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Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-29
CLOSED CAR SALON
OPENS THIS WEEK
First Event of It's Kind Ever
Held in United States Starts
Wednesday in Omaha.
ONLY WINTER CARS SHOWN

The sovereign achievements OF the
master coahman's art will be arrayed
before the collective gaze of all
Omaha when the first annual Omaha
Closed Car salon opens Wednesday
morning at $3.50 in the Brandeis
stores.
Thirty models of craftsmanship will
be on display. There will be limou-
sines, laundlets, broughams, coupes,
cabriolets, sedans, the height of lux
ury in automobiles.
The first annual Omaha Closed Car
salon will be the first event of its
kind ever held in the United States.
The Omaha Automobile Show asso-
citation, which is staging the exposi-
ton, is paving the way for all of the
other big cities of the country and
New York and Chicago, where the
great national automobile shows are
annually held, will have to follow the
lead OF progressive Omaha when they
decide to hold expositions Of winter
cars.
Has Another Distinction.
lie JIOSeu 1dT salon UdS dllUtHeT
distinction. 1t is the first automobile
display ever held in mercantile store.
1t will be held in the Brandeis stores,
with the machines exhibited along the
main aisle of the main floor, extend
ing from the entrance at Sixteenth
and Douglas streets to the rear of the
store. west Of Seventeenth street. This
is said'to be the longest mercantile
aisle in the world. A.
The salon will be held Wednesday
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this
week. II will be open from $50 in the
morning until o'clock in the evening
each day.
The exhibits will be limited to clos
ed cars, cars for winter driving. No
touring cars, roadsters, sportabouts,
speed machines or the like will be ex-
hibited. 1t will be an exclusive salon.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-29
Omaha Auto Supply
Co. Signs With the
Michelin Again

Announcement has just been made
by R. J. Eisenhardt, manager of the
Omaha Auto Supply company to the
effect that they have signed with the
Michelin Tire people again and that
they have doubled their contract
THE Michelin tire has been quite
popular seller since we have been
connected with it," says Eisenhardt.
"and the factory has been with us at
every turn in the road. Their ad-
vertising campaign has been great
help to us in establishing the tire"
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-29
Auto Man Willing to
Report to One Woman

R. w. Craig, local Chalmers dis
tributer, found today that there is a
reason" why some men prefer to
take vacation in the fall instead OF
during the hot summer months.
John Ford, one of Craig's office
men, has been looking forward to his
vacation for some time and just be-
fore he departed he "eased up to the
boss and broke the news Craig
says, Good Who is the ladyl" but
John didn't say. He just broke the
news" that he was going to be mar
ried and then educked."
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-29
Scripps-Booth Distributor
Orders Carload Of Coupes

w. M. Clement, local distributor
for the Scripps- Booth, retained
Thursday from trip to Indianapolis,
Chicago and Detroit, which embraced
. visit to numerous automobile fac
tories.
While in Detroit, Clement placed
an order for carload of Scripts
Booth coupes. This model is a clever
looking job and it is hoped that the
shipment will reach Omaha in time
to exhibit at the Closed Car Salon, to
be held November to 4 in the
Brandeis Stores.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-29
Closed Car Era is Here
To Stay, Saws Kinu Car Mar

w. L. Killey, local King" distribu-
tor, has added himself and his en-
thusiasm to the CLOSED car fans" and
advocates speedy conversion of
Omahans to the use of closed cars.
Mr.. Killey asserts that the closed
car models will be the only thing
in few years. "The rattles have all
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-29

been done away with and closed cars
of today are so arranged that it takes
only moment to convert them into
open cars with the top up" said Mr..
Killy.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-29

"Our business on closed cars is in
creasing rapidly and we find that in
stead of asking prospects to looS
at the closed car models, they are
requesting us to exhibit them. The
Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-29

many conveniences which they Of
ford and the perfect ventilation sys-
tenn is dispelling all doubt regarding
the wisdom of such purchase from
the minds = motorists. t.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04
GERMANTOWN RESIDENTS
FEAST ON PARK DEER
Animal Had Escaped From City Re-
serve and Diners Thought 1t Wild !

