Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-09-26
ROOSEVELT TO MANILA?"
SURE, SAY FINANCIERS
ALL APPROVE PROPOSED PRO.
CONSUL APPOINTMENT
New York Publication Has Plenty OF
Fun with Project to Ship the
President to the PHIL -
ippInes

NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-By wireless tel
ephone clairvoyant commissioners and
otherwise, the New York Evening Post
| has interviewed some of the leadinf flnan-
clers on the ideaN of President Roosevelt
as managing editor of the Philippines.
The suggestion seems a popular one, and
some of the results are given below:
Although busily engaged in writing an
address on a souvenir post card, q. H.
Hartman good naturally allowed him
self to be interrupted with a question
about the plan suggested in London for
Theodore Roosevelt to go to the Philip
pines as proconsul
Grand scheme" said Mr.. Hartman,
speaking over the wireless telephone from
Rebate Gulch. philippines 1900 miles
away. cable rates almost prohibitive.
When's he going?"
1t was explained to him that the Lon
don Spectators idea was that Mr.. Roose-
welt should take UP his new duties next
year.
"Wow, wow!' exclaimed Mr.. Hartman,
but in glee rather than in anger. This is
September. Only three months left. Tell
the Spectators advertising man to come
and see me. I'll give him a time card ad
showing all the Union Pacifics through
and local connections.
But what do you think of that SOU
Fvenir postal card?" Mr.. Hartman paused
long enough to explain where he was
and how things looked there. IT Just love
scenery. I've been on journey out west
and bought some souvenirs. See, there's
q lot of tourists and sightseers sitting on
the edge of a mountain, with their feet
hanging over, and they're all throwing
proxies into the Yosemite valley just to
see( 'em waited down gracefully on the
breezes. Valleys almost full of proxies.
For Fish as Assistant
''There're some lovely tints and colors
in that postal card. The valleys just
that way, too, you know. was just adj
dressing this card to my friend, Mr..
Stuyvesant Fish. He loves, scenery, too.
Not so esthetic, though, that he amt a
handy boy with his fists, all right. Why
doesn't he go to the Philippines to help
Roosevelt out? That's a bully thought;
almost as good as the Spectators. I'll
jot the suggestion down here on the mar
gin of this postal; right here, where that
snow white mound of proxies is piling
up among those big trees.
ibid you ever see those wonderful big
trees from which come all sticks to beat
the undesirable citizens? Young man,
you mustn't think of going abroad till
you've seen the beautiful places in your
own country.
"Confound that anti-pass law! I would
like to send Roosevelt a pass right now
over my lines, just to make it easy for
him to get to the Pacific and embark for
his new fields
Then, after looking at the printed sched-
ule on the lamp post letter box to see
when the next mail would reach the Wall
street subpostal station, Mr.. Hartman
slipped the souvenir missive through the
slot and walked away, softly humming
to himself that chorus which the jani-
tors, fisher maidens, dividend passers and
undesirable citizens sing in the third act
of ''Proconsul":
For he's going to leave us now;
Wow. wow!
He's going to leave us now;
Wow. WOW
He's going to leave us now
Morgan Peellng an Apple
"a proconsul in the Philippines" slow
ly repeated j. Pierpont Morgan, who was
found sitting on his office steps, peeling
an apple and watching the crowd pass in
wall and Broad streets, ever and anon
throwing a strip of big yellow pippin
skin over his left shoulder to see If 1t
didn't twist up and come down like a
dollar sign.
But he didn't seem inclined at first
TO discuss the question. On the con-
trary, he rather pointedly evaded the
question by addressing the messenger
bows grouped about him on the steps,
90 oglriro. (which one will 0et the