Eureka Reporter | 1904-09-16 | Page 4 | Gen. Tracy's Queer Hand

gen tracy s queer hand some time during the year before gen tracy was appointed secretary of the navy and went to wash agton to live the tracys had in their brook ian home an irish servant girl who was something of a character tall i rawboned and muscular cross eyed and freckled frac kled she was not much to look at but her dignity was not to be trifled with unable to read or write ter ingenuity in evading the adais ion was a source of much amusement 0 o her employers one day when the members of the family were all away in the country she received a telegram the general and taking it i round to the grocery store she said to the proprietor whom she knew well tom there s just one word in this telegram I 1 cant make out the gen oral does write such a queer hand new york mes