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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-05

March 3 is interesting as being the date
on which umbrellas were first introduced
Into America at Baltimore, ana were
commonly secuted as being evidence Of
effemInacy. This was In 1I10. IT, IS also
the date upon which convened the i'm
peachment court 10 try President Johnson
1S6S), the date on which the famous
CoVent Garden. London. was destroyed
by fire i'm 1856; and the Thames tunnel
was opened 10 traffic in JSi3. II is the
birthday OF DR.. George Stanhope. dean
OF Canterbury GG60J; Robert c. Greer,
the eminent jurist G19B Frederick S.
Cozzens the humorist GSlS: Isaac |.
dore T. Munger, clergyman and author
GS30).
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TODAY in HISTORY
The Boston Massacre,
SATUEOAY, MARCH 5

Today Is the one hundred and fortieth
anniversary OF the Boston massacre: THIS
is considered the first act in the drama
OF the revolution" In 1916 John Adams
wrote; Not the battle of Lexington or
Bunker Hin. nor the surrender OF Bur
goyne or CORVALLIS, were more Import
ant events in American history than the
battle OF King street on the 9TH ot March
ITO
After the British troops were quar-
tered In Boston I'm 1858 there was con-
tinual friction between the soldiers and
the people. Several minor riots occurred
In 1870. and the trouble finally cul-
minated on March ;. when seven soldiers
under Captain Preston. who were bclns
peltcd with snowballs and stones by fitty
or sixty OF the populacc. headed by young
Crlspus Attucks. fred into the crowd
of whom two died. This act mfurlatcd
the Boston people. who met In mass
meeting and compelled the withdrawal OF
the troops TO Castle Island on March j..
Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson was
the acting governor OF the Massachusetts
colony at the time. When he was ap-
pealed 10 regarding the removal ne re
ferred the matter 10 Colonel Dalrymple.
who finally agreed TO the removal of one
regiment. AS Samuel Adams passed
through the crowds OF anxious people
10 the meeting place he kept rcpea ting
Both regiments or none an expression
which has become famous.
At the meeting. addressing himself TO
Hutchinson he said: IF you. or Colonel
y
remove one regiment, you have the power
TO remove both" And after ne had
gained his point the Fourteenth and
Twenty ninth regiments of his majesty 5
forces. which we're removed, won from
the lips OF Lord North himself the mem
orabe nickname OF the sam Adams
regiments"
The energy and power of one man IN
turning the tragedy OF the massacre
so quickly into a victory for the people
are worthy OF all admiration. II was
this same Sam Adams who spoke the
important word which opened the Bos-
ton tea party. And Il was he who told
the private emissary OF General Gage.
tempting him with promises of royal IA
vor " he would take a less aggressive
course:
Sir. | trust | have long since made
my peace with the King OF Kings. No
personal consideration shall induce me to
abandon the righteous cause OF my coun-
try. Tell Governor Gage IL is the advice
Of Sainuel Adams TO him no longer to
insult the feelings OF an eXasperated
people"
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You know, DO woman can hold the Nor
mon Melchiscdell priesthood.
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Once upon time, when it was
cold
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Telephones.

Bcl1-Privato Branch EXCHANGE connect
ing all departments call Main 5000.
nt-Intercommunicati system
connecting al departments. cell $50.
Entered at the Postoffce at salt Lake
City as second class matt9r.
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With this condfgn threat, Mr.. Boggs thrust
out his lower jaw, mopped his forehead, and
took his bearings. Madison Square opened,
green and inviting, just ahead Of him. He
made for one of the shaded park benches and
sat down.
If one passes among the shaded park
benches of Madison Square, especially if he
passes between the hours of eleven O'Clock and
noon, he is likely to notice small number OF
passably dressed, clean-cut young fellows
scattered among the various nondescripts that
cluster there. They are distinguished iron the
nondescripts, also, by the erectness Of their
attitudes, certain tenseness about the eyes
and mouth, and a tendency to stare into
vacancy. These are the Young Enthusiasts
with Non-negotiable Ideas. That hollow
checked youth, perhaps, believes that he can
write better poems than Swinburne; maybe
he can That long-legged young man, with
the black smudges on his knuckles, is certain
that he has invented a perpetual motto
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The early lark had arisen, breakfasted
the worm, and turned his attention to other
matters before Mr.. Boggs bethought him
again of mundane affairs. At fifteen minutes
past ten O'Clock, to be exact, portly, per-
spring gentleman sped nimbly down Nine
tenth Street, toward the side entrance of
Simpkins and Bowman's department store
AT seventeen minutes past ten, the portly
gentleman ran plump into the arms of
beaming- faced, business-like young man,
with black portfolio under his arm. The
young man was just leaving the big stores
side entrance.
