The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-01
BRIEF MENTION OF
men OF THE HOUR
THE HONOR BESTOWED UPON
DIR. H. B. WARE.
National Organizer Frea Dilcher,
One of the Picturesque Figures Of
the Present Strike Management.
Kind Words for Lieutenant Colonel
Wint, of the Sixth Cavalry, Who
Has Distinguished Himself During
the Recent Events in China-Man
Who Finished Coghlan's Work.

VINO FlnlSneu CoBnlau WOTk.
Dr. II. B. Ware, who was last week
at Wilkes-Barre elected president Of
the State Homeopathic society, is being
warmly congratulated by his friends
upon the distinguished honor that has
come to him and incidentally to this
citv as WE'LL 1t is an evidence of the
doctors popularity among his fellow
physicians no less than of his stand
ing in his profession that he has been
made the official head of the organiza-
tion in Philadelphia.
While the doctor does not devote
himself to any great extent to the gen.
eral practice of medicine. he is re-
garded as one of the leading special
lists of the state on diseases of the eye,
ear and throat and has frequently dis
cussed the diseases special to thase
organs at the local and state meetings
of homeopathsts in papers that have
aroused the liveliest interest among the
members of his profession. Before
locating In Scranton the doctor studied
In this country and in Europe, and he
has also been an extensive traveller
both in America and Europe. He will
bring to the duties of state president
cultured mind and broad professional!
experience which will make his term of
office notable.
When the state convention of the
homeopathists was, held in this city
several years ago, DIR. Ware was un-
remitting in his efforts to make the
convention a success, and to send each
delegate home with favorable idea
of the hospitality of the city.
An interesting character has been in
troduced to Scranton by the miners
strike. He is Frederick Dlcher, Of
jacksonville. Ohio. national organizer
and member of the national executive
board of the United Mine Workers. If
ever a man found his proper sphere,
Dlcher is that man. He is lacking in
nothing that should be found in a man
occupying his position. His big, sturdy
physical makeup. commanding pres
ence, an Unborn shrewdness that stands
him good for any want Of academic
training that his early years in the
mines might be responsible for, a
happy, hail-fellow- well-met disposition
and a store of energy and aggressive
ness that finds cramped quarters even
in his massive frame, are the chief
characteristics that would be enumer
ated as beftting in connection with his
occupation.
His tact is probably best displayed
in the manner in which he handles the
newspaper men. He knows that a
newspaper man wants news and not
much of anything else, and he proceeds
to give it to him in full and plenty. He
also knows that the average newspaper
man is not a gullibe sort of creature,
and he carefully avoids telling him
anything as a fact that he feels the
newspaper man is liable not to accept
as fact. He manages, however, to keep
himself well supplied with facts or
things that he is sure newspaper men
won't be able to distinguish from facts,
and there Is never time when he is
too busy, be it day or night, to get in
| close communion with a newspaper
man and give him these aforesaid real
or apparent facts.
While he was permanently in this
city, before being called to Hazleton, he
issued ''greetings'' to the mine work.
ers once or twice day and pasted 1t
on a letter file hung in the front room
of strike headquarters. This was
eagerly scanned by all frecuenters of
headquarters, and came to be known
among the newspaper men as "The
Daily Dilcher." Since his going away
the greetings" have been discontinued
and fruitful source of "tilling" for
the newspapers has been cut off.
The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser of Saturday contained a splendid
photo-engraving of Lieutenant Colonel
T. j. Wint, of this city, who is now in
China with the Sixth cavalry, and in
connection with it the following:
Lieutenant Colonel Wint, who led
the splendid charge of the Sixth cav
airy, together with the Bengalese Pun
jabis and Japanese cavalry at Tien-
Tsin, killing 400 and taking 300 prison.
ers, has a most gallant record. He was
born at Scranton, Pa, in 1S45, and en-
listing as boy in the Sixth Pennsyl-
vania cavalry served In some of the
hardest-fought campaigns of the Civil
war; He was at Antietam, Fredericks-
burg, Stoneman's Raid, Cold Harbor,
Smithfield and other battles and skir-
mishes. He was q captive for a brief
period in Libby prison. He partic!-
pated in the Indian campaigns from
1865 to 1869 in Texas, Indian Territory,
New Mexico, Arizona, North Dakota,
and Montana. At the head of the
Tenth United States cavalry he
stormed San Juan Hill with his dusky
brigade. In that engagement before
San Juan Mauser bullet entered his
side. or Colonel Wint, General Joe
Wheeler wrote: 4 desire to recon-
mend him for appointment as brigadier
general of volunteers. He was among
the earliest to reach the crest of San