Arizona republican., 1920-01-19

State Librarian J. H. McClintock en- counters some awful shocks every once in while as he sorts over the great mass of state literature and near literature that he unbales daily at his newly acquired office. the shocks hav- ing to do with various masterpieces that he wrote from 20 to 40 years ago While reporting on Arizona dailies. Some Of those masterpieces drifted into the historians files and became in tegral parts of history. As he has to stick to facts pretty close nowadays in his capacity as historian of the state those things he used to write just wor- " him terribly
 One story he encountered during the week was about an iron sheathed early clipper ship that sailed the Cola rado and went up the Virgin river at high water The ship started back for the ocean, coasted the rapids at 40 miles an hour. struck a granite butte somewhere near LittlefielS and bent itself completely around the butte, where it stuck. while the crew manned the boats and escaped. Later in the season. he recounts. the captain of the rlght-angled clipper craft ascend cd the Virgin at low water in canoe and discovered his ship still dangling from the butte. 70 feet overhead.
 Reviewing that story now. at his maturer time of life, the historian scratches his bean in perpleXity and wonders if the rest of the valuable data in his office is just as reliable
 Someone who is really fond of dane ing has been found in Phoenix Not a person who just drops in occasion ally to shuffle little to the soothing strains of I'm Forever Blowing Bub- bles" and other melodies long since forgotten in the east. but a person who will. go to any length to attain his end-a species of terpsichormaniac so to speak.
 Early last week a pIacard ;lnnounc- ing a benefit dance for the Day Nur- sery and charity fund to be given by the Council of Jewish Women on Feb ruary 1 was leaned up against the cashiers cage at the Hotel Adams Tickets on sale here" the card an nounced. and a specimen ticket was pasted on a blank square of the piac- ard
 Two days afterward the person who is really fond of dancing-crazy about it, in faot7came along and ripped off the ticket.
 He will. be at the dance to help along the Day Nursery fund. even if it snows and the street cara atap running.
 But the doorkeeper will be looking for ticket disfigured on one side by glue; that much is certain.
 
 Joe" Dalton. the suave and amiable day clerk of the Hotel Adams, was opening his daily grist of telegrams Pausing a moment to tell young woman politely that no rooms were left, he resumed his work. An angry travelling man rushed up to find out why the management hadn't kept the room for him he had ordered from Los Angeles the day before
 Sorry. sir" Said Joe, 4but I won't have 2 thing before , o'clock at least Maybe I can fix you up with a cot, then Or perhaps. if you wouldn't mind four in room" The travelling man didn't stop to listen. but snorted angrily away.
 Joe resumed his list of teIegrams, and on opening one broke into a series of sympathetic chuckles. Read this" he said. forking over message from Denver. It ran:
 Reserve S1.50 room tonight, without fail"
 One and half.r unused Joe. How old fashioned some people are!"