Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-08-10
VERMONT and VERMONTERS
Mf. GflSt Spends Two Days In the
Green Mountains.
GREAT People MAKE GREAT COUNTRY

|GREAT People MAKE GREAT COUNTRY
Hurried Description Of the Wonderful
Connecticut River valley-Remarka
BILE as Has Been the Development In
Manufactures, the Farmers Are Wei
Up With the Procession and Still the
Backbone of Progress.
correspondence OF the Yorkville Enquirer.
Rutland, VT, August 2.-Here I am
at the end Of my trip and just starting
back after two days Of pleasure and
novelty, the like Of which l have sell
dom experienced up to this time. The
pleasure comes from having been In
the hands of such delightfully."- hospita-
BILE people as are my friends, Mr.. and
Mrs. John w. Kellstte, and the novel
ty arises out Of the fact that the coun-
try Is so different in many Of its char
acteristics from that to which I am
accustomed. I have no desire to deny
that / am charmed; that wish II
were so that I could remain in this
country a month; but time presses and
have to hurry.
AS 1 go back over the New York
Central in the night and will be una
BILE to see anything, would like to
describe the trip up here from Water
bury; but l am afraid I am unequal
to the task. 1t Is quite convenient to
regret lack of space. and all that kind
Of thing; but the truth is that an ad-
equate description is impossible with
out the help Of two or three moving
picture machines, and these, OF course,
are not available. From Waterbury
to Hartford, the country Is hilly and
there Is little Of interest except a
string of towns and villages, with
herds of cattle grazing in occasional
meadows; but at Hartford you strike
the famous Connecticut river, and
keep right along with it to Spring
field, Mass, and on up to Bellows
Falls, VT. There was short wait at
Hartford; but q heavy downpour of
rain prevented any attempt at sight
seeing. / had a rear view Of the mag
niflcent state Capitol; but saw moth
ing else that was Of striking interest.
But the run up the Connecticut river
is we'll calculated to keep you occu-
pied. An insignificant looking stream
4 fo
as much water in it as there Is In the
Catawba or the Broad; but 1t is one OF
the hardest worked rivers In the world.
The waters are clear and run swiftly;
but nevertheless they are foul from
chemicals and sewage. There are no
fish in 1t, I am told, because OF Its
foulness. Nevertheless 1t Is still a
wonderful river. Above Springfield
there are several places where it ap-
pears to have been macadamized, but
this is only because the waters have
been diverted from their rocky bed to
generate electricity at the numerous
power plants. There are mills and
mills, and mills; but shall not at
tempt to enumerate them. The reader
would get tired. But there Is another
feature Of the valley that Is more in
teresting. Between the numerous VII
lagos, towns and cities there are many
pretty farms. Lying back on the hfsn-
er ground are to be seen cozy, neatly
painted, farm houses and along the
stretches Of valley skirting either side
Of the river are long fields Of tobacco,
Irish potatoes and corn, and for almost
every corn or tobacco field, a pasture
in which there is herd Of sleek Jer-
seys. In a distance of less than one
hundred miles up through Connecticut
and Massachusetts, I am quite sure
that l saw more cattle than there are
in all Of York county, and I have not
the slightest doubt either that these
cattle are as necessary to the tremend-
Gus prestige Of this prosperous section
as are the thousands of shops and
mills.
am assured that I was in error in
not taking the corn fields seriously,
but they amused me. The corn SEEM
ed to be only a few inches apart In
the drill, with not more than two feet
between the rows and was tasseling
at about the height Of my shoulders,
less than five feet. I told some Of my
fellow passengers about c. H. Smith,
w. E. Land, Norman Black, Lytle
Wood and others making from sixty
to eighty bushels to the acre and Of
other York county farmers producing
over a hundred bushels and they were
astonished. Two or three people took
the address Of Commissioner Watson
with the intention Of writing for copies
Of the Williamson plan.
Along the river also are to be seen
quite a number Of club houses, sum-
mer cottages and big hotels. There
are numerous pleasure boats in the
stream also, some propelled with oars,
some sails and also large and small
gasoline launches. -.-e roads along
the river are fine and are alive with
farm wagons, buggies, carriages and
automobiles. Magnificent summer ho-
tells are common on the eminences;
but the most striking Of these proba-
bly, is the hotel on Mt Tom, about
twenty miles north Of Springfield.
Here the river breaks between Mt.
Tom on one side and Mt. Holyoke on
the other, and on top Of Mt. Tom Is a
big hotel to which visitors are drawn
up a steep railroad by means Of a ca
BILE. The country, I am told, is filled
with tourists, sight-seers and fresh air
hunters out of New York, Boston,
Springfield and numerous other cities.
Soon after leaving Waterbury, I be-
gan to notice that the hills were COW
cred with spruce pines, the timber that