Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-06
Mere Men

this is not to be a story about
= Lew Dockstader--Lew Dockstad-
er, who is now in vaudeville, has a
property man to look latter his effects,
not his light effects necessarily-his
personal effects, rather. When the
property man-notice, here is where
| Lew Dockstader is dropped forever
when the property man is not looking
after the effects he is usually shooting
craps. Unfortunately, oh, woe, his luck
is not equal to his enthusiasm. one
Saturday night he sent his wife lone
| $5 bill. (This was in the far east. 1t
will be seen later that the point of the
story could not be forced if the So
were gold piece)
In the middle of the following week
he received an indignant letter from
his wife, saying: How do you expect
family of three to live on a $5 bill?''
! The property man dropped her postal
| LOOK at it with microscope he
wrote. you'll find a family of mil
lion microbes living on it,
| Coming from the property man of a
vaudeville performer, the rude jest
may be overlooked with compassion
1t would be kind, also to look over
his oversight that his wife had no
doubt spent the bill and could not look
at it, even if she had had a microscope.
How foolish it is to tell stories about
a famous man in which no reference is
made to the famous man.
! Frederick Muschenheim, brother OF
William G. Muschenheim, proprietor OF
the Hotel Astor, New York, is an cleo
trical engineer, and many of the de-
vices with which the Astor is so liber-
ally supplied nave been suggested OF
| invented by him.
| Not long ago he noticed the door
man, whose duty it is to swing open
the revolving doors leading from
| Broadway into the lobby of the hotel,
become tired before his days work was
over.
| f'Electricity does not get tired" said
| Mr.. Muschenheim, and he forthwith
began to figure on a way to make cleo
| tricity take the place of the doOrman'
muscle. He succeeded, and now the
doorman, standing several feet from
the door and pressing button in his
hand, sets the revolving doors IN mo
ton. And to show that il Is OFTEN the
simplest things that attract the most
attention, it should be said that most of
the persons who enter the lobby, New
! Workers as well as those from out OF
town, stop to see how the electric door
works.
| james MDlICOlIlD Illty is dFCloC ~
| being styled q poet" HR will never
allow an interview to be published with
his sanction until he has read the story
and corrected it. And the burden of his
corrections consists in applying the
modesty brakes and toning down much
of the laudatory sentiment. In any
| copy where he finds the word poet,
he strikes it out and promptly subst1-
tutes verse maker or writer of jim
gles."
| Like many afibther genius, Riley had
| a long struggle to achieve recognition
His early life was spent as compos-
| itor in a small nrinting Office in coun-
| try town, and later he took up sign
painting Many towns in Ohio and In
| diana still point with pride to some OF
the effusions in white lead and lamp
black which Riley put on their FENCES
| barns and covered bridges, setting forth
| the virtues of a liniment concocted by
| a ouack doctor with whom Riley trav-
| eled for two years. One hotel in Union
| City, which is located on the line be-
| tween the two states, has frleze
| around the walls in the office and writ
| ing room which Riley regarded as ms
masterpiece with the brush and pencil
| 1t is crudely fashioned locomotive
and train of freight cars Whleh en-
circle the room. The only fault to be
| found in the work from an artistic
standpoint is that the cars have wheels
on only one side.
Senator Burrows idea of nice.
| lively, entertaining speech is to read
the first 1900 chapters of the Book OF
Numbers, adding footnotes and eX-
nlanatory indices as he goes along.
At the last Republican national con-
vention the senator made a speech.
He dragged link after link of blue
nodded statistics out of books that
went out of print just before the civil
war. and then worked down to COM
paratively modern times by imper-
ceptible degrees.
Eleven thousand men cleared eleven
thousand throats and scraped twenty
| two thousand heels over the sanded
floors, and still Senator Burrows STOOD
| to his task. He raised his hand now
| and then in an oratorical flourish.
| Also. at last, he raised his eyes. He
was alone. The eleven thousand had
flown.
Bernard DAILY, who is playing in
eastern cities in "Sweet Innisfallen,
is no mere stage Irishman. He boasts
long line of ancestry from the Oulu
Sod. He comes from the same genial
| family that has contributed so many
up in New England in a distinctively
Irish environment. Gaelic came to him
as naturally as English, and even now
when he has house full of Celts he
will occasionally lapse into the YER
nacular for their benetit-and his own.
Daly's mother had no use for the
stage or for singers. When her son
suggested that it was his ambition TO
cultivate his voice she raised mighty
protest. 1t was her firm conviction
that all singers come to some bad end,
and she did her motherly best to dis
courage the attempt.
To place stiff hats upon the heads OF
all the inmates of a New York insane
asylum and start them down Fifth aY-
enue, singing 1.-The Hunting of the
Shark is the plan of Henry Clews, jr..
to awaken the artistic appreciation of
New York. The bloated one-quarter
souls, he says, who think only of ma
| terial ACKNOWLEDGMENT, cannot be made
to fall in any other way. Our ciViliza-
ton, if indeed there is any of it in
New York, has grown so sterile, SO
! hungry for minor sensation and COM
fort, that it is no longer capable OF
IMAGINATIVE excursions or the quest OF
the inner life.