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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-06
Money OO ILWall
Unfurnished Rooms
\ Highly Original Jokcsmith.

"That new humorst Of ours Is n
funny guy" remarked the able edi-
tors accomplished assistant
"Im-r-wmph! which, by inter-
prctatiou. meant, "Ah, is he, indeed
replied the editor himself.
"Oh ycs' He has just handed In
his half column of stuff and there
isn't single squib in it about Ilar-
ward Collegc.s proposed chair of wit
and humorl'
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-06

MONEY TO LEND-$1,100 AND
$500 on good real estate. Phone
296. l.. f. Pettus.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-06

FOR SALE CHEAP-SODA FOUN-
tain, two pool tables. Jones, base
ment Central Bldg, Second and Bos-
ton.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-06
Wanted Miscellaneous
Money to Loan

FARM LOANS CLOSED IMMEDI-
ately when we approve loan. All
business handled here. Money always
on hand. No annoying delays. f. NJ,
Sutton, farm loan attorney, Clinton
building Tulsa, oklahoma. p. o. Box
236.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-06
Live Stock.

FOR SALE-FIVE HEAD GOOD
work horses; two disk cultivators;
one corn stalk cutter. L. F.. Rushart,
3 Rings, Q Line.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-06

FOR SALE-ONE FIVE-PASSEN-
ger Cadillac automobile, in first
class second hand condition Price
5000. Inquire Muskogee Gas and
Electric company, Muskogee. Okla
homa.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-06

FOR SALE-DRIVING HORSE AND
buggy Call Phone 1910 or 524 S.
Cheyenne. George Y. Williamson.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-06
For Miscellaneous


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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-06
UNDELWERED REPLIES,

The following answers to want ads
remain uudClNercd in this Office. The
same win be held for one week,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-06
TO Trade

TO TRADE-TWELVE 50-FOOT
lots in Orcutt addition with i'm
provements, as first payment on forty
acres near Tulsa. Inquire 3l9 South
Main.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-06
Apartments

FOR NICELY FURNISHED
4-room apartment, close in, strictly
modern. \ bargain. $40 per month.
Phone 2474.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-06

MUSLIN DRAWERS, 25c. 217 EAST
Third street.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-09

ClalS6 MS mlnQ ABOUT there 0elng
no empty stomachs in Chicago, and
somehow 1 think his heart might be
changed, too, so that he would have
little human feeling toward his fell
lows-eVen toward those of his fell
low unfortunates who belong to
what Baseh calls 'the lower classes"
There must be something about
the acquiring of much money that
shriVels mans soul, as it shriVels
some mems skins and frames, leaving
it dried and incapable of expansion
or warmth or kindness or justice or
humanity
No man whose heart still beats
warm in his breast could have talked
the way Joe Basch talked about his
employees to the O'Hara commission,
It was unnatural, inhuman. -.
It wasn't Joe Basch, the human
being, that spoke that way. It
couldn't be-. 1t was Joe Basch, the
Hce-president of Siegel, Cooper &
Co.; it was Joe Basch, the money
making machine; it was Joe Basch,
the business man. .-... 49,.
It is pitiful to see man changed
into cold-blooded, heartless ma
chine like that One hardly knows
whether to be more sorry for him
or for the employees he rules over and
speaks of so cold-bloodedly.
But l think it is he one should pity
the more. For the employees still are
left freedom of thought They still
are left the glorious right to love
their fellow men. They still have the
capacity to sacrifice themselves to
make some other happy.
But he cannot do these things. He
cannot have freedom Of thought; for
money rules all his thoughts. He
cannot love his fellow men; because
if he did that, he would have to be
content with less money. He cannot
sacrifice anything of value to make
another happy; because there is only
81 10 him ;.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-09
The sea ceaseth and dismisseth
IS! ROBERT NOME,
3706 Lake aV.

