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Show i c c.:z cr ::ui ' .z : g o . O The world pays for your f "orts in O O base coin, tut later you i".l fnd y O thRt it is the only kind it has to, a rive. i 303SCCeDOCSO3OCu ria. I didn't want to speak there I had been saying unkind things in the Fhil-istine Fhil-istine about the 'Waldorf-Astoria folks. But the Major went ahead and made arrangements. I expected to be mobbed. "But Mr. Boldt, the manager of the hotel, had placed a suite of rooms- at my disposal without money and without with-out price. He treated me most cordially; cordial-ly; never referred to the outrageous things I had said about his tavern; assured as-sured me that he enjoyed my writings, and told of the pleasure he had in welcoming wel-coming me. Thus did he heap hot cinders on my occiput. Turned Away Hundreds. . "The Astor gallery seats 800 people, j Maj. Pond had packed in 900 at $1 each 300 were turned away. After the lecture lec-ture the Major awaited me in an ante-: ante-: room, fell on my neck and rained Pond's Extract v down my back, crying: cry-ing: - ' " Oh! oh! oh! Why didn't we charge them $2 apiecer . "The next move was to make a tour of the . principal . cities, under Maj. Pond's- management Neither one of us lost money. . ."Lecturing is hard work; dt makes prodigious .demands on one's vitality, and since I am told - we are soing through life for the last time, -I am through with public speaklny as a bus-' iness."'" -. Y -' ' " . ': --. 4 J ' k . . . . ! .1 ... j J il ihJ . . '.' ?.r2, the r.C, : 3 lecturer of arriyed in the city thisi ' '- T 1 reri-tered at the Knuts-. Knuts-. 1 1. vill lecture at the Theater 1 : .: rrow ni'.t for the Press club, and f " -vir.z the lecture, an informal re-r re-r ; ja in hU honor will be given at the CcmrrfTcial club. 'Tu'otard Is an eccentric character, p'vl Jx-'r.s the part. He wears a huge ' .r. :.xck sombrero under which Is a heavy mat cf black hair falling down almost Slo the t Moulders. His necktie is of the V flowing variety and is tied under a f rather low, - rolling collar in a mon-y mon-y strous double bow. Hia face Is brown from much outdoor living. His firm, ,' clean- haven chin , indicates force and V dete rmination, but the eyes are kindly, and the man seems to exude cheerfulness. cheerful-ness. How Tie Ees'an Lecturing. ;. "How did I happen- to drift Into the lecture field?" said Hubbard, In" re-rponse re-rponse to a query" from a Telegram reporter. re-porter. "Well, it Just came about naturally, nat-urally, through the-work.of the Hoy-. Hoy-. croft shop. After we had published a few books and made some other things, the public wanted to know about it. What are you folks doing out there In " that buckwheat town? they asked. ' '? "Since my twentieth year I have had one eye on the histrionic stage. I could talk in public a bit, had made political speeches, ' given entertainments in cross-roads schoolhouses, made temperance tem-perance harangues, was always called1 up to introduce the speaker of the evening, even-ing, and several times had given readings read-ings from my own amusing works for the modest stipend of ten dollars and keep. I would have taken the lecture platform had it not been nailed down. . "In January, 1837, I spoke at the Anna An-na Morgan School of Expression, on Miss Morgan's Invitation, on The Roy- crofters.' The next month I spoke at the Emerson College of Oratory on Expression Thro Work. Then at the Curry School of Expression, at Tuft's . college, the Harvard Union and the Twentieth Century club of Boston all free, of course. - Fifty-Dollar Pee Sank Bobbery. ' "Shortly after, a telegram came from May Wright Sewelk saying- the Contemporary Con-temporary club-of Indianapolis wanted v me to speak for them fee, $50. It was i live first time I had ever been offered fiore than 115 for a lecture. ; It ; was rank robbery, but I gave the lecture, V and received the $50 under mental pro- Vest- - - - . - "Not so very long after, my friend,) ' Maj. Pond. -wanted to. book- me on a J partnership deal at the Waldorf -Asto- |