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Show KB 9 J. Plerpont Morgan was disliked by 9 noWspapermon quite as much, per- haps, as' ho dislikexl newspapermen. 9 Ha was a man of big affairs and was 9 naturally tho prey of every reporter 9 who wanted 'to make good with "his B city -editor. Only the big men of the writing crowd In New York were sent 9 to interview Morgan and most of theso 9 wore sufficiently experienced to get H thoir interview through a third party I or by faking It. Morgan was a man 9 of few words, more exclusive than 9 Rockefeller and quite as unnpproach- 9 blo as tho War Lord of Germany. 9 Tho curb exchange and most of the 9 financial district In Now York ivns 9 convulsed ono aftornoon whan a pho- 9 tographer tried to snap the king of 9 finance when ho was ontorlng his of- 9 fice ono 'day. Turning toward the 9 photographor just in time to soo him 9 snap tho mochlno, Morgan was vory 9 mad. Ho chased tho poc picture 9 getter down tho stroot and smashed 9 his machine with a hoavy cane which 9 He always carried. Ho settled tho 9 damngo but spoiled the picture. He fl was hard game. 9 During tho Intorborough traction 9 fight ono of the Now York companies, M before tho amalgamation, was 1 a v hard row, financially. -It was commonly com-monly reported that Morgan held the key to the situation and was juggling tho Third avenue lino against many of the others. If Morgan let tho Third avenue have tho money it needed the stock of that company would have taken a tremendous bound as soon as it was noised about. The tip came to ono of the New York papers that tho money monarch was about to relievo the financial stringency strin-gency of tho lino and a roporter was sont to ask Morgan about It. With some difficulty he gained access to tho modest offico of the chief, and, having heard much about Morgan's attitude toward nowspapor men, grasped the bull by tho horns. Loaning Loan-ing across tho dosk tho reportor came to tho point Immediately. 4 Tho Press has Information that you aro going to lot Third avenue have money," snapped the roporter. "What about it?" Morgan was stariled at tho audacity of tho question and the way it was put, but it didn't scare anything out of 'ilm. "It bus, has It?' ho replied. "Well, what aro you going to do with tho information?" in-formation?" "I want to know if It is truo. The public Is interested in" "It's none of the public's business," barked tho financier. "Good morning." morn-ing." I happened to bo "covering" tho annual an-nual horse show in Chicago for one of the. morning papers. That is, I was detailed, to write tho action of. the show, bathe tho .story In the atmosphere atmos-phere of the Coliseum and dress It down with sufficient local color to mnko tho story readable. Among other little duties on the first night I was to Interview J. Plerpont Morgan Mor-gan who occupied ono of tho boxes. It was the first time I had seen Morgan Mor-gan and when I surveyed, from a safe distance, the hard face, the long, ugly red nose and the general uninviting unin-viting appearance of the man I attacked at-tacked the task with no small amount of tropldiatlon. Being less wise than the requirements of the job cnllod for, 1 approached the box and started Up the stabs leading to tho sacrod place. A group of prlvato detectives guarding: the box noticed my press badge and gently but firmly assured mo that Mr. Morgan's Idea of no one to soe was a newspaper man. I didn't got close. As I started down tho promenade toward a telephone to toll tho city editor how utterly impossible it would bo to Interview Morgan at tho show and suggest that ho bo seon at bis hotel afterwards, I ran into Bennett Ben-nett Bonnott was employed by my paper to got pictures. Ho was never known to wr''o a story. When pictures pic-tures wero needed Bonnott was sent for them. Pictures that were easy to got wore procured by ordinary reporters. report-ers. I recall that when Marshall Field was married Bennett went to -b.la Prairie avenuo mansion and came 9 away with an armload of portraits of 9 both fumilies while a group of cnvlouo 9 icportcrs and photographers stood on 9 the corner waiting for a chance to got H a snapshot. H Bonnott told mo that ho had been H sent to got picture's 'of two of th. H Kentucky Castlcmfms who wero 9 among the beauties at tho show and H whoso family had entorod a big1 jH string of hotses. He had boon prom- H ised the pictuios and had to got them fmW after the show at tho hotol. Until H that time he had nothing much to do WKmu Hold of falling to got Morgan and ho H knew what It meant to miss an in- H tervlcw as Important as that. ' "Come with mo," says" Bennett. H We went to ono of tho Wabash ave- 9 nue pawn shops nonr tho Coliseum 9 whore Bennett engaged an evening 9 suit. Between us Ave dug up enough 9 money to Tent the suit and top hat, 9 buy a tfhlrt, collar and tie and rent ffl the pearl studs. In the back room of Ij9 Unclo's shop Bennett drossed. The lH transformation made md fool proud ofi 9 my association with so dignified a HI porsonago. On tho way back to the 9 Collsoum Bonnott got a shino and H laid his plans for tho captuor of the H fortress of finance. I wqiit with him Wm to tho Morgan box. I was to stanti WM below the box so that my head would M be about on a lovol-wlth Morgan' i foot. Bennett was to talk sufficient- M ly loud for mo to hoar ovorythliiR pfl