The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-01
First Protestant Episcopal
 Bishop in United States
RED BUCK OF CHARLOTTE
How Ills Real Name Was Long Ago Lost-Buffalo Bills Famous Ride of 332 Miles Without
 Rest.
BY FREDERIC j. HAsklN.


 lean bishop was Samuel Seabury, bishop of Connecticut. He went to England after the Revolution to ask conservation at the hands of bishops of the church of Eng land only to be denied He then went on to Scotland where in Aberdeen he was consecrated on November A. 17S4 by the hishops of the Catholic remainder of the church in Scotland. Three years later prejudice was removed and William White of Pennsylvania and Samuel Pro yoost of New York were consecrated at Lambeth palace by the Archbishop of of. Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Bath and Wells and the Bishop of Peterborough.
 Dr. David Griffith, rector of Christ Church, Alexandria, Va, and surgeon and chaplain in the patriot army was to have been the next bishop consecrated for work in America. He was elected to the high office but was too poor to go to London for consecration, his church be- ing able to furnish only sl4O He died In 17s9 and the following year Rev. James Madison was consecrated first bishop of Virginia at Lambeth palace, England. When Rev. John Clagget of Maryland was consecrated by Bishop Seabury and the bishops who had been consecrated at Lambeth, the two lines of apostolic sue | cesson in America were combined and he became the first American bishop to be consecrated by American bishops. After that no bishop outside the United States took part in the consecraton of bishops of the Episcopal church until Bishop Charles Todd Quintard of Tennes- see was consecrated In 1865, when the Bishop of Montreal assisted seven Amer ican bishops in performing the sacred service.
 Sometimes one family | has furnished Bishop H. C. Potter of New York was the son of Bishop Potter of Pennsylvania, and succeeded his uncle, Bishop Horace Potter. in his present diocese. When William Jones Boone was consecrated fourth bishop to China he enjoyed the dis | tinction of being the son of the | first bishop to China, nephew of the first bishop of Georgia, and cousin of the 1 first bishop of West Texas. Bishop H. Y.
 
 descended from the Rev William Satterlee of Pembroke college, oxford, and vicar of St. Ida's Ide. Devonshire in the time of Charles l. His first American ances- | tor was Benedict, son of that William who came to America in the time of the com monwealth rule in England.
 John Sharp Williams is as plain as ah old shoe about his dress. Ills enemies charge him with being careless and his friends say that he is eccentric. That depends on the point of view. But at any rate, John Sharp doesn't care. and he is never impressed by fine clothes on any one else. In recent congressional campaign MT. Williams placed his services at the command of the democratic 1 speakers bureau, and was sent to a northern state to help out a congressional nominee. When he returned to headquar- ters, and was being piled with questions, John Sharp said: Don't you know that fellow came down to meet me in a pair of fashionable riding brooches and started to go around with me with them on. l Just up and told him that if he wanted to go to Congress he had better | take off those jockey pants. After he left the blamed things off we got along all right"
 One of the best known men in North Carolina is Red Buck. There are a few scattered and decimated tribes of Indians left in the Old North State, but Red Buck is not one of these. If one should ad- oress a letter to Red Buck, Charlotte, N. e. it would be delivered to H. E. (. Bryant at the office of the Charlotte Observer. Red Buck is a red headed Scotch-lrishman of the old Mecklenburg colony After he got out of school he went to work on the Observer and on ac- count of his flaming locks was dubbed Red Buck by the editor. MT Caldwell. It was an office name only for a long time. Then it became state property and the name Bryant perished.
 North Carolina politics was much dis turbed by the populist movement, under the leadership of Marion C. Butler and tn tutelage of the republicans. for a time drome the democratic party from power In the state. At the time when the popu- list movement had begun to subside the republican party was torn by a factional fight. Red Buck went to report the con Vention. He stayed in the hall long after the chairman had been knocked down and dragged out He stayed even after scores of razors were flashing suggestions of blood in the ginting afternoon sunlieht He stayed after there were guns drawn.
 put nhaily tners came the time when Red Buck decided to go He left through the window. It was an upstairs window
 The next morning q Raleigh paper had black headline: Red Buck Bolts the Convention" As he has travelled all over the state and has written human interest stories from every sandhill and mountain cove, he Is known to every Tar Heel. and some of his fame has even sloshed over into South Carolina. There is a Red Buck n and DA1
 whisky, although the man for whom thev
 are named drings not, neither does he smoke.
 Few men have lived lives so full of ad venture as Buffalo Bill the famed scout and snowman. His adventures began long ago and have been fraught with danger and daring that would have made q les,; courageous man hesitate before he took such chances. One of his most daring
 feats was in the days of the pony ex- press when Senator Quinn of California and Colonel Russell, the trader, set m POO stations across the west, bought 400 ponies, employed 80 riders and connected St. Joseph, Mo, with Sacramento Cal. in a ten days run. Cody which is Buffalo Bill's right name, was one of those daring riders who packed the mail bag under the saddle and rushed the wiry ponies in their heart breaking race with time. He was only 15 then. and | coming one day to relief station where another rider was to take the precious 1 mail on, he found no one there and knew lthst the man was lying dead from Indian | bullets somewhere in the chaparral fur \ ther on. Springing on a fresh horse he | m, xh cd on for the riders had suorn int