ATDDTA (6) 159

[bekah]

More background and a bit of character development  - not heavy on 
thematic elements.   The characters of Colfax, Cragmont and Fleetwood 
Vibe are given a word or two.


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159:2   Walter Camp
He played in the first Yale-Harvard game of rugby in 1876. From then 
on, his was the fertile, inventive mind and guiding leadership that 
brought about the evolution of the American style of 
football....  Yale's first football coach and from 1876 until 
1910 he played an important role in the direction of the technique 
and strategy of Yale football.
<http://www.waltercamp.org/history5.htm>


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159:3..    "and Negro folks who lived in Princeton slept a little 
easier that Saturday night
knowing they'd been spared at least a week free of Princeton-boy
posses come hollering down Witherspoon Street to rip porches off the
houses for the victory bonfire."

The ceremonial bonfire is held only if Princeton beats both Harvard 
and Yale at football in the same season.; Apparently Colfax's amazing 
run won the game for Yale so there was no bonfire in Princeton,

<http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~ptoniana/bonfire.asp>

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159:12 'Fax's Rooseveltian strenuosity "  ca 1900
<http://www.bartleby.com/58/1.html>


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159:   bedbug

Vontz's Universal Pick
Vontz (Yiddish): bedbug.
Latin: bedbug.

and a little cause for alarm in TRP's own neighborhood in 2005
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/nyregion/27bugs.html?ex=129074>

Fwiw,  at least one the off-spring of Cyrus McCormick was "crazy as a 
bedbug."    Cyrus died in 1884 (?) but the Haymarket riot (major 
anarchist producer) started as a strike action at the McCormick plant 
near Chicago (1886)   under Cyrus Jr.   McCormick became 
International Harvester in 1902.   The McCormick "cottage" was 
located way upstate New York. 

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159:18 Cragmont Vibe
The Vibe brother who,at the age of 13, married the trapeze girl in a 
spangling wedding; The two had an enormous family.

(a strange name to give a child if you  don't like climbers - later.)

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159:29	Fleetwood Vibe
The Vibe brother who was best man at the wedding and left to , also 
at a very young age,  for Africa - an explorer - appears and 
disappears until page 170

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159:35   "'Say,  you've never seen our cottage,' Fax said one day ..."

Typical Gilded Age stuff:

Long Island Gold Coast:
<http://www.ligoldcoast.com/lipublic.html>
(turn your sound down or off(!) -   Vanderbilt's and other Gilded Age 
tycoons had summer houses on Long Island  starting from about 1860.

Actually, the estate of Charles Frick is large and blockish (Georgian 
Revival) and looks a bit like what's described in the book (not 
exactly, but it's been remodeled)   Originally owned by Lloyd Bryce, 
this estate was later sold to Charles Frick, who altered and added to 
the estate. The landscape design was one of the most noted in 
America."

Long Island forecast re 20th century
<http://tinyurl.com/2ythxn>

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159: 38	Pizza Princess

Probably a waitress or a habitue of the 'first official pizzeria in 
America, generally believed to have been founded by Gennaro Lombardi 
(later races?)  in Little Italy, Manhattan.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennaro_Lombardi>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pizza>

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159:39    Kit  "Seven Sisters material"
Apparently the opposite of a Pizza Princess.

  The women's colleges,  Barnard , Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, 
Radcliffe, Smith, Wellesley and Vassar were known as the Seven 
Sisters. They were all founded between 1837 and 1889.   Four are in 
Massachusetts, two in New York, and one is in Pennsylvania.  Five of 
the seven remain women's colleges today;  Radcliffe is defunct and 
Vassar is coed.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_%28colleges%29>