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Show Three Utah Legislature Leaders Recall Days When They Sold Newspapers on City Streets i ,, , . , a. 11 ' K ;' GORDON VYiXrQELAND He Thought It Tina Influence DR. HERBERT B, MAW He Went to the First Dinner WARWICK C. LAMOKKAl X Ha ricked the Mewa of tne Day .. Three leaders in Utah's legislature retold Incidents Wednesday of tha early days of their lives, when they began business careers 'hawking" newspapers on Salt Laka City streets. Dr. Herbert B. Maw, president of Lamoreaux, chairman of tha mining min-ing and smelting committee of the upper house, and Representative Gordon Weggeland, chairman of the important house appropriations committee, earned their first money selling The Telegram on corners. "I had the honor of attending the first dinner given by Russel L. Tracy, godfather of Salt Lake City's newsboys, and wa raised such a roughhouse I have wondered since why he ever gave another," said Dr. Maw. "There were some rough boys selling papers thoee days and when some of the bullies tried to steal tha pie from the others, wa nearly wrecked Bond's restsurant, where the psrty was being held. The police po-lice hsd to come to keep order." Dr. Mow sold papers at the corner cor-ner of Second South and Main streets for five years "Having to pick out the most important im-portant news of the day to shout to my customers taught ma ta observe ob-serve carefully happenings, and aver since I have been Interested lo civic affairs," Senator Lamoreaux aaid. It was my first experience in business, and I learned a lot about credit and the handling of money. I soon learned there were some persons per-sons I could trust and others I could not, much to my sorrow at times." Representative Weggeland "hawked" Telegrams st the Denver st Rio Grande Western railway depot de-pot for aeven years, graduating to a position in a local bank. "Charles McGlllis, our circulation manager, and Mr. Tracy both Insisted In-sisted we should be thrifty and good hustlers." Mr. Weggeland said. "That was tha finest influence on my life." |