The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-18
WAY BACK EAST
Frank FARRELL Saw Many EX-
KansanS in n. Y. City.
And They Are Making Good in
Fast Company.
4 NOTABLE ROLL CALL
OF Men and Women From
SunflOWer State.
Fourteen Cars of HOrseradish
Why Not Kansas?

! Writing to his friend, the editor OF
! the State Journal, Frank FARRELL, Santa
! Fe publicity man, while on a trip east
/ has the following interesting news
| about ex-kansans in New York city:
/ Kansans in New York can be found
! in sufficient number to form a con-
! sressional district. I didn't see all OF
them, for New York is a city of mag
nificent distances that is, between
places one wants to visit. AS an ex-
ample, E. F. Burnett, with the West
ern Passenger association, is at the
extreme Atlantic ocean end of Man
haitian Island, while John P F'ritts.
who runs a printing esta blishment at
zoe West Thirty eight street. is doz-
en- miles up town. A tenderfoot
therefore. puts in a great part of his
| time in conference with policemen
about what street car to take. But 1
got track of a good many eX-Kansans,
just the same.
The Mr.. Burnett mentioned is a
brother of J. c. Burnett of Topeka
assistant general freight agent of the
Santa F'e. Mr.. F'ritts everybody
knows He was Topeka newspa-
per man many years. VIII c. Clark
and Harry Q. Coughlan, both former
ly of Topeka, are interested with Mr.
Fritts, but he runs the business. They
keep half dozen presses going and
are getting along well. Mrs. F'ritts,
formerly Jessie Garwood of the State
Journal, writes for magazines and syn
dicates.
M. Coughlan is vice president of
the United States Corporation COM
pany, "a Nassau Howard X Wood,
son of Judge J. G.. Wood is president
OF the company Their business is to
handle detail work of the organization
n rNr<lT
cessful.
Miss Francs L. Garside, for many
years on the Atchison Globe, does edi-
torial work for the New York Jour
nal She reports to Arthur Brisbane,
who is known in the Journal shop as
Father Miss Garside also writes
plcturenos, or scenenarios or what
ever 1t is the film companies call their
picture plays \ picture play sells
for from SIS to SIS.
Arthur Kane With the Movies.
arthur Kane. formerly of the State
journal, is assistant to the president
OF the General Film company with
OFFICES at Twenty-third and Broadway.
He is one of the big men in the film
business. Mr.. Kane's wife is Grace
Sharrard of Atchison
Miss Hattie Yenawine formerly
Judge Sam Kim balls stenographer, at
Manhattan is private secretary to VIII
liam Nelson Cromwell. the LAWYER who
y
tween the United States and the
French government.
Miss Cecil Spooner and Corse Paw
ton, who formerly toured Kansas with
theater in. Brooklyn, and is getting
rich.
w. A. Deford. formerly of Ottawa.
known IN Kansas as Billy" is as
sistant attorney general of New York
He prosecuted the egg trust
Twain's biographer and is kept busy
at the work.
The Only Mary Ellen.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lease is a lee
turer on history and political econ
oIny in the New York public schools
newspapers and magazines. She lives
in Brooklyn.
Zoe Anderson Norris. a former
Wichita girl edits The East Side. an
uplift magazine diminutive freak
the magazine, not the gfrl-which
ponent of ultra Bohemianism. what
ever that is.
Louis Springer. formerly of the
Wichita Eagle and later dramatic
critic on the Kansas City Journal, is
an editorial writer on the Sun. He
married Gertrude Hill, who does free
lance writing. She formerly lived
here. Her folks live in Lawrence. Mr..
Springer is an authority on Euro
pean news and politics, especially on
the Balkans, having. before going
west, served the Sun as European cor
respondent in that region.
H. r. Mitchell. Wabaunsee coun-
ty product is chief clerk and man
ager of privileges of the New York
geological park His mother lives en-
the old farm near the town of
Wabaunsee. John P. Fritts. by the
way, does the job printing for the
Zoo. which is a big job.
Ed Epps, c. C DeVereaux and Roy
Allen, brothers-in-law, form the broh-
erage firm of Edward E. Epps and
Company. p Broad street Epps is
from Topeka, Devereaux from Law
renee and Allen is from Wichita.
Levy Bros, are brokers of A /
Broad street. The father, w. NJ !
Levy. is d retired Wichita banker. /
The boys, Herbert, Guy and Sedgwick. /
went to Cripple Creek in the early
days and made lot of money.
Se1gwick. named after Sedgwick /
county, married a daughter of Run
KEEL, the chocolate king. Ben Hur
Lease, son of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth