Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-05-25
r1coNpERooA DAY OBSERVED.
Col. Frank Greene Gives Interesting Vermont
History and Statistics.

The Vermont association OF Boston eele.
brated the i3ist anniversary Of the capture
81 Fort Tieonderoga by Ethan Allen on the
evening OF May o, 1875 being present, The
board Of trade OF Mortified invited the as.
sociation 20 attend the dedication Of the
Brown library at Mortified during old home
week and the association will probably ac-
eept. The speaker OF the evening was Col
Frank l.. Greene Of the ST. Adams Messen.
ger, whose subject was The New Vermont.
He said that Vermont, though rural, is not
an agricultural state industrial and trade
interests exceeding those Of agriculture, Cen
sus figures show that less than 81 per cent
Of Vermont's people are engaged In farm.
ing. The annual gross value Of farm prod.
uets is s33, $780, 500, while the manufactured
products are valued Mt s57,623,s15. There
are 81 cities and villages out Of Yermont's
246 which have TO their credit in manufac.
tured products s31, So, POS annually, or only
81, 900 600 less than the total agricultural
products Of the state.
The special census Of 1905. taking account
Of firms having products Of the value Of
$500 and over, shows that during the past
five years the percentage Of increase in man
ufacturing products in Vermont is greater
than in any other New England state, with
the possible exception OF Maine. In the
past five years there has been an increase
in the amount OF capital invested in manu-
featuring Of over s2o,o00,o00, or over AZ
per cent, and an increase Of S12,000,00o in
value of manufactured products.
Vermont leads the world in the amount
Of capital invested in marble quarrying. The
state supplies fvesixths OF the finer marble
products of the United States. Barre is the
largest granite center in the world and is
rapidly growing, and quarres are being
opened all through the granite belt. Yer
mont is exceeded by Pennsylvania only in
the amount Of slate produced
Col. Greene said IL was the unanimous
testimony of railroad freight agents in Yer.
mont that the industrial and trade interests
Of the state are increasing in greater pro-
portion than the agricultural interests.
In tracing the early industrial life Of Yer
mont TO show that from the beginning, the
greatest energy and brain Of the people
went into trade interests, Col. Greene enum-
Grated some Of the inventions and discoveries
made by Vermonters in the early part of the
10th century. The steamboat was invented |
by Samuel Morey before Robert Fulton had |
given his discovery TO the world; the first |
artificial globes for school and library use |
n this country were made by James Wilson |
If Bradford; the cook stove was designed by
p p. Stewart at Pawlet; Prof. Alonao Jack
nan of Norwich university antedated Cyrus
7ield in the theory OF the Atlantic cable, put
ing forth demonstrations of his project in
s42; the six-shooter revolver was made in
3rattleboro Ia years before Colt announced
is invention; the second steamboat in the
world was made and launched at Burling-
on in 1909; Thomas Davenport of Williams
own built the first electric motor in 1894
nd in 1885 built a miniature electric rail
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