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Show BJ j , Subject of a Practical, Joke in New York Hotel Now York, Jnn. 25. Practical jokers jok-ers in Elniira, N. Y., caused some unpleasant un-pleasant moments for their friend, Col. James M. Reynolds, who is in New York on a sight-seeing trip. iB Tho colonel's wife came to tho city a p as one of a suffragist delegation or I it Twenty women, and the colonel was I 7 the only male member of tho part. 9 l The party registered at an uptown I f hotel and grouped the names on the 9 4 resister with a large bracket oppo- II site, bearing the explanatory line 1 "Elmira suffragists." Just outside the 9 ft bracket was the namo of Col. Rey-1 Rey-1 i nolds. 8 Soon after the party arlrved the fol- I lowing telegram was delivered to the hotel proprietor sent by the practical prac-tical Jokers in Elmira: ''Mormon elder with his wives stopping stop-ping at your hotel posing as suffragist suffra-gist party. Man short and with whiskers." The hotel man hastened to find Col. Reynolds and showed tho telegram tele-gram to him. He was dumb with as- ,. tonlshment, but eventually succeeded I i in establishing his identity to tho I X satisfaction of all concerned. |