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New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Y YEARS and years ago in England there
lived little boy named Richard Whit
tington. He was an orphan. and being

YEARS and years ago in England there
lived a little boy named Richard Whit
Il tlngton. He was an orphan, and, being
poor, had to work for his living. At an
Inn named the St. George and the Dragon he
ran errands, washed dishes and did whatever
jobs there were that no ono else would do.
One night the inn burned and Master Rich
ard barely escaped with his life. For few
days the people Of tho town took care Of him,
but he was not happy because there really
wasn't any ono who wanted him.
One morning he rose very early. He did not
tell any one his plans, but what he really
wanted to do was to go to London. Presently
man came along and, seeing the boy, asked
whether he knew Richard Wilmington.
~ am Dick Wilmington" said the lad.
AWell," said the man. "and what are you
standing there planning TO dol"
lam going to London" said Dick.
II, too, am going to London" said the man.
II will take you in my wagon"
So on April 28, 1877, they started for Lon
don. There were no trains in those days and
it took q long time to make the journey. After
many adventures on the way they finally ar
rived.
In London Dick did not find work at once,
and many times he was hungry. One day
when he was down near the docks he watched
the ship Unicorn making ready to sail. Sud-
denly he heard = scream, and seeing that girl
had fallen overheard he plunged in and res
cued her.
She was tho daughter Of the man who owned
the Unicorn, Mr.. Ntzwarren, and her father
was so grateful to Dick that he gave him
job at his home.
He did lots Of disagreeable work and some
times the other servants misused him. But
the daughter Of Master Fitzwarren always
took his part and saw to it that he was nos
abused.
Tha place whers be slept vas an old attic
which had been thu homo of rats Tor - many
pears that when the boy moved In ttsse erss-
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

and managed to land catlike on his feet, but
with knee joints relaxed to reduce the shock.
He made six-nch dent in the sod of the
churchyard and knocked over gravestone.
Passersby and other workmen who rushed
to his side expected to find dying man. In
stead, they had to exert themselves to keep
Mccarthy lying down until an ambulance
came. At the hospital the surgeons were pos
tive he was injured internally, though the
patient insisted he was perfectly we'll enough
to return to the job. To make sure, he was
dosed with milk of magnesia and then X
rayed to see if his intestines had been rup-
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
A ST RICHLY
MODERN TALE
+ CRATIC J. JONES began az IN Office
boy. His salary was $3.50 a week.
He <,c+ +oeyr ~ros 81 80 - . a~,e>

TT CRATIC j. JONES began a. IN ofice
boy. His salary was $3.50 week.
His first task was to sit at knife
SCARED old desk and address envelopes, en-
velopes, envelopes, envelopes, envelopes all day
long till his fingers were stiff and his arm
ached.
But Horatio J. Jones was no gutter. He
stuck. And after while he was promoted
to better things, including q raise Of So.
(Thirty years are supposed to eyapse, as
they sag IN the xnovies.)
Peep into that private oface-nobody will
hear you, tho carpet is three inches thick
and see If you know the man at the large dat
topped desk in the very center Of the room.
You don't? Well, it is Horatio J. Jones, the
newly elected president Of the Goldlined Loan
and Trust Company.
The story Of his rise in the business world
is one of brilliant progress. From m Office
!. boy at $3.50 week he has gone up. NJ, up,
uatil now 90 successful financial administra-
tor ana banker he commands salary Of S4o,-
0oc year.
His desk and surroundings are very differ
ent from those of his Office boyhood. The desk
is mahogany, SO are the wall panels, 90 are the
chairs. The fireplace was pulled out by the
roots from I. French chateau Of the fifteenth
century.
And his task is different, too. All day long
he sits and puts his name to checks, certif-
Gates and other papers that must have his
signature. Nobody else's will do. He signs
till his fingers are stiff and his arm aches.
"The difference" he sighs, "between $3.50
JOB and one Of $4,000 is that in the first
you write other peoples names til you're al-
zaost dead and Ia the second Jon wzits your
hwn.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
There Is No Union
of Steeplejacks

