The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-20
After Thrilling Experiences in
the West, He is Surprised
at Sights of the City,.

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 19.-"Idaho
Harry" has returned to Detroit-hls
home town--after an absence Of forty
five years. ;,
/ Back in April, 1871, idaho Harry"
then plain l. Fl. Paddock, donned a
blue uniform, took firm grip on his
night stick and sailed forth as a
member of the Detroit police force.
The following November he resigned
determined to seek the longed for ex-
element elsewhere. He found 1t; but
he frankly admits that the greatest
surprise OF his life came when ne
reached Detroit and discovered how
the easygoing town he had left almost
half century ago had developed into
hustling metropolis.
or those men Paddock had known
when a blue clad enforcer OF peace
but two could be located-George r.
Goodale. veteran newspaper man, VINO
in Paddock's day was police re-
porter. and Captain Andrew ]. Rog-
ers. attached to the corporations coun-
sci Office. who was the only captain in
the department when the little old sta
| ton on Woodbridge street east, long
since abandoned, was police headquar-
ters.
How Time Changes!
The old city hall, which occupied
! the center Of Cadillac square with the
vegetable market adjoining, had CIV
| on way to long rows of closely parked
motor cars, and the present city hall
then Just completed. and by far the
most imposing building in the city,
seemed grimy and insignificant as 1t
was overtopped by the modern sky
scrapers that look down on the tow
or to climb to whose top was then
considered the only proper way to see
Detroit.
There we're other familiar land
marks that had passed-the plank
sidewalks which did duty no further
out than Grand Circus park, and over
which the police were accustomed to
drag belligerent DRINKS until the shy
ers that pierced the anatomy OF the
yagrant forced him to seek an upright
position and peacefully accompany
his captor to the distant station, the
single patrol wagon then In service
not always being available on the IN
slant, as is the case now.
instead of the horsedrawn vehicles
that used to traverse Woodward ave-
mo and the other downtown thorough
ofares there were thousands OF swift
ly moving automobiles, and the horse
cars that made infrequent trips for
short distances when Paddock pa
trolled a beat had been supplanted by
electric cars that cover the city with
network Of lines.
Little wonder that Paddock rubbed
his eyes in establishment.
West, Too, Had Changed.
But the changes wrought In Detroit
we're no more revolutionary than those
that have taken place in the country
where Paddock spent most OF the In
tcrvening period,
covering a beat, with nothing more
promising in the way Of adventure
than the occasional arrest OF a drunk,
speedily palled on Paddock. He longed
Ifor real thrills-and the great West
with it's picturesque frontiersmen, its
Unframed Indians and the other fea-
lures that now are only memory
Furnished his field.
1.-THE wanderust was built right
into me just like player into a
piano." he asserts, so off he went, with
Nevada as his destination.
Several years Of roaming, roughine
II on the plains and among the Rock
lies. and he Joined the Seventh United
States cavalry at Fort Lincoln, Oak.
lin the spring of 1876, with General
George A. Custer as his commanding
Officer.
Plenty of excitement was promised
the Seventh cavalry, which had al
ready seen considerable Indian war
fare. Sitting Bull had been stirring UP
trouble for some time, when the Sew
enth cavalry and the other troops sent
Iout to quell the uprising finally left
Fort Lincoln, May II.
The outcome Of the battle on the
Little Big Horn, June rs, 1876, when