New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER IL. 1911

..Sb;nel Shine Who wants a polish
Nv name is Reginald, always convenient
Nv blackng IS excellent,
Nv brushes Stcrlllzed,
NJ hands they manicure
IT, suit the tastidOus.
brush YOU of with a cleaner
Step this Gentlemen. and have Your boots cnanleedl
Are these idle idiosyncrases, |, thi, asking too
much, For don't YOU see, can't YOU see that II is not
what things are, i, S what we call them that make,
them important, rose by any other name would sell
much cheaper
RUT to begin at the beginning and to speak no more
- %, the whnN and the peculiarities that must lie
lightly on me, since can so lightly recount them will
disclose 10 YOU the cause and the origin Of my one great
dislike and dlStaste which is so ncOmprehensibe to
other, who have not borne what have borne with
and who have not endured what have endured
because their SNUG, dull days pulse duly bv
81 was, as YOU know, newspaper man. Late in
August and early in September in the year 1900 was
Oh my vacation, and was spending few weeks with
friends of envlabc means at their beautiful place in
Biloxi. Mississippi. not far from Mobile.
~On the eighth OF September Of that year tornado
and tidal wave devaSted the Gull Coast and the fair
.vot Galveston dcluged DESTROYED, battered down
g. ange OF timber, debris, and the dead. The storm
.-o,e with wind and water-and Galveston was not
-I- will be remembered that, when the full extent of
.. disaster known every effort wa, made quickly
send food, medical attention, and shelter 10 the few
SSH. urvived.
II lid not wait to get orders. wired to my paper.
9Th. New York Continent and asked if | should pro-
seed the scene OF death and destruction, naugurote
where was, measures for speedy relief and secure food
..-.ng, and medicine to be despatched at once from
Mobile.
The reply l received was as follows:
.r $ SKIDMoRE, Mobile. Ala.
Charter first available steamship, railway commun
.0u cut of. and proceed with all speed with food and
shelter tents. Spare expense. Mobile banks have
'JoBsoN Managing Ed
Il found the tramp steamer Stirling Castle Of Glas-
.v loaded with rice at the Mobile docks. She on
point Of sailing. with her cargo Of rice slowed in the
main hold and kerosene in barrels in the lower. The
Stirling Castle had cleared from Perth Amboy New
-.-,ey TO Mobile with the kerosene. This was for
.5ndon as Wa, the rice in bulk now going aboard.
Tramp steauerS-'the little cargo boats that traffic
I'D and down as Kiplng singS-arc any man, for hire
half-days cabling the London agents Of the Stir
ing Castle and this sturdy uni, OF England mcrcan-
tie marine and the cargo already aboard were at my
Five thousand bushels Of rice had already been
slowed far more than might be needed q, Galveston;
.r- there was no time unload even part. To this
plethora Of rice The Continent aided by the generous
people Of Mobile, who would not be denied. added a.
.yD.iltiOuSv as It could be done. case after case Of
nned goods three hundred crates Of fresh eggs hun
fred barrels Of flour fifty hOgheai %, sugar and ten
thousand lOaves of bread.
The completing Of the cargo wa, more IN the nature
Of stacking than an orderly slowing away. The eager
and excited citizens Of Mobile turned IN with will TO
help the Scurrylng SteFetores.
dVbole stores were Communicated If all their good
-hings-iellies spices, everything not % forget the
clothes shoes, hammo-ks, tents etc. that were piled
aboard % augmen. the dcckload. Coal was rushed %
the bunkers and the watertanks attended 70 by the
practical and enthusiastic. There no thought but
-e,p. speedy help substantial help.
WYE cleared the harbor hastily, the customs men
" coming on, in the launch with papers. while
The tlrOnged wharyeS were untulalnE lines ot white
from the handkcrcet- waving gpd-peei The harbor
raj, sauted us in bass and treble from whistle and
-.-eu and yachts and tugs stood our with us 10 sea- as