Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-06-25
Mr.. HuNGERF0RO'S IDENTITY
Sits Around and Whites While
Wife Does the Work.
ID. l.. Cady Describes a Type of Yer
monter who Checks the Progress
of the state by His Shift
lessneBs.

SUBJECT OF the talK tne MerCnaltS
luncheon at the Hot Vermont Thurs
day. was revealed to- he gathering in a
highly interesting ma her by the speaker,
Daniel l.. Cady. - |,ut 60 were present
at the luncheon " n was tho first one
held ln the roof Sgarden this season.
The luncheon was served in the
customary excellent style of the hotel
and was much enjoyed.
President Max l.. Powell in introducing
the speaker and subject said that he did
not know who Henry Hunserford was
but he had a curiosity to find out and no
was undoubtedly some person with
whom the members of the association
should be acquainted.
In opening his remarks Mr. Cady said
that Henry Hungerford was that type o:
Vermonter who sits on the stops Of the
village store and whites whiie his wife
remains at home and gets paler every
day from her hard work MIR. Cady said
he first became acquainted with Henry
wher. he was attending the village
school. Henry was a Within and
spittin' on the steps and the Cady boy
came by with his geography undor his
arm. Henry asked him what 1t was. He
was Informed 1t wac geography. which
rave information about all the places in
the world to one who studied t. Henry
/ replied:
II don't see no sense In that I've al
ways found that If anybody had money
they could go anywhere in the world
| they wanted to-"
Henry is a type of Vermonter whose
| intellect and energies are below par He
q ip,aa e-,,{,,, ,t,oey
entity and is sometimes found in COM
| bination. Almost every Vermonter has
some of Henry in him His opposite
type Is tho man who starts in business
with the intention of getting somewhere.
who does new things. or old things in
new way. He belongs to the Merchants
association and always goes to church
| sunday unless he has new automobile
to try out. If Henry Is in the
ascendency the State is bound to go be
hind II the other fellow is in the
ascendency the State Is sure to go
| ahead
At the beginning OF the Revolutionary
War there were 5000 people In what is
now known as Vermont. In 1910 there
were $4,000; In 1890, 23s,ooo in 1s4O 30, 900
In 1910 355,00O. The Ga years before 1910
2'2.o0 came into the State or were born
here. In the "a years following 1910,
o4oo came here or were horn here. From
the Revolution to 1910 the population in
creased at the rate of 400 per year.
Since 1910 II has been 900 per year Be-
tween 1900 and 1880 there was great
influx Of people from Massachusetts.
They built up the river and hill towns
They were prosperous and they work ed
more than eight hours a day. They had
no district nurse or municipal rest rooms
| Although the Civil War did not DANA re
| the state TO any extent, despite the ia ct
| that We sent some Of our best blood to
It, Vermont got on the slide about that
time. From 1890 until 1900 the increase
In population was only 81 per cent. and
In the following decade IS per cent. Such
| condition suggests staGnation.
New Hampshire, with its hill farms
poorer than vermonts, has population
OF 4l1.ooo people vermonters formerly
owned their railroads Now they do not
own them with the. exception Of few
spur tracks. Henry has been doing
some sittin' around In proof Of this
statement the speaker C,ted visit 10
the country recently made by him. In
Hinesburg he found farm where there
were nine sleds on the premises. some o.
them In the front yard with their loads
Of logs Just as they were brought In from
the woods in the winter. apparently
waiting until the sleds fell apart and
let the logs down into kindling wood He
mentioned a fence he saw at Milton
which was made If brush and lumber
box wagons. He also saw three gas en-.
gtnes and three horse hay rakes all out
of doors, knee deep. in June, the rake:
where they were dropped when the har.
vest Of 1913 was completed. Incidentally
he saw symptoms of the caterpillars al
work on the fruit trees which will prob
ably destroy about quarter OF a million
dollars worth of trees this year in the
: State. Meanwhile Henry is Within anc
Is very strong for rest roc ms and con.
gressional seeds.
Something is u'rons said the speaker
We must have help and the remedy Is
to get people to coma to Vermont anc
stay here and go into buiness and make
money. Somebody once said what do w,
want more people for as II would onl,
give us more to care for In the poor
house? THAT Is the spirit we want I,
combat and that Is why such organiza
lions a. the Merchants association ar
formed There is no reason why Yer
mont should not enter into new era o
prosperity We should take hold an,
endeavor to MAKE people come to thl
State at the rate OF 5000, 500 or 100
. people year. Mr. Cady closed by com
pairing the thrift OF the people or Ger
many France and Switzerland and eve
New Hampshire with that OF Vermont
ers whoe opportunities ard resource
are just as good and better thar thos
? of the people IN the places mentioned
' Every Vermonter should set a certain
i time apart to think how to bette
- his State and Henry Hungerford shoul
be kicked out into tho road forever.