Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-05-17
EDUCATIONAL MEETING.
Gathering Of teachers at Chelsea was
instructed and Entertsined.

instructed and Entertained.
The educational meeting held here
Monday was fairly well attended at both
the morning and afternoon sessions. The
schools in this and adjoining towns had
a holiday that the teachers might be able
10 attend, and nearly al Of them awaited
themselves Of this privilege.
This meeting was both instructive and
entertaining. Mr.. {. f. Miller Of Iowa
was one Of the principal speakers in the
afternoon. Mason 5. Stone, state super
inteudent Of education, also spoke, but
his principal address was in the evening.
IDis Was the session when everybody
was anxious to be present, for besides
| DIR. stone the speakers we're Gov. Charles
j. Bell Of Walden and Col. Frank l..
Greene, editor OF the 81. Adams Messen
ger.
The subject Of the evening was ''The
New Vermont" Both the gallery and
auditorium were well filled. Gov. Bell, as
he always does, held the close attention OF
the audience as he outlined the beauties
Of Vermont and her greatly improved
agricultural resources.
Col. Greene was the last speaker Of the
evening. Most Of those present had
never heard Col. Greene before, and they
were enthusiastic over his talk. The
only fault found was that the address was
too short
Col. Greene said in part Our YER
mont, the state we all love so we'll, has
developed and grown 10 considerable
consequence In new directions in the last
generation.
While It is true that the superficial
aspect Of Vermont presents itself to the
traveller as chiefly an agricultural state,
yet this view is found TO be misleading
when the facts are known. The speaker
7 4 81
trial life in pioneer Vermont down 10 the
Civil war, showins that the greatest
energy and brain power Of its people
went into trade interests, and that farm
ing was engaged in merely to provide
1 food for home consumption.
Between 1850 and 1850 stock raising and
wool growing had reached much lmpor-
lance, and yet at that period there was an
increase OF 100 in the value OF manu-
/ featured products.
| lie then enumerated some OF the many
inventions and discoveries made by YER
mOnters IN the early days. The steamboat
was invented by Samuel Morey before
4 Robert Fulton mad given his discovery to
/ the world. The first artificial globes for
( school use in this country were made by
I James Wilson OF Bradford. The cook
stove was designed by Stewart OF Pawlet.
/ The siN-shooter revolver WIS made in
q NJ
! invention. The second steamboat IN the
world was made and launched at Burling-
I ton in 1909. The first electric motor was
/ built In 1884 hy Thomas Davenport OF
WilliamstOwn. who also made miniature
electric railway in 1885. Prof. Jackman OF
Norwich university demonstrated the
\ theory Of the Atlantic cable long before
4 Cyrus Field stretched il across the water.
The industrial energies Of the state re-
ceived a set back during the great Civil
war, and 1t was in this reconstruction pc
riod that the present generation was
! taught TO regard Vermont as chiefly an
Agricultural state Meanwhile silent IN
& auences were at work. The great West
4 had been opened up and Vermont could
/ not compete with her sister states IN agri-
cultural products.
/ Today the census shows that so Tar from
+ being distnctively an agricultural state,
less than 81 3 Of her people are engaged ~
farming. The annual gross value OF farm
products Is s336. 70S 82, while manufactured
I products are valued at s57b, 23s.lb. The
Z special census OF 1908 shows that ~ the
past five years the percentage OF increase
i In manufactured products in Vermont IS
greater than any other New England state
with the exception possibly OF Name
I Vermont leads the world in the amount
I OF capital invested in marble quarrylng
| Barre Is the largest granite center IN ths
world and Vermont is exceeded only BY
7 PENNSYLVANIA i'm the amount OF slate pro
duced. Railroad freight agents IN YER
mont testify that the industrial and trade
] interests OF the state are increasing m
greater proportion than its agricultural
I interests.
I IN closing. Col Greene sald;-"A Al
though il may become a new Vermont
she will still be the same dear old Ner-
mont. There will be her beautiful lakes
I her sparkling streams, her shady rllls' hei
velvet fields and rugged mountains we all
/ love so well.