Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-13
MAYoR-ELECT MooRE'S
LETTER
Congressman Mondell Was Cowboy
Who Became Mayor Of a Western
Town and Carries Bullets
Around With Him
E,RANK W. MoNDELL, the Republican

DRANK w. MONDELL, the Republican
i leader of the House Of Representatives,
whom ex-Lieutenant Governor Frank Nc
Claim introduced to the Terrapin Club at its
recent dinner was once mayor of n town in
Wyoming. He had been cowboy and had
enjoyed the experiences Of a frontiersman.
The mayors job didn't pay much, but
young Mondell took it as a step toward
other things. He soon found something to
do. a bunch of roughnecks came in one
day and began to act in n manner which
called for the exercise of authority. Frank
went out to do the job and succeeded, al
though it required considerable shooting on
both sides. The Republican leader still
carries couple of bullets which dug into
his body on that day. But the incident
proved his gameness and helped him in
after life. He might have been governor OF
Wyoming several years ago, but report in
Washington is that he would rather wait
for the United States Senate.
~ York city, recently elected president of
the board of aldermen-a powerful position
in the mctropolis--is delight to the Ital-
ians of the country. He has been a guest on
several occasions in this city, where the
ACTIVE IUtH VI DlTlh VI ucbNchb
estecmahim highly. Some of them are even
suggesting that the New York member might
come forward some day as a vice presi
Dental possibility. LaGuardia, who has had
experience in the consular service abroad,
came into Congress, a Republican, from
district that has generally gone Democratic.
lie enlisted for the war and distinguished
himself in aviation in Italy and over Austria
where he led some of our flying forces. 1t
was this record taken with his popularity
among the Italians in New York that helped
him beat out Tammany.
DIG Tom Cunningham, leader of the Re
- publican Alliance, and George w. Coles,
leader of the Town Meeting party, are
strong on duck hunting, but they don't like
it in foggy weather. On a trip to the
Chesapeake, these Philadelphians evinced
every desire to meet the canvasback on his
own ground, but each morning the fog
settled down just about starting out time,
which, by the way, is 4 o'clock in the
morning. AS ''the early bird catches the
worm so does the early riser get the duck,
a piece of philosophy that might be attrib-
uted to that old time Philadelphia, Bill
Douglass, ex county commissioner, who has
become solon among the duck hunters of
the Chesapeake.
DAVID ]. SMYTH the new city solicitor,
~ and Commodore Louis II. Eisenohr have
been swapping western experiences. Each
of them for time, earlier in life, spent
some stirring days in the bad lands of the
Southwest Few people in Philadelphia
know it, but Commodore Lou" was once
a deputy sheriff when few men wanted to
hold down the job. That was in the days
when train robbers and desperadoes were
doing battle with the vigilantes. The
commodore says he never aspired to be
sheriff because in the county where he
served as deputy the records showed that
no sheriff up to his time had died natural
death.
GEORGE w. COLES, who led the Town
~ Meeting party to victory in the recent
mayoralty campaign, is a native of Lykens
the coal town which nestles in the noun
tains of Dauphin county; and Lykens is a
town where the Coles name is familiar TO
almost everybody in it. The father of George
W., now past seventy, is superintendent of
one of the mines. He came from Welsh
stock and is popular with the old settlers.
One of the customs which holds in the
Coles homestead is the killing of the steer
at Christmas. The Coles boys, and there
are half dozen of them besides George, get
, together with the home folks and after the
shooting match, which is part of the day IS
festivities, separate the edible part of the
steer from the hide and hoof, and distribute
it among the neighbors. The Town Meet
ing party leader is generally in at the
killing.
GEORGE II. CIVILIAN, for long time
" secretary of the Philadelphia Engineers
Club, like Congressman George s. Graham
and Lawyer James NJ. Beck, has one foot
in New York and one in Philadelphia. The
Civilian Co., of which George Il. is the
head. throws it's sign across One of the
prominent thoroughfares in New York
although the directing genius insists upor
keeping up his voting residence in Philadel
phia. George brings back the New Yorl
news to little group of clubmen known al
"The Mariners" talking yachts with Sam
| uel L. Kent the president, and automobile
with Howard B. French, of the Chamber O
| Commerce. Civilian knows lot abou
| The French genealogy from its early origin
which is naturally pleasing to the head o
| the big Philadelphia paint house.
| QUITE number of prominent Philadel
W phians, including W. w. Frazier, Maye
Sulzberger, John 7. Emlen and Samue
Fels. are interested in the work of tn
national association for the advancement q
colored people. Isadore Martin. secretar
of the Philadelphia branch of which DIR.
| Max Barber is president, claims a member
shin for the general association of 10000
The association hopes for the advancement
of the colored man, and some of the loca
adherents point to the case of w. Bas
Webb, who started as a messenger in tn
Mayor,s Office twenty years ago and is sti
a messenger. They say nice things abou
Webb and insist that he has executiv
ability aud diplomacy, which most visitor
IN the Mayors Office will confirm.
~ KNICKERBACKER BOYD, chair
Ds man of the executive committee of th
Philadelphia planning conference and
member of the Philadelphia Chapter Amer
;can Institute of Architects, has written