St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-05-13
THE EDITORS EXCURSION.
County Journalists and their Friend
Combine Business with Pleasure in
trip TO Woodbury. Mountain.

lucky dav, but the Vermont editors an
friends who enjoyed the excursion t.
Woodbury. mountain last Friday consid
er themselves most fortunate mortal
and have only the hapl est recollection
of the trip The day was fixed for tn
second meeting Of the county newspape
men and by invitation of Editor Sawyer
of the Gazette, Hardwick was selected a!
the place for the business meeting and E
trip on the Hardwick & Woodbury. rail
road furnished the entertainment. II
was a perfect day and about a score re
sponded to the invitation. The CALEDo
MAN was represented by the editor and
Miss Robe, the Republican by Editor
Walter and wife and Miss Woods. Ed.
tor Chase represented the Vermont I'm
ion and Editor Sawyer of the Hardwick
Gazette and Mrs. Sawyer made all the
arrangements for the entertainment and
proved ideal hosts. The other guests
included Editor Frank W. Stiles and wife
and son of the Springfield Reporter, Edi-
tor Lamberton of the Morrisville Mes.
senger and Editor Lewis and wife of the
Morrisville News and Citizen and Miss
Elisabeth Jones of Bradford. 1t was dis
tinctly gathering of the newspaper fra
ternity and full OF profit as well as pleas
ure to the craft.
While the half dozen ladies in the party
were enjoying ride about the growing
town of Hardwick, the journalists met
in the hotel for a business session. 1t
was here that the association was per.
fected which was partially organized in
St. Johnsbury last month. The new Or
ganization is to be known as the Gale.
donia Publishers Association and only
publishers OF weekly newspapers will be
admitted. Maine and New Hampshire
have state organizations and it is the
hope of the promoters of the Caledonia
Publishers Association that it will even.
tually become a state organization.
These are the officers of the new associa
ton:
President, Charles T. Walter of the Re-
publican.
Vice-Pres., c. c. Lord of the Groton
Times.
Sec. Treas, c. P. Sawyer of the Hard.
wick Gazette.
Executive committee, the above officers
and John B. Chase Of the Lyndon Union
and Arthur F. Stone of the CALIFORNIAN.
The first honorary member of the as
ISOLATION is Richard J. Mclean, who rep
resents the well known Boston paper
house of A. Storrs & Bement Co. He
was with the party Friday and contrib
uted greatly to the success of the occa.
sion. Editor Stiles of the Springfield Re-
porter also joined at this meeting.
After the business session the party to
the number of II were the guests Of
Landlord Daniels of the Hardwick Inn.
A fine dinner had teen prepared, the
"piece de resistance" being brook trout
which Editor Sawyer had caught the
day before. Mr.. Daniels in common
with Others in this growing town has
caught the expansion fever and has Just
begun to enlarge the hosiery. When
the additions are completed the hotel
will contain 25 more rooms and all the
modern conveniences found in a first
class hotel.
After dinner the party were escorted to
the big stone sheds of the Woodbury.
Granite Company. This concern, as all
ought to know, has just secured the con-
tract for furnishing all the granite for
Pennsylvania new capitol and it is ex.
pected that it will take about five years
to complete the contract which will
probably be around $4,OOO,OOO. The
present force of men at the sheds and
QUARTS will be doubled and there will
soon be 500 men on their payroll.
Nothing has been found to excel Wood
bury granite for building purposes and
for mausoleums and the Woodbury.
Granite Company not only have prac-
tically inexhaustible supply of granite
on Woodbury. mountain, but another
quarry at Bethel which produces stone
OF whittier and finer texture. The increase
OF the force at the sheds will necessitate
new buildings and ground has already
| been broken for more sheds. These are
located in the village of Hardwick with
numerous side tracks from the main line
OF the Hardwick & Woodbury. railroad.
All the dressing OF the stone is done in
these sheds and when they leave the
buildings for their destination they are
already to be put in place in the new
building wherever that may be. The
firm employs only skilled labor, many of
them being Scotchmen who learned the
trade in the old country, the hours are
easy but the work is necessarily monoto-
nous and demands close attention and
steady hands.
After thorough inspection of the
sheds the party were turned over to
Manager Dutton of the Hardwick &
Woodbury. railroad, modest but hard
working man who knows more about
running and managing railroads than
many Others who have higher positions
on longer lines. This railroad is largely
a local enterprise, is an independent road
and used entirely for Transporting the
granite blocks OF the various quarries on
woodbury. mountain to the Hardwick
! sheds. An execution is made in an occa