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INDUSTRIES AND WEALTH OF RUTLAND.

   WHEN Lieutenant-Governor Colden, of New York, issued his proclamation of the
10th of April, 1765, announcing the fact that the king, by an order in council
of the 20th of the preceding July, had made Connecticut River the eastern
boundary of that province, more than two-thirds of the land in what is now
Rutland County had been granted by New Hampshire in sixteen different townships,
viz.: Brandon (by the name of Nishobe), Castleton, Clarendon, Danby, Hubbardton,
Mount Tabor (by the name of Harwich), Pawlet, Pittsford, Poultney, Rutland,
Sherburne, Shrewsbury, Sudbury, Tinmouth, Wallingford and Wells. All of these
towns had been granted in 1761, except Sudbury, the charter of which bore date
in 1763, and Hubbardton in 1764. The territory was first treated by New York as
belonging to the county of Albany, but in 1772 it was included in a new county,
by the name of Charlotte, which extended from Canada line south to about the
middle of the present county of Bennington, and west from the Green Mountains,
beyond Lakes George and Champlain. When the Vermont State Government was
organized in 1778, the territory now comprising the county of Rutland was made
to form a part of the county of Bennington, but with all that between the
mountains and Lake Champlain northward from its present southern boundary to
Canada line, it was by the General Assembly in 1781 formed into the new county
of Rutland. The county has since been diminished by the legislature to its
present limits.

   Rutland is the largest village in the state, and the shire town of Rutland
County. It is located at the confluence of East and Otter Creeks, in the
beautiful Otter Valley, amid some of the most picturesque views of mountain and
valley, healthful atmosphere and beautiful surroundings of any Vermont town. The
legislature of 1886 divided the then township of Rutland into three separate
towns, viz.: Rutland, West Rutland, and Proctor. The original township had an
area of 26,000 acres, and embraced the famous Rutland marble quarries.

   Marble is plenty in Rutland to-day, and is to be seen in sidewalks, curbing,
underpinning and in buildings. The name, "Marble City," is decidedly applicable
to Rutland, even though the present town has no marble quarries.

   Rutland was
INCORPORATED AS A VILLAGE
in 1847, and has eight wards. The opening of the railroad gave the corporation
impetus and the village took on a healthy and vigorous growth. Rutland is the
principal railroad center of the state, and its location is such as to compel an
immense traffic to pass through it. The railroads entering Rutland are the
Central Vermont, forming a through line to Boston and Montreal; the Bennington
and Rutland, a through route to Troy and New York; and the Delaware and Hudson,
running through Saratoga to Troy, Albany and the West, to Lake George, the
Adirondack Mountains, etc.; the Clarendon & Pittsford from Proctor to Center
Rutland. All trains run into a Union Depot, located in the business part of the
village. The village is divided into eight wards, and contains a population of
about 12,000 inhabitants, and has churches of all denominations, several marble
mills, and other extensive manufacturing establishments. The streets are lighted
by electric lights, and there is an Edison incandescent electric light plant; a
telephone system; a district messenger service; a fire department; an excellent
system of water works; free mail delivery; a large and flourishing Y. M. C. A.;
a post of G. A. R., one of the finest military companies of the state; two
first-class bands; three masonic lodges; a chapter and council; a lodge and
encampment of Odd Fellows; two Good Templar lodges; five fire engine and hose
companies, a steamer company, and a hook and ladder company.

   Rutland has a good system of
WATER WORKS.
The supply is taken from a tributary to East Creek, about, three miles northeast
of the village. The water is thoroughly filtered as it leaves the Creek, and
flows from the filter into a canal or vat, where all sediment that may exist is
precipitated, and clear water passes into an aqueduct, flowing to the village
reservoir. The works have about 180 feet head, with a uniform pressure of about
75 pounds to the square inch, so that by attaching a hose to the fire-hydrants 
a powerful stream is thrown.

   Rutland is a great
MARBLE CENTER,
its capitalists 'being largely interested in quarries and mills in various parts
of the state. The Bordillo Marble Company and the Columbian Mabrle Company are
located at Rutland proper, while a branch of the great Vermont Marble Company
and the shops of Ripley & Sons are located two miles west, at Center Rutland.
The True Blue Marble Company has its office in Rutland, but its quarries and
shops are at West Rutland.

   Rutland is a most delightful place in which to live. It is self-contained and
complete in all those things that make life rational and worth living. In
building up the great and prosperous business interests that have made it
famous, its people have not been oblivious to the significant moral and social
demands created and imposed by New England civilization. The village is modern
in every essential regard. Its streets intersect at right angles, all its
improvements public and private, are of a substantial and permanent character,
and mushroomism is conspicuous by its absence. Brick and marble are the
prevailing building materials, and some of the most sightly and solid specimens
of architecture in the state adorn the thoroughfares of Rutland, notable among
them being the Baxter Bank, the Ripley Opera House, the Court-House and Post
Office. The number of beautiful private residences framed by cultivated lawns is
a distinguishing feature, and manifold signs of prosperity are matched by the
countless symbols of intelligence, culture and refinement that rise on every
hand. These, with pure air and water, good gas, electricity and the telephone;
schools, churches, libraries, street railways, Boston, Albany, and New York
easily accessible-what more does a rational man want in an abiding place?

   The attention given by the people of Rutland to education, and the ample
provision they have made for it, are commensurate with the importance that has
always attached to it throughout New England.

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
are carefully graded, presided over by earnest, competent teachers and are well
attended and generously maintained. The school houses are essentially modern in
character, liberally furnished with the most approved apparatus, and their
accommodations are adequate to the requirements of the school population.

   All the principal religious denominations common to this part of the country
are represented here and have reared their altars of worship. In point of
architectural appearance and interior appointments, the most of these church
buildings will compare favorably with similar edifices in any city of equal size
in the state. There is also a large number of societies of a benevolent,
beneficial and literary character, which are liberally supported, and whose
unostentatious work is a valuable force in furthering the specific purposes for
which they exist and in promoting the general welfare of the community.

   A noble and enduring monument, dedicated to the soldier dead of Rutland is
Memorial Hall, on West Street, which was erected at a cost of $50,000, the town
contributing $25,000 for its erection and the marble companies contributing the
building material therefor. Memorial Hall is to contain the town library and
relics of the war of the rebellion.

   A street railway line runs from Rutland through Center Rutland to West
Rutland, four miles distant; and a belt line makes a circuit of the principal
streets of the village. There is also a line from the Bates House to the Fair
Ground. Rutland is at the present day quite a manufacturing center, but its
railroad facilities, healthfulness and general advantages are such that its
importance in this direction will no doubt increase. The board of trade
organized, for this purpose, are making efforts to increase manufacturing. All
new manufacturing enterprises located in Rutland are exempt from taxation by a
vote of the town for a period of five years. The board has recently established
a market day (Tuesday), and is agitating the matter of building a canal to
Whitehall, twenty-five miles distant, and connecting with the New York State
canals at that point. The House of Correction is located on the west border of
the village, and cost about $60,000, Rutland contributing $20,000 towards its
erection, thereby gaining its use as a County Jail. The discipline here is very
rigid. All conversation with fellow prisoners is prohibited, and in health a
full day's work is required.

