Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-12-16

The Vermont Journal. Commonly call
ed the Windsor Journal and one of the
oldest and best newspapers in the State)
said, Morean-wise. after the last State
Fair: "As a summary statement 1t is
fitting to say that the Windsor Morgan
horse farm was the winner Of fourteen
ribbons and the championship cup. The
Morgan horse club futurity take division
for stud foals of 1915 was won by Vino
sor Morgan owned by Henry s. Ward
ner Of Windsor and j.. Rich Steers OF
Port Chester, N. Y" Every Vermonter
who knows or cares anything about
horses. should welcome this regeneration
Of the Morgan strain. Any man can
see that the Morgan horse has lines de-
MED to other breeds, and any woman can
tell you that there is no other horses
eye as bright and intelligent as the eye
Of the Morgan. Mr.. Phillips began many
years ago to interest himself in the Nor
gan stock and has spent. We understand,
something like 500, 900. most of 1t in YER
mont. The people Of Windsor. therefore.
| should welcome him, and do welcome
him, and look for a return OF junior
Ethan Aliens and Black Hawks, and the
early appearance on the streets OF the
| village In large numbers Of those who
still know and admire good horse 1iesh.
KENNEDY, THE BISCUIT MAN.
A gentleman who also deserves very
special mention when speaking of pres
ent-day Windsor, is Frank A. Kennedy,
the Ma Massachusetts, man who put the
bis and all the other letters in biscuit.
Twenty years ago Mr.. Kennedy, retir-
ing from business, came to Windsor and
bought the acres south OF the village
known as Dennison's plain. Here he
built several extra large and good resi-.
dences. restored many others. and made
homes for himself and children and
friends. He brought the master bakers
desire for order and neatness all the
way from Boston to the South End"
OF the village, and soon the entire neigh
clean and orderly part Of town. Mr.. Ken
needy was a pioneer also In good roads
and generously paid from his own pock-
ct for improving numerous highways.
To him also Windsor owes her present
electric lighting system. the current be-
ing started in the "Old Armory" build.
ing. which architect Plat, hereinbefore
mentioned. considers one Of Windsor's
choice bits Of old architecture. Within
recent times no person has contributed
so much as Mr.. Kennedy to the good
appearance Of the village. nor does his
good influence stop with the shore, for
paraphrasing Tom Moore's What was
Goose Creek once is Tiber now. We may
say hat what was once only A%scutney
Mill pond. is now Crystal lake, and a
part of Buena Vista Farm, the name
by which Mr.. Kennedy's CONSOLIDATED
positions" is known.
Even the Vermont State Prison feels
a thrill OF resuscitating vitality in the
new Windsor prosperity, for although
the chief state penal institution was
situated anywhere else, 1t never
contained as many convicts as for the
biennial term ending July I. 1914. tho
daily average attendance for that term
having been 205 and six-tenths. At pres
ent there are 237 convicts. seventeen of
which are perfec' ladies, all OF which are
Differed and generated by twenty-four
keepers. The State has in the last few
years expended considerable money up
on the prison. and !" tn buildings and dis
- "S a. SoDt ~ III
1872 that hanging is rot good enough for
tie Vermont homicide. the kindly Legis-
;ature in 1912 appropriated s3.oM for a
new electric chair ard a room in which
to put 1t. The Improvement" however,
cost S643 more, which the last Legisla-
ture promptly made up. There is no
capital case. however, on hand, and may
there not soon be. for when the time
comes it will be necessary to send way
off somewhere for ar electrician. whose
fee, 1t is supposed. will not be less than
ESQ per case, n few murderers are
worth that much either dead or alive.
Other things show also how we'll tho
Windsor convicts are treated. for they
no longer eat with steel knives md forks,
but have their own flat silver a lux
ury, probably that eight out of every
ten were denied before they got into
prison. The new assembly hall. where
religious and other services and enter
tainments are held and given. is an
excellent auditorium. clean and we'll
lighted. with a stage and drop curtain.
and we might just as we'll remark that
the painted drop curtain is the handsom-
est property of the kline In the State of
Vermont.
LIVELY TIME FOR BUILDING.
That building is lively in Windsor
village has heretofore been remarked,
but to be particular, We may say hat
during the last year more than forty
new dwellings or tenements have been
put up, and during the last two years
the new business blocks and building i'm
proVements along Main street between
the Baptist and the Unitarian churches
have cost not less than 100000. Even the
new near--asphalt pavement on Main
street has cost $4,000, and speaking of
Belgian block pavement, there Is no street
north OF Boston made and laid with that
material in sounder fashion thar Depot
avenue.
This onrush OF prosperity has not only
been felt all over the village. but even
as Tar away as Washington, for by a re-
cent order of the postoffice department
the city carrier system will be naugur-
ated in Windsor on January I, 1916. This
means mailing boxes all about town and
several miles Of new sidewalks. The
improvement is mainly due to the public
spirited eyeslght of Postmaster Frank II.
clark. who has not worn himself out In
handling all sorts of offices for the
last forty years., and who consequent
makes as good a postmaster as his father
did minstrel-for his father was George
M. Clark. Windsor was long z desig-
mated as one Of the three or four points
In the State where the United States
Courts should sit, and here they still
sit In the excellent postoffice building