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Besides the daily and weekly editions of The Rutland Herald, published by the Herald and Globe Association, in the Herald building on Merchants Row, opposite the depot, there is a daily afternoon paper, with a weekly edition also, The Rutland News, the editor and proprietor of which is Charles T. Fairfield. This paper is published in the Evening News Building, on Grove Street.
Other papers, magazines and literary productions, have come and gone through the years, all of them doing more or less in moulding the sentiments of the people and aiding in the growth and development of the community.
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Banking
The first bank in Rutland, was chartered in 1824 under the name of "The Bank of Rutland" with a capital of $50,000, and with Robert Temple as president and William Page, cashier. It was located opposite the U. S. Court House in what is now the residence of L. H. McIntire. It retained its name until 1866 when it was reorganized as a National Bank with a capital of $300,000 and occu- pied the present Herald Building. This bank is not now in existence.
Rutland Savings Bank
This institution was incorporated November, 1850. Its first president and treasurer was Luther Daniels who served in that capacity for 29 years. Its 15,000 depositors have on interest $5,852,373.
Officers: H. O. Carpenter, President; Charles A. Simpson, Treasurer ; Trustees, H. O. Carpen- ter, N. K. Chaffee, Egbert C. Tuttle, Walter R. Kinsman, Edward Dana, Fred A. Field, T. C. Rob- bins, G. H. V. Allen, F. H. Farrington.
Its surplus and interest June 30, 1911, was $6,294,289.97, this is the second largest savings bank in Vermont and owns the building corner of Center Street and Merchants Row, where the bank is located.
Butland Omity National Bank.
This bank started as a State Bank in 1864 with a capital of $100,000. William Y. Ripley was the first president, James Merrill, the first cashier. William Ripley died September 27, 1875 and was
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succeeded by his son William Y. W. Ripley. On June 10, 1867, Henry F. Field was elected cashier to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of James Merrill.
Officers : Henry F. Field, president; E. C. Lewis, vice-president; Carl S. Cole, cashier; Directors: Henry F. Field, E. McIntyre, R. L. Richmond, W. F. Burditt, C. W. Ward, E. C. Lewis, Chas. M. Smith, Fred R. Patch, E. R. Morse, E. C. McIntyre.
Baxter National Bank
This bank was organized in the month of August, 1870, with a capital of $300,000, H. H. Baxter being president, J. N. Baxter, vice-president, and G. R. Bottom, cashier.
This building is a three-story structure built of pressed brick with iron trimmings and situated on Merchants Row, opposite the depot.
Officers: John A. Mead, president; Fred C. Spencer, cashier; Directors: John A. Mead, W. R. Kinsman, C. B. Hinsman, E. E. Keyes, Egbert C. Tuttle, W. W. Nichols, F. M. Butler, L. G. Kings- ley, T. W. Moloney.
Clement National Bank
This institution has a fine banking house, at the junction of Merchants Row and Evelyn Street valued at $60,000. At the present date a magnificent vault is being installed in the building. At the close of business June 7, 1911, this bank reported a capital of $100,000, surplus of $100,000, with deposits of $1,111,507.31. This bank also has a savings deposit.
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Officers: Wallace C. Clement, president; Charles H. Harrison, cashier; Directors, Wallace C. Clement, Percival W. Clement, Henry W. Clement, Charles H. Harrison, Harry F. Kingsley.
State Trust Company
Located in the Clement Bank Building.
Officers: P. W. Clement, president; W. C. Clement, vice-president; C. H. Harrison, treasurer ; Board of Directors same as Clement National Bank.
Marble Savings Bank
This bank is located in the Mead Building, and began business February 1, 1883. Its fifty-seventh semi-annual statement June 30th, 1911, shows resources of $2,139,915, with nearly 6,000 depositors. Officers: John N. Woodfin, president; Ivor S. MacFarlane, treasurer; Trustees, J. N. Woodfin, L. G. Kingsley, H. L. Clark, Charles E. Ross, W. F. Otis, M. E. Wheeler, E. C. Lewis.
Rutland Trust Company
Located opposite the Depot is one of the strongest institutions in the State, having a larger percentage reserved for deposits than any Savings Bank or Trust Company in Vermont.
Officers: G. T. Chaffee, president ; G. K. Montgomery, treasurer.
