President Harrison Visits St Johnsbury

President Benjamin Harrison arrived on the train, Aug. 26, 1891, accompanied by Sen. Redfield Proctor and party; "was escorted by 800 citizens with banners and musci to Underclyffe, wehre entertainment was given by Col. Franklin Fairbanks. In the evening, which was brilliant with flags and swinging lanterns, the President adddressed 15,000 people from the front balcony of the Athenaeum." (Fairbanks St J history p. 385)

Right after this, there's a portion of Harrison's speech, which I think might do quite nicely as a handout  -- would appreciate your opinions on it:

"I am most happy to witness in this prosperous New England town so many evidences that your community is intelligent, industrious, enterprising,  and your people lovers of home and of order. You have here manufacturing  establishments whose fame and products have spread throughout the world.  You have here public-spirited citizens who have established institutions that  will be ministering to the good of generations to come. You have here an  intelligent and educated class of skilled workmen; nothing pleased me more  as I passed through your streets today than to be told that here and there were the homes of the working people of St. Johnsbury, homes where every  evidence of comfort was apparent, homes where taste has been brought to  make attractive the abodes in which tired men sought rest, homes that must  have been made sweet for the children and comfortable for the wives whose  place of toil and responsibility is there. This is what binds men to good  order, to good citizenship, to the flag of the constitution; and I venture to  say that all our public policy, all our legislation, may wisely keep in view  the end of perpetuating an independent, contented, prosperous and hopeful  working-class in America."   

Any possibility of a picture of the (now gone) balcony??