one of the deer Robert Glendenning,
the banker, presented the city some time
ago to be added to the F'airmount Park
collection, escaped recently and today an
agent of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals and some game
wardens announced that it had furnished
a venlson party
No announcement had been made by
the Park officials that one of the deer
herd was missing. 1t was said today
that therein lay the reason why Ii wasn't
recovered. If 1t had been reported miss
ing there would have been no chance for
those who ate the venson to plead inno-
cence.
H. r. Currier. of 200 East Sharpnack
street, Germantown. an agent of the So
clety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, got note today that three men
had lassoed a deer and cut its throat i'm
the back yard at William Cnrugh's resi-
dence at 1858 East Hortter street, Ger
mantown.
The note was given to him by little
girl whom he didn't know and doesn't re-
member, and was unsigned. With Park
Guard Anderson he went TO the Unrugh
place and there lay the deer-that is,
portion of 1t.
Unrugh told Currier that the deer had
gotten into his yard on Sunday. After
Intellectual attempts to get out 1t tried
to jump a 14-foot building, so Unrugh
said, and impaed itself To put it out
of its misery Unrugh said he killed it,
assisted by Robert Rascher, of i3 Good
street Germantown and William Green,
OF 13S East Sharpnack street.
The reason, they said, they didn't no
tlfy any authorities was because they
didn't know where the deer came from
and thought 1t might be just a wild deer"
Currier said he was satisfied with their
story and that no action would be taken.
The anonymous note, he said, he
thought was sent by Somebody who
wanted a piece of venison steak and
couldn't have it,"
The deer. when it escaped from the
upper Wissahickon reserve on Sunday,
wandered through Germantown and
chestnut Hill. stopping in Cliveden Park,
al CheW and Johnson streets. to give a
lively battle to some boys who stoned it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04
RIOODLESS OPERATION
WILL MAKE CRIPPLED
CHILDDANCE AND PLAY
pobv with Dislocated Hip Sub
;ected to Intense Pain at
Hospital in Order to
Affect Change
MIRACLE OF SURGERY
et;lful Manipulation Puts Leg Into
Proper Shelf-like
Bone

,.,n was given this morninE-intense
70 tiny mite of baby boy, that
- might come, that he might in time
v.o,t like other boys. and that he might
I. saved from being a cripple for life.
rhIs bappcned at the morning ortho-
..,,c clinic for the seniors of the Jcffer-
- Medical college. A 15-month-old
- bov from Manayunk underwent
h,ood,ess operation for congenital dislo-
cation of the hip.
,,,d iovmen been in that clinic they
..a,id have shuddercd when the tiny
Sonos crunched under the gre pressure
~ me skilrul fingers of strong, manly
=, sa,or who is giving his life to Saving
iittle ones from growing up cripples.
Ia tho patient little mother of the
sao,,,r .eycd. soft-haircd baby boy been
IT, che too, would have suffered. She
,,as not i'm the clinic 1t was to save "
s,,eror,nR that the doctors sent word for
sar IN come and see her little son this
afternoon
rov there were who could comprehend
that such Crunching C the tiny bones,
,hat such n twisting of the little right leg
in oyer the buby's head would bring
forth chip as good as new.
To many it would have seemed cruel.
They would not have understood. They
,ronld not realize that when the trained
hands of the doctor were twisting the
baby foot upward and backward over the
soft little baby shoulders the bones were
going where they belonged. BY manipu-
iation that only years of training can
nerfect the head of the femur of that
baby leg was placed back in the aceta-
bulum, or the cup-like socket in which
the bone rests.
After the bone had been put where 1t
belonged a cast was placed on the hip.
That cast will be kept on for eight
months and then the little hip Will be as
mother nature intended 1t should be.
such bloodless operations-for all this
was accomplished without the use OF
knife and without the shedding of
drop of the childs blood - though little
known by laymen, have been resorted to
number of years Some veritable mir
acles have been performed in the ortho-
pedic clinic at the jefferson Medical Col
lege Hospital.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04
PLEADS NEW HAVEN CASE
Defense Argues Additions to Line
Were Only Normal

