Memory's Milestones: Reminiscences of Seventy Years of a Busy Life in Pittsburgh; December 25, 1918 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Memory's Milestones: Reminiscences of Seventy Years of a Busy Life in Pittsburgh; December 25, 1918

Everyone who has lived a score or more years in any city has lost track of many whom he had known, and who were well worth remembering, besides hav ing almost forgotten others who were more or less in the limelight. The mention of their names, or a reference to some peculiar characteristic, brings back pleas ant memories, if not tender recollections. You know that when you go back home again you spend most of your time asking about those whom you once knew, even to the boys and girls with whom you went to school.

And what could be more delightful than to meet up with some one who had spent a long and busy life here in Pittsburgh, one with an unusual memory for names and events, besides having a wide acquaintance with the best men and women, and the happy faculty of bringing them to mind, introducing them to the circle gathered around a cozy, wholesome fireplace?

This is just what your good friend, and mine, Percy F. Smith, has done in this book. He doesn't bore you with statistics, nor weary you with family pedigrees, or obituaries, - just calls up from the past folks whom you have known, or at least have heard of, and introduces them for old acquaintance sake.

There is hardly another man in this city who can do this as well as Percy F. Smith, newspaper reporter, correspondent, publicist and business man since 1865, a good mixer and a splendid, wholesome fellow, with a matchless memory for names and faces, incident and event, and withal jovial and knows where a joke belongs.

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