The morning call., 1893-04-14
JOLLY SCRIBES.
Press Club Boys Welcome
Frank q. Carpenter.
How the Great Traveller and Lecturer
Met Many Old and New
Friends Yesterday.

Great Joy prevailed in the Plne-street
rooms of The Press Club yesterday after
noon when the local boys OF the Quill gath
cred around Frank q. Carpenter. their
illustrious brother from the rough and
dreary East.
CARPENTER himself. the man who has Wis
tied most every cline. felt As gay as a
scloolboy as he sterped from the sunny
street into the coy headquarters of the
newspapermen, because, as he said, lie
liked the warm sunshine and the pleasant
weather.
1T makes fellow feel good to read about
cyclones and raging storms out here" he
put it. "and wish 1 could stay with you
longer"
THEN the guest of the day was marched
up to where a great big book was lying on
a desk, and he was asked to put his auto
graph on the first line OF the first page.
So a thoroughbred newspaper man per-
formed the ceremony of starring the visitors
book OF the Press Club Of San Francisco,
which had been kept delayed for some time
10 await the arrival OF just such member
of the profession rs he is.
Carpenter said something about turning
a new leaf before lie returns again, look
ing hard at some of the members. and then
everybody had a good time for little
while.
Speaking cf the entertainment he will
give tonight in the Metropolitan Temple
Mr.. Carpenter said TO CALL man modestly
that the press had treated him very kindly
since lis arrival on the Coast. But" said
he, Won people have made a big mistake
by telling everybody what great fellow |
am, while really the novelty which L AN 60
Ing to present TO the public deserves men
tioning by far more than the humble in
div dual who brings it before them.
Portrait talks are something so entirely
different from an ordinary lecture that one
must have heard one to know exactly what
they mean. 1t makes, after all, but very
little difference who does the talking. be-
cause the pictures and portraits presented
are great feature all by themselves"
Nevertheless Mr.. Carpenter had to own
up that the anecdotes ard "reminiscences he
hres at his audiences have helped largely in
making his entertainments the great success
they lave been everywhere.
Carpenters visit to the Press Clab was
the occasion OF many pleasant meetings be-
tween him and other members OF the pro-
fession whom he had formerly known in
other places.
Some of the men now connected with the
San Francisco papers used 10 work with
Carp, as they called him in Eastern
respondents of his in Washington.
How in the world did you ever get used
TO being looked at through an npera-g ass ?'
asked an old timer, 'yOu who wtr always
So bashful and retiring in your ways"
well, | am retiring yet,' replied Car
penter, but the opera-glasses don't bother
me, because great portion of my talk is
delivered in darkened house."
Carpenter is a member of the Beta Theta
Phi class II of the Wooster University, and
among the members of the Press Club lie
met yesterday there was an old classmate
That the two old ehums had lots to say to
each other goes without mention, and there
is no doubt but that Carpenter enjoyed his
visit to the club almost as much as the peo-
pie who VIII hear him tonight in Metropol-
ltan Hall VIII enioY his "taIk."