Arizona republican., 1913-05-21
VISIT
TO PHOENIX
Gilbert Hubbard to Make
First Appearance Before
Local Audience Tonight
on making a Living" at
ElkS Theater.

When it comes to making a living,
there are few men who have any
thing on Ebert Hubbard, the "Ali
Baba of East Aurora" who will lee
ture upon the art of science. not of the
high cost of living. but of keeping
the pay check even with the gradua-
tions higher in the gross of keeping
the wolf from the door This is an
euthralling topic "a this time, and
none can more fully explain it than
the distinguished lecturer and au
thor who arrives in the Salt River
valley today and who probably gets
his first drink of Hassayampa water
during the present trip to this sa-
iubrlous cline. Not that he really
needs the Hassayampa water. for if
there is one virtue possessed by Mr..
Hubbard, it is that one said to be
well acquired when the drink of Has
Sayampa water takes good effect
However, Fra Elbertus will be on
hand tonight at the Elks' opera house
under the auspices of the Phoenix
Press Club, to meet the residents of
Phoenix for the first time and talk
II them on Making a Living" The
many different ways of making
living that have proven lucrative to
Mr.. Hubbard will tell the other fellow
how it is done. The lecture is filled
with native wit. humor and epigra-
matte statement, fixed up in a way
that none other than Gilbert Hubbard
can fix it.
There are lots of things about
Ebert Hubbard that Phoenix people
Of
lation his publications have in this
section, do not know He is man
who believes largely in paving the
way for the other fellow. In Ger
tain sense he is a trail blazer For
instance he believed there would be
a large demand for well bound cIas-
sizes, no matter what the cost so he
established the Roycrofters shop in
that particular spot in Erie county
n. Y, that has since become known
the world around as East Aurora
The publication of these classics was
received with SO great acclaim that
the price has never receded. This rs
one of the means he has of making
a living.
There is yet another. The study of
the dictionary has been the means
of giving Hubbard a knowledge of the
English language that is possessed
by few men. This knowledge was
not without it's value. Nothing that
Mr.. Hubbard has is without value.
SO he began to turn that also into
shekels. by the short article and book !
route. Some of these books and short |
articles. not to forget the magazines |
also. occasionally got their author into
mere or less controversary with a |
corresponding greater degree of pub |
licity, and what not
All of these things gave Mr. Hub |
bard experience. which being a dear |
teacher. in more than one sense, be-
came a possession which of course |
had its value. This possession of !
value was Immediately put to use
upon the lecture platform. and it
was found that Mr. Hubbard was
personally in almost as much demand
as the little books and magazines In
pursuit. therefore of this element of
value Mr.. Hubbard comes to Phoenix
today. But seriously, he is a splendid
telker, a good platform asset. a draw
ing card, and a man capable of /
telling a good crowd something that
will be remembered for many a day
The distinguished visitor is sixty
four years of age, but does not look
to the ordinary schools, but did so
we'll after he was let out of school,
hat Tufts College of Boston, the in
.ellectual center of the country, con-
ferred the degree of Master of Arts
N him. He is the author of more
Journeys, little and big than there
IS room here to catalogue. He is
we'll known as the author of 1.-The
Message to Garcia" "Contemplations,"
Health and Wealth and many
others
During his stay here he will be
by Garth w. Cate of The
who was one of his
lecture managers for several years.
The members of the Press Club are
now trying to find out if he will be
1ere long enough to have a little
other than the kind he
affords, and that which Mr.. Cate
gives him. If he has time he will
Be taken for an auto drive around
he valley and to the big water bank