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By ELMO SCLTT WATSON
—11AKE a look at the top two
pictures shown above and
answer the question,
“Which is Lindy?" Now
check your answer with
this: The famous aviator
Is shown in picture No. 1.
The young man in picture
No. 2 who so closely re-
sembles the “Lone Eagle”
is Diedrick Ramke, twenty-three years
old, who was graduated from Louisi-
ana State university last year. Not
only is he “Lindy’'s” double in appear-
ance but also in courage, for despite
the fact that he is stone blind it could
not hinder him from his determina-
tion to get an education and as a re-
sult he ranked third in a class of 221
and was elected valedictorian by his
fellow-senlors.
Now take a look at the lower two
pictures shown above and answer the
question, “Which is Buffalo Bill?"
Whether you answer “No. 3” or “No.
4," you will be wrong for neither is
& picture of the famous scout, Indian
fighter and Wild West showman, de
spite the fact that both resemble Colo-
nle Cody so strongly as to be able to
pass for him among most people. No.
3 Is Col. C, L. Alexander of Hastings,
Neb., an old-time stage-coach driver
and contemporary of Cody's. Now 4
is James Beitel, Civil war veteran
who 1s spending his last days in the
State Soldiers’ and Sa home at
Sandusky, years
jeitel attracted considerable
by his claim that he was a friend of
Cody's and that he often substituted
for Buffalo Bill in the arena
Cody's Wild West show
Interesting as are the above cases
there's nothing especially remarkable
about them for scientists tell us that
every one of us has a double—some-
where. The only reason why that fact
is not more commonly known is that
our path, or the path of our friends
who are likely to notice the striking
resemblance, doesn't always happen
to cross the path of our double so we
don't know of his existence.
To account for such doubles, Doctor
van Bemmelen, a professor at the
University of Groningen, Holland, has
advanced the theory that they are
blood relations, though the family
connection is often remote. In many
Instances of striking resemblance
Doctor van Bemmelen established a
common ancestry. He calculates that,
going back eight generations, a man
has 256 ancestors, and in 30 genera-
tions 1,000,000! Hence, there would
not be enough forebears to “go
around” unless many of us have the
same ancestors in common,
But perhaps the most Interesting
case of a double in which Lindbergh
is concerned is the striking resem-
blance between him and another trans-
atlantic flyer, almost as famous as
he. Only here it's a case of a man
and woman being doubles, for this
example of some one who “looks like
Lindy” is Miss Amelia Earhart, some-
times referred to as “Lady Lindy.”
Following Lindbergh's rise to fame
and her own interest in aviation, Miss
Earhart's friends often commented on
her resemblance to the international
hero of the air, and this may have
acted ns a stimulus to folow his flight.
If there is some connection between
ambition to be like some one else and
a physical resemblance between those
two, then It may account for the un-
usual likeness that has been found to
exist between Jack Dempsey, former
heavyweight champion, and Max
Bchmelling, the Germany heavyweight.
But how can this be applied to ac-
count for the resemblance between
Senator Royal 8. Copeland of New
York and Senator Hiram Johnson of
California. Did Mr. Copeland have
an ambition to be like Mr. Johnson or
vice-versa? Or does the fact that they
are in the same calling, 1 e. being
a United States senator, have some
thing to do with it?
Almost every famous man, It would
seem, has a double, and some of them
have more than one. Sir Charles I.
Madden, former commander of the
British fleet, 1s declared to be a “per-
fect double” for King Georve V of
England, as Is Sir Henry Whitehead,
British textile manufacturer, who re-
sembles the English monarch so
closely that, arriving In New York
some months ago, he had difficulty
ilors
Ohio. Several
ago
attention
during
career,
convincing shipnews reporters that he
wasn't the king Incognite.
A halt block away from the roar
of the Grand Central terminal in New
York city, a man who is a “dead ring-
er” for Thomas A. Edison wears a
porter's badge and pushes a baggage
truck. A
double of
mou ik
Czar Nicholas of
Russia, and a petty rr of Count
Leo Tols elist, A
delicatessen dealer, a dentist and even
humble the
the
was
late
swindle
.
oy, the grea nosy
taken
Goer.
a chimneysweep have been m
for former Kaiser Wilhelm of
many,
Lincoln had a double in Colonel El
mer Loomis of Girard, Kan.
the streets
children
had
the flesh,
whose
to send
declaring that
Abraham Lincoln in
presence on used
achool home
they seen
Civil war and al-
the
He served In the
appeared on
high silk hat and long similar
to that worn by the President. His
friends had often commented upon his
likeness to Lincoln.
