Show 1 S Labor LObor of n a Herbert Howe Howo Dna Bon 2 croft Has Hns Abandoned Fits Work u h h h mt I IH J H howe hlf has lived to toJ J pee literary labor ot of iii hi life lite mutIlated restore tal An toola thle thief stole tole tim tho plates of oC nine of prInte printed pages rep anti and research carh rP ld to a 8 junkman for or od aid met I IT T t Tk l hu tea tew pr par tI the history of at fn ral to or ory ot out time the theO L O oooo O I It hu huso I Ai I the an and sue aue literary ot of the tho d that le IW i retired from hi luls labors for forever ever 11 I Ia offering nG hl huts priceless library Cr fr sale alp at R 1 sacrifice Such I is th the havo havoc wrought b by I a l fering teamster wih wIth n a for Cor beer f Mr hu volumes of history Th bol bookS make more than 30 of at finely matter II lie has hall worked for Cor years lIke Uke an insect In a coral rl reef toiling as a tel SW men have eVer ver tole toiled ero before le lie has probably mol lii than lIen an any other writer of hla hi da day not excepting hi lam kl George the tail of t all mell hl huas limIted hi his to Sr r h ot of North Amer AmerI I I J j I Jr I rum time Isthmus of Dar DarI I I tl n S Ih t a of frigid At 1 I I I 1 brain and am have been out oUI over Ua task which ht he 18 ha fr years n t I L 1101 0 thief hi iii partly devir i I 1 I lb J I ml II t r f a lifetIme I It 1 t t I prInt In Inu tho UI u III p t f 1 l l t I thur th 11 II t a un oIl ta S of f c course entirely nel new plates plate j i iii J I I Vt t U are arc cast t involves I treat rot labor and laugh inse anti and Air Jit not to reprint Ihl these vol 01 re Je hes even concluded to get rid it t his splendid library of oC more then than ret 80 0 bk books And amid 1 t Its kind In the world Th These hok books to one topic hi hits tor tory of AmericA tile the h II Is treated In the historical works h the author has published he to 10 relate Mr Dancroft has money out of literary pursuits In itself Is to make mako Jil the historians story an interesting on one 1 I Ic Is is amassed moro more wealth his than Ihan any other othmer hiving nu an thoI thor The Thc sum ur of oC his fortune runs up UI ito Into Hn 11 hiss Produced his works however not entirely through his own efort effOrts In the short life or of a man it Would I be impossible to dO do Sl so much I wIthout Hut But h he his flu been the creating power for t a staff tar of Writers brought whose los efforts hil his thIrty nIne lume hae have been When Air Ir the first Volumes or of hil hits lie he found culty uly In getting publishers to take up the vork ork rn an their own reton After nuchi hp hue effected In arm or nr with a NI New York firm rm whereby they undertook to the work corks tO III II Printed el and bound at his own on e Con lii In hImself WAS wim not Inck lacking 8 the author chanced tu to the capital he brought r out hula his own ks Time The printing wap done llano In lion where the author owned I a nCI nasa large bk book store and Meeting wih wIth great success realized R a profit on hits hll lut first bk book and found In thAt tart fact to lont with Ith larger undertakings In tl tl the COun course of VAt vast labors ext ever 1 ma many I ur tr russ aU Ile tue NewYork New York World In 11 its o cm Of d tunes he J In an tl J fi brn consisting on of 2555 PricelesS manuscripts and luuk books For many of oe manuscripts antI and bok books t hit paid hugh figures At hi he has given en 10 than for Cor on one Helln that It would li be impossible for Cor one man to put to ro good us use all t the l material hue he lied had collected em played I a large force ot it his 11 pay rl roll averaging for marl many ears bout about Alone 0 Ir month for Cor lerr literary assistance I Ills writers by y have hAt pruce produced mal bok treating the tol foi lowing subjects The Nate Native Races Central America Mexico Cl Call Time The Northwest Coast Alas k ke Oregon and British Columbia Each gach volume consists or of abut about SOD pages 0 clo cIol matter matterA A After time type 11 Set It up for time tilt vol 01 ames umea were made madl antI and on print printing ing oft art a few sets of the books book these IliA tH ert Q WRY away carefully In especially prepared boxes The Phe box boxes wet then la In the lb of at atthe the buIldIng belonging to the III history tor In San Mr Ir decided to publIsh It larger larer number of oC complete Sets etl of huls works lIe Rave gave orders for tor time the printing ot of sets Itt Each set Ht would tell Len tor man than lieu S It Will waa nil all enormous publishing order more than j The phate es were bro brought up from the hue basement of oC time the Market Street t t and preparations were made for tart start III hug the printing And nd A was wa made Complete sets of plates for tor certain ot of tb the volume were This meant that the order could not hot be ox ted Air Ir received In this cry ory one of at the shock of oC his hits Ufe Though a man mall suf at indomitable courage 1100 had beel man A severe etre trial It WS more than he could beAr tu to think that one of at the t projects Of 01 hi hits lIfe lite could never Aner he be real land It take yea to prepare new plates and print ne books book lie hll lii proJect An investigation Wat set seton on tnt to 0 dIscover what hall hd bt come become ot of th At AI length th the mystery wee cleared A ung teamster connected with one olle of th delivery dellery wagons list tIme thE plates I For or many months previous to th the discover he limit hAd been In the habit of at taking from Crom the building boxes of metal plat plates These Thoe he carried to tn the 1 junk shep anti oid for a 1 few dollars ati metal I lie dIsposed ot of about nine nille boxes ot of I In Iii this way each eath containing tho ho complete sets te for tor IL a volume Time ha huts ever been a 1 man of oC Its Ill at one once determIned upon hits course e ot of action No more set Ht fit of hIs books book be brought out for it his hili copyrIghts o still hue to lo run At Al thus th end nd of that time lime he would hl no neeti d for tor plates personally unless h his II life Were Werf to the tenn cnn I at 1 lof years The ha haj now retired to hi his CArOl lands In the vicinity nf ft San Cal al AIl aims hap hns to from Curl her labor during hi hIs lifetime I All As the library whir he spent years yearA j In I Ii now o of sue no direct tine tiN tn Ii him hI he has hall to lo dispose of at It to the highest instructing till hil n agents ho however ver to I accept t less IffS than NW Th Le a with the collection state that figure does not stand for Cor of lIp Its value alue |