Stadium High School - Tahoma Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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THE TAHOMA 27' happened to strike Charles Mettler and Harry Nelson ,who were lounging there, and they are in the hospital yet from the effects of it. My companions now left me and as I was writing asmall book on the fair, I thought that first of all I would take in Paradise Alley, corresponding to Pay Streak in the Seattle fair of 1909L The sign that first caught my attention was Block and Berg's Bucking Board. There was a great commotion inside and so I was determined to enter, and sure enough! In the center of a large room was a huge plank going first one way and then another so fast that you were scarcely sensible it was moving. I noticed that among those who tried it, there were always three who got on, and on fur- ther investigation I found that they were Myrtle Antrim, Bernice Cox and Raymond Hay, who were specially hired for this purpose, and that the establishment was run by our classmates, Fred Block and Marvin Berg. 'I decided not to try the accomplishment myself but to go further and investigate other places of amusement. In a refreshment room, I found six of the girls I used to know serving ice cream and other eatables to tl1e tourists. They were called the Sweet Sexette and comprised respectively Florence Prich- ard, Wfinifred Combs, Blanche Abercrombie, Fern Bone, Anna Hart- ley and Marion Sisson. 'While I was sipping some tea Florence came over and talked to me. She said they enjoyed their work ever so much, that Fannie ,Russell and Bernice Short had been with them but had become tired of it and went to give dancing lessons. She said that Dorothy Kizer and Myra Healy were at the head of the Y. VV. C. A. work in .Wfashington and that in the Puyallup branch, Clara MacDonald had charge of the gymnasium, and Elsie Kuett of the cafeteria. Raymond Dodge was now manager of a New York theater and at 'present Fred Conrad was playing the role of leading comedian. Acting with him were Alfred Driscoll, Anthony Jaureguy and Clare Thompson, who did juggling' performances for the amuse- ment of those in the gallery. Marion Sisson now came up and said she had just heard from Norma Palmer who was busy having Elsonis U. S-. History placed in every public school in large quantities. Norma had told her that Edwin and Carl Peterson had just manufactured a new kind of coal, one shovel of which put on a fire would last all day. Helen Twitchell and Eva Vance had gone to housekeeping and had jointly invented a universal bed-maker which acted automatically in laying the' covers on a bed. It was also guaranteed, to keep the bugs out. Bernice

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26 THE TAHOMA n a tenor voice by Williain Fraser. At the Puyallup Theater, 8 P. M. After reading the sign and deciding in my mind I would visit the performance that evening, I paused to look atfan elderly lady going by, with spectacles and a hoop-skirt similar to my own. I at once recognized an old class-mate, Mary Ireland. I had heard that she had gone in for women's suffrage on a grand scale, and' now my rumors were confirmed for she bore a large banner with the inscrip- tion Votes for XVo1nen. I She didn't have time to say much, but I learned from her that Anna Gilbransen, Iva Curren, and Linda Dennis were associated with her in her ennobling enterprise and that they were all trying to convert the backward states. She also said that the name Mary Ireland signified as 1Tll.1Cl1 now as Carry Nation did when we went to school. By this time I had arrived at the entrance when great was my surprise to find' Mr. and Mrs. Bradner entering at the same time. Gertrude, too, had on a hoop skirt, which, I am sorry to say, did not increase her slimness any. She told me that Burke was making a specialty of renting summer resorts and launches to different tour- ist parties. , I VVe entered the grounds together and of course I was desirous of knowing where many of our class were. Gertrude had been corre- sponding with a number of them and was able to tell me quite a bit. She said that Myra Ford and Quinn Trott were leading the great temperance movement and were giving five-minute stump speeches in all the small towns over the United States. Barry Glen now com- posed the Newlyweds in the comic supplement of ai New York paper. Veva Sadler and Margie I-Iall were posing as artists' models in Seattle and Lucile Lamoreaux and Marie Mock were canvassing for a face cream. She also said that Robert Chalmers was put out of the House of Representatives for interrupting the Speaker too much. Goodness, what has become of Romanzo XValsh P I asked. W'ell, he and Wfallace McPherson and IVillis Herbert are giving a minstrel show, advertising that they are the only red-headed negroes alive, Burke said. And what about Alison Taylor? She and Zella Turner are running a kindergartenin Utah and I guess they have a kind of hard time. I heard that Catherine Fitch tends to the babies when they cry. And by the way, Philip Barret lately invented a model aeroplane but in lighting on a haystack he

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28 TI-IE TAI-IOMA Redington and Ruth Smith were raising black roses at their home near Steilacoom and supplied the inmates of the asylum with nose- gays. .The asylum, by the way, was now run by Harold Brautigam. Annette Royse and Marguerite Shahan had gone into the farming business and were raising potatoes on a large scale. Frank Morse was found to be a descendant of Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph system and was now immensely wealthy. The girls said that they could not possibly think of another thing to tell me, so I left them to resume ,my inspection of the fair. I next visited the art gallery and there among some of the most famous painting I saw landscapes by Susie Herr and Fay VVebb, who it seems had become highly celebrated for their beautiful works on nature. Aileen Alexander's Happy VVedlock, which occupied a prominent place, was a marvel of human conception and held first place among' the paintings of the world. After looking at the pictures, I decided to visit the Domestic Building of which I knew Leslie Davis was in charge. Near the door I met Margaret Fleetwood in a white cap and apron and she personally conducted me through the building. I found Virginia Gray demonstrating breakfast food made from 'peanut shells, and John Croman, varnish for furniture. Henrietta Burmeister in a loud Voice was proclaiming the beauty of some gentlemen's cuff links she was selling, and Isabel Tunnard and Hazel Sias were superintending the sewing department. After going through the building, Margaret invited me to drink tea with her and talk over old times. Shep told me that Harriet Carrier had made her fortune in designing sheath gowns, that Eliza- beth Nelson and Alice Pillsbury were matrons in some boarding school and that Elma Leonard was designing a new kind of a sun- bonnet and tried them on Nellie Lindstrom outside of some deaprt- ment store. It seems that Ed Cook had become a famous-actor and Guy Mundem-was running a dairy and selling IW:l1l1ClC1Tl,S Milk. Robert Smythe and Ralph Robinson were -studying music under Paderewski and it is reported that he had taught them all he could. Margaret now suggested that we walk over and see the athletic meet which was the special feature of that day. There we found Arthur Erb, captain of the Giants, in the same old pose he used to exhibit in oral expression. Johnnie Cromwell was general mana- ger of the entire meet. Two runners were laboriously puffiing around the track and on further notice, I recognized them as W'illiam Olson