NEW YORK Jan. 4-The defense in
the New Haven conspiracy trial had its
inning today, when counsel began sum
ming up. Richard V. Lindabury, attorney
for William Rockefeller. started the plea
for the defendants. The prosecution will
close the final plea TO the jury on Thurs
day.
There never was a more normal a
more natural development than took place
in New England" said Lindabury. "It
costs no more TO ship to Chicago a pair
of shoes from Bangor Me, than It does
from Bridgeport Conn. Does that show
harm to the public interest on which is
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04
WOMAN OF 20 ENDS LIFE
Loneliness and Ill-Health Believed to
Have Prompted Suicide by
Gas

Loneliness and i'll health is believed
70 nave been the cause for Mrs. Mary
Htelale, 20 years old, a widow. of 1920
Soith 10th street, to end her life today
py lhhaling gas through a tube. She was
louhd lteless lying across the bed in her
sso9hf The door was locked and the key
ae,e was stuffed p with newspaper
Mrs Heidle, accordin to police If
she eth and Jefferson streets station, was
possessed OF several pieces of property.
tss.erday, according to the police she
sought house for 5000.
OF years Mrs. HeidIe had occupied a
loom % at the 10th street address. Mrs
se saniie Miller, who conducts a rooming
Apuse at that place. smelled gas while
eleaning. She notified Policeman Janister.
a ssleed by several neighbors ne forced
spsh The door Mrs Heidle is said to
1sss ssa a daughter. Mrs gorge Graf, liy-
H's at 2i63 North 18th street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04
POLICE INVESTIGATE FIRE
"laiam Potter Thinks Blaze in
esfnantown Was Work of Incendiary

ne Germantown police have begun a
llsid Investigation of a fire which burned
! me third story ana roof of the summer
es esa, OF William +. Potter. at l2l West
: 'sa'sh avenue. early todiy The house
furnished, although unoccupied Mr..
~ ss'ssf. VII with his family. is spending
~ winter at the Delmar- Morris Apart
a. .ss..ss' p-iieyes the blaze to be the work
,s,a an lheendiary, as there were no fires
sssihs ,.'s,.s N the house or live electric
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04
GAG ON MEN OF U. s. NAVY
Daniels Refuses to Allow Admiral
Knight to Speak Before Club

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4--OftIcers Of the
navy hereafter will not be permitted to
talk in public"
This fact became known today when
Secretary Daniels wired the Chicago
Commercial Club he would net give Rear
Admiral Austin NJ. Knight permission to
speak before that organization jan
uary Is.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04
NO SALES"
Perfect Shoes

You wouldn't buy a pair
of 81 silk stockings at 69c
if there was a runner"
down the centre.
Then why buy shoes at
big reduced sale prices?
Stores cannot afford to
sell you perfect shoes. un-
less shOp-wOrn, at less than
the original price-particu-
larly when they have big
ground floor rent to pay.
We never have a 'sale"
we have low second floor
rent, and if pair of our
shoes is not perfect and
satisfactory in every par
ticular it goes back to the
manufacturer, and your
money returned.
That is why our shoes
here at So are always equal
to the shoes sold at other
shops at $5 to Sc.
And you are protected
by our guarantee.
Exclusively for women.
Royal Boot Shop
1908 Chestnut St. Fs& kSsTsfS 8 is,N SITS,
M lover Childs RestauraNt) n On
Wi@ FLOOR SAVES D z
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04
CENTRAL

