The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-10
Hundreds Start for StrattOn
Mountain for Memorial
Exercises
TABLET IN MEMORY
OF DANIEL WEBSTER
Great Statesman Addressed $4,000
There rs Years Ago-Historical Ad-
dress by Frank e. Howe of Ben.
ningtoR-Banquet Tonight.


dress by Frank E. Howe of Ben
nington-BanQuet Tonight
Today is the day set for the unveil- |
ing the marker erected on Stratton
mountain by the Stratton Mountain
club as a memorial to Daniel Web
ster, Americas great statesman, who
70 years ago, in 1910, addressed a
crowd Of about $4,000 persons at a
Wing political meeting on the prem
Ises where the marker has been set
up, going from Barre, Mass, through
Brattleboro and being met south OF
this town by the late ex-Gov. Fred
erlck Holbrook and other citizens The
program was announced to begin at 2
clock this afternoon and during the
forenoon hundreds of persons from
places many miles away started for
the historic spot to listen to the me-
mortal exercises. The spot where the
marker has been erected is several
miles from a telephone so that it is
impossible to receive direct news from
the convention ground, but barring de-
lays the program, at the time The Re
former goes to press, is under way.
The marker is a natural boulder
I.
face has been placed by C. Victor
Grant of Brattleboro a bronze tablet
bearing suitable inscription The tab
let is II inches by IS inches. The
president of the Stratton Mountain
| club, which has placed this enduring
monument to commemorate an event Of
much historic Importance to this state
/ is Miss Ethel A. Eddy of Stratton, a
/ teacher In the Brattleboro schools. a
| daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Eddy
| Of Stratton
As arranged, the program was to
open with music by the Londonderry
band. Prayer by Rev. E. W. johnson
/ of West Wardsboro was to be followed
by the singing of song, Ny Old Green
! Mountain Home, written by Roy w.
Lyman, formerly of Stratton, and
another selection by the band
Frank E. Howe of Bennington, for
merly of this town and former lien
tenant governor, arrived last night in
readiness to give the historical address.
/ He planned to review the issues of the
campaign of 1S40, when William Henry
Harrison was the Wing candidate for
president and Martin Van Buren
headed the Democratic ticket, also to
mention some of the prominent men OF
' CIiHOHI at tHuI IiIile anu 10 ItNlcW
the progress of the state in various
ways.
i Following arnother number by the
band the program calls for the unveil-
: ing Of the marker by Doris Eddy,
! daughter of Attorney and Mrs. Hermon
T. Eddy of Brattleboro, former STRAIT
ton residents. James p. Taylor of
Burlington, secretary of the Greater
:. Vermont association, is to give the ded
icatory address. and after benediction
by Rev Ashfield Ashford of Wards
boro the exercises will close with music
by the band
Tonight the Stratton Mountain clul
Will serve a banquet in the vcstry OF
: the church at West Wardsboro, follow
ing which will como the annual business
meeting of the club.
The Dedicatory Address.
Mr.. Taylor s address was substan
TALLY as follows:
"We have gathered here to dedicate
a memorial of one of the most interest
, ing happenings in this region, nota
BILE event in Vermont history. This
Webster tablet transforms this spot TO
even the most careless and thoughtles
mountain wanderer. Tnnoticed before
the piace WHefe we are NOW SdtHSlSe
viii become scene of pilgrimages
where pilgrims strive to recreate tn
picturesque scenes of 75 years ago whel
thousands of Nermonters became pc
lestrian politicians and political pedes
trians. Then the Green Mountain Boy
sought the Green Mountains, not be
g cause they were driven here by tn
threats of New York state governor
but because they were drawn here by
$ statesman and orator from the state Q
0 New Hampshire.
5 s This tablet will serve as q perpetu
s al reminder that Nermonters have re
e garded a spot in the Green mountain
s as the best place for gathering to
gether of the men Of the East, the me
s Of the West, the men of the Soutf
5, and the men of the North. Its inter
g probation of our Vermont scenery
t hat the Green mountain range is nc
) barrier, a Chinese wall, separatin
$. the East from the West and the Yves
from East, but rather a wonderfr
: highland for vision and FELLOWSHIP
e where the East and the West ca
# meet So far as our mountains divide
|. they are a curse; they are blesslns
Y so far as they unite For us indepenC
L ent, liberty-loving Vermonters, as fc
Il the nation in the sixties is not tn
I. great message of Webster embodied j
st his historic words: 'Libery and Uniol
IS one and inseparable, now and forever
a 1t might be a happy thing for We