   There are two newspapers published daily and weekly by the Herald Company and
the Telegram Company.

THE MOUNTAINS.
   One of the characteristics of Rutland is its trinity of mountains:
Killington, Pico and Shrewsbury. Mount Killington is ten miles distant from the
village over a fine road. The summit of this peak is entirely barren and
sterile, and frowns down upon the surrounding landscape from an altitude of
4,380 feet above the sea level. From its summit can be obtained a view of
surpassing grandeur, the eye taking in twenty-six villages. This view is
regarded as more attractive than that from Mount Washington, being less a scene
of desolation and of greater beauty, presenting to the beholder mountains
clothed in verdure, their sides dotted with nestling lakes and fertile farms. To
the north of Killington is Pico Peak, thickly covered with dense forests nearly
to its summit, 3,917 feet above the sea.

   At one time Rutland was famous for its pipe-clay and linseed oil; to-day she
sends her marble westward and southward beyond the grave of De Soto, and
eastward to the land of Columbus and Galileo, of Raphael and Michael Angelo.
Rutland is the grave of the grand-father of one of the world's greatest
thinkers-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

EMINENT MEN.

   Rutland is the home of many eminent men: Nathaniel Chipman, one of the ablest
lawyers and statesmen of New England; his brother Daniel, eminent as a lawyer
and pre-eminent as a conversationalist; John A. Graham, the first lawyer located
in Rutland, who attained notoriety in England, and eminence in New York; Jesse
Buel, the founder of the Albany Cultivator; Thomas Green Fessenden, the bearer
to England of Rutland's great philosophical blunder; his Hudibractic poem was
sent forth from a London prison; he founded the New England Farmer, and was the
friend of Hawthorne; Samuel Williams, the dignified historian; Charles K.
Williams, so able, so learned, so incorruptible; Moses Strong, the enterprising
and energetic land owner, who, it is claimed, married a direct descendant of
Cotton Mather; the shrewd and capable Robert Pierpoint, descended from a
favorite officer of William the Conqueror; the very able Robert Temple, of the
same family as Lord Palmerston; Solomon Foot, the prosperous politician, the
president of conventions and senates; Hon. Wheelock G. Veazey, a member of the
Inter-State Commission, and the present commander of the G. A. R. of the United
States; Gen. H. H. Baxter, a prominent railroad king and banker; and hosts of
other notable citizens.

   Rutland is bound to grow beyond the dreams of all its founders, and, in the
words of the poet,

" Its honors with increase of ages grow,
As streams roll down, enlarging while they flow."


RUTLAND.

   RUTLAND SAVINGS BANK, W. B. Mussey, President; N. Kellogg, Treasurer; John W.
Norton, Assistant Treasurer.-The oldest and best known savings institution in
Rutland is the Rutland Savings Bank, which was incorporated in 1850, and has
ever retained the confidence of the entire community. It occupies spacious and
elegantly appointed banking rooms in its own building, located at the corner of
Centre Street and Merchants' Row, and has long been a favorite place of deposit
for large and small sums, the Bank receiving deposits of from one dollar up to
two thousand dollars, and has continued on its career of prosperity and success,
with sedulous care and a judicious investment of the savings of the people
entrusted to its stewardship. Its funds are held in wise, safe and clean hands,
and the best evidence of the wisdom and prudence of the executive management is
shown by the fact that it now has depositors numbering 7,828, with deposits
amounting to $2,114,614.16; a surplus fund reserve of $80,000.00; undivided
profits of $19,851.44; and resources amounting to $2,265,221.82. The rate of
interest depends on the earnings, and for the last four years it has been 4 1/2
per cent, a year. The rules and regulations of this model institution are of the
most just and equitable character, and enable the depositor to feel perfect
security; his money is safely deposited, and can be withdrawn on brief notice
given the bank. If allowed to remain it earns a handsome rate of interest, which
is added on the first days of January and July, on all sums that have remained
on deposit since the first day of each preceding month, while all deposits made
up to and including the fifth day of any month will receive interest from the
first day of that month. Deposits are limited by law to $2,000, and no interest
is paid on any sums in excess of this amount except on deposits of widows,
orphans, administrators, executors, guardians, charitable or religious
institutions, or on trust funds deposited by order of court. Every possible
facility is afforded the public, and shows that the bank's efforts are duly
appreciated by its large volume of deposits. The executive officers of the
Rutland Savings Bank are W. B. Mussey, president; N. Kellogg, treasurer; John W.
Norton, assistant treasurer. The Board of Trustees comprises the following
gentlemen, to wit: W. B. Mussey, Newton I. Kellogg, Wayne Bailey, George Briggs,
H. H. Brown, Henry O. Carpenter, Fred. A. Field. These are all representative
and responsible business men, of the highest standing in the business community,
whose names are synonymous with stability and integrity.

   COLUMBIAN MARBLE COMPANY, Producers and Wholesalers.-The finest marble in the
world, and the best adapted for both building and monumental work, is that
quarried by the nationally celebrated Columbian Marble Company, of Rutland. This
enterprise was inaugurated in 1868, under the name and style of the North
Rutland Marble Company, and in 1871 the important interests involved were duly
capitalized and the present company was incorporated, under the laws of the
state of Vermont, with increased resources and facilities, and the business has
since attained proportions of enormous magnitude. The company owns 150 acres of
land in the town of Proctor, where their quarries are situated, and which are
operated upon a grand scale, with all the latest improvements in stone cutting
machines and appliances for quarrying marble, operated by a steam engine of 150
horse-power. The marble mills for sawing, polishing and finishing the product
are located on West Street, Rutland, and are equipped with thirteen sets of
gauge saws and all the necessary machinery for polishing and finishing marble,
while employment is given to upwards of 150 men in the various departments of
the business. The marble produced by this company, from its fineness of texture,
hardness, beauty and susceptibility to the highest polish, is specially adapted
for monumental purposes and for securing the finest architectural effects. It
has the unqualified endorsement of monumentalists, sculptors, architects,
builders and dealers over the entire country. The largest part of their trade
is in the block as it comes from the mill, although an extensive and influential
demand is supplied for finished marble, and the business, which is strictly
wholesale, is broadly distributed throughout the United States and Canada, the
best possible facilities being possessed for cheap transportation, loading right
from the yard on the cars of the Delaware & Hudson, and Vermont Central
Railroads, and the largest orders being filled with the utmost promptness and
with conscientious care. The officers of this company are S. J. Gordon,
president; Rockwood Barrett, treasurer; M. R. Dunton, superintendent. The
management of the business is mainly in the hands of Mr. Barrett, the treasurer,
who is an experienced and successful business man, a native of Rutland and one
of its leading citizens. He represented the town in the State Legislature of
1884; is president of the Vermont School Seat company, treasurer of the Lincoln
Iron Works, and trustee of the Board of Education; and has filled other
positions of honor and trust in the gift of his fellow-townsmen. The president
of the company, Mr. Gordon, is a well-known citizen of Springfield, Mass., and
solicitor in patent causes with an office in New York City. The superintendent,
Mr. Dunton, is practically experienced in the most advanced methods of quarrying
marble.

