Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-25
Jimpkins Rise
OF PROMINENT
CETlZEN

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 And so we come to the fables Of the | prominent cirizec.
 Once upon q lime. writes II. l. Mer- reken iu the nalum3re l.7a..!ng Sun. there was a Basti norsan who as q senior partner m a 5oh5ing house 1o- iDg a business or S79.09e year. He and his partner had been school ! boys together, leaving the grammar school at the seventh grade. Then they had been stock clerks together and later on they had been drummers on the road.
 Al the age of 30, each having amassed by thrift and luck al poker. the sum of $Z560 they threw up their jobs and went into business on theE own account. At the end Of the first year their money vas gone and sbey owed S25Oa. Bat hope and hard work pulled them through. and by the time they entered their eighth year tOgoth- CT they were doing business of S7O,- 900 a year, as aforesaid. and making joint profit of S672S, Of S3,364 apiece. and rapidly gaining the character of good business men.
 At this time. it appears from the records. che Of the newspapers Of Baltimore was engaged in grooming a candidate for mayor, and, as is the custom when such enterprises are on foot, sought spontaneous expressions of approval. In brief. it sent our, day after day, reporters who were in- structed 70 find citizens who yea-Ded for Googan, or could be induced Co say they did-if possible. citizens well known in the community, whose cu- comiums would influence the plain people, but if such magnificoes woald not talk, then anybody who would.
 4 young reporter, with that ghastly assignment brdeuiEg his mind. wan deTed down into the wholesale district and tried hard to get six interviews, for his city editor had sworn that the man who brought in less than six would be canned He called upon lz7 men and got five. Where was the sixth to come from? Footsore and weary the reporter stepped into saif on Lombard street to refresh himself with a modest mug of malt. The bartender, a gentleman named George. was an old friend. It occurred to the reporter that George might help hlm.
 Where" he said to George, ''ean I find a sucker who wants to get his name in the paper?"
 At that moment Mir. John J. limp kins, Of Iimpkins & Slonk-none oth- CT, indeed, than our hero!-dropped in for a glass of vichy and
 let me introduce you" said ! George to NIT. Jimpkins. Mr Jimphns --Nr. Sneed."
 What do you think of Googan for mayor?" askd Mir. Sneed, proceeding | al once to business.
 Well said Mir. Jimpkins, T think : he could be worse"
 : Can I quote you? asked Mr. 1 Sneed. and then he explained his mis- sion. MT. Jimpkius blushed-and t ! vas a very real blush.
 I'd rather not" he said. q don like newspaper talk. I keep out Of poii' i ties"
 But the insidious Mir. Sneed insist ! cd and Mir. Jimpkins was quickly won ! Next morning the public learned, un' der headlines or considerable tiack- ness, that Mir. John J. Jimpkins. head Of the well known firm Of Jimpkins G ! SIonk, was uneguivocally in favor O. ] Coozan. that he thoreat the eiecIion of any other man would b. public ea' i iamity, and that his opinion was fain | Iy representative Of the bes=, conseTY-
 ative thought of BaItimcrs-
 That night the word passed among the reporters that Jimpkius vas easy
 Nexg day one of them dropped in to ask nir what he tiiou EiIt ff tn plan for widening Charles stree. 10 zSa ! feet and fiiing in -he Cen-sr street | abyss. He said he was i1 fvo- cf i' and the reporter asfe '.fri Tor his phcrograrh He could h1d r-ne a' hone save she large tinted one in the dining room which his wife refused 10 let him take. but he consented tc sit to a uhotoerapher sent from the 1 newspaper office. The fearful carica
 ture produced by that phofographei
 was duly printed and under ir SD psarsd the legend stating that Mr Jimpkins was one of Baltimore's mos' progressive an successful young men La man Of action--a leader in all
 schemes for the advancement of the
 community--a deep thinker and dar
 ing leader.
 That, brethren, was the beginning
 During the six months following nc