Jimmy" exploded the portiy gentleman,
producing sound halfway between gasp
and below. "You ain't-you amt seen
him already2"
"Why, it's Mr.. Boggsl" commented the
other, his beaming expression deepening into
a broad grin. "Seen Mr.. Bowman, you
mean9 Oh yesl"
Mr.. Boggs made supreme effort and,
with the assistance of solid bit of masonry
managed to remain standing. He drew forth
purple-bordered handkerchief, in a dazed
sort of way, and mopped his forehead.
ats rather warm, amt, it7" he queried.
at certainly is, if ones in great hurry"
assented Leonard. "Did you want to see
me2"
Mr.. Boggs drew deep breath and opened
the food gates of his disappointment
eyes, did-worst kind-all mistakel''
he sputtered. Wilson wasn't responsible
not him, not at all! All that dodgasted
Bilkins-"
0Tbat,e ~,,,ear. u1;Ieon,s ;,,.+ ,J,,;4..,J L.,
part in ii" returned Jimmy. "Said you put
him up to it."
"Whoa Me1 Me put him up to it7"
walled Mr.. Boggs, in genuine establishment
and horror. ats like his nervel"
His expression was so lugubrious that
Jimmy melted toward him.
"Look here, Mr.. Boggs," he said; "I'm
honestly sorry if I've interfered with your
business in any way. thought you wanted
to get Wilson out; and l agree with you that
he's bad one"
GAS for this smash-up, don't blame you.
The ad. business amt what it used to be.
Nowadays you don't hear nothing but circu-
lation and class and pulling power and new
fandangled ways of gettin' publicity. amt
blamin' you, you understand, but if it keeps
uP~h II Keeps up ne waved MS purple
bordered handkerchief in solemn emphasis.
=" If it keeps up, I'll go Westl Yes, sir, durn
me, sure as shootin' I'll go Westl" He
hauled down the handkerchief and mopped
his forehead. "S1ong, Jimmy" he con-
Guided feebly. "I'm goin' get cup O. black
coffee"
With mixed feelings of regret and amuse-
ment, Leonard watched the unfortunate gen.
tleman straggle down the street, and then
himself departed in the opposite direction.
Inside the little black portfolio under bis arm
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and the afternoons at his desk, as combina-
ton manager, stenographer, and office boy.
His efforts to influence the settled revolutions
of business were comparable to those of a
mosquito on fy-wheel. His task was rem
dered the more hopeless because everybody
who knew anything about him knew of his
rocket-like rise and no less rocket-like fall.
As he turned down side street to his box of
an Office, he wondered whether they didn't
know good deal more about the fall part
than he had known himself
Mr.. Boggs, in the meantime, had betaken
himself to a much-mirrored restaurant, and
ordered sumptuous repast.
By the time he had finished his luncheon,
he was in such capital spirits that he decided
to spend the afternoon at Coney Island.
Accordingly it was nearly five O'Clock when he
arrived at the Hallowell offices, and the edify-
ing surprise. The latter, which had been
waiting with laudable patience, was enclosed
in little blue A. d. T. envelope, marked
IMMEDIATE" across the face. It read
as follows:
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lions really IS.

AS a result of this attitude, nobody liked
him, and he missed those little personal favors
and courtesies which mean so much to even
the most business-like conduct of business.
He managed to get on bad terms with most of
the local advertising agencies and publica-
tons, to which he addressed unnecessarily
harsh, and often sarcastic letters. When Mr..
Bowman, the head of the firm which en-
ployed him, endeavored to expostulate with
him in regard to these matters, he was I'M
reasonably offended, and displayed uncalled-
for shortness in his replies. Thus certain
GOODNESS grew up between him and his
employer The atmosphere" of his Office,
that feeling" about an Office which all will
understand who have had to do with such
places, became unnecessarily charged with
electricity.
