St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-30
PRESS COMMENT.
Vermont is Waking way Up.,'

right in the public eye, some of us
may pinch ourselves and realize that
we are indeed waking way UP. Now
we freely confess that we never ex-
pected to see the time when our
neighbors of the Granite state
would admit that Vermont's city
hotels are rather ahead of those
of New Hampshire, but here it is in
the following paragraph from the
editorial columns of the Concord
Monitor:
Vermont is rather ahead of New
Hampshire in city hotels, but, as
she acknowledges, far behind us in
summer resort houses. She is
gard, but it will take her some time
to catch up; for as a general thing
the summer resort of much success
is based upon the foundation of
long-continued popularity"
To outstrip New Hampshire in
our Getty hotels" is a splendid start,
and we thank our neighbor for this
splendid testimonial. Now let us
predict that in ten years Vermont
will be pushing New Hampshire for
honors in summer hotels that are
also winter hotels, for mere pleas
ure travel.
/ One of the encouraging indica-
lions of the time in Burlington as
we'll as other places in Vermont
in the direction Indicated is the pro-
nounced interest shown in the pro-
ject of providing a chain of hotels
in Vermont and along Lake Cham
plain as we'll as the extent to which
the hotels the state already has. are
being patroniZed. 1t is announced
that number of people who for
merly went to Hotel Champlain at
Bluff Point are now coming this
side of the lake and stopping at
Burlington hotels, and this is but
the beginning of a movement which
is sure to spread rapidly as inviting
hotels in different towns in Vermont
bid for summer tourists.
AS an Indication of the extent to
which people are coming to this city
already estimated at an increase
of 40 per cent. over the new high
record of last year-we may say
that a citizen has just offered to
wager that inside of five years there
vii be still another hotel in Bur-
lington as large as any now, in ex-
istence, if not larger. Most people
would probably raise their eye
brows at this, but, be. the situation
the way in which the people are
coming to Burlington and praising
as well as approaching its beauties,
is gratifying and reassuring to a
marked. degree.
Word comes from various parts
of the state having hotels that avail
able accommodations have been
practically exhausted and that
more might come if there were pos
sibilities in that direction. Trans
portation men say there is no need
of trying to advertise more in GER
tain directions unless the state has
larger accommodations for summer
visitors.
Now the state needs not only a
few big summer hotels, but also a
considerable number of attractive
hostelries in the smaller towns and
| numerous summer cottages along
bodies and streams of water like
those which are making Lake La
noble a resort, to say nothing OF
neat boarding houses. In other
words we need to make the accom-
mediation of summer visitors bus
mess and conduct it on business
principles, if we expect to make
Vermont what it should be as q
tourist resort.
That widespread attention is
being devoted to this hotel move
ment will be indicated from quota
tions. The Bennington Bannel
says:
eff the smaller hotel men in Yer
mont would pay a visit to the Brom
ley Inn at Peru, the little hotel al
Simonsville or the Walpole Inn al
| Wa1po1e, N. H., and see what can bt
done with a small town and ther
follow out the lessons learned, we
business and their profits"
The Barre Times speaks as fol
lows with reference to Burlington
hotel facilities and their attractions
ttThat Vermont can attract larg'
organizations which have New Eng
land membership, and possibly ma
tional assem- blies, is shown by thu
visit to Burlington by a man repre-
senting an organization of on
thousand members, whose purpos
, was to look over the hotel accommo
dations for a convention of such siz
as his organization would bring
When the larger conventions ge
started toward Vermont, Their
= won't be any trouble about keepin
{ up the procession. All we need
more hotels in more places
The same journal declares tina
"the announcement that one Vel
: mont hotel was able to declare 4
: per cent. dividend last year, an
with the prospects just as good thi
year, is calculated to make capita
in other states look towar
Vermont. There are few industrie
: anywhere in which capital is bring
. ing such a handsome return as thi
: particular venture in Vermont; anC
: what is more pleasing is the asset
} ton that more than one other hote
I is paying in remarkable proportio
to the investment. The reason
> not exorbitant prices, but giving tn
: patrons what they pay for, whic
, tends to bring satisfaction and, cor
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