Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1909 — "FIGHTING BOB” EVANS PASSES THROUGH RENSSELAER. [ARTICLE]

"FIGHTING BOB” EVANS PASSES THROUGH RENSSELAER.

Admiral Robley D. Evans, U. S. N., retired, hero of two wars and one of the greatest masters of naval strategdy since the days of the- interpid John Paul Jones, passed through Rensselaer Wednesday *on the 10:55 a. m., train enroute for Bloomington, where he addressed the students of Indiana University Wednesday night. There was nothing, unless 4t was the brown, seamed face, black gray hair and knotty hands to mark him as a man of the sea, but the square jaw and body pitched slightly forward marked him as a fighter. He is suffering a little from rheumatism, and a pair of crutches supported his weight. When told that he was not looking as sick as newspaper reports would have him, he replied, "I don’t. I never do.” He made sev«, eral commonplace remarks about the weather and with the departure ofj the train he waved his hand as • long as he was in sight. It is not often that so distin-! guished a personage passes through our city and had the people been, apprkised earlier of his presence on that train a good sized crowd would I have turned out to greet him.