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Evening journal., 1920-03-15
ENGINTEns INspECT CANAL.

Col, j. C.. Sanborn. division engineer,
arrived IN Wilmington today and be-
gan an Inspection OF the work In the
Wilmington engineer district, OF which
Col. j. p Jervey has supervision. Col
0nel SanbOrn was met by Colonel Jer-
vey at the Engineer Offices, Sixth and
King streets. where they went by motor
car TO one of The government boats, for
8 tour of the harbOr and the Chesapeake
and Delaware canal
Colonel Sanborn probably VIII remain
Evening journal., 1920-03-15
n n IIKENs Rack FROM ENGLAND.

II. n. Lukens. who has been In Eng
land for several weeks. arrived In New
York on Saturday, on the $. 5 Mature
lanis. He was met by Mrs. Lukens, Mr..
and Mrs. Lukens and Mrs. Murlel Nc
Klnley, OF London, spent the weekend
with Or. and Mrs J., Paul Lukens.
Evening journal., 1920-03-15
LINER In DISTRESS,
240 PERSONS ON

NEW YORK. March 80 United Press
The Clyde liner Mohawk with 60
crew and $50 passengers aboard Is now
In distress on Wilmington, n. O., ac-
cording 90 a radio relayed TO the COM
psny's Offices here today, The message
read;
Evening journal., 1920-03-15
AUTOMOBILE STOLEN.

A Ford touring car bearing Delaware
license tag No. 1877, was stolen last
night from the. garage Of Ernest Nc
Cabe. at Elsmere. The robbery was
reported to the local police, but so far
it has not been found.
Evening journal., 1920-03-15
LACE CIlnTAINs RunN.

Lace curtains catching IRE from a
gas lei and communicating TO the car
pet, damaged the home OF Pasquall
inone, No. GOa Lincoln street, 10 the
extent OF s2S. early last night Tho
loss Il covered by Insurance.
Evening journal., 1920-03-15
sTRICKFN on STREET.

John Slaskie, aged 30 years. OF No.
s0s Maryland vaenue, became III at
Front and Jefferson streets at 7.25
o'clock this morning, and was removed
10 the Delaware Hospital in the police
ambulance.
Evening journal., 1920-03-15
snEnWIN AGAIN on InR.

Trafflo officer Sherwin, who is sta
lloned at Sixth and Market streets, has
returned TO his post. after being con-
lned 10 his home for the past week,
suffering from an attack OF grip.
Evening journal., 1920-03-15
LITTLE Miss srANIAp IMpnovEs.

Little Miss stanlar. daughter OF Mrs.
Ethel BAH Stanlar. Is convalesclug from
an attack OF scarlet fever.
Evening journal., 1920-03-15
ONE BUILDING PERMIT.

Inspector Ellis n. Preston this morn
ing issued building permit 90 ben
lesse. OF No. sos Market
street io make alterations costing 5000
Evening journal., 1920-03-15

Phones sO60-SO61
Real Estate General Insurance. Mortgages. Rents.
open Every Evening Until O'clock
Move TO Your Own Homie
Look For Ie Now
Every day you delay your housing problem becomes
difficult The increasing demand, dwndling supply
climbing prices desrabily of choice diminishing, few
houses to and leases that cannot be renewed, all
facts that be denied Don't defer matter vital Let
us help you-today-now
Terms prices, selections, that will not be available
later CAN BE HAD NOW
$4,000 EACH-9OO-9O2 WAWASET AVENUE.
Six rooms, gas, room for garage
s25OO-2O6 GREY AVENUE
Six porch BATH cement cellar
S16OO-1112 CONRAD STREET.
Five rooms good yard.
s24OO-12O5 UPPER OAK STREET.
Seven rooms bath, gas
$4SOO-1SO3 UPPER OAK STREET.
Six rooms verand bath heat cement cellar gas and electric
s55OO-42s SOUTH BROOME STREET.
Six erand bath hot water heat cement cellar gas and
ss6OO-7Os SOUTH FRANKLIN STREET.
Seven rooms Neianda BATH cement cellar gas
SS5OO-NEw wBUNGALOW-HAMlLTON PARK
Five rooms yeranda bath, gas and electric
S2s5O-s1O LINCOLN STREET
Six rooms 'eranda bath gas cement cellar '-f0Ot alley
s4eOO-15O2 LANCASTER AVENUE
Eight rooms yeranda, bath heat cement cellar gas.
s45OO-162s WEST FOURTH STREET
Eight rooms, veranda. BATH heat gas cement cellar
s4sOO-s2O WEST SEVENTH STREET
Eight rooms, veranda BATH
s45OO-1615 LANCASTER AVENUE.
Six veranda, bath, heat,
S5OOO-1227 TATNALL STREET
Eight veanda, bath heat side alley
S4OOO-1O21 WEST FOURTH STREET.
S42OO-1OS NORTH CONNELL STREET
Eight veranda, bath. heat cellar
S2s0O-222 GREY AVENUE.
Six rooms yeranda, BATH hot water heat
s460O-12S-129 CLAYTON STREET.
Six rooms yeranda BATH hot water heat and electric
S4OOO-9O6- -9Os WEST SEVENTH STREET.
Seven rooms, BATH
s52oO-1O14 KIRK AVENUE.
Seven rooms veranda, BATH heat
sS2oO-18O4 REED STREET. p
Seven rooms, veranda, bath, heat gas
S5oOO-1416 DUPONT STREET.
seven rooms venda bath hot water heat gas and electric
s4soo-sO6 MONROE STREET.
Seven rooms. verandg bath heat gas
s2ooo-2oO2O2-2O -2O4 WASHINGTON STREET.
MUNDY & CO.,
7O6 MARKET STREET
Phones 8060-8061
Real Estate General Insurance Mortgages Rents
Open Every Evening Until O'clock.
Evening journal., 1920-03-15
Porcelain Enameied

