The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-06-20
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TIE identity Of Henry Hunger
ford q gentleman whose name form
"a the subject Of the talk al the Ner-
chants luncheon a. the Hotel Yer
mont yesterday. uas revealed 10 the
gathering in . highly interesting man
ner By the speaker. Daniel l.. Cady.
About 50 Eere present a. the lunch
con uhich vas the first one held in
the the roof garden this season. The
luncheon vas served in the custom
AIRY excellent STYLE OF the hotel and
Vas much enjoyed.
President Max l. Powell in intro
duoing the speaker and subject said
that be did not know who Henry Hun
gerford was but he had a curiosity TO
find out and he was undoubtedly
some person with whom the members
OF the association should be aoQuaini-
90.
In opening his remarks Mr.. Cady
said that Henry Hungerford was that
type OF Vermonter who sits on the
steps OF the village store and whites
while his wife remains at home and
gets paler every day from her hard
work. Mr.. Cady said he first became
acquainted with Henry when be was
attending the village school. Henry
was a Within and spittin' on the
steps and the Cady boy came BY with
his geography under mis- arm. Henry
asked him what Il was. lie was in
formed Il was geography. which
gave Information about all the places
in the world TO one who studied il.
Henry replied:
Il don't see no sense in that. I've
always found that IL anybody had
money they could go anywhere in the
world they wanted to"
Henry is type OF Nermonter
whose intellect and energies are be-
low par lie exists sometimes as
free swimming entity and is some
times found in combination. Almost
every Nermonter has some Of Henry
in him. His opposite type is the man
who starts in business with the inten-
ton OF getting somewhere, who does
new things, or old things in a nov
way. lie belongs to the Merchants
association and always goes to
church Sunday unless he has new
automobile TO try out. If Henry is m
the ascendency the State is bound to
go behind. II the other fellow is in
the ascendency the State is sure to 90
ahead.
At the beginning OF the Revolution
AIRY War there were 10000 people in
wha. is now known as Vermont In
1910 there were $4,000: in 1920. 23C.-
600: in 1870. $1,000; in 1910. 355, 900.
The "a years before 1870 272.OO0
came into the State or we're bern
here. In the "a years following 1880,
$4,000 came here or were born here.
From the Revolution to 1870 the pop
ulation increased at the rate of 4.1O0
! per year. Since lS40 II has been 900
per year. Between 1900 and 1922
there was a great influx of people
| from Massachusetts. They built Up
| the river and hill towns. They were
prosperous and they worked more
than eight hours a day. They had no
district nurse or municipal rest rooms
Although the Civil War did not dam.
age the State to any extent. despite
the fact that We sent some of our hest
blood TO t.. Vermont got on the slide
about that time From 1880 until 800
the increase in population was only
"a per cent. and in the following de.
cade SO per cent. Such condition
suggests stagnation.
New Hampshire. with lis hill
farms poorer than Vermonts. mas a
population of 4ll,OOO people. Yer.
monters formerly owned their rail
roads. Now they do not own them
with the exception of few spur
tA'Nn's AANhi mas Uttl uOlllE NUllit
sittin' around. In proof of this state
ment the speaker cited a visit TO the
country recently made by him. In
Hinesburg he found a farm whore
there were nine sleds on the rremis-
es. some of them in the front yard
with their loads of logs Just as they
were brought in from the woods in
the winte-, apparently waiting until
the sleds fell apart and let the logs
down into kindling wood. He men.
toned a fence he saw at Milton
which was made of brush and lumber
box wagons. He also saw three gas
engines and three horse hay rakes all
out of doors, knee deep. in June. the
rakes where they were dropped when
the harvest of 1913 was completed.
incidentally he saw symptoms OF the
caterpillars at work on the fruit trees |
which will probably destroy about a
quarter of million dollars worth of |
trees this year in the State. Mean
while Henry is Within and is very |
strong for rest rooms and congres.
sional seeds.
Something is wrong. said the speak |