Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-08-18
Caspian Lake Notes.

Capt. Burbank and G. w. Fitch went
to Boston Saturday to attend the q. A. X.
encampment.
The Hookers broke camp Saturday and
returned to their home in Barre. Mr..
White viii remain at the cottage some
time longer.
A. G.. Wheeler closed his cottage
Wednesday and went to New Hampshire,
where he intends 10 devote the next two
weeks TO fishing for pike and pickerel.
Mrs. Kilbourn closed her cottage
Wednesday and returned to Randolph,
accompanied by Mrs. Rogers and Lee,
who have spent the season with A. @.
Wheeler.
Misses Bertha and Evelyn Manney,
who had been the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar Salisbury for ten days, returned
to Randolph Tuesday, accompanied by
Mr.. Salisbury.
Miss Mary Connolly is home on a
months vacation from the Government
Printing office at Washington, ID. G. She
arrived Tuesday night from Boston, hay-
ing stopped there on her way to Vermont.
On Monday evening the cottagers gave
a concert in the Cong1 church. donating
the receipts, over s75, to the church for
the purpose of building a much-needed
chapel. The audience room was crowded,
the program was fine one was attested
by the repeated and hearty encores, TO
which the musicians very cordially
responded.
Prof. Woodruff OF Bowdoin college,
Maine. gave a most interesting sermon
or talk, TO a large and appreciative
audience at the Congl church Sunday
morning, his subject being "rhe Futility
OF Trying to Get Something for Nothing.
The local choir was assisted by quartette,
OF Misses Lawson aud Keppel
and Messrs Bagnall and Whitney. At p,
m. the usual ''Sunday sing took place at
the Sanborn cottage, when the same
added much to the pleasure OF
the occasion by rendering some fine
music. Mr.. Whitney, who sings in
TRINITY church, Boston and has superb
bass voice, also sang two solos.
THE cARNIvAL.
The grand carnival on the lake
came off Friday evening, according to
program, and was pronounced success.
The boats, all fancifully and many OF them
most elaborately and artistically decorated
with japanese lanterns and eyergreens,
appeared on the lake at $ o'clock and
lined up in two divisions, y. J. Whitehill
one and f. IL. Bagnall the
other.
The boats were kept about 20 feet apart, |
the two lines extending nearly across the
lake in front of the cottages. There, |
with Franklin Salisbury in the launch,
Eleanor, leading one division and Noble
Kinney in the Rosette, leading the
other, the manoeuvres began. The lines
passed and repassed each other, going
lar out in the lake, then cireling back
again to the front, every move delight
to the on-lookers, for every move brought
the dancing lanterns into new positions,
making a most brilliant and ever 1
changing picture and eliciting enthusias-
tic applause from the many people on
shore. After spending nearly an hour
in this way, the lines faced, and then
followed the most exciting part OF the
carnival. Every boat bad been provided
with a supply of Roman candles, and
with these the lines bombarded each /
other till the ammunition was exhausted,
when peace was declared and both sides
proclaimed victorious. For an hour after \
hat the lake was alive with boatloads I
Of people who had remained on ahore /
during the manoeuvres but who went 4
ont to witness the equally brilliant
spectacle presented on land, for all the
cottages and surrounding grounds were
hung with hundreds OF Japanese Ian
terms, and during the entire display, many 4
red and green lights were burned along /
the shore, while bonfires from the village
side Of the lake added TO the beauty oil
the scene.