St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-06
VERnONT NEWS.
A vermonter's Prosperity.

President A. w. Wright, OF the Cincin
natl, Saginaw, and Mackinaw railroad,
the Duluth, Mississippi and Northern
railroad and director of the Ann Arbor
railroad is visiting friends in southern
Vermont. President Wright is a native
of the state, coming from the neighbour
hood of Chester. Mr. Wright is erecting
an immense beet sugar factory in Alma,
consisting OF several new FIVE story and
halt brick buildings, in all 1875 feet long.
Back of these are the great storage sheds
for the raw beets. These are to be taken
into one end of the building in their
natural state, and in twenty-iour hours
the finished product, graduated sugar,
will be taken from the opposite end. The
factory will be run night and day, the
night and day forces each comprising
about $50 men. The capacity CT the
plant will be $4,000 pounds of sugar
per day.
The beets will all be grown by the far
mers in the vicinity and will be four times
the value of any crop which they can
raise. Mr.. Wright and his associates
will probably pay out over $250,000 per
year for the beets alone, and the yearly
output OF the factory will depend only on
the size of the beet crop which the farmers
raise.
The legislature ofMichigan once passed
an act giving bounty OF one cent per
pound on beet sugar, but the business
has increased so enormously that no ap-
preparation was made when the state
saw that it would be bankrupt if it con-
tinued to pay the bounty.
The Old Thirteenth.
A letter is received from Col. Albert
Clarke, secretary of the Home Market
club of Boston, accepting the invitation
of the 18th Vermont Regimental Associa-
ton to deliver an address at the dedica-
ton OF the regiments monument at Get
tysburg. The granite work of the monu-
ment is nearly completed ready for ship.
ment and the bronze statue and tablets
are also nearly finished. The latter are
being made at the works of the Gorham
company, at Providence, R. l.
1t is expected that the monument will
be dedicated about the middle of October.
Arrangements are now in progress for
excursion rates to Gettysburg and return,
with side trips to Washington and other
interesting points, including the different
batteheds. This will provide for an OPP
portunity for the survivors of the reei-
ment and their friends to visit Gettys-
burg with its many points of interest at
season of the year when the country is
at its best.
The original plan was to dedicate the
monument after the G. A. X. encampment
at Philadelphia, the first week of Sep
TENDER, but it was voted by the associa.
ton to wait until October, believing that
this would be more pleasant time OF
the year with cooler weather than the
date first selected 1t has been suggested
that it would be more appropriate to
dedicate the monument of the 18th Yer
mont regiment at the same time.
First Vermont Regiment.
Gov. Smith has received letter from
the Dewey reception committee at Wash
ington. inviting him to be present with
his staff when Admiral Dewey arrives at
the National capital, and also to bring
with him the First Vermont regiment.
In the letter to Gov. Smith, the chair
!, man of the committee says: "The recep-
ton committee has no funds available
for entertainment, and so cannot send
you such an invitation as would be most
pleasing to it, but it begs to assure YOU
that every effort will be made to render
your stay here enjoyable In view of the
fact that Vermont has a special pride in
all that honors the great admiral, we
tender the troops of the Green Mountain
state the place of honor in the escort
the right of the line and the head of the
| cnl,1p,, INbrnrut ha nf ha
District National Guard authorities we
are enabled to proffer for our troops such
sleeping facilities as may be found in the
drill halls of the central armory. We
hope you may decide to join us in greet
ing the Admiral upon his return to the
national capital"
President Baldwin Named.
An order OF the Supreme court was filed
in Burlington last week in the county
clerks office appointing William H. Bald
win of New York, President of the Long
Island Railroad, as member OF the COM
mission in the case of the Rutland rail.
road against the Central Vermont, to
sccceed Thomas TAFT of Montreal, re.
signed. This commission is appointed
for the purpose OF settling the question
! Of the two. tracks in Burlington. The
other members of the commission are
, Judge Hoyt II. Wheeler of Brattleborc
and James E. Childs OF New York.
The annual reunion of the 9Th Vernon,
Regimental Association will be held al
Montpelier the day previous to Yer
mont's reception to Admiral Dewey
General Thomas will be present, and it il