The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-28
Are Welcomed to Barre by
Governor Horace f.
Graham
w. F. LANDES
SPEAKS IN RESPONSE
Pres. DR.. j. G. Kesterson
Opens Business Meeting
with Address

A personal message of welcome from
the people of Vermont to the 3lst annua
+ convention Of the Association of Amer
/ lean Cemetery Superintendents was de
livered in Barre by Governor Horace F
Graham to-day before nearly 400 people
assembled in the chapel at Spauldinl
high school for the opening session. TIL,
forenoon business meeting, opening al
$3.50 o'clock, was the occasion for re
union of cemetery superintendents rep
resenting nearly every state in the union
and several provinces of Canada. 1t was
the first of several gatherings that are
to be interlarded with scenic trips until
the convention closes Friday afternoon
all arrangements for which are under the
direct supervision of the Barre Enter.
tainment association, organized nearly a
year ago when it was announced that
the superintendents had designated Barre
as their 1917 rsllying point.
For the first time in the history of the
city national convention is being held
here and the hearty cooperation with
which its citizens have united to receive
the visitors is assurance in itself that
the 1917 convention will be one of the
most successful since the association was
organized 30 years ago. The stream of
visitors which began arriving Sunday
grew in volume yesterday and over night.
Before the evening session, it is thought
that 500 people will have settled down
in Barre for the remainder of the week.
Incoming trains this forenoon added to
the number already registered. Hotels
are filled with superintendents and their
guests and dozens of homes in the city
have been opened for the reception of
visitors. This afternoon the association
members glimpsed for the first time
Barrels public cemeteries, Elmwood and
Hope, and inspected some of the plants
in the cutting industry. Tomorrow au-
tomobiles viii transport them to Bur-
lington for a boat ride on Lake Cham
plain and Thursday there will be trip
to the quarries over the Barre 4 Chelsea
air line. The final outing will be held in
wiIliamstown gulf Friday afternoon.
Business sessions with addresses and pa.
pers to be given by specialists in ceme
terry work and landscape gardening are
carded for this evening, Thursday after |
noon and evening, and Friday forenoon.
An informal reception for the women
visitors will take place in the lobby at
Hotel Barre this evening at 1880 o'clock.
Opening Session of Convention.
At $50 o'clock this morning Spauld-
ing chapel was well filled when the presi-
dent of the association, DR.. j. g. Kester
son of Knoxville, Tenn, called the 1917
convention to order. Prayer was offered
by Rev. Edgar Grassland, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, and then his
excelency, Governor Graham, was ush
cred to the front of the platform amid
round of applause. The superintendent,
the western section, were as
,ne in accaiming vermont's popular ex.
,eutive.
Said the executive in part: "It is un.
for a governor of Vermont to i
praise this state, for Vermont needs no
praise. We are a small community, I
mall in area and small in population,
,ut we have behind us glorious past d
nd anticipate still more glorious flu {
ure. You have come to Barre, the center |
# the worlds granite industry, and be- c
ore you leave the borders of our state 7
.ou will have viewed some of the won a
erful scenery of the Green mountains"
The governor went on to mention some
{ the things that Vermont is doing in
he industrial world, calling attention to c
he granite industries of Barre. Hsrdwick u
nd Bethel. the marble works in Rutland, v
nd the slate industry in Fair Haven, e
astleton, Poultney and Rupert He b
poke of the organ works in Brattleboro, c.
{ the scale works in St Johnsbury and a
! Rutland After all, he concluded, Yer 1
lonters take the greatest pleasure in o.
heir green hills, their lakes and, best of 81
Il. their men and women. Turning to el
lme aspects OF tne scenic TOURS TO be
ade, the speaker directed the attention
his hearers to the historic associations
the Champlain valley. which they are ,
visit tomorrow. He spoke of the \,
reen Mountain bows at Bennington and -
and of Dewey at Manila. In !;
! interesting way he sketched the great A
ruggles enacted in the valley Of the !,
Ike and referred somewhat feelingly TO =,
e fact that the regiments which OPP ~
,sed American liberty in the Revolution !,
= TO fight side by side with the best IA
merican blood on the fields of Flanders o.
"a northern France. Governor Graham r.,
ole Of the part which Vermont has 70
syed in peopling the western states la
th native stock and in closing he ex- in
nded 10 the visitors welcome TO Yer in
sut and the freedom Of the state. ex. or,
essing az the same time the hope that
sy nav b privileged TO return to its Ia
riders sometime in the future. tr,
The response for the association was pli
.ds by ". ? Iandes. superintendent Of CT
ovn Hill cemetery, Indianapolis. Ind.
% returned the governors felicitations