The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01
THEY WERE SCHoOLMATEs.
Two Mason County School Boys Meet
at St. Louis, Mo.
born ON POLICE FORCE
Old SchooImates Meet and Re-
new Old AcquaIntances.

oAtoi Walking dulolning Deats 10
five years, have just recently dis
covered that they were school boy
together in West Virginia.
They are Patrolmen Henri,
Stewart, who is such familiar
figure at Sixth and Pine streets
and James Fowler, who was sta
toned for long time at Seventh
and Pine streets, but who is nov
walking beat in the business dis.
trict just north of Olive street.
For years Stewart and Fowler
met many times every day and
talked with esch other thousands
of times. wholly in ignorance of the
fact that they played school boy
pranks upon the same teacher and
fox-hunted over the same hills
away back in West Virginia.
The two policemen might have
walked their beats together but
for the death of Policemen Stew.
arts father.
When the elder Stewart died
the policeman went with the re-
mains back to West Virginia.
Fowler heard of it.
He remembered that he knew
the West Virginia Stewarts-that
they were his nearest neighbors.
Stewart returned after the bur-
ial of his father and donned his
uniform. A few days later he met
Fowler at Sixth and Pine streets.
"Say, Henry" Fowler said. lyon
are not the Stewart who lived at
Flats back in West Virginia, are
your"
81 certainly am" answered
Stewart.
But, Jim, you are not the
Fowler kid 1 used to lick at
school, back there are your"
Il can't deny that L am" re-
piled Fowler.
Fowler and Stewart left West
Virginia when they were both
mere boys.
Stewart went first to New Or
leans, then to Seattle, and event
ually located in Pike County,
Missouri, where his father had
purchased farm. For several
years he cultivated the rich loan
of Calumet Township, and then
came to st. Louis to live. Being
a man of stalwart figure he applied
for appointment on the police
force and was successful.
Fowler came West also in his
youth. He landed in st. Louis.
Seven or eight years ago he wss
made policeman. and his prin-
Opal assignment has been in the
Central District.
The West Virginia boys are both
handsome fellows, and when Chief
RELY wanted to create the best
looking squad of policemen in the
world to wear white gloves and car
~ fancy batons in the central bust
ness district the fine appearance
and splendid records of the two
men won them the distinction of
being members of the famous
Broadway squad.
when Fowler was boy I knew
him intimately" said Policeman
Stewart to The Star. 81 have been
at his fathers house a thousand
times. In fact, Jim's father and 1
chased foxes together in West Vir-
ginia many a tina. Jim was not
SO fond of fox-hunting, and went
with us only occasionally.
"But we went to school together
and visited each other frequently.
81 have been on the force for
about six years, and I have known
Fowler nearly ever since my ap-
pointment. But I had no idea that
he was my old schoolmate from
West Virginia until he asked me
about the matter.
1--WE talked together thousands
of times as members of the police
force without either ever suspect
ing that we were old schoolboy
chums. But for the death of my
father and my trip to West Yir-
ginia, the relations of our youthful
days might never have been re-
called."-St. Louis Star.
On Thursday, April