The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-25
Getting Next to the Banzais


il more than the poor needs bookless
Hb'ries or germless milk. There's all
kinds of societies for keepin' the poor
contented with poverty, anyway; Dul
al the got rich yesterday folks has
handed them is knocks in the funny
column.
What gives me thought like this
was the stunt I've just been mixed up
in with Mr.. Todd Maddox. Hadn't
heard of him vet? Well, you viii. He's
one of the asparagus brand of plutes,
all right: but it's been comm on him
so swift he hardly knows it himself.
Why. a few years back he was car
ryin' a dinner pail and catchin' the
sunrise trolley to the foundry, out in
Altoona. But one day he figures out
a patent dOodad to a blast furnace,
swaps il for a big block of preferred
stock works a combination freeZeout
on the gang that was tryin' to put the
Indian sign on him. and the first thing
ne knows he lands in a leather COW
cred chair with his name well uD on
the letterhead. Since then he's struck
a gait that makes a skyrOcket look like
il was bein pulled up by a string.
You can judge how new he is by his
havin' showed up at the studio for the
first time lessn month ago. He's
been comm reg'l lar ever since, though,
and I've got "A standin' order to keep
him down TO a hundred and cighty-five
even Il / have 70 manicure him with
sand paper Considerin' the size of the
check I'm to get il l hold him to form.
reckon the games worth stayin' with.
That's what's been fetchin' me out 10
Soundmoor where he's located the fam
nv for the summer. It's one of them
Sound front properties that he leases by
the season, for about hundred dol
lars a day. and the MaddoXes is nav
-
I'm thirty rooms and five acres of front
lawn Todd. he does the Friday night
10 Monday mornin' act; not because he
likes H. but Just SOS TO keep in touch /
with mother and the kids.
That's one of his good points. Mrs. |
Maddox amt what you'd call a Little
Bright Eyes. Shes about a fOrty-siX
measure from shoulders to waist, With
wash day complexion and a voice
that could go against the tomtoms. But
her and Todd seems to do good team
work. and so far he don't act like he
was thinkin of changin' her for the !
kind you can pick out Of a roof gar
den chorus.
Wen. l was maxim my third trip out
there. and everything was lovely, when
this banzai proposition was sprung. Mr.
Maddox he meets me at the station in
the black and yellow tOurin' car. wear
in a worried look on his low cut brow.
Shorty" says he, you've mixed
more or less with the ee-light, haven't
YOU
sure" says !. Il amt too proud
for that"
Ever run across any real swell
Japs2" says he.
I've seen "A few slit-eyes doin' hired
girls work. and watched others run
MIN rollin' ball joints and auction
houses; but 1 can't say L ever met any
that come in through the front door"
SAYS l. Have you2"
No" says he; "but there's one due
here tomorrow night that I've got to
treat like an equal He's Baron
Baron Hoshi."
You're comm on" says l. Next
thing you'll be diggin' up a coat of
arms ana givin' tea parties 70 the King
Of Siam. Whered you meet up with
Jap BarOn?'
Seems that this was sOmethin that
had been slid on 10 Todd unexpected.
He'd got a cablegram from the main
Sadzooks of the steel trust. who was
somewheres in Europe. tellin him now
The Baron, who has a lot 10 do with
Civin' out the Jap armOr plate -On-
tracts. was gOin' TO strike New York,
and how he'd got to be taken care of,
and taken care of right.
Course, if the big wheel was at home
himself. he'd been the one to go on
the Job: but as he want the arrow
points 70 Mr. Maddox. Now if it was
case of producin' estimates on a thou
sand tons of air bubble rails. or buck
in a puddlers strike, or talkin Dutch
10 an investigator committee, Todd
would have been Ever Ready Roger:
but when il comes to dom the at home
for a Far East gent with handle to
his name. he don't know where 10
begin.
You couldn't stagser Todd Maddox
Tor Sood, though. unless you dropped
safe on him. He's one OF these bull
neckel boys. with hair in his ears and
Jaw like q stone crusher. and he's
ready TO tackle anything batted ito
him.
Not oein' thick with any Of the real
arlr.eS. like Pinckney, or Mr.. Purdy
fe,l He has 10 fail back on a few
FluSourg friends that he can round up
.' me Broadway hotels. AID calls on
,Arm for help. The best they can do
= 20 agree that slippin the welcome
naN 20 a Jap calls Tor Jap program.
zen they makes a lew notes from
N"a. tney can remember of The Mi
Eai' and Madam Butterfly and
"l.ie they leaves him.
i'ld takes this for cue ana hlazes
a-ral- but when he SrdI Is T. work out
H-A~ and by the time I gets on The
scene hes mile up IL the air
We only got twentv-fOur hours left
'-'Ie the Baron shows up here" says
me- and all I've done is To order a
HI'SS N paper lanterns to string around
g lawn But that's no more than
que ladies Aid society would DO for
an Ice cream festival on the parsonage
rounds. I've been scratching my head
-' hours. though, and can't think of
another thing
Are you Stin stuck on turnn' Sound
SAYS
us my only play TO jolly the Bar
ou be says
iaen why not ring up a decorator
".. nave il done right" says I.
- STAINED If ia thought OF that says
lei see, be hadn't been travelin' with
-.s money burners long enough 10 get
mo their ways IF farnin' out such
.,-NSS 20 experts Once he gets the