The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-12-23

higher degrees of the mystic order
may be gathered, from Maine to Cali
fornia, Charles HeatOn is known: but
no one would think of calling him
Charles. Those who are new ac-
quaintances may call him Mister
Heaton," but everybody else calls
him Charlie" He is one of the men
to whom the diminutive term of re-
gard properly applies. 1t fits him.
There is nothing sdiminutive about
him, in mind or body, but the appella-
ton fits because of the high regard
everybody has for him.
He was reelected recorder of
Mount Sinai Temple of Montpelier at
the annual meeting recently, as a mat
ter of course He has held the posi-
ton so long that no one would think
of any other man for the place Mount
Sinai would seem to be a different
thing without its genial recorder.
Possibly the temple can get along
! without hint will have TO some
time, in the due course of years-but
whether he could get along without
the temple is quite another thing, and
| fortunately the question will not be
| put to the test. He was the first re-
[ corder of the temple, and has served
l III tudI Capacity WIFI
' the exception of one term when the
to the rank of potentate.
| Mount Sinai Temple was charter
ed in 1876, so that for thirty years
and more he has held his position.
One might think from that record
that he is growing old He is
not. He is not the kind that
grows old He is something
more than fifty years young.
Well-preserved, hearty, hale and Wig
orous, he walks the streets with the
jaunty air of a younger man, and
looks on life with serenity and
cheerfulness that preserve his own
vitality and radiate his kindness of
spirit all about, while his dignity and
| courtly urbanity are so natural and
unassumed as to stamp him a gen.
tleman throughout.
Masonry does no. however, alb
sorb all his energies. He has had a
business career; he has seen the
world and watched I've wheels go
round he has seen the streets of
Cairo and ridden the "amel He is
public-spirited ci-'""n and for
years has served to city in a
public capacity. He IS one of the
commissioners of Gre" Mount ceme-
terry and one of the doctors of Hea-
ton Hospital, the sple' I'D gift to the
city of Montpelier of is father, the
late Homer W. Heaton. Both the Of
fees involve rather thankless tasks
and they are absolutely unremuner-
alive, the commissioners and direc-
tors of both institutions serving with
out nay. Mr.. Heaton Is indefatigible
in his work for the hosnital and the
personal services he gives are of as
much consequence as the gifts OF
money. There are many details to
be looked after in the management
of such an institution and it is not
well enough endowed so that sal
aried officer can be employed.
1T is such men as these that have
secured for the capital it's public i'm
provements-men who have been will
ling to give of their money, time and
effort for the public benefit without
the expectation of any private bene-
fit or remuneration and without re-
ceiving any From the time of Col.
Jacob Davis, it's founder, down to the
present Montpelier has Always had
such public-spiriteG individuals, and
while the efforts of Mr.. Heaton have
Deen OF the quiet SORT, WIFI uOlulnB
spectacular about them, nothing to
attract special attention, they have
been steady, continuous and as bene-
fetal as the work of those who have
made more noise about IL.
Perhaps the kindly and charitable
spirit of the Masonic Order. to which
he has been so long and so thorough
W devoted. may have inspired him to
the public services he performs so
efficiently and cheerfully. Perhaps
his natural inolinations led him to his
interest in the order. However. that
may be- in his private AND pubic ac-
tivities he is a living illustration or
the best of the principles OF the or
der that has included so many illus
trious men and been the promoter of
so many great works"