St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-01-10
VERMONT PRESS AS ISOLATION.
Editor George Harvey's Interesting and
Helpful Address.

y; Editor George HaFvey's InferesIing Al
- Helpful Address.
The annual meeting of the Vermo
Press Association was held Thursd
l. night at the Van Ness house at Burlir
# tan with an attendance of about
e Col. George Harvey, editor of Harper
r Weekly, was the guest of honor and ga
II the address of the evening which we ia
# pleasure in presenting in full.
n The business meeting was held pre-,
+ Gus to the banquet. Officers for the e
y suing year were elected as follow
President, F. L. Greene OF ST. Alban
: secretary and treasurer, E. A. Nut
Montpelier; vice. presidents, R. W. Nj
Cuen, Vergennes, F. E. Howe, Benning
: ton, A. F. Stone, St. Johnsbury, L. Nd
: Hays, Essex Junction, W. H. Bishop, Is
land Pond, E. ]. Taylor, Enosburg Falls
L. H. Lewis, Morrisville, L. B. Johnson
Randolph, D. W. Hildreth, Newport. c
T. Fairfield, Rutland, F. E. Langley
Barre, W. E. Hubbard, Brattleboro, F
W. Stiles, Springfield committee on leg
islation, W. c. Belkuap, Bellows Falls
II. E. Parker, Bradford, w. B. Howe
Burlington; membership, E H. Crane,
Brattleboro; advertising. F. E. Langley,
Barre, L. M. Hays, Essex Junction; cir.
culation, L. P. Thaytr, Essex Juncti n,
L. B. Johnson, Randolph, H. c. White.
hill, Waterbury; entertainment, c. S.
Forbes, St. Adams, D. H. Perry and 10.
seph Aud, Burlington.
At the close of the banquet the exer-
cises took the form of a smoke talk. Col
Harvey was introduced by G. G. Bene
dict OF Burlington. The other speakers
were {. A. Bunker OF Peacham, who was
ptincipaloi Peacham Academy when Col.
Harvey was student there, D. A. Mon
roe, assistant editor of the North Amer
can Review, and Collector Darling.
COL. HARvEY's ADDRESS.
Gentlemen:
First of all want to express to you, |
ana TO your president in particular, nv
hearty appreciation of the courtesy-I
might even say the compliment-extended |
10 me IN the arrangement of dates which |
has made it possible for me to be with |
you THIS evening. I am doubly sensible |
VI the graclousness manifested, for the |
Selhsh reason that it affords me infinite |
pleasure to be here and to meet you all |
n this agreeable manner In return
herefor, promise no preachments I shall
not expose my faulty by telling you how
% conduct your own business And I as
sure you that I haven't a single moral
essen up my sleeve.
l nave come to you tonight simply as
fellow craftsman, and happily I am
lble to use the word in it's most exnlicit
ense, Tor L too have been a Vermont
ditor. 1t is not ordinarily satisfying,
ven in a desultory talk like this to in
ulge IN personal "reminiscences, but I
IND refuge in the dictum of DR.. Osler.
all men really should be chloroformed
t sixty, and few are Of any particular
Use after forty, there is surely no time
be lost. Moreover, one who has vet
is work to do, always finds it vastly
asier to dwell casually upon incidents
the commonplace past Tradition Dor
rays the ordinarily intelligent child as
eeking to achieve distinction by thrusting
is hand into pot of jam or preserves. 3
dare say that there was in my compo- '
ton some portion of genius of that ma }
Ire, out 1t was not predominant. So far }
ack as l can remember, my chief aim T.
lie was to get my fingers into a pot r
INK. L recall distinctly that my pur- r
lase of two-dollar printing press at
lie age of ten made it necessary to double
lie quantity Of soft soap manufactured
the family for domestic purposes,
he first real editor ever saw was either v
II or b. Eaton; I cannot say which. o
cause l could never tell them apart. t.
ut the mental picture of my first visit t.
that wonderful printing establishment n
DanVllle will ever remain vivid In ii
lie corner, standing before his case u
TN green vizor over his eyes, picking N
e types with dexterity that I had T
yer conceived of being possible except CT
a canary-bird. was either E. or N. II. al
lie marvels Of the profession grew upon h
as watched that def transmits Sc
IN or mind into matter. The spectacle n;
Is all the more thrilling because of the n,
Vious age Of the compositor l remem- in
wondering whether it would be DOS re
lie Tor one to achieve such extraordin- III,
capacity before reaching his one-hun- oh
ed-and-hftieth birthday, which I think ~,
lst then have been about the due of ~,
n who l watched with bullying eyes -,
3ut there was another sight yet more 80
tranclng In the far corner was the -
raculous printing press, with the white ..
eets or paper held fastidiously by bands, -,
opping rhythmically upon the clasped ~
i OF type and remaining just long
ough to give young George Eaton time ~
pun the lever which made history and N0
lded destiny. Never shall I forget the nc
ger, critical scrutiny of that printed w
&c by Nathaniel Eaton-or maybe it 8'
S E'-as he carefully released it from i'i'
types, and then, happily finding it ~
Hstactory placed 1t upon the pile, w
len subsequently. became an edition. VIZ
loupt not that many of you in this 'io
IN nave experienced that same sense so
wondering, bewildered admiration, of
y awe, which I than felt. God may
'e created the heavens and the earth tn
what was that to the youthful i'm gu
nation as compared with this marvel eq
achievement? While now still cherish vic
the impression craven upon my mind ior
that little dingy printing office, I can the
refrain from expressing the hope that fla
recognition has been, or will be, ac- wo
ued the great work done by the men of