Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1895 — Pays for Trunks as Well. [ARTICLE]

Pays for Trunks as Well.

Gen. Edward F. Jones, of Binghamton, who is known to fame as the man who pays the freight and as the Democratic lieutenant governor who persisted in being a candidate for Governor when the bosses told him not to be, has another claim to fame. Reading in a paper that a small boy in Binghamton had been arrested for swimming with no trunks on, he Went out and bought 500 articles of that description, hunting up 500 boys, and made them a speech and gave each a pair of trunks.—Buffalo Express. i