Northeast High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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47 7 NORTIIEASTG 9 JUNE l928 + W7 ff taekets told us that Bob Petatt and Erme Plunkett were havlng a pltchers duel That might have been so but when we arrived an the seeond mnang the score was 7 an Bobs favor We also learned that Alson Wauleautt had hat no less than 10 home runs IU IU traps to the plate whale H Flsher and W A C oates had as usual fanned 10 tames eaeh Playang to these two men were the only opportunatle C atehers W Frankenfaeld and M Movsessaan had of touehang the ball Ray Downs and D SIIHOIISUII were bat boy and Water boy respeetavely The umplres were R A Geasel and H M Hert oe whale George Sehaffner was a eoaeh When we sava that Paul Brueker and H E Blank vtere sellang peanuts and hot dogs ID the stands we hurraedly left narrowly mlssang ann1h1lat1on by one of Ernle s many vylld pltehes A large hurldmg aero s the treet drew our attentaon and mvestagataon proved at to be an oy ter factory The presadent vyas none other than B Freneh Speeee XVlth N Leonard as chief eanner French always dad l1ke oyster even baek an sehool Edvyan Ross was edatorm ehaef of the Datly News vuth offices an the basement of Frenchs faetory He ometlmes aaded Speeee but more often daetated to has news editor Dave Sykes to has tar reporter Albert Kovaeh and to has wat and humor UQ staff eomposed of Abe Ulxtsky and Ancel Ixafrassen oseph Larklns eondueted a l1terary page vyhxle E A Lomax was has bltterest and only eflfle Herbert Lomax the earpet manufacturer was the sole eonslstent advertaser the paper had Eddie had started the News w1th a llttle serap of paper but rt had grown to be a whole rubb h pale Speakang of pales Lawrence Mandell our paternal lake class presldent had mad p1le of dough lecturrng on the subject Women As They Should Be and lf So Why? Nearmg the Banquet Hall we saw a large stone ehurch where john B Morrason was m1n1 ter T Pearlste1n and N C Schuh were deacons and Ralph Wunner was church organist Rabba Dallett O Ne1ll had opened a synagogue across the street w1th Carl and james Schuek as chlef cantors A large theatre owned by S D Owens had among lesser attractxons Charles Espenshade an Ladaes Must Dress Bernard and Godfrey Tlnt an a speelalty dance J Gerhart and E A Blood 1n a gymnast aet and Orrln de Haven Quanby an a monologue and dance An evemng paper announced the results of the prevlous day s electaons They were as follows Ross Worthangton wa appomted Presldent of the Unlted States by Large Margans KHAFYIS Goldstemj Morra Elllott was Secretary to Ross whale A G Hahn had charge of the Treasury and had already lSSLl6d twenty hve eents an bogus notes George Gordon was eleeted dog catcher of Seotland and George Ulrlek was mad chaef snake eharmer of C eeho Slovakla Charles Evans was paeked to devote has lafe to the betterment and uplift of the Pastachlo Trabes an central Mongoha He was quoted as saylng that he would teach the nataves economy by extractang the water from watermelons N Rosenba k was elected Chlef Ham Inspeetor at Burkes w1th A H Aronowatz as tester J Ohtsky was made the Presldent of the Ir1sh Free State w1th N B Shaplro J Kaplan and S Molhnger as asslstants B Dutton and R Tenkln were gaven the job of Blteefflfyllig the world Frederaek Fleehter had eharge of keeplng the wand malls of Holland goang w1th exhaust and va as eUl1SlLlLI'll'lf an offer of rep aelng the hot a1r he atlna system at the Publle Lrbrary Blllldlll 1 Alee Pant uk QBandyj xyas glven the responsable posataon ot keepane Krankvllle supplied vaath ehaeken meat Vane-.nt Ivloran was appolnted to ueeeed Mu ol1n1 Tuentx 'nme 1? 