Arizona republican., 1914-12-05
WHAT DAY DOES
 FRIDAY COME 0N
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w. s. Goldsworthy, general agent of the Santa Fe, wants to know on what day of the week Friday comes. It is not for himself alone that he wishes this information. He has received a very personal inquiry from A. M. Rein- hardt, assistant general freight agent of the santa Fe at Los Angeles asking for this self same information. And thereby hangs a tale.
 Before the members of the Rotary club, assembled yesterday at the regu- lar Friday noon-day luncheon, Goldy propounded the question. He did ie most casually and was credited with having originated something quite unique. None of those assembled reaI- ized that back of the question there was burning desire on the part of the interrogater to aid a fellow man, and certainly none discerned then that the joke was on Goldy.
 But in the inner recesses of a pocket, part and parcel of the coat President Amos Alive Betts, of the Rotary club, reposed a letter from one F. R. SuIli- van, who in real life is commercial agent of the New York Central lines, which had this to say about Goldy:
 Tt seems he was recently entertain- ing friend in Phoenix, or making be- iieve to do so. He invited this friend to Rotary club luncheon and went to secure seat at this very popular af-
 fair He appeared at five minutes to
 twelve at the appointed place only to find the curtain down so to speak and
 no one present On making inquiry if they had changed the place he a1er- tained they had not done so, where- upon he raised on his hind legs and re- marked dramatically, That is strange;l they always hold these luncheons on Friday. Thereupon the party from whom he was making the inquiry in- formed him. "Yes, you are right, but
 today is Thursday"
 The question is, What was Goldy's condition or did he not have the
 money%
 That letter let the cat out of the bag,
 but Betts is good sport and he let Goldy get away with what appeared to bt d Soou pun tTOluN ehptclcu lO SlNc an answer of his own and announce
 that Friday came on Rotary Day, but Power Conway beat him to it with an- , other quite original solution, Along in the afternoon after yester- days luncheon, prying reporter sneaked into Goldy's private office and from the depth of big basket suc- ceeded in abstracting the following copy of a letter to MT. Reinhardt That letter let the cat out of the bag and
 definitely determined it was the Los
 Angeles man whom Goldy attempted to entertain at a Friday Rotary luncheon on Thursday. It also killed any chanc-
 es that Goldv might ever have had of being christened the father of the question ''On What Day of the Week | Does Friday Come"
 GOldy's letter to Reinhardt. which
 ought to be quite self-explanatory, fol- 1 lows: Dec 4, 1914. | My dear Relnhardt:-
 "1 have your personal note "On what
 day of the week does Friday come" and
 | am pleased to advise that in Phoe- nix. my friend F. Power Conway of
 the Warren Bros. Co, states that 1t
 comes on fish day. My idea is that it
 comes on Rotary Day and it also comes
 on a day we are hurrying like fury for just one more car of freight and few
 extra dollars to try to keep up With prosperous 1913.
 We are also working on the problem 1 of how old is Ann, etc. etc. Also l am 1 like the small boy in the audience list
 ening to the political speaker who was
 propoundng question to be answered
 by himself. Aye, aye. Mister, I'll bite.'
 On what day of the week does Friday II come? Ha, Ha.
 "Nery truly w. D. GOLDSWORTHY, | General Agent" II When Sullivan comes to PhoenlX again. he will not run the risk of sud- den death by trying to make his head quarters in the vicinity of the office or the general agent of the Santa F'e in this city.