Of course none, nor all, of these circum-
stances VS. s41cient to provoke his dis
charge. As a matter Of fact, they had not
dire V licked It; although Jimmy did
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machine; who is to deny him, ofhand, since
the discovery of radium? And, on this par
ticular May morning a certain ordinary-look-
ing youth, with neat serge suit, natty straw
hat, big gray eyes, and determined mouth,
was convinced that he knew more about the
then embryonic business of advertising than
the quite several men who made their livings
out OF it. His name was James Leonard, and
he was not quite twenty-four years old. Until
two weeks before he had held the position of
advertising manager in Simpkins and Bow
mans department store; a position which his
energy and ideas had raised from the custo-
mary obscurity of such positions to startling
prominence. Because of glazing faults, he
had been discharged.
The youthful business genius who attains
suddenly to eminence, only to drop back like
an immature aeroplane, is much commoner
than one might suppose. Newspapers, in
laudatory items, and magazines, in adapta-
tons of these items, called fiction, record his
ascent and leave him assembled. Even more
frequently than the love hero is Happily
Married, without a hint of future divorce
proceedings; the business hero secures
Splendid Position, without a hint of future
humping the bumps Inasmuch as the ratio
of'business reverses is hugely larger than the
ratio of marriage reverses, this state of affairs
is objectionable. We shall, therefore, en-
deavor to add our mite toward evening mat
tiers up.
In spite of his first success, Jimmy Leonard
had not made a good advertising manager.
At a time when advertising expenses were
considered principally as sort of gratuity to
propitiate the powers behind the newspapers
"a small sum of money to be turned over to a
superannuated advertising manager to use
pretty much as he saw ft-Leonard had new
ideas, ideas which have since proved their
vast superiority over the old ones. But his
experience with men was small; he had the
unoompromising severity of youth-the mar
rowness of few years and limited experience;
and his success bred in him an over-weening
self-confdence. 1t is bad enough when
seventy years acquires the opinion that it is
impeccable; but when callow twenty arrives
at the same conclusion, it is downright la
mentable. Young Leonard made the two
fold mistake of becoming supercilious and
believing himself invaluable, which, of course,
only about one man in several hundred mil
lions really is.
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Il beg your PARDON" he said. az didn't
mean to seem ungrateful. I'm worried, you
see."
We'll, now-that's the boy-that's the
boy!" Mr.: Boggs crossed his legs, produced
the tat cigar of earlier mention, and lit it.
"!hat's the boy, now! Isays to myself, when
hears this little piece of news: IN just let
Jimmy in on this; and if he gifts his JOB back
which he'd certainly ought to-maybe he
won't be SO short with his old Uncle Boggs.'
Cooperation is my motter. Nutchool assist
ance, you know"
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The only comments Jimmy had to make
wouldn't have sounded well; so he didn't
make them.
It's this way" resumed Mr.. Boggs, en-
phasizing his points with a fat forehnger:
"Wilson brides that slick private secretary
of Mr. Bowman s-what's his name1 Bill
kins? The one that beat it after bein' too
free with the firms creditors about the time
you was fired, you know" He paused to
roll the words over his tongue and give them
time to sink into his listener. "Well, Wilson
brides that teller to re-write some of your
letters-that is, some of the carbon copies
that goes to Bowman-see? Bilkins knew
he'd soon have to skip, so he didn't care.
Well, he and Wilson gifts together and makes
your letters real strenuous; | understand you
made 'em fair to middlin' strenuous yourself,
Ell? Well, when you tells a firm you may
have to take extreme measures if they don't
come to time, for instance, they makes it a
little stronger-suggests the Simpkins and
Bowman attorneys-see? Just changin' a
few words here and there; but enough to
make you out real -eater-not to men
ton the biggest man that ever wrote an ad,
and the gen-yew-wine boss of Simpkins and
Bowman's-see? Wilson figured that Bow
man 'ud call you up on the carpet, and you'd
be so highty-tighty proud and insulted that
you'd resign on the spot without lookin' over
the letters careful enough to see how they'd
been doctored. Pretty cute of the old geezer,
wasn't it, eh?"
EYES," admitted Jimmy grimly. "It was
rather cute"
at was! And about the time you gets off
the job he writes letter to Bowman, droolin'
about his long service with the firm, and how
he hates to be out of harness, and suggests his
wife and children-see? Well, it all works
out lovely! Clever of that old goat, hey?
