Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1913 — WORRIED OVER HIS ABSENCE [ARTICLE]

WORRIED OVER HIS ABSENCE

Dennis Redmond, Aged 99, Thinks He’s Old Enough To, Even If His 1 Daughter Does Worry. New York.—When Dennis Redmond, who is a spry young man of ninety-nine, strolled into the house at 867 Morris avenue, the Bronx, where he lives with his daughter, Mrs. William H. Nash, the latter asked mildly where he had been since Friday morning. Redmond replied that he thought he was old enough to stay away from home overnight once in awhile. Didn't Mrs. Nabh think so? Mrs. Nash admitted be was, but added that she and her husband, wbo is a battalion chief in the fire department, had been worried over his absence; So that reckless youth explained. He went out for a walk, he said, and then decided he would go down to a store on Astor place where he used to work and see some of his friends. Then, being near -the old Fourth ward, he took a notion to visit some of his former cronies, some of whom are mere infants of eighty or so. This be did. and the time passed

i •> pleasantly and rapidly that when one of his friends suggested that he spend the night he accepted and did not send word home. He had no idea any one would wdrry about a young man past twentyone. But Mr. and Mrs. Nash did worry—so much so that they told the police of the Morrisania station, who sent out a confidential alarm. Mr. Redmond seemed to think that was a highly foolish proceeding.