Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-30
HUMORISTS
WANT DENVER
AMERICAN PRESS GENIUsES TO
CONVENE THERE
THIS is ALL BUT SETTLED, SAYS
F. T. sEARIoHT
Latter Accepts Position on Paper of
That City and Booms Forth
coming Gathering of
Joke Makers

According TO communication re-
ceived by The Herald from Frank T..
Searight, president of the American
Press Humorists association, the sixth
annual convention of that organization
Will be held in Denver, Colo. probably.
Frank T. Searight is a graduate o.
The Los Angeles Herald. and the fact
that he has accepted a permanent po-
sition with the Denver Express, of
which Boyd f. Gurley is editor, will
be news to many of the Los Angeles
friends of the "boss" humorist. This
offer to Searight has been standing for
a year and was accepted finally by him
upon his recent trip east.
Searight was called to Houston, Tex,
by the serious Illness of Judd Mortimer
1 evils of the Houston Post, secretary
treasurer of the American Press HUI
n orists. Searight went there to take
charge of the convention arrange
ments. He writes:
ION the day / left Los Angeles Lewis
was taken to the hospital with appen-
dicitis His doctor said that further
delay of six hours would have cost
him his life, such was his condition
when they operated upon him. Also
that it will be several weeks or d
month before he is out of the hos
allowed to resume work.
Impossible to Carry Out Plans
"As the convention was set for May
5, it was manifestly impossible to car
ry out these plans.
80, after notifying the members
that indefinite postponement had been
taken a further conference was held
hy Lewis and myself and 1T was de-
cided to transfer the convention to
some other city.
Detroit, Buffalo and Asbury Park
all made strong bids for the meeting
last year, in addition to Houston and
Denver | left for Denver, arriving
here Sunday evening, and Immediately
took up the project with the local MEM
hers-C. e. Van Loan, Bide Dudley
and Walter Juan Davis of the Denver
Post; Arthur Chapman of the Repub-
lican, James Barton Adams and A. U.
Mayfield. A meeting of these members
and of the executive committee-Va1 \
Loan, Chapman and nnyself-was held
Mt the Denver Press club Monday
night The unanimous choice was
Denver, the press club and represen-
tatives of other organizations indors-
ing the plans. Today the project was
RACED before the Convention league
and decision was promised at the next
meeting"
Denver Is Enthusiastic
An interesting feature about the
press humorists' convention being held
in Denver possibly is pointed out by
President Searight as follows:
Denver not only is pleased over the
prospect of another Bill Nye monu-
ment fund entertainment by the Amer
lean Press Humorists such as was
given at the Auditorium in Los An
eeles last fall, but they are enthusiast
tic over it. The reason is that this was
Nye's stamping ground. This was the
place where he used to congregate with
that other noted Denverite, Gene
Field, and those fellowgeniuses, Roth
aker, Will Visscher. Bill Barlow and
James Barton Adams. In fact Denver
looks upon Bill Nye as a Denver man
and wants to pay tribute by boosting
the monument project. Then, two OF
that old guard will be characters in the
convention-Adams and Barlow, the
former living here and the latter being
still much alive and vigorous as the
editor of Sagebrush Philosophy at
Douglas. Wyo."
President Searight adds:
"The probable success of the Denver
meeting is evidenced by the fact that
within a few hours after publication OF
the first statement regarding 1t in the
Denver papers a half dozen offers of
entertainment, sightseeing trips, ETC.,
were received by local membrs and
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