The beautiful. durable and sanitsry
porcelain enamel. which is as easy to
clean as plate and which docs away
with blackening is only one source Of
delight to women. Many othersl Let
as show them-durins the SALE before
special T Terms and Prices are withdrawn
Evening journal., 1920-03-15

Burns three lockwood. coal
or gas-burns coal and gas to-
gether-enables you to use the
fuel that's handiest. cheapest.
most desirable, and
All you do when you want to
change fuels from coal to gas or
ciee esrsa is turn a key. That's ALL
There are no parts to change. No
other combination range begins
to be SO simple.
Saves Fuel, Labor, Materials
All the Year Around
Peru1iss you to have a cool kitchen in
bot weather and a warm one in cold.
Guarantees best cooking results at all
times with any kind Of fuel because il
is perfect as Coal Range and perfect
as q Gas Range.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
A Log Cabin Home

He and his wife then followed
the westward creeping frontier to
Fort Mcpherson, Nebraska. Here
their home was log cabin outside
the fort, and Cody rode a hundred
miles to the nearest settlement of
size and returned with wall paper.
which he attempted to put In place
with resultant disaster.
Il guess I'm more Of a success
as an lnjun fighter" he unused, and
the job was left to the soldiers.
For several years they lived here
There were months Of peace when
no Indians took the warpath. There
were days of bitter warfare and
danger for him and Of anxiety and
the ordeal Of long waiting for his
wife while he was leading the blue
uniformed troopers on che trail Of
hostiles.
1t was here that his only son was
born and the dream of which Cody
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
Buffalo Bill Indian FIGHTER Snowman and Empire BUILD
Feats Performed in a Circus RIM
Were Tame Compared With
the Scouts Real Adventures

Louis. and he deserted his wife in
the audience.
''He came forward, leaned over
the gas footlights and waved his
arms.
""Oh, Mamma he shouted, I'm
a bad actorv
"The house roared. Will threw
me a kiss and then leaned forward
again while the house stilled.
Honest, Mamma he shouted,
does this look as awful out there
as it feels up hore?
"The Scout Of the Plains" was
followed by other lurid dramas Of
it's like, which the East fairly ate
up-"Life on the Border" Buffalo
Bill at Bay" From Moose to
Neck" "Buffalo Bills Pledge" and
"The Red Right Hand"
cred Hand
An excerpt from this last, in
which Texas Jack was cast as Red
Hand, is perhaps the most illumi-
mating comment possible as to their
nature:
(Enter Bill hurriedly, fires q few
shots and three OK four Indians fall.
Red Hand enters hastily, follows of
the retiring Indians, shoots once or
twice, kills several Indians. Re-
turns, sees Bill and raises his rife
as If to shoot.)
Bill-Hold on, Pardi
Red Hand Surprised -What? Bill
Cody7
Bill-Red Hand? You here?
Red Hand-Yes, Bill. and I'm glad
to meet you. I heard you were to
join the campaign, but had no idea
that you had yet arrived But it is
always like you, Bill-sure to be
near when danger threatens.
Bill (takes his hand)-I always try
to be, Red Hand, you bet. Clocks
up and sees Pearl, who has been
listening)-But, say, look here, who
is yon lovely creature that we have
just rescued from those red fends7
Red Handy heavens. Bill But
she is beautiful. Yet 1 know not
who she is.
And then, while money was pour
ing in in an ever quickening flood,
little Kit Carson, who was to have
had the finest education it could
buy and who was to have taken up
the work of empire-winning where
his father left off, died.
Cody left the theater and fed,
stricken, back to the trail again
back to the life that he had been so
garishly disappearing for the
plaudits Of the East. Then came
the massacre of Custer and his COM
mand on the Little Big Horn, and
the old 5th Cavalry, under General
Wesley Merritt and with Colonel
Cody as chief scout, took up the task
of vengeance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
Pride i'm His Bow

