St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-05-12
PRESS COMMENT
The Man with a Hobby.

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Woodrow Wilson at Princeton
University; President John H.
Finley of New York University, and
Howard Elliott, president of the
board of directors of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad,
besides Theodore N. Vail, who, as
president of the institution, is ex-
pected to give out the diplomas
and thereby hangs a tale
1t is frankly understood that this
company of mental giants will nave
been brought together on that oc-
casion through the efforts OF Mr.
Vail, whose active interest IN the
Lyndon Institute for a number OF
years has been a matter OF general
knowledge. In fact, Lyndon 1nsti-
tute may be said to be Theodore n.
Wallis hobby. He has fostered II
and cared for it as for faVorlte
child. He has never been TOO Dusy
and the man who introduced the
American system of electric ral-
WAYS in Buenos Aires and installed
the telephone systems in all the
principal cities, and who is president
of the American Telegraph and Tele-
phone company, the Western Union
Telephone company and president or
director of half a hundred OF SO
other corporations in this and other
countries, is a very busy man
give his attention to the needs ana
welfare of Lyndon Institute. he mas
made that little school actually great,
If snlendid success in a given line Oh
worthy endeavor may count as an ele-
ment of greatness. one result Is
that when he hands out the diplomas
to this years graduates of the Lyn-
don school of agriculture, ne VIII
perform that function Tor the last
time to members of a graduatlng
class from that department as part
Of Lyndon Institute; for the sCnool
IF agriculture, owing in very large
mart r. the position of Importance to
which Mr.. Vail has raised it, will De
come a state institution at the close
of this school year.
After all. the man without noDDy
is rare specimen in this world.
some men have hobbies without even
being conscious of the fact. Your
who who accomplishes things Is
almost invariably the man Win
hobby. Keep your eye closely upon
him. and see if this is not true. IL
appIies as we'll to women as to men.
The important desideratum is that
the hobby shall be, like this OF Mr..
Wallis. one that contains posslDlL-
ties for genuine and permanent goou.
Lyndon Institute is monument 10
a hobby-in fact, is itself noDDy'
Thank Heaven for such hobbies
Manchester Union.
Col. Harvey to Leave Harper's
Our erstwhile Vermonter, Col.
George Harvey, who has been IN the
I.nublic eve pretty conspicuously
nuarter of a century, will retire May
* from the presidency of the Harper
r. Co. publications in New YORK, anu
will devote his attention exclusively
to the North American Review WHICH
he has owned and edited a numDei
of wears. Col. Harvey took charge Oh
the Harper house Is years ago, wnen
the company found itself IN nnanciaI
difficulties and was reorgan1Heu "
J. P. Morgan. Since then Harper
Bazaar and Harper's Weekly nave
hean sold to other publications, but
Harner's Magazine and the extensive
hook nublishing business have re-
NAMED with the original concern
Probably the oldest magazine edltor
in continuous service with one publ
co+ion is Henry M. Alden of Harper
Maeazine. who will continue to OIL
reef the policy of that excellent pup
1ication. Mr.. Alden, by the way, is
also a Vermonter. Harvey came from
| Pea cham in Caledonia county and Al
den from Mt. Tabor in Rutland
County Reformer.
National Highways
The National Highways Assocla-
ton has issued an attractive roau-
man of Vermont, showing 8OO ml!es
If Irrational highway" proposed by
| tho association. The foot-note SHOWS
tbe nonuIation directly served to be
\ .956. with a mileage of l4,4Oo
/ miles of public road in the state.
The mileage of the proposed ma
4 tionaI highways is but 500, winch
the association believes would serve
directly or indirectly the entire pop
i ulation of the state. These ROADS
\ are designed to be constructed ana
I maintained by the national govern
ment. - -
The west side trunk line begins al
Rouses Point and runs south through
Swanton, St. Adams, Burlington
I Rutland, Manchester, Bennington
and Pownal to the Massachusetts
state line. A western offshoot IRON
Rutland taps New York via Fair Ha-
ven and Whitehall and an eastern
| line from Rutland passes Cnlo uSN
Woodstock to White River Junction
From Burlington, two lines pene-
trate the east side, one trendlng
northeast through Essex, Cambridge,
johnson, Lowell, Troy, Newport and
! Derby to the Canada line. Inc
other bears south through the WIN
ooski valley to Montpelier, Barre and
Williamstown gulf to White River
Junction.
Lines from Montpelier to st
Johnsbury and thence via WoodsVlIle
and Littleton through New Hamp-
shire and also from Montpelier
through the Waits River valley &c
Bradford and Piermont connect uI
with the main trunks, and north
erly trunk line connects st. Johns
bury and Derby Line.
Easterly lines from Manchester
run to Springfield and Claremont VIA
Londonderry and southerly to Brat
tleboro via Jamaica, Newfane anC