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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-09-05

Announcement 10 made by Fuhn. Loeb
d Co. that further figures furnished by
the Central Trust Company show that
. total OF Mo.dA Southern Pacific Ger.
tificates have been subscribed for. leav.
ing only 1907? for distribution among
parucipants In the underwriting syn.
dtcate.
bradstrests reports exports Of wheat
and hour since July /: Wheat b2.%79.ii1
eushsls. compared with 27.No.si5 In 1919.
Williams news., 1913-08-28

Great log saving contest Cowboy relay race two miles, four changes; Broncho busting contests Relay for girls mile, four changes; Grand tug-ofwar between teams of six cowboys; Elimination Saturday. Sep teber B and championship tug Sunday September 14
Williams news., 1913-08-28

ao counties, oneha mile; Indian lacrosse games; Indian tug of war; Boys and girls burro a Matched between
 the best horses northern Arizona various distances IA mile 12 mile race; 38 mile race; 58 mile race; Pony races; 2yearod Besides all the above, there will be many other attractions <:
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-24

said had given out an affidavit Of
the state examiner showing embezzle-
ments OF s55, 200 by various county ofi-
their offenses. j was alone and without
an organization. I was nominated on
the democratic ticket, though my ma
jority was cut down by a fraud count
from 1000 to $50.
POLITICIANS SOUGHT HIM OUT
Five other candidates withdrew IN
favor of my opponent. as / had pre-
dicted they would. and the fight mar
rowed down to one other candidate
and myself. Then the politicians sought
me out and asked me to lie down and
let bygones be bygones, on the prom
ise that they would fall into line I
didn't want the office. but I wanted
to prove. that If man Is honest in
fight, he never lies down. ] kept on
denouncing every political thief and
cut throat, and the better people of
the city and county supported me.
There had never been an honest cleo
ton In the state. / knew that those
who were running me down were not
so much afraid Of my past as OF their
future.
Il was elected by $500 majority, but
the returns were held up eight or nine
days, and then these showed that I had
been beaten by about 500 votes. But in
spite of that have accomplished some-
thing. am out of politics now. but the
legislature has taken up the charges-I
made and has called upon three or four
state officials to resign and many have
been indicted
"A life of the kind / led as an out
law never pays" said Mr.. jennings in
answer to a question. 1T Is full Of ex-
element. but then you are always real
izing that your end must certainly be a
piece OF hemp or prison stripes or a
fatal shot. You never have any money.
becausesyou throw lot away or give 1t
to your friends When I was an out
law | went almost anywhere was al
WAYS armed People knew 4 was an
outlaw. and there were lots who could
have given me up at any time. Still I
want to tell you that as a lawyer I did
far worse things In defending GRIM
inals than + ever did as train robber.
and while there are honest lawyers.
most OF them do the same sort of
things did
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-24

the pastime in Its latest phase Of the
water tango, or among those who are
content to dance on a New York roof
garden after the show Is over and they
have been pouring recklessness down
their throats all evening. II you are
still quiet wife and mother, dig
nified, important father of a family, re-
member not to be puffed up about II.
nor look upon the trotters and re-
joice that you are not even as they.
For your hour will come. And
whether 1T is on roof garden or
beach or in country home. past ex-
perience will count you nothing, past
sobriety avail you nothing. At a given
moment YOU will arise and trot
Why? Nobody knows. With all other
dances. the trot must owe some OF
it's popularity to the fact that 1t en-
ables people to be together long time
without finding each other out. Also,
1t gives us all a new insight into values
For under It's influence men heavy with
honors observe eagerly and humbly
while some little schoolroom fuffball
teaches them a new step and women
are baffied by the intricacies of the
tango who can unite problem of
calculus as easily as If 1T were dan
cling slipper.
Old or young, sage or silly, take
warming Call on the mountains to
hide YOU, or the fool killer to come
and get you for some day. somewhere,
the turkey goblins Will get you-if you
don't watch out.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-24
TERPS|CHOREAN
TRIP IS pop PULAR
Moonday and Moonlight
/ Glimpse Of What's What
on the City Beaches
+. Every Day and Evening
Sights of Dance Summer of
Nineteen One Three
By NrxoLA GREELEY SMITH