   J. H. HOLMES & CO., Manufacturers of Steam Boilers, Etc.-For strictly
first-class work in the line of boiler construction and sheet-iron work, and for
promptness, efficiency and reliability in the execution of all orders, no house
in Vermont enjoys a higher reputation than that of Messrs. J. H. Holmes & Co.
This firm are widely prominent as manufacturers of steam boilers of all sizes
and descriptions, also stationary engines, executing sheet-iron work of all
kinds, and make a leading specialty of steam heating. They also deal in
builders' hardware and engine supplies, and have the agency for various prepared
paints, kalsomlne, etc. The business was established in 1871, by Messrs. Holmes
Bros., and in 1883 the present firm succeeded to the control. The works comprise
a substantial five-story building, 96 x 100 feet in dimensions, supplied with
the best machinery and ample steam power, every modern convenience and appliance
being at hand tending to facilitate rapid and perfect production, while a force
of fifteen skilled workmen contribute to the satisfactory operations of the
house. Steam boilers of every size, style and variety are constructed in the
most expeditious manner, and of a character for reliability, utility and uniform
excellence that commands universal admiration and wins the confidence and
patronage of close and critical buyers. These boilers have given this house a
prestige and popularity both at home and abroad, which place it in the very
front rank of enterprise and success, and of which the proprietors have every
reason to be proud. About one hundred boilers are made every year, and the
output is in heavy and influential demand throughout Vermont, New Hampshire and
adjoining states. The boilers made by this firm are preferred over all similar
productions wherever introduced and tested, by reason of their intrinsic merits
and solid worth, while they are placed to customers at prices which are safe
from successful competition. A large and active patronage is enjoyed in the line
of steam heating in this village and vicinity, all orders and commissions being
promptly and carefully filled, while in the execution of sheet-iron work this
house occupies an unquestioned position at the head of the trade. Mr. Holmes,
the senior partner and manager of the business, is a native of New York, and an
expert and accomplished machinist of large experience and established
reputation. Mr. D. M. White, the silent partner, is the head of the D. M. White
Lumber Company and interested in various local enterprises of value and
importance to the town.

   LEVI G. KINGSLEY, Hardware, Nails, Iron and Steel, Paints, Glass, Powder,
Fuse, Furniture, Carpets, Mirrors, Etc.-The house of Levi G. Kingsley on
Merchants' Row is a noted one in the hardware trade, and enjoys a reputation and
a trade that represents the results of thirty years of honorable and successful
effort. It is headquarters not only for hardware, iron and steel, but also for
furniture, carpets and upholstery goods; coffins, caskets and funeral
furnishings; paints, oils and glass; mantels and mirrors, powder, fuse, etc. The
business was established in 1860, by Messrs. French & Kingsley, the present
proprietor succeeding to the sole control on the death of his partner in 1870.
The business premises comprise a fine salesroom on the ground floor, 25 x 75
feet, and two upper floors of much larger dimensions; also a three-story
building in the rear used for a cabinet shop, as well as spacious storage
facilities; the whole forming one of the largest and most complete
establishments of the kind in the state. The several departments are filled with
an elaborate and diversified stock, while all supplies are purchased in vast
quantities direct from the manufacturers. The hardware department on the ground
floor is stocked to repletion with builders' and general hardware, shelf goods
and cabinet hardware, bar iron and steel, carriage-makers' and blacksmiths'
supplies, mechanics' and machinists' tools, locksmiths' and butchers' supplies,
horse shoes and horse shoe nails, sleds and skates, table and pocket cutlery,
geueral sporting goods and tools for all trades. The furniture department is
rendered specially attractive by the comprehensive assortment of fine furniture
and interior decorations here displayed. The stock embraces everything that can
be desired in fine and medium furniture, parlor and chamber suites, dining-room,
library, hall and office furniture, mirrors and mantels, etc. A specialty is
made in manufacturing to order all kinds of artistic furniture, and it has
always been the aim of the proprietor to produce goods which should rank
superior in the trade. Much of the ware is indeed matchless for costly elegance
and tasteful composition. This house also manufactures fine mantels, and gives
special attention to the decoration and finishing of interiors, being now
engaged in finishing the Baxter Memorial Library in this place. The house is, in
fact, the leader in all that is artistic, useful and beautiful in this special
field. The undertaking department of this house is one that commends itself
peculiarly to the favorable notice of the public, and no similar establishment
in Rutland County is better prepared for furnishing or directing funerals. A
complete supply of funeral goods is kept on hand, including coffins, caskets and
metallic burial cases, while in embalming the latest and best processes are
employed. The carpet department is brilliant and dazzling with color and shade
in new designs and patterns of Wiltons, Moquettes, Axminsters, Brussels,
tapestries, ingrains and other carpetings; also oil cloths, linoleums, imported
rugs, mats and mattings. This house may be justly considered as a tower of
strength in advancing the mercantile supremacy of Rutland. General Kingsley, the
popular proprietor, is a native Vermonter, and one of the best known men in the
state. He enlisted at the first call for troops in '61, and went to the front as
second lieutenant of Company K, First Vermont Regiment. In 1862, he was made
major of the Twelfth Vermont. From 1874 to '82 he was quarter-master general of
the state; was brigade commander of the Vermont National Guard from 1882 to '86;
was president of Rutland village in 1886, selectman of the town in 1888. '89 and
'90; and is a member of the state senate of 1890-91. He is a prominent mason,
past commander of Post Roberts, G. A. R.

