St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-03-28
THE DAYS WORK,
Officers of the Scale Company Tell our
TOwnspeople Something of she Magni.
tude of their Business.

Officers of the Scale Company Tell our
TownspeOple Something of she Magni.
tude of their Business.
By invitation of Manager IN. Turner
about 60 of our towuspeople met at the
Casino Thursday evening and were served
an excellent banquet by Caterer Atwood
of which the "piece de resistance" was
hot maple sugar and doughnuts. Cut
flowers garnished every table, and it is
unnecessary to say that the banquet was
heartily enjoyed by the guests. When it
was over the tables were removed and
Manager Turner said be had invited a
few of the business and professional men
OF the town down there that they might
know something of the magnitude of the
business which has been more or less
familiar to them all these years.
He then called upon Col John c. Clark,
the treasurer, to tell briefly of the 6nan-
ces of the corporation. Col. Clark said
that over half the stock was owned in
St. Johnsbury, though the 600 stock.
holders lived 10 all parts OF the United
States and Europe. He said the pay roll
in 1905 was 100000, all OF which was
paid out in St. Johnsbury, while the
s'ockhol ders received in dividend d S
100000.
Mr.. Turner then called upon the pur
chasing agent, Charles H. Horton, who
described in most interesting manner
where the supplies were bought, how the
raw material was gathered from all
parts of this country and parts OF
Europe. and incidentally spoke of the
scarcity of lumber owing to the great
demand of the paper mills for spruce
timber.
P F. Hazen, the superintendent,
followed with an equally interesting
address explaining the growth of the
business in the 80 years that he had
been here, especially the continual
increase in the special notifications OF
scales. He illustrated his talk with
pictures of scales, blue prints of plans
and an exhibit OF the various catalogues.
Mr.. Turner summed up the situation
by saying that he wanted the St. Johns
bury people to consider that this bus.
iness was their business, and that what
benefited the corporation was Of equal
benefit to the people OF st. Johnsbury.
He spoke OF its growth in the II years
that he had been here and paid notable
tribute to the high class of workmen
who had made this growth possible by
their faithtuIness and ability.
Arthur F. Stone then ''butted in" and
called for few responses to this recep.
ton which Mr.. Turner had given them
R. W. Simonds was the first speaker and
said be was amazed at the magnitude of
the business which had been done in his
own town and that when he met the
workmen again his first thought would
be "There goes $600,000."
Col. T. {. Fletcher followed with a
deserved tribute to Manager Turner for
his uniform courtesy to all associated
with him and said that was one reason
OF the corporations success. He was
also glad to be present at such
representative gathering OF the business
men o St. Johnsbury.
George H Cross and Frank E. Spaul-
ding both expressed their pleasure at
bling present on such an occasion and
wis1td the corporation continued
success.
Judge W. P. Smith was the last speaker
and spoke OF the significance of such
business to the community and of the
good accomplished at such a gathering
as this one.
MIR. Turner closed with a hearty
Acknowledgement of the friendship ex.
pressed BY the speakers and said it was
a pleasure to meet his townsmen in this
social manner.
The gathering was productive of the
best OF fellowship and all who were
privileged to attend left with an entirely
new conception of the growth and
magnitude of the business done by E. &
r. Fairbanks & Co.