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+ 0+ -Q' NORTHEAST G E JUNE l928 + 'ihwy cv f The Class Prophecy OMEONE once sa1d that t1me warts for no man Thls ln reallty seems to be the truth as It has eaused 227 students just ten years to Wdlf IH order to achleve thenr hve s amb t1ons It IS the twentieth day of une nmeteen hundred and thlrty elght and these preelous 777 world beaters have been ejeeted from thelr Alma Mater Northeast H1911 Sehool for preclsely ten years The wrlter had spent a busy afternoon 1n hrs englneerlng ofhees havmg d1sposed of three 5 eent msuranee agents and was preparmg to elose for the day Albert Stover my partner was glvmg mstruetlons to the clerk bookkeeper stenographer and ofliee boy eombmed one Wlllldm Sehe1del when the phone bell vlgorously rang Wlth thoughts of that rare e mmodlty customers ln my bram I dashed to the mstrument to Hnd that Mr Howard Colehovy r requested Albert s and my pres nces at the Annual Banquet of the Amerlean Engmeermg Soclety Aeeeptlng we deelded to make the trrp by alrplane and jumped lnto 1 Yellovy IIXI mstruetlng the drlver to take us to the Avlatlon Field Would th it we had recrgnl ed the dr1ve1 before he reeogmzed u for tveas no other than that lmpetuous athlete Harry S Redeker Harry evxdently remembered hrs schoolboy days and celebrated our presence wlth three aee1dents He f1rst demolrshed a Ford drlven by B111 Schoenhut wlth K1mber Lee and Hugo Merkle as pa sengers H1s next v1ct1m was a steam shovel owned by the Emll B Weber Construttxon Company plloted by the Messrs D j Forden and L Elsenburg Last but not least we hut an lee wagon drlven by George Kills knoeklng from the rear of the wagon one Frank Kmg hrs brother who was servlng the rec Fmally arrlvmg at the field very much the worse for our tr1p we bought our tckets from Charlle Brltsch and boarded the plane Our treket shovyed that Brantley Elllott was the Pres1dent of the A1r Corporatlon Raymond Gross was Vlee Presxdent Harry Martln was ehlef stockholder and horror of horrors john Stephenson was the Treasurer' Cpposxte to us sat Edgar Everett and W F Albrecht both of whom were prom1nent electrlexans They told us that G and j E Hartman were foremen vtorklng for the Turklsh Eleetrlc Company yyhrle A L Zwerner and E11 Morton vyere a soerates to the great lnventor Edward Weber Our tlckets were collected by Conductor Harold Mueller who ev1dently was up to his old trlcks of collectmg money The plane was plloted by Albert Eckelmeyer and what a p1lot he was' We narrowly m1SS6d the top floor of the sky scraper known as the Northeast Co ed Hlgh School deslgned by W11l1am Fedell and Charles H111 and bullt by the joseph Haefelm and Earl Lmd Companles And our meehanle' He was ealled Charlie Braunwarth back at Northeast but that 1sn t what Samuel Axelrod called h1m when he dropped a monkey wrench on Sam s head Such IS llfe' Readmg a tablo1d newspaper over an old lady s shoulder I saw where Wllllam K R1ChmdD had just graduated from Bryn Mawr and was conslderlng takmg a post graduate eourse at Penn State Another artlele told of the sale of Clty Hall Annex from jumor Hyman to Carl Kugler for thlrty five eents negotlated by the Leslle A Wr1ght Real E tate Broker Company A th1rd mentloned that Teddy Splcer was the prmclpal speaker at the openlng of the nevy art museum on the Parkvyay Charlie Chlrkms plcture was 1n one of the advertlsements announcmg that he used Amsterdam s Face Powder ln a vam attempt to keep that schoolboy complexxon Eck finally brought us safely to the ground m1SSlI1g by lnches the plane that Thomas Chorley the Engllshman was usmg to fly to Saturn or some other fool place Nobody cared any way except hrs backers R E Faust and Frank E Hahn a mov1e man w1th VISIOHS of wealth Fearful of taklng any more tax1 cabs we started to walk to the Banquet Hall Seemg a large crowd around a pollee box we elbowed our way rn and beheld Patrolmen S Rlley and C Murphy arrestmg Belvm J Evans for sellmg unpatented soup SIYAIIIEYS at less than eost pr1ce Rushmg from the scene of the tragedy we came upon the ball park where a large slgn announced that Wayne Fretzs Phrladelphxa Athletrcs were playmg Nelson Strrretts Yankees H S Magmn collectmg Twenty eight 2 Aung. , S mi Try, I - '1 ' -154,59 . 7 19,-W, I' Q T7 ' 'Lf 1 i rip' j 3 Q ,.., -, Q ' 1 P H 1 , ' S 3 5 . . 