   BATES HOUSE, A. H. Tuttle & Son, Proprietors.-Rutland is favored with the
benefits and advantages derived from the location in her midst of one of the
finest hotels in the state, and which, under its present exceptionally capable
management, is pronounced by expert authorities as one of the best conducted
public houses in the country, of the type best illustrating the modern art of
hotel keeping. We refer, of course, to the Bates House, which has such an
enviable reputation with all who have partaken of its bountiful hospitality.
Management is the 'key-note to success in the record of any hotel, and so with
the Bates House. It was thus a matter of appreciated importance to the public
when the present proprietors, Messrs. A. H. Tuttle & Son, succeeded to the
control In 1887. These gentlemen were eminently fitted for success in this
business, from their wide-spread acquaintance, natural executive ability, innate
courtesy and a perfect knowledge of the requirements of the traveling public.
These are the gentlemen who are running the Bates, and from whose book of
experience, sound judgment and laudable ambition many a hotel man in our larger
cities may well take a leaf. The Bates is the equal in size, beauty and
equipment of any hotel in the state. It is built of brick, in the most ornate
and substantial manner, is five stories in height, and possesses first-class
accommodations for two hundred guests. Its location is the most desirable of any
hotel in town, being at the corner of the two principal business
thoroughfares-Merchants' Row and Center Street-opposite the depot, and in the
center of trade and activity. The house has all the modern improvements,
including electric lights, steam heat, electric bells, a barber shop and fine
billiard hall, while a first-class livery is connected. The furnishings are
strictly first class, the rooms are large, light and airy, while the service is
elaborate and a thorough system of organization is enforced by the proprietors,
who are not mere ornamental figure-heads, but indefatigable workers, who
personally see after the comfort of all their guests. The finest table in
Rutland-which means a great deal-is set right here at the Bates. The Messrs.
Tuttle are liberal caterers. They believe in the best and plenty of it, and have
in charge of the cuisine a skilled chef and competent assistants. To travelers
who seek the best and desire the comforts and luxuries of life, this hotel
offers unequaled inducements. Its rates are very reasonable for such elegant
accommodations, and it is the popular house with the best classes of people. Mr.
Albert H. Tuttle, the senior proprietor, is one of the best known men in the
state of Vermont. There is probably no hotel man in the state whose acquaintance
is wider, or whose individual popularity is more pronounced. He was the editor
and proprietor of the Rutland Daily Herald for many years, was postmaster of
Rutland for eleven years, and has served his fellow townsmen in numerous
positions of honor and trust; is treasurer of Rutland Council, Royal Arcanum,
treasurer of Rutland Lodge, Knights of Honor, a director of the Rutland Street
Railway Company, and a prominent member of the F. and A. M. and K. of P. His
son, Mr. Geo. D. Tuttle, was born in Rutland, and is a young man of wide
acquaintance and eminent popularity. Both gentlemen are thorough masters of the
difficult art of modern hotel keeping, and at the Bates the public will find
that perfect combination of capital, skill and talent so rarely met with, and
which invariably leads to fame and fortune and the greatest good to the greatest
number.

   THE TUTTLE CO., (Corporation) Publishers and Stationers.-This business was
established by Mr. George A. Tuttle in 1832, who was succeeded by Tuttle &
Huntoon and this firm was succeeded by Tuttle & Gay. The Tuttle Co. was
incorporated in 1884 with a capital of $60,000, for the prosecution of the
business heretofore carried on by Tuttle & Co. the successors of Tuttle & Gay.
The change of name, however, involves no change in the nature of the business or
its management. The officers 'of the company are, Mr. H. C. Tuttle, president;
Mr. E. C. Tuttle, treasurer; these gentlemen are sons of Mr. George A. Tuttle,
the founder of the business. The business premises occupied by the company
comprise a four-story brick building 40 x 50 feet, with two-story extension 26 x
40 feet in dimensions. The first floor is used as a salesroom. Here all kinds of
books are kept for sale also paper hangings, flour sacks, wrapping paper, paper
bags, twine, etc. They manufacture blank books and turn out with promptness all
classes of book, mercantile and legal printing, also catalogues, pamphlets,
circulars, price lists, cards, invitations, etc., designed and printed in that
elegant manner that has made them so well known. The officers of the company
give their personal attention to the business, and like all true workers in art,
they have been ambitious to excel, and by close application and study they have
won for the company a wide reputation for the execution of really artistic work.
This company has done the official state printing for a number of years. On the
first floor of this large establishment are six printing presses operated by
water power, and employment is given to from twenty to fifty hands and it may be
truly said that this enterprise is an important factor in the industrial
advancement of Rutland, and its resources are freely drawn upon by the business
community. The officers of the company are natives of Rutland and are men of
push and energy who have done much towards moulding the artistic taste of the
public.

   THE MARBLE SAVINGS BANK.-The great accretion of capital, as represented by
the savings institutions of Rutland, abundantly demonstrates the thrift and
prosperity of the people. One of its leading institutions in this line is the
Marble Savings Bank, which was duly incorporated in 1882, in response to the
demand of the people for better savings facilities. Some of the most eminent and
wealthy citizens were chosen as trustees, and the bank began business under the
most favorable auspices and which has been followed by a career of gratifying
prosperity, marked by a strict observance of the soundest principles governing
banking and finance. There is no savings bank in Rutland more safely and
commodiously housed, while the exceptional ability of the executive officers is
generally recognized, and the assets of the institution are handled in the most
conservative yet legally profitable manner. Deposits are limited to 82,000 from
any one person, and no interest will be allowed on any sum in excess of that
amount, except in case of trust funds, widows and orpans, estates, or religious
and charitable institutions. The rate of interest depends on the earnings. For
several years It has been 4 1/2 per cent., free of taxes, which is the highest
rate allowed by law in this state. The bank pays all taxes except on the excess
over $1,500. The last statement of the condition of this bank, made June 30,
1890, shows 2,507 depositors; deposits, $621,327.06; surplus and profits,
$27,500.00, which speak volumes for the judicious, capable and careful policy of
the executive. A very large business is done here smoothly and efficiently, and
the bank's enviable record and flourishing financial condition reflects the
highest credit upon the officers and trustees, who are as follows, viz.:
president, Elam C. Lewis; treasurer, Edward L. Temple; trustees, E. C. Lewis, L.
G. Kingsley, A. F. Davis, C. E. Ross, J. N. Woodfin, W. B. Shaw, F. A. Barrows
and E. L. Temple. These are all familiar names, those of respected and
representative citizens, whose standing in the community is alone a sufficient
guarantee of the ability and integrity of the bank's management. The president,
Mr. Lewis, is a native Vermonter, and one of the best known citizens of Rutland;
a director of the Rutland County National Bank, and prominent in business and
society circles. The treasurer, Mr. Temple, was born in Wisconsin, but has
resided in Rutland nearly all his lifetime; is president of the Rutland School
Board and superintendent of schools; president of the Rutland Musical Festival
Association, treasurer of the Vermont Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, and eminently worthy of the trust and confidence reposed in him by an
appreciative public.