If you stick a stick across a stick,
Or stick cross across a stick,
Or cross a stick across a stick,
Or cross a cross across a stick,
Or stick stick across a cross,
Or stick a cross across a cross,
Or cross a cross across a cross,
Would that be an acrostic?
DAVE MERKEL,
9417 champIain Az.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-09

SOME MORE TONGUE TWISTERS
Here are some more of those
TONGUE TWISTERS. We're going
to spring the stiffest yet tomorrow.
In the meantime, keep sending 'em
in to the Tongue Twister Editor Of
The Day. Book.
Betty Better bought some butter.
But" she said, '@this buffers bitter,
II put it in my batter
1t will make my batter bitter,
But a bit of bette rbUtter
Will but make my batter better"
So she bought a bit O. butter
Better than the bitter butter,
And made her bitter batter better
So twas better Betty Better
Bought bit of better butter
MISS GRETCHEN REEDER,
4122 Wilcox aV.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-09

express its old-time rule; times in the
still watches of the night when Mann
mon becomes small and inconse-
quent, and the money-machines
search their own souls and find them
rotten to the core.
It must be terrible to do that; to
know oneself a traitor to. oneself; to
awake sweating in the night and be
afraid of oneself; to fear the darkness
because in the darkness one sees
oneself
had rather be starved clerk at
six dollars a week than a merchant
prince who found his princely title
in squeezed human souls and starved
human bodies and so became afraid
to sleep with himself at nights!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
BY HILL FERGUSON,
Now a Real Estate Dealer.

for clothes on Saks' and Blach's-a
custom inherited from the panic days
of '93-'94-but all of us recognized the
situation and worked to get the paper
on Its feet.
Such was our boss.
The staff? Walter Blackman, John
McRae, Miss Sue Wright and Allen
Holt are all that remain of those bril-
liant scribes and shift financiers and
hard working printers who pulled The
Age Herald through It's early days.
Blackman, whose budding genius was
recognized by Mr.. Barrett,-was scratch
ing out "chalk plates"-the most prim-
itive of all illustrating processes
which often looked like comic valen-
tines in black and white. McRae was
the runner for the business office, whose
sole mission was to try to coax few
more inches of copy from our reluct-
ant advertisers. Miss Wright was
checking up and posting ads and other
details of the business office as she
does to this good day, and Holt was
already the autocrat of the composing
room.
The others who have been fired or
who quit included several splendid
newspaper men. Jay Durham, our man.
aging editor, startled the natives with
his outspoken comments on local mat
ters, under the nam OF Matt Mynor;''
Sewall Haggard, who Is now one of
the big men on Nash's Magazine, in
London, was city editor, and first
taught Birmingham the use of big
headlines, and an attractive newspaper
make Mrs. George c. Bail handled
society and column on the editorial
page Harry Burney was telegraph ed
itor A few other of us scrub report
ers completed the staff. Several months
after the reorganization Mr.. Ryan and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
HILL FERGUSON TELLS NEWSPAPER
INCIDENTS OF HANDLING WAR NEWS

Mr.. Finch were taken into the fold and
they are still with the paper.
Mr.. Barrett didn't lose any time put
ting life into things. He wrote an edi-
torial that Birmingham was handi-
capped by not having dollar gas" and
dear old Mr.. Roden of the gas company
came back with statement that it
couldn't be sold profitably for less than
$3.50 and the dollar gas" war was on.
He also commended a new drug store
which advertised It's bargains as dry
goods store would do and the drug store
war was on. The old-time druggists
cussed The Age Herald, but after they
had gotten in line and saw the stim-
ulating effects that bargains and ad-
vertising had on their business they
We're delighted.
He kicked because he had no place
to drive with his horses and the idea
of the Country club was born, and the
club building constructed at North Bir-
mingham park. That was before the
Elyton Land company was reorganized
as the Birmingham Realty company,
and it is said that the whole of Lake.
view park, where the club is now To-
Gated, was offered to the organizers of
the Country club for $4,000 or $50, 900 f;
but such sum was unheard of in those
days and the proposition was passed up.
But The Age-Herald's real opportu-
nifty ito shine" came with the Span
ish war in 1898 and such a riot of head
lines, stories set double and triple
column and extra editions had never
before been seen in Birmin gham-or
since. Karl Decker's dime novel rescue
of the beautiful Cissy Cisneros in Ha-
vana, the blowing up of the Maine, the
declaration of war. the departure of
our Birmingham soldiers for "the front"
(Mobile). Dewey's victory at Manila,
Hobson and the Merrimac, Sampson and
Schley's victory-aIl these events and
tho wonderful stories they made for
the paper were vividly impressed on
my mind.
Speaking of Hobson, 1 wonder II our
would-be senator has ever heard where
all of those miraculous stories came
from, which were published all over
the county the week after his daring
The morning that thrilling story was
published Haggard gave me the assign
ment of looking up some Greensboro
people in Birmingham and finding out
what they knew of Hero Hobson." +"
Among others I found the late Leonidas
Cicero Dickey. at that time a prac,
ticing attorney. who answered my eager
inquiries by assuring me that he was
modest and retiring man. and that
the publicity of a newspaper interview
was distasteful to him. but that for the
sake Of current history he would con-
sent to tell me what he knew
1t seemed that Mr.. Dlckey had taught
school in Greensboro and Hobson had
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
MARMADUKE MORTON HAS
VIVID RECOLLECTIONS OF
HIS EARLY ASSOCIATES
ny NJ. II. MORTON
Managing Editor Nashville CTenD.) Banner

