The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-17
.!MR. FOGARTYS VALENTINE
a Little Fun With a Jolly In
surance Man.
TALKED TO THE DEAF MAN
I Famous Joker Who Got Caught a
Little Bit Himself - How Fogarty
Told the Story Of His Visit
to Honolulu.

John T. Fogarty is the greatest
ssSjoker who ever came down the pike.
fSFogarty Is the special agent for big
Ssinsurance company, and has been COM
Sing to Anaconda for something more
than hundred years Every time Fo-
garty strikes town he has new
4 joke, practical or otherwise, and he
! does not hesitate to spring it in such
"a way as to get the biggest, loudest
& and longest laugh out of it. Fogarty
X has been doing this sort of thing for
~years and years. In Anaconda, as in
aevery other town, his victims remem-
~ Der him. AS he covers half dozen
states for his company, he has 5,OO0
or 5000 agents to ward against each
of whom, individually and collectively,
are continually planning and scheming
to "get back at Fogarty." But very
few of them ever do. He is as apt at
turning joke as he is at playing one.
In Anaconda once they had him arrest
ed for grand larceny, and he got more
than even by placing a piece of lin
: burger cheese beneath the sweat band
\ Of the judges hat. At the time of the
shut down here 10 years ago, Fogarty
came to Anaconda with the express in
tention of raising his rates. He hap
pened in town just the day before the
resumption, but he didn't know the
resumption was on the programme. He
told one of the insurance agents that
the town would be burned down by
incendaries sure, and was determined
to raise the rates. That night he was
startled from his sleep by the loud
blowing of whistles. He sprang up
and rushed downstairs in his night
robe, shouting all the while that he
knew the town would be burned. He
wi hot he y,y11i cf1 &c
sounded the glad tidings of the re-
sumption of work.
A thousand anecdotes of Fogarty
might be told, and once in a while some
one does get the best of him. Recently
3 he came to Anaconda. He was met
at the train by Tom O'Brien. Fogarty
had never met Fred Peckover. O'Brien's
partner. O'Brien told him that Peck
over was as deaf as a post and that
when Fogarty met him he must talk
very loudly. And Fogarty can talk
loudly. He has an ample supply of
lung power. So O'Brien and Fogarty
proceeded to the office, and Fogarty
was introduced to Peckover. at whom
he Immediately began to shout at the
top of his voice. Fred was a bit sur
prised. but thought it was Fogarty's
way. Peckover invited him to dinner,
and on the way up Fogarty kept up his
foghorn performance. to the surprise
the party passed. At the dinner table,
Fogarty told of visit to Honolulu in
such an absorbingly interesting way
that the range in the kitchen danced
in unison.
Well. Fogarty kept up this thing for
two days, until O'Brien couldn't stand
it any longer, and Fogarty was told
of the josh.
Now comes from San Francisco val
entine which was sent to Fogarty by
some of the boys in the office. The
valentine is in the nature of a poem.
1t refers ghoulishly to the deaf man.
incident The poem runs as follows:
You sabe me?
Me heather Chinee!
Me sabe John t.
Alice same Fogarty!
Long time John The baby,
Him tongue tlid-no can talk
He bawlee heap and eatee,
He nice baby-no can talk.
Bimeby doctor man, he come from New
York.
He heap smart man-allee same mule!
He cut UNI stling-make John T. talk,
Talkee, talkee, alice time
Doctor man he heap big fool,
You sabe Montana?
You sabe John T.?
You sabe deaf MANI"
He! he!! he'll!
John r. he holler, boiler,
Alice same Cal-li-o-pe.
Mclean man say, "Wha's a MALE?
You Clay, John T.?'
John T. he stopee holler
He shut up alice same clam;
Mclean man he laughee; laughee,
John T. he velly smart man,
Him head alice same tack!
He jokee. jokee like circus man
You laughee till you blue and black!
John T. he heap great man
He never have no care:
He go to barber shop for shave,
Tell barber mo cut hair!''
Me heap talkee, talkee,
Somebody call him time
Well, wha's a malta?
Me send you valentine!