that was said. Just boforo Bennett K9 loft me I noticed his vest and trous- M ers didn't got along well together, the H result bolng a strip of white between. WM Bennett had too much paunch. WM Instead of trying to entor tho Mor- H gan bo, ho pasged up tho aisle a WM ways and strutted down. Ho was "i H grand sight. Ho carried himself like 9 a piinco and looked at the brllliani 9 H tolony of millionaires and their ladies Hj rs though they were of the common K herd. Every one who saw him turned H o look nt him as he passed and .won H dered what dignified gentleman, -ho H -was. He looked like money and I H -know he didn't have thirty cents jn H Lhis clothes. Next to the Morgan box HJ was that of Mr. -Moore who was pros- H ident, I believe, of one of the big H 'railroads at that 'time. Ho was ono H of the principal entries at the show. H HVloore wns down in tho stables with K most of his party and tho box was Hj comparatively ompty at tho time. H Bennett turned Into the box and H seemed so much a,t home that the H usher didn't daro ask him his right H .to enter. Ho swept down to the seat H nearest Air. Morgan who sat a few H .feet away beyond tho railing. As I Hj saw Bennett sit down he looked at me H In a borud sort of way and from his H seat among tho Vanderbllts and the H Goulds and the Chatfield-Chatfieid H Taylors and others he seomod posl- H .tivoly annoyed at tho vulgar wonder- H ment of the passing crowd in the H promenade a few feet below him. H leasing on tho rail that separated H him from Morgan and addressing that H gentleman- as though ho had known. H him all his life, Bonnott ongagod him H In oonvorsation about the .show and H the crowds and tho horses, and ho on. H "Morgan looked him over two orthree H times wonrdoning whoro thoy had mot H before. Ho wasnft sure that ho didn't H know him, so ho gave Bonnott the B benefit of tho doubt, sinco ho was in H a vary proper box and in vory tidy H company. The interview lagged for H Lennett had run out of questions and H had forgotten two or three that I H had poaiod him on, but he turned and H taw tho approach of Mr. Moore and H his party returning from the stables. H Bennett had just time to excuse him- H self and unake his getaway. In tho H , liark Vnmn nf tha noivnahnn wVillo H Bennett was coming back to earth, H .1 framed the Interview which got by H .the city editor in good shape. HH Georgo W. Perkins hoard that story H rot long afterward and told Morgan H about it. The both had u good laugh. H H Chief of Police Grant betook him-H him-H ,tlf to ,Ogden Inst Sunday where ho H delivered an address to the Sunday H Night club on "A Clean City." Ho Hl admitted that he was meeting with Bi , success in his efforts to mlnimlee vice H and liquor selling In Salt Lake. He H said that immorality was practiced in H roominghouses and in -the residents residen-ts tsal section since the closing of tho Hb segregated district, and that young H buys and girlp bought liquor In cafes H after midnight. jH Chief Grant told the Ogden people H . tha:t there is a Secret Betterment H .league In Salt Lake composed of spot- H ters of wham the general public wots H not, and that this league is backing H .him up in his work. D "Tiiere Is only one bottle of beer H .sold in Salt Luke now y.i'.re vhere H were fen when I took office," said the H .chief. "If tht foundations of Salt H Lake are ice, 1 -w ill tear them down. H ,3 have the backing of the commis- H t-ioners in this fight and they have H gien me as much authority as If I H owned the city and I um going to clean it up. I have a standing offer cf $100 for any one who will find a house of ill fame in Salt Lake that contains as many as five inmates. I am worried by tho boot legging that is going on, but I am handicapped because tho peoplo know jny sleuths and I cannot get private citizens to bo spotters. I am in favor of stnte-wldo stnte-wldo prohibition, and if tho state was dry I would not have to increase the polico force to shut off the bootlegging." boot-legging." Grant's- talk was much longer than that, but the essential points are covered cov-ered here. After he had aid the cafes of the -city were an abomination, abomina-tion, Tom Browning, former chief of police of Ogdon, asked the Salt Lake chief how ho controlled tho sale of liquor after midnight in -Salt Lake cafos. Grant said ho controlled It after midnight the same as he con-ti'ollod con-ti'ollod It before. "Is there a betterment league In Salt Lake," asked Browning. "Tnore Is," replied Grant, "but we ore keeping it in the background." "I asked that question," said the former hief of Ogden, ' because there waa one in Ogden and it was disbanded disband-ed because it couldn't handle tho situation situ-ation hore." Chief Grant didn't know tho identity of hie questionor. "Why not a mop cop? A spasmodic spas-modic offort to put a stop to tho practice prac-tice of expectorating on tho sidewalks Is made every ll-ttlo while, but the practice isn't stoppod. Here is a suggestion sug-gestion for the polico chief: Equip your downtown patrolmen with small mops. When they catch a spitter ax ake him mop it up or go to jail. The humiliation of mopping up a portion of the sidewalk will soon put a stop tc the practice of spitting. All of tho daily papers missed ft tremendously big story this week. Rio Grande train No. 1 came In on time I When Dan McCoy quit being man