Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1915 — Splendid Memory. [ARTICLE]

Splendid Memory.

Recently Philip O’Day, a coal dealer of Brooklyn, died and it was found that for nearly twenty years he had kept complete tally of his business in his head. He had not the slightest knowledge of arithmetic, as taught, but according to his own methods was able to remember who owed him and wbom he owed, down to a cent. His sons associated with him In the business kept a private account book, but they never dared let their father know about it. Just before his death the coal merchant tolc[ them the names of all debtors and the amounts due. Even in his dying moments he spoke "with scorn of the need his sons found for using pencil and paper to take down what be told them. After their father had passed away the sons found his memory was even better than their account book, for they had neglected putting down certain sums ■ the old merchant had reported to '■ them.