There is no guild Of steeplejacks. But COM
perition is kept down by the strongest Of bar
r1ers--fear. Besides, the skilled climbers
Through some unspoken freemasonry, are in
conspiracy to guard the hard-won secrets
ct their craft as jealously as necromancers Of
another age. Apprentice steeplejacks fire.
quently are sons or younger brothers Of the
master workman who is their teacher.
Nobody took me by the hand and made the
way easy said Louis Mccarthy, who calls
himself stack specialist He was explaining
the point of view that led him to take as
assistants first his wife and then younger
brother. At the present time his fifteen
seanths-old son is in training.
y had to pick it up by myself and risk my
neck doing it," said Mccarthy. "Catch me
giving the game away. When must hire an
assistant T don't look for smart boys The
thicker they are the better. I'd rather take
week to show him how to tie paint bucket
to bo'sun's chair than to have him catch On
IN one lesson and inside few weeks be con-
peting with me for jobs"
Every day Mccarthy works is expected by
him to net him at least SIS. Not bad wages.
But there is more to the game than mere
money. There is an enslaving fascination in
the ever-present danger, q lure in the thought
Of defying death. Perhaps the man who
straddles the arm Of the cross atop Trinity
Church or paints the fagpole Of the Singer
Building finds his satisfaction in the same sort
Of vanity that sent Peary to the North Pole
or causes other men to leap from parachutes.
One thing is certain: All Of the satisfaction In
the work is not in the pay check.
There has been a great deal written about
the wives Of men in perilous trades sitting
fearfully at home and dreading bad news with
every ring Of the door bell McCarthy's wife
was loath to let him go to work when they
were newly married. Now she never worries
He solved that problem by taking her with
him on couple Of dizzy jobs.
"The first time I took her up" said Nc
Aarthy, II was working on Borough Hall in
3rooklyn. The fagpole was to be painted
ND the gilded ball on top was 1866 feet
sbove the street. Before we were married my
1ife-she was Bertha Butter-had made tas-
Cells in a Brooklyn silk mill. She went up
that fagpole with me in bosun's chair, and
has never been afraid for me since. She is
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

ness the case Of Louis Mccarthy jr. FINALLY.
q good steeplejack is sure to possess splendidly
developed calf and forearm muscles. In fact,
the forearm Of steeplejack would be fair
match for the similar muscles of an anthropoid
ape, with steeI-like tendons developed from an
arboreal life.
Soft, rubber soled shoes are great climbing
aid to many steeplejacks, and few Of them
have boasted Of prehensile toes, faculty, or
rather an accomplishment, that Is sometimes
possessed by the more adept members Of sail
ing ship crews.
Many Of the craft are inclined to think Of
their work as truck driver or an elevator
operator would think of his. Perhaps they
are inarticulate, but somehow they rarely seem
able to express the thoughts that must filter
through their minds as they flick gold leaf on
the ball Of mist-shrouded fagpole.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Found His Lifework
On Cologne Cathedral

Old Simon Goss, who used to work on skys
scrapers Of New York decade ard moro ago
was one Of the most thoughtful. He was born
in Cologne, and as small boy used to climb
to the top Of the great cathedral to carry mes
sages or bits Of food to his father, stone
carver.
"For hours would sit on the scaffold,. r.
called old Goss, "viewing the panorama below
and watching the chips Of stone as they fell
from my fathers chisel. A strange passion
possessed me. I loved the lofty spire of that
marvellous cathedral. But / had no aptitude
for stone carving, though my father endeavored
to teach me his craft.
FINALLY / ran away from school and
went to Berlin, where I became a painter.
The fascination the lofty places held for me
continued, and in the end I found myself .
steeplejack The nearest approach to an ac-
cident that ever experienced was on the
spire of st. Stephens Church in Vienna.
was 364 feet above the ground, working on
the base Of the cross. Carelessly I kicked
out Of place the wooden pin holding a loop Of
rope about the base of the cross. This loop
secured my saddle and ascending rope. All Of
this elaborate harness fell, leaving me ma
rooned on a narrow sill about the cross.
was an aerial Robinson Crusoe. was there
for hours before my plight gained attention.
Then rope was hoisted to me at the end Of .
slender pole from hole in the spire, and !
descended hand over hand"
Invariably when steeplejacks work there are
crowds of folks with time enough to watch
them. The climbers shrewdly guess the mo-
tive that keeps the ground workers standing
there open-mouthed beneath them.
In Chicago few years ago Jack McCreary
was working on the spire Of Emanuel Baptist
Church. All day long crowdS waited, SO far
beneath him that the steeplejack likened them
to hungry ants. When nightfall came hs
lowered himself and entered the belfry. In
the morning they found his body hanging
there. In his overalFs pocket was a pencil.
scrawled note that read:
"Well, see that nothing but my death win
satisfy the public, so here goes. will bs my
own executioner. I suppose the verdict viii
be Gone to hells"
But. even SO. when the salt meat cash
aboard sailing ships grows odorous at sea, the
men on the yardarms will talk of the easy
money to be made in cities by Glands as can
keep their heads aloft."
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
BY BoYDEN r. sPARKEs

