Connecticut western news., 1910-11-24
0LD-TIME DRUMMERS
 AND WHERE ARE THEY ATT
Many of Them Are Still Drumming, Some Have Retired and Some Gone
 Where Good Drummers Go.

Some Have Retired and Some Gone Where Good Drummsrs Go.
 What has become of all the drum mers" who were familiar to the local hotel people and business men and more or less so to the citizens about town, 25 or 30 years ago? This question was dis cussed in local store @ few days ago. and it was matter of some surprise that most of those ever-genial and ex- ceptionally clever gentlemen of the road are still on earth and many of them still covering the same old routes.
 There was Deacon" William Sage, the quiet, digniied almost clerical look. ing drummer from Winsted. He is still supply ing the trade with A. G. Whit. tlesey & Co.'s flour and cheese, and ap. Larently good for another generation.
 M. E. Pinney, the Apollo Belvidere of fashion-plate road agents, from Hart ford, who resolved to cut out the small towns from his route when he had ac- cumulated fortune of $25,000, hasn't visited Canaan in business way, in ten years. He is still on the road, however, handsome as ever. and has represented the Hartford dry goods house of l., s. Goldschmldt & Co. for 32 consecutive years,
 Julius Scherer, representing Smith, Comstock 6 O., of Hartford-he's the gentlemen who put Hotel Clerk Loomis temporarily out of commissi on at the Warner House long ago-is going yet.
 Big Sandy" Stevens, the auburn haired giant who carried Kibbe's candies all through this territory has left the road and is somewhere or other, either dead or alive-nobody now on the road seem to know which.
 Charles B. Andrews, of Winsted, who was Pinney's predecessor with Gold. scnmidt, went into the hotel business in Winsted years ago, and was one of the oJst known landlords in the state when ne died, some ten years ago.
 Bob" St. John, of the Old We'll Oi- gar Go, has been on the road for 33 years and is still going. During so- journ i'll Florida, years and years ago dob discovered the fountain of perpetual ,outh, and drank deeply of it. Which Is why he looks as if he might have be- ,ome ''of age" just in time to cast his irss vote for Bryan.
 Hubert Thomas, to whose monthly trips with hardware the town girls used co look forward expectantly, is now a solemn and sedate undertaken in New Milford.
 P. s. Bennett, of New Haven, the dignified and courtly head of the firm of Bennett 6 Sloan, who was a regular commercial tourist through this region in the old days, was the same Bennett who became the friend of W. J. Bryan and left that statesman $50.000 in his will, which. by the way, Bryan didn't get, for technical reasons. MT. Bennett was killed in stage coach catastrophe away out in the far west.
 Charlie Ward, who travelled for the Bennett & Sloan house and finally be- came partner, is remembered as the prince of practical joksrs. and the older Canaanites will recall how he frightened Fred Runde. the German tailor, out of a years growth, by firing B revolver over his head in his tailor shop over Parsons store when the Cummings block" was new and Runde the first and at that time the only tenant, Poor Charlie died 20 years ago.
 Robert J. Or, who succeeded Ward, is one of the youngest of the old fellows covering the territory-and he doesn't look his age, at that.
 Weston Grannis was another Bennett 6 Sloan man, who made more friends than he could count while on the road He cut out the travelling business long ago. and is now one of the solid men of Litchfeld, where he is just now selling devil wagons and piling up wealth in stacks. .
 Ed. Pyle, of Hopson & Pyle, Bridge port, was, next to Pinney, the hand somest drummer on the road quarter of a century ago. He kept it up-both the handsome and the drumming-until a few years since, when he stopped travelling and went somewhere out in Pennsylvania to enjoy his fortune. Rev. A, E. Roraback Installed