The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-25
TIE TIMES DIsPATC

always find close beside the long
halreo, white clad Senator Vardaman
the taller CONGRESSMAN Thomas Up
ton Sisson. OF Mississippi, who wears.
by way of contrast, the longest black
frock coat SO far invented Congress-
man Sisson has TO wear his frock coat
turned up in trouser-like cuff away
down near the street level
Close at hand is a dark-complex-
ioned, slight young man. who might DO
Il cub reporter, but who. you learn
upon Introduction. is the Hon. Finis ].
Garrett. Honorable Garrett is Con-
sressman from the Ninth Congress onnl
| District OF Tennessee, and halls from
| the town of Dresden, which also is tho
nome stamping ground oof the Honor
aolc Up To Certain Moment Lake
| Eric Holladay.
This last item about young Con-
, grcs-Sman Garrett. by the way, is more
, or less sub rosa. Since tho Honorn bio
Lake Eric Holiday sent that telc-
gram recently to Mayor Gaynor ask
ing for financial assistance for some
OIL the Tennessee delegation and got
lne mayors snappy reply. Honorable
| Garrett would prefer. he saws. thot
| us fttle as possible be made of tho
Item that he and Honorable Lake Eric
! nail from the same burg Out of
| respect for the ConEressman's wishes
| II would be just as well. therefore, for
newspaper readers to keen this fact
| among thcms elves
Every southcrner living says Hello"
| TO Colonel Bob Gates. OF Tennessee
| publicist and man OF the world. Rut
| III baltimore keeps on boosting the
price OF the drinks that Colonel Gatos
buys for other folks to drink there
VIII be boiling Colonel in Baltimore
also.
An earnest little man with n small,
I IA IL
presses through the hotel crowds dis.
trihutinG cards printed in English and
German, which tell tho visitor that
| the bearer represents matrimonial
bureau with Offices at a New York ad
uress. Near the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel The card adds that the matri-
! monial man has an agency also AL
ready mach Berlin" and that him
self always Is partly in New Yor..
and partly In Berlin almost constant
] ly."
INC sad-faccd little mans linguistic
| eilorts at pronunciation always nearer
berlh than New York are. To-day he
approached John II. Crimmins, but for
some reason shccred off without ped
oiihS "a matrimonial card. Next the
marvellous makeup of Colonel Bill
fairmain, PunNsutawney's most prac
,ico and progressive poet-politician.
held the sad-faccd little matrir,onv
Colonel BIZ brought Mrs. Fairman
win him when he said Good-by to his
last horses and the herd of deer that
hc owns and left PuhXsutawncv FIAT
10 come to Baltimore to whoop for
Governor wilson, read the English
haif of tho card and cogitatcd bTore
breaking into rhyme. Said Bill:
I've said before we've butter now
]
10 my mind any mans Ounce
VINO won't try every new thing once.
hut men like you who think they're
Cupid
are acting just plumb goldarn stupid.
And after this crushing blow Colopc,
biii got back again TO his interrupted
story OF the PunXsutnwney groundhor
! c!ub, OF which Colonel Bill is presi
cent. The life work OF the club is TO
eaten and eat the groundhogs when
'hey come out OF their holes on Candle
mas Day so the critters can't go back
INTO their holes for six weeks oftcr
thcy see their shadows.
And since first We got together
PunNsutawney's had fair weather "
concluded Colonel Bill
so lhr the crowds have been favored
WIN iair weather here also. although
there was slight patter of rain from
AT thunder clouds this afternoon, The
neat which everybody has been expect
ING with dread has held off so far ex-
eept where hotel crowds shut OF al
most all air.
me Die hotels are turning pcon,o
! away by hundreds and everybody is
wondering where the still creator
CROWDS now beginning TO Hood this
way are going TO be taken care Of
! on the other hand, there are sim
, rooms a-plenty, it is said. at out Of tho
way hotels and also there are many
irNate houses close TO the excitement
och'res where good sleeping quarters.
! come say much better than the average
Ho't' room may be had at fraction
-, 1oS' one pays at the hotels. But
! even the optimists agree thot hv to
/ morrow the town will be filed up tn
'"e saiety valve limit aud maybe over.