Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-02 | Page 28 | Ring Takes a Whirl at the Effete East Plays Golf and Catches a Fish En Route Old Dobbin Acts as a Roving Hazard

fling Takes a Whirl at the Effete East 5P rfl A ia?s and Catches a Fish en Route & .23 Orf Dobbin Acts as a Roving Hazard t . TO THE Editor of The Tribune: Xo doubt your subscribers is wondering what Las became of me and the last time 1 was in your city the genial editor of this paper whom this letter is addressed made the remark that it was to bad that a man like 1 whose friends was legions (according to tho editor) did not keep in touch with their old friends in the different citys an1 correspond with their friends in all the different citys. So I says maybe some people has enough spare tinie to write to all their friends but personally time means money to a man like myself and if I was to even take time to drop a card once in a while to all my old pals w hy they would not be time for me to do nothing else, wile the wife and kiddies went out iu the forest and gathered Herbs and wild hurtle-berrys hurtle-berrys for the evening meal. The editor laughed heartily at the way I put it, but after he had recovered recov-ered made the remark that this paper reached ad my old friends as well as people that takes a interest in a man like I and feel like they know me though wo have never met and if I cared to keep my old friends posted on my movements and etc. why he would feel highly honored would I write iu a letter once in a while that he could publish it in this paper containing news of my family and I as well as items of interest occurring in the big world which I have the privilege of comeiug in contact with them more so than you dear people of this old town beautifull though it is. Ill AVE excepted the kindly editor's genial offer and wile I do not claim merits as a literary man the editor says that, does npt matter and if I will just write in my own breezy style (the way I talk as he expressed it) he and his readers will be more than satisfied. I will do my best which as 1 oftcu say is as much as s-ny man can do and I will half to crave your indulgents if a word of 2 of up to date slang drops into these cols, once in a wile as 1 am only trying to be natural which is where a man 'is at their best after all. Many of my friends all ready knows that T am going to move east from dear old Chi where I been located on and off for the past 10 yrs. but perhaps a few of you is curious as to how I come to make this decision. Well they was a show- name Chu Chin Chow that come to Chi last winter and the bird that owned it was name Mr. Gest and 1 night we become acquainted and he asked mo why didn't T write him a play. So T says I haven't never wrote 1 and don't know if I can or no, and wile I was makeing the experiment the wife and kiddies would half to live on memorys so when he got through laughing at the quaint way I put it ho says yes but suppose sup-pose I was to give you enough jack to keep them in fruit and cereal wile you are writeing the play so I says O. K. and he set down and wrote out a check and come to find out it was good. WELL I told about it at home and I says we must not leave this wild bird get out of our clutches but we have got to move somewheres within touching distants of him so she says what do we half to move for, as when this jack is all spent you can go down to his hotel and tell him you will write him 2 plays in the stead of 1. So I says -just because his name is Gest that is no sign he always stays in a hotel and she laughed out loud. Well I found out that he makes his home in N. Y. so Isays we would move down there, but she said she wouldu't live there as she had heard they couldn't nobody sleep aect. of the Brooklyn baseball fans acrost the river so I said we would find a quite place somewheres close so T asked a friend of mine from N. Y. where he would recommend rec-ommend us to and he said Greenwich, Conn. So I asked him where was that and he says on Long Island Sound. So I says how could that be a quite place and be so near the sound, but he said he had heard that one before or read it in a book. Well the next thing was getting rid of our lease in Chi and ther wasn't no trouble about as people is so hard up for homes that some of them has even sold their gold fish and moved into the bowl, but when wo went to Greenwich j to get a hold of a place to live we i found thev wasn 't nothing at leisure j till the middle of fall. So there we I