CENTRAL
CUNNINGHAM PIANO CO., 1lOl
Chestnut St, Phila, Pa.
GRANT, WM., * CO, 1925 Arch
St. Phila., Pa.
PENNSYLVANIA TALKING MA
CHINE CO, ll09 Chestnut St,
SNELLENBURG, N. & CO, 18th
and Market SITS. Phila., Pa.
STORY e CLARK PIANO co.
l705 Chestnut St, Phila., Pa.
STRAWBRIDGE & CIOTHIER.
sth and Market SITS. Phila.. Pa.
NORTH
FLElSCHER,, FRANK, 5527 North
9th St, Phila., Pa.
FlITERNlk, BENZ, l4O North Sth
St. Phila.. Pa.
GOODMAN, l.. l., 327 West GiFard
Ave, Phila., Pa.
PHILADELPHIA TALKING MA
CHINE co, 900 North Franklin
St, Philadelphia. Pa
REtCE, |; s.. 9is Girard Ave.
scHERzER's Piano warerooms.
5ss North sth St. Philadelphia.
Pa.
ScHNEI.L & MEGAHAN. l7le Co
lumbia Ave. Phila., Pa.
NORTHEAST
KENNY. THOMAS n. 323f Ken
sanEton Ave, Phlla-. Pa
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04
HICKS TAKES SEAT IN HOUSE
Will Represent First New York Dis.
trict, Although Brown Contested
Election

WASHINGTON, Jan 4-Frederlck c
Hicks, Republican, was today sworn in
as the Representative Of the First Con-
gressional district Of New York
The certificate of the New York state
Board of Canvassers. showing Doctor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04

Hicks election, was presented to the
House
Former Representative Lathrop Brown
has filed a contest claiming that he was
reelected over Hicks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04

built the foundation for the Sherman law
violations?'
Lindabury argued that each acquisition
made must be shown to have been in
furtherance of plan. a preconceived idea
of monopoly.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04

PHILADELPHIA PHoNoGRAPH
CO, S23 ). 9Th ST. Phila., Pa
SIOLFO, HARRY. 6l2 South sth
St. Phila.. Pa.
NEAkBY oUT-OF-ToWN DEALERS
BROWN, II. H., 81 East Gay ST.
West Chester, Pa.
CARR, b. F.,
ol2 Main St. Darby, Pa.
COLUMBIA GRAFONoLA PAR
LOR, 1926 Paeihc Ave, Atlantic
GoDFREY' CHAs. H.. 25lo Allan.
tic Ave, Atlantic City, n y.
JARVIS, III. c.. 135 High ST.. Mill-
Vile, n. j.
KEENE's MUSIC HOUSE. IL
Cooper St, Woodbury., N u
RAMSEY & DONNELLY. Salem
St, salem, N. j.
R0BELEN PIANO COMPANY. Tl0
Market ST. Wilmington, Del.
ROSENBERGER. A. C., 2O4 High
st, Mlllyille, n j.
THOMPSON. w. c.. 40 Main So.
coatesYille. Pa.
TOzER & BATES. 643 a Nineland
Ave, Vineland. ~ J.
WINTERSTEIN. A F., POS Rad.
cline St. Bristol Pa
WoLSON; A. W, 604 Edgmont
Ave, Chester, Pa.
YOIINGJOEIks. ERNEST J., zas
" Main St. Norristown. Pa
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04
FOR SALE BY

KRYGIER, JOSEPH. S132 Rich
mond St., Phila., Pa.
NORTHWEST
IDEAL PIANO AND TALkIN
MACHINE CO, 2S35 German
town Ave PhIla,, Pa.
JACOBS, JOSEPH. 1906 German
town Ave. Phila., Pa
ToMPKINS, J. MONROE, STAT
Germantown Ave. Phila., Pa.
WEST PHILADELPHIA
GEO. B. DAVIS x CO., 1880 10
1886 Lancaster Ave.
lNS-HUGHES. PIANO co,
26l-63 S, SD St.. Phila., Pa.
FLOOD. CHAS. w. 49l4 BaIti-
more Ave, Phila.. Pa.
LEnAS,NE, HARRY. 4l6 n. 52d St.
MELcnioRRI BROS. 4ss2 40
Lancaster Ave, Phila.. Pa.
WEST PHILADELPHIA TALK
ING MACHINE CO. South
6Oth St. Phila-. Pa.
SOUTH
LuPINACCI, ANTONIO. 730 SOUTH
N St, Phila.. Pa
MILLER, b.,
s04 S. I'd St. Philadelphia. Pa.
PHILADELPHIA PHoAOGRAPH
CO., 1885 Passyunk Ave. Phila.,
-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04

