Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1906-12-18
win Trail and Nal. sylvester.

Dir w w Trail. a former Harpers Fer
~ boy. in Sons Recollection" wrltten
to The Times says
i am glad to hear the good news that
Camp Hill Park is to fly flag presented
by Major Sylvester. Chief of Police of
Washington. d, &. 1t is a graceful COM
pliment to our town and it shows that the
| Major is interested IN his newly adopted
| home. May it long and continually
wave and when it becomes worn and un-
serviceably there will be another to take
its place.
"Of course. us folks down in Washing
ton are never anxious 10 have business
with the chief of police, but we all like to
come IN contact with him socially for he
is a pretty good fellow and we like to
have him present at the festive board.
for when we get him on the inside we
know that things are in pretty good shape
on the outside first had the pleasure
of meeting the Major two years ago at
the Ferry during the fishing season. Now
this is a little fish story and it is true as
several reputable townsmen can vouch
for its genuineness. 1t was a lovely
September day.a perfect day for fishing,
and had accepted an invitation of Mr..
George r. Bready to accompany him on
one of his fishing trips up in the vicinity
of the Old Furnace dam where John
Smith was waiting with boat and tackle
to aid us in reaching the choice spots to
haul IN the frisky bass. He informed
me after we had jumped the dam that
Major Sylvester and friend, Mr.. Brown,
correspondent Of New York paper. had
started about 4 O'Clock a m. in golf
stockings. to wade and rake" the river
from the railroad bridge to tine dam. Up !
to noon had not gotten a bite. except
from river skeeter, and had come to the |
conclusion that Sylvester and Brown had |
skooped skoop, and was about to turn |
in when Mr.. Bready got nibble, John
Smith caught one then | got nibble. |
aud Mr.. Bready caught one. Business
then commenced to get brisk all around |
for the other fellows" and not until |
about clock did catch a fish and a
small one at that. We poled every hole |
between the dam and Island Park. but
did not get a glimpse of Sylsvester or
Brown. We came to the conclusion |
about sunset that they had gotten wet |
and returned to quarters, whether with |
fish we did not know, but our assumption
was nearly correct. as we found out later |
We had twenty-eight fine bass. the result /
of that day. outing We tied the string
on the side of Ben Shewbridge's automo-
bile and Mr.. Bready and | started for
town. As we approached Shenandoah !
street we could see Major Sylvester and
Mr.. Brown sitting on the porch of Hotel |
Conner. We drove alongside in an I'M
concerned way and those two gentlemen |
eyed that string Of fish until l actually
felt Tor their poor souls, ! would have
given them the entire lotif they had been
mine just to relieve that awfully de-
pressed feeling that they seemed TO be |
laboring with. with much outward diff |
Guilty. We talked fish few minutes,
stopped between sobs. and talked few
more minutes while every fish on that
string was making eyes at the chief of
police and his friend. II was an embar-
RAISING situation. anyone could see that,
but those fish just kept on wiggling.
evidently for a purpose. They played
their part well in the game. Finally Mr..
Bready got up enough courage to ask the
chief of police: How many did yol catch
Maori" / heard an almost inandible
reply three Our team moved on
leaving the gentlemen standing on the
sidewalk charmed with our catch. Il
don't care to tell tales out Of school, but
the Major and Mr.. Brown returned to
Washington OH the evening train with a
bunch OF fine bass. was on file same
train but in the adjoining car for / was
anxious to see the catch landed in Wash
ington. and SO | did The tram pulled
into the depot. dark individual grabbed
that string of fish and paraded in front of
the Major and the crowd through the
depot, while several policemen saluted
their chief and congratulated him on his
good luck. The little Major had made
a hit. let him have all the honors. and
of course, kept in the back GROUND