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...army and scatter it home. With diplomacy replacing armed force, the rest of the job was accomplished last week by the combined efforts of Daniel Willard, president of Baltimore & Ohio R. R., David Barry, brother-in-law of Steelman Charles Michael Schwab, and "Eddie" McCloskey. scrappy little Mayor of Johnstown...
Impetuous Mayor McCloskey, onetime prizefighter, had invited B. E. F. leaders to Johnstown to reorganize their forces retreating from Washington. His invitation was also accepted by the B. E. F. rank & file. Almost overnight an encampment of some 8.000 men, women & children sprang up in an amusement park on the outskirts of town. It teemed with filth and flies. There was little or no food. One good storm would have devastated its pup tents, lean-tos and bough huts. As a camp, it made the Anacostia bivouac look like a regular Army post. Mayor McCloskey realized he and his city...
...Johnstown, While the Army "mopped up" the Capital of all B. E. F". stragglers, Virginia blocked the veterans on the South. Maryland supplied trucks to carry thousands of them to the Pennsylvania line. The Red Cross handled the women & children. Red-headed Mayor Eddie McCloskey of Johnstown. Pa., onetime pants-presser and prizefighter, invited B. E. F. leaders to his city to reorganize their force. Johnstown citizens protested loudly when veterans began to straggle in and bivouac in a fly-ridden amusement park outside town, where another B. E. F. baby was born...
Died. Frederick Samuel Duesenberg, 55, automobile manufacturer, racer; of injuries received in an automobile accident; in Johnstown...
...collected small sums for his tram's food and gasoline. Accompanied by his mother, Father Cox stepped out on the portico of his church, consulted his lieutenants. Two were priests like himself, another a lawyer. Waiting to join him en route was prizefighting, pants-pressing Mayor Edward McCloskey of Johnstown (1889 flood town). Then Father Cox signalled for his motorcade of 1,000 trucks and cars to get underway, climbed into the lead lorry...