SPOKANE. Wash. Jan. i.-Elundrcds
of popular periodicals We're withdrawn
Yesterday from sale because of the State
wide prohibition law forbddins the ad-
vcrtisement of liquors
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-05-26
SAY GERMANS READY TO
LINE UP FUTURE SHIPPING
Already Building Fleet to Compete for
Trade After This Worlds
Mar ic Ovor

Already Building Fleet to Compete for
Trade After This Worlds /.
War Is Over.
London.-The commercial measures
to be taken by Germany after the war
were discussed in the reichstag by
DR.. Max Richter, under-secretary of
the interior, says a Reuter- dispatch
from Amsterdam. DR.. Richter said:
There will be an urgent necessity
for some time after the war for a
large amount of merchant tonnage. l
am authorized by the minister of
finance to state that no small amount
of money will be at our disposal for
that purpose, and something in that
direction has already been done. So
far as workmen can be spared from
the imperial dock yards they will be
employed in rebuilding a merchant
fleet"
Herr Gothien, a progressive, argued
that Germany need not fear American
competition, although Americans have
reaped great profits from the misfor-
tunes Of war. He added:
"They have made no efforts to cap
ture international commerce in re-
spect to ordinary merchandise, re-
stricting themselves to the more prof
liable manufacture of war material.
American exports of merchandise
have been decreased to considerable
extent"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-05-26
$120,O 900 TAX RETURNS
ON MANY LARGE INCOMES
Treasury Department Estimates Yield
VIII Be 5000, 900 More Than
EstImate-Stop Frauds.

Neutrality-suspicious. from the In
come tax for the coming fiscal year
are estimated at approximately $780,
100000 in revised figures being COM
piled by the treasury department this
week. The exact amount within few
thousand dollars probably will be
known within the next few days.
The expected return of 1920, 900
is $35 100000, or over 40 per cent more
than officials estimated when congress
convened.
Individuals are expected to pay ap-
proximately $6,5OO,OOo and corpora
lions $57,5O0,OOO.
The $120,000,0O0 estimate includes
omissions for previous years, due to
mistake or attempts to evade pay
ments.
Attempted frauds and evasions of
the income tax law aggregating 49,
380,185 have been frustrated by the
treasury department, 1t was announc-
ed, during the first nine months of the
current fiscal year.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-05-26
Glorious Grand Army.

1t was, indeed, Grand Army that
saved the republic. The cause was
the greatest ever submitted to the
arbitrament of arms" government of
the people, by the people, for the
people, Had that government per
ished from the earth" the loss would
have been colossal and the effect
worldwide. But it survived, and has
since strengthened with the years and
become beacon-light and inspiration
to mankind.
We found" ourselves as a nation In
and by that fratricidal strife which
ended fifty years ago. Until then this
country had existed half slave, half
free. That condition, as the wisest
and best men of the period declared,
could not continue; and from the time
the new order was inaugurated-the
whole country free, and assured OF its
power to govern and preserve itself
phenomenal growth and prosperity
have marked the way. It Is America
now, from ocean to ocean, for good
and for fair, with one purpose, sus.
tanned by genuine feeling of broth
erhood.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-05-26
THE NEW SHIPPING BILL
PASSES HOUSE OF CONGRESS
Measure Appropriatlng $50, 000, 900 for
Merchant Ships Adopted, 211 to
161-Now Goes to Senate.

