New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-18
~ PRAISE FTHE GREEN .MOTNTAfN SITE
ANNUAL DINNER OF THE BROOKLYN SOCIETY
OF vFRMONTEEs-R g. HoRR TELLS THE
ADVANTAGES OF LIVING ~
SMALL. AREA

SMALL AREA.
A hundred sons and daughters q the Green Mountain
state attended the fourth hnnunl dinner - the BROOKLYN
Society Of vermonics Wilson'S Banquet Haii At No
1913 piorrepon 81. Brooklyn. last evening k'hef j.
Kimba preden, Of the society sat a. he table or h.nor
with speakers Among the others present were Robert
D. Benedict the Rev O. II. Fay. Colonel y T. Spr'gi"'
Professor l. G. Perkins John J. Allen. Hamilton W.
Ornsbcc Charles \. Tinker +. IT, Chandler. surrogate
George T. Abbot, and Sanford II. steele.
Senator Morrn expected 20 be the special guest ~
the occasion. He wrote however that severe cold
nr.ven,ed hs rresnce ms his physician would not per
NIT him 70 attend The frat toast was 70 The President of
the United States. and drunk In silence.
President KpbalI made the Introductory speech and
then gave to erCongressinan Roswell g. h''r' Who
spoke to this sentiment: 'Vermont-A Small But Mighty
People 'The Most Active and the Most E"o'H'nS Race
Upon the Continent"
In his speech Mr. Horr said;
1T has long been considered nm axiom In physical
science that other things being equal size Is the measure
Of power The misleading part ~ this statement Is 10
be found in the fact other things seldom nr~ equal
Many men have lived md died with brain ns large Ms
C,vicr or On 1e Webster and yet have never had
mental powers above those 81 an ordinary Hou"ntot
Napoleon al one known as the Little Corporal
Yet he changed the ~ Europe ns much n" has been
done bismarck who ia physical giant The activities
- many small areas have given The rest ~ the
plenty 81 business in the past ngcs Vermont has only
about square miles and those can be- measure" only
by the use OF Instruments and mathematical calculations
compass and chain. NewYork IL Ave times as large
the state II Vermont. You cut the little State u
Vermont out OF Texas twcny-seyen times. ana then
edglugs CROUCH oft mike another state large rs
Connecticut and Rhode Island combined And yet who
would not rather have been born In Vermont than
Texas? When n person say: born In Vermont
that means something. The statement carries with
definite idea. one Instantly: There
person who was actually born somewhere. II
Is not 81 large as destroy ones identity .
This Is not 50 IN the % large Tnke
It's people have lost their individual characteristics They
all look alike IL makes difference whether you meet
Wing Lo Chang Lung Wang Ho you feel as
though you mad only and the same person
They are all the samee Not when you peo-
pie from Vermont Somehow each has indiviu-
aIity Of own. The surroundings beget type. but
the typ. made up Of distinct units. Go where you Will
in the n Mountain State you new ed-
lions oily Stark and Ethan Allen. ulnixed with
Irish IN, German, or Hungarian me New-Eng-
land s.. survives in all purity. Fathe-s and moth
ers q Ia OF Revolutionary stock. Tru'. their sons
and ers are crowded out into the Western States
and and ntor-marry with the ~ the world
But me a Vermont marries Vermont girl.
and q ar pev the Vermont characteristics are still
prest
Mr. 4 r drew forth frequent applause ny his clever
salli
II Of or toasts were responded TO by General G. ".
bod resident Norwich Nt) University Alumni; H.
X. and the Rev !. r. frost