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Killington National Bank
This bank is located on Mer- chants Row opposite the Depot. Reported June7, 1911, resources of $500,226.60. It has a cap- ital stock paid in of $100,000 and a surplus fund of $20,000.
Officers: E. P. Gilson, presi- dent; Directors, E. P. Gilson, J. N. Woodfin, George T. Chaffee, S. M. Wilson, H. O. Carpenter, W. H. Spaulding, Walter A. Clark.
The banking business of this city has risen to such proportions that at the present time Rutland has in the aggregate the largest banking capital of any city of its size. Its financiers are men of absolute probity and nation-wide reputation.
Libraries
In January, 1886, the preliminary meeting looking toward the organization of a library was held. The meeting resulted a month later in a loan exhibition of curios and historic articles in the Clement Bank building, the amount received being over $300. With these funds the present library was started. Feb- ruary 20, 1886, a permanent organization was formed at a meeting in Baxter hall. Seventy-two women subscribed to the articles of incorporation, with Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr as president. The first books were purchased in April, 1886, and the library was opened July 5, 1886, in the block at 23 Merchants Row, with 3,234 books on the shelves. The first week the average number of books put in circulation daily was 71. The circu- lation the first year was 20,283. The transfer to the lower floor of Memorial Hall was made in March, 1889. The library has had but three librarians during the twenty-five years of its existence, Miss Humphrey, Miss Titcomb and Miss Lucy D. Cheney. Many of the charter members are still active workers. Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr remains the honorary president. The number of volumes in the library, February 1, 1911, was 17,946.
4. Thị. Baxter Memorial Library
On the southeast corner of Library Avenue and Grove Street stands the gray marble building erected by Mary E. Baxter and her son Hugh H. Baxter, in memory of Gen. Horace Henry Baxter, who was for many years a citizen of Rutland,
H. H. BAXTER MEMORIAL LIBRARY, 1911.
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dying here in 1884. The structure, which is of gray marble from West Rutland, rock-faced throughout, in the Romanesque style of architecture, was erected in 1889. It contains a large central book room, flanked on either side by reading rooms, also a librarian's room, lavatories, etc., the whole finished in quartered oak. Among the attractions is a magnificent fireplace of hand-carved quartered oak, blue marble and slabs of Mexican onyx, which fills the whole end of one of the reading rooms. The building will accommodate 20,000 volumes, and contains many rare and costly books, such as some of the earliest versions of the English Bible and Latin classics, and several fine specimens of printing selected on account of sumptuous and historical bindings.
Marble Industry
The beginning of the marble industry in this town dates back as early as 1820, when various indi- viduals dug out marble for grave stones near the village of West Rutland and in Whipple Hollow. Such slabs are to be seen in the cemeteries of Rutland and West Rutland, bright and sound today. One of them bears date of 1789. The quarries and mills in West Rutland were opened in a commercial way in the vicinity of 1844, the marble being hauled to Whitehall by teams. The original mill at first ran only about nine months in the year, and during the day time only. From such small beginnings the marble business has progressed to vast proportions until Rutland has become noted the world over as the Marble City, the development of the industry having reached unprecedented dimensions. Contracts were filled by Sheldon & Slason of West Rutland, after the Civil War, for 245,000 lettered headstones for soldiers' graves in national cemeteries, the contract amounting to $864,000. The famous "Gold Room" in the Treasury building at Washington is paneled with blue marble furnished by the Sheldons. Taking Rutland for a center, within a circumference of 25 miles there is a tract of country producing more and better marble
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than any other spot on the planet, or all other marble industries combined. Within a radius of six miles of the Marble City four thousand men are employed taking the finest quality of marble in the world out of the everlasting mountains, and with modern appliances and skillful fingers transforming the huge blocks into the finished material, the wonder and admiration of all men. At Proctor, formerly a part of the town of Rutland, is located the largest marble producing plant in the world, the Vermont Marble Company.
Manufacturing
The manufacturing interests of Rutland have grown to their present proportions since the advent of the railroads. It is not possible in the space allotted us to describe the variety and extent of the industries gathered within the borders of the municipality. Chief among the enterprises of the city is the Howe Scale Works, which has a world-wide trade. A large proportion of the weighing scales used in the world are made in Rutland.
