The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-05
COSTLY SCRAPB0OKS
BIGGEST IS ABOUT PRESIDENT
 Ro0sEvELT's ELECTION.
Fifty-feur Thousand Clippings About Mark Hnnna's Desfh--Bernard shaw . Clipping Bureau
 Client.

| New York Special.
 Among the various industries which
 men have taken out of the home. com mercialized and made financially valu- | able is the art of scrapbook making. The old-time scrapbook was thing
 made by the women and children Of the family. The making of scrapbooks. which cost thousands of dollars. con- tain miles of newspaper clippings and | extend through many volumes was the invention of man.
 Today the scrapbook may be illus | trated with photographs taken espe- | cially for us pages. bound In morocco, | hand fooled and lettered in gilt. It may be used for a wedding present, be | preserved as an heirloom, or find its way into a museum or librsry, since | it contains the best collection of con-
 temporary records of great events.
 The Dewey scrapbook. presented to the | Admiral after bis return from the
 Philippines, is already in the smith 1 sonian.
 The Dewey book. including It's table cost s3.100 and was at that time the most costly single book ever made.
 Since then 1t has been eciipsed many
 times.
 The scrapbook made of the clippings
 relative to Roosevelts election was the biggest ever made, and the bid for it was the biggest that ever went out of the office in which 1t was made.
 The order came from Mir. Cortelyou
 in behalf of the Republican National
 Convention.
 Only what was called Dig stufrs was
 inserted. There were over 32,000 clip
 pings. which filled seven volumes. each
 containing se0 pages. 13 by 15 inches.
 Its compilation necessitated a back
 search. which is the most expensive
 thing in clipping bureau, as 10 cents is charged for every publication read,
 whether anything is found in it or not. ssioe rom the ordinary charge of s cents apiece for clippings.
 As an example of the new uses of the scrapbook may be instanced the one got up for Miss Shonts and the Ouke de Chaulnes. It contained 5000 clippings. relating to the wedding, and tnese only the "bis stuff." 1t was
 bound in full Turkey morocco, hand
 tooied In gold and the fly leaves oS
 imperial purple fnoire.
 John B. Mcdonald, the subway bu,Id- CT, IS an inveterate scrapbook maker Dy proxy. He has scrapbooks made of everything relating to his public ca Ieer ana presents them to his daueh.
 ter. Miss Georgte Mcdonald. whose
 name Is printed on the cover. There
 was one of everything printed about  opening. and another was devoted to
 the opening alone. He has also scran. DOCKS made as wedding prasente to Llends containing everything that bas
 appeared concerning their Engagement
 and wedding
 The New York Association far Tn. ternational Consolidation ordered th.
 largest single volume ever r1sAa 'ns contained clippings from 4,s00 Ar.rt- San newspapers concerning the ar-t National Arbitration and Pasca rss,. sress held at The Hague ana y,a.
 .sken over to The Hague to shov st
 tne next Congress. It contafned ts
 e.ppings, which if placed in fine ana nave made calumn two miles
 . Ioot thick. weighed $50 pound. ssS
 "nen open extended five feet. - --N | serapoook was made up of eIin- Rnss reiatirE to the death of MarL 1 s@. The bill was $3, 800, which. as
 s snse was no back search, and inc S' inciudlng mounting and binding
 was cents a clipping, makes mnrs
 tnan 5000 clippings.
 ODltuary scrapbooks are hseom,n1 so much matter of course that tbe Various clipping bureaus begin ofthat. own motion to collect the ciippinax tb a
 oay any prominent man dies on ths
 en1nee that an order may come in. | lac l Tn the case of public men. orders Sor
 obituary scrapbooks come mostly from women and nearly all from widows
 The widows buy articles concerntn1 their husbands, but widowers rareIv buy what Is said concerning their
 wives. In twenty-five years of exist
 enSe one bureau has had only one such order from a man.
 No scrapbook has ever been ordered concerning any famous woman in the United States, although there was enough printed about Susan B. An thony and Frances Willard to make large volumes. Of the three women
 who today are receiving the most newspaper mention in tho Tinted l States two are Hetty Green and HaIen Gould. and the third curiously enough. | IS Mrs. Rice originator and pusher of
 the anti-noise agitation in this city.
 As an example of the sort of book | to which future historians will ro in
 search Of material Is a volume which | memner or the Friars presented to l that club few days ago. It Is a hook | of first nights, and contains the nro- | gram and everything printed in tbe | city of New York concerning the first night of every play In the city during the year l902-O3. The head of the bu- l reau, who IS first night fiend, had the book made for his own satisfaction. in-
 
 1 interest waning, he presented the vol ume to the Friars.
 Successful authors are naturally | among the best clients. Bernard Shaw
 Is one of the heaviest subscribers to | American clipping bureaus and pays q good round sum annually to know | what American papers are saying abour | him, One bureau has on file a long succession of postal cards from him
 extending over a series of years. He always writes on postal cards. ana | a collection of these cards might them
 selves form interesting reading. One ] of them reads: "At the end of the | year I shall probably ask you to l change our arrangement to one where | by I shall pay you cents for every 1 cutting you do not send me. For Heav- | en's sake, don't be too diligent Con | slider your health; take it easy" Which
 seems to indicate that Mir. Shaw was | getting too many clippings and found | his bill too heavy.
 Tn response to a request for an ex-
 pression of opinion in regard to the value of the service. he wrote: You may refer to me. by all means, but cannot give you a letter for reproduc- tton until just before I die. Just think of all the applications 1t would bring me for similar letters. No; ingrati- tude rather than rum.
 Max Pemberton on having the mer- its of the service called to his atten- tion replied that ne would really like to have the clippings. but to tell the truth he didn't know how to send mon ey to America and had never been able to find out.