Davy Crockett Proud Owner Of Old Pennsylvania Rifle Killed 100 Pigeons In | Row With ‘Old Betsy’ | Henry W. Shoemaker, Pennsyl- | vamia folklore chief, this week | told the tale of one of Davy! Crockett's visits to Pennsylvania Elected to Congress in 1834, the new lawmaker made a string | of visits which included Balu-| more. Boston, New York and! Philadelphia “In the Quaker City, he was first greeted by a reception com- mittee formed by the ‘Crockart or Crockett Society, composed of | Irish-born and Irish-descended | Crocketts who threw a magnifi- | cent party in 's | hemor,’ Shoemaker said “Their chief gift was a bronee | image of I their namesake's | i the Crockett coal-of- | arms from Donegal surmoulted | by a swan The frontiersman did | not understand heraldry bul re- RN EE | finishing his materpiece a replica | by | gun shop south of Lancaster city { and | Pennsylvania Historical and Mus. | ' pum | the frst i turn iat & stately reception held in the S: t ways the a (ing EK Arnie nRfine marked ‘that bird is lke a Trnm- peter Swan’ “Yet the Pennsvivanias Duteh or Switsers were not to be out done with a tribute and peli tioned Jncob Mylan of Lancas- ter Comity, and grandson of Martin Myln, the first maker of the so-called Kentucky rifle, to part with his choleest plece as a tribute to Crockett, “The Alpine gunsmith was just i gunner Warnook rising plause the flintioc of his grandfather's greatest rifle, ang the truest shooter, his first piece the way, at kis Jittle stone Belsy recently marked by the away Commission. He hurried by ‘bus’ to Philadelphia to over his prize package the great wilderness king's Dutch admirers I" was presented to the to: club the quest E Crockett Fracklin Institute's club house by one of the vounger Peppers. a member of that great family of Pennsvivania-Genman philanthro- pists and civic leaders “Crockett grianed brondly as the handsome T2.inch rifle was handed % him. ‘*This is the piece 1 have al Fr ———— Fromti the ia Rididie i Of the ot ence orator Other on : dreamed and seeing an aged huntress in| to special friend: whom wanted to the earlier eounterpart { Pennayivania shonk han Pepper in Cros preci Before fashionable at sehuyikill Here one side. and were sulogize Epenkers, indi . 3 iHence meet. 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