Show A An Editors Dramatic Entrance Philadelphia Post Post That Tat a widely known kno editor edior even though the father of a a sti still more fa famous famous famous son is sometimes caught off of his guard gard was wa shown at a recent meeting in Philadelphia It I was a great geat mass meeting at one of the he theatres Every Ever seat was occupied pled pied pie and crowds the entrances So turbulent was as the crowd even at the stage door that it 1 was wa locked on the inside The messenger boys for the newspapers newspaper were let out and In through a window windo in the green geen room The boys had to climb a high picket fence jump down into an inclosure clamber up tip p on a window sill sUI and then when the window was opened drop down do to the floor foor inside Inide V One of the boys bos had bad just been ad admitted admitted admitted But before the window could be closed close there thee loomed up on the high sill si the form of a man He was wa well wel dressed and of distinguished appear appearance appearance appearance ance He had scaled the pointed iron pickets at the imminent risk of body and raiment had clambered to the sill sm and stood there poised like a bird about abut to flutter down from frO a tree branch His knees kees were crooked for forthe forthe forthe the spring V Hallo there Go back you cried crieda a policeman cre A shade of pained annoyance anno ance came over oer the climbers face My good goodman man Im Im Mr Dont care Cant in come Get back The man became a a trifle trie embarrassed but persistent persistently held his place Still Sti keeping his knees crooked in their bird birdlike bIrdlike like position he fumbled In his pocket and ad drew forth a card cardIm cardIm Im a newspaper man man See Se Heres my police card The policeman became b tolerably suave at once nce and the man dropped to the rhe floor foor straightened his coat and cuffs und and nd walked smilingly to the te stage It I was L Clark Davis editor edior of the Philadelphia Public Ledger L and the father of Richard Ri h Harding Davis |