Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-17

4PRESIDENT THOMAS A. DALEY c
II AMERICAN PRESS HUMoRlSTS
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But If he gets insurance for his bruises and
his whacks
/ move he whack up with us, Tor we suier
from his cracks.
And when he hollerS on ag1n
l move we all will scott again.
Sam Kiser and Tom DAILY both grind out
pathetic verse, :.
Some is so bad it makes you cry and much OF
Now thru the eyes of all of their weepy
work has jammed :.
food of salty tears and so I move that 1t
be damned (the flood, of co,rse).
Now II they rouse our fearful grier
1 move they furnish handkerchief.
The time for nominations now is drawing
To find a man for Teddys job is difficult I
fear.
So let us choose a humorist who to the place
can climb.
What think you then OF OliYer-tney say ne
got the time.
He comes from Yonkers; what of that;
He's got the dough; he'll fry the rat
1 move we build a monument, but that's been
moved before.
move we all shall help the cause; we can IL
we will try.
And push the good work right along, and do
it far and Nye
move we give vote of thanks, where thanks
are Justly due;
A brother here has done lot OIL raVors just
for you. A.
He's kept us seeing things all day and up to
late at night
I'm looking at that brother noW' ior S"ii
still Searight.
So vote again. and do 1t loud.
All say "Aye!
"Pioneer" Speaks
Edwin A. Dixon of the Express spoke
for the pioneer evening paper OF the city.
He said that inasmuch as his pioneer
experience dated back two and one-half
years, he felt that he was eminently
qualified to speak as a pioneer, as he
felt that in any other company he would
be an old timer in the city. His warm
and hearty greeting to the humorists
who Travelled so far to reach the most
beautiful spot beneath the sun was
heartily applauded by the visitors.
Allen Kelly of the Times told of some
early experiences and ,ne disastrous re-
suit of his first effort to write real
funny things for publication. His story
of becoming confused with certain
bits of the night
Fred Wann of the Salt Lake road told
of an experience in Ireland where the
driver of the cart refused to drive fast
on the ground that his horses were par
ticularly fond of the scenery.
Strickland w. Gillian of Baltimore,
past president of the American Press
Humorists' association, was introduced
as "of The Los Angeles Herald"
ell 10 Tlr
dette, the star performer of the night,
and his facial expression was not the
least convulsing of a running fire of
witticisms that kept the bubble of laugh
ter constant throughout the ten brief
minutes he talked. His star story Sill
be told a thousad times by those pres
ent who dare to essay bit of dialect
but it is safe to say the tellers will look
their audiences over to make sure none
of them heard Gillian last night.
Gillian ScintiIIates
The speaker paid a high tribute to the
unconscious humorist of every day life
who doesn't know he is funny yet who
flags the bread wagon for those who
write because they Aant help it. He re-
ferred to the Salt Lake man's remarks
about the "trains that run over our little
system" and said that was all right, but
he didn't want any of those same trains
to run over his little system. Gillian said
some one who had preceded him referred
to an effort to keep paper going in
Los Angeles. IT tried to keep two diff.
ferent papers going in my lifetime. They
went They are still gone"
Irwin G. Lewis of the Record made some
clever and bright hits by telling of some
of the humorists who have visited Los
Angeles, and brought his best laugh py
naming an extremely serious historical
novel dealing with California of the early
days as one of the funniest things he had
ever read.
w. R. Rose father of the singer, also of
the Plain Dealer, rendered poem which
held all with the depth of It's pathos until
he reached the climax in the last line
where the wandering tramp sprang to the
| rescue of a little maiden who had fallen
in vat of beer. He saved the child by
quickly drinking the beer.
Turns the Tables
| George A. Post made a speech which
outclassed most of the humorists, and by
its spontaneous wit cleverly turned the
| tables on the POSTMASTER.
| Sam T. Glover of the Evening News
| quickly made hit by his allusion to a
certain quatrain which had brought him
fame and glory, but not gold Mr.. Glover
made touching reference to the late Chas
Dummond, the author of the 'Habitant
and scores of French Canadian poems
and gave THE Wreck of the Julie Plant
in delightful and finished manner.
! Dr. Burdette called on Frank e. Wolfe
of The Herald to make few feeble and
nebulous remarks" and that is what hs
| got
Toastmaster Burdette called on Frank
| Searight, secretary of the Press Humor-
lists association, but Starlight was the
most modest flower of the whole bouquet
| AS Burdette said. Searight had given Ut
his own business and devoted his time
entirely for many weeks to doing moth
ing but making the convention of the
press humorists success But Searight
was so anxious that the men whose hap
| piness for the week he has taken in his