vX YHEN the salt meat cask aboard sail
NV ing ships grows odorous at sea; when
the skipper Is mean-tempered dis
ciplinarian; when the last coverless,
grimy, fnger-printed magazine has been read,
then sailors begin to brood about life ashore,
and talk about the easy money to be made in
cities by hands as can keep their heads aloft."
The occupation they have in mind is that
o4 steeplejack, vocation not listed in the
advertisements Of correspondence schools
eager to create, by mail, actors, lawyers, civil
engineers, doctors, authors or plumbers, but
one equally remunerative. Yet there are not
enough competent steeplejacks in New York to
do a; the work that is available on church
spires, chimney stacks and skyscraper flag
poles. There are only about half dozen
listed in the telephone book to do the work
in community embracing nearly 10,000,000
people.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-01
MADISON HIGH DOWNS
WINCHESTER HIGH

In one of the fastest games OF
the season last Friday night the
Madison boys completely showed
under the Winchester boys, beat
ing them by the one-sided score
of 2l to 4. This is probably one
of the biggest victories that the
local boys have won, especially
since Winchester has always been
one Of our strongest opponents.
The Madison girls also put up
Il noble fight and are to be espe-
Cially commended in being able
to hold the fast Winchester girls
team to only Il nnc-polnt lead. The
score for the girls game was 5
to 4. The opponents had both the
OF size and experience.
Both of the Madison teams have
shown marked Improvement in
the last few games. Everyone is
hoping that the boys can make a
fine showing in the tournament
at Winchester this weekend.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-01
ON OTHER FLOORS

LcNinSton-Loose leaf sale L.
OSO,57O pounds. average $3.50
Range SOC to $57 a hundred
Market practically unchanged
Shelbyville-Prices about the
same as last week. Burley No. 2
sold 157,O5O pounds at average OF
$14.31; Globe 1Ol 800 pounds at
$14.35; range ST to SIS. Few re
jections. Receipts heavy.
Paris-Prices steady. Good de-
mand for high grade offerings
Receipts not as heavy. it is evil
dent that large per cent Of crop
has been placed on market. indie
pendent House sold 174.5S5 lbs
average of $13.21.
Cynthiana-Sales $4,000 lbs
at average of $1S.OS: top 72c
highest crop average 4Oc.
Observation-Disclosures 3trOng; ac
tive on all grades; sales exceeded
10000 pounds. Offerings mostly
common; recei pts heavy. Grow
ers House sold 212,OOO at average
OF $lo.94.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-01
DOYLESVILLE

The birthdays Of Mrs. Ellen
Henslcy and Mrs. Robert Wall
were celebrated Saturday, Feb.
%. at the home of Mrs. Hensley
Those present we're: Mr.. Vernon
Hensley and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Wall, Misses Halle Wall,
Ellen IIensley, Ella Mae Wall,
Bette IIenslcy. Lucy Hensley,
Daisy Wall, and Mae Hensley
Chenault Winkler, r b. McCol-
lum. Dennis McCollum, Roy Hud-
son, Willie McCollum. Lee Nor
gan, and Vernon McCollum
Many presents were received by
both. We regret to know that
on account of mud and sickness
other friends could not come. Ev-
eryone enjoyed the music. in
the afternoon the young folks en-
tertained thmeselves by horse
back riding. All left wishing
Mrs. Hensley to entertain again
soon.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-01
MRS. ELIZABETH JONES
DIES AT COLLEGE HILL

Mrs. Elizabeth Jones passed
away at the home of her daugh
ter. Mrs. Sallie Pearson. at Col
lege Hill. Monday afternoon. Her
death was due to the infirmities
of age, as she had recently pass
ed her ORD anniversary. She has
been since her girlhood a devoted
member of the Baptist church.
She reared a large family of chill
dren. only two of whom survive.
Mrs. Pearson the daughter with
whom she made her home, and
Mrs. T. ]. Jones, in Burnamwood.
Funeral services will be held at
the Baptist church at Union City
Wednesday morning at ii o'clock.
Interment in the family burial
ground.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-01
Mr., ELISHA PARRISH
answers LAST CALL

Nuneous friends and relatives
here were greatly surprised Tues
day morning when it became
known that Mr.. Elisha G.Parrish
as ed "A years, had died suddenly
at his home in Louisville at 1890
o'clock Monday evening" Mr..
Parrish was reared in this city.
He was the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Curt Parrish. Surviving him are
his widow, who was Miss Fan
ME Harcourt, OF this city; two
sons. HarcOurt Parrish. who is at
tending law school in Virginia,
and Marion Parrish, who makes
his home in Chicago; one sister,
Mrs. Lula Davis, in Campbells-
vile and one brother. Attorney
s. ID. Parrish, of Richmond. Ar
rangements for funeral had not
been madel when the Daily Regis
ter went to press. The body will
probably be brought to Richmond
and Inferred by the side of his
mother and father.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-01
Locks Like Kentucky VIII
Get Big Revenue Job

