South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-16
On Behalf OF The Management
HENRY

This - the story OF q man man
agar. and how be held his own until \
the very iast paragraph
had u from Suiiy MaBoon, we 4
voce. The words are indeed his +.
and IL they do not constitute truth .
ful fiction my memory should De
taxed with the blame.
10 Is not deemed amiss 20 point
out, ia the beginning. the stress tnat
~ laid upon the masculinity OF the .
manager. For. according 10 Sully, F.
the term when applied 10 the fem
iuine division OF mankind has pre- +
cisely an opposite meaning me /
woman manager Che says econo-
mics. saves. Expresses her house
hold with bargains and cOntrivances.
and looks sOurly upon any pence
that are cast TO the FIDDLER OF even n
single tig-stcp on life's arid march.
Wherefore her men-fOlk call her
blessed. and praise her. and then
sneak out the back door 90 see the
Guhoody sisters do buck-and-
wing dance.
Now the man manager Il will
quote Sully) ~ a Caeser without a
Brutus lie Is an autocrat without
responsibility. a player who imperils
no stake OF his own. His office IS 20
enact 10 Athf.l ntA rAAts W tFODAitf W.
expand. 20 te-pr Ofitably.
II he can. Bul-paying and growing
gray hairs over results belong 20 his
principals. u IS his to guide the
risk. 90 be the apotheosis Of front.
the three-tailed bashaw OF blur. the
essential OIL OF RaZzle-daZzle.
we sat at luncheon. and Suiy Ma
COON told me. asked for particu-
lars.
My Old friend Denver Galloway
was a born manager" said Sully.
He hrst saw the light Of day in
New York at three years Of age. He
was horn In Pittsburg. but his par
ents move east the third summer
afterward.
When Denver grew up ne went
into the managing business. At the
age OF eight ne managed a news
stand for the Dago that owned II.
After that ne was manager at diff
ferent times Of a skating-rink,
livery-stable. n policy game, res
taurant. a dancing aCamedy. a walk
ing match. a burIesques company, a
dry goods store, Il dozen hotels and
summer resorts. an insurance com
pany, and a district leaders cam
paign. That campaign, when Cough
I'm was elected on the east side
gave Denver n boost. II got him
job as manager OF a Broadway no
tel, and for a while ne managed
Sen. O'Grady's campaign in the 10Th.
Denver was New Yorker all
over. I think ne was out Of the city
last twice before the time I'm go
ing 10 tell you about. once he went
notwithstanding in Youkers. The
other time 7 met him Just landing
from North river ferry. Been out
west on big trip. Suily. Old boy he
said. Cad. Sully, I had no idea we
had such a big country. It's i'm
mense. Never conceived Of the mag
uihCence OF the west before. It's
gorgeous and glorious and infinite.
Makes the east seem cramped and
little. 1T grand thing 10 travel
and get an idea of the extent and
resources Of our country
I'D made several little runs out
60 California and down 10 Mexico
and up through Alaska. so ] sits
down with Denver for a chat about
the things he saw.
Took In the Yosemite. ont there.
II course?' I asks.
'Weu-nO, says Denver. I don't
think so. At least, ] don't recOlleCt
10. You see. / only had three days.
and I didn't get any farther west
than Youngstown. o.
About two years ago I dropped
into New York with a little fly-pa-
per proposition about "a Tennessee
mica mine that ] wanted to sprea q
out TN nice, sunny window, In the
hopes OF catching few. I was
coming out OF a printing shop one
afternoon with a batch OF fine.
sticky prospectuses when ran
against Denver coming around a
corner / never saw him looking So
? much like a. tger-Iily. He was as
beautiful and new as a trellis of
sweet peas. and as rolliCk!nE as a
clarinet solo. We shook hands. and
he asked me what I was doing. and
I gave him the outlines Of the scan
dial / was trying 10 create in mica.
Pooh. pooh. for your mica says
Denver. Don't you know better
Sully. than to bump UP against the
Golfers OF little old New York with
anything as transparent as mica .
Now, you come with me over TO the
Hotel Brunswick. You're Just the
man I was hoping for. I've got
something there in sepia and curled
hair that I want YOU to look at
You putting up at the Bruins
Nick?' 7 asks.
Not cent. says Denver
cheerful The syndicate that owns
The Brunswick wasn't one of
them Broadway pOt-houses all full
OF palms and hyphens and flowers
and CCstumes-kind OF a mixture OF
lawns and lauudries. IL was on
one OF the east side avenues: hut il
was solid. old-ume CaravanSary
such as the mayor OF Skaneateles on
the governor OF Missouri might stor
az Eight stories high II stalked up
with new striped awnings. and the
electriCs had e as light as day.
I've been manager here for q
year. says Denver. as we drew nigh
When 1 took charge says he, no
body nor nothing ever stopped al
the Brunswick. The clock over the
clerks desk used 20 run for weeks
without winding. man fell dead
with heart-disease on the sidewalk
I'm front or 10 one day. and wher
- they went TO pick him UP he was
two blocks away. I figured out q
scheme 20 catch the West Indies
and South American trade. I per
Suaded the owners to invest a few
more thousands and 1 put every
cent or IL in electric lights. cayennt
pepper. gold-leaf. and garlic. I got q
spanish speaking force OF empioye.