The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-31

/ Of the topmost gallery Of that opera
house.
Yes, we saw the New Years eve
festivities in Chicago. We walked
down State street after the show
through a crowd OF q quarter OF q
million like boat going through the
| sea- We saw much wine drank in
| the Blue Violet Bed dining room Of
the LaSalle hotel that night. We saw
the ceremonies where an old man
with long white beard was chased
| out Of the hotel lobby by a little
cherub with a magic wand. We saw
1914" flash against the balustrades
above u.s. 1t was a new year. the
making Of a step that measures the
known and brings that much closer
the coming Of the unknown. felt
solemn and sad about 1t and tried to
| talk philosophy to my friend. But no
| one else in that hotel seemed to care
. much about the solemn side Of the
| occasion.
Paid Him Back with q Breakfast.
| Next morning Mitchell called nv
! attention to the fact that he had taxi
| en- me to the theater the night before
and suggested that I reciprocate by
| led him ou, Of that lordly hotel and
across the street to a Thompson lunch
| house where each patron waits on
himself and there fed Mitchell a f1f-
teen cent breakfast. No man can
| outdo me in the art Of appreciation
| ey made in the likeness Of the goddess
| of liberty.
Well. we took the morning choo
choo Tor Alabam. but got OF at Gin
cinnati. Played "rummy'' all day on
the train to keep from looking at the
fiat uninviting landscape of Illinois
and southern Indiana and western
Ohio. The farmland all the way
from Chicago to Cincinnati does not
compare to that of the Kaw valley.
In Cincinnati.
Cincinnati is a funny town. 1t is on
| the border between the north and
south and has accumulated the habits
and customs Of both sections Of the
country: 1t Is old fashioned with new
spots, like a woman of 1901 wearing
| a 1913 slit skirt and a 1878 hat No
crowd or hurry on its streets, old time
buildings nestled up against steel sky
scrapers.
But some way. Mitchell and liked
Cincinnati. 1t was relief after those
three hummer days at Chicago. Met
some fine folks there and they showed
| us the city park, than which there il
none more beautiful in the countrv'
1t Is as though a giant hand had made
| over the Ohio river bluffs into tor
races for the delight of mankind. Ce-
ment drives intersect the park. The
river LOOKS like a ribbon from these
heights: In the distance. across the
river, the haze tries to hide the beau
ty Of the Kentucky hills.
| Kelly of the U. 8. Plant.
| We visited the U. s. printing plant,
one Of the largest and best in the
world. Treated fine there. Met KEEL
~, superintendent of the plant. and
an ITiShmAn H. y
Irish? He had the short Irish nose
and the long Irish upper lin and a
hundred other Irish signs writ upon
his face. The name was not necessary
at all. at all. He is a star. this man
Kelly. and he ought to have a truck
to carry around his knowledEe aad
Understanding necessary to run this
plant.
| Battle Of Orleans.
Kelly and became friends when he
told me he had attended the Sullivan
Corbett fight in person and went
ions lost the belt at New Orleans 20
years ago. While the United States
company has a tremendous plant and
turns out trainloads of work every day,
it is not Of these things I wish to
write. but rather Of the uearness to
perfection its directors have reached
In the art of organization and of COM
fort and convenience and light and air
and food and a dozen lesser benefits
for their employees. In these things
the U. s. plant may stand as worthy
OF pattern by any employer. In most
of the big manufacturing concerns OF
Chicago, New York and all cities but
| those Of New England, the plan of
meals. comfort and recreation for
employees is second only to the plan
Of dividends.
The thing they are proudest of in
the u. S. printing plant is the big sill
yer cup their baseball team won in the
i city tournament.
i After dinner at Dutch eatina
house where the cook had any French
chef gasping for mercy, and where
Mitchell ate another lobster, and
where I waited an hour for that lob.
ster to be cooked. we went out to the
American Book Co. plant
i In the House of the Ogres.
4 The American Book Co., home OF
the trust and the octopus and the com.
bination in restraint of school book,
printed by any one else. The Amerf
can Book Co., held up for the wratf
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