The water tango has struck the
haitian. Brighton and Coney island any
afternoon these days, when the hotel
bands begin 10 play any one of 81 va
, rieties of half time, beach bathers and
sea bathers alike seize the nearest part
ner and begin to trot or to boston or to
. castlewalk
The sight is curious II scarcely beau
tifuI. Young women in dripping bath
ing suits with wisps of hair streaking
from under rubber caps do not suggest
we know that II Venus were to rise
anywhere from the Battery to Coney
island this summer she would fall au-
tomatically into the hesitation glide.
For weeks the guests at country and
sea shore hotels have counted no day
well spent which did not begin with a
dance on the piazza after breakfast and
some day soon it will be considered the
correct thing to warm up for breakfast
with a trot.
all. There are those who do not leave
the ocean TO dance. but Jig up and down
in the water. The more enterprising.
however, rush TO the hrmer footing of
the sand beach and trot till their bath
ing suits are dry or till the orchestra
takes a rest.
Apparently there is no age limit for
turkey trotters. No one is too old and
no one is too young. You see charming g
little girls of and 10 dancing with a
grace and absence of self-consciousness
that few grown women possess. You
see old ladies with white hair bostoning
with the best of them and until you do
II yourself you don't understand 1t. You
look at 1t and you ask: rs 1T possible
that an immoral soul can amuse itself
by inventing crazy ways of gettiDg G
about a room when It's so much pleas
anted and cooler to sit right where you
are and let the waiter do the turkey
trotting?"
You think too. OF the Chinese am
bassador who saw the beauty and chiv-
altry of England dancing together for
the first time and inquired wonder
ingly OF the man who took him. Why
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-24
oLDTIME PRINTER AND THE NEW FORMER OUTLAW Ran FOR oFHf
What Linotype Has Done for the CaCOokd Politicians Defeated Him

and wrote back that 1T was great
village
SENECA TRUEsDELL,s BAD BREAK.
Along about tho time that Bob Bur-
dette, now the Rev. Robert ]. Bur-
sdette of Los Angeles. was making fame
on the Burlington Hawkeye as hu-
morist. C. Y. Wheeler was business
manager of that newspaper. Wheeler
was ranked by the force as "stingy.
1t was nightly occurrence to see type
settlers on the Hawkeye stop and pick
leads" The supply was short
Seneca Truesdell, ST. Paul tourist.
was subbing on the Hawkeye and
kicking consistently on pulling
leads with "phat" on the hook, for
In those days even a bit OF loaded
BREWER was some "phat."
Seneca was witty. Manager Wheeler
was in the newsroom one afternoon,
talking with Foreman Tom Donahue.
Seneca saw his opportunity, and said
to one of the regulars:
Going over to Biggsville Sunday
BiggsvilIe was a hamlet containing
some half dozen houses. and no
newspaper office.
Maybe" was the response. "Why?'
We'll. if you do" replied Seneca,
lust scamper around and see IL you
can dig up handful Of leads"
Wheeler saw the joke" and ordered
Seneca fred
WHEELER AND BURDETrE
Just how true the story is. Bob Bur-
dette may tell. but 1t was related in
those days that Wheeler went to Pc
oria. .Burdette's home at that time, and
sought to sign up the humorist for
the Hawkeye. While he had caught
Truesdelrs affront he was not quick
to appreciate real humor, and was nom
plused when Burdette Is said to have
stated that he would like a job on
the Hawkeye were 1t not for the fact
that certain people In Peoria might OBJ
ject to his leaving that town.
We'll. let's see them and find out"
said Wheeler. Who shall we see
frst?'
Il would suggest the sheriff" re-
piled Bob. with a merry twinkle in
much I owe
Whatever 1t was it was paid and
Bnrdette became a part of the Hawk
eye force.
THE NEW PRINTER
The printer of today Is a fixture in
the town or city in which he belongs.
There are a few who continue in the
ways of the oldtimer, but so few that
each is a curiosity.
machine that would set type was
a standing joke with the oldtimers.
They never expected to see the Mer-
genthaler dream fulfilled. And when
the first machines were installed there
was q cry that the craft would suffer,
but the contrary ensued. and today
there is more demand than supply of
really high grade printers
The linotype is much better type
than the old type. And it does not seem
long since to get out a paper like The
Call would have required days to pro-
duce one number-one might say
weeks for the big Sunday edition.
With the passing of the old and the
coming In OF the new type of printer
the reader of daily newspapers has
| been given value received for his
nickel He would scorn to pay the
price for one of the newspapers pub
lished in the days when the panhandler
spent the summer iIi the north and the
winter in the south.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-24

