The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-11
LIVES OF GREAT
FIND ECHO HERE
But Occupations Are Diff
ferent From Those Who
Live in History
3 NAMED WASHINGTON
Presidents, Authors, Pugilists
and Others Have Tulsa
Namesakes

Names quoth a wise one not long
ago are similar to history. A series
Of repetitions.
Perhape so. In fact. a hasty look
through the city directory y. ives the
point But the bearers OF famous
names today are after the dollar in
FAR different lines than did those
who now live only in history.
4 A study of the Tulsa city directory
4 regards celebrated names in COM
mon IL a revelation. At least IL fur
ther clinches Tulsa's reputation as
havnc cosmopolitan population.
And london and Paris haven't a
thing on the oil capital Someone,
in looking through the directory of
the English metropolis discovered
that sebastian Bach is today trading
horses John Milton selling grocer
les: william Shakespeare tailor
and Homer a lamplighter In gay
Farce Dumas is selling furniture;
beauty parlor attendants live as
Charlemagne and Lamartine while
Justintdn is n baker.
Tulsa, too, is the home of many
shining marks who are hiding under
a bushcl. AS presidential timber
there is George Washington. He is
here at least three times acting in
the capacity of day laborer. porter
and retired. Thomas jefferson is
also a laborer, though we don't know
his politics. William Henry Harrison
.poses as an electriction and Franklin
Pierce is passing away time as
bookkeeper. Andrew Johnson is
driving a truck and james Polk
spends his time as a "tooldresser" in
the oil fields. James Garfield has
retired; l.. S, Grant has quit the army
for the schoolroom and William Nc
Kinl6y ia n barber. There Is also
a Roosevelt who works in the oil
fields and a W. Wilson. 1t may be
Woodrow. is n police officer.
Politics. historical events and the
like are we'll represented today. John
Hancock wields the pick and shovel:
Henry clay is a section foreman and
Patrick Henry sells automobile\ ac-
cessores. Ber Franklin Is a cloth
ing salesman' William Penn is
clerk; Ben Butler is section hand
and Wade Hampton is a Jack OF all
trades. Alexander II hilton has/re-
tired and Aaron r Is a TENT
maker. Benedict Arnold is a black
smith. Tom J.. johnson is a huckster
and Roscoe Conkling is postal en-
ploye
The stars of literature live today
as laborers, shoemakers. policemen
and clerks. Henry Watterson is a
painter; James Lane Allen is labs.
'borer; Henry James an elevator OPP
orator; w. Z. Henley. attorney; Ma
rion Crawford operates a moving
picture machine; Clyde Fitch is
refinery worker; ]. Gordon Bennett
Is a clothing clerk; Edwin Markham
is police officer; Lew Wallace
works in a shoeshop: kongfellow has
entered the ranks of the rrocery
clerks and Emerson sells shoes.
The hemped arena has as its rep
resentatives Jack johnson. laundry
worker; James Corbett, porter; Fred
Fulton, day laborer and grocer;
Sullivan is a postal clerk and a Ben
jamin Leonard gives his occupation
as retired farmer.
Among the famous ones of stage
and screen was found Edwin Booth
as teamster: Julia Marlowe, stenog-
rapher; John Mccormack, street car
conductor; Clara Morris, telephone
operator; Harold Lloyd, junk dealer
Pearl White. seamstress.
The financial guns of the country
were entirely neglected but among
others were found the following:
jefferson Davis. high school Student;
Robert f, Lee, laborer; Robert Full
ton, barber; James NJ. Cox. grocery
clerk; John Wesley, cook, Paul
Jones his first name may be John,
l oil field worker: LELAND Stanford
taxi driver. and Miles Standish is a
travelling salesman.