And him not livin' with his wife these fifteen
years Clever, eh?"
ayes, oh, yes," admitted Jimmy
Mr.. Boggs seemed disappointed that he
had not aroused more wrath and excitement.
cav, he's bad onel" declared the g live
wire," with real feeling. always up to his
dirty tricks-even against his best friends
the old tree-toad! You ought to be able to
fix him, especially if Bowman's still got those
letters. Get after him! Make it hot for the
slippery galoot!"
"Fm certainly much obliged to you," said
Jimmy, rising, although your last remarks
give me pretty good clue as to why you're
loosening up on all this. I'll hope to return
the favor, sometime.
Leonard departed briskly, consulting his
watch, but as soon as he believed that he was
beyond the observation of Mr.. Boggs, his
step Jagged, his face resumed the strained,
worried expression characteristic of Young
Enthusiasts with Non-negotiable Ideas.
Jimmy's main idea was to start an adver-
Using agency that would really advertise. He
had even gone so far as to rent office-room in
the back OF a cigar store. Being, for the
present, the whole agency, he spent the morn
ings securing the city as advertising solicitor,
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Yrs. in haste,
Wilson.

The reading of this note inspired Mr.
Boggs to make two remarks. The first was
too blasphemous to print, and related to a
was willing to have done to him. The sec
ond, accompanied by huge sigh, was: It's
all that young Leonard's doings; the ad. bust
ness amt what it used to be-"
But the circumstances clearly demanded
more strenuous measures than remarks.
Jimmy must be seen and talked to before
morning
Mr.. Boggs, departing with the praise
worthy intention of going to see Jimmy as fast
as electricity would take him, soon developed
a bad case of divided mind. The address on
the slip of paper would take him to Benson
hurst-forty minutes ride, at the shortest.
If he went Immediately, the dinner at Billy's
would miss his cheerful presence. He ex-
pected a good deal of that dinner; Wilson
would have to spread himself to make up for
the mornings insulting seance.
"Dinner first and Bensonhurst after
wards" concluded Mr.. Boggs, unconsciously
damaging a very ancient and respectable
maxim.
He improved the short walk to Billy's by
inventing story suitable for young Leonard's
consumption. He decided to put all the
blame on the missing Bilkins, explaining that
irritation with Mr.. Wilson had caused the
mornings version of the matter. Mr.. Boggs
determined to be very oontrite. He was good
at being contrite. Altogether this DISPOSE
ton of the affair struck him as being most
worthy idea
His enjoyment of the dinner at Billy's was
marred by only one circumstance; the thought
of the impending pilgrimage to Bensonhurst.
This circumstance, with the assistance Of
sundry drinkables that went with and fol-
lowed the dinner proper, begat in his fuddled
mind another idea, even more brilliant than
the first He decided that he would not go to
Bensonhurst at all; he would merely arise
with the lark, go Immediately to the side en-
trance of Simpkins and Bowman's-which
led to the ofices-and await Jimny's arrival.
After the conception of this idea had BAN
ished his skeleton-a -the-feast, Mr.. Bogg's
Joy rapidly became unconhned. Along to-
ward midnight, Mr.. Wilson managed to get
him into cab and direct the driver where to
deliver him. Mr.. Boggs was feebly endeav-
oring to explain, as the cab departed, the
great wrong that he had almost done his besht
friend, Ole Billy Wilshon. But his explain
atoms were not very lucid, and Mr.. Wilson
was not prepared to understand them, even II
they had been.
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brought up IN the middle
of the sidewalk The May sun was shed
dazzlingly from his expanse of snowy waist
coat and Arizona-diamond tie-cluster. In
one fat hand he gripped a fat cigar; his wide
brimmed, red-banded straw hat depended
from the other The expression of his face
might proftably have been presented to the
American Society for Psychical Research as
evidence of the existence of ghosts, or equally
startling phenomena
"Wouldn't take It'll" he murmured, blink
ing in the bright sunlight and feebly locating
his head by means of his hat. He looked
down at the fat cigar, snorted, and thrust it
into vest pocket. Accused me of tryin' to
improperly infoonce his decisionsl Ordered
me out! Mel After all I've done for him!
