Show ONLY ONE OPIE ANn AND HE IS HERE His Ris Last Name Is Read Bead and Hes Ees Known as a Story StoryTeller StoryTeller Teller LECTURES IN SALT LAKE A AND D HAS RECEPTION AT THE PRESS CLUB When a man can make a casehardened casehardened ened crowd such as the regulars around the Press club of Chicago a crowd that has been hearing good storIes and tell telI lug them since before the big lire fire sit it up and listen for hours on end that man Is a storyteller Ople Opie Read does that as often as he gets back to Chicago from his long lecture tours and every time he goes In he is load loaded d wIth new yarns Mr lIr Read arrived in Salt Lake yesterday morning and lee lec lectured at Barratt hall hail last night In the meanwhile he went about absorbing materIal for more stories Time has not only not dried dred the well wellsprings springs of kindly humor in Opie Real Read RealS Reali S i v S ft S t I I Read I It has Increased their flow A friend said to him yesterday morning I Ople Opie time has been mighty might good to you His reply was True true and yet time has no busIness being good to me I been good to time The Th truth is I have killed it Mr Read Was far too modest to tell the real truth In the gentle art of killing time he has few equals and no superiors but he never sacrifices it for his own benefit Always it is for the entertainment of somebody else Says He Li Likes kes W West e t Do you know he said yesterday mornings morning I like the west I like this part of the west especially so much that Id like to take it away with me hIs eyes twinkled though his mouth was was mighty hard to make me believe those moun the hills just north of the forty miles away They looked nearer than that some somehow somehow how howIt howIt It has bas been a long long time since Ople Opie Read first began making other people merry He wandered through Kentucky and Tennessee as a tramp printer more years ago than he cares to remember Often he was cold often hungry but he never and God for It lost his ability to see the brighter side of life Ufe and to put that brighter side before others Once he tramped into a little Ten Tennessee Tennessee town tired and just as the sun sun was setting The glow was magnificent Mr Ir Read struck with the beauty of the scene forgot his hunger long enough to sit down and write a description of the sunset He sent the story to the New York Sun with instructions that if it was used a check was to be for forwarded forwarded warded to him at Gallatin whIch he expected to reach at sonic some period in his wandering A month later he ac actually did rea reach h Gallatin Once more he was hungry and footsore and penni penniless penniless less He bethought him of the Sun story and visited the postoffice There ho he found a letter with a check for tor 12 enclosed and a request for more of the same sort of stuff With some difficulty difficulty culty he got the check cashed and then hurried toward the nearest restaurant As he was about to enter he saw a man looking In from the sIdewalk Hungry asked Mr Read Bead Yes and broke was the reply Well so am I hungry but Im not nol broke rm Im rIch Ive got 12 Come Comein in and eat And accordIng to the man who telLs the story the two actually ate 12 worth of ham and eggs HIt on Arkansas Traveler Ople Opie Read Bead attained his first real prominence through his bis brilliant work for the Arkansas Traveler His wit and humor published in that paper at attracted wIde attention and were gener generally ally aIly copied It was while he was run running fling ning the Traveler that he wrote a let letter letter ter to a general passenger agent ask asking asking ing for a pass to a town about a hun hundred hundred dred miles away The railroad man turned the letter over and wrote on the back Never heard of your paper be bc before fore Where does It circulate And Ople Opie came back at hIm In this way The Traveler goes all over the world and Im having a hard time tryIng to keep It from going to hell helI helIA hellA A few days later Ople Opie found in his box at the postoffice an envelope bear mg the imprint of the railroad He tore it open and found two annual passes one good for transportation and andone andone one for all meals on the dining cars carsI I did considerable traveling on that road after that says Mr Read Bead Preaches Gospel of Sunshine So this genial man is goIng through the world preaching the gospel of sun sunshine sunshine shine and practicIng It He went to a recital given in his honor by J 3 J Mc McClellan Clellan yesterday afternoon at the tabernacle and before and afterward he was chaperoned about the city b by frends In the evening Mr Read gave his lecture In Barratt hall hail A large audience greeted him laughed with him and enjoyed to the uttermost his more serious moments moment In his maner of delivery Mr Read is unconventional He does up to talk Instead be sits Ina In a 1 and converses with his audIence as though he were at home talking with the friends of a lifetime Last nights audience seemed to enjoy being taken into the speakers confidence and the general expression was that no more enjoyable lecture had ever been heard in Salt Lake City A reception was given to Mr Read at the Press club at the close of his lecture and many frIends of the club and the lecturer took advantage of the opportunity to meet him He leaves this afternoon for tor Colorado continuing |