The old-fashioned household steelyards, by which our ancestors hung a package on one end of a tilt- ing bar and a weight on the other, looked at the irregular notches and guessed at the weight, have been superseded by the modern, ingenious, accurate and beautiful scale, so that today in all lands merchandise is weighed by them.
The Howe scale was invented in 1855 by two young men, F. M. Strong and Thomas Ross, who secured their first patent in 1856. In the fall of the same year they put up their first scale in Vernon, N. Y. In the spring of 1857 John Howe, Jr., of Brandon, purchased the patent and began the manu- facture at Brandon. A stock company was organized and the business continued until 1877, when the entire plant was removed to Rutland. Eleven acres of land were purchased and during the years 1877- 78 commodious and convenient buildings were erected for the works on their present site. Governor John A. Mead is the president of this company, which is one of the institutions of Rutland and has contributed much to its growth and prosperity. It employs from 700 to 800 men, and has agencies in all the prin- cipal cities of the world.
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While the marble and scale works are the leading industries, industrial Rutland is not limited to these enterprises. As a matter of fact, Rutland is the greatest manufacturing center of Northern New England, and the hum of business is heard in every direction within her borders. According to the last census there was an increase in manufactures between 1904 and 1909 as follows: 51 per cent in the number of salaried officials and clerks; 24 per cent. in the number of establishments; 22 per cent in the capital invested; 8 per cent in the value added by manufacture; 6 per cent in the value of products; and 4 per cent in the cost of materials used.
There were 63 establishments in 1909, as compared with 51 in 1904; an increase of 24 per cent. The value of products in 1909 was $2,680,000, and $2,523,000 in 1904; an increase of $157,000, or 6 per cent. The average per establishment was approximately $43,000 in 1909, and about $49,000 in 1904.
To give a catalogue of the various enterprises carried on is impossible. Besides marble in all its forms and scales of almost every variety, Rutland produces stone-working machinery, machinery and iron parts of all descriptions, car and engine supplies, stove linings, plaster, cement products, silos, creamery and dairy goods, women's clothing, men's shirts and collars, monuments of marble and granite, carriages, sleighs, chair stock, sand pumps, tin cans for food packing, mailing boxes, flags, decoration and avia- tion tents, sugar makers' supplies and confectionery and book publishing and numerous other enterprises occupy the attention of the wage earner and make the city an ideal place for the mechanic and skilled laborer.
The average number of wage earners employed in 1909 was about 1700. At present the capital invested is approximately $3,000,000 and there is paid in salaries and wages $1,500,000. On account of its location, geographically, the city is ideal for the investor, the manufacturer, the business world in all its ramifications. Four railroad trunk lines converge here with more than one hundred trains daily passing through our railroad yard, and Rutland enjoys the same freight rate as New York and Boston. The city
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is only 92 miles from Albany, 234 from New York and but 167 from Boston. Rapid, frequent and com- peting means of communication with these chief cities, as well as all intermediate points, render the loca- tion of the Marble City advantageous in every way to the industrial world.
Centennial Celebratingt
In the month of October, 1870, Rutland observed its centennial with appropriate ceremonies. The celebration continued from the second to the fifth of the month, and included addresses, historical papers, poems, toasts, an exhibition of relics, etc. The opening service took place at the Congregational Church Sunday evening, October 2, with a sermon by Rev. Dr. John Todd, of Pittsfield, Mass, a native of Rut- land. The pavilion in which the dinner was served, and in which the Promenade Concert was held, stood on the lot at the foot of Washington Street, where the City Hall is now situated. It was 210 by 66 feet and capable of seating 3,000 persons. The tent inside and out was radiant with flags, bunting and gas lights.
The Opera house was beautifully decorated within and without, with flags, streamers, mottoes, flow- ers, and other ornaments. Extending across the street from the Opera house was a line of flags, in the center of which was a shield tablet with the inscription on one side, "Washington promulgated our prin- ciples, Warren died in their defense-we intend to perpetuate them." On the reverse the inscription was, "The memories of the fathers are the inspiration of the sons." The old state house was ornamented with flags and labeled with a brief history of the building. The Herald building was decorated finely outside with a shield bearing the inscription, "The Rutland Herald, the oldest paper in Vermont-established December, 1794." An arch was erected on West Street, opposite the old state house, by the members of the Nickwackett Engine Company, trimmed with American, Turkish, Irish and state flags, and inscribed, "Nickwackett No. 1 in honor of the old state house." Nearly every house and business place along the line of march of the procession showed some decoration.