Washington. March 1-Th1cc
KcntuckiauS arc mentioned here
as possibilities for appointment
as Commissioner OF Internal Rev
cnuc. They are Miliard +. West
OF Lancaster, Garrard county,
now one of thc five Deputy Com
missioncrS Maurice Calvin, Cow
in9ton, campaign manager for
Scnator-elcct Richard y. Ernst,
and Chcslcy Scarcy, chairman OF
the Republican Campaign Com
mittcc, Louisville.
Sine failure Of the President
elect to name Republican Nation
al Committeeman Alvin +. Ilert,
| louisville. ae a member OF his
cabinet. some republican mem
bcrs Of the Kentucky Congress
sional delegation are said To have
received assurances from st. Au-
9ustinc that the Internal Revenue
Commissioncrship will be award
ed to Kentucky.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-01
Helps
ALL FIELDS Ak0T
tBy Associated PreSS)

Lexington, Ky, March / Ex-
pcrinents conducted by the State
College OF Agriculture over a per
iod of from three to eight years
on six fields located in different
sections of the state show that in
all cases return from the soils OF
the state can be greatly increased
by the use of manure, lime and
phosphate with a good crCp ro-
tation according to a summary
of the experiments just completed
by K. +. Stephenson and made
public here today.
An average Of the different
fields computed on a pcr-acrc ba-
sis for a four-year rotation Of
corn. SOY beans. wheat and clover
shows that limestone produced q
crop increase valued at $2O.4O,
acid phosphate $3.50; rock phos-
phatc $22,O5; lime and phosphate
together S5940 and lime and rock
phosphate together $3.50. Ma
nlIre alone when used at the rate
of six tons per acre per rotation
gave a crop increase worth $4.OO
pcr ton of manure. according to
Mr.. Stephenson. Corn was valued
at 81 bu,hel; wheat at Soc and
hay from the soy beans and clo-
yer at ST per hundred pounds i'll
circulating the value Of the in
creascS.
Tie six experiment fields on
which the Investigations are con-
Quoted are located at Berca, Lone
Oak, Mayfield, Russellville,
Grecnville and Fariston. AS fer
tilizer treatments acid phosphate
at the rate of 800 pounds per acre
and rock phosphate at the rate OF
| 600 pounds per acre we're COM
pared with and without lime.
Lime was used alone as well as
with phosphate at the rate OF
two tons per acre per rotation.
Results of the experiments show
that most of the soils outside the
central blue grass area are i'll
need of limestone and phosphate,
according to Mr.. Stephenson.
These fertilizers with the use Of
a systematic crop rotation and
the return of manure and residues
to keep up the supply OF nitrogen
and organic matter will make it
possible to build up the fertility
of Kentucky soils, he said.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-01
Captain John c. johns
Dies At Winchester

Winchester, KY, March /
Captain John Graham Johns, 81,
prominent resident of Winchester
died here Monday. He had been
i'm feeble health for some time,
but was walking about his room
when he was stricken with heart
disease and died very suddenly.
Captain Johns was a native OF
Floyd County. He was twice mar
ricd and is survived by three
children of his first marriage, and
by his second wife and their two
sons, Captain Lindsay Johns, re-
Gently of the United States army,
and Graham Johns, who is in
Phoenix. Ariz., for his health.
Mrs. Johns was in Arizona at the
time with her son at the time of
her husbands death, and funeral
arrangements will await her arri-
val in Winchester.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-01
LEGION CLUB ROOMS
Open WEDNESDAY

Members of Jesse NJ. Dykes
Post OF the American Legion, are
anticipating a delightful time at
the regular meeting Wednesday
night when the new club rooms
will be formally thrown open.
The c'rb rooms are on the third
floor Of the Southern Bank build
ing and have been fitted up at
tractively. A splendid program
is being arranged for the meet
ing and all eX-scrvice men and
Legion members are urged to be
present. The evening will be in
formal in every way but all the
boys who attend will be made to
have a good time.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-01
Bridge Gets Damage From
Old Beau Who Tilted Her

