The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-15
VERMONT'S INTERESTS
DESCRIBED AT BOARD
OF TRADE BANQUET
Representative George 0. Gridley O.
windsor Talked About Manufactur-
ing and Representative II. A. Puff
fer of Richford About Per-
manent Roads.

Something of the part which Vermont
has played in the manufacturing world
and something of the work in road build
ing which Vermont hopes to do consti,
tuted the two addresses delivered before
the Barre business mems banquet at
Hotel Barre last night, the banquet be-
ing the second of the series arranged
Tor the winter by the Board of Trade.
The speakers happened to be two repre-.
sentatives in the Vermont legislature,
George o. Gridley, prominent manu-
faeturer OF Windsor, and Fl. A. Puffer,
banker OF Riohford, the former taking
up the subject of manufacturing and the
other that of good roads
The banquet was ATTENDED by nearly
100 business men who paid strict atten.
tion to the excellent menu prepared by
Manager Rowen of the hotel and to the
speaking that followed. The dining-room
was comfortably filled at o'clock when
the serving of the banquet started. Dur
ing the courses Cleaves' orchestra OF
Montpelier played most acceptably and
was given hearty support. The viands
were very good and the service was car
rIed out with much celebrity.
| When the tables were cleared, it fell
to the lot of Frank G.. Rowland, himself
a representative, to introduce the speak
ers. Mr.. Gridley's subject was past,
Present and Future Manufacturing In
| terests of Vermont" and at the outset
he traced the history of the development
OF manufacturing in New England from
i645 when man named jerks started
small plant in Lynn, Mass, following
it up with some facts about the starting
of manufacturing i'm Vermont at about
the year 1907. A large part of his re-
marks had to do with the rise of the
manufacturing interests of his own town
of Windsor, where the business has made
great gains.
Mr.. Gridley related how young man
named Hubbard was granted a patent
for rotary pump in 1920, and so good
was the patent that the pump is still
being used at the present time in other
parts of the country. In 1880 the firm
Of n. X. Kendall & Co, which made
little OF everything, was started, and
from that have sprung some of the great
manufacturing businesses of the United
States, The machine shop with which |
Mr. Gridley is connected has sprung in |
six years from a plant employing 300 |
men to that of 400 men, and it has vir-
tually outgrown the town, there being |
great problem to house the workmen |
and their families The speaker told of |
the work done in Transforming the com
pany's old shop into a rooming and |
club house for the men and said the /
house il playing an important part in
caring for the employees.
Vermont, thought the speaker al
though in unfayorable position as to To-
cation for a manufacturing industry, is
nevertheless fortunate in its men, the
men who are engaged in machine work.
He declared that there was bright flu
ture for Vermont in the manufacturing
world
Vermont's Federal Road Aid
Representative Puffer was introduced
as one well versed to tell OF the federal
road aid, by means of which ss5,000..
600 is to be apportioned in the United
States during the next five years. Mr..
Puffer said that Vermont that day Eyes
terdayl had taken advantage of the pro-
visions of the federal act and would re- !
eeive for the balance of the present fiscal
year the sum of S22 900 and for the full ,
fiscal year, beginning July !, next, the
sum Of $4,000; or a total of $342 900 ,
Turing the five years Mr.. Puffer paid !
his respects, in passing, to the expression I
Used by Fuller G. Smith OF st. Adams ,
n describing Vermont's present road CON a
'truetion policy as string bean" pol !
cy. Then he inquired; do you want
% pay as You 60 or do you want to h
build great trunk iinest" Under the +
present policy, which it is proposed to y
AIRY out, the towns win put in, say
II 900 for permanent road work; the
tate viii duplicate the amount and the
ederal government will double the orig.
nal appropriation, making $4,000 TIC. be
expended where the town only contrib
ties 81 900. This he thought was the
'est policy Il
In closing, Mr. Puffer extended the y
reetings OF the Riehford Board of Trade Il
o the Barre Board of Trade, saying: /
We're trying to be boosters and not a
nockers, and / hope you are doing the n
anne in Barre" II
1t is expected that the third in the {,