When I was somewhat younger than |
now am I thought the most fossiliferous
specimen l ever met was the old man
come back" after lapse of years to
tell how things had changed since "he
was here" to tell how he used to shoot
rabbits on what is now the public
square and how he used to catch young
squirrels on the court house hill. Then
he told about who lived In this house
and who lived in that, and picked out the
ugliest old woman in town and told-evl-
IDENTIFY to my mind a bare-faced lie-about
how beautiful she used to be when she
was young.
And now, sad to relate, I am asked to
be just such q fossil as that, and tell
something about old time journalism in
Birmingham, when the rich, red blood
of young manhood, rammed full of red
corpuscles, was coursing through my
veins, when 1 believed that age would
perform the promises of youth, and that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18


and having found Pete Goode, the
pressman, were running off the paper
Sunday afternoon. All the extras were
taken from the press. counted and
placed in punches by Sewell Haggard,
Harry Burney and myself. Mr. Bar
rett was selling to the newsboys and
dropping the coins in large tin buckle
get it full.
Two newsboys ignorant of the iden-
tity of Mr.. Barrett, gave him a wordy
argument about how little he knew
about selling papers. One of them
stormed at him: IF you don't get onto
your job with them papers you won't
last three days. Wake up" / think
the boy was right, too. Mr.. Barrett
couldn't have held that job three days
and lived. He took it all good natured-
ly, however, and we got off the extra
and gave Birmingham some Sunday
news. That was real fun and excite
uent and Mr.. Barrett was just as full
of youthful enthusiasm as the rest
of us.
Can you imagine scene like that in
the modern Age-Herald plant of to-
day?
On another occasion we had a re-
ception for the purpose of showing
the public our plant. That was a big
night. Those who took part will never
forget it. I was stationed in the
stereotyping room to explain everything
In that department. about which knew
nothing, to the visitors. Rufus Jones
and Allen Holt showed off the compos-
ing rooms and MI Barrett was on the
job everywhere. Getting impatient at
the slowness of the elevator service
to the press rooms, he announced that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18

A thous and-word story of my expert
ences as an Age Herald reporter DUR
ing its organization period under Mr..
Barrett?
I'll try to keep within the limit but
this is hard when covering such an
interesting period of newspaper his
tory.
In the summer of 1897 Mr.. Barrett
bought up so or 90 per cent of the
stock of the old State-Herald, which
was supposed to be on its last legs and
announced that on a certain eventfui
Sunday, about September /, he would
get out the best single issue of a news
paper ever published in Alabama, un-
der the old name of the Age Herald.
which had been dropped during free
silver days.
forgot most of the features of that
eventful paper, but one was long
story of the little two-by-four steel
mill which had been built at the Bir-
mingham rolling mill for testing pur-
poses and another was a graphic ac-
count of blind beggar who played a
doleful fiddle on the Florence hotel cor.
ner.
The following Tuesday--there were
no Monday morning papers then-the
Montgomery Advertiser summed up the
situation by wishing Mr.. Barrett well
in his new enterprise, but as for that
best newspaper ever published in Ala.
bama," they had decided opinions to the
contrary, which opinions were duly
elaborated.
Mr.. Barrett came to Birmingham
with a brilliant record as a newspaper
man, most of it achieved in Washing
ton as correspondent of the Atlanta
Constitution and several other very
prominent newspapers. He had been
private secretary to Speaker Crisp and
had received pages of publicity when
his papers sent him to the Orient az
war correspondent for the Japanese
Chinese fight.
Naturally these papers wanted to get
all the credit they could for their en-
terprise. SO to while away the long
weeks during Mr.. Barrett's trip, they
told their readers of the red-hot news
they were going to get shortly; but
sad to relate, the Japs wiped the Chi
nese navy and army off the map and
peace was declared before he landed.
We all realized. however. that this
was not his fault. and he reached Bir-
mingham with his fame and reputation
untarnished. He said that from the
very outset The Age Herald must as
sumo an air of prosperity. even though
there was none of that commodity in
herited from the State-Herald, and very
little of 1t brought over in the shap
of money by the new proprietor. He
therefore bought two beautiful blacl,
horses and handsome Victoria and
The Ago. Herald's credit arose in leans
and bounds.
The reporters continued to get a
Soodiy portion Of their pay In orders
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18