   RUTLAND CREAMERY, Hart & Marks, Proprietors. Milk, Ice Cream, Cream, Butter
and Cheese, Etc., No. 57 West Street.-Of all the articles of food which enter
into the routine of our daily life, of none is purity so essential a quality as
of milk and its products. Not only the health, but even the lives of our
children are at stake, and for this reason it is a matter of the utmost
importance that these food supplies should be procured of houses whose
reputation and responsibility are such as to avoid all risk of obtaining
anything but the very purest. A prominent, prosperous, and thoroughly reliable
house devoted to this important line of business In Rutland, enjoying the
highest of reputations for handling only fresh and absolutely pure goods and
upright business methods, is that known as the Rutland Creamery, of which
Messrs. Hart and Marks are the proprietors, and very centrally located at No. 57
West Street. The gentlemen comprising this firm are Mr. F. H. Hart, a native of
this state and for many years engaged in the retail milk business in this city,
and Mr. Charles Marks, also a Vermonter, who has had many years experience as a
workman in a cheese factory, also proprietor of one for eight years. They formed
this copartnership under the present proprietary title, and inaugurated this
enterprise originally in 1884, which at once developed a very large and
influential patronage that has grown to its present proportions and importance.
Their creamery is located near the town and is fully equipped with all the
latest improved mechanical and scientific methods for producing the very purest
and best grades of butter, cheese, etc. which are supplied to their patrons
fresh and direct from the creamery, at their spacious and commodious store at
the above number. It is very tastefully fitted up, a model of neatness and
cleanliness, and amply supplied with the latest improved refrigerating process
for supplying dry-cold storage for the healthful preservation of their goods,
which enables them to supply the most wholesome and purest of fresh cream, milk,
butter, and the various kinds of cheese during all seasons of the year at lowest
prices. Their ice cream is made of the very purest of materials, flavored with
none but wholesome and reliable fruits and unsurpassed in richness and nutritive
qualities. They retail fresh and sour buttermilk, sour milk, and in fact all
products of the creamery are to be obtained at their headquarters in absolute
purity and freshness at lowest prices. Their store is open from six A.M. to nine
P.M. except on Sundays, when the hours are from six to eleven A.M. and from five
to eight-thirty P.M. Messrs. Hart and Marks are pleasant, courteous and
enterprising men, honorable and reliable in all their dealings, and they justly
deserve the success which has attended their well directed efforts.

   MARSHALL BROTHERS, Watches and Jewelry, Spectacles, Guns, Revolvers, etc.,
No. 17 Merchants' Row.-An old established, prosperous and thoroughly reliable
house engaged in this line of business in Rutland and justly deserving the high
reputation it enjoys for handling only first-class goods and honorable,
straight-forward business methods is that of Messrs. Marshall Brothers, dealers
in watches, jewelry, etc., whose popular and ably conducted establishment is
located centrally at No. 17 Merchants' Row. This well known establishment was
founded a number of years ago by Messrs. Clark Brothers, and conducted by them
with marked ability and success until 18?2 when they were succeeded by A. S.
Marshall, succeeded by Marshall Brothers in 1885, under whose enterprising
direction the business has grown to its present proportions and influence. Owing
to the untimely and deeply lamented decease of Mr. A. S. Marshall in 1887 the
business has been conducted under the same title by his surviving brother, who
is a thoroughly experienced man in all branches of the trade. The store occupied
is amply spacious and commodious, handsomely appointed and provided with every
facility for the advantageous display of the elegant and valuable assortment of
goods constantly on hand. The stock carried embraces a most beautiful assortment
of fine gold and silver watches for ladies and gentlemen, of the very best
European and American manufacture, elegant diamonds, pearls, rubies, emeralds
and other rare and precious gems, mounted in the most unique and original
styles; wedding, engagement and souvenir finger rings; ear rings and pendants;
brooches, bracelets, bangles, necklaces, shawl and scarf pins; watch chains,
charms, chatelaines and lockets; collar and cuff buttons and shirt studs;
French, Swiss and American clocks of all kinds, art novelties in gold, silver,
bronze, brass, for use and ornament; solid gold, silver and plated wares;
eye-glasses, spectacles, lenses, opera and field glasses, and other optical
goods; best makes of foreign and domestic rifles, fowling pieces, revolvers, and
cutlery, cartridges of all sizes, etc. These goods have been carefully selected
to meet the wants of a first-class trade, and are unsurpassed in quality, style,
finish, durability and accuracy and are guaranteed to be just as represented,
while lowest prices are quoted. A specialty is the repairing of fine watches,
clocks and jewelry, also engraving, and all work done here is warranted to give
satisfaction. Polite service is accorded by refined and intelligent assistants
who spare no pains in meeting the slightest demands of patrons.

   W. R. KINSMAN, Manufacturer of and Dealer in Fine Monumental Work in Native
and Foreign Marble and Granite, Nos. 6 to 10 Edson Street, Corner Willow.-A
prominent house engaged in monumental work In Rutland is that of Mr. W. R.
Kinsman. The business was established by Mr. E. Bowman in 1873, and the present
proprietor succeeded to the control in 1883. The works are spacious and measure
70 x 100 feet. A large force of skilled workmen are constantly employed and all
orders receive prompt attention. He buys his stock from the saw and works it up
for cemetery work in all parts of the country. He has in his employ constantly
experts in carving, and nothing but first-class work ever leaves this
establishment. He has established a large and influential patronage and has
agents in Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut, he will be pleased to furnish
designs and estimates upon application; they will be sent to any part of the
country. His work is on native and foreign marble and granite. Mr. Kinsman has
had years of experience in this business and his judgment can be implicitly
relied upon. He was born in Rutland in 1859, is a member of the F. A. M. and the
I. O. O. F., is genial and polite to his patrons and a man of strict integrity.

   GEO. E. CHALMERS, (formerly of Spaulding & Chalmers.), Bookseller, Stationer,
and Picture Frame Manufacturer, Artist's Materials. Etc. No. 30 Merchant's
Row.—In this age of refinement, cultivation and increase of wealth, those
industries connected with the dissemination of the products of the printing
press have become an almost indispensable feature of every prosperous trade
center. A prominent, deservedly prosperous, and representative house engaged in
this line of business in Rutland and maintaining a widespread reputation for
handling the very best productions and reliable business methods is that of Mr.
Geo. E. Chalmers, bookseller, stationer, newsdealer, etc., whose ably conducted
establishment is centrally located at No. 30 Merchants' Row. This enterprise was
founded originally by Mr. W. Spaulding, who carried it out quite successfully
for some years, when Mr. Chalmers was admitted into partnership under the firm
title of Messrs. Spaulding & Chalmers. Later Mr. Chalmers became sole
proprietor. He is a Canadian by birth and has been a resident here since 1876,
and under his enterprising management the business has grown to its present
influential proportions. He occupies a spacious and commodious store lighted by
electricity, handsome display windows, and very attractively fitted up and
provided with every convenience for the transaction of business. The stock
carried embraces a full line of standard works suitable for all classes, such as
history, travels, memoirs, poetry, essays, scientific, medical, law and
religious works, works of fiction by the most celebrated writers, besides all
the leading cheap library editions, and new works of reliable standing are
received as soon as published. His stock also includes everything in the line of
plain and fancy foreign and domestic stationed, counting room and school
supplies, flat papers, letter and note paper, envelopes, visiting and playing
cards, inks, pencils and fancy stationery articles, parlor games, etc. He also
receives daily all' the leading dailies from the principal cities, besides all
leading weeklies, pictorials, periodicals, as soon as published. He does a very
extensive trade in fine art goods, and keeps constantly on hand a fine
assortment of fine steel engravings, etchings, pastels, photographs,
photogravures, lithographs, easels, photograph and autograph albums, etc. A
specialty is the manufacture of picture frames of any desired material and of
any size, a full stock of mouldings for that purpose being kept on hand
constantly, while prices throughout are very reasonable. Mr. Chalmers is a
pleasant, refined and energetic man of superior business ability and he justly
merits the success he has attained by his industry and perseverance.

   H. H. ENSIGN, Dealer in Fancy Groceries, Teas and Coffees, Corner of
Merchants' Row and Madison Street.—Energy and enterprise seldom fail to produce
successful results in any branch of commercial industry, and when well directed
almost invariably ead to success in all the walks of life. As a noteworthy
example of this we would call attention to the comparatively recent industry of
Mr. H. H. Ensign in this city. This enterprising gentleman is a Vermonter by
birth, and is thoroughly conversant with all branches of this trade, having
conducted a similar establishment in Wallingford, this state, but desiring to
enlarge his field of labor and enterprise, he came to this city and inaugurated
this establishment on his own responsibility in January, 1890, which at once met
with popular favor, and during the intervening period has developed a very large
and influential trade, such as is not accorded to many older houses in the same
line of business. He occupies a very desirably located store of ample
dimensions; also a basement, both of which are admirably adapted to the wants of
the trade. The store is neatly and attractively appointed while the stock
carried is always full and complete, and embraces the very purest and freshest
new crop Young Hyson, Oolong, Souchong, Imperial, Gunpowder, Pekoe, English
breakfast, Japan and other teas; choice fragrant South and Central American,
Java, Mocha and Arabian coffees, cocoas, chocolates and spices; select brands of
hermetically sealed goods in tin and glass, table delicacies, sauces, relishes,
condiments, foreign and domestic fruits; sugars, syrups and molasses, best
brands of family flour, fancy cereals and farinaceons foods; gilt edge dairy and
fancy creamery butter; fresh eggs, pure leaf lard, farm and garden products,
salt and smoked meats and fish, best brands of cigars, smoking and chewing
tobaccos, bakers' and laundry supplies, tubs, pails, brooms, mops and kindred
household supplies. These goods have been most carefully selected, are noted for
their pure quality and uniform superiority, while lowest prices are quoted.
Order, system, neatness and cleanliness are observable on all sides, polite
assistants serve patrons promptly, and orders are delivered at residences in the
city free of charge. Mr. Ensign is a wide-awake, energetic and pleasant man of
decided business ability and is highly esteemed by all who know him, and is an
active, consistent and prominent member of the Masonic order.

   FRED G. TUTTLE, Fine Shoes, etc., No. 55 Center Street, Corner Wales, Berwick
House Block.—There is no article of wearing apparel upon which our personal
comfort and health depend so much as in footwear, while at the same time,
neatness and elegance are also desirable. A decidedly prosperous, prominent and
ably conducted house engaged in this line of trade in Rutland, which has
successfully earned a wide reputation for A 1 goods and reliable business
methods is that of Mr. Fred. G. Tuttle, dealer in fine shoes, etc., and
centrally located in the Berwick House Block. This flourishing establishment was
founded originally in 1880 by Mr. E. Gosslin, who conducted it until 1884 when
he was succeeded by Messrs. S. Bartell & Son, who carried it on until 1887, when
it passed into the control of the present proprietor, who is a native of Rutland
and for a number of years a member of the printing and stationery firm of
Messrs. Tuttle & Co., and under his able management and direction the business
of his present concern is constantly increasing in volume and importance. He
occupies a store of ample dimensions, commodious and compactly arranged,
tastefully appointed and provided with every convenience for the successful
transaction of business and the comfort of patrons. The stock carried is full
and complete, embracing every thing in the line of fine and medium grades of
hand and machine made boots, shoes, gaiters, balmorals, slippers and novelties
in footwear for men, youths and boys; also everything that is new, stylish and
desirable for ladies, misses and children, including the strong walking boot or
school shoe and the delicate kid or satin toilet slipper. He also carries a full
line of rubber boots, arctics, overshoes, sandals, etc., suitable for all ages
and both sexes. These goods have been selected with great care from among the
productions of the best manufacturers in the trade, and are unsurpassed in
style, quality, durability and fine workmanship, while the range of sizes is
such that an easy, stylish and comfortable fit is readily obtained at lowest
prices. Mr. Tuttle is an enterprising, courteous and refined gentleman of
excellent business ability, reliable and prompt, and fully merits the success he
has achieved by his industry and perseverance.

   UNION PACIFIC TEA CO., No. 5 Merchants' Row, B. S. Bain, Manager.—The use of
tea as a beverage originated with the Chinese in the early times, having been
mentioned there by Soliman, an Arab merchant in the ninth century. The Dutch
first brought it to England in 1610, where for sixty years it was sold for $30
to $50 per pound. In 1600 it was worth $15 per pound. A duty of five shillings
per pound was imposed in 1689, but was reduced to sixpence in 1865. In 1869 the
license for the sale of tea was repealed. One of the greatest concerns engaged
in this business in Rutland is the Union Pacific Tea Co., of No. 5 Merchants'
row. This is one of the 150 branch stores in the United States and was
established in 1883. The company occupies a floor and basement and keeps an
excellent stock of green, black and Oolong tea, Java and Mocha coffee, baking
powder, every variety of fancy crockery and glass ware, including table sets,
breakfast, dinner and tea sets, plates, cups, saucers, cake-dishes, earthen and
glass water jugs, cream and milk pitchers, butter and sauce plates, etc., these
goods being given away with the tea and coffee sold. The company has a large
trade from the leading families, and supplies the choicest goods in the market.
The proprietor started the business in New York in 1870, and the 150 stores
scattered over the states in nearly every principal business center attest the
prosperity of the enterprise. The Rutland branch of the Union Pacific Tea Co. is
under the able and efficient management of Mr. B. S. Bain, a native of Scotland,
who came to the States in 1881. He is a shrewd, go ahead man of business, and it
is largely due to his excellent management that the business in Rutland has been
so successful. He is a popular, honorable gentleman and highly esteemed in
business and social circles and deserves to the fullest extent the success
already attained. We cheerfully commend this company to all of our readers.

   S. M. DORR'S SONS, Bankers, Merchants' Row.—A firm engaged in the banking
business in Rutland, and standing in the highest repute, is that of S. M. Dorr's
Sons, whose office is located on Merchants' Row. This firm receive money on
deposit, negotiate bonds, mortgages and other investment securities, and
transact a general banking business. The house was established in 1870, by the
late Hon. S. M. Dorr, the present firm succeeding to the control in 1884. The
facilities here enjoyed for covering every branch of the business are thoroughly
perfect, investment securities being made a specialty, while the firm are in
possession of the best possible opportunities for the purchase and sale of bonds
and mortgages. They keep a keen eye upon the market, and are considered a
leading -authority upon actual values. They possess exceptional facilities not
only for the prompt fulfillment of their own obligations, but for the successful
negotiation of important operations requiring large sums of money for others.
Their house is commended to all capitalists and investors who desire a safe
income with absolute security for their investments. The members of this firm
are Messrs. Henry R. Dorr and Wm. H. Steele. Mr. Dorr is a native of Rutland,
and a director of the Rutland County National Bank. Mr. Steele was born in
Albany, N. Y., resided in the West for some twenty years, and is a director of
the Houston City Street Railway Company, of Houston, Texas. Both partners are
connected with the St. Joseph Loan and Trust Company, of St. Joseph, Mo., and
the American Loan and Trust Company, of Omaha, Neb., and are accounted as
steady, conservative and thorough business men.

   C. E. CHANNELL, Agent for the J. F. Pease Warm Air, and Steam Heater
Combined, Stoves and Hot Air Furnaces, Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting etc., No.
9 Grove Street.—No department of commercial and mechanical industry is of more
importance to a community than that of the trade in stoves, heaters, hollow ware
and kindred interests. A prominent, highly successful and progressive house
devoted to this branch of business in Rutland and justly deserving its
widespread popularity for handling and manufacturing A1 productions and liberal,
straightforward dealings with the public is that of Mr. Channell, agent for the
J. F. Pease Warm Air and Steam Heater combined, dealer in stoves, ranges,
plumber, etc., whose ably conducted establishment is centrally located at No. 9
Grove Street. This enterprising gentleman is a Vermont man by birth and has been
a resident here for many years. Having acquired a wide range of experience in
this line of trade as a journeyman since 1800 in a large hardware house, he
inaugurated this enterprise on his own account in 1879, which at once developed
a very large and influential trade that is constantly increasing in volume and
importance. The premises utilized are very spacious and commodious comprising
two floors which are admirably arranged for business and shop purpose. His
workshop is completely equipped with all the necessary tools and appliances and
a force of seven skilled and experienced workmen are given constant employment.
He is prepared to execute all orders for plumbing, gas, and steam fitting, hot
water heating, especial attention being given to all kinds of sanitary work;
also metal roofing, spouting, guttering, factory work, jobbing, putting up
electric and pull bells, speaking tubes, etc. Estimates are furnished freely and
contracts for such work of any magnitude are entered into and executed promptly,
satisfactorily and at lowes figures. In his finely appointed and well arranged
store will be found at all times a fine assortment in all sizes of the
celebrated J. F. Pease Warm Air and Steam combinations, the Furman Steam Heater,
and Richardson & Boynton's Perfect Hot Water Heater, which is pronounced by the
best scientific judges on artificial heat production to be the most thorough,
complete and economical heater for public and private buildings in the market,
as is attested by its constantly increasing sales wherever introduced. His stock
also includes the very latest improved patterns of parlor, office and cooking
stoves, gas and oil stoves, ranges, heaters, furnaces, etc. with their fittings,
besides a full and complete assortment of tin, copper, and sheet-iron ware,
granite lined ware, hollow, wood and willow-ware, in fact everything In the line
of housekeeping supplies. These goods are all made of the very best materials
and are unsurpassed in workmanship while prices are very reasonable. Mr.
Channell is a pleasant, affable and enterprising gentleman, prompt, liberal and
honorable, and is highly respected both as a merchant and public-spirited citizen.

   THE BARDWELL, Cramton & Carpenter, Proprietors, Merchants' Row and Washington
Street.-The Bardwell House at Rutland, fills a niche in the esteem and
popularity of this community and of the travelling public peculiarly its own. It
was originally opened in 1852, by Messrs. Bardwell & Cook, and in 1865 came into
the possession of Mr. John W. Cramton, whose name has since become a synonym for
perfection in hotel keeping the country over. He made many improvements in the
house, adding a new story, in 1875; and in 1882 Mr. Henry O. Carpenter, a
thoroughly trained hotel man, was admitted to partnership. The hotel is of
brick, five stories high, 100 x 150 feet in dimensions, and posseses first-class
accomodations for two hundred guests. No luxury afforded in situation,
surroundings, modern conveniences or expert management in any hotel in the state
is lacking at the Bardwell. The house is lighted by gas and electricity, heated
by steam throughout, and provided with electric call bells communicating with
the office. The rooms are elegantly furnished, and every safety is provided in
case of fire, while as regards sanitary arrangements the Bardwell is unrivaled.
A first-class livery, a fine billiard hall and a barber shop are among the
necessities of modern hotel life, which are supplied for the use of guests. The
cuisine of the house is worthy of special commendation, being under the most
experienced management, and kept up to the highest standard of excellence. The
dining-room is situated on the first floor, large, airy, well lighted, cosy and
comfortable as home, and the service and attendance of its corps of agreeable
and polite waiters, as we have enjoyed it, is worthy of special commendation,
and adds very much to the comfort and enjoyment of guests. This department has
been the scene in bygone days, and later still, of many a grand banquet and
jovial gathering. Terms are placed upon a popular basis, and a stay at this
hotel is ever remembered as a pleasant experience, and an agreeable
reminiscence. Hon. John W. Cramton, the senior proprietor, is a gentleman known
and honored all over the state. He was born in Tinmouth, Vt., Nov. 10, 1826, and
has resided in Rutland since 1852. His interests are large and varied, in real
estate, bank stock, marble mills, mercantile business and numerous corporations.
He is president of the Baxter National Bank, the Steam Stone Cutter Company, the
True Blue Marble company, and the Rutland Cornet Band; vice-president of the
Howe Scale Company, and the Rutland Trotting Park Association; and a promoter of
other local enterprises. He was a member of the State Senate in 1888-9, is a
trustee of the Vermont State Prison and House of Correction, and has served his
fellow-townsmen as selectman, president of the village corporation, and in other
positions of honor and responsibility, with credit to himself and benefit to the
public. Mr. Henry O. Carpenter is a native of New Hampshire, and has been
connected with the Bardwell since his boyhood. His courtesy, affability, polite
and courteous attention to his guests and invariable good nature are proverbial,
while his memory of names and faces is a matter of wonderment to the most
experienced of travelers. He is one of the trustees of the village and largely
interested in local improvements.