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CENTER STREET LOOKING EAST FROM MERCHANTS ROW, 1862. 1. Bank of Rutland. 2. Residence, Charles Sheldon. 3. Verder Bakery. 4. 5. J. Cook's Grocery Store. 6. Faulkner's Bakery. 7. Bates & Long Block.
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Vermont has been called "the legitimate child of war." From the hour when aboriginal tribes disputed for possession of the territory, through the colonial period when British and French armies traversed the land, followed by the contentions engendered by the double systems of grants from New Hampshire and New York, suc- ceeded by the heroism of the Green Mountain Boys in the Revolution, continued in the conflicts of 1812, carried on through the war with Mexico, rising to sublime heights in resistance to treason in the War of the Rebellion, and responding with alacrity in the Spanish-American War, the Green Mountain State has never been found wanting. In the battle of Lee's Mills Rutland lost the brave Reynolds; at the battle of Malvern Hill Col. Wm. Y. W. Ripley effectually stayed the tide of battle; at Baton Rouge the gallant Col. Roberts fell. In all these great struggles Rutland has sent forth her full quota, men who died gloriously fighting for their country, or returned with honorable records to spend their declining years with the consciousness of duty done.
Rutland's Conscripts in 1863
When it became necessary, during the Civil War, to add to the Union forces in the field by drafting men, Rutland had to contribute her quota. The spirit in which the men here entered upon their enforced service is shown by the following :
At Rutland the drafted men of the village, with some others, met at the town hall, elected Ben. K. Chase captain, formed into line, and, headed by fife and drum, marched through the principal streets, stopped at the park, where by re- quest prayer was offered by Rev. Leland Howard, and speeches made by the following gentlemen who were called out by the company : D. E. Nicholson, C. C. Dewey, Henry Clark, M. G. Everts, and also by Rev. N. Seaver and G. R. Hitt, of the conscripts, Cheers were given by the conscripts for the Union, for the draft, for the conscripts from abroad, etc., etc., after which the company adjourned with the highest good feeling.
In Benedict's book "Vermont in the Civil War" he says of the total population of Vermont one in every ten were in service and of her able- bodied men of military age every other one shoul- dered his musket and went to fight for his country.
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Green Mountain Maurers
On Wednesday, May 15, 1861, many of the boys of the town of Rutland met in the barn of S. F. Bowman, where now stands Trinity church, West street, and formed themselves into a military company, giving themselves the name of 'The Green Mountain Lancers.' They took the zouave dress.
The young ladies took great interest in them. Misses Katie C. Strong and Jennie A. Hopkins, for the ladies, gave them a fine banner June 1 of the same year.
Exhibition drills were given in Wallingford, Brandon, Pittsford and Burlington and were al- ways well received.
The roll bore the following names:
Commissioned Officers-Fordyce H. Bow- man, captain; Kingsley K. Hannum, first lieu- tenant ; Philo J. Bates, second lieutenant ; George GREEN MOUNTAIN LANCERS. T. Batchelder, first sergeant; Justus Southard, second sergeant; Varnum Whitcomb, third ser- geant; Lewis Clark, fourth sergeant; Louis Valiquette, first corporal; Fred W. Brown, second corporal; George H. Owen, third corporal; Henry H. Pierce, fourth corporal; James McDaniels, fifth corporal; Fred W. Littlefield, standard bearer; Henry C. Davy, George Patch, Hiram Lewin, Charles Frost, Levi B. Southard, musicians; Henry C. Davy, clerk.
Privates-Albert Angier, George F. Bailey, Edward B. Bailey, Harvey Boutell, Charles P. Bates, Charles Bateman, Benson Bennett, Avery Billings, Elliot Brewer, Jewett P. Cain, John H. Chatterton, Cornelius P. Curtis, Edward C. Channell, Earl Cutler, Edward Durfey, George Dunton, Charles Farmer, Albert Filmore, Chester Giddings, John Grandy, Hiram Hayes, Clark Hopkins, Stephen Mead, George Page, Warren Page, Marsh Perkins, Charles Patch, Almon Pearsons, Charles Pierpoint, Ed- ward Prout, Horace Pratt, Frank Ross, Henry Stewart, Charles Thompson, Egbert C. Tuttle, Vine Watkins, Albert Kelsie.
