The Pittsburgh Academy - Eagle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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to-s 'af- TI-IE EAGLE That evening we took in a musical comedy on Broadway starring Eva Putch. It was a wonderful show, The chorus girls braved death from pneumonia every time they appeared. The next day we prepared for our ocean voyage across the Atlantic. Leaving the hotel with our bags, we ran into two big steal men. Herbert McGee and Harry Mendlow. We didn't have much time so we bade them goodfbye and hailed a passing taxi. The driver looked familiar and he turned out to be none other than jim Cox who in his haste to get us to the boat smashed into a fruit wagon. Of course there was a big fuss and much excitement at first. but when the owner of the fruit wagon, Florence Mitchell, recognized us, he was very gener- ous in making a adjustment. He permitted us to go after paying him 100 iron men to soothe his feelings. However we arrived at the wharf in time to board the ship and were met on the dock by Captain George Campbell. We were shown to our rooms and made very comfortable. While promenading the deck we ran into a party of women who were part of the Old Maids' Convention also bound for Europe. Among this group were Viola Murray and Jeanette Hughes. We inspected various parts of the ship, and while down in the engine room we discovered Harry Eichenmiller and john Ninness shoveling coal. After a pleasant journey we landed in England and a trip up the Thames brought us to London. We were conveyed to our hotel in a hack reminiscent of the days of Queen Elizabeth. The next day we met the King and Queen and others of nobility. For our special benefit the court jester Steve Zuratovic entertained with an amusing review of songs and dances. That night we visited an old English tavern, conducted by Anna Meyers and her children. Anna's husband was shot and killed in the depot. In one of the numerous cubby holes, we discovered Don Hardy and Quent McAllister dead-drunk. At this time the dancing girls featuring Zelma Heisler came out on the little stage and en' tertained with interpretive dancing. Vwfe haven't interpreted it yet. In the chorus were Mar' jorie Mourer and Peg Rankin who insisted that we see them home. We told them they could send us a picture of it. One of the girls became highly insulted and told the chief bouncer to escort us outside. He took one look at us and decided that he was needed out in the kitchen. We then made haste in getting back to our hotel. The next morning we left England by boat for France. We had a pleasant journey across the English Channel. When we arrived at Calais we took the fastest train to Paris which averaged at least hfteen miles per hour. We arrived in Paris some weeks later. While here we attended the Championship boxing bout between james Crutchfield, American Chump . and the French Champion. jim made the Frenchman remember another engagement in the second round. After the fight we went to Maxim's cafe and ran into Leah Pyles, Katheryn Brassell and Dorothy Thompson, who were busy entertaining three handsome Frenchmen. We joined the party and while there, a beautiful girl came out and sang the Sleeveless Vest . To our surprise it was Ruth Sallade and she surely was wonderful. We hated to leave Paris but as we were anxious to see Monte Carlo we made a hasty trip by automobile. While here we met john McCracken who was notoriously famous for creating another war between Italy and Spain over the price of garlic. That night at the Casino, the great gambler, Alva Loretta. was shot in a quarrel started by Harry VVhitman who claimed that the former had smoked his Y, M. C. A. cigarettes. That's the brand that Young Men Cast Away. Mr. jack Daniels, shoe string millionaire, and his wife. formerly Mattie Adams, were pres- ent during this little trouble. They were very glad to see us. Mr. Daniels' maid. Mary Glass, remembered us and told us she longed for another glimpse of the old school where she had so much fun throwing ink balls at Professor Patlzard. Leaving the Casino we noticed a woman aiicmptng to end her life by jumping from the bridge. We hurriedly stopped her and discovered it was Alice King, who burst into tears saying she didn't want to live because of trouble with her husband. Bob Ricalton. She said she didn't like his apartment, so he knocked her flat, Monte Carlo was too exciting for us, so we made all haste in leaving it. XVe made arf rangements to go to Greece by airplane and our first stop was Athens. We ran into Tony THE PITTSBURGH ACADEMY Thirty nine

