Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-16
mick CARTER"
is DEAD
Greatest Fiction Factory Of
The Day Passed With
Him.

cJuiu look over green heiuSdn ORCH
ard bloom to the sparkling waters Of
Lake Goguac.
Until a month ago the man who
turned out exciting stories Of hair
breadth adventures in the CRIME and
noise of the city streets, sat at his dig
nified desk in his peaceful room on
the Grand Boulevard here, and when
he was tired Of looking at the rows
and rows of heavy calf bound books
that formed his library, turned his
eyes to a scene in spectacular con-
trast to the settings Of the stories he
was pounding out on his typewriter.
mick Carter" wrote of New York
dives, but he wrote of them alta re-
poseful country home.
He wrote of crime in the midst of
austere responsibility.
He wrote Of noise and tumult in a
stiffness that, in winter, was broken
only by the crunch of the ice on the
shores of the lake, and in the sum-
mer by the buzz Of honey bees.
LIFE CONTRAST TO STORIES.
His stories were of the lineal de-
scendants of the shilling shockers"
of generation ago, but he was
kindly, sedate gentleman with pleas
ant smile and friendly nod for eve
rybody. Reformers held up his books |
as responsible at times for boys dare
devil outbreaks, for their running
away from home, for pranks and wild
rebellion against law and order. The
author himself was a peaceful, highly
citizen.
Mick Carter" was known through
out the United States. Alfred B. To-
was mick Carter" and a
dozen other authors all at the same
time was not known a mile from his
quiet country home.
The man who died at Bottle Creek
a few days ago was fiction foundry.
His typewriter turned out literally
Of stories. Some were sign
ed by mick Carter" many by other
names. Tozer was the Inspector
Clark" who wrote "The Cost of the
Clew, and "The Victim of the Oc-
,ult.
He was the dick Stewart" Who'll
wrote "a Queen of Chance" and
The Strength of the Weak" He
vas the John X. Stafford, who a
wrote Morgan. the Dauntless," and E
Carl Frisbee, who penned "A Flash
# Light" h
When boyhood turned from the a
uridly adventurous type of fiction to t
looks rejecting the Service" ideals
# the Boy Scout movement, Tozer :
urned, too. Instead of volumes de- I
'icting daring holdups OF the Over |
and Express, and the drugging of the /
beautiful heroine in Ting Wing Los ,
plum joint in New York's tender !
Din, his adaptable typewriter ground t
nut stories Of the faithful, efficient
rave and gallant Boy Scout who ris- y
S to fame and fortune in such strange
Ways in the books signed by Harvey
lalphson.
WROTE HUNDREDS OF BOOKS.
Yes, 'Nick Carter" was the "Har-
ey Ralphson" who has written doz-
ms of Boy Scout books sold in cheap
10th covers, and devoured today by
of boys as the true foun-
lin head of Boy Scout gospel.
Tozer's complete works-books,
erials, stories, short magazine stories
nd special articles-make a stipend
us total. His output promised to be ;
nlimited No one but himself knew I
ow many books he had written.
hey ran into the hundreds. The de- s
land was always greater than the :
Ipply. Because only once in many, 4
lany moons is born man with such a
'cility for rapid writing, his publish
RS bounded him for more and more.
Mr.. Tozer suffered three strokes of
analysis, and for the last three years
ad been an invalid. He wrote,
Rough until month ago, when his
lnds became TOO crippled to pound
lie keys Of typewriter.
mick C.r,er" was ar experienced
ewspaper man, at one time being !
Nv editor of the Grand Rapids Her :