Arizona republican., 1910-06-27
AsCR|BED TO JIM GOODWIN
Story In a New York Paper In Which Is Told the Par ticulars of a Put Up Job On a Party of Rough Riders

A copy of the New York Tribune of recent date was received here yes terday and in it was a story that may be of interest to local readers. Jim Good win, who has been in New York at tending the Rough Riders reunion. supplied the material for it.
 MT. Goodwin has always been re- gardeG as more a mining man than a grammarian, but if he was ever guilty of desecrating the English language as it would appear in this story he should be ashamed to ever show up in Tempe again. The chances are that .he reporter who wrote up the inter view" had once upon q time read some of Alfred Henrl Lewis works and, knowing that he was talking to a western man, felt that he was obliged to infuse a little of what he regarded as typical western language into his story For, with all his faults and virtues. Jim Goodwin could hardly have been guilty of anything like the following:
 Tt takes pretty good ones to fool the Rough Riders. but they were sure taken off their guard yesterday.
 Tt was the goldurndest taxe-in you ever see" said J. C. Goodwin of Tenn pc. Ariz.-"nine miles from Phoenix, but we get the Associated Press dis patches for breakfast and supper like wise"-as MT. Goodwin explained.
 MT. Goodwin said he was d member of the legislature that helped the good roads movement Arizona more'n a little heap of argument He said he .lr.v.- h s,, -s.l. ture something to be proud of. but nothing at all compared to his record with the famous Rough Rider regi ment.
 T am," he said, lone of the few privates left in this here organization which ain't all. I have the distinction of never holding any official position and that puts me in a class b. myself as fur as this regiment is involved I've held no offical position and never have been in jail The rest has been either one thing or tother-leastwise sos it been stated. Combine all of them things and find another man as can produce equal credentials for con spicuOus mention, and the drinks is on yours truly"
 But how were the Rough Riders fooled today?" MT. Goodwin was asked.
 "Bad-that's how" he replied. Tt was the goldurndest surprised lot of soldiers you ever see. In the furst place they ain't heap of us from the Western country that has had much experience with clams-leastwise not in their native hants. Them as gets out our way is in alright compart- 1l-f -fF,f ell fla people are not strong for 'em-puny would be more like it.
 CLAMBAKE DISCOVERIES.
 Well, sir. when the invite come from the New York Athletic club for all of us fellahs to take in a Clambake we reckOned we'd not be backward. So we all went troopin down to Huck- leberry Island this afternoon and set down at the tables, when by and by in come a plate piled high for each man with baked clans and seaweed. Seems they use seaweed in the east in helpin' cook clans. They was the best goldrun eatin' that in my several years of galavantin' 'round-an' I ain't been what you might call sedentary crit ter-it has ever been my good fortin | for to meet. All you had to Oo was to | look at the way they honed up for | hand in the game to make sure of that l fact. They didn't none of 'em leave | room for a reasonable doubt on that l score Likewise, they was shy on room | for more in the shape of victuals. An l right there is where they was fooled | some You see, we had all fingered | that a clambake meant clans an nOth- | in else. We didn't even include the | seaweed. An so, right enough from | the standpoint of bein' short on infOr 1 nation cOnsarnin' the layout. we all ct | all them clans, abbreviatin' only when | it come to the seaweed, an was some | fatigued when we see that the next | course was fish, the same all boiled in | seaweed.
 NO NEXT COURSE" NEEDED.
 We didn't expect there was goin' to be no next course. an then after the fish next come lobster, boiled in same as heretofore-a whole | lobster for each man-and then come | chicken an tomatoes and then water melon, coffee and cigareets-the last | bein' something I pass up, terse like, | from habit. but the other victuals bein' | tok by me reg'lar and the other fellahs the same.
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 You said something about the boys being twice taken by surprise" Mir Goodwin was reminded.
 Correct, and I stands by the re- | mark" he replied.
 While We was a layin' in that sup