The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-02-03

built two hundred years ago, and the
surface of the stone i'll ss smooth as
the day it was sawed out of the quarry.
They saw them ell into dimension sizes
Mt the quarry, then cart them to the
buildings. When the builders and ma
sons get d stone little too large to
fiji the place intended, they do not break
it with d hammer, but take hand saw
and saw the niece BID, and they do tt
quickly A. stood and looked ait
them one day / thought how nice it
would ba ii ute could handle granite
that way. We would not hava "a many
dumps ii stone. would also add that
they have 4 Ratchet, same at the pol
ishers use iii Barre When stone needs
3, little trimming, they hew It od with
che hatohet.
Tn The cemeteries they build the sides
of vaults from enc I'D two feet above
the level of the ground with tho stone,
then cover the vault over with coral
slabs aud cement them air tight AMI
water tight They do not Hill iii the
graves, for by cutting down into coral
rock II makes a vault cut out oil the
solid rock.
The stone naasons are all black men
and they viii not die III hard work,
for Won cannot drive them. Mostly all
are big, powerful men, finely built;
would make fine, stalwart soldiers.
There ara quarrias here which they call
the Royal Engineers quarries, where
they get d stone that il much harder.
These quarries are on what liz called the
South shore and are supposed hY geolo-
gists It'd have been the Arst part 0f the
islands formed. 10 that through the ages
ii has Ind more time to solidify. They
usa this stone for building fOrtiiications
and other government work; the stones
used III building docks are quite large
blocks, and all cut To one size. They
arc building part of one now, with three
divers al work, and ii ii interesting to-
sec them. / think this will do for the
quarTies.
win not describe what we saw at
Ireland island. The government owns
the whole island, and uses ii ali navy
yard and is making great improvements.
cutting away whnle hill to make more
room lit ii rumorea here that the
British government is going to increase
the navy and decrease the army The
Bermudians do not want eng reduction
III either, al they are great source Of
revenue To the islands. Il party al us
went over with the boat that leaves at
nine id the morning Tor the islands
Somerset, Mangr0ye Bay, Boaz island
aud Ireland island. We went to the
gate, where We registered our names.
A policeman was furnished to take us
all over the works and describe every
thing to rs. We saw four torpedo boats
and two torpedo boat destToyers. They
are wicked looking wasps, and must
sail at great speed iii the water.
In passing one ot the buildings we
noticed bell hung Id the wall. This
was on board the Shannon when she
had the fight with the Chesapeake It
was damaged III the hght and hangs
there as relic Of old time, We passed
some extremely large anchors, all set
in row and all ont of commission.
Once one Of them had gotten bold on
the bottom ii would have taken a large
vessel to have dragged ii. We passed
the old ship Malabar. that did some
good service in her day. She il now used
al a hotel, as il were, when transferring
naval men from one ship 10 another.
When one ship Ii not at hand they
stay On board until she comes from some
other part Of the world. She has ac-
eommodations for fifteen hundred; we
did not 20 ON board. She is now named
the Terror The old warship Terror
is being used as a store ship i'll one
of the inlets between Hamilton and Ire
land island