The Washington herald., 1922-01-01
MTNTYRE TELLS
OF CHARACTER IN
POKER CARTOONS
How Ewing Gallo W ay
Found He Could Get
Paid for Travelling.
BY o. o. MCINTYRE

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-The fell
low in the poker cartoons who lie
called "Gal"-if you follow Briggs
and Webster. you'll know him--is
Ewing Galloway. 3 one gallused
dilletante from the wilds of Ken
lucky. Galloway has roof bun
galow, quite the fashion these days.
hard by Delmonico's restaurant.
He cuts his hair twice a year. buys
his clothes from a London tailor.
globe trots every now and then and
plays penny ante poker any time it
Is suggested.
This whole story about Galloway
might be hung on shanks ana
wrists. In a little village in Hem
derson County, KY, he was left to
shift for himself quite early in life.
From the age of 10 up to l6 he got
all his change doing odd jobs for
people in the village-whitewash
fences. helping farmers in the rush
season, etc.
He was never able to save enough
to buy a suit OF store clothes, and
his father would only buy him one
every two years. He grew like a
spris of asparagus, and six months
after he got a new suit his sleeves
would be several inches too short.
Pants likewise. After wearing a
suit more than year he would
have four inches of exposed wrist
and his pants would be above his
shoe tops.
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the cracks in his chapped wrists.
His shanks were even more embar-
RAISING than his exposure OF fore
arm. The, outgrown trousers were
narrow, and he wore shoes larger
than those he wears now-the pres
ent size being ILL., His boyhood
consisted of jack-rabbit leaps to
get out of the way when he saw
people coming.
To see him now ordering from a
French menu, wearing a high sith
hat, the latest thing in fur over
coats, sitting in boxes at the opera
and hobnobbing with the artists and
writer's of distinction-well, II Is
almost impossible to imagine that II
one time he worked one whole sum-
mer for quarter and shot the
works in the Henderson Depot Res
taurant for a filling meal
Things happen like that in rear
life and in Horatio Alger books.
Galloway studied law and was ad-
mitted to the bar. He was elected
city prosecutor and he also edited
the village weekly, going about with
pad and pencil for local jottings."
Then one day-with an Internal
bang-the idea came to him that
Henderson County was not the
whole earth. There were other
places. So he came to New York
and took a course at Columbia.
His health failed and he went 20
Louisville to work as a reporter.
year, but the city didn't look the
same, SO he made leisurely trip
to California, taking photographs
en- route and sending them back TO
New York newspapers. The pic
lures were SO good that he began to
get daily checks.
He had found the life-travel and
Set paid for II. He went to Homo
lulu. then on to the Orient, living
in all of the principal cities of China
and Japan. All the time he was
sending back photographs. In one
year he covered $4,000 miles and had
more money than he had ever had
before and had not even picked a
single pocket.
Golfers cabled for him to come
to them as art editor. Later he
went to the Literary Digest and
wrote ponderous editorials by day
and played penny-ante poker by
night. Then he became an export
news photographer.
Today in all parts of the world
you see photographs copyrighted
by Galloway" That Is the same
Ewing Galloway who wasn't able to
play with the other boys in Hen
derson County, KY. because he lived
across the railroad tracks and never
had any shoes or anything.