Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-29

The man who can't understand patience
should go to the Baltimore and Ohio depot.
at gath and Chestnut streets.
There are scores of women there who
have been waiting more than "a hours for
glimpse of their soldier husbands or sons,
and just because the Mount Gretna troop
trains haven't arrived yet is no reason, they
say. why they should be impatient.
Just as IL II were the most ordinary thing
In the world these women tell how they
have been waiting since yesterday at s
a. m or TO or II n. M, and are pre-
pared to wait week II necessary
Their preparation consists In willingness
to sleep on hard benches and money enough
to patronize the station restaurant Under
no conditions will they eat the food they
have brought along for the soldiers dear.
Take the story of the mother of Alex
ander Adaire, who before he went away
with Company L, of the I'd Regiment. lived
at 1927 West Lehigh avenue. She came
at breakfast yesterday, and she hasn't left
since. She brought with her sister of
young Adaire, and met a charming soul,
whose name Is Mrs Charles McConahy and
whose husband is in Company B. of the I'd.
Their home is at 2135 Corles street
AS Adaire's mother and sister put 1t, I'VE
don't see how we'd of got along without
Mrs. McConahy. She has certainly kept our
spirits up" =t.a
MRS. McCoNAHY's WAY.
Mrs. McConahy (and she has no especial
liking for war and its potential disasters to
herr Is the merriest person one ever wants
to meet. She sees a laugh in everything,
and the way the rest of the women flock
around her is proof enough that they need
her good humor to keep them normal
Without her that station would be gloomy
TO distraction.
When the various walters told how they
had spent the night there, and some curious
one asked II they slept well. 1t was Mrs.
McConahy, who broke in and said they
didn't sleep at all; they had too much fun
And she kept up all this by-pay, not to
enjoy herself. but for the sake of the other
waiting mothers and wives. She is n real,
human woman, IL there ever was one.
TWO OTHER PATIENT WALTERS.
Mrs. Norman Shenton. of 1920 Fitzwater
street. waited yesterday from noon to mid
night and was back again at o'clock this
morning. II is her husband she waits for.
He Is In the I'd Regiments band Before
he had to go to camp he played In the
Police Band when he wasn't on his beat
out of the Goth and Fltzwater streets police
station. Mrs. Shenton had wonderful
luncheon put up for him.
With her Ia waiting Mrs. Robert Porter.
of 2227 Fitzwater street Her son. Robert,
q strapping boy of IS to Judge from the
picture she showed. is In the I'd Regiment,
too. and IL is up to Policeman Shenton to
take care OF him. Mrs. Shenton laid that
injunction on her husband before he left.
and Mrs. Porter feels better on that
account.
Good samaritans vie with trouble-makers
in the railroad station. One woman yes
terday approached many of the patient
walters, and told them they would have
to give way to the Woman's AmericaniZa-
tion Committee when the troop trains came
in; they said the society women on that
committee would take precedence over the
mothers and sisters In receiving the SOL
diers.