutual subscriptions hereto
and expenditures to be made on the
strength of this subscription, by the
Worlds Columbian Commission of Yer
mont, in erecting (State) building and
for other purposes within the duties of
their appointment, and to maintain the
honor and dignity of Vermont and her
fair name among her sister States before
the world, severally agree, each with the
other and with all the others hereto SUBJ
scribing, and with the said Commission
to pay to the said Commission on de-
mand after January LIST, 1893, to cover
said expenditures and for said purposes
the sum of one hundred dollars each.
This subscription to be valid only
when $4,000 shall be subscribed hereon,
and is further conditioned that if the
Legislature of Vermont shall, in 1892,
app opriate $4,000 for the purposes of
the said Commission as defined by law,
no payment hereon shall be demanded,
aud in case said Legislature shall appro-
pirate any less sum than $4,000, then
each subscriber shall be held to pay only
such pro rata share on his subscription
of 500 as shall from each be required to
make up, with said less sum appropri-
ated, the sum of $4,000.
We gladly give place to the above,
and the more so because of our remarks
elsewhere to-day concerning the Legis-
lature of 1890, and the reasons why the
-'class" idea should be eliminated in
1892 so as to make the coming Legisla-
ture representative of the whole people
and not that of narrow class of any
name.-ED.
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