"a boy he said softly. "A boy!
want him to grow up to be real
man, Mamma. A boy! He'll carry
on the work when his daddy leaves
off. He'll be the one to see the
West that his daddy wants to
build.'"
The boy was destined to die be-
fore the West was won, but for a
time, at least, Buffalo Bill dreamed
his dream. They named him Kit
Carson.
1t was while they lived here that
the seed that was to grow into the
"Wild West Show was planted.
Cody had guided Elmo Judson. who
wrote best sellers in those days un-
der the pen name Of Ned Buntline.
On his return East Judson used the
scout as chief character in several
of his books. They sold tremen-
dously. The public clamored for
more about Buffalo Bill" and the
author conceived the scheme Of hav-
ing him come East and act in a
frontier play.
Cody turned from his work as
guide, scout and Indian fighter and
went East, taking with him a
brother scout, Texas Jack Ono
rundo. They made a tremendous
MT IN Chicago in a hastily thrown
together production, thick with In
dams and filled with the haze of
powder smoke. The city went wild
about them.
Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack"
said one of the critics, "are wonder
full Indian killers. AS an artistic
success The Scouts of the Plains
can hardly be called a seasons
event, but for downright Injun kill
ing, red fire and rough and tumble
1t is wonder"
The enthusiasm of Chicagoans
may have been due in part at least
to the fact that on the first night
cody forgot his laboriously learned
INES completely and desperately
sailed into the supers costumed as
Indians, both six-shooters flaming
and his big voice believing what
ever words came into his head.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28

in made it possible for the Cody. ;.
buy a great ranch in the n;.,,
River country, in Wyoming. and I; !.
was here that the idea of the VIII i
West Show blossomed and sbow..
signs Of bearing fruit.
"The idea is this" he told i.
wife. "All those people back rss ~
want to find out just what the W.,
looks like, and you can't tell tbsns ~
on stage. There amt the roo.
So why not just take the West r;oh ~
to them?
There amt the room on a s.,,.
to do anything worth while. r..
there would be in big lot where ~
could have horses and buffalo and
the old .Deadwood stagecoacb and
everything! How does it souna
Mammal"
With Nate Salisbury to suno,v
the showmanship that Cody lacked
the project was started. Ind;.r.
and cowboys were recruited and
finally the long train of horses, men
and equipment into which the Codv,
had sunk every dollar they had !,
the world headed for Chicago, briup.
ing the West to the people Of ths
East.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
Taught His Wife to Shoot

1t is not strange that Cody spent
many hours teaching his wife to
shoot, until she was able to use a
Colt "A accurately and could even
hit mark from a pony going at
full gallop.
1t was while they were staying in
Hays City that Cody undertook the
work that gave him his nickname.
He contracted with the Kansas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28

IN THE Hogs City (Kom) that Buffalo Bill and his bride
,+h smfsv em q11Greled fought and Killed. The grounded
tte streets aOoud to be cleared 6y agic-ercept for
ta0o men, standing aOh his revozver still sokiq the
other cru,apled heap IN the dust
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
He Is Christened

He Is Christened
On his horse, Old Brigham, and
armed with Lucrezia Borgia, his
heavy rifle, Cody would sally forth,
and often after an hours ride from
the town would STAY enough of the
ANIMALS for several days. supply Of
meat.
The great brown herds still rolled
back and forth about the plains, and
to one as skillful with gun and horse
as Cody the killing of twelve buffalo
day was a light task. His fame
as a hunter Travelled far, and
eventually some unnamed frontier
rhymester baptized him anew with
this quatrain:
Buffalo Bill, Buffalo Bill,
Never missed and never will,
Always aims and shoots to kill,
And the company pays his buffalo BILL
The new name and his fame
Travelled hand in hand, until at
length the Kansas-Pacifc ran an ex-
cursion from St. Louis to the
frontier to witness a buffalo killing
match between their official slayer
and Billy Comstock, a scout.
In day Cody killed sixty-nine
and Comstock forty-six.
Eighteen months of buffalo kill
ing brought Cody's contract to an
end. He did not renew it. Per-
haps he had grown a little weary
of the slaughter, for in those
eighteen months he slew 4,28O of
the great animals.
"a buffalo rarely weighed less
than 1000 pounds in edible meat.
OF this less than a third was taken
for the consumption of the laborers
on the Kansas-Pacific. That meant
out of the hunting that my husband
alone did in those eighteen months
nearly 5,oOO,OOO pounds of meat
was left on the plains"
Back to Scouting
From buffalo hunting Cody then
turned again to his old profession
OF scout for the troops that were
carrying on continual warfare with
the Indians, whose lands America
was invading. Sioux, Pawnee,
Kiowa, Cheyenne were forever on
the warpath, raiding frontier settle
ments, overwhelming wagon trains,
doing everything in their feeble
power. to stop that westward march
that nothing could halt.
OF all the plainsmen who served
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28

