The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-28
VERMONT AT CHICAGO.

VERMONT AT CHICAGO.
A special despatch from st. Adams,
dated April %, says: Gov. Levi X. Full
Ter and the members of the Worlds
Columbian Commission of Vermont will
be present at the opening of the fair on
Nav 1. The Governor goes to chicago
via New York, having accepted the invl-
tation of the Secretary of the Navy to at
tend the naval review in New York har-
Dor. April 81. He will be accompanied
by Adiutant General Theodore 5. Peck
from New York. The Governor Will
then go directly to Chicago. Mrs. Full
Ter and Col. j. II. GOulding, Secretary
of Civil and Military affairs, will also
accompany the Governor on his trip.
DR.. ii. II. Mcintyre of West Randolph,
executive member of the commission
and Col Bradley B. Smalley of Burling-
ton. who is chairman of the committee
on awards, are already in Chicago, en-
gagged in the arduouS duties of their po-
sition. Col. A. J. Walker, another COM
missioner, resides in Chicago and in rom
derlng the State good service there. A.
]. Sibiey of Montpelier, who succeeded
the late Hiram Atkins on the commits
sion will go to the Worlds Fair city at
an early date.
The lady members of the commission,
Mrs. Ellen NJ. Chandler of Pomfret, Mrs.
Elizabeth V. Grinnell of Burlington,
Mrs. Theresa S. Cochran of Groton and
Mrs. Minna G.. Hooker of Brattleboro,
will leave for Chicago this week. The
formal opening and dedication of the
Vermont State Building on the World S
fair grounds will occur on Wednesday,
May 10.
The occasion will call together several
hundred Vermonters, including nearly
two hundred visitors from the Green
Mountain State, who will make the trip
under the auspices of the Vermont
Press Association. The press party will
travel in special train OF Wagner sleep
ers, and will spend the second week in
MAY in Chicago. The Sons of Vermont
in that city have rendered reception
add banquet to the press party on the
evening of Mayo.
The State building will be dedicated
at noon on the opening day. The exer-
cises will consist of the formal assign
ment of the structure to the National
commission, with an address by director
General Davis, followed by brief adj
dress by Gov. Fuller. The principal
feature OF the exercises will be an ora
ton by Ex-Governor William P. Dilling'
ham, one of VermOnt's best orators.
Music for the occasion will be furnished
by an orchestra and a trio of female
voices from the Chicago Conservatory OF
Music.
The State building is made to repre-.
sent a Pompeiian residence. 1t is an
unique design, which has been highly
complimented from an artistic stand
point 1t has court in the centre which
contains several marble statues and a
fountain. There is considerable ma BILE
about the building in thing, steps and
other places. Mr. and Mrs. l.. S. Drew
of Burlington will have charge OF the
building, which will be used as head
quarters for Vermont.
The various exhibits from this State
are scattered around among the different
exposition buildings. Among the mos
notable exhibits of the products anC
material resources of the Green Noun
tain State at the fair will displays Of
marble, granite and slate, and exhibits
of maple sugar and strip, butter anC
cheese, and show of horses, cattle anC
sheep The granite exhibits from Barre
consist of fifty pieces of finished mOnu
mental work, and il will occupy one
thousand square feet. The Vermont
Marble company of Proctor will have q
large and attractive display of white anC
colored marbles for building. interior
finishing and monumental purposes
Roofing slate of various colors from Yer
mont quarries will also be exhibited.
Vermont maple sugar and slruP will
be shown in a handsome pavilion, 27x2(
feet in size, crested for the purpose
There will be exhibited the production
Of'nearly 80 sugar makers. Sugar will
be shown in bricks, cakes, pals and
tubs, aud syrup will be shown in hand
some glass bottles and cans. Fine gran
ulated maple sugar will be exhibited by
Congressman William w. Grout anC
others. Maple candies will be shown by
Welch Bros, of Burlington. The butter
exhibit will contain the production oil
some forty creameries and diaries. There
will be fine display of Estey organs anC
pianos, of Fairbanks and Howe scales
of farm machinery and tools by various
manufacturers of iron and woodwork
machinery, of hosiery aud underwear
and other products of Vermont mills.
There will also he an exhibit of Yer
mont fishes, including speckled rainbow
and lake trout, land locked salmon from
Lake Memphremagog, representative
. food fishes, such a. black bass, pike
pike perch, the various suckers, such al
red and black fin suckers, all of which
are found in Lake Champlain, anC
brown trout which are not native Yer
mont fish, but which are being raised a
the State Hatchery.
There will also be shown some forty
fine bred Morgan horses and exhibits o
Jersey and Ayrshire cattle ami severa