Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-21
GLASS PROPHECY. By Walter Casey.

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 It was in the latter part of August, 1920, that desired to take trip for month to get my mind Lff busi-
 ness. went to New York to meet
 my old classmate, Albert Klrsh. He
 had promised to travel through the
 central and western states with me.
 Albert was in the engineering busi-
 ness nd had just finished a job on
 the New York Central
 We left New York on August 26
 and reached Buffalo the next morn- ing. The train on which we rode was called the Twentieth Century limited. No sooner had we left the station at New York when man, adorned with blue suit covered with brass bu-
 tons. came through the car bawling out the name of the station. Albert and I, on hearing such enhancing
 music as came from the throat of this canary, looked around and were
 surprise and pleased to see our Ing
 lost friend, John Hayes. He came and sat beside us for while and told us
 that he had gone through eel ege and had taken position with tle
 New York Central. He did not ex- pect to remain long in that positi n, but would soon be president of the road. We left the train at Buff ,lo and as We were very hungry after our long trip we went to the Bache- lor's hotel. We walked up to the desk to register when we were struck at the appearance of c. Andrews wbo came to put down our names. She
 brought us into a room and called one of the waitresses. Great was cur surprise to see May Ryan answer the call. Miss Andrews proceeded to ex- plain the mystery. She said that she had come to Buffalo and taking May
 Ryan, Mary Mahaney and N. B. Mi riam Brewster as partners, she had started the Bachelors hotel and had made great success of it. We had such an excellent time in tkis city at the boarding establishment of our former classmates that we could not agree with the song writer who had said a few years before Don't let me off at Buffalo any more Fol- lowing the advice of Miss Andrews we went to the center of the city and visited the grand and superb dancing parlors founded and owned by Charles Johnson. When in school in 1906 1 thought to myself that some day Charlie would appear as nv genius in the dancing world. For in our class days he was looking to the class reception a year ahead of time, and every time we made any money on an entertainment and deposited it in the bank, he wanted to know If we had put enough aside for the class dance. Charles was doing such a busi- ness that he found 1t necessary to take in Lottie Logan and Marcella Blackall as assistant instructors.
 We left that night for Chicago and arrived at o'clock the afternoon of the following day. We went to a ho- tel and took rest, deciding not to do any sightseeing until the next day. On the following day we went to the office of the Chicago Times and met George Stone who was its chief edi- tor. Georges humor came in handy for him and his editorials were eager- ly read by the people of that great city. Reta Card was assistant editor and valuable indeed was the assis- tance she rendered to the editor. Both of these literary stars had received their preliminary training as editors of the class book when they were in high school. Albert and I spent a pleasant hour with these two friends and then took our departure. George Stone had advised us y to- visit the Union hospital where he said we would see some more of our class mates. We soon arrived at the hos pital and entering we asked to see the nurse who was in charge Anna Pagan was ushered into our presence and after we had exchanged greet ings Anna went to bring three more nurses who were friends of ours. Helen Harrison, Margaret Egan and Elsie Johnstone. It was always the ambition of these three girls to be nurses and I we'll knew that their loving and kind disposition would as- sist them in making a success of their profession. As Chicago was noted for the excellence of her schools we de- termined to visit two or three of the grammar schools as we'll as a high school. The first school entered was the Charter Grammar school. We were introduced to the principal and when we told him that we wished to see those of our classmates who we had been told were teachins there, he conducted us to their rooms. In the highest grade we saw Mary Fitz- gerald. She was greatly pleased to see us and she immediately asked us about the rest of her school friends. After We had told her about as many as We had met, she asked us to hear her class recite. This we did and we were we'll convinced that Mary was an excellent teacher. Her pupils an- swered all her questions and she had them so trained that they eid not get nervous when they saw two good looking gentlemen observing them. We were then brought to the classes which Bertha Betts and Mabel Welch were teaching. These two instructors were also doing we'll and showed that they had profited by the instructions received in the high school. When we were leaving this school the principal told us that he felt proud of his stan of teachers. none had pleased him or had shown such abil- ity for teaching as these three girls who had come from the Crosby High. We then went to the Parlsm1n High school where Finn was principal and was filling his position in a fitting manner. Marion Weinstein was in- structor in the ancient languages. having obtained this position as soon as she graduated from Columbia uni- yersity where she received the mas ter of arts degree.
 The next morning Albert and I left Chicago and arrived at St Louis. Onr hrrt destination WAS fhe Central