Show IE FIE TRUTH AT LAST ABO ABOUT UT TWO FAMOUS FAM OUS CHARACTERS OF FICTION p e Glass creator of A be e as r and a russ confesses i y that he lie studied them ELI D l 6 at first ors hand l as a aJr s a Young Lawyer Lawyer r Jr r 1 Where did lid Montague Glass discover Abe Potash and t Y t tt e they drawn from life or were w they purely creatures of the image imag 9 r r Montague a e Glass a nom de plume or a real name Y flou did he get to kno know so much about bout the cloak and suit business 0 or 1 EShe E g he really r eaIl Y k know now anythIng about it t POW How did he come to write the famous Potash stories and andt it easy ealy a at first h t to sell them A AH these and many m more ore questions questions that have been pouring in in on the theof i for or of 01 the two most t popular characters of modern fiction ever since since they attracted public p noh notice several years ago the author at last answers olo Y oto rr as his arch villain arch villain Lawyer Feldman would say c ta is a alree afree free frank and full lull confession on the part of Montague IJ 1 the he creatures of whose facile pen have attained even greater fame since they stepped from the pages of a weekly maga maga- the stage and Gentlemen Mr Montague Glass I BY MONTAGUE GLASS 9 the fie f innumerable num inquiries with which I have been bombarded the h P Potash stories s first saw tho light of or print st r repeated is whether or not Montague Glass I is my right ft fl f bit of or fiction Indeed Montague Glass is so ob- ob tom de plume as BS to have c excited various rumors with respect rP an and it h hAU has as been hinted in I Kansas City that m my name AU mich and that my father keeps a a. small store on the East Eist Fron Froc other sources comes come the tho information that I am variously lamp to my friends a. a as J right down through C D tit to ol 1 pad fluid that I 1 was formerly in the tailoring busi- busi bUSi 1 t Cu I street skeet New York or traveled for the A La Mode Suit I II 11 on Os West Twentieth street as the case ma may be bo f t f w tor r for the tha confession The surname Gla Glass s was practically 1 on me so ao to speak to for my mr father James D D. Glass was a linen f tin Iu in Manchester ir England Englan 1 where I was born thirty 8 thirty thirty-soyen eq years yeara s l it is for tor the name I need hardly ly tell you Mortimers tad and Maxwells that the tho Christian name of or my grandfather itu to Jutt plain Moses 1 Hit 11 w U p pass on to the next nat inquiry Was Yas I ever in the clo cloak k and I will not deny deny- It further than to say that 1 I have havo never A Df business but tho law business which in New York City ise Is t. t e department of ot eve every other b business In the directory from ural Iron Work down to Yarns Tarns Cottons and Woolens I with a firm Inn whose whoso practice was largely of ot tho the kind kindI I I and many of ot their clients were engaged in tho the thoi theof n It II i of ot women's omens outer garments From this source I derived of tho the cloak and suit business h U. U of Law L Latin ti ruder readers have asked Who are the tho originals of ot Potash ii f tUr T II Henry ears D D. Feldman eldman Brothers Klinger S Klein rc To all aU of ot which I make mako reply that there arent aren't any Abe Yo tie i are composite characters ha as is Henry D D. l Feldman eldman His cf quoting law Latin to his impressionable clients is not foreign c practitioners In V New Nev ca York City and as for tor his reputed Uy Ur y there aro arc few fow business men who do not regard ono as aa a veritable phenomenon U D. D F Feldman couldn't do it Abe Abc nobody could Morris dein depend de- de de de- pend in tad with the substitution of or a different ent name namo for I Henry D. D t will not rIOt be unfamiliar to many readers coutu Potash R adventures are are pure fiction but bu t lj tech e ch thought and action are arc not I mean by this that for to ten n tn Iw Ls present almost dally daily at bankruptcy meetings closing of or tl- tl property and conferences with reference to tho entering into Int Inton o ton ston on of ot There I had an opportunity to se bee reo 0 stripped to tho the skin for there mere is nothing s p tie tte e effectually peels off oft a mans man's jacket of or acquiring politeness s auert n than a good old fashioned scrap over a real estate or co coP co- co P D difficulty Cl Army r of ot these occasions Im I'm afraid I fell tell short of ot tho the cor correct ree t for or I was always alwa's much more interested in tho the manner mannor r ter of tho the dispute aud and Im I'm obliged to admit that if tho the ar arere ar- ar Ip tow grew spirited I sometimes egged it on for fOl purposes of or lIte literary 11 0 v I y 1 DIalect 3 Stories Ils ot of M this eXl experience are arc tho the Potash w stories stories h e Way y ar are not Ot dialect stories I in inho t ho tho c editorial sense The latof lat lat- of a es comprises tho the narratives stives in Hoot which Hoot Mon an and d ire Suh Buh V are aro are sprinkled as liberal as caraway seeds in bat ry rye ryo 0 i It be e noticed that with fool few eai tilt they exceptions exception when Abe and an d utter W words which conform strict strIctly I ett y to the spelling tt ts t's s tJ v M k Unabridged the Standard or tho the t Century dictionary I ro IR t fo or r k kwo any of ot these theao publications t ra n t for or this Is that the speech of oC Potash I dif dif- n u 1 t from rom the tho vernacular or of the Ignorant a New Yorker as to IA toIS C Spelling more as It Ion ot of IS not Ot so much l mIs- wo Words as 38 It Is their and inversion in sentences which which dl dialect n. n I ec l as f foreign They y continually utter such buch buchy l it t t to o tell as Take It from meMa me or LooI Look y y here you OU so something ng and there are a a. hundred and one on a In their Conversation cor which 1 can be bo faithfully without reC re- re misspelling fl C 1 I I ng a single trI f hers word or Of C C course It Jt Is true that use 0 V for f or W but r 7 canto them ar ate arc very