Rutland Light Ouards
February 9, 1911, was the fiftieth anniver- sary of the enlistment of the Rutland Light Guards in the defense of the Union. Vermont had but 17 companies of uniformed militia, few of them numbering over 50 men in January, 1861. One of the largest of these companies was the Rutland Light Guards, numbering 74 men and commanded by Gen. W. Y. W. Ripley. Gov. Fairbanks took early action to put Vermont in position to meet any crisis that might arise, believing that war was inevitable, and an order through Adjutant and Inspector General H. H. Baxter, January 25, 1861, ordered the commanding offi- cers of each company to ascertain how many men would be ready to respond to the call of the Presi- dent in a war for the Union. On February 9, 1861, 54 members of the Rutland Light Guards held a special meeting in the first Town Hall at the
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upper end of Washington Street, and of the 74 members of the company 63 responded "Yes". Of this number 52 went to war and only six are now known to be alive. Their names are Milo Lyman, H. G. Sheldon, Henry W. Davis, Samuel W. Terrill, James W. Ross and Levi G. Kingsley. The Light Guards became Company K of the First Vermont Regiment.
On May 9, 1911, seven members of the orig- inal Rutland Light Guards held a reunion at the home of Gen. L. G. Kingsley, of Pine Street. They were Milo Lyman, Henry W. Davis, Samuel Terrill, S. H. Kelley, Harley Sheldon, James Post and L. G. Kingsley.
These were the first enlisted men in the War of the Rebellion.
The Grand Army of the Republic dates back to an early period after the close of the war. Roberts Post No. 14 (named in honor of the lamented Colonel Roberts, who fell on the battle- field), was chartered November 11, 1868. The first meeting was held in the carpet room of L. G. Kingsley's store, and the post occupied the hall in the Morse (now Rutland Savings Bank) block, in 1885. The first officers were Wm. Y. W. Ripley, P. C., W. G. Veazey, S. V. C., John A. Sheldon, J. V. C., C. H. Forbes, Adj., E. A. Morse, quartermaster.
Opera House
Up to the year 1869 the town hall was used for public gatherings in the village. In that year the Ripley Music Hall was built by William Y. Ripley. This building was used for public gather- · ings until it was destroyed by fire in 1875. It was not until 1881 that the present Opera House was erected by Gen. E. H. Ripley, on the site of the burned structure. It was dedicated in October, 1881. The interior was designed and finished under the architectural direction of J. J. R. Ran- dall, of Rutland.
Serret Sprieties
The first Masonic lodges were chartered in this State early in 1784, Center Lodge of Rutland being among the first, organized October 15, 1794, the same year the Grand Lodge in Vermont was organized. Noah Smith, who resided for a time in Rutland, was the first grand master. Rutland has had but one grand master, Henry H. Smith, who filled the office in 1876-77. Among the men who were early promoters of Masonry was
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Nathaniel Chipman, whose fame as a United States senator and jurist is excelled by few. Center Lodge was the first lodge granted by the Grand Lodge after its organization, and it was at the house of Jesse Gove in Rutland, October 15, 1794. The lodge was reorganized in later years, the first meeting after the reorganization being held February 3, 1853. On June 26, 1856, a public installation was held at the Congregational Church, with an address by Henry Smith of Claremont, N. H. The procession moved to the Franklin House, where dinner was served.
Odd Fellowship has flourished in the county for more than half a century. The first lodge installed in the county was Otter Creek Lodge No. 10, constituted March 9, 1847. The five original petitioners were prominent citizens of Rutland, and the first regular meeting was held in a lodge room in an ell-part of the old Fay printing office on Main Street, March 16, 1847. August 19th of that year the first public address on Old Fellowship in Rutland was delivered by A. E. Hovey of New York City. This lodge suspended operations in 1857. Killington Lodge No. 29 was organized, Sept. 11, 1868, with 12 members. This has been a prosperous lodge with an increasing membership. Rutland Lodge No. 61 was instituted Feb. 22, 1899. Otter Creek Encampment was instituted Feb. 27, 1871. Canton Rutland and Good Will Rebekah Lodges have a flourishing membership.
