Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-17
WRITER JIM REILLY.
We'll Known Newspaper Man Who
 Has Many Friends Here.

Almost everybody around the Nau- gatuck valley knows Jim Reilly, particularly his many friends in Wa terbury, Ansonia and Derby. Jim was more notably known as James Whitcomb Reilly, when he dashed sonia way and contributed to the columns of the Ansonia Sentinel. Wider fields of journalism were thrown open to him and some years ago he joined the Norman Mack Staff on the Buffalo Times. He be- came noted for his many well writ ten interviews with celebrities in this and other countries and was fa- nous as a describer of political con ventions Hence his appointment to cover the news for his paper, of the Mir Mack accepted the position of the democratic national committee, he at once named Jim as his private secretary, a position he filled with great credit. But the former Con- necticut boy shines in other fields as we'll for he is the author of one dra- matic production, "Spotless Town, which had great run, when first produced and is still doing business. Only few weeks ago he came to the assistance of Flo Irwin, who had Df Sl n because sister May wanted it all for herself, and he composed one act play for Miss Flo which will make the Reilly name still more famous. The Buffalo Times speaks of the play as follows:
 Flo Irwin, the actress left for New York last evening in very happy frame of mind despite the fact that her sister, May Irwin, had defeated her in federal court during the day through receiving a court order re- straining Flo from using George Ade's sketch, Mrs Peckham's Carouse"
 The reason for Flos good nature was one act play entitled "The Suf- fragette," which was written espe- cially for her by James w. Reilly, a well known Buffalo newspaper man and member of the Times staff, which play Miss Irwin accepted last Tuesday and which she decided to produce immediately, whether she won or lost in the contest1With her sister for the possession of the George Ade play.
 "I consider MT Reilly's one act play one of the best 1 have ever read and for good humor and laughable situations l consider it an even better play than Mrs Peckham's Carouse' which has always been regarded as one of the funniest pieces on the vaudeville stage. said Miss Irwin. I expect to put MT Reilly's play into rehearsal at once in New York and now expect to present it by the week after next, possibly at Rochester. am booked solid for the remainder of the season and expect to hold the time l had for the George Ade play with the play MT Reilly has written for me- "'
 And the poetic muse some times hobnobs with Jim, too. for he has a versatile mind and during all the tur moil of politics when he was head over heels in the boiling cauldron of political strife, he paid his respects to Joe Cannon, who refuses to be called a czar, in the following little sonnet:
 Leave it to me,
 And of course I'll see,
 That the tariff drops
 To a great degree,
 On elephants tusks,
 And humming birds nests,
 On scented musks,
 And fancy vests,
 And that it tumbles
 A notch or two
 On pictures of
 The kangaroo
 But as for foodstufs,
 Oh dear, mo-
 Or rails, or oils,
 'Twould never do;
 For I have friends
 In these lines, you see,
 And these poor friends
 Depend on me
 To help them get
 A lot of dough-