While in Birmingham "A year ago
went to The Age Herald office my alma
mater, to talk over old times with my
composing rooms and the business Of
flee, and to see the wonderful plant. I
inspected it from top to bottom and
with a personal interest quite different
from that of the casual sightseer But
try as / would I could not make it feel
like home.
In me there WAS longing for the
old ramshackle building in Second ave-
nue., the musty smell of dried paste
and the constant buzz of the telegraph
instrument that Arthur Hust ratified in
my ears for SO many years. Instead
of satisfying this yenrning for those
things of the old days that stick in
ones memory, here in Fifth avenue /
found modern, metropolitan newspa-
per plant with telephone exchange,
separate room for the telegraph, oper-
ators and, instead of one instrument,
three! l found the artist in regular
studio! found no old fashioned paste
pots with gummed up brushes falling
off the edge of the white bowls and
sticking to the copy paper. Instead
there were neat little jars of mucilage
and everything as clean as pin. IT
didn't seem right There was no long
er an opportunity for my favorite old
absent minded trick of putting my pen
Gil in the pastepot and sticking the
gummed up brush behind my ear Mr..
Ryan, Cash Stanley and Allen Holt
will recall, however, that old trick that
brought so many laughs at my ex-
pense.
Did the reader ever so back to his
little home town after having been in
a large city for number of years and
discover how the hills, that appeared
so large In his youthful days, had
shrivelled up until they looked no
larger than little knobs? OF course
you have. But that was not true in
the case of my visit to The Age-Her-
aid. Here the hills had grown larger!
1t was, indeed, difficult to reconcile
the scene in The Age-Herald office as
saw it year ago with another little
scene that I will describe:
1t was in 1898. We didn't print a
paper on Monday then, SO the staff
usually had Sunday off. On this Sum
day, however. we We're on the job 1t
was a battle in the Philippines, I be-
Iieve, that had caused us to get out
an extra. We got hold of two printers
and Allen Holt, the foreman. Mr.. Bar
rett and our three reporters were do
ing everything else. At that time we
were printing on an old fashioned press
and our pages were of siX-column size.
This little press. alongside the present
modern affair at The Age-Herald Of
flee would. look like a peanut roaster.
Anyway, we finally got the forms down
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18

l am going to recall just one more
little incident that may bring a smile
to those who We're working for The
Age-Herald in the late nineties, even
If it doesn't interest the public. sewen
Haggard, now magazine editor, was
then the city editor, young and anxious
to show his physical strength. One
night half-drunken man wandered
up the steps to the editorial rooms
and, after abusing us all, refused to
get out. Haggard volunteered to he
the bouncer and, in a hard struggle,
managed to drag the recaleitrant visitor
down the steps and into the street. The
police took charge OF the man and
on the way to the station discovered
that he had smallpox As a consequence
of Haggards display of strength we
all were quarantlned in the building
until the whole staff had been fumi-
gated. Even after that we were kept
under observation for several days. Mr..
Carlisle OF the mailing department VOL
rnteered as official vaccinator and
made clean job of 1t despite our pro-
tests.
Those were happy days. The Age
Herald of that time was a paper to
my personal liking. 1t really max es me
feel little sad to see the change that
has been wrought. Like other institu-
tions of national Importance it has
grown too large, modern and metro
politan for fun. Why, they even tell
me they've stopped that delightful old
10-cent limit poker game that for years
was a recognized institution after go
ing to press on Saturday night 1t
isn't pleasant to have tradition killed
that way Do the present employees re-
member the night when Donahue got
three aces and we made him believe
he couldn't open the pot because he
was dealing?
1 would much rather talk this than
to write it because l haven't enough
room. 1 will say in conclusion, how
ever, that newspapers like The Age
Herald of those olden days are the
best training schools in the world. We
were taught by force of necessity to
tackle anything that came up and rely
on our own resources to succeed. No
body was specialist then. What little
success I may have attained since
leaving Birmingham 1 attribute en-
tirely to the schooling I got on The
Age Herald when, to earn our salary
we had to do everything from chas-
ing Lige Logs ambulance at midnight
to describing the trailing southern
smilax'' at a wedding on the South
Highlands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-18
BY BOHEMIAN BULGER
Baseball Editor New York Evening World

