The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-03-30
ANCIENT BARRE PAR
TALLY REPRODUCED
In Collection of Valuable Articles AS
sem bled by the Historical Commit
tee of the Barre Womans
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Bygone Barre days are memorialized
/ in the very air Of the room at city hall
which the municipal fathers have as
! signed to the uses OF the historical com
mittee of the Womans club. Recently
/ the number of exhibits loaned the COM
1 mittee for its city hall collection has
eclpsed the 300 mark and the custodians
have been promised more. To anyone
who is interested in antiques an hour in
the exhibit room will prove highly en-
tertaining and worth while. The fact
4 that the committee has been at some
pains in labelling practically every ex-
| hibit adds to the facility with which a
visitor may gaze on priceless heirlooms
/ that have been placed in this rellquary
through the efforts of the committee.
! From small beginnings, the collection
has grown TO dimensions not at all UNI
pretentious, a collection which will be
the more appreciated when more people
realize that the room win be opened for
inspection at certain hours upon re-
quest being made. The conference room
allotted to the cemetery and school com
missions has been placed at the disposal
of the committee. Thus far the number
of visitors has not been large. but those
who have inspected the collection speak
appreciatiyely OF its merits and promise
to have a favorable word ready for the
efforts of the women whenever the sub
iect of antiques is preached. II is pro-
posed to make OF the room permanent
home for relics acquired by gift and an
abiding place for such articles as are
loaned To date il has been the obserNa
ton of the committee that compare
lively few people have loaned large
number of antiques, !. e., nearly 325. To
provide a safe place for exhibiting an
tique articles is the purpose OF the com
mittee, the members OF which are al
WAYS ready TO confer with persons who
contemplate loaning anything antiquat-
ed.
To describe in detail or Vet 10 tell or
countless memories clustering around a
good many OF the antiques assembled by
the committee would be task for the
pamphleteer. To refer briefly 10 some
Of the exhibits which attract the atten
ton of the visitor to the historical room
may arouse in the reader a desire TO
make an examination Of the room and It's
contents for himself. Paintings Of Ma
ior Ira Day and his two sons are hung
.
Day, as people familiar with the earlier
history of Barre know, lived in Soutn
Barre back in the earliest decades Of the
10th century conducted stage line from
Boston 10 Burlington and was known
far and wide through his transportation
service. Major Days place In foretime
history Of Barre Is epitomized in the
fact. well remembered no doubt on the
occasion Of the Marquis De Lafayette's
tour through New England. Sometime
before the great Frenchman came 10
America in 1874. Major Day bad brought
an Italian painter 20 South Barre 20 do
members Of the family.
Lafayette was entertained AZ the DAY
home. now removed, in the same lavish
manner which marked his triumphal tour
Of the eastern states this b the state. I
mcnt IN contemporary accounts. A coach 4
cushion on which Lafayette rode frUtn
Boston 30 Vermont IL one Of the choic- I
est treasures in the historical room. Two