Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-09-06

1T. DuTulCk OIL boston IL visiting
in town for few days. He is de-
scendant Of Colonel Justus Burdick,
long resident OF Woodstock in
times gone by.
Ex.Gov. James p. Eagle, of Lit.
tie Rock, Ark, and wife are at the
Inn.
Miss Margaret Bartlett returned
from Burlington this week.
The town and village schools be.
gin the fall term Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Marshall and
daughter Frances, Mrs. G. E. Mar
shall and Miss Hatch were in Brain.
tree several days this week.
Charles &. Aikens of Barnard has
secured a pension, through John
Gilman, pension attorney, of So a
month from August, 1899.
Miss Laura M. Ransom returned
from Littletou, N. H., Tuesday and
left Wednesday for New York city
to take a situation in Il millinery
house.
Mrs. John Ransom returned
Saturday from Round Pond, N. H.,
where she has been visiting her son.
J. c. Dana returned to Newark,
N. J., Tuesday, expecting to return
to Woodstock next week.
Roosevelt Rides on a Woodstock
Coach.
The coash-and-six which brought
up in Cornish, N. H., last Saturday
morning from Woodstock, to &C.
company the presidential party into
Vermont, took the blue ribbon Of
honor and the compliment.of Roose.
welt himself. Six spirited dark bays
of splendid size and form, proud Of
step, in bright trappings Of harness,
and we'll in hand with the yellow
coach of the Woodstock Inn, made
the distance from the New Hamp-
shire village, eight miles, to Wind
sor and the residence Of Mr.. Evarts,
accompanied by the four-in-hand,
the landau and single carriage of
Winston Churchill and the Dart
mouth tally-ho, in less than an hour,
arriving before 1880, just ahead of
time. The reins were in the hands
of the veteran and skilled reins,nan,
Forrest E. Richmond.
Soon after noon the presidential
party left the residence OF Mr.. Evarts
for the fair grounds, mile and Il
half away toward Mt. Ascutney,
with Secretary Shaw and Senators
Proctor and Dillingham; seated upon
the top of the coach. President
Roosevelt climbed up beside the
driver, remarking that he had rid
den on concord coaches before and
knew where the seat of honor was.
The drive to the grounds was an
ovation all along the line and great
demonstration of enthusiasm fol.
lowed, and when the coach again
drove up to the speakers platform,
with three outriders on horseback
and two on the rack, shouts and ap.
plause broke spontaneously from
the assemblage around to greet the
bays and their driver, and then came
the, drive to the railroad station,
eighteen people inside and outside
the coach.
That the President enjoyed his
coach.seat was evident from his re-
mark to M. Richmond, that he
would like to ride on that seat for
thirty miles that same afternoon, for
it made him think Of. the Rocky
Mountains. And with goodbye at
the station, the President said, in
the Presidents own way: "The
finest team have:ridden. behind on
this New England. trip; am we'll
driven, and it you come to Wash
ington l will give you ride.'j
Mr.. Richmond knows most of
New England as reinsman and
with coaching parties during the
past forty years, with no serious &C.
cident; and with many thousand
other Vermonters he will not forget
the presidential visit to Vermont.
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