The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-08-20

several reglmental drills and a regi-
mental dress parade nearly every
night all directed by the colonel, but
the facts set down here are true never
theless.
To those Scrantonians who have
spent the summer or part of the sum-
mer at Lake ARIEL and stopped a the
Hotel Pines, the memory Of one of the
attaches will always be pleasant. The
man of all men connected with the
hostelry whose constant good humor
and abundant courtesy has endeared
him to all the guests is Will Jennings,
of Avoca, who is major domo of the
| hotel.
Mr. Jennings is possessed of a large,
expansive smile and q flow of good
spirits which make him excellent COM
pany, rendering him popular with the
tiniest child at the lake and the veriest
gray beard. He is an excellent clerk,
being careful and painstaking and fills
his post to the queens taste.
Mr.. Jennings is also possessed of
quite a bit of fame as an amateur
actor and not infrequently entertains
the guests with samples of his talent.
He is now preparing for Cornell at the
Mansfield State Normal school.
VIII Jennings also basks in the sun
shine Of his brother, the world famous,
radiant-haired, only Hughey. He has
wholesome admiration for his great
ball-playing brother and the erstwhile
Baltimore shortstop and now Brooklyn
first baseman has no more careful fol-
lower of his deeds of prowess than one
VIII, his brother. The latter every day
hunts up the Brooklyn's score of the
day previous, and on rare occasions his
brows remained puckered throughout
an entire day for no other reason that
that "Hughey thrice famed the
ambient when the bases were filled"
These periods of melancholy, are how
ever, infrequent, as Hughey is not ac-
customed to striking out on critice1 oc-
casions. AS a rule Mr.. jennings face
is Wreathed with smiles for weeks at
stretch, as result of his famous
brother having slammed the trade
mark off the ball and put the Brook
lyns three on velvet" as the base ball
scribes elegantly express 1t.
If there is one man more than an
other on the local police force who
possesses the knack of making himself
liked by all whom he meets in the
course of his official duties it Is Ser
geant Charles Ridgway one of the
grave Nestors" of the blue coat guar
dians of the city's peace. Sergeant
Ridgway is liked by his superiors in
rank, the patrolmen under him, his
fellow sergeants, and the public gener-
ally.
He is one of the veterans of the force
and in experience natural capability,
coolness and prudence is finely
equipped for the responsible position
he fills. His career on the police force
is checkered with many adventures
worth the telling and desperate en-
counters with desperate criminals are
counted in profusion among the incl
dents which dot, his record.
Sergeant Ridgway is also a veteran
of the Civil war, having enlisted during
the last year Of the strife and served
in one of the volunteer Pennsylvania
the blue he was in the thick of the
fighting and came out of the hard
fought battles and skirmishes a sea-
soned campaigner.
And now, after his turbulent career
with foes wearing the Southern gray
and more recently with hardy adven-
turers and with ruffians, he occupies a
desk position on the police force and,
with Sergeant Deter, reigns supreme
over the central police station, a splen-
did representative of the Scranton po-