Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-27
WILSON'S DOUBLE
CARRIES MA|LFOR
UNCLE SAM HERE
James Patrick Finds
Fame After Is
Years Toll.
HE'S NOW FAMILIARITY
KNOWN AS O
Even Little Daughter Says
Papa Looks Like Man
in the Paper"

If you go to the local p~ostofice and
ask to see Letter-Carrier James Pat
rick, the clerk at the inquiry window
will stare at you in amazement.
Gradually a look of understanding
will dawn on his face and he will
say:
"Oh, you mean Woodrow Wilson"
There will be just a faint tone OF
paternal pride in his voice, as il the
Newark postof1ce enjoyed a complete
monopoly of "our next President"
just Plain woody"
Indeed. that is what the boys cali
him-when they have time. Usually
it is contracted to plain and simple
Woody"
James Patrick is a replica of Gov
ernor woodrow Wilson. In other
words, he is a counterpart. a dupli-
cate and a facsimile. II countenances
we're subject to the patent laws. he
would have good grounds upon which
to sue the Governor for infringement
For eighteen years. Patrick. like
the poet-philosopher of THE Great
Stone Face worked ~upheralded and
unknown. He was simply James Pat
rick, le~tter-carrier of route No. l3.
In the records somewhere was data
which would have shown. had anyone
looked it up, that he lived at 1872
South Twelfth street. and that he was
As years old.
Suddenly Becomes famous.
Then, suddenly, the day after Will
son was nominated for the presidency.
he became famous.
First it was one of the sorting
clerks. As Patrick swung through the
door with his usual breezy Good
morning. the clerk sprang to his
feet and cried:
$50 help me. Woodrow wilson,"
The whole office recognizedsthe ike
ness In a flash. Thenceforth James
Patrick was dead and his ghost be-
came the walking embodiment of the
Governor.
The men on his route. which is in
the neighborhood of Broad and
Orange streets, seemed moved by the
same impulse. They realized the
metamorphosis that had taken place.
They shook hands with him and con-
graduated him upon the of
his double.
Daughter Sees Likeness.
Before that he had been merely a
very complex and accurate machine,
the principal duty of which was to
take care that picture postal cards
addressed to Jenny d. Smith didn't
get to Jimmy o. Smith. Now he was
woodrow Wilson. a parsonage of
fame.
Even his 7-year-old daughter Mar
garet saw the likeness. She raj to
greet him that night with h words:
"Oh, papa. don't you look like the
man in the paper?"
He bent over, kissed her, and said,
gayly, And thou, Brutus."
Around the dinner table that We
ming his son Joseph. 10 years old. who
is a pupil at the Barringer High
school, and his other daughter. Mary,
II. who. with Margaret. attends st.
Rose of Lima's Academy. also be-
came aware of the dawning difference
in their father. He was still their
father. it was true, but he vas some
thing else besides-Woodrow Wilson's
double.
Some Scholarly Brow.
He has the same scholarly look and
the same strong. determined chin.
I'm PROUD of it, he admitted to
an Evening Star reporter today.
There's no mar in the country I'd
rather resemble than Governor Will
son. I'm a Wilson rooter and I'd be
glad to take the stump for him-if
would write the speeches
for me.
1.-THE boys have got 1t down to
Woody now, although at first 1t was
Governor woodrow Wilson. our next
President The last is taken for
granted, anyhow"
Fred Sickle. superintendent of car
riers, approached, scowled at Wood
row, and said:
AREN'T you ashamed to look so
much like him?"
"Oh. no." was the bland reply. "It
is we'll known that all homely men
brains"