he would run the elevator himself. Mr..
Barrett remembers how he got that
passenger laden old freight elevator
stuck in between the floors and how
Hagsarty and Pete Goode had to heir
him out with the aid of little step
ladder.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-13
Vardon Praises
Atlanta Golf
Links and Fans
BY HARRY VARDoN.

find no fault, excepting in the
putting greens. The Bermuda grass
Is very wiry. One accustomed TO il
hight putt with considerable aceura-
cy, but il is disastrous to others, and
| am sure that a high degree Of ac-
curacy is not obtainsbIe on Bermuda,
even after long practice.
The nine holes at BrookhaVen are
admirably laid out, and constitute
very interesting and sporty course,
with the always valuable features of
a very rolling fairway, water hazards,
and trees to penaIize sicing and pull
ing. The one-shot holes are part Gu
larly interesting looked over the
prospective nine holes that will COM
plete the course, and they Will be
equally good.
The present course at East Lake
IS a lett handed course, but Mr.. Adair
tells me il soon will be reversed
From what he says, and judging by
the topography, the new course will
be one Of the finest in this country.
Certainly the site insures a splendid
course, sporty and interesting.
have enIoy ed my play in Atlanta,
and the galleries have been wonler-
,uliy sportsmanhke. I hope to come
again, and my partner joins me in
the hope.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-13
1OO-MiIe Motor Grind Tonight
Only Winning Team Gets Prize
HE HAS To EAT At
Tie TRAINING TasLs

devils whirl around the quarter mile
wooden saucer. Their strength will
be tested as never before, and If
there isn't a spill it win be because
Dame Fortune viii be with the neryy
riders
Inc long race will md four teams
on the starting line when the white
hdg drops. They viii be Fiickenstein
and Swartz, Richards and Lewis,
Bruggerman and Renel anu Luther
and Glenn.
The riders VIII relieve each other
about every five miles. A force Of
mechanicians and pit men will be on
hand to attend TO whatever repairs
Will be necessary during the long
grind. The riders figure that each
team will wear out four or five tires
during the tedious spin.
To guard against spills the men
will change tires the second ons
starts going to pieces. Should one
{ hem blow out it would mean
bad spill.
Com. castro has hung up a $500
cash prize for the winning team.
There VIII be no second or third
money, and this assures the fans one
sCorchinR race as there wont be
cent IN it for the losing teams.
There viii be mum ber Of sprint
races Before the 100-mi'7 event. Just
enough 70 whet the appetites OF tho
ans" says Cas- tro.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-13
RlNGSIDE NEWS

Frank Whitney. Donahue writes that
he would ike nothing better than a
ma tCh with the Fighting Carpenter
and viii sign up for the go at a min
ute'S notice
Jimmy Clahby, Of Milwaukee, and
Jack Dillon, OF Indianapolis two of the
best niddleN Fights il this country. are
at last gtiug to clash in a 1OIound
no-deCisOn contest before the MiiWau-
kee A. c. on December %
The boxing game again seems 10 be
in tiour!shing condition in Australia.
for at the recent 2C-rOund Rht at sgd
ney between Matt Wei s., OF England.
and Hughie Michigan, the Lightweight {
champion Of Australia, which was won
by Wells on points. TIE cate receipts
amounted to over S23. 700. Eighteen
thousand persons Witnessed the battle.