Excerpt from An Account of the Celebration of the Fourth of July, 1881, at Mason's Point, Lake Bomoseen: Under the Auspices of the Citizens of Rutland County, and the Rutland County Historical Society, Conjointly; Including the Report of the Ceremony of Christening the Island of Neshobe Great preparations had been made by the several committees, to provide for the comforts of the crowds of people who were expected to be present, and to make everything as pleasant as possible for them, throughout the day. Too much credit cannot be bestowed upon the Executive Committee for the admirable arrangements by which the exercises of the day were carried out, and for the good order that was observed everywhere along the shores of the lake. Special police had been provided and stationed at various points, who discharged their duties with fidelity. The Lake Bomoseen Transportation Company had a barge built especially for the occasion, sufficiently large to carry three hundred passengers at a load, which was towed by the steamer Naomi, from Hyd'eville to Mason's Point eight times during the day, to accommodate those who arrived on the rail road trains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.