St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-10-30


camp will be mustered as soon as the nee
essary arrangements are made. Applica-
tons are in circulation for new camps at
| Essex Junction and Pittsford.
The Chittenden Power Com pany of
Rutland is building at cost of $50 900
a tube five miles long, to deliver water
to their new reservoir at Chittenden
Point, where power will be developed for
thr Rutland Street Railway Company,
and other industries there The tube is
five feet in diameter, is a shell an inch
thick of the best steel and will stand
great pressure.
The Chittenden Power Co. of Rutland
is building dam in the town Of Chitten-
den which, it is said, will be one of the
largest works of the kind in the country.
The dam will be about 800 feet long, and
when completed will form a reservoir
covering about 800 acres, and with a
capacity of 375O,000,000 gallons.
Water will be supplied by stream
known as East creek, and the immense
water shed of the Chittenden mountains
The company expects that between 5000
and 1000 horse power will be developed
when the reservoir and power stations
are completed
President Roosevelt has appointed VII
liam Fl. Burt OF Burlington, and Alfred
M. Mason of St. Albans, to be second
lieutenants in the artillery corps, U. s. A.
Both are veterans of the First Vermont
regiment in the Spanish-Ameriean war,
and also saw service i'll the Philippines.
Barclay Brothers, the Barre granite
dealers, began the work of charging
their plant last week and when COM
pleted it will be the largest granite shed
in the wo Id.
John Lynch of Randolph, a veteran Of
the First Vermont Cavalry, died Friday
OF strangulated hernia and heart failure.
The success of the musical festival at
burlington has given an impetus to the
work in various parts of the state. Mid
dlebury is planning to send chorus of
100 voices to the festival next year. Bur
lington will be represented by chorus
numbering $50 people, st. Adams one of
1875, while Barre has already an organi-
cation of over 200. Rutland will have
175 voices in its chorus. ]. Harry Engels
of Rutland will have charge of the cho-
ruses in nearly all the larger places. Yer
dis Requiem Mass" will be sung at
next years festival.
DR.. NJ. J. Wiltse, director of the state
laboratory at Burlington, was seriously
injured Wednesday by the explosion OF a
barrel containing a small amount of al
cohol over which he was working.
( Rev. c. R. Dodge has rendered his
; resignation as pastor of the Baptist
church in Bellows Falls after II years
| pastorate.
Bellows Falls has a choral union Of
sixty voices.
There are 100 prisoners at the jail at
, Windsor and next year an addition viii
probably be made to the work shop tC
: accommodate those sentenced to labor.
. Considerable illness prevails among
, the veterans at the soldiers home, seven
teen OF the inmates being in the hospital
), The mountain in the towns OF Warner
j. and Lincoln near the Starksboro anC
= Fayston lines, more than 1000 acres ii
}, area, has been purchased by Col. JOSEPH
Battell of Middlebury as park for citi
{ ems OF Vermont and has been named b,
c Mr. Battel "ElIen's Mountain" TIL
n peak heretofore has been unnamed.
h is densely covered with forests OF spruc
II and is one of the highest in the Cree
n Mountain range.
IT Fire at Maplewood Farm, a larg
poultry raising establishment owned b.
|. Foster Rhodes, at Woodstock, Thurs
:. day night, destroyed the big broodin
| JoI,,o h
" in the flames. The building was 200 fee
=. long, a well built structure and the los
q is quite heavy. The place is about a mil
. and halt from the village and the hoo
,s and ladder Co. and hundreds of peopl
- went over to watch the blaze. The &C
~ Joining buildings were saved by waite
{. buckets and blankets, there being no fir
:, apparatus but had there been Sigh
4 wind no buildings on the place coul
,, have been saved. No insurance.
it Paul Garfield, son of general superb
1t terdent Garfield of the Ontario an
lie Western railroad, and employed as
re civil engineer on the Rutland railroa
er system since April, died at Middletowl
d n. Y, Wednesday of brain fever. H
d. was a witness October Sd in New Yor
in an action against the Rutland railroa
- company, and during his testimony /
answered 5000 questions. The sever
y mental strain overtaxed his brain an
y Tuesday he was taken i'll, dying sudde1
d, ". He was to have been married in
% . few days.
N The meeting of the Vermont Stat
= Teachers association, which was t
Al have been held in Burlington Oct. "a t
+. 26, has been postponed until Novemb'
i. 81, % and %.
as Rev. Chauncey c. Adams, form'
at Bellows Falls boy who has been paste
lg of church in Port Byron, ILL.,, for son
r. time, has accepted call to the Congr
he gational church in Hinesburg, aud bega
IN his work there October g..
he A new industry is to be located
as Waterbury. 1t will be a wrapper ma
OF ufacturiug establishment and it is e
he pected it will be ready for business
January 1. They expect to employ b
tween 40 and SO girls. The locatic
of planned is in the large room over Il
oe opera house. This will give them {
e. they wish for, for the present, at leas
~ as it is so by 80 feet. The men who a
rn behind this industry are to have cal
in tai stock of $1,000 at first to run t
IN. business and this amount will be add
&c to later as they branch out. 1t is pr
ore posed to run the machinery by electr
in ity.
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