   HOAG & CLAUSON, Boots, Shoes and Rubbers, No. 19 Center Street.—Messrs.
Charles S. Hoag and W. B. Clauson are engaged in the retail sale of footwear at
No. 19 Center Street in Rutland. Theirs is a very old established business,
although the present firm was organized in 1887. They occupy a store 22 x 90
feet, with a large repair shop in the rear. They employ three men, thoroughly
skilled in their trade to repair boots and shoes, and in the store they keep an
ample force of able, polite salesmen. They carry a full line of boots, shoes,
rubbers, overshoes, slippers, gaiters, etc., for men, boys, women and misses,
their goods being custom made. They also supply leather findings, etc. The
prosperity that has followed the career of Messrs. Hoag & Clauson may be at once
traced to fidelity to commercial integrity and constantly keeping on hand the
very best goods made from the choicest material. They keep a finely appointed,
attractive store, which one finds pleasure in entering. Their excellently
arranged windows, show cases, shelves and counters are enhanced by the effect of
electric lights, and a tasteful display of goods. Mr. Hoag is a native of
Vermont and was for six years engaged in the capacity of grocers' clerk. Mr.
Clauson was born in New York and for eleven years had been engaged in the boot
and shoe business prior to the formation o£ this partnership.

   T. A. CLIFFORD, Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Watches and Jewelry, No. 23
Center Street.—Among the various learned professions there are none requiring
more skill and accuracy besides high personal qualifications than that devoted
to the preparation of drugs and medicines, as the lives of many persons depend
daily upon the care and attention that is given to the compounding of
physicians' prescriptions and family recipes. A prosperous, popular and ably
conducted drug store in Rutland, well worthy of more than passing comment in
these pages, in consequence of its efficiency, reliability and liberal business
methods, is that of Mr. T. A. Clifford, also dealer in watches and jewelry,
whose fine establishment is centrally located at No. 23 Center Street. This
popular drug store was founded originally in 1875 by Dr. Haurahan who conducted
it with excellent success until 1880, when he disposed of it to Mr. G. W.
Chaflin, who was succeeded in 1886 by the present proprieter, who is a native of
Rutland and has had a wide range of experience in the drug business. His store
is of ample dimensions, compactly arranged and very attractively appointed and
provided with every modern convenience for the successful transaction of the
business, including a special department for the prompt and accurate compounding
of physicians' prescriptions and family recipes at all hours of the day and
night, to which he devotes his personal attention. The stock carried embraces a
full line of drugs and chemicals all of standard quality; extracts, tinctures
and pharmaceutical preparations; all well-known proprietary remedies of merit;
druggists'fancy goods, toilet articles, perfumery, etc.; physicians' and
surgeons requisites, druggists' sundries; paints, oils, varnishes, dye stuffs,
etc., etc. He also carries a very fine and carefully selected assortment of fine
gold and silver watches of American and European production, solid gold and
rolled gold jewelry of every description, such as wedding, engagement and
souvenir rings, bracelets, bangles, brooches, necklaces, earrings, watch chains,
charms and lockets; lace shawl and scarf pins, etc., besides eyeglasses,
spectacles, lenses and other optical goods. These goods are all first-class and
warranted to be as represented and are offered at lowest prices. Mr. Clifford is
a young man of superior business ability, pleasant, courteous and enterprising,
and is highly respected by all with whom he has any social or business relations.

   MRS. C. E. STEVENS, Fine Millinery, No. 1 1-2 Merchants' Row.—In no other
line of productive industry are manufacturers so completely controlled by the
fickle caprices of fashion as in the millinery trade. Its decrees are mandatory
and to follow them requires not only skill and ability but rare artistic taste.
A decidedly prosperous, progressive and thoroughly representative house,
extensively engaged in this important line of business in Rutland, enjoying a
well deserved high reputation for first-class productions and liberal,
straightforward dealings with patrons is that of Mrs. C. E. Stevens, whose
popular and ably conducted millinery establishment is centrally located at No. 1
1-2 Merchants' Row, on the corner of West Street. This favorite resort for the
fashionable ladies of Rutland was founded originally in 1873 at No. 17
Merchants' Row by the present proprietress, who is a native of Burlington, this
state, and a resident here since 1872, and from the start she developed a very
large and first class patronage, derived principally from among our most refined
and intelligent leaders of society; and in order to meet the increasing demands
of her trade she moved into her present quarters in 1887. The premises occupied
are amply spacious and commodious and comprise a handsomely appointed and
attractively arranged store with reception parlor and workroom attached. The
store is provided with every convenience for the advantageous display of her
elegant and large assortment of goods and their inspection by patrons. The stock
carried is full and complete and embraces all the very latest and correct styles
and shapes of French and English bonnets, bonnet frames; chip, straw and felt
hats, misses' and children's head wear, both trimmed and untrimmed. The
assortment of trimmings is replete with everything new, stylish and desirable,
such as the very latest colors and shades in silks, satins, velvets and plushes,
ribbons, laces, crapes, embroideries, lace edgings, ruchings, ostrich plumes,
bunches and tips, feathers, stuffed birds of rare plumage, foreign and domestic,
artificial flowers, small fruits, hat pins, head ornaments, in fact everything
in the line of fine millinery. Bonnets and hats are trimmed to order at the
shortest notice and none but thoroughly skilled and artistic work is permitted
to leave the establishment. A specialty is made of mourning goods to order, also
for those desiring hats or bonnets trimmed while they wait, while the prices are
always very reasonable. Mrs. Stevens is a pleasant, refined and highly
accomplished lady of excellent business ability and enjoys. the fullest
confidence and respect of all with whom she has any business or social
relations, and devoting herself to all the details of the business is fully
apace with the times. Ladies will always find the very latest Paris and London
styles at her establishment simultaneous with their appearance in the larger
cities.



Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

INDUSTRIES AND WEALTH OF THE PRINCIPAL POINTS IN VERMONT,
BEING
BURLINGTON, WINOOSKI, RUTLAND, WEST RUTLAND, BRANDON, FAIR HAVEN, POULTNEY,
CASTLETON, ST. ALBANS, SWANTON, ENOSBURG FALLS, BRATTLEBORO, BELLOWS FALLS,
MONTPELIER, BARRE, WATERBURY, ST. JOHNSBURY, LYNDONVILLE, LYNDON, HARDWICK,
BENNINGTON, SPRINGFIELD, WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VERGENNES, MIDDLEBURY, NORTHFIELD
AND MORRISVILLE.

1891.

PUBLISHED BY
AMERICAN PUBLISHING AND ENGRAVING CO.,
(ELEVATORS.)
Nos. 149 AND 151 CHURCH STREET, NEW YORK.


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