The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-10-07
Why Gene Field Was One OF
the Most Beloved of All Men

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The wonders of New Nors. he alw'S,
caused waiter IN I-.lmouieo's ,a ha'e
7 heart failure when he l.and.y nraer'd
( boiled ~ fr,t .a - Joe
I Having taken alIl himself wife
] Field vas u.w reduced Oh the painful
necessity 81 earning 81 living aHd o..
Went Go ua-s .u So -. Louis H,"~..a-
Per. he Was sent .st tn Report ,he
campaign o.. carl Sahlrz Who Mas
then stumpuE the state as q candidate
Tor recollection 90 tile United States
/ Senate.
one n,eh, 20 German band came 'o
} : -hurz hole. Goo S,yruaGc ham. The
senator was changing h.s clothes aHa
Field stepped uut uu tAr Nerand@
/ waved his hand Tor silence and began
70 address tho crowd In broken Eng
| fish The real Sshurz had trouble .H
saving Field from rho wrath If The
! German audience when they found out
thcy had been Jrii,d with. They rr-
scented Fields broken English more
than they did his CARRIED doctrines.
In 1850 Field became the managing
/ editor of the old Kansas city Times.
| There are score OF stories about his
/ Sojourn here. none perhaps better than
the story 81 George CASTOR. CASTOR
vas courteous old Tr,nchman. who
ran q saloon and cafe which was ii
rendezvous for writer's and theatrical
( folk. Field was continually ia his debt
and was continually Wmnins Gaslou's
gratitude 10y some kindly bit printed IN
! the Times. or, Christmas Fields bar
bin had reached % total or 5l35.ou. Gas
ton. touched by q piece in The paper
tccclptcd il in iu.l ana handed il Geo the
editor
"Hov's this, George" asked Field
"Oh, that's all right said the
Frenchman.
Do l understand" inquired Field
with gravity, that / have paid this
hill?'
That's what" replied Gcorgr.
Well SIR" said Field, lis it not GUS
tomary in Missouri when one gentle
man pays another gentleman in fun 10
set mp the wine"
And everybody had one on the house.
From Kansas city Flrld went To-
Denver, then 20 Chicago. 1t was whilr
in Denver that ne wrote a speech Of
Introduction for a negro deacon who
was 10 introduce Wolfe Londoner, a
friend Of Fields, 10 an audience. Here's
IN" scndoff Londoncr received.
Il now take great pleasure i'm intro
duclng 10 you our friend and brother
the Honorable Mr.. Wolfe Londoner
who has always been our true friend
and brother, who always advises us 10
do the right thing ana stands ready az
all times To help ms in the good fight.
Although he has white skin, his
heart Is as black as any Of ours"
Tor more than twenty years Field
was the author Of a column entitled
"Sharps and Flats" which appeared in
the OLD Chicago Record verso, fanrlful
bits Of news ana scores of other in.
gcnious odds and ends Through his
column all Chicago knew him. There
is q touching little story told by
Fields friend, Slason Thompson, in his
book about Field
Those who gathered at his house on
the day OF the funeral and looked upon
the form of the Good Knight" in his
last sleep saw a large white rose i'm one
of his hands. on the preceding after
noon a woman, who was 4 friend of
Fields went To florists To order some
flowers for the grave. \ poorly clad
littl" girl was looking wistfully i'm at
TIA" window ana followed the woman
into the store.
Are those flowers for Mr.. Field"
she asked. "Oh, ! wish could send
him just one. Won't YOU please give
me one nower?'
Tn" florist placed a beautiful white
rose in her little hand. Then she turned
and gave it to the woman with the re-
quest:
Please put it near Mr. Field with
Your flowers"
And the little girls single rosc-thc
gift of love without money and without
price-was given the place of honor
that day beyond the wealth of flowers !
that filled the house and church with
the incense of affection for the dead
Kansas CITY Star