New Britain herald., 1922-09-13
96 YRS. OLD, SMOKES
 60 TAGS EACH DAY
Briton, Just Made Citizen, InhaleS Y Every Drag Too

New York. Sept, 1s,--The oldes allen who has become a citizen ol the United States within the memory of the present guardian of that priVi- lcee took the oath of allegiance in the federal district court yesterday.
 He is Dr James Rosedale Wadel Ward, o6 years old, Buddy, dapper straight backed, he stood before Judge Martin F Manton and fervently re- nounced the King of England. Then he stepped outside and lit cigar cite
 What cried a startled stranger. "Cigarettes at your age ?"
 Sixty day" said Dr. Ward, blow ing smoke through his white mus tache
 T suppose you stand 1t because you don't inhale,"
 Watch me, young man He drew such q lungful that the fire could be seen racing down the rice paper and eshaled gently through both mouth and nose.
 Flows that" he asked.
 Incredible if I hadn't seen 1t my self" the stranger sasped. Prob ably you're able to do this because you don't drug yourself with coffee '"
 An" said Dr. Ward. Never few CT than six or eight cups day, As much as want. Strong, too"
 After your meals?'
 Longs for Beer.
 "with. after and between-uhen- ever I feel like it. If I drank coffee only at meal time I couldn't get enough, for I eat only twice day rhat's the way to live to be over a nundred. as shall do-eat only two meals and don't worry Let the other fellow do the heavy eating and the worrying"
 The tnauisitive stranger was groggy but game. He suggested that the secret of Dr. Wards longevity un- doubtedlv lay in abstention from al- coholic stimulants.
 "sav." the new citizen sighed, do YOU remember that fine, foreign heavy rich beer we used to get be- fore prohibitiono An, ah, ah-h-h-h 7
 Court attendants and comm oners sighed with him-ah-h-h- h -h- h. For a moment memorys chains bound them to silence. Dr. Ward broke the spell by saying briskly, Well, the stuff we get now is intol- erable and I am through until prohi- bltion Is through" This so encour- aged the inquisitor that he hurried away with what was left of his morale.
 pr. Ward said he was born August 2s, 1926, in Jerusalem, Palestine, where his father, Charles Wadel Ward, was British consul. He studied medicines at Kings college, London; the sorbonne, Heidelberg; Vienna and Naples.
 T came out without knowing any thing, and every year since then I've realized how much less know" said he T made a little trip to Africa with Henry M. Stanley, but didn't like him and came back from Lake Tan Eanyika Came to this country in | 1880 and took out my first naturaliza- ton papers at once During the per tod for getting final papers I was in Alaska. That's the way 1t was all. the time. When the moment came was somewhere else, running around. Before I came to America along about 1882 was in Mecca, eighteen months and became a Mohammedan. In 1867 I was an interpreter for the Empress Eugenie in France.
 Advocates Walking.
 T was married in Germany. One of my five children was born in Col orado, another in Maine and the rest in New York Retired from active work some time ago, but still moving 1t seems. Two years ago, when I ap- piled again for citizenship-it had to be done over again, for the seven year term had long since expired I was living at 34e West Seventy first street Now the address is 64 Eliza beth avenue, Newark, but at this very moment my wife is out looking for an apartment"
 whats the best form of exercise for a young felow?" a court attend ant asked .-.
 Walking. A while ago I walked from Jersey City to Montclair and back I walk miles every day. Ive often walked from the Battery to 147th street, about eight miles, and enjoyed every step.'
 And why were you so anxious to become an American citizen?"
 Because" Dr. Ward said, empha- sizing every word with a tap of his forefnger. this is the only country in the world that has every resource and that has real liberty of thought, edu- cation, movement and aspiration. I say this despite prohibition and graft"