Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-06


the stars He was the pioneer Of the
pioneer Of postgraduate teaching In
medicine and surgery, which, through
the help of his distinguished father-in-
law. DIR. J. Marion Simms, found ex-
preston In the Polytechnic Medical School
and Hospital. Those who were priyt-
legged to know him found an all round
man, generous and amazingly well in
formed upon all subjects.
His career embraced boyhood upon an
Alabama plantation, Confederate soldier,
war prisoner. student of medicine, man
ager OF q cotton plantation, cattle buyer,
merchant, building contractor, steamboat
pilot, fnancier of railroads, student Of
medicine IN New York, Paris and Vienna,
poet, author of books upon surgery,
travel, metaphysics and philosophy, sur
beou and consultant president Of the
American Medical Association and num-
erous other associations. The reward Of
life is 10 be missed in death-and DR..
John Allen Wyeth left a place in the
hearts of all who knew him no other
man can ever fill.
An error in this column on Saturday
gave the foreign born population of New
York Go per cent of the whole. That
Is Incorrect Commissioner Joseph j.
Howell of the bureau of weights and
measures est mated the city's foreign
born at 25 Per cent of the whole Com
missioner Howell has made study OF
IT, sui. ect, for ne has the supervision Of
i250 C0 scales. 10000 weights and 10000
measures, distributed throughout the co.
go retail stores of the big town.
The bureau Of weights and measures
in New York attained its greatest promi-
nece during the term Of the late Mayor
Gaynor, Its comm ssioner at that time
being Clement J. Driscon, former re-
porter raised in the Cherry Hill district,
whose energy Mayor Gaynor rewarded
by terming him "a steam engine in
boots
Drisccu wat ruthless foe OF the shop
keeper who had crooked tools on his
counter end hundreds of thousands or
dollars worth of measures with false
bottoms and underweight scales were
seized and confscated. Driscoll Is now
head of a lace mill, although the AMI
mosities growing out OF his advent in
politics still persist. As the political re-
porter for Hearst newspaper, he car
ried on the campaign of his employer
against the candidacy OF Tom toiey,
downtown Tammany leader for sheriff.
Foley was elected and served ont his
term, but he has not forgotten the things
said about him Hence his bitter opposi-
ton inside Tammany council TO the pro-
posed nomination Of Hearst for Gov
ernor by the Democrats this autumn.
Dee McIain halls from Des Moines, and
he has Travelled all over the country as a
hellboy, and keeping his eyes open he be-
came walking railroad guide Of Amer
lea When the hotel management was
called upon to name some bright bellboy
who knew the United States to serve IN
that novel capacity upon the American
built and operated liner, Manchuria, Me-
Lain qualified and was recommended. The
Iowa lad is only forty-two inches in
height. but he more than makes up fer
his diminutive stature In pep and intelii-
gence.
Folks are apt to underestimate the
possibilities in beilboy. Il. NJ. stafier,
operator of the Hotel Pennsylvania In
New York and owner Of hotels in CleVe-
land. Detroit, st. Louis ana Buffalo, and
who is going TO have another in Boston,
began as a heliboy IN the Mcclure House,
Wheeling, ". Va, and early In Aie
adopted the maxim "a guest Is never
wrong"
Mr.. StatIer's best story is about his
experience with General Nathan Goff.
Firing me a cuspidor, boy said the
general Young Statler, earning 50 a
month ami climbing four flights of stairs
ut the call, knew what ice water meant,
bur "cuspiaor" knocked him mentally
a-tw.ster The general looked him over
acknowledgement grinned. Il see you 60
not understand me. | want spittoon,
He got one in double quick time, am
the lad whose initials 'E. ". s" are new
good for millions. made an important en-
largement TO his vocabulary.