The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-18

first of the stories introducing the Doc
ley series was printed a few months
after the Sullivan fight 1t had to do
with Colonel McNeery and his friend,
"Jawn'' McKenna. To most guessers
McNeery was a thin disguise for Nc
Garry. McKenna's name was not
changed. "Jawn" was a politician
who had a fixed duty in every local
Republican convention. This duty was
to say, "Mr. Chairman, [ move that
the reading of the call be dispensed
with" g
Through attention to duty and for
always being perfect in his lines Nc
Kenna was ultimately rewarded with
office.
McGarry the original of Dooley, was
and is an actual character. When Nc
Merry was a current newspaper crea-
ton McGarry had saloon in Dear
born street He is a large and solemn
man Of unflinching expression, few
words and heavy movements. The Wis
itor who is struck with the unusual
could see his picturesque side at a
glance. His foil, too, was admirable.
Casey, "who stood the opposite watch,
shaved his upper lip and wore beard
of considerable fluency, being known as
the only bartender with bunch in
Chicago. -
himself to joke with a stranger, he got
a cross counter that made the only wit
ness, Inspector John Shea, howl.
The inspector had been telling Nc
Garry "a good story, and Jim was in
unusually good humor. For him he
was almost clipper
The stranger walked in, laid down a
half dollar, and called for whisky. He
poured out what is technically called a
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when McGarry said, with side wink
at Shea:
Would you like a moog to drink
your booze in?''
The reply was as hot as cavalry
charge.
mol" roared the man on the outside.
There's a half dollar on the bar. I'm
used to taking as big drink as [ feel
like taking. If 10 cents isn't enough for
your liquor, you needn't make any
change, you bald-headed lobster
McGarry meekly rang up Is cents on
the cash register. The stranger pock-
eted the change and walked out, look
ing back over his shoulder fiercely. Nc
Garry rejoined Shea, hopping his fore
head With his hand.
"Jawn," said he, I'D we give the
jint if 1 knew what to say to him.
AS the McNeery stories continued, the
word was passed around that Dunno
was getting part of his inspiration from
McGarry. Jim's jocular friends would
line up at the bar and call him Nc
Merry. He thought there was some
thing invidious in it, and made a strong
protest to Dunno, who assured him
that the coincidence of McNeery and
McGarry, both being Irish saloonkeep
ers, was accidental. While the eXpla-
nation was being made three men came
in. and. after bowling to Dunno, said:
How do you do, Colonel McNeery?"
McGarry waited upon him, pale with
anger, and mqttering that he would
go to the floor with somebody yet"
The next day he made formal COM
plant to the publisher of the paper.
The "joshing' was too much for him,
he said. He was getting it in the
street, in his saloon, and it was only
a question of time when he would get
it at home. Wouldn't the gentleman,
who was writing the articles kindly
write about somebody else?
DUNES attention was called to it,
and he said: I'll change the name, if
that will suit him.
So he banished McNeery to Ireland
with a parting kick-muffied, but still
q kick
McKenna, too, eventually came to
think that his fame as a saloon fixture
was doubtful. His conflict of emotions
on this was curious.
81 go into the saloon" he said, land
after saying How do you do, Mr..
Dooley?' I said there for half a col
umn like a Stoughton bottle, while
Dooley does all the talking. OF course,
can't commit myself seriously by
merely saying How do you do?' but
It's a question with me as to whether
The public thinks could say anything
else if I was pushed. One thing is cer-
tain If Dooley ever makes me look
ike a sucker in an argument I'll
either lick Dunno or sue the paper for
libel"
And "Jawn'' tried hard to look seri-
ous when he said it.
The first of the Dooley stories proper
in October 1898, and with a
lew Interruptions they have appeared
every week since. Mr.. Martin Dooley |
vas introduced a week after McNeery
vent to Ireland.s ~
and Tuesday, March 30 and
21, at e. c., NJ. I.