Pacific, that was thrusting it's tracks
ever further to the west, to supply
meat for all it's laborers That
meant merely the killing of twelve
buffalo a day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
I'm the Indians Domain

That was only fifty years ago, yet
Kansas was then the frontier. Civil
hzation had fastened upon the Pa
cific Coast, but between there and
the Mississippi Valley rolled a ire
mendous wilderness where enormous
buffalo herds 'roamed at will and the
Indian ruled and planned attack
after attack on the great white wave
that was rolling westward
So often has the life of that
period been described in print, on
the stage, in moving picture films
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
BUFFALO BILLS
WILD WEST

BUFFALO BILLS
WILD WEST
Marvellous posters presaged and
pressagentsd his coming. In ono an
emigrant train wound through the
background, and in the foreground
he himself, brave IN buckskin, sat
his white horse, hand shielding
his eyes as he peered out across
the plain.
The White Eagle
"White Eagle, Watching and
Waiting" was the caption. There
never was higher poetry.
And then when at last you sat
beside the arena your nose tingled
with the smell Of horses and tan
bark and the faint powder reek from
the previous performance, and you
watched the riders come dashing
out, group by group, according to
their tribe or nationality, to wheel
into rank while the cowboy band"
banged and snorted away.
Eventually they were all In posi-
ton, line after line Of horsemen,
"cavalrymen from the regular
armies Of Europe and America"
Mexicans, Cossacks, Gauchos and
Indians and cowboys galore.
Then came the moments hush that
preceded that tremendous entrance,
and after lifetime the leather
lunged announcer shouted,
Colonel William F. Cody, Buffalo
Billw
The band burst into a quickstep
that was as the music Of the spheres.
Indians yelped shrilly; cowboys
cheered, and then he swept out into
the arena, his white horse on hard
run, his tall figure easy in the sad
die. The spotlight followed him
as he wheeled into position at the
head of the great rectangle Of horse
men. It enveloped him in white
light as with geuntleted hand he
swept OFF his great sombrero, tossed
back the long hair and uttered those
immortal words:
The Big, Manly Voice
Ladies' and gentlemen, wish to
present to you the Congress of
Rough Riders Of the World"
How his great voice doomed
through the Gardenl How splendid
he looked as he sat later in the
center Of a whirlpool Of racing
horses as his riders wheeled about
the arena and disappeared! You
sat back in your seat with a sigh of
gratitude. You had been spared to
witness this once more.
Many times you saw it, while his
hair grew thinner and whittier and
his imperial pure snow; while the
breakneck pace In which he used to
enter modified and become a decor.
GUS gallop. And then, one year,
Buffalo Bills feats Of Workmanship
from horseback" was missing from
the program, and little later he,
too. disappeared. The show came no
moro. Then they told US he was
dead.
His Life Story
1t remained for most Of us to wait
until after his death to know WILL
liam Frederick Cody as he really
was. Our memory Of him has been
Of demigod ahorse. Now his wife.
nearing the end Of the trail he and
she travelled so many years together,
has given us her Memories Of
Buffalo Bill" soldier, plainsman,
scout Indian fighter, Snowman.
builder Of the Great West to-day,
n a book published by Appleton's.
He is no longer the half-immortal |
ader, but flesh and blood human
! big overgrown boy, with . boys |
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
A Financial Success

Though his estimate of himself as
an actor probably is correct, Buff
falo Bill established record un-
doubtedly unique in the history of
the stage. Here was a man Of ac-
ton, a fighter, who appeared in
dramatizations Of his own battles:
deserted the footlights to fight again
and returned to act in COMPANY
with his former enemies.
The money that continued to roll
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
His Only Scalp