type was caution. They made no fuss
Church and Stein hung strings on the
hook that made the "cub" wonder how
much type they could have set II they
had refrained from taking an occasional
smoke during composition hours. for
they would scrape their pipes. load up
and sit by the big cannon stove while
they smoked
One day Church and Stein disap-
peared, and they were not seen again
until about the same time the folio win g
year.
"SID" BENNETT APPEARS
sid" Bennett was about the best
dressed panhandier the cub" had ever
seen. He was tall and well built.
straight as an arrow. wore good clothes,
always black and OF the latest cut. His
beard and mustache were black and al
ways neatly trimmed. He was dignified
TO a degree and might have been mis-
taken for a supreme court justice. Yet
sid" was a professional tramp" print
er and panhandler.
1t was related In those days that dur
a.
1875. "Sid" was left in charge OF a
weekly newspaper ONCE in Nebraska
while the proprietor attended the Cen
tenniaL During the absence OF the pro-
prietor a ''prospector" came along and
wanted to buy the paper. sid sold IT
to him, took a small earnest fee and
departed. Just what the proprietor said
when he returned is not known.
One night when the types that made
a w fv.f& -
sticks there walked into the office as
fine a specimen of an athlete as the
cub" had ever seen. Tall, broad sfoul-
dered. OF massive frame, this tourist
appeared a physical master of men. His
name proved to be Jack Curly. and leg
end says that on one occasion when
Charley Gallagher was slated to meet
another gladiator of the ring near New
Orleans and Gal1agher's opponent failed
70 appear. Curly stripped off his coat
and took on Gallagher. as he put IT,
Rather than see the crowd at the fight
disappointed"
When Curly wanted to work he would
say so. and he worked whether the reg
ular wanted to Law off or not. Like the
others. he was fine printer
One day while Curly was in Burling-
ton Andy Hughes came to town. Hughes
was another noted panhandler. Curly
did not like Hughes, and Informed Andy
that one town was too small to contain
both at the same time, and as he liked
Burlington Hughes would have to go.
Andy left that night-on a raft
"HIGH HAND. ARRIVES
High Hand" as he signed IT.. was
presumed to be Hiram Hahn He had
tramped from Maine to California, and
back again, several times. He was
al excellent composition. rapid and cor
rect and a makeup to boot.
High considered 1t a crime to work
more than two days a week, hence his
panhandling was oftener practiced than
by the ordinary tourist.
Bill Mason was another of the old
timers whose speed at the case was
marvellous. Bill like High" was
averse to long hours and prolonged
days. The pair met in Burlington and
left together with the avowed inten-
tion of walking from Burlington tc
New York
Whether they walked or took blind
baggage" will never be known, but they
reached the metropolis in due season
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-24
LARGEST WOOD STAVE
PIPE IN THE WORLD

A..wood stave water pipe that is prob
ably the largest in the world has re-
Gently been constructed for conveying
water from reservoir In the White
Salmon river to a hydroelectric plant
near Underwood. Wash
The diameter of this pipe Is 1914 feet
and the total length is 5.100 feet or 1so
feet less than mile. 1t Is built en-
tirely of Douglas fir slaves. 20 feet
long, bound together by steel hoops
placed from s to Is inches apart. and
IS supported on a carefully constructed
frame work of wood
The pipe Is built entirely OF lumber
taken from the fir forests along the
side OF the canyon. The grade OF the
pipe is IL feet in 1000 and the ca
pacity Is practically S00.O00,ooo gallons
each "a hours. The water discharges
into a concrete surge tank. 40 feet In
diameter and so feet high, where the
how from the reservoir Is controlled.
From this point 1t drops almost verti-
cally through foot wooden pipes to
the 10000 horsepower turbines. 10
feet below.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-24

don't they make the servants do IT."
And then in the very midst of your
superior thoughts, some one says.
Come on. now; just try 1t. I'll teach
you" and In one of those weak mo-
ments when your guardian angel Is off
his beat you succumb. And the next
thing you know you are turkey trot
ter. You worry about keeping the step
as you never have worried about keep
ing the commandments. You gaze with
admiring awe at the expert trotters.
the rare and accomplished creatures
who know instinctfvelv Just when to
dip and when to grapevine and whose
feet behave under the most trying con-
ditions. You recall that q few nights
ago you were sitting peacefully at a
library table reading a dry old book by
some sawdust sociologist who never
even heard of the turkey trot. And
you marvel how you managed to live
In those dim days, when you were only
a vegetable with the reading habit and
didn't know a boston from a minuet.
Meantime. In a thousand laboratories
scientists are searching for the germ
of every known and unknown dis
ease save this devastating epidemic of
the trot. You don't know when or how
you will get It, All you know is that
neither age nor sense renders you i'm
mune, and that it is relentless once 1t
gets it's fangs in you. Like paranoia.
it Is incurabie and progressive. Once
you have II your lease of sanity, II not
of life, may. be predicted within few
days or hours. Nothing short of mania
could induce women of all ages and
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-24
By WILLIE GREEN

The picturesque "panhandling' old
time typographical chronic tourist has
passed. and in his stead has come tc
stay the product of the linotype Pc
riod-the well dressed, well fed pros
porous disciple of Gutenberg-and OF
ergenthaler-who Is anything save a
migratory being.
The oldtime tramp" printer needed
no overcoat, for, like the birds Of the
air that seek the sunshine at all sea
cons OF the year. the panhandling tour
ist of old abided In New Orleans In
winter and inst. Paul in summer.
He was jovial. carefree individual
and the average tourist could Sc
more type and cleaner proof than the
hand typesetter who looked upon him
as an inferior member of the craft.
I shall dwell upon Just few of the
ceieprities who walked, or hit ths
blind baggage" in We olden time; and
when subs" were scarce. as they gen
orally were in those days. they were
welcome visitors in the offices Of the
smaller daily newspapers of the coun-
sry.
"ROCKY MOUNTAIN SMITH
While 1 was cub" on the Burlington
Hawkeye and setting solid brewer
shout o'clock one morning. there ap-
scared in the doorway of the news
room. unheralded, a gaunt specimen
OF the genus tramp" whom I after
ward learned bore the sobriquet
Rocky Mountain" Smith. 1t was near
ing closing up time and the Hawk
eve force was plugging away hard
silence reigning save for the clicking
of the type. In dramatic voice the ap-
partition In the doorway said:
Up stepped ye gallant printer man. and boldly
says be. You'll have to spin blood before
you touch squaw."
What keered that crowd for printer man? They
didn't care three strsws
just busted into that there hut, and hustled ou
the squaws.
Then louder rang the pans and cans. and louder
the huzzahs
And nothing more was ever heard OF those un
protected squsws,
I'd rather be a little bird. beneath som.
grizziy's paws
Than take the desperate chances OF those
anprst~eted squaws.
-now's work fellows"
Smith remained in Burlington a eou-
pie of weeks and departed south on a
raft bound for St Louis.
LIGHTNING TYPEsETTER"
To the cub" in a newspaper offics
such characters as Rocky Mountain
Smith were a revelation. Shortly after
the departure of Smith there came into
the Hawkeye Office another celebrated
tourist. Tom Walker. known as THE
s-.1htnjnR Tvpesetter OF the West
Walker had walked some 80 mile:
that day. so he said, and was too foot
sore and weary to work. He ranked
me s "a likely looking kid" and pan
handled me for half dollar The
reader will now understand the mean
Ing of "panhandling"
This tourist remained with US only
a, few days. He worked a couple OF
nights and his average string" was
couple of thousand a night more thar
that of any of the regulars on ths
Hawkeye.
These two worthless OF the road came
in. after Walker and remained severa
weeks. And the way they could Sc
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-24

sizes to dance on the sand in all the
dripping dishevelment of clinging bath
ing suits.
Once you have trotted or tangoed
you lose all moral perspective. You
don't know " neither trotting Is right
or wrong. You don't care. All you
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-24
Sketched from life at Manhattan beach BY viii B. Johnson

know is that you've just got to dance
somebody puts on a new record
You may not be doing 1t now, Of
course. Some constitutions resist the
germ for a long time. Mine did You
may not be among those who follow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
Make Good Wives.

Besides being machine, you see, the tele-
phone operator must have quick, sure judg-
ment and keen common sense.
They tell us here that make the
best wives, because never talk
back, because we know how to obey,
because we have sweet and gentle
voices, and so on. There is really more
truth I'm 1t than appears the surface.
We recognize the efficiency of discipline.
of order, and of routine. We have had
practice enough in holding tongues
and keeping tempers to insure
against temper attacks in our own
homes, md VIC have been taught to
think quickly and meet emergencies.
| have four sisters. Two of them are al
ready in the employ Of the company, and the
other two are going to be operators as soon
as they finish school, l have often heard
my mother say that if she had twelve girls
she would make every one of them tele
phone operators. for she doesn't think there
is any work which is better discipline, and
yet more congenial and agreeable. The girls
you work with are always nice. You make
lots of friends, you have plenty of time to
and you feel yourself not entirely
member of society.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14

Then only few weeks ago a man tried
to commit suicide by gas Just before he
was overcome he repented and called up
Central. "Gas," he just whispered through
the telephone, "No. - Indiana avenue"
l rang the Edison people and had them send
a pulmotor out there, and they saved him.
You know, we are only allowed certain
words and phrases and when we have to
use other than these we call a supervisor to
talk to the subscriber. But / remember one
time when we were allowed to use another
phrase. 1t was at the time of the stock
yards fire, and to every call that came in, in
place of saying " Number, please we all
said, without waiting to be asked, Chief
Horan and ten firemen killed." We knew
that was what they wanted.
| have heard girls tell stories of the Iro-
quois fire. The board had been unusually
quiet-few calls. little -answering-and sud
denly, like sparks from fire, the whole
length OF the board was ablaze with lights.
At one minute every one was calling for
the same number.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
Hon You Get Your Number.

Now 1 will explain to you all that goes on
when you call me up and want to get Main
900 You take your receiver off the hook
and that lights line lamp on my switch
board answer with plug and the light
goes out.
"Main 30O," you say. Since my board
has only incoming calls / call the outgoing
board by pushing the proper button and re-
peat the number that you gave me. In this
way you are connected with the trunk line
going to the second operator.
When she finds that Main SOB is not busy
she connects that number with the trunk line
and then tells me the number of the trunk
line used, SO that make the final connec-
tion between you and the number you are
calling.
You and the man you have called talk,
and while you are conversing I am answer
ing dozen other calls. Suddenly two lights
appear on the board You have both hung
nm your receivers. l remove the plugs and
break the circuit When do that the broken
connection causes the lamp of the connecting
trunk on the outgoing switchboard to light,
and the second operator removes the plug
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14

next me rested all the responsibility of the
city.
| remember night light appeared on
my board. | answered, and heard woman's
scream. And then nothing more. l called
the supervisor, got the connection at once,
found out where the house was, and sent the
police. 1t was found out that burglars had
entered The woman had just time to get to
the floor, and when the police arrived she
was bound and gagged. The only thing
was disappointed in that they didn't
get the burglars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14
4 Woman's Scream.

Sometimes awfully exciting things hap
pen. Not so much In the daytime, and
now work on the shift that goes on at 7:30
and comes off at 4:30. But when l was on
once in a while that l was a part Of the
night watch Of the city. l sent police calls,
calls for the fire department, and for doctors
and nurses. On me and on the girls sitting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14

from the trunk line used, and everything is
ready for the next call.
If this were to happen eighty times day
or 500, provided all were in direct sequence,
SO that one call didn't overlap another, it
would be absolutely simple. just matter
of routine and mathematics. But when five
and six calls come in at once, when as many
exchanges are involved, all during this one
call, which has lasted but couple of min
utes, you can see the complications which
are liable to ensue
II the second operator doesn't understand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-14

say, If confuse it with the number just
called, If l make a mistake in calling the
trunk number, If she plugs in the wrong
number on the board-all Of these things
are possible-you don't get your number.
But you yourself must admit that these mis-
takes are not frequent. The one mistake
which is made in week, which may be
either your fault or niue, is remembered 10
the exclusion of the hundred other success
full connections which you made in that same
week.