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l tt ' U lf THE EAGLE For I d1'p't into the future, far as human eye could see. Saw the Vision of the world, and all the Wonder that would be -TENNYSON. A WORD IN INTRODUCTION The future, we know. is a closed hook and wrll he revealed only wrth the passage of trme. To attempt to prophesy the posrtrcrn and degree ul success whrch each member ut the class of 1926 wrll attain, would evrdently he lutrle and hrghly presumptuous un our part. It requires. however, no skrll rn the seer's art to predrct that each graduate utthe Pitts' hurgh Academy wlll succeed rn a hrgh degree and rn the truest and best sense ul the word rf he wrll h but applres the precepts learned at P. A. Vyfrth the equipment received here. our success e lrmrted only by our rnrtratrve and lndustry. Vwle have endeavored in thrs Class prophecy to produce a humorous prognostrcatlon. and shall cunsider our trme prulltalhly spent ll yuu smrle w1th us and at usu as you read our lluturc explorts. NVQ trust that our Classmates wrll accept our attempt at humor rn the sprrrt rn whrch it rs offered. DAY SCHOOL 9 ERRYN, rt says here rn the Mornrng Post that Prttshurgh Academy wrll hold its csllth commencement on Vsfednesday, june 13, at Carnegre Musrc Hall. just thrnk! Six' teen years ago the old school, alter havrng done rts hest for us. sent us lurth tu .git work and torl and succeed, And we have succeeded. haven't we? The world declares we have. Gcurge, But rt's heen a perrod ol' work and wurry. one ul' trcmenduus nervous strarn, l thunk we'vc earned a rest. Let's close the otlrce and take a trrp QIFULJII Ll the world . A r I In the prolessron ol hootleggrng one qurcltly Iorms the hahrt ol dccrdrng qurclclyg rl not, he soon passes on to jorn the ranks ol lailures. In my long scrvrce to the people as an up' holder ul' personal lrherty and the rrght ul a man In drrnk when and what he wrshes. I have weathered many tryrng srtuatrons and seen some sad srghts, hut none murc sorrowful nor heart' rendrnp than that army ol amhrtrous and rndustrrous youths who have failed hecause they were unahle to meet the demands ul. our prolessron. lt was clecrded we would leave on the lol' lllxhllnu dlly Vs'e left Prttslnurglr on a last B. and O. trarn hound lor N Y. ln Phrladelphia lvlr. and Mrs D F f vt rn horrdcd tht trun Mrs Cox rn ll h h d s IVI V o . , Io f: r r r 1 .l rr wr e rcmem ere a. rss l.ltICl1CI'l'II1g' Urn, Vv'e arrrved rn New York the next nrornrng and proceeded lu the best hotel, NXT stayed unly at the hest -that rs. the hest lor our poclcthoclts Vwlhrle rn New York the Last Natronal Bank was rohhed and our old schoolmates. Frank Ravella. Charles Newman. and james Groves. were held on sus wrcron. NVe went lu court lu hear ., , I then' case decrded upon hy judge btanley Snrrth, who was very lenrent. grvrng them llve years at hartl lahor. THE PITTSBURGH ACADEMY Thirty-eight S I l

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f -sq , aw - --....v, a- ...,,. . we 1-'gr '!'f?14 r W! . Z'f':. r f raw' THE E GLE Franks who is now a millionaire. He made all his money sending Greeks to American to open restaurants. Tony's the fellow who said Ulf at first you don't succeed, give up . Tony introduced us to his wife. who hy the way is Caroline Shipp, also an old school mate. They invited us to stay with them hut we wanted to visit Egypt, the land of beautiful scenery and-fwomen. Vxlhen we arrived in Cairo there was a hig parade and celehration in progress. We asked a passerby the reason for all the commotion and he told us the Shrek of Blllll'H2ll'1lf1 had captured the city. NVe immediately sought an introduction and to our surprise we were introduced