They struck TIE Sioux and Chey-
ennes - the Dog Soldiers as they
were called-at War Bonnet, where
Cody, raging through the fight that
followed, grappled with Yellowhand,
the chief, and fought him, bowie to
tomahawk, slew him and, drunk
with the desire for vengeance for
Custer, took his first and only scalp.
I'D been raging around like a
badger full Of sandburs about what
they'd done to CUSTER" he told his
wife, land when / saw old Yellow
hand swallowing dust there / just
kept on working with that bowie
knife. And almost before knew
what I'd done I'd lifted his hair and
was waving the scalp in the air.
First scalp for Custerv I
yelled, and then things sure did
happen. All those Dog Soldiers
made rush at me and the 9Th Cav
airy made rush at the Dog Sol
dlers, and blame me if they didn't
MT each other just about where l
stood"
Following the campaign Cody re-
turned to the stage again, but he
took with him the germ Of the Wild
West Show that was to be-a group
OF the now pacified Dog Soldiers
who replaced the ridiculous supers
who acted the parts of Indians in
his earlier plays.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
that the sons and grandsons Of the

that the sons and grandsons Of the
generation that won the West have
come to regard most Of the tales of
that day not 80 long passed as legend
or romance. Yet hear what Mrs.
Cody says of Hays City, to which
she and her husband moved little
later, he to become hunter for the
Kansas-Pacific, she to take up her
abode in the only hotel Of that roar
ing, riotous frontier town:
Another Notch
"The streets were only openings
between rows Of shanties and tents,
where in every third habitation men
crowded about the rough boarded
bars Or heaped money upon the
gambling tables.
"Toneless changing pianos, appear
ing miraculously from nowhere,
banged and groaned in the impro-
vised dance halls. Men quarreled
and fought and killed. The crowded
little streets with their milling
throngs suddenly would seem to be
cleared by magic-except for two
men, one standing with his revolver
still smoking, the other crumpled
heap in the dust. Then q rush for
horse, the soft clud Of hoofs and
only one form would be left-an
object for the consideration Of
quickly assembled coroner's jury
and verdict Of:
"'Death from gunshot wounds
"Whereupon another notch would
find It's way onto the handle of the
killers gun, one Of the many canvas
covered saloons would do a rushing
business for an hour or so, and the
next day there would be new grave
In the little cemetery just out of
town"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28

as guides and scouts for the cavalry
under Sheridan, Carr and other
leaders Cody won the highest re-
nown and eventually the title of
chief of scouts, with the rank of
colonel. 1t was during this service
that he carried dispatches afoot and
on horse and mule back $50 miles
in fifty-eight hours without rest or
sleep.
Day and Night in Saddle
"And all Of this following a day
and night in the saddle during
the trailing of Santanta's Indian
band and the battle that followed!
Is 1t any wonder, therefore, when I
look back upon such accomplish
ments as this that I feel a pride in
having been the wife of Buffalo
Bill, an honor that can be equaled
by few women in the world?"
1t was while Cody was acting as
scout for the 9Th Cavalry that they
avenged the burning Of wagon
train by Tall Bulls band Of Sioux.
They struck the band at Summit
Springs, and in the battle that fol-
lowed Buffalo Bill brought down the
chieftain, Tall Bull.
First thing I knew" ran his
description of that bitter fight.
"along sailed Tall Bull, talking and
yelling fit to kill, and I decided to
stop the whole shooting match right
then and get some peace around
there, to say nothing Of that horse.
SO l just up and banged away, and,
Lou, I've got the finest riding horse
now that Won ever InOkad at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
His Last Fight

Ills Last Fight
In 1917 the years overwhelmed
him. He was then seventy-tw0
years old. He fought for life as Dc
had fought for the West, stubbornly'
with pitiful attempt at light~hesr'
edness. He would not give in; no'
even to go to bed.
Don't worry, mamma, he ss'u
time after time, "I'm going to %
all right. The doctor says I'm gong
to die, does he? Well, I'm prelE
much alive just now, amt |! iM
still got my boots on. III be 81
right"
On January 10 William FrederleA
Cody suffered his first and last DC,
feat. They buried him as he hsu
wished-on a high mountain 1rou
the peak Of which the country i0l
which he fought falls away on eve'
side.
"Atop Mount Lookout we kept n''
wish, far up toward heaven wne's
below can be seen the stretches q
the plains of Kansas and NebraSA'
the hills of Colorado and the nun
mocks of Wyoming-his old rov'ns
places of other days"
Perhaps in some land set ss'''
for those who remember their oSA
boyhood he still rides his great hcs"
into a splendid arena and reins y
his steed to sweep off his sompsess
before celestial limelight