tow few or of them who COnfound and B W With Ith P or D with T T. T According e ra to the tho American J Abe OUght to S M D say Day a I Id 10 old d reply u from me mp 1 and andU Leok 0 k y y here herc Ape I vond do dell deH OU ee you the the vc verna vernacular C UI ar of f C I 0 l dl dialectic co r tot r as nearly a as v conversation n which In the tho at all U Jews JeWIl on papers rH de deall de- de ue o mutter matter of what nativity speak peak English with r I 1 I I 1 1 frh 4 t tf f f r rI y I 1 L 7 r b 4 rt r R d dt t C How Now Stories Origin Originated Now let us take tolO up tho the next qUery How did these stories originate originate nate i don dont don't t know exactly eL what this query means b bm but it is the tho precise pro pro- else cise wording of oC tho the question put by many readers Answering it a. a as best T I can let me mc say ay firstly that they thoy originated in tho the desire to give a a. good 1001 humored portrait of ot one of or business lire life in Iii Now row York Secondly Secondly Sec Sec- I Just couldn't on oft Paper all aU that I ha tad l seen seon and heard of or Abo Abee B and Morris Morris' plea pleasant ant s. s Thirdly stories had b been en a u. source of or Income to mo me for tor many years and I th thought I saw n c marketable Commo commodity in these those Potash Potash Pot Pot- ash stor stories cs I 1 was not aken mistaken even though at first 1 greO somewhat discouraged Three ti l t r Ir I i 1 i 1 A u L 7 AP e r u L r e tv rr a. a F. F i I J I IO t r f O p t w J j A fy V dt v q qt t t n s t fi 4 t t r t. t sit f fr S t r J 1 f I vr x A S. S i is f t 4 j c t I r rY Y 3 L f c t tt t f 4 x i v 0 yA 4 f 4 t t t J i u 4 wl t i. i ly cY f Sr t J r rt t t P 4 1 SOME S ND INCIDENTs f tN POTASH T h TER E U T TE of 01 them were written before any sales were made mallo and I was was- beginning beginning begin begin- ning to think they were as as bad ers as 38 Mr possessed Mr you oU must know dealt in w woolens olens and after ater a 3 brisk fall tall season ho found himself with a n lot or of picco goods that of excellent excellent excel excel- lent quality b but t or poor o design was in vain min that ho It cut tho on them the trade trado I refused to bu buy and at len length th ho bo became desperate pIcked out six N G. G G customers Ho who under uncles ordinary circumstances were not notto to ho d witty D D. a C 0 delivery unless th the passed over the hand and received cd package the tho Suh with with ono one the i outer other To Toach each ach or of these he thirteen pieces or of the woolens shipped b by Q a letter lete accompanied ISto stating that tha the tho goods were cheap and of ot splendid quality Ho lIe called attention n to their o e extremely low price and aud a abill abill abill bill for tor twelve pieces only reckoned that when th those s customers rec received each tho the thirteen pIe pieces ces ce's of ot t goods DOds and a bill for Cor twelve only they thoy would see soo a 0 I Chance chanco to profit at his 1119 expense and andI tine the Goods I they w would therefore keep and remit tho the amount of tho the bill Dili However It wa was what Professor or James James- might call can bum psychology for tor as I one one man the stay six customers mors pursued the same course of action action They all aU wrote to telling tolling toll tell ing him the they were sorry tJ that 1 th they y wore unable to bu buy the tho dozen pieces s of ot goods goods' he had hud shipped them and arid tho the next day they re returned only twelve o or bt tho the T The o remaining one the they kept together with own bills which they filed tiled away tot for future references Also The three Potash Perl- Perl mutter stories went the rounds of or the tho thom m magazines and were much too radical t for r acceptance by the editors for tor formost most roost editors are aro conservative buyers and end mistrust nev now new styles styles' of or stories At length I sold gold two vo t vo of ot them to a magazine proprietor out in Detroit Detroit Mich D. D and l ho hH promptly ho b busted st J up upon up upon on me mc III Ills mn magazine continued under un under under un- un der new cw ma management however r and ru 1 after a correspondence which bade rodo fair to 0 cat eat up all aU the profits In post- post use ago t stamps tho the new now proprietor com corn compromised promised ed for Cor a c ridiculously low fig fig- ure uro Tho The third story appeared In tho the Scrap Book Boo nn and the fourth in Mun- Mun coya fOYS Then camo came Taking It Easy v in the Saturday Evening Post followed fol followed followed fol- fol and d lowed h by Toe The an with that the the season I Abe and M on the t Stage Tho The wide circulation of the Po Post t contributed largely largel to tho the pop popularity larit attained d by these stories and it was wa s not long IonS before tho the suggestion Uon was made that Abe Abc and Morris be put o othe on n the tho stage atago How manager after alter manager manager man man- ager nger after consultations with drama dram dram- a and taJo directors declared declare d that t. It couldn't be bc done and Tro hoit how ho howIt t d It remained for tor A A. II Woods WOOda to show t I that It could how Potash f 4 Per Perl- Perl 1 mutter realized his hb fondest hop hopes hope s and mine immediately upon Its pro pro pre lon at th the Cohan th theatre No Now New w York is 15 a matter of ot history Fro From m Continued ed on pages page's a COMMERCIAL CLUB Continued from page 1 1 e club which Is conducting publicity work to develop for him a larger business field Thus Thul the work ork of a. a Commercial club is almost unlimited Without an or organization or- or s of this nature a n city would lack Pack lack a n guide ulde In public matters matter It would miss a proper place for public entertainment entertainment enter enter- it would fall In public spirit Next to tho the city government a well i conducted Commercial club is 15 the city's most n necessary organization because itis It ItIs Itis is the city's business agent |