St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-06-22
VERM0NTERS IN THE WEST
What the Sons of Vermont are Doing
in Chicago, Denver and Kansas City.

where, and in the big Western cities
of Chicago, Kansas City and Denver
it was a great pleasure to meet so
many former residents of st. Johns
bury. You may be sure they all
have pleasant memories of the town
and enquired particularly about its
prosperity and its people.
The St. Johnsbury people in the
excursion OF the Vermont Press AS
ISOLATION met old friends at the BAN
uuet given them by the Chicago
society of the Sons of Vermont at
the Hotel Endeavor on May 9. Mr..
and Mrs. Arson S. Hopkins, Mr..
and Mrs. Edward A. Jewett and Ed
ward D. Redington were at the
banquet and were royalty welcomed
bv their old friends from the scale
town.
Mr.. Hopkins is president and gen
eral manager of the Henry Diblee
Company, who now occupy an
entire block right opposite the Art
Palace on Michigan avenue and
employ about $50 hands in the
various departments. This com
pany does a big business in house
furnishings, manufacturing mantels'
carved chairs, etc. During the Fair
their business has been largely in
creased, owing to their work III
designing booths for the various ex'
hibits. The treasurer of this com
pany is John Sanborn, a brother OF
|. w. Sanborn, of Lyndonville. Ed
ward A. Jewett is still connected
with the Pullman Company and is
now assistant general superin'
tendent of the corporation, occupy
ing an office in the fine Pullman
building on Michigan avenue
Major Redngton is in the life insur-
ance business. He is as loyal to
Vermont as ever and has just been
elected president of the Illinois Asso-
citation of the Sons of Vermont
Charles H. Morse, who has long
been at the head of the Fair.
banks branch house at Chicago, has
recently built an elegant stone
residence in Kenwood, one OF
the prettiest resident districts o.
Chicago.
At Denver ran into a whole colo
nv of friends. The first one | met
was Freeman Frye, who is in much
better health than when he left St
Johnsbury and very much pleased
with Denver. Mr. Frye has not
given up his interest in mechanics
but is agent for dynamos and mo-
tors, electrical and steam appliances
ETC., and is doing quite little bus
mess in this line. Walter B. Allen is
: stopping at the same hotel with him
Colorado has also agreed with Aller
and he is gaining right along. He
was greatly benefited by going first
to Idaho Springs, where he found DR.
Harry G. Billiard located. DR.
Bullard, however, removed to Den
yer last January and has goot
practice in the city. His practice
ought to increase steadily for hi:
office is we'll located on one o
Denver's most prominent streets
Fred r. Ross is still in the real estat,
5 business and has an office in tn,
? Ernest and Cranmer block one O
e the fine business blocks of the city
t He is much pleased with the cit,
t and its people. Charles V. Barton i
o with the Denver Times, the leadin,
n evening paper in the city, and whc
o has the largest circulation of an
S paper in Colorado. Mr.. Barto
does literary and editorial work O
the Times and is bright and verse
" tile journalist. Charles H. Sage
y vice-president of the Arapahoe Inves
y ment Company, concern that doe
~ large business in real estate an
= investments, and occupies comm,
dious quarters in the Boston bloc
', a business block that would be
~ credit to New York or Chicago
" Mr., Sage is great worker and h
company does big business, +
IS is actively engaged in Denvers we
IN fare and is now secretary of Il
le Traffic Association of Colorado, a
h organization which sees that De
We yer gets as good railroad rates {