The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-29
NOT MASSON'S SENTIMENTS.
HIS NETGHBORS DON'T REMIND
TIE HUMORIST or PIGS.

They Wouldn't Smell sweetcr II They Should
Take o Bath, NJ Least He Never Said
They W0uld-He Never wrote You
Don't Know Whom She Is,' Ne Declares
Not since Tom Masson's terrier pup
Buck inserted himself in a Ridgewood
avenue drain pipe and had to be emanci-
pated from the pipe with nitro-glycer inc
has there been 30 much excitement among
the freeholders of Glen Ridge, N. j., as that
occasioned during the last two days by the
~inundation Of anonymous letters that have
swamped the village headliners. Every
one that's a who's whoer or Glen Ridge
headliner lives on Ridgewood avenue,
and on each house on the avenue lights
S@se burning till late in the night, while the
Sasd Of che house reads over and over an
unsigned letter which tells of the simply
unbearable thing that have been said about
him by Tom Mason, editor of Life, village
Jester and the towns only press agent.
There were only two forms of commune
cations sent out to the natives by the anony-
mous ready letter writer, both in the same
handwriting. Mr.. Mason has secured
several of the letters and has grouped
than as exhibit A and exhibit B. Ac-
quaintanoes of Mason that received the
letters turned them over to the humorist
and treated the matter lightly, but the
wives Of the exhibit A recipients now want
TO know what right has Tom Mason to
say that their husbands table manners
resemble those Of a Connecticut pig, and
the B class wives insist that their husbands
take a bath as often as necessary, no matter
what that Tom Mason says.
AL that is known positively about the
letter writer is that he is a perfect gentle
man, because the paper Is prettily ruled
aud the last line - You don't know whom
ing. Exhibit A runs as follows:
Do you know that Tom Mason says your
manners In a restaurant remind him Of some
pigs he once saw in Connecticut?
Tell him he has broken his promise to the
Girl In Thirty-sixth street. She IL under no
obligations to refrain from repeating what
he has been saying. You don't know whom
she IL. but he will.
This is exhibit B.
Do you know Tom NJ asson says that You
would smell sweeter If you took a bath
oftener7
Tell him he has broken his promise to the
girl In Thirty-sixth street. She IL under no
obligation to refrain from repeating what he
has been saying.
The second, or exhibit B, letter also con-
cludes with the assertion that Glen Ridge
doesn't know she is whom.
Yesterday the Mason telephone bell in
Glen Ridge and the Mason bell in the Life
Building in Thirty-first street. Manhattan,
began to ring and the hMmorist was told
to quit his kiddin'." Then letters like
the following began to reach the Mason
desk:
MY DEAR Ton: Herein you will find the
communication l told you about over the
phone. / intended to mail it two days ago.
but found it in my pocket, of course, this
morning.
II you should locate your friend | wish
you would say to him., her or it, that | took
my annual bath at Shelter Island yesterday
and am therefore at this time smelling very
sweet.
Mr.. Mason thought at first that this letter
but when Mr.. Mason and Mr.. Lanpher
utoked elbows last git ] st after the
9 o'clock whistle blew, Mason learned that
i 1it wa tb hastily rsst II y tSe Ma sna s9a fr t e dkpih IN GIas
Ridge had understood at once, that the
letters were the work Of a trouble maker.
Mr.. Mason says that the letter writer is
q near-artist who Is taking this means OF
. getting Junk with the editor of Life because
Mason saw fit to try to get out the paper
without using some high art contributions
of his. After the rejection of one Of his
pictures the Academician wrote to Mr..
Masson:
"Just for that I'll see that you are fired,
as I have caused several editors to lose
their jobs ere this; and guess that'll hold
you for a while
Following is another letter reoeivedb ~ Mr..
Mason:
An artist is going TO make trouble for you.
He had a friend. a political district leader,
who has been putting him up TO some of the
ely, cold blooded, vindictive tricks they
practise In politics. You may be able to
stave him of II you know his game before
hand. He intends to make constant trouble
till you give him illustrating for Life. If
you don't give in he claims to know how to
pull any man down. Perhaps he does.
He caused me to lose my position recently.
Therefore, although I don't know You from
Adam and don't care what happens to you
personally. l have warned you and hope
you'll continue to keep him out Of Life.
Anyhow, II things begin to happen to you
you'll know whom to blame.
WESTWARD Bound.
After reading the letter Mason paused
to get his nerve and then turned the paper
over to find whether the drawing Of a black
hand that he felt sure must be on the other
side was as much out of drawing as the other
contributions of the near-artist. There was
no black hand.
Mr.. Mason has sent letters explaining
matters to the Montcldir Herald and the
Montciair Times.