The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-25
OUR INLAND NAPLES.
Burlington, the Queen City of
Vermont State.
Headquarters Of the Great Firm Of
Wells, Richardson & Co.
Where Paine'S Celery Compound is Pre-
pared for the World.
Fair BurnnGtonl Ibiipg a song to thee,


The finest inland sea in America is LAX
Champlain; the finest city on its shores is
Burlington.
Hundreds of American cities could be
named which have especial attractions of
mountain, lake or river scenery, and each
of which is deemed by its inhabitants
the pre- tiest and pleasantest of places
But it would not be easy TO mention one
which combines all these different sle-
ments of natural attractiveness in greater
beauty and grandeur than Burlington, or
one which has won from strangers more
enthusiastic admiration. Its site, sloping
upward from the curved shore of the bay
for a miie rises to ridge 800 feet above
the water, crowned by the college build
iHgs 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 a
handsomely illustrated book just issued
by Chas H. Possons, describes many of
the features of the city.
Looking westward from any of the
hundred points of view along the slope,
lake Champlsin, here 10 miles wide
stretches out to the mountain wall of the
Adirondacks The prospect thus viewed
embodies all the features included in
Wordsworth famous description of what
was to him an ideal scene of rural splen
dor.
The valleyof lake Champlain is historic
col -, se
which have again and again shaded the
destines of large portions of the Ameri-
can continent. Before the foot of a white
man had trodden its soltudes, it had
been for no one knows how long, the
dark and bloody debatable 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. It's site was
selected 1870 years ago, on the shore of the
lovely bay which bears its name, nearly
midway of the length of the lake, nearly
midway between the Green mountain
range on the east and the Adirondacks
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 Connecticut during
the French and Indian wars.
AS manufacturing and commercial
point Burlington occupies to-day an i'm
portant position. It would be difficult to
name a city that has felt the "hard
times" less than Burlington.
Its public buildings are handsome, sub
stanttal structures, and its schools and
charitable institutions are unsurpassed
by any city of equal size. The fine build
ing Of the Young Mems Christian Asso
citation was largely the gift of the present
Mayor, Mr.. j. Van Patten, of the firm of
Wells, Richardson & Co.
The most widely concern in Burlington
is, of course, Wells, Richardson & Co.,
one of the largest and most successful
firms of manufacturing chemists in the
country, which has its headquarters here,
AMI does a tremendous business shipping
diamond dyes, lactated food, and Paine's
celery compound to The four quarters of
the globe. The buildings of this con
through the block to Main street and
impr SIS the visitor to the city with the
importance and prosperity Of the estab
lsgurnu. About two acres of floor space
are C m 1actly devoted to the interests of
the company.
Wells, Richardson & Co. are known to
millions of families. In the various de
parJments OF the house some 300 or 400
men aud young women are employed,
and "A tour of the establishment is ill.,
tensely interesting. In the various man.
uiacturing departments, such labora-
tories, shipping facilities and huely ap-
pointed offices are met with in no similar
establishment.
1t IS 70 great concern, and to one seek
ing the cause Of such success in this line
Buriu gtou people viii say that it is
strict iategrUy, and the fact that every
PREPARATION bearing the firms name is at
leas. all J.at It's claimed for iu.
Another institution is the Vermont
university, with It's famed medical col
lege, where the great Dr.. Phelps was
once % lecturer
Tle city is the home of Senator Ed
muud-, ex Minister Phelps, DR.. w.
See ard Webb, LIE rand B. Cannon and
mHus more men OF national repuUe. IL
is well named che Queen city"
If there ever was a real cure for ehro ic
Coughs, colds, Brouc ioal troubles and
la Grippe it is Pan-Tina. Don't fail to
get the genuine; avoid substitutes Costs
only 20 cents. Pau-Tna is sold at Gruhler
Br .s drug store