Show CALLS ELMIRA MAN MORMON joke played on an a citizen who wa was member of suffragist party at new york hotel nw N w york practical jokers at el mira N Y caused unpleasant moments for their ther friend col jamea james al reynolds who li Is in new vew york on a sightseeing trip tho colonel colonels wife came to the city as one of or a suffrage lit fat delegation of twenty elmira women and the colonel was the only male member of the party the party res reg at an uptown hotel and group ed the names on tho register with a large bracket opposite bearing the ex placatory plan atory line elmira suffragists just outside of the bracket waa was the name of col reynolds boon soon after the party arrived the fol lowing telegram was delivered to the hotel proprietor sent by the practical jokers in elmira mormon elder with his wives stopping at your hotel posing as an a glet gist party man short and with amak ere ers the hotel man hant hastened ened cd to fled find col reynolds Rey nolde and showed the te telegram legrant to him lie ras dumb with aston lih ment but eventually succeeded in es hie his identity to the satisfaction of all concerned |