to the Shrek, none other than lvlilton Klein, the old Academy heart heaker. NVe wondered how he had happened into such a role and he informed us that Bertha Daumer and lxdarjorie Kooser were chasing him so much he iust had to leave America. Vvlith Andrew Caydos and James Henderson as companions he set out for Africa. His companions fell in love with xi couple of heautiful Arabian B. F. M'sffBig Fat Mammztsl and left him all alone Forming an outlaw hand he soon hecame leader of this district and now was ruler of Cairo. He told us he had a hig surprise for us and he did. A dancer whom we immediately reeog' nized as Helen Burger gave the native interpretation of the f'fl.ast Drink . Believe us we were pretty thirsty when she finished. Vvle decided we would like to see the pyramids and the Sphinx, so we bade adieu to our friends and departed. Vvlhile on the desert a hand of masked outlaws stopped us. Their leader was very drunk and as we were patiently waiting for the end someone shouted Nstopll' The leader came up to us and his voice shaking with emotion and heer he said, A thousand pardons. my friends. see who it is, and he stripped of his mask. There stood Sam Zekan. Likewise several others stripped of their masks and we were pleased to see Red McClaaen. Dan Markey and james lVleCalmont, who were equally glad to see us. Vv'e reprimanded them for leading that sort of life hut they told L15 it had got so that a crook eouldn't make an honest living in America. Vvle parted the hest of friends and arrived at our destination some hours later. A Vv'e found that we were not alone. A party of students Linder the supervision of ,lessie Beck, now a school teacher, was giving the sights close inspection. Jessie forgot her dignity and 1umped with loy twe always affect them that wayj upon seeing us, The students also were glad to see us and they certainly were a jolly hunch, They poured glue in our hats to show us how much they liked us. As we were looking around, a plane flew overhead hut seemed to he in trouhle. It landed near us and we discovered that Howard Holt: and Cunard Hedherg were the aviators, also on a tour of the world. Hultz told us he was a hig automohile manufacturer and was married to lean Cherry and had eight children.-all adopted. Hedherg said he was wealthy now and had made all his money on Vviall street twhen every one else was asleep! and had retired ln fact he had come out of retirement to make this trip after spending several seasons up the Hudson river at a place ealled. oh yes-Sing Sing. He told us that it was a very exclusive place. almost everyone heing harred. i'Frosty Vvlinter also was a memher, we learned Qui' tourist friends invited us to help them discover the trouhle with their plane, After spending several hours doing so, we found that it was out of gasoline. They asked us to accompany them, So we accepted their offer. China was our next stop and somewhere over lndia we lost our lunch. The natives must have thought the Salvation Army was organizing a new division. China is a wonderful place,4fl'or Chinamcn. Vvle met Harold Vvfinters who now owns a chain of laundries in America. He was here lnurkllig Ivor more Clivnarnen. Vsfe also ran into Dorothy lVlcl.aughhn and her stranded musical comedy show. It seems as tho' the Chinese women Llltlllll appreciate her show altho' the men did. hut you know how women are. Qui' next point of ohjeetive was the l hihppine lslands Here we met many old school acquaintances Arthur jacques and Bernard Chajnowski were lvlarines who were seeing the world from Manila Bay. They told lls that they had heen there for over six months and were thinking of heconiing artists. They said they had unhnuted ahility for drawing, flies. etc. Vsfhile walking down the main street. we met H. H. Giles. eminent sportsman and philan- thropist who maintains a home here. He is the author of that famous book, 'iThe Lost B. V. Du. He invited us to come out for a visit and we did so, meeting his wife, the former lvlary Dllliiiill. She was delighted to see us, and we were entertained royally. THE PITTSBURGH ACADEMY Forty N ,..t,.s.r .. . .. gt .a.s,.,.. 4 -.ms K K