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TT' X fi' NORTIIEASTG A -U 8 JUNE l928 Walter Wetzel elected as chlef undertaker proved that he had a great future behlnd h1m followlng ln Dr Thomas Shaw s footsteps Aaron Solomon was made the Vulgar Boatman of Russ1a The last g1V6D xn the long l1st of exeeutlves vxere Louls and Samuel Cohen both of whom were made managers of the Chlnese pawnshop systems vuth oflices on the banks of the Rlver Shannon The paper went on to say that W1lbUf Zlmerman had also thrown h1s hat ln the rxng for Mayor of Manayunk but had not gotten It baek Now he has to buy a new one We suggest th at he get a Mareel Sussman model the klnd vyorn by the Olymple star Charles F St1er Wlllldm Cantley and Charles Yust Flnally mueh battle searred and brulsed as well as mentally unbalanced Al and I arrlved at the Banquet Hall We were eordlally weleomed by Rlchard Beeker and R O Elekna members of the banquet commlttee and lntrodueed to Russ Garner Carl Brltseh and A ones all promment e1v1l engineers Thomas Morrlson took our eoats and conducted us to the reeeptlon room I plcked up a magazine wh1ch I found was edlted by W1ll1am H Dlehl and began a phllosophle story by Jaeob Wolkeau We were ushered 1nto the mam Banquet Hall at exactly s1x o cloek by tvyo attendants M Berger and C F Ell1ott The d1nner was supplled by the A Sweemon Caterlng Company wlth W Volkert B Protas and A Sabaroff among the vtalters Harold Seberhagen gave the pr1nc1pal address of the evenlng whlle A N Johnston H J Crane andJ E Hale were among the other speakers I sat next to ohn Sloan who told me that he was also an englneer runmng a dmky down at Baldwln s Loeomot1ve Works He sald that hls foreman was none other than W1ll1am Seattergood whlle Thomas Hart was shovehng eoal lnto the dlnky s furnace Tom evldentlv was preparmg h1m elf for hrs future occupatlon ID the other world Among the others present who had been sueeessful as electr1eal and meehanleal engmeers were George Schladensky Albert G1lmer E Faraeo and R S Be1dler The orehestra supplymg the muslc was led by Morrls Abrams wlth M Gelfand Samuel Sehwart and E Kalthoff as members The music was as usual terrxble and we were glad to get outslde agaln The Hrst s1ght to meet our eye was what seemed to be an approachlng army equlpped wlth tanks drums and whozlts Closer lnvestlgatlon however showed that the tanks were mere baby earrlages whlle the drum llke no1ses were eaused by baby rattles There were exaetly twelve ehlldren and a wxfe all the proud possessxon of W1ll1am F1t gerald B111 d1dnt look very mueh hke a shelk pushlng a tw1n baby carrlage He told u that George Hengert had already been d1vorced five tlmes vuth promlse of several more to come Erb F Bu by Carl Sehwlnn and C F Gack were among our classmates vnth happy fam1l1es Carl belng the VICL pres1dent of Shears Onebuek and Company Passlng the court house deslgned by Harry Schem and T Adamc yk we saw that Belvln Evans trlal veas just commg up Walter Gebeleln was the judge N Choderker the prosecuting attorney and George Elsenburg Lou1 Smlth and Harold Stevens the eounsel for the defense Among the many elerks were R A HHFIIS Wlllllm B Lawrence and A Chesler all three of whom had gotten thelr QOQIUOIIS through the pull of polltlelan Harry Bloek Evans was released due to te tlmony rf Wcnlcxk and V Fardene whlle Charles Mellhenny Evans partner turned state evldenee at the last moment Al Stover and I declded to return by means of the latest addltlon to the sclence of avlatlon a machlne that looked like a tra1n was equlpped wxth neither WIUQS nor rudders and was capable of developlng a maximum speed of 1000 m1les per hour The eontraptlon was the result of several years of experrmentlng by Edward Platte L E Llss md J R Crozrer baeked by a group of promment Thirty y'nv.L, -, s if a ,JA 7 --- ' 'Q ,f' our V5 Mg, , . ':'.2.. 1 ,A aa., 5 'Q'-1:1 I 0 -e-e-1 -Q f f i A , , . . . . I , . . . . . Q , 7 . S 1 Y 'Q , , ' - , , Y 1 , . . e 1 . . , . . . 1 -s I v r ' ' Q S ' 1 1 ' H3 ' S 9 T 9 7 . . . , I u - xx ' A 'D x ' 4 ' ' ' 3 'A A w 1 v ' ' .I 1 4 5 7 ' 9 3 H - 4 ' I ' S ' Y Y ' , e , . - - - ' w - s , . , . a ' f ' 5 k, . . , , . . . e e . , 1 I I as f , ' .. , y . . Q . I. , V 3 . . x . .. , 7 M - , A 3 . . , 5 . 1 x -- '- ,- . I- ' , , . . . . e - ., , , , . , I. . , . Y 5' 3 3 4 ' Y . . 5 , , 3 , . . 5 ' Q . ' 1 9 s -1 9 ' y ' ' , -, , , . . , , - ' , . v v - , -. . . Y . Q I . . V. . E V Y , . H Q . . . , J. 1. , . . , e y s s, - . , ee e -, e , . I . , W Y 5 . e r , e . 4. , . . . , . , . 1 . , . , e Y, S . , . , - , . . . , . . I e , 3 . . , ,Q ' Q I I S , Q . e r . , .. . . , Q . , . 7 . , 5 V, , x s 1 1 v a 4 ' I 5 - 1 I , ' . , . 7 . r i , I . , . . 1 . . ,