The Washington times., 1914-04-26
Leading Man of Poll Players
Resented Long CurIs and
Lord FauntIeroy Attire When
Young and Had His Hair
Shaved Oft.
He Once Drew Soda Water at
a Washington Fountain and
Is Said to Be a Rapid
Maker of Quinine Cap
, suIes.
By GARDNER MACK.

What one might call the REINFORCED
concrete of history. as opposed to the
shifting. unstable sands OF time, has
indelibly recorded many an eminent
footprint along the scant half-lnife of
Pennsylvania avenue that extends from
its intersection with Ninth street to the
point where Fifteenth street breaks and
bends il northward-
Though the numbering tread of thou
sands of marching feet disturb it's dust
as the hosts of freedom used its route
on their way to glorify their nation or
their return from victory; though the
muffled tramp of other thousands work
out. between its tree-bordered curbs, the
last ssd chapter in hero's life; though
even the humble worker pick gaping
naws in its surface, deftly patching
them anon with better. newer asphalt;
though he do this long, long after the
Chamber of Commerce and Merchants
Association had noted the flaws and
called Iouoly for their repair while the
said humble worker was engaged in his
professional capacity in Anacostia, or
Georgetown. or Columbia Heights
though all these things and many more
have marked a sinuous pathway for this
splendid thoroughfare through the i'm
mortal pages of the country's history.
never. so far al we know, never before
has IL been particularized as the route
TO fame from a more or less flying start
in the drug business,
Started In Drug Business.
Perhaps nobody engaged in the highly
Intellectual task of embalming in print
ID word the mortal doings of those who
operate the steering gear on or In the
van OF progress has ever thought of
originating his subject in the drug bust
ness. Yet how many of US are there
who have sat through a theatrical per-
Torrance thrilled by the thought that
the artist We saw before US had robbed
the world Of a very good prescription
clerk when he chose to throw the weight
of his influence toward the elevation
OF tie stage?
And these reflections have not been
occasioned by the fact that We loved
the drug business less, as Mr Brutus
might have put II. as that we loved the
stage more. And now, reversing the
metaphor quickly, how many OF US are
there who. seeing a youth concocting a
nut sundae, have been fired with the
thought that he would make a good
Romeo? or an Anthony or a MalYolio-
Very few of us, to be sure. yet one of
the very best little nut sundae con-
cocters and fresh-egg phosphaters who
over broke glass is likewise one of
our leading Romeos-whereby hangs this
particular tale.
a bit TO the north of Washington
circle there stands an historic building
occupied by the fire department and
formerly known Officially as Truck 3.
some years ago there wandered into the
quarters of the truck company a
Soloen-haired boy. a boy in a nice little
Lack velvet Lord Fauntleroy suit with
siiken curls hanging about his shoul-
deTs and big, wide-open eyes The boy
would have looked like an angel-or
The pictures OF an angel by an inspired
Uainter-hsd IL not been for the frown-
ing look of determination he wore.
Everybody knows that angels don't
wear froWning looks. although in what
might called the Lord FaUntIeroy Pc
Tiod of art and dress little boys that
wore the clothes were supposed to be !
EOlden-haired angels.
Didn't Like Curls.
That is just what was troubling this
particular little boy. However much
mis- mother might have gloried in the
hsir snd the clothes and supplied the
angelic disposition-with many mental
r-servations-the boy didn't like it at
All lie h9Q Deen Calle0 d sissy. his
hair had been pulled" He had been
Tudely jostled and 'sissed' at by the
kiddies he wanted to play with
He had blackened the eye Of the boy |
who pulled his hair: had broken out
tWo teeth for the lad who dubbed him |
sissy and sworn loudly and pro-
fsnely al the crowd that ''sisSed' him. |
He vas a bold ba-ad boz. He knew !
I and he wanted others to know it. |
But he couldn't make the reputation |
stick II he continued TO wear the label |
Of the angel. So he came to Truck b, |
where he knew the foreman had a pair |
Of horse clippers. And he asked the |
foreman to please use the clippers on |
his hair. He felt sure that il he could |
got the hair of the velvet clothes and |
lace collar would be taken from him
likewise. The foreman was a synpa-
thetiC soul and he complied with the
boys request:
There Was consterra ton and dismay
IN the household OF e. ". Buhler, the
Distinguished sculptor. when his son
1ichard came home that night, his lit
tie round poll OF head clipped as clean
~ horse cuippers and the professional
skill OF the foreman Of the truck com
parry could do it, Mr. Buhler and Mrs.
Butler and the cousins and the sisters
and the aunts OF the 3uhler family
connection all expressed their opinion of
l;i"hard and brought jOv 10 Richard
heart. for their expressions were the
reverse Of angelic.
IIC knew that he had arrived as
regular bOy-that his DAYS OF uosinS as
something he wasn't ard didn't want
80 be. were all gone. Richard BUhlcr
hal found himself
Slated TO Be Lawyer
y was not many years afterward that
IN the family council it was decided to
make a lawyer Of Richard. and that he
should be given start by learning the
drug business. And right there the
progress of Richard Buhler commenced
from the soda water fountain in the
drug store at Ninth street and Penn
Eylyanis avenue. along that scant half
SPRING RESORTS |,
TAKE CHILDREN TO beautiful country home
Pennsylvania. with with Jut Itaid:
'haFges reasonable; city and country refer
enCes. J BELLOWS. 1913 Lamont 81. -. W.