Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-30
IDLE REPORTER BECOMES
DEAN OF MOVIE CENSORS
Evan Chcsterman. Maker of
Books and Sunshine, Gets
Another Job.
ONCE WAS "CARY STREET CAT"
lounE Observation-Disclosures Used To
thasc WHY butterfly and Honey
Bee That lowered Over Glover
blooms In Pcnitentinry Bottom,
by Harry Tucker


/ horn In iiiChmoud May 20 1870
while his father. w. u. Chcstermap.
then a reporter. was still laid up
from injuries received in the Capito,
/ disaster OF April %. 1870 When he
got t" be ianky enough To wear
long pants. he was known as ono OF
the most vicious OF the Cary Street
Cats. ana was feared far and wide.
BY tho Oregon Hill Cats" lie lived
at West Cary Street, from the win
dowS of tho house Of which M could
se" the grim whit" walls OF the pom
t;entiary P"ni;entiary Bottom. a
picturesque wilderness OF jimson
weeks. pokch"rry bushes ana alan
thus. where he used to chase the
WHY butterfly and the honey bee
that lowered over the sweet clover
bloom. stood hard by.
Ills rudimcntary education was ac-
CURED ut Madison School at the'age
of .. Professor John y. Cunningham
was the principal. who later was
head OF the state Normal School at
farmvillc. His speciality was men
tai Arithmetic. Evan was fonder OF
drawing animals on the black boa ri
than anything else offered in the
curriC uiun. and was chief entertainer
FOR the others when the school
teachers back was turned his way.
Jumps I" High Sch"oI.
~ me age o' thirteen he jumped
!" IN hish Sch""i now pulled down
l" MAKE wa Tor IN" handsome new
junior high school on Narshall
Street. from which institution he
graduated a; 10. and in 1856 he took
up his lodgings at Richmond Col
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