The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-06-13
xtension Tourists Spent
4 Time in the Granite Hub
OF BOARD OF TRADE
Party Is Motoring Through Massachu-
setts, Vermont and New Hampshire
in Order to Get Into Closer Touch
With New England Business.

/ ofl the Ioufth lap OF their six-day tour
through Massachusetts, Vermont and
New Hampshire, the Boston Chamber Of
Commerce trade extension automobile
party arrived in Barre early this after
noon for short visit before proceeding
to Woodstock, where stop for the night
viii be made after the l0S-mile run from
Burlington since this morning. This is
the third annual extension trip of the
Boston organization, and it's purpose is
to meet representative business men and
discuss with them business conditions
and problems and to foster closer rela.
tions with Boston.
! The tour started from Boston last
Monday morning, going 90 miles that
day to Springfield, Mass, thence the
following day to Brattleboro, distance
OF 96 miles. On the third day, they mo-
tored to Burlington, arriving there last
evening, after travelling l42 miles, by
way of Rutland, where they were met by
Governor Mead and a party of Rutland
and Fair Haven business men. Last
night the tourists stayed at Burlington,
leaving that city this morning and or
irving in Montpelier at about noon.
The party was met at Waterbury by
a delegation of Montpelier men and was
escorted into the capital city and to the
city hall, where the visitors were enter
tanned by Montpeler's Board of Trade.
Later the party went to the grounds of
the Montpelier Country club between
this city and Montpelier and there
luncheon was served and a short rest
was taken before continuing the trip to
this city.
Twenty automobiles carrying city Off
cials, members of the Board of Trade
and others went as far as the Jones
Bros. plant to meet the visitors coming
from Montpelier. There the Boston men
halted and were shown through the Jones
Bros. plant. After spending short time
there, the visitors were brought by auto
mobile to this city and thence to the
granite quarries.
The guests were carried to the quarries
i'm Barre automobiles. their own machines
being sent ahead to Williamstown, where
they were held for the arrival of the
tourists after inspecting the quarries.
This plan was carried out to prevent
mishap to the visiting automobiles in
Milestone hill.
lHt party Will iNdNl hbOAHiOih TINS
evening, and tomorrow morning will
start for Manchester, n. H., going by
way of Hartland, Vt, Clarhmont, N. H.,
past Lake Sunapee and to Concord,
where luncheon will be served. At Man
chester tomorrow nj hit banquet will
be rendered them. The last days run
will be from Manchester to Boston, stop.
ping at Nashua for luncheon.
Names of the Visitors.
Those in the tour are as follows:
William II. Balm of Balm Brothers COM
pany, A. r. Bell of Chaplin & Co., Inc,
Fred l. Brown of Brown Howland com-
pany. Edmund G. Campbell, L. B. Cum
mings of the Bay State Paper company
II. l.. Dillingham;, Edwin D. Dodge of
the Dodge Motor Vehicle company, Ar
thur c. Farley of Farley, Harvey & Co.,
Oliver NJ. Fisher of NJ. A. Packard COM
pany, Thomas NJ. Fitzpatrick of Brown,
Durrell company, E. Elmer Foye of the
Did Colony Trust company. j. S. Fras-
er, j. K. Poole, George B. Gallup of the
Cosmopolitan Magazine, A. Morris
ireenblatt of the Boston Plastic Art
c.. A. Gilmore of the White
William E. Hardy of r. !.
Hardy & Sons. Josiah S. Hathaway OF
he White company, James H. Hustis OF
y. Y. Central & Hudson River railroad,
Edward G. johnson of c. f. Hovey e.
o., Henry A. johnson of H. A. Johnson
Stanley King of w. H. Neil
vain company, William L. Litchfiel1,
ieorge H. Lowe of Carter, Rice & Co,
Walter NJ. Lowney of Lowney Choco-
ate company, Henry F. Luetge of the
Worcester Salt company, Charles D.
4yons of C. d. Lyons company, Fred
3 Mann of the Oliver Typewriter COM
ANY, George c. McCausland of the First
bank, James A. McSibben,
laude A. Palmer of the Eastern Clay
foods company, John d. Peck of Peck 4
Black J. r. Poole, William S. Radway
f the Credit Reporting company Charles
v Robbie of the American Express COM
any. f. c. Stidbam of the Touring Club
f America. w. H. Seeley of the n +.
ines Industrial bureau, Walter f. Smith
{ J. +. Soper company, John A. Voodry
nd Harry X. Wellman, assistant to the
hartman of the directors of the port
f Boston, w. c. Atwood, John Capron,
gorge II. Carter. Warren Dyar, Theo.
ore Finn. David O. Ives, transportation
lanager of the chamber, II. A. Johnson,
I. J. Kelly, James II. Lake, Nathan
Warren and James w. Reardon of the
oston American.