Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-02-20
OUR INLAND NAPLES.
Burlington, the Queen City Of Vermont
State.

Headquarters of the great firm of
Wells, Richardson and Company
where Paine's Celery Compound is pre-.
pared for the world.
Fair Burlington, bringa song to thee,
Thou lovely Naples of our midland sea,
The finest inland sea in America is
Lake Champlain; the finest city on its
shores is Burlington.
Hundreds of American cities could
be named which have especial attrac-
tions Of mountain, lake or river scenery,
and each of which is deemed by it's in.
habitants the prettiest and pleasantest
of places. But it would not be easy to
mention one which combines all these
different elements of natural attractive
ness in greater beauty and grandeur
than Burlington, or one which has won
from strangers more enthusiastic ad-
miration. Its site, sloping upward from
the curved shore of the bay for mile,
rises to a ridge $50 feet above the water,
crowned by the college buildings and
by handsome residences, which stand
relieved against the background of the
Green Mountains, rising into the peaks
of Mansfield and Cancels Hump, 1000
feet above the level of the lake.
burlington in Brief" the title of
handsomely illustrated book just is
sued by Chas. Il. Possons, describes
many of the features of the city.
Looking westward from any of the
hundred points of view along the slope,
Lake Champlain, here ten miles wide,
stretches out to the mountain wall of
the Adirondacks. The prospect thus
viewed embodies all the features in.
cluded in Wordsworth's famous de-
scription of what was to him an ideal
scene of rural splendor.
The valley of Lake Champlain is his.
toric ground. Events have taken place
in it which have again and again
shaped the destinies of large portions
of the American continent. Before the
foot of white man had trodden its
solitudes, it had been, for no one knows
how long, the dark and bloody debata-
BILE ground on which the great rival
tribes of North America fought for
supremacy.
On the eastern side of this historic
lake, and amid the scenes of these events
sits the city of Burlington. Its site was
selected 13O years ago, on the shores of
the lovely bay which bears Its name,
nearly midway between the Green
Mountain range on Ethe east and the
Adriondacks on the west, and upon the
bank and near the mouth of one Of the
largest rivers of Vermont-once called
the French River, because its valley was
the route of the French in their forages
on the English settlements on the Con-
necticut during the French and Indian
wars.
AS manufacturing and commercial
point Burlington occupies today an
important position. 1t would be diff
cult to name city that has felt the
hard times less than Burlington.
Its public buildings are handsome,
substantial structures, and its schools
and charitable institutions are unsur-
passed by any city of equal size. The
fine building of the Young Mems
Christian Association was largely the
gift of the present Mayor, w. ]. Van
Patten, of the firm of Wells, Richard
son & Co.
The most widely known concern in
Burlington is, of course, Wells, Rich.
ardson q Co., one of the largest and
most successful firms Of manufacturing
chemists in the country, which has Its
headquarters here, and does tremen.
dous business shipping diamond dyes,
lactated food, and Payne's celery COM
pound to the four quarters Of the globe.
The buildings of this concern on Col
lege st. extend nearly through the
block to Main st. and impress the Wis.
itor to the city with the importance and
prosperity Of the establishment. About
two acres of floor space are compactly
devoted to the interest of the company.
Wells, Richardson & Co. are known
to millions of families. In the various
departments of the house some 300 or
400 men and young women are employ
ed, and tour of the establishment is
intensely interesting. In the various
manufacturing departments, such as
laboratories. shipping facilities and
finer appointed offices are met with in
no similar establishment.
1t is a great concern, and to one seek
ing the cause of such success in this
line, Burlington people will say 1t is
strict integrity, and the fact that every
preparation bearing the firms name is
at least all that is claimed for it.
Another institution is the Vermont
University, with its famed Medical
College, where the great DR.. Phelps
was once a lecturer.
The city is the home of Senator Ed
munds, ex-Minister Phelps, DR.. W.
Seward Webb, Le. Grand B. Cannon
and many more men of nationalrsputs.
1t is well named the Queen City,