The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-30
Two Train Loads of Gene
terry Superintendents
Visit the "Hill"
BUSINESS MEETINGS
THIS AFTERNOON
All of Yesterday Spent in
Seeing Vermont Beau
ty Spots

4 When two trains on the Barre a Chel
sea railroad rounded sharp curve wesr
of Websterville this forenoon nearly 30t
people, comprising many members of the
Association of American Cemetery Su
perintendents here for their 3lst annual
convention glimpsed for the first time the
granite quarries that have made Barre
a by-word in nearly every cemetery in
the land 1t was the third day of the
convention and as the result of arrange.
ments made by the local entertainment
association, the visitors were privileged
to devote the entire forenoon to sight
seeing on Milestone hill Returning in
the noon hour, the superintendents had
dinner and then were ready for a solid
session of business at the convention hall
this afternoon.
Heavy skies and a Scotch mist did not
combine to heighten the pleasure of the
forenoon excursion, but the visitors, al.
most TO a man--and to woman-stood
pat on the original program and were at
the Montpelier & Wells River station be-
fore train time. The railroad company
provided two special trains, each with
four passenger coaches attached, for the
trip. Bally-ho men with megaphones
were on hand and the get away was eff
fected at 8 o'clock In the course of the
long pull up the heights, the megsphone
men did not neglect to inform their
guests that they were proceeding over
the steepest natural railroad east of the
Mississippi river, the greatest ascent per
mile being l,025 feet. From the coach
windows, the visitors were permitted
overshadowing the valley.
The first stop was made at the quarry
of the Wetmore & Morse company, where
the company was warmly received by the
Comparatively few of
those who peered down into the deep
quarry holes or surveyed the mammoth
piles of granite had visited the quarry |
district before and the largeness OF first |
therefore, was not lost upon |
Them. Crossing the ridge again at Web
;tervilie, the train made its second stop |
1t the quarries of the II. L. Smith com
,any The cordiality of their welcome |
IN the Websterville side was renewed by
of the Smith company
Ind again at the quarries of Boutwell,,
Milne & varnum. Everywhere the quar-
iers made it their business to give the
'isitors every favorable opportunity to
inspect the industry and it is safe TO
ay that majority of those who made
he trip came away with new idea of
he magnitude of Barre's quarrying in.
ustry.
This afternoon the time from o'clock
ntil was given over entirely to papers
nd discussions. The program planned
yas as follows: Uniform Cemetery
avs" Walter Puckett, Elmwood ceme-
ery, Birmingham, Ala; Location and
ormation of New England Granite, {
rof G. j. Perkins of Burlington, state t
Application of Landscape De- I
gns to the Cemetery" Prof. G. P. Burns t
the department of botany at the state b
"The Crematory as an Ad- O
met to the Modern Cemetery James a
urrie, Forest Home cemetery, Milwau +
ee. Wis; Relation of the Cemetery "
to the Retail Monument "
ealer," George NJ. Zapf of Baltimore, a
d., special delegate from the National Il
etail Monument Dealers association. Z