New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-20
FRESH AIR BEES SWARM
Seasons Third Party Goes to
the Vermont Mountains.
ALL HAPPY AT THE HIVE
Delights There Even Sweeter,
Surely More Wholesome,
than Honey.

Where there's smoke there's fire. says
the old adage. BY the same token. II a
railroad station is named Beehive Cross
ing IL is only reasonable that a person
OF an inquiring turn OF mind stopping
OF at the crossing should begin 10 look
around for the beehive. 1t is only the
better part OF valor to know the exact
location OF all such resorts OF industry
before sallying forth too recklessly in
search Of adventure.
Once off the train at the crossing. how
ever. IT wouldn't be hard to track the
beehive 10 its lair, even II one were not
as expert a bee hunter as some described
BY J. +. Cooper OF lasting fame. The
rumble and snorting OF the train would
no sooner have died away amid the folds
and recesses Of the Green Mountains
Beehive Crossing is next door neighbor to
Bennington, Nt-than another sound
would begin TO make itself audible.
At hrst it's a source OF wonderment.
What is Il? Then a smile breaks over the
face OF the hunter OF beehives He knows
that sound; IT Is the hum, mum, hum OF
Industry, the noise Of something busy.
the glad. bright note OF something very.
very busy. In less time than it takes TO
tell IL he's of down the white road toward
the sound.
Every step brings II nearer, and soon
II begins 10 resolve itself from just an or
binary hum into its component parts. AS
like as not out OF the general hum there
will burst joyous "WhoOpee!" and then.
II may even be. an anguished ouch" as
one bee steps on anOther's unshOd toes.
Or. II the day be one to incite 10 poetry
a Hitting voice may rise above the tumult
In that cradle song Of the beehive:
How doth the busy little bee
Improve each shining hour.
And now there are the bees fitting 10
and fro before the hunters eyes. Twelve
king bees, no queens drones or grubs In
this beehive, Busy? Watch them See
that fellow over there on the soup? Hes
been swinging there an hour, with not
even time 10 think OF dinner. See those
two playing catch? They've been toss
ing that baseball back and forth for
another hour, happy as larks. Then those
three over there playing leapfrog, and
those two climbing that apple tree, and
those other two down there in the brook
building a dam. and still two more lying
over there In the shade industriously
kicking their heels in the airs II any
wonder the hum OF industry swells on the
breeze. or that the hunters face lights up
with a smile when he hears IL?
or course, there may be other oeehives
ia the ueignborhood, but this is the bee
hive. the place 10 which the Tribune
Fresh Air Fund sends group of boys
every fortnight 10 spend busy two
weeks amid delights sweeter-and more
" holesome-than honey. The Fresh AIT
bees swarmed yesterday and the seasons
third party OF twelve returned 10 their
New York homes. while the fourth party
took their places amid the beautiful YER
mont country.
The bees saw party OF companions
part way on their journey to Fairfax and
Milton. Vt Another group Of Fresh ATS,
not for the beehive, but just as happy in
their anticipations OF the vacation on
which they were embarking, set out for
Washington. Conn. yesterday morning
ACKNOWLEDGMENT