The burned stuck-up old ANIMAL"
"Now what did l say to him-what did l
say?" he asked argumentatively. ~ says:
tGood morning, Mr.. Wilson. Congratula-
tons on gettin' your job back. / knew that
young Jimmy Leonard could never hold
down the job of advertising manager for
Simpkins and Bowman-yotv job l says.
And what does the old tree-toad say to that?
'Oompl' Just 'Oompl' That's what he
says, damn 'iml Have one of them Havana
Resurgos,' says l, endeaVorin' to sprinkle
kerosene on the troubled waves. ANY en-
gagement for luncheon to-day?' And then
what happens? Jumpin' Jehoshophat!
Then he rises right up on his hind legs and
rares and rips and tears; and accuses me of
tyin' to get business out of him by bribin'
him with cheap cigars and lunches! Me!
Cheap cigars! And about how he was a-goin'
to know where all his ads. went after this,
and the results they brungl A-oratin' about
eirculations and the vital importance of
proper PUBLICITY He couldn't a-carried on
worse if he'd been that young Leonard Teller
himselfi I'll bet that's where he got the
palaver, too. And then he orders me out!
Mel Orders me- Well, your old Uncle
Boggs knows more'n dead cat about several
things, just the same; and old Billy Wilson
knows he knows, too! I'll make the old sin
nsS dance yeti"
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Dear Boggsie:-

Great SPIEL put up, wasn't iti Bowman's
door was open just crack and he was WATCH
ING me. Couldn't even tip you wink. You
know he hasn't any use for you That young
Leonard fellows filled him full of balloon juice, and
he's poison-sore all those good old FRIENDLY
ways of doing business. Besides, I believe he
thinks you used to trim US on those Parlor
Monthly" contracts-I had to put it onto you. you
know. He'd just been rip-snorting, little while
before you came in, about cigar-andlunch ad. men;
so when you butted in with that CIGAR and talk
about LUNCHEON, it was up to me to rip and
tear It's made me solid with him, though; CON-
GRADUATED me as soon you leftl I'm
writing this P. D. O., SOS you'll understand, and
and not do anything RASH! We're spending a. lot
more money on publicity than ever before, and
guess we can fix it SOS you'll get YOURS, eh, Old
Speedoa Say we dine at Billys to-night-ON ME!
Yrs. in haste,
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he carried the Leonard Advertising Agency's
first commission. 1t was not a very large
commission, but Mr.. Bowman had promised
others; and he had limited, moreover, that the
mornings explanations might make differ
ence in the attitude of several other depart
ment stores toward the new agency. Jimmy
had graduated from the ranks of the young
Enthusiasts with Non-ncgoiabie Idoc7.
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l29BY ALLAN UPDECRAFFF 60 ==:= Y }

not know this. He had found upon his desk,
one Saturday morning, sealed note from the
manager, which read:
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HAT paragon of success
full advertising solicitors,
Mr.. ]. Broughton Boggs
of Hallowell's Agency,
sided precipitately out
of Simpkins and Bow
mans ofice-entrance and
tzIl - Il IN
The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-09-30
JAvANEsE oPTNIoNs.

american enterprise, combined with
American skill and all the money that
is necessary have given Hawaii the
most highly developed irrigation sys-
tenn in the world says A. A. Meyers,
government engineer of Java, who
is making trip around the world to
study irrigation systems to pick up new
ideas to be utilized in the Java cane
fields.
Mr.. Meyers, who speaks English we'll,
| has Just returned from a tour of Ha-
wall, where he inspected the Hamakua
enthusiasm. He has also toured Maui
and Oahu, and has been tremendously
| impressed with the wonders in the way
of aqueducts and pumping plants he
has seen. ''Nowhere in the world have
they pumping plants for irrigation so
powerful as those l have seen here, -
he says, explaining that where water
is so valuable ne does not wonder at
the trouble and expense taken to Sc
cure it.
On his trip the Javanese engineer has
| studied the irrigation works in the
States of Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana,
Arizona and Utah, and spent some time
inspecting the various great dams in
| California and interviewing the engi-
neers who built them. "'I believe /
know great deal now about dams, -
he states, although he intends yet to
visit Egypt and inspect the great dams
on the Nile.
81 have seen much on the trip, ," Mr.
| Meyers explains, Sand l think that
about ten per cent of what 1 have
learned 1 can adapt to the irrigation
systems at home OF course there
where we only get forty dollars for oul