Washington. = The administration
shipping bill, appropriating $4,000, 900
for purchase of merchant ships by the
federal government, with view to
providing an adequate merchant ma
rine, passed the house Saturday by a
party vote. 1t now goes to the senate,
where a combination of democrats and
republicans defeated a similar meas
ure year ago.
The house passed the bill, 211 to 161,
only two democrats voting against it.
Nine republicans, three progressives
and one independent voted favorably
and II members voted present" Re-
publican leaders who. during several
days of debate, made more than 100
futile efforts to amend the measure,
and who delayed vote yesterday by
filibuster, offered no further resist.
ance, permitting vote as soon as the
house convened.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-05-26
MEADE's PLACE IN HISTORY
General Grants Estimate of His
Worth VIII Be Accepted, and
His Fame Is Secure.

Grant placed Meade on par with
Sherman, Mcpherson and Thomas as
army commanders; high praise from
the best possible source, writes Lieu
tenant Colonel Watrous. With the
approval and Endorsement Of Presi-
dent Lincoln, Grant and the loyal sup
port of his great army, and victory in
the battle of Gettysburg, 1t would
seem as If it would be very difficult
to 80 blur the name and reputation of
George Gordon Meade that any very
large class of people could be led to
belittle him as man, as soldier,
military genius, a patriot and the COM
mander of great army.
It is interesting to note in this con-
nection that when the battle Of Get
tysburg was fought, though he was a
major general Of volunteers, Meade
was only a major in the regular army,
and that he had only held that rank
. year and two weeks. His great VIC
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-05-26

recipient. "One Memorial day, trag-
ic day that shall never forget" said
the lady of the letter, grandmother
Gle Henry's bouquet, an honor that
seldom fell to an eight-year-old. To.
gether Aunt Emily and constructed
the masterpiece, triumph in bouquet
building, for the climbing rose bloomed
early that year, and our scheme was
simple yellow and white. But Memo
rial day morning brought some child
ish al ment, and when Uncle Henry,
resplendent in his uniform as a cap
tain of volunteers, and carrying silk
flag just presented to the company,
rode up to the door for his flowers, he
found a weeping small girl clutching
the bouquet and pushing away the
sticky ba,sam remedy that was grand
mothers panacea for all aches.
In an instant he was off his horse
and down on his knees, spoon in hand,
coaxing me to obedience. In frantic
attempt to be good Jared his elbow,
and the contents Of the tablespoon
splashed down over his spotless uni
form and the shimmering red, white
and blue of the banner. In the gen
eral confusion that followed, the white
and yellow pyramid got badly dam
aged, and all that l recall of the re-
mainder of that holiday is the quiet
haven of big four-poster in raft
cred room, and comforting grand
mother, who read me to sleep out of
her illustrated Bible.
Parades were personal affairs in
those days. Every other man in the
procession was friend, or at least
an acquaintance. You knew even the
riages. In the first rode the squire
and the First church minister, escort
ing the orator of the day, Hon. Mr..
Brown, congressman of the district.
Judge Smith and the school superin-
tendent, with the editor Of the Daily
News, came next, and so on down the
line of lesser notabilities Cheers were
loudest when the crippled, age-worn
veterans rode by, in the village band
wagon, followed by Grand Army men
who were still bodied. A goodly
array they presented in that decade.
More than half have gone since.
Every man who could hobble held
his place in the line till the cemetery
was reached. There was thrill in
every blue coat in each bit of tarn-
ished metal, story in the empty
sleeve, tale of adventure in hating
step and twisted back. Bull Run and
Charlottesville, Gettysburg and An
tietam, were near at hand when the
thin blue columns passed us by. At
the end of the company, the last man
of all in the procession, one girl knew,
there came inevitably German Charlie,
general utility man in the newspaper
office, so bent and crippled by wounds
and rheumatic pains that his treacher-
GUS legs could not be relied on to keep
time to the martial strains of the band.
But he plodded along, eyes shining
under his service hat brim, posy in
his button-hole, loyal veteran of the
Union army he had enlisted in when
boyish immigrant, proud to the core
of his uniform and his right to wear it.
German Charlie has gone, and so
have most of the men who marched
with him; and so, alas, has some of
the spirit they kept alive.