The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-29
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general specifications. That is, Mr.. and
Mrs. So and So could say that they would
accept a boy or girl Sbetween certain
ages, but further than this the choice was
left to the New York agents and they
sent their young charges north all duly
identified by shipping tags hung around
the neck on a string, with the names OF
the children and the persons to whom they
were consigned.
1t was the largest party of the sort that
ever disembarkad at BrattlebOrO, and, be-
ing a hot and soOty day to travel it was
also one of the dirtieSt. One BrattlebOrO
boy had long been anticipating the arrival
of this train. having applied to the Trib-
une Fresh Air agents for a playmate"
aged 10 to -, and 1t was my arrange
ment to be on hand, too, to help find the
boy. Most of the arrivals were little
girls, aged five to II, whose dirty little
faces, tight-braided hair, and tiny dut1e
bags thrown over their shoulders, easily
identified them as from the foreign quar-
tiers of the metropolis.
We Stalked into the disembarkipg
group, examining this tag and that to
find our prize, and eventually fell upon
him, labeled: Vincent Caruso, aged IL.
And what's in a name? Though it did
not turn out that he was even remotely
connected with Enrico, he was a 'Caruso"
and that added some glamOr to the young
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fairly well-spoken and bright-eyed, and
when we asked him if be didn't want to
start right on to have swim, he said he
did. About the only baggage he had
brought it seemed. was a pair of tights
and a towel. So off we drove to the
West River swimmin' hole and with his
two new BrattlebOro playmates he
stripped and plunged in. He had learned
to swim in the East river, and proved to
be a regular water dog Someone loaned
him a cake of Ivory and when he had
gotten off some of the several coats of
train dirt he hooked every inch a clean,
healthy, happy boy.
His new Brattleboro chums imme-
diately nicknamed him ''Vinny" and on
the trip through Main street they apollo
getically compared our car line with the
Interborough; deprecatingly pointed out
our various public buildings as probably
meaning nothing TO him after seeing so
many skyscrapers. ''Ninny' was a bit
Stoical, but admitted he liked the cOun-
try. and by degrees he came to answer
satisfactorily the first question that had
been hurled at him when his young Brat
tlebOro friends met him at the station :
How do you like Brattleboro?"
Right now his new chumS are plying
him so fast with questions that he cam
not answer more than one out of every
10. Thus far he has disclosed that he
NEVER went Oh Il fresh air TRIP before, out
did once have vacation in New York
state near Bear mountain; has one
brother and five sisters; father paints
autos, and they live on Fourth street
I Has il been hot in New York z"
Yes he said, so hot some of the
people died.
| Would he like to go to the movies
Yes he admitted, but my mother
told me not to go to any shows"
SO last night he took in the band con-
cert.
''Vinny's' story is thus just begun. If
he develops something more interesting
it may find later chronicle here About
some of the GA other youngsters there may
be some stories to be told, and The Re
former invites a few contributions from
BrattlebOrO people who have taken in
these fresh air kids As we hear
l'Ninny' now romping on the porch with
! his new country friends it appears that
this getting out into the country is for
him "a grand and glorious feeling -