Arizona republican., 1909-07-25
.HARPOOn IS HURLED
 4 SECOND TIME
Magazine Exposing Evils in Railway Mail Service is Issued From Den ver-First Issue Was Printed in Phoenix-Editor May Return Here For Winter in Search of Health.

| PhoenlH-Editor May Return Here
 For Winter in Search of Health.
 The second number of the HarpoOn l the first issue of which was edited and | printed in this city has made it's ap- | pearance. owing to a decided saving in the cost of publication the journal | has moved to Denver but nevertheless | it remains of considerable interest to
 a. number of peop;e in this city who are acquainted with the editor and to | others interested in the magazine merely from the point of view of the welfare of the peoples servants. AL though the publication will continue from Denver it is probable that Mir. Walter. the editor. will return to this city in the late fall as he does not de- sire to further ieopardize his health by remaining in a cold climate.
 The second volume of the publica- ton is fully up to the high standard
 which was set in the first number and although at times the circum- stances attending it's issue were such
 as would have caused many men to give up the fight and to discontinue
 the effort tO get out a magazine.
 the indomitable editor persisted in
 his efforts and it is now thought that
 the magazine is on an assured expense
 paying basis and it's publication will
 be continued.
 As was partially explained in a pre-
 vious article which appeared in these columns. the editor of the new maga-
 zine which is so forcefully showing up
 some of the abuses alleged to exist in the civil service, was for eight years mail clerk on the New York Central lines running between New York and
 Chicago In the course of his duty the train on which he was working went
 through a bridge. The car in which
 Walters was working was badly
 smashed and he was caught between
 heavy timbers which crushed upon his
 chest For thirty-six hours he re- mained in the ice cold water with only
 his face above the surface before his rescue was effected. The injuries kept him confined to his bed for some time and finally were the immediate cause of his contracting tuberculosis, for re-
 lief from which he came to Arizona
 several months ago. Several times he was notified by the service that un- less he could recover his health and resume work in a reasonable length of time he would be given his dis charge The discharge an honorable one. arrived on July 1. some time after the first issue of the Harpoon had ap- peared
 When he first came to this section of the country Mr. Walters had in mind the publication of some such maga- zine as the Harpoon but he was en- tirely without funds with which to de-
 fray the expenses incident upon the publication of such a magazine as he had in mind In fact he had no con siderable amount of funds and from the first it was necessary for him, all though in very poor health, to secure some employment which would enable him to make a living. A short time after his arrival here he made trip over the county selling life insurance. He met with most remarkable success and in a short time secured an amount of money which would have been sui ficient to have defrayed all his living expenses for a period of perhaps two years However the publication of magazine which would reach all of the mail clerks and attract the attention of the public was the mans first idea and he hazarded the money which he had earned and the assured fact of an easy living for time at least. in order to place before the public the facts which he considered as offering a vitN question which called for immediate solution and remedy. He staked the entire amount on the first issue which ] was sent out from this city in June.
 For two weeks after the issue was | mailed he waited, each day becoming a , little less hopeful of the success of the venture, each day a little more appre- hensive lest those for whose benefit : the magazine was issued might not come to it's support. After two weeks | had elapsed however the subscriptions 1, began to pour in. In many of the i congratulatory and cOmmendatory let | ters were enclosed amounts in excess ] of the subscription price, with best l wishes for the success of the publica- | tion.
 Finding from the return that the ! venture was to be successful and that | it would eventually be given the unan- | imous support of the members of the | service the editor searched the coun- l try for cartoonist who would carry | out his ideas and who could add some | attractive new features to the future | issues of the HarpOOn. Having no ex- ! cess funds and being in a position ] where he had to practice every econO- | my which would not detract from the 1 merits of his journal MT. Walters was compelled to move his place of publi- | cation from Phoenix to Denver where |