At the present time there are no less than 50 secret societies, social, fraternal, insurance, and labor ciganizations, whose lodge rooms are the scenes of nightly gatherings, and in whose membership a large number of citizens, both men and women, are enrolled.
Grand and Picturesque Scenery
Rutland, from a scenic standpoint, stands at the head of the list in the catalogue of attractive loca- tions in Vermont, the Switzerland of America. It is emphatically beautiful for situation. Nestling as it does in an amphitheatre of mountains-Killington, 4241 feet high, the second loftiest summit in the Green
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Mountain range, Pico and Shrewsbury on the east and north, and the Taconic range, Herrick and Birds- eye on the western edge of the city's mountain cradle-the ever-changing lights and shadows, the spring and autumn foliage, the matchless sunrises and glorious sunsets, furnish a never-ending charm to the citi- zen, the invalid, the tourist or the chance visitor.
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Added to the mountain scenery are the numerous attractions of streams and lakes with which the locality abounds. Chief among the popular resorts of the region is Lake Bomoseen, only 15 miles dis- tant, reached by trolley line running through the busy streets of Center and West Rutland, the more quiet streets of Castleton-home of a state normal school-Hydeville and Fair Haven, now building on to Poult- ney and the picturesque Lake St. Catherine.
Lake Bomoseen is an ideal summer resort, the beautiful and romantic lake is enchantingly embowered among the hills, its shores dotted with summer cottages, modern hotels, parks and pavilions catering to the amusement seeker. A commodious steamer plies upon its peaceful bosom, its waters teem with fish, and at night electric lights gleam all along its shores, and music is wafted on every breeze, from hotel piazza and concert hall. Through the long season this lake is the magnet that draws irresistibly, year after year, hundreds of guests from far-away cities, and daily and nightly the trolley from all surrounding towns carries its load of pleasure-seekers to this ideal summer resort.
Mountain climbing is one of the attractions of this vicinity.
The ascent of Mount Killington, only 14 miles from Rutland to the top, and the second highest peak in Vermont, has never been better described than by Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr, of Rutland:
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"I purposely avoided looking back or around until I had made about half the distance. Then I dropped upon a flat stone, to take breath, and well-nigh lost it utterly, such was the sense of isolation, of dizzy height, of infinite space that overwhelmed me. The house was directly beneath my feet, and I perched in mid-air above it, while near and afar, even to the wide horizon, rolled billow after billow, like the waves of the ocean. Not billows of cloud as you may suppose; but the everlasting hills themselves, all tremulous with the purple and golden mists of sunset. On either side mountains as far as the eye could reach. The valley of the Otter Creek seemed like a narrow ribbon, through which ran a thread of silver." Of the sunrise on this majestic peak the writer says "The east was aflame with the glory of the dawn. On the west the huge wedge-shaped shadows of Killington stretched on and on till it touched the far horizon. The upper air was crystal clear, while low wreaths of vapor curled upwards from the valleys. From north to south swept the broad Connecticut, a sheet of silver, and in the distance Lake Champlain stretched from Whitehall 130 miles to the northward. Lake George lay like a mist wreath on the horizon. Lake Bomoseen, Pine hill pond, and others of lesser note flashed and sparkled at our feet. Rutland, Castleton, Pittsford, Woodstock, and a host of others were kindling their morning fires as we gazed. Far to the north Mount Mansfield and Jay Peaks rose up majestically, with banner-like clouds floating from their summits, exchanging signals with Mount Marcy and all the mighty monarchs of the Adirondacks. Near at hand, towards the east, the rounded dome of Ascutney looked like a hillock, while Mount Kearsage loomed dimly beyond it, and, clasping hands, as it were, to complete the glorious circle, came proud Monadnock and old Greylock, Mount Anthony, Mount Equinox and Mount Dorset. But while we held our breath on this Mount of Transfiguration the sun rose up, as out of the sea, lighting the whole east with a more than earthly glory; and lo! a great rose-tinted pearl hung high in the shining heavens-Mount Washington startled us like a vision from the other world!"
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