The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-23
BOB DAVIS IS AFTER DOPE

There's new kind Of war cores
pondent in town. He arrived here IN
the cab of engine 25. with engineer
Pohl-by the courtesy Of Conductor
| Mccormack. having ridden down from
Reno. He is ellison Willets of New
York author and explorer staff cor
respondent Of the Railroad Mans
Magazine, published by Frank A.
Munsey. the Magazine King.
Mr.. Willets has been sent by Mr..
Munsey as an attache of the army Of
the soldiers of the rail, the same as
war correspondent to the U. S.
Army in the field. Under the slogan
of Watch for Willets' he sends a
card ahead to all railroad men on
the U. F. and S. P. telling them he
is coming to make their acquaint-
ance and put the stories of their
individual adventures in The Rail-
road Mans Magazine.
oCAA
as the guest Of Mr.. Sam Davis. the
State Controller. In behalf of Nun
sey's new railroad magazine. Mr. Will
let's is making novel around the
west tour. gathering real stories of
real railroad men. He has come
from Omaha on the cabs of engines.
i,,r RI oah of irI, t,,ain
and on hand cars and goes from Re
no to Truckee on still another engine
He declares railroad men to be the
most interesting body of workers
whose achievements he has ever
been called upon 10 report
Mrs Sam Davis hos alreadv shown
ne the capitol. the Mint and other
, public buildings in restful. beautiful,
tr"e-shaded city" said Mr. Willetts,
and wish | could stay here a week
to write on he tremendous lot of
railroad stories I've already gathered
We in the East think Sam Davis
is the Poet Laureate of the West We
work. His sympathetic poem. Bin
ley and As" appeared in the October
, number of the Railroad Mans Maga-
zine. Scores of persons have writ
ten thanking us for reprnting Davis
lines For many years you rem
ember people thought Bret Harta
wrote that poem.
And there's Sam Davis brother
Robert II. Davis-"Bob" you call him
out here, where | find he is as well
known as Sam Davis.
We'll, Bob Davis is managing edi-
. tor Of the Railroad Mans Magazine
for Mr. Munsey In fact. Bob is one
Of the Heap Big Chiefs on the Nun
sey staff. having editorial supervi-
sion. not only of the Railroad Man S
5, publvications-Th Scrap Book. The
:. All-StOrv. and Woman. OF the Nun
:, so>- magazine proper. the managing
editor Is Mr.. Titherineton who has
y been with Mr Ramsey over 90 years
y, OF The Argosy. the managing editor i
V NJ: White
Bob Davis has edited 50 musl
=, railroad stuff. that nov he simply
- cant help talking in the vernacular o
> the rail He describes the great anc
only Munsey like this
MI Munsey is a }iogul Mastodol
locomotive with 50 pound drivine
wheels thai enables him 10 pull hi.
business at SO miles an hour. thu.
i5ecpjnI ahead of all competitors. He.
go, a headlight that projects its ray!
clean across the continent. thus per
ni-rin@ him % See what reading MAJ
ter is wanted in millions of homes
lis MAGAZINE rolling stock is all stee
and non-cOllapsible. His trains arc
Y agaZines. all Pullman equipped Il
which you can enjoy yourself for te,
cents. All magazine lines leading on
OF his establishment have rock-bal
lasted road beds laid with 11O rails
and he's never had smash I'D. II
runs his own road without anv kline
Of Board Of Directors end he is
greater one-man power in the mags
zine world than Hartman is in tn
railroad world
In ordinary language" continue
Mr. Willets. Mr. Munsey was tn
first to give the public a ten Ger
magazine. and the first publisher
distribute his magazines through h
own news company. He now owr
six magazines and two newspapers
Washington Times and Boston Jou