Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-08-22
A Former Vermonter Compliments
the States Showing.
Homer II. Hubert, for Many Years
Prominent in Korea, Is Pleased
With Vermont Representation
at the Fair.
From the st. Adams Messenger


bury College for twenty one years en-
gagged in educational work In Korea,
for six years publisher Of The Korean
review, author Of The Passing of
Korea" "A Search for the siberian
klond'ke,' History OF Korea,
Comparative Grammar OF tho Korean
and Dravidian Language of India"
and whole series of textbooks I'm the
Korean language, in the personal en-
ploy of the emperor OF Korea for the
past two years. and now IN this coun-
| try to acquaint the American people
with the japanese invasion of that
country gives a representative Of tn"
Messenger the follor ng information
regarding the Jamestown exposition:
AS native of the state Of Yer
| mont who has not enjoyed the priv
lego Of living there for the past tw"n-
| ty years o" more. and who has been
| prevented from visiting the Green
mountains this summer through an un-
| kind fortune, I am constrained to give
| you a little account of what ! have
| seen OF Vermont here at tho James
town exposition. Finding It necessary
to go to Atlanta on business I chose
|
get n glimpse ut the expositi II. Tho
| first thing I asked was whether Yer
mont was represent ID here Bolng as
sured that she was, 7 FASTENED 20 hunt
up tho Vermont building. This was no
iii ficult task as 1t occupies a conspir-
uous position and when ! saw It IN
tho distance and compared II With the
adjoining edfces. I saw at once that
tho men who had the planning OF II
had n keen sense of the fitness Of
things. In the first place It Is of mod
est size bu. of artistic shape It makes
Won think al first glance Of q beautifm
summer cottage on Lake Champlain or
MemphrcmagCg. Any one who can
criticisc ii for it's size has little sense
of the fitness OF things. Vermont was
not one of the thirteen original colo
MES and to have tri>d t. compete with
them would have been silly
I'm the second place tho building IS
entirely adequate for the comparative
~ small number of Vcrmonters who
will finl It possible To visit tho OK
position. What Vermont wanted was
a small. neat, artistic, ana approi rate
building, and this is precisely what
that we had to put w n costly pre-
tentious building. Therc would have
been an instant and tuetlGablc protest
on the part of the people ana The pa
pers of the State. a closer "zamina-
ton Of the premises verified my first
impre ssion. Ones frs thought upon
entering is Here are tho Cree noun
tains'. 1t is green cycrywhcre and
cool and restful. The walls ore COW
cred with an exquisite election Of pa
per representing forests and noun
tain. The most fastidious taste could
ask for nothing more ! eautiful ~ more
appropriate. The wide. COO verania
with it's many arm chairs. WIS posi-
lively seductive. The fur ling Of
the house was plain but elegant. In
tho center of the large rcreI ton room
was the mahogany table That holonged
to Governor Chittendcn. the trst gov
crnor of Vermont Another jccc Of
furniture was an ancient r.nck that
belonged to Ethan Allen, am '.crc was
another article profancly callc cowboy =,
that once figured iu the hon 90 Israel
Putnam. This ana The rest ~ lie furni-
turc had been arranged by H" sklful
hands Of Mrs Goddard, the So n" Of our
commissioner. When | r,.eacl that
building. a wanderor N the 't" East for
twcnty-one years and was Instantly and
cordially greeted by TINS ladf' leI' as
If ! were at home again. i vas only n
trlhe less pleasant than 1t would nave
been to walk Int" the homo or some OF
my old friends OF Eennngtor Manches-
ter, Middlcbury, Burlington Montpelier,
or st. Johnsoury, and We sat tAcrc ana
talked about mutual acqu '''I'h'cs Oh
past days-Del}oer and Lar" oid parl-
mouth classmates, Phil. stewart with
whom | used 10 catch trou' IN h'pton'
Fletcher Proctor, now our governor W.T."
whom ] camp"d out on Ihh 'haihp'a'h'
and score Of others, Before leaving
did myself the honor to VIE my name
IN the register which was apply llilnR
up. Many, like myself We" NOSE WIZ
had left our native State 20 YORK III 'He
. West or South or across o." water ou'
every one OF them was Iowa I" 'ne oI'
State which gave rs h'rtN ANA pr""u o'
the modest dignity Of the '.te nome Inc
state has built for us here at this great
exposition.
Then I went and saw what VIC nave
done IN th" way Of exhibition IN inc
! historical bulding ! found onr comrils-
s!oner Mr.. Goddard, WIZ before nc
p knew ! was Nermontcr. took me III nd"u
and began telling nc about the historical
: objects IN our exhibit. No Ner"oI''e'
need be ashamed Of It. II we had ho'n'"s
there except IN" first PRINTING press ever
brought to the United S-94og Wy the Eng