Stanford, KY, March 1.-The
fact that she had married another
did not prevent a jury here from
rendering Il verdict in favor OF
Mrs. Thomas Harding in her
breach OF promise suit against
Linsay Coffman. a year ago.
Mrs. Harding, then Miss Hettie
Rice. Of Moreland, filed suit for
$4,000 against Coffman, charg-
ing that he had broken promise
to marry her, and had married
another girl. Several months ago.
before the suit came up for trial
Miss Rice married. Love letters
purportcd to have been written
by Coffman were read at the trial
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-01
PRESIDENT
COST ten MILLIONS
Congressional Committee Report
Shows Harding Spent $113,-
600 to Win Nomination
(By Associated Cress)

Washington, March l - The
1920 costs of electing a president
of the United States were ap-
proximately were ten million dol
lars, according to the special
Senate investigating committee
which today filed a report with
Congress. The republicans spent
eight million dollars and the dem
ocrats two million. While the
committee concluded ''the expen-
diture Of these vast sums is a
present and growing menace to
the nation" it made no recon-
mendation except that the cleo
ton committees of the next Con-
Sress consider the question.
Of the total of nearly three
million dollars spent by Candi-
dates themselves General Wood 5
efforts to secure the republican
presidential nomination cost over
d million and half; Frank O..
Lowdcn's total was $414,OOO:
Senator Johnson $194.OO0; Her
bert Hoover $4,000, and Presi-
dent-elcct Harding $113OOO.
Attorney General Palmer led
the democrats with $4,000. while
Gov. Cox spent $4,000. Former
Ambassador Gerard $4,000; Sen
ator Owen $1,000; McAdoo moth
ing.
In the Senatorial and Congress
sIonal contests the dcmOcra $
spent $31 ,OCO, and the republicans
ST5.CO0- Through their state
committees. the republicans spent
against $SSS.OOO for he
democrats. Nearly a half million
money went to New
NorL, with $215.OOO to Indiana.
The democratic expenditures
were greatest in Indiana with
$4,000; $O3.OOO in New York and
nearly $4,000 in Kentucky.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-01
LEAGUE invites u. S.
TO talk ABOUT YkP
(By Associated lress)

Paris. March The League OF
Nations council today cabled its
reply to the American note on
the mandate question. 1t invites
the United States to send a rep
resentative to the next meeting
Of the council in April. 1t indi-
Gates the whole question concern
ing the island of zap may be re-
opened of Washington see fit to
send plenipotentiary to discuss
the matter.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-01
YD-CEORCE CALLS
DOWN HUN ENJOYS
When They Offer Only Seven and
Half Billion Dollars. to
Allies as Reparation
(By Associated Press)

London, March 1-Germany,
through her delegates to the con-
ference withe Allies here today,
made rcparation offers of approx
imatcly thirty billion gold mark:
or about seven and a half billion
dolarls. After German Foreign
Minister Simons had explained
the offer, Lloyd George bluntly
told the Germans, you have a
complete lack of comprehension
of the Allies position and your
own position. We will discuss a
reply and give it to you tOnor-
row."
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-01
BATTLE To DEATH
ON HAZARD Street

Hazard, Ky. Mar. Kelley
Robinson, notorious mountain
bad man" made his last stand
Swpday afternoon. Standing III
the main street of Hazard, while
a Sunday afternoon crowd parad-
ed. he fought to the death with
Deputy Sheriff John Smith and
badly wounded the officer before
he was fcllcd for the last time
with pistol bullets i'll the head. y
bullet entered Smiths hcau but
did not penetrate the brain, and
ne is cNpcctcd to live. He will
be operated on.
Robinson, who had two notch
cs ON his gun, was parOlcd sever
al months ago from the pcnitcn-
tiary while serving a life sentence
for the killing of man named
Ball, who lived at Stanton. 1t was
the second time he had been par
olcd from the pcnitcntiary while
serving sentences for homicide, 1t
is said.
Robinson came to Hazard from
Jackson and in Il drunken stupor
flashed his gun in the faces oi
several persons in the restaurant
OF his brother John Robinson, ac-
Cording to witnesses. He was
warned by officer sand threaten
cd with arrest. He was led by
the officers to the edge OF town
and told not to come back to the
the business section.
He did come back and when ap-
proavhcd by Deputy Sheriff
Smith opened fire and met
prompt response from the officer.
whose stand cannot be desdribcd
as other than herOir. With bull
lets splintcring windows of down
town stores the men fought until
Robinson was fatally wounded.
They cmpticd their guns stand
ing twenty feet apart. While his
life blood ran upon the ground
Robinson's wife and two children
arrived and stood over him as he
died. Smith was hit twice and
Robinson three times.
Smith is p years old. lie Is
married, as was Robinson, who
was 30 years odl.