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2 PHILADELPHIA DAILY. HEWS TUESDAY MARCH 11, 1912 Utile Gil's IF ait Ceinnial By NF.LS NELSON Clinging to her mother's hand, a little girl of 6 with brown hair and an abiding curiosity boarded the open-air, horse-drawn trolley headed westward on Girard ave. The passengers were festive. Their laughter and animated chatter mingled with the clop-clop of the hooves. As the car ncared Fairmount Park, the anticipatory noises coming from the thickening throngs hurrying along on foot swelled the rising volume of gaiety.

The gates of the Centennial grounds swallowed the never-ending multitude. The little girl and her mother paused near the gates, searching the crowd for a familiar face. 'Uncle Terrell!" cried trie girl. "There's Uncle Terrell!" "Ah!" sang out the gentleman. "My little Mamie.

And Pauline. You're right on time." UNCLE TERRELL FLASHED a card at the ticket collector. They all passed through the gate, gratis: Uncle Terrell's New York pharmaceutical firm had sent him to Philadelphia to staff its display in the Hall of Industry. As an exhibitor, he enjoyed the run of the grounds. He took his little niece actually, she was a second cousin and her Ma and Pa and brother William to behind-the-scenes places the public rarely got to see.

It was a wonderful summer, that Centennial summer of 1876. What little girl could forget it? Uncle Terrell had boarded the summer long with Peter and Pauline Roth over their corner grocery at Jessup and Stiles sts. They refused to accept a penny from him. UNCLE TERRELL FINALLY said his good-byes. His parting gift to Mamie was a breathtaking doll a French doll with a wig of real blonde hatr and a beautiful bouffant skirt.

A wonderful memento of the Nation's 100th birthday party! Little Mamie Roth, now Mrs. Mamie Schlichter, was 102 years old last Wednesday. Her eyes still sparkle when she talks of the 1876 Centennial. She is sharp and alert, and only a hearing problem mars her enjoyment of the world around her. "The French doll? She was like one of the family about 15 years ago," said Mrs.

Schlichter, a resident at the Widows' and Single Women's Home at 3615 Chestnut st. "We brought her out every Christmas. Except for the dark wig that had replaced her original blonde wig it had become a little moth-eaten she was exactly as she was when Uncle Terrell gave her to me. A genuine '76er', all right." Centennial memories come rushing back to Mamie Schlichter when friends drive her along the Schuylkill Expressway and she sees the floodlit dome of Memorial Hall poking out of the trees. "I remember Memorial Hall, and Industrial Hall, and Horticultural Hall "I remember a miniature train that ran around the buildings and carried passengers for 5 or 10 cents.

I remember a very large tableau, with wax figures, representing some historical moment Washington crossing the Delaware, I believe." Mamie Roth grew up and married Frederick Geiger, a prominent musician who conducted orchestras at the Chestnut Street Theater and other downtown playhouses. THREE MONTHS AFTER Geiger died in 1894, a daughter their only child was born to the former Mamie Roth. Pauline Geiger, now Mrs. Parke B. Kurtz and also a widow, lives with her mother at the West Philadelphia residence home.

Mamie remarried. Her second husband, evangelist J. Arthur Schlichter, died in 1947. The late afternoon shadows lengthened and Mamie Schlichter said good-bye to her visitors. One of the departing callers asked her, in the gentlest way possible, if she thought she'd see the 1976 Bicentennial.

She chuckled. "No," she said softly, "I don't think I will." Photo by Charles Mvers Mamie Roth Schlichter as a girl of 6 and today at age 102. Minn i iitn lit People Paper People By Bob Williams rQi, 1 IE Fischer Mrs. Nixon Hughes Liz Liz, Is Glamor Granny The current edition of Ladies Home Journal has made it official. Elizabeth Taylor is now co-holder with Marlene Dietrich of the "world's most glamorous grandmother" title.

She appears on the Journal cover with granddaughter Leyla, daughter of son Michael Wilding Jr. The glamor- Today at a Glance i Today's Funny Breathing Index Today's Forecast 3 Yesterday's Index 3 Index runs from 1 (clean! to 1 Sam month last year average 45 ous Liz, 40, had some typical grandmotherly words about Leyla. "She's so beautiful I simply can't describe my feelings for her." Hughes 'Astounded1 In addition to being the world's most reclusive billionaire, Howard Hughes is also "astounded." That's how an aide in Vancouver, B. expressed Hughes' reaction to the announcement that Clifford Irving had authored his biography. Hughes broke a 15-year silence to denounce the book as a fraud.

A Book on Nixon Years The White House says Mrs. Richard M. Nixon and her daughter Julie Eisenhower are collaborating on a picture book of President Nixon's years in office, which will be sold at $5.95 a copy to benefit the American Red Cross. Mrs. Nixon is writing the introduction, Mrs.

Eisenhower is picture editor, and captions for the pictures taken by White House photographer OHie Atkins will be written by William Satire, a Nixon speech writer. Chess Match to Start June 22 Technical details' for the world championship match between Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and challenger Bobby Fischer of the U. S. have been agreed on by the International Chess Federation. The match will begin June 22 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Federation headquarters ia Amsterdam aid, priasl rfloney," will be $138,500, of which the winner and the loser 37.5 percent. In a tie each player 'receives $69,250. YOUR CONSCIENCE 15 JUST FAULTS AiARM Weather The Outlook Today Partly Sunny High-Low Today 55-60 The Outlook Tonight Fair The Outlook Tomorrow Showers Winds -South 5-15 MPH Inside the News Amusements 40-43 Business 47 Chuck Stone 10 Classified 48-56 Comics 44-46 Crossword 32 Dear Penny 45 Editorials 31 Obituaries 32 Television 34, 36 Earl Wilson -42 Women's i iu ip'iI TEMPERATURES Weather High Philadelphia 48 Low 30 32 Condition Fair Clear Clear Showers Cooler Warm Sunny Clear Clean Atlantic City Boston Chicago Los Angeles Miami New Orleans New York Pittsburgh Louis San Francisco- 46 46 40 73 89 74 46 45 70. 66- 23 37 57 72 49 27 28 .43, Pt.Cldv. TIDES i Philadelphia Cape May Delaware a.m.

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