The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-29

are few men in this country whom all
love so well and whom none dislike.
Burdette is a man with purpose, and
no other kind is half man. His rich.
pure, original humor is what makes
the money for him, but beyond that
there has come from his pen many an
article SO uplifting, so full of practical
sermons, yet disguised in pleasant and
entertaining language. so forceful in
good advice and good example, that the
young people will always revere him
and old people always like him. Bur-
oette is something of a paradox. Os-
tensibly he is a w.t. and has a place in
the list of fun makers, yet his humor,
pleasant as 1t is, is of less weight than
MS confidential newspaper talks to
boys, who, in Imagination, swarm
around and listen, though in fact few
or them have seen the quiet little man
who has written all those bright things
which have interested, instructed, ad-
monished or enthused.
1t was Robert j. Burdette who made
the Burlington Hawkeye famous. 1t
was a strange career the man and the
paper had. Burdette went on the pa
per In a little Iowa town at that time
almost unknown and in brief time
attracted such attention that his sto-
ries and bon mots were quoted all over
the country. This was long before the
days of Bill Nye and before his paper
In Cheyenne, the Boomerang, was ever
heard of. Lewis of the Detroit Free
Press. better known as NJ. Quad, was
a contemporary of Burdette, and aside
from those there were only Baily of
the Danbury News and the genius who
scintillated in the Oily City Derrick
who had any prominence in a similar
style of writing.
Petroleum V. Nasty of the Toledo
Blade, who wrote his celebrated Con
CT nd
ings attained celebrity in somewhat
other lines. Their articles were much
fewer and longer and additional inter
est was added by the queer spelling
they used.
AS for the Hawkeye, under Frank
Hatton as the managing editor and
Burdette as the humorist 1t was only
brief period until 1t attained fame. The
character Of the paper for extraordi-
nary business was maintained for
many years There came a time, how
ever. when the Hawkeye had to take a
back seat. Fast mail trains were put
on, reaching to and from all principal
cities and towns, and these delivered
the big Chicago and st. Louis papers
into Burlington when the Hawkeye
was barely off the press. This was
competition strong. The papers from
these great cities could and did print
far more special and ge~cral news than
ihC lOCdl paper, Willie IneN
also gave succinct reports of important
local events.
1t was an era in journalism in the
river cities of Iowa. Mr.. Burdette about
this time changed his residence to the
Atlantic coast. Mr.. Hatton went to
Chicago and Washington. Ever since
then the humorist of the old Hawkeye
has made his home in New York and
Philadelphia, though he has, as for
merly, Travelled a great deal and de-
livered many lectures.
Corinne has determined not to close
her season on account of Mrs. Kim
balls death, which occurred at st. Paul
last Monday morning, and said that
she was ready to resume her engage
ments as soon as the dead was buried |
IF the season is closed now" she said, |
"all of the company would be thrown |
out of employment, and the various |
theaters where we are to play would be |
left with open time on their hands. |
am sure that mother would want me to |
go on and finish the season, and / am |
ready to do So"
Mr.. Berry, who has been in charge of |
Mrs. Kimballs business for three |
years, in speaking of Mrs. Kimbalis |
death, said: THE news that Mrs. Kim |
ball was dead was an awful blow to us |
ALL She was one of those people with |
whom the thought of death was never /
associated. Her business ability was |
wonderful. She carried the business of /
the company on her own shoulders and |
understood every detail of it, On the |
stage she was thorough and even Sc
we're, but in private life she was one of |
the kindest and most lovable women / |
ever knew"
Mrs. Kimball was As years old and /
had been married three times. Her |
first husband was an Italian. After his |
death Mrs. Kimball, as she was always |
known in the theatrical world, became |
the wife of Tom Flaherty, a we'll /
known Boston music dealer. Mr.. Fla |
herty died some three or four years /
ago, and about two years ago Mrs. /
Kimball married Airline Scheffer. The /
marriage was a rather romantic one.
The wedding took place very suddenly,
but the couple soon separated and have
not lived together since Mrs. Kimball
was quite wealthy. Her theatrical ven
lures were all successful, and she
amassed a considerable fortune. She
was the owner of beautiful home on
Broad street, in Philadelphia, and
owned a great deal of property in va
rious western cities. Her fortune is es-
timated at not less than 5000, 900. About
a year ago she made Will, and IL is
thought that everything, with the ex-
ception of a few small requests to old |
servants, is left to Corinne.
The dead actress and manageyess
had an interesting career before she
met Corinne, the little girl who, during
the past Is years, has made a fortune
for herself and Mrs. Kimball. No little
mystery and romance surrounds the
youthful prima donna of light opera,
who is now left alone. Many tales are
told of her birth, but probably not one
OF them is true. She is known as the
daughter of Mrs. Kimball. but she is
not. As an infant almost Corinne made
a hit as Little Buttercup in Pima
fore" at the Boston theater. 1t was
then that Jennie Kimball retired from
the stage and became a manager. In
1881 she organized a company Of Juve-
niles. Of which Corinne was the star.
II was quite successful until interfered
with by the Society for the Prevention
Of Cruelty to Children in New York.
when il was given up and the kimball
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