Northeast High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Tfpon opening it, great headlines confront me, amongst them the following: f'Great excitement. Panic feared. Gigantic pie trust formed. XVilliams, the great Pie King, at its head. A monopoly of mince pies feared. First appearance of the famous one-stringed violinist. Remarkable hypnotic effect produced on audiences by Von NVeber, the great Virtuoso. The famous Hybernian Trio to appear at the Auditorium, Stories, Songs and Dances of the Emerald Isle. Fagan, the popular Irish comedian, Coward, the double-jointed clog dancer, and Buehn, the silver- tongued singer. f'Unusual exhibition at John Sonneborn's Sporting Club. Fitzsimmons' wrestling lion outdone. Umholtz, the worlds champion pugilist. will box with loco, his trained African Gorilla. In this connection, we mention that loco was captured by Louis Wfidmer, the great African hunter and explorer, on one of his trips into the interior. The world's conservatory of music has conferred upon Messrs. Collum and Haldeman its highest honors in recognition of their interpretation of classical music. The long-looked-for reconciliation between the forces of the Salvation Army and the Volunteers of Amer- ica hnally consummated through the efforts of the commanders, Conklin, of the Salvation Army, and johnson and Grimth, of the Volunteers. Unusual performance at the annual games of the Hercules Athletic Club. Dill and Cornog, the famous tl l t l a 1 e es, break all existing records. Dill puts the hammer at a IQOfCC'L1 Cornog runs the dash in 5 I-5 seconds. Two new ste f tl ti totally eclipsed. 'trs o 16 rst magnitude have appeared. The fame of Forest, Booth and other great actors The Manunka Chunk sewing circle, in view of the interest manifested by Messrs. Snowden, Wfilkinson and R d , - ,i - . . o enhauscn in XVomens Sufflage, has elected them to honorary membership and active participation in its deliberations. The great maturity race at Patchogue. After being left at the post, Jockey Maurice Felton, riding Brutus, a dark horse. makes a sensational finish and wins by an eyelash. N ew attractions at the Wfoods Dime Museum. At great expense the management has secured Clarence D ' I l '- - ame s, tie Human Gnahce, Le Roy Gouldy, the X-Ray Skeleton, and XV G. Blemle, the African Pigmyf' In one corner of the paper T noticed this advertisement: 32

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Reaching the ship, I was conducted to a state-room. As it was only a few hours until daylight, I threw my- self upon the bed and wondered who the Captain of this great ship could be. I was soon to be enlightened. A knock sounded on the door and my guide of the night before appeared to conduct me to him. My surprise can be imagined when I recognized Lockhart, who informed me that he was captain, owner and navigator of the ves- sel and known as the Aerostatic Sportsman, although the ship was invented by Francis XVirth. Desiring to know what power propelled the ship,he informed me that it was the I-Iot Air generators, de- signed and built by Herst and Horn. who,-after many years of verbal efforts, had at last produced something practical. . I-Ie also told me that the unusual Flash of light sent into my room was procured by radium, now used ek- tensively for light and especially for heating purposes, the latter feature being a discovery of George Kays, who had experimented with it for Cold Feet. 'fThat is a very nne school building, I remarked. Yes, that is the Leon Scott Semi-Preparatory Institute, conducted by a corps of former brilliant students, Wfeldie, Xlfeinman, Soulas, Wiilcox, Cairns and Forney. They have evolved a remarkable system, I-Iow not to study or proving the whichness of the what. Noticing an immense factory, I learned that a substitute for soap was manufactured there. Believing soap unhealthy, the firm of XNeiss, Kimmelman, lfVexlar 81 Epstein had refused to use it, but the inexorable require- ments of nature had demanded a substitute. So after much experimenting and mental anxiety, they had pat- ented 'Dirtof' and were making a fortune. That great building you see over there is the home of the Cerebro Dynamic Expositor, the greatest daily newspaper in the country. The owner is Bertram, and the editor was once a lightning talker, but was persuaded by friends to write instead of talk, so Vandegrift editorials are quoted far and wide. They also have two very clever short-story writers, whose 710771 dv f1!111110s are U. R. Daffy and S. O. Ami. You no doubt recognized them as Clofme and Maurer. The cartoonist of the paper is Hyman IfVeiss, whose caricatures of the N. E. I3rofs.will ever be remembered. l'That great funnel that you notice on the roof of the building is intended to project. by compressed air, a copy of the paper to passing vessels. It is called the Aerophone, and is an invention of Horle and Hilton. Iwill signal for a copy by the new wireless telegraph. It is much superior to the Marconi system, and is the combined invention of Wfilbraham, Lentz and Albrecht, and is called the double action, non-talking signaling multi-polar wireless telegraphf' Immediately a paper drops at my feet. 31 l

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izl IO essioi 1 sentimental correspondence. Letters written for young' people who do not feel able to con- duct their own correspondence, by Charles Hayllar. The following is an example of my style: Florence, darling, how I loye you, You are precious, only joy. l'll be true as stars above you, I'll be ere your faithful boy. My further perusal of the paper was interrupted by my friends saying, The Great Republican Convention is being held in XVashing'ton, and if you desire, we will stop there. Acquiescing in this, We steered in that direction. My attention was called to a hne building, and l was informed that it had been erected by XVarren E. Mc- Cann, the well-known philanthropist, as an asylum for overworked students: some of the inmates were Blanck, Ridgway, Parker. Krauss, Righter and Lapp. The large factory just ahead, I was told, was the plant of the noted leather manufacturer, Sepas. The sound ot chimes reached my ear. l learned that it proceeded from the beltry ot the All Saints' Allied United Undenominational Church, and the bell ringers were experts, by the name ol Davey and Hirst. The 'Former minister, E. R. Sabin, having accomplished uniting all denominations under one common head, had resigned to aisist his friend, the Rev. H. H. Kirk. in evangelizing the natives ot Roxborougli, Manayunk and Germantown, and teaching them congregational music to the tune of Tessie. Rev. Dudley Seguin has assumed tl1e pastorate, xand is doing excellent workf' Wife were now hovering over XfVasl1ington, and hnally made a landing on the Dome of the Capitol, through which we descended into tl1e rotunda, and thence to the Senate Chamber. A very interesting debate was in progress. In the speakers I recognized Hon. Pussy Rothtuss, Hon. P. A, Nidecker, Hon. Erwin Stein and Hon R. Bruce Murphy. They were just as excitable and talkative as in their school days, and after listening a while, T could sym- pathize with the old darkey, wlio, when in a thunder storm, after a heavy crash, tell on his knees and prayed, A little less noise and a little more light, Lord. After the debate, Senator 'Oving'ton. of Fox Chase, moved that Congress express the thanks of the nation to General UD Albert Keinath, for bravery in suppressing the Mormon insurrection in IQZQ, under the leadership of George A. Clowes, the President ol the Mormon Church, nn ...J