St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-12-20

OF the Rutland County National Bank
enlisted as captain in company K, LIST
Vermont regiment, in 1862 and was
promoted to lieutenant. colonelcv of the
10th Vermont fox bravery. He was
severely wounded at Malvern Hill and
while on his bed was offered colonelcy,
but refused it on account OF his disability.
He was brevetted major.general at the
close Of the war. Gen. Ripley was
mayor OF Rutland in 1899. He leaves a
widow, son and two daughters.
Gift to Vermont Academy.
Principal John AIger announces that
Rev. c. R. b. Dodge, The academy s 6nan-
clal agent, has just returned from anoth-
er trip and found man who pledged
himself to subscribe $4,000 to the
endowment oil $100, 900, which the Acad-
envy is endeavorng to raise. The name
OF the donator has not been made public.
This makes $50 900 which the academy
has raised in the last two months.
Vermont in GlIdden Tour.
John W. Gordon of Barre, secretary OF
the Vermont Automobi Club, has writ.
ten letter to the Boston Herald, urging
that Vermont be included in the Glidden
automobile tour next summer. His let
Ter is as follows:
IF Vermont is territory that can
very properly be developed, and the Gid
den tour is sn agent for developing terri
tories, why should not the development
begin now? Ifit is a mere question OF
precedence, has not Massachusetts had
its share?
Last year the Gldden tour traversed
the state on the outward and return trip.
Vermont was not touched and barely
sighted. Yet it's valleys and hills should
be the tourists mecca. You boast oil
| Massachusetts, road, but is macadam the
principal feature of tour? Is the arti-
fetal so greatly superior to the natural
that the former should be preferred
Are the highways OF Vermont, guarded
by its hills of evergreen and graded by
nature when she laid the floors of its
valleys, no offset to the product of a
stone crusher? Our roads are largely o.
the earth type, but they are subject tc
light traffic, and during the settled
CODulllOuo Vi IuC SuLlnSI mOUlUS IuIulSL
excellent beds.
Where can northern New England
furnish a finer route than that from
Breton Woods by st. Johnsbury tc
Mont pelier and Burlington? Where il
there finer lake scenery than upon tb,
borders of Champlain? From Burling
ton the route could follow the easterl,
shore OF the lake as far as Middlebury
thence to Rutland, Saratoga, and Albany
And we think the tourists would b
satisfied with the route.
But if Massachusetts, would Join witt
US, the route might include both states
Returning from Burlington to Mont
peier (39 miles,, the tourists could g
by Barre, WilIiamstown Cult, Whit
River Junction. Windsor, Claremont, LAX
Sunapee, Newport. Concord, Manchester
etc., to Boston. This last route woul
cover much OF the famous route owe
which the intercolonial stages made til
fastest time between Boston and Mon
real.
I'VE trust that Massachusetts wi
abandon her attitude OF opposition t
Vermont and assist in securing til
adoption OF a route that will incluC
both states, then we can all indulge
the pleasing sentiment that the dea
echoes OF the old stage coach will be r
vived by those of the latest achievemer
in the world of travel"