The San Francisco call., 1906-07-01

! have not invented the smallest detail
Everything that has been there de-
Scrtbed has, TO my own positive knOwI-
edge. happened to some one in that
Eneighborhood. And likewise every fact
or figure which ! have given IS abso-
liutely accurate and exact. the. result OF
patient inquiry and Investigation.
spent seven weeks in the. stoekyards
district alone. living with the people.
meeting them in their homes. in the
places where they worked, in their sa-
looms and clubs. During that time
talked with. hundreds of workingmen:
talked also with every other class OF
persons to be found in the district. with
bosses and superintendents, with doc
tors and lawyers and merchants. with
saloon keepers and policemen clergy
men and criminals. Everywhere i took
note of what they said. testing the
statements OF one by those OF another,
and verifying every minuJest detail.
and afterward. when I came homie.
kept up a continual correspondence
with many people in Packingtown-in
cases which could name I wrote sew
eral letters in order TO make sure OF
a single statement which I was making
in the story."-Baltimore American.
THE LITERARY HORRORS CLUB.
Twas in a literary fog
Beside an inkY wave
Some rather handsome skeletons
Were Waiting on a grave,
A very pretty lynching. too,
Gave zest to the affair.
When Jack o. London. stalking In. -.
/ Cried thrice, Alloy. Sinclair
Then Upton came from Packingtown
I AS gay as one can be e..
Whose progress is accompanied
BY Reverend Thomas D.
The latter striking attitudes ;.,...>'--
braVinR the moon
While fOurishing a manuscript
Entitled Coon, Coon, Coon"
Enough. .epoughl suppress the staz.''
QuOth Upton of Sinclair. %..
II would a bitter tale unfold =.
OF Sausage and Despair.
Ny hero is a foreigner.
A stranger vet TO soap. .@-.-::-
HIS name BzzzzisqtyozistnoB
/ pronounced Bazuzzixstnope)"
"a YELLOW-JOURNAL ROMANCER.
Upton Sinclair. the yellow journalist
romancer, whose novel is said TO have
suggested to President Roosevelt an
investigation of the Chicago packing.
houses. telegraphed the House commit
I tee on agriculture, while it was taking
testimony on the meat-packing bust
ness, and asked for hearing The re-
sponse from Congressman Wadsworth.
the chairman OF the committee. was
suggestively brief. II said:
am directed By the Committee on AgrieultrFs.
House OF Representatives 70 say that the cosn-
mlttee does not deem II necessary for you u
be here WADSWORTH. Chairman.
Perhaps the reason why this ctrrt
answer was made to the romancer.
who is seeking all the publicity he can
get for his novel will be found IN the
following from the New York Herald
OF May IL. 1903. just three years ago:
Arthur Strings disappearance described BY
several New York newspapers last June
probable suicide and followed after lapse OF
several months by the publication Of q book, en-
titled The Journal OF Arthur Stirling. proves
to have been a hoax perpetrated by Upton SIN
clair. With the aid OF two three R,sehievoUs
young friends. Mr. Sinclair convinced some 70
porteKs that a young poet had drowned himselr
because of the disbursement resulting from 5ts
inability to ind publisher who wCslld take biz
masterpiece Weekly.
The Harpers have been obliged 20
manufacture. a third set of electro
type plates for printing Or. HGnry
Van Dykes little classic. The Story
OF the Other Wise Man" So frequent
Iy have new editions Of this popular
book been ordered that the touch OF
paper upon the hard metal has in time
worn away the first two scts Of plates.
When one considers the nature OF
! type metal the popularity of this story
rs clearly shown--Harper's Literary
Gossip.
THE GOLDEN ROSE