The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-23

| proper cooperation we can double your
output. We are interested, for when
you make money we make money, and
when you don't make money we don't
make money
DEPRESSING to the figure of Mr. Mel
len, who seemed to stand out prominent
| ly before the speaker at all times Mr..
| Byrnes said that be thought that YER
mont railroads need enterprise, and Mr..
Mellen measures up to the standard I;
he is aiming to build up the New Haven
properties and your material welfare.
Leaving Mr.. Mellen and resumng the
subject OF rates, Mr.. Byrnes said he had
been told that Barre had been forced
/ TO unfair competition with southern
grantees that southern GRANTEES could
be shipped to points In New England at
rates less than granite could be shipped
1 from Barre to points in the south equ-
ally distant. THAT must stop" shouted
+, the speaker, and the way his firm Jaws
set when he said it appealed nightly to
his audience, most of whom are inter
ested in one way or another with the
Barre granite business.
Particular stress was laid by Mr.
Byrnes all through his speech on the
folly of senseless legislation, restriction
OF capital in unreasonable ways He
referred specifically to the inheritance
tax of New York, which. he said, had
driven hundreds of millions out of that
state, some OF which Vermont might get
because of its z, graphical location. He
, thought some states would be better off
If their legislatures met only once in
hundred years. He said: ri I were
car of Vermont and with control over
legislation for five years, | would dou.
bic your valuation"
In concluding his address. Mr.. Byrnes
reiterated that the Boston & Maine had
come here for business and that it
sought the cooperation OF the business
interests. Let's put Vermont on the
map, he volunteered Don't sit down
and wait for the railroads; the railroads
only move things.
Throughout his entire address OF an
hour or more, Mr. Byrnes was given
very close attention, aud at the close
he was given remarkable demonstra-
ton. AS the next speaker remarked, he
had faculty for enthusing people. The
next speaker was Seward w. Jones OF
Boston, president of the National Retail
Monument Dealers association and head
of the firm OF Jones Bros. company of
Barre. Mr.. Jones spoke briefly, giving
some personal "reminiscences and then re-
ferring to the question of rates. He
asked Mr. Byrnes If he knew why the
late Senator Proctor was able TO ship
marble cheaper than granite could be
shipped. Mr.. Byrnes gave it up. Mr.
Jones said he was pleased that the Bos-
ton and Maine had got control OF the
Montpelier & Wells River,
DIR. i. M. Lynde then gave one OF his
popular French dialect stories, and next
State Senator John w. Gordon was in
PRODUCED. Senator Gordon's subject was
wheels" and he told of the develop
ment of wheels in the railroad business.
and called to Mr. Byrnes' attention the
possibilities for development of the
wheels of industry in this section Of
Vermont. The speaker also referred To
that state calamity" when the Central
Vermont railroad was shunted from the
project to build main line through Will |
Jamestown gulf.
President Joseph A, DeBoer of the
ANhAiPhol i<tit tHntIdHEf NpIlpuiA VI
Montpelier was the last speaker Of the
evening, and he improved the opportu
nifty to refute the Rossiter story of ode
cadent Vermont" as published in the
Statistical Review, The story Of de-
cadence was asserted by the speaker to |
be absolutely false and easy to be de-
nied' and he proceeded to do so, putting |
forward proof after proof to challenge |
the Rossiter statement that Vermont |
shows no progress. As a fitting word /
to close, Mr.. DeBoer spoke of the bene-
fits for Barre and Montpelier to get |
together in affairs of the sort just held |
"The get-together spirit should be ex-
tended. Let us walk unitedly," he urged |
The banquet came to an end with the /
rendering Of solo by William Robert,
son.