The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-26
Final Count Greatly in Ex-
cess of Figures Avail
able Yesterday
GUEST DAY PROVED
TO BE BIG SUCCESS
High Diving from Connecticut River
Bridge Interested Many - Hinsdale
Lost Baseball Game =. Over 2.4OO
Rode Free on Street Cars.

The last Of Brattleboro s guest day
visitors left town late last evening.
like those who left earlier, entirely sat
Ishcd with the success of the town $
first day ! at home'' to the residents of
nelghboring towns. All day long the
faces of those who came to town TO en-
JOY the hospitality of Brattleboro re-
fiected their pleasure The smiles,
while a little more on the tired variety
as the supper hour drew near, were lust
as wide and expressive as during the
earlier hours of the day. Not a single
complaint was received during the day
by the authorities, and no accidents
happened.
The count Of the registrations OF Wis
ltors this morning showed total of ex-
actly 1899 This does not account for
all of the out-of-town guests for it is
known that some did not register, so
the total number Of visitors exceeded
5000, enough to make guest day a huge
success.
The movies were a great attrae-
| tin, for total of zoos free tickets
were issued for the moving picture
shows in the afternoon. OF these $40
were issued at the Empire and 1858 at
| the Princess, which has a larger ca
| paclty. While there were undoubted-
ly some repeaters,' the figures clearly
| show that a good proportion of the
guests took in the moving pictures.
The riding on the street railway was
| heavy,t he conductors returned reports
| of total of 2,415 who rode free be-
/ cause they wore the official tickets en-
titling them to that privilege. Some of
| them made the round trip more than
\ or
| free rides as the contribution of the
company to the day and it was much
| appreciated.
While all of the manufacturing
plants had visitors, the Estey shops,
where the big organ for the Henry Ford
| mansion in Detroit was on the floor.
| had the largest number, a few over
300 being shown through the shops dur
ing the day.
Many of the guests who entered the
stores to trade or 'just to look
around = were surprised and pleased to
find that some OF the merchants were
furnishing soft drinks free to those
who entered, and this courtesy was
greatly appreciated.
The livery stables in town were tax
ed with transients, for 113 horses were
/ fed free of charge to the owners and
stabbed, as well, during the day In
many instances this was the last straw
, of delight to the visitors, who had not
understood previously that caring fol
their horses would cost them nothing
More than one offered to pay for his
horse s feed, believing that it was ask.
ing too much to have feed furnished
, free.
) A free diving exhibition was give1
during the afternoon from the Connec
ticut river bridge by two young mer
; who repeatedly dived from high poin
on the structure to the delight of ;
i large crowd of spectators who stood oil
E the bridge and on the Island park pa
vilion for over an hour and watched
II them.
Promptly at ? o'clock the band be
gan concert at Island park with tn
grand stand packed to its capacity
Victor Cotton and Young Emery, TIVE
clever local youths, boxed four fas
rounds and neither held back the fore
: of his blows The bout was heartil,
applauded John J. Clune, manager o
the Milestone Athletic club, provide,
/ the attraction and refereed the bout
This was followed by a wrestling
q bout between O'Connell of Orange
e Mass, and Hill of Greenfield, Mass
/ o 'Connell won the match after losin
:. the first fall G. W. Bailey, who Sc
d cured the men, refereed the match Ed
a die Bolin challenged the winner an,
the challenge was accepted.
: Hinsdale Loses Ball Game
/ A crowd that filed the seating capac
$ ity of Island park and overfowed ol
O to the field watched the afternoon gam
between a team picked from the Brat
S tleboro league and the Hinsdale team
FL Continued on Pare 60