Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
PETROLEUM FEVER
Oils Soldiers of Fortune Search the
World for a "Strike.n

Bartlesville a. IT, Cor. Kansas City Star.
The oil man is the real Bedouin OF the
world. He is a greater traveller than the
Arab of the desert ever was. Go to Penn
sylvania. to Texas, to California. to Japan
or to any other place where there Oil
wells and you will find the same faces, you
will hear the same talk of working bar
rels,'' pulling rods and all that sort of
thing.
man who would drop down in Rangoon
tomorrow-and Rangoon is ION the road to
Mandalay, where the flying fishes play, or
into Kurosaki. or into Tamaulipas might
expect to find old man John H. Galley. John
Markham. ], c. Mcdowell Hugh P. Braw-
ley. The" BarnsdaH.
1t gets into mans blood. He follows
the derricks and the screech of the shackle
rods naturally. He can't help it. Take the
case of John II. Galley. There is a man
who is a multimillonaire. He needs no
more of this worlds goods He has an in
dependent fortune. Yet If oil field should
be discovered tomorrow in Kamchatka, off
in the snow and ice. John II. Galley would
be one OF the first men on hand and he
would have the second or third derrick
erected in the field
John Markham is another of the soldiers
of fortune. He toled and sweated in the
swamps of Louisiana and Texas. drilled I'M
profitable holes, spent his money and came
to Kansas. Then he went to the territory.
Before that he had been all over the world.
And he knows things He knows what the
East Indians drink in Rangoon to quench
their thirst. He knows how they live in
the temperature of 100 degrees in the shade.
and he knows other things which have
helped him to success in this country.
John McCready, a canny Scot, has drilled
wells for the Japanese government and
has drilled wells for the Standard Oil in
Japan. He has been all over the world,
this driler. He knows the size of pipe, the
size of the casing and the cost of the well
in every oil field in the world
Then there is Bill Myers. He is some
l ID
featured powder for the United States feet
| in the Mediterranean to salute President
Loubet of France, and he has done other
| things of note. He has certificates of honor
| from the Khedive of Egypt-he drilled some
oil wells for the Standard Oil Company In
that country and got into trouble thereby
| and he is also officer of lodge of honor
| OF the Sultan of Morocco.
"Bili' Allen is another of the globe trot-
| tiers. He has been in Mexico and in India.
| He can give you the formation of the wells
| in upper Burma or the wells in Chelsea,
! Oklahoma Territory. with equal facility.
| And IL is all one to him where he is so long
| as he is putting down the holes.
Dick" Fowler is another. He has been
| all through the Pennsylvania fields and the
| West Virginia fields and the Ohio and In
| diana fields and he can spin yarns by the
| hour. He knows how the glycerin man at
| Bradford was blown up and how the other
| glycerin man escaped. how the springs OF
1 one of the giycerin wagons were located
under the can and how the other fellow
| had his springs three inches to the right
| and thus saved his life.
| Hugh Brawley has been with the oil COM
| panes In Pennsylvania. Texas and Kansas
| for more than ten years Now he is in the
| gas business, but he has been around the
| world in the oil business.
| John T. Gaffey is another one of the globe
| trotters in the oil business. He has been
| in the lSyack fields in Alaska, in the Beau
| mont fields. in the Louisiana fields, in the
| Mexican fields and now he has made u for
| tune in California and retired-temporarily
/ No man who has ever got the fever in his
| boEes retires from the oil business perma-
| nently.
There Is also NJ. l.. Lockwood--his real
name is Marquis Lafayette-who has done
| all the oil fields and is now In Kansas. He
| is old man years 60 gray headed and
| with son old enough to vote two or three
| times and yet he Is still following the flag
of adventure. still after "the pot OF gold
which grows at the rainbow's foot"