Riverview Military Academy - Orbit Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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day was How to cook a hard boiled egg. Fortunately, I arrived there near the end of the period, and did not have to stand the strain for long. As soon as the girls had left the room fand there were some three hundred of themj, I went up and shook hands with Dr. Bartlett and asked him with what success he had met as the principal of a girls, institution. He started to laugh. Still at itf' he said, here I have been demonstrating the method of cooking hard boiled eggs, and the girls never noticed that I was using a china egg as a demonstratorf' After having been shown around the buildings, I bade Yvolly farewell, and again started on my way. In due time I E reached New York City, and started down 5th Ave. at I a good rate of speed. Suddenly, a big, burly, curly- headed policeman held me up for speeding. As soon 25 as he recognized - i- an feng st x X me, he started to smile-that gave him away. Well, Dutch, I said, 'fwhat have you been doing since I last saw you at Riverview in 1911. He in- formed me that after he was graduated from Cornell, where he had won his C for break- ing the smile record, and where he had been put out of sixteen boarding houses for robbing the pet dog's breakfast every morning, he had joined the police force in New York City. Since that time, he had been diligently working on the mystery of the Empty Taxicab, and had Hnally come to the conclusion that there was nothing in it. Y0u'd better stop and see Judge Crum, Ciara -, QM? he concluded, ' whose office is just across the way theref' As ' ' I entered the court room, I C could tell by the A strained expres- sions of the faces of all present, v that a very im- ll ----Y portant case was -F + being tried. - Judge Percy sat

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I took Ernst in my car with me and together we went as far as the Falls, where, for some unknown reason, Dr. Russell thought he had better leave me. On the Main Street corner at lvappin- -4. ' 1 455- H f I gers, my at- tcn tion was attracted to a short, exceed- ingly thin fig- ure, clad in a b utch er's garb, stand- ing behind a booth strung with la r g e , German sau- s a g e s . I thought that that face looked somewhat familiar to me. As soon as he noticed me, he shouted a word of greeting and I recognized old Sausage Harcourt, whom I knew when a boy and with whom I went to school. I stopped and conversed with him for a short lime, during which conversation he informed me that he was living a dog's life, but that his business was certainly increasing. Do you know, he said, only last week I sold three thousand sausages to Dr. I3artlett's school for girls at Dobbs Ferry. You remember IVolly, don't you? After wishing Sausage every success in his business, I continued on my way, fully determined to stop and see Dr. Bartlett and his school at Dobbs Ferry. I drove up to the school at about Q P.M. and en- quired at the office forthe prineipal. They informed me that just at present he was teaching a class, but that I might see him if it were absolutely necessary. Someone took my card down to Prof. Bartlett, and brought back the reply that I should come down to his class room. I was ushered into an enormous room, in the center of which stood Ivolly, just as cheerful as ever, clad in a 5? M I sg Q ' 1 3- 39. M white linen suit and cap. teaching a class in DomestieScience. His particular theme for thc

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in a large chair at one end of the room, his silvery top in strong contrast with the black upholstering of the chair, and listened at- tentively to the case in hand. I gathered from a bystander that the fuss was about a woman whom a certain druggist had accused of stealing 100 boxes of talcum powder. The room had become quiet. Presently Judge Crum arose, his stately figure awed the entire court room to silence. The case is no case at all he said. This druggist can't make a charge out of talcum powder! Every one was satisfied, and the court was adjourned. Judge Crum slipped out in the crowd some- where before I Mid! could speak to ' -P him, so I again I took to my gaso- 9 line buggy. , I I . I had not gone imqtl very far, before a most spectacu- ' lar sight con- ' fronted me. A l A most gorgeous parade was com- L 'A-so ,il ,ingdown liroad- - -, - way, headed by the best music in the country, the Riverview band. So far as I could judge, the parade was in honor of some most lordly personage, for such banners as Long live the general, The cleanest sweep in the country, etc. ware to be seen on all sides. Bye and bye, the general himself approached, seated in an open carriage in company with the Mayor, and a few other noted personages of that city. Of one of the excited bystanders, I asked what this great man had done to deserve all of this honor and who he was. Why, don't you know, he asked me, that is General Gildersleeve, lately appointed, of the New York street cleaning department. lfVhy, he is the best of his kind the city has ever had. His education even makes it possible for l1in1 to talk with the Greeks on the street corners, and tell them to stop throwing banana skins all over the streetf, Then I remembered the General Gildersleeve up at school, and rejoiced that one of my class mates at least enjoyed such a distinctive position.