Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-10-08
AUTOMOBILE TOURISTS HOME
Burlington Business Men Enter.
tanned in Caledonia County.
Visited Big Scale Works and n 5000
Acre Farm, Lunchcd mt Newport,
and Returned through the
LamoiIic Valley.

A tired but well pleased company
of Burlingtons business men arrived
in the city last evening after taking
! the better acquaintance and Greater
Vermont tour of the Burlington Mer-
chants association. All were of the
( opinion that the tour was one of the
best yet taken and that a two-fold
I benefit had been derived. One was
that something of Burlingtons bust
ness mems methods had been demon
strated to strangers and the other
that the towns visited could do a
great many things themselves and
therefore two steps had been taken
toward making "A greater Vermont
Yesterday was busy day for the
tourists and meant automobile runs
amounting to $50 miles, on top of
about 100 miles of travel the day be
fore. The days activities began at
eight o'clock in the morning when the
BurlinEtonians were taken through
the works of the Fairbanks scale
works. The manner of manufacture
ing scales ranging in size from the
small commercial pattern to that
which would way n train load of cars
was demonstrated and a new idea of
the scope of this Vermont industry
was gained by many
FROM there the party was escorted
to the 30o0-acrc Vail farm in Lyn-
donVlile There they were greeted
with the utmost cordiality by Mr.. Vail
ana j. w. Titcomb who. with Mr.. Hub
bard, foreman of the farm, showed the
party around The farm last year
produced 1000 bushels Of oats, Is 900
pounds of maple sugar, 1000 tons of
hay and 30 acres of ensilagc corn.
This was in addition to the dairy and
other products. The farm now has
% work horses in addition to $50 ponies.
1t is being operated so as to assist the
agricultural school at Lyndon The
students of that school are worked in
two shifts, one in the morning and the
other in the afternoon. This earns for
them their support and they are allowed
to attend school tho other half of the
day. They are trained in blacksmithinc
carpentry, and other avoCations. i'm addi-
ton to strictly agricultural subjects
Following the visit to the Vail farm that
of n. *. Darling was Visited. but on ac-
count of lack of time this visit was
made a brief one \ run of about n
miles was then made to Newport and
from there the journey home followed
lunch.
Tho towns which showed the greatest
hospitality We're st. Johnshury. where an
elaborate banquet was rendered the Bur
Iinston party by the Commercial club.
HardWick, where lunch was served by
the Business Mems association. stowe
and Morrisville. All along the line, how
ever the reception was most cordial. At
Hardwtck the party was taken through
the plant Of the Woodbury. Granite com
pany, and many for the first time learned
that Hardwick produced one-eighth Of
the granite used in the United States.
The value Of water power was shown by
the fact that electricity costs six cents
per klowatt there while it costs ten cents
III burlington After the meeting at
Hardwick the business Mems association
was invited by Max l.. Powell to come
L" Burlington. The applications Of sev- |
aral Buringtonians who took tho trip |
for membership in tho burlington Mer- /
chants association were secured after
tho meeting.
Among those who attended the tour
from burlington We're Professors J. +. |
Hills G. p. Burns and c. G. Groat. NJ. T.. !
Powell, Mayor Burke, T.. A. Newcomb /.
O. Adams, Gardner Brewer, r. Il. !
wright, Morris Abraham. G. y. PouIos.
II. C. Humphrey, f. NJ. Gould. II. s /.
Bingham D. II. Cameron, George II. |
Mylkes, w. T. Scoheld, j. p. Taylor. |
Joseph Jarvis, c. H. Besscy and John |