“Out In Girard, where I lived for
more than forty yearas™ said Colonel
Loomis once, “they called me ‘Honest
Abe’! They sent me for three terms
to the Kansas legisiature and I am
proud of my resemblance to Lincoln.
I try to live as Lincoln did.”
An actor who took the part of Lin-
coln in a play of some years back was
a double of the Great Emanecipator.
Impressed by his own Impersonation,
he began to delude himself with the
idea that he actualiy was Lincoln. He
grew a full beard, he assumed the
Lincolnian mannerism of dress, gait,
speech and personal habits and in
time he seemed to believe that his
appearance ought to have been greet.
ed with the respect due so important
a personage. So painstakingly did he
imitate Lincoln that a cynical friend
finally remarked: “That actor will
never be satisfled until some one as-
te
sassinates him!
The uncertainty about the death of
John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Lin-
coln, made many people believe he
was still allve when one of his
doubles appeared. Booth, after his
flight from Washington, was trapped
by soldiers in a barm at Bowling
Green. The barn was set afire and
several shots were fired into it. The
charred body of a man, presumed to
be Booth, was afterward found, but
it was beyond identification.
One of the poose who fired Into that
barn was Lieut. William Allen, and he
may have been Booth's executioner,
Some years later Lieutenant Allen
was passing the stage door of a Lon-
don theater In a cab just as Edwin
Jooth, brother of the slain assassin,
emerged. The actor caught sight of
the face peering from the cab window,
“Wilkes!” he shouted. “Wilkes!”
Lieutenant Allen was a double for
John Wilkes Booth! But he passed
on and never declared himself. For
years Edwin Booth believed his broth.
er to be still alive,
There were several known doubles
of President Roosevelt, I. M. Garfield,
& manufacturer of Xenia, Ohio, used
to be mistaken for Teddy and eamben
often refused his fare, saying they
were repaid by the honor of driving
him about, while tan Chicago, when T.
R. was scheduled to be In the city,
newspaper men besieged Garfield In
the hotel, Insisting he was the Presi
dent,
In Florence, Italy, Pietro Cassini, a
ways streets in a
cant,
woodcutter, used to put on spectacles
of the kind worn by Colonel
and delight American
his Imitation of Teddy's grin.
not word of F
colonel’'s most « uous double was
F. G. Huddleston, general manager of
af mining company at Angeles,
His tern
toosevelt
tourists with
He did
The
speak a glish,
angnie
Los
ravels in the we
he color
mas Merton,
of Canton and Pittshurgh
ed McKinley's “frontp
paign in 1806, was
cam
oiten |
and many of the
carried
ographed
as the candidate,
lally and
pshots of M
really
and figure .
sent of McKinley, who once remarked
that they were “just
often better-locking
article.”
weekly magazines
Kinley which were
Merton's
reproductions of face
taken with the tacit cor
ns life! and
than the real
Five hundred persons, all of whom
knew Merton personally, saw
his first posing of this sort. A fa
mous publication which had
prided itself upon the accuracy of its
pictures sent a corps of men to Can-
ton in the early days of the campaign
to get up a big pictorial issue. They
arrived on only
to learn that candidate
feeling well, While bewalling this de
lay, the leader of the pieture corps
saw Merton passing and captured him
by main force.
Saturday
the
afternoon,
was not
“lI want you te get up on the porch
and pose as Mr. McKinley,” he
shouted.
The newspaper men thought the fel-
low was crazy when he began to take
off his Prince Albert coat. In a few
minutes, Merton, dressed In the silk
hat and coat, mounted the steps of
the McKinley and, while the
future President was slumbering in
side, he posed for pictures which aft.
erward became famous. Mr. MeKin
ley, when told of the Incident the
next day, laughed heartily and later
declared that they were among the
best he had ever had taken.
President Wilson enjoyed the lux
ury of several facial counterparts. A
tremendous commotion was caused in
New York city In the spring of 1016,
when one of them, Deputy Fire Com
missioner W. Holden Weeks of New
York. dropped dead in the street.
Grief-stricken erowds with bared
heads blocked the thoroughfare. So
pronounced was the resemblance to
President Wilson that police had dif.
fieulty in convincing the people of
their error.
Another Wilson double was a New
York man named Fleming who, It is
said, was refused a life Insurance
policy during the World war because
his strong resemblance to the Presi
dent made him a possible target for
an assassin’s bullet and therefore a
poor “risk.” The familiar features
of Calvin Coolidge have a replica In
those of Charles Hitz, a Philadelphia
waiter whose resemblance to the for-
mer Chief Executive was so marked
as to give him a chance to play the
part of the President In a motion ple.
ture, and friends of George McKelvey,
an attorney In Ohio, declare that he
is the “very Image” of the present
head of the nation, Herbert Hoover.
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