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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-02

AS has been oft said in nearly
every newspaper office In the
country-there are press agents
and press agents.
Some of the press agents are
mere cogs in the great machine
that grinds out dope" for the
ever-reading public.
Some others are real artists
who can write real sure-enough
stuff with a punch" and who
draw down salaries that make
even the newspaper editors envi-
Gus.
Such a one is Press Agent
Cooper, travelling in advance of
the Sells-Floto and Buffalo Bill
circus. Cooper deposited a wad
of copy" on the dramatic edi-
tors desk today. It's so good
that it's printed as he wrote it.
"Ain't this the same lot we
had last year,"
"Skinny's town, amt It? ] re-
member"
Say, Miss Fora, tLey wasn't no
harness f'r them bulls"
"Well, II somebody hasn't
went and put my trunk out of the
dressing top again am
Where's tn cool;house?"
Introducing, ladies and gentle
men, with your most kind and
earnest attention, Gentle Spring.
And what has Gentle Spring to
do with cookhouses and elephants
and property wagons and all the
other things? Everything in the
world, for was there ever a Gen
tie Spring without a circus? Ger
tainly not. And so, with the in
PRODUCTION of the aforementioned
Spring, there comes also the in
PRODUCTION of the Circus.
For the circus is comm. Com
in with its wild man in the
sideshow. it's bulky, bulky ele-
plants, its trained wild animals,
its most beautiful women in the
world" and everything else which
should properly be included In the
biggest circus in the world"
And by that biggest in the
world" Is meant the Sells-Floto &
Buffalo Bill (himself), which is
to come to Tacoma for one
days stay, Friday, May %.
And there's more than just the
name In the announcement of
Buffalo Bill. He's with the cir
Gus this year, both in the par
ade, which he will led through
the downtown streets at 1890
o'clock circus day, and in the
performance, where he once
more gives his salute from the
saddle and presents his spectacle,
"Warpath, in which his riders,
his ropers, his Indians, his cow
boys and ranchgirls and soldiers
and other necessities of the West
In drama of civilization.
But Buffalo Bill, in spite of all
his Importance, forms only
part OF the biggest in the world"
this year. There are all the other
circus acts-Zora, the "bravest
woman in the world" Capt.
Dutch Ricardo, who trains lions
and tigers with buggy whip;
the Devlin zouaves, the Hyneys,
the three herds of performing
elephants and
The forty clowns. Would any
circus be complete without
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-02
Novelist Who Wrote "Cynthia's
Chauffeur" Times Next Novel a
Week, Is a Friend OF the Poor

The man who created the
phrase Giving wage" is Louis
Tracy, author of "Cynthia's
Chauffeur" the next Novel a
Week" in The Times.
Tracy is an Englishman,
though he has worked as a
miner in Colorado. 1t was as
a reported on the London Sun
that he wrote the news story
that made living wage" the
slogan of the entire world of
workers.
Years before he wrote 1.-THE
Wings of the Morning." "a
Pillar of Light" "The Captain
of the Kansas" and his some
dozen other best sellers, Tracy
then a reporter, was assigned
to write up the doings Of
London's great slums, their
crimes, their poverty and their
sorrows.
The unusually severe win
ter of 1894-5 had brought in.
tolerable hardship to London's
poor. Tracy told the story of
suffering so convincingly that
even the well-fed understood.
But he didn't stop there. He
raised over $4,000, and for
six weeks, unaided, conducted
23 soup shops that kept L.
100000 from starvation.
Noted for KindIiness
Then he made his famous
demand that the worker be
paid not a pittance, but a liv-
ing wage.
The kindness of Tracy's
character is revealed in his
books. "Cynthia's Chauffeur"
for instance, opens with a kind
ly deed.
Young viscount Medenham,
the hero, while driving in his
brand new automobile, the
pride of his heart, meets
man who formerly served in
his regiment in Africa. The
ex-soldier has scraped enough
money together to start little
auto livery business, but here
is his one and only car broken
down while on the way to take
an heiress on a ten-day tour.
A successful ten-day tour
promised a three-month tour
on the continent. The ex-sol-
der is as good as ruined.
But the young viseount
saves the day by offering his
own car and himself as chauf-
feur. And his kindness is re-
warded, for he meets Cynthia.
refreshing, captivating Ameri-
can.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-02
Liner SIBERIA
NOT IN WRECK

Feeder said that he had not sent
out distress signals and had not
heard Of the reports until his ship
landed.
The only explanation offered Is
that some wireless operator
caught the location message Of
the steamer Persia, whose code
title is IN. b. s." and sounds
similar to IS. o. s." How the
operator fancied the Persia's
name to be that OF the Siberia.
however, is unexplained.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-02

MANILA. May 2. Deepest
mystery enshrouds the causes for
distress signals having been re-
layed throughout the Orient yes
terday, with reports that the 49,
000-ton steel steamer Siberia of
the Pacific Mail line, had found
cred off the coast of Formosa.
The Siberia locked here at IL
o'clock Saturday. less than an
hour off schedule, and reported
an uneventful voyage. Captain
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-02
COUNTY WARDEN
browns IN The
WHITE RIVER

Trying to ford the White river
near the dam work of the Pierce
and King county river improve
ment, Frank Mayhem, a King
yc6fnty deputy game warden, age
|bS, was swept away by the swift
.cnfrent yesterday afternoon and
drowned before friends could res
che him. Mayhem was married
and lived at Algona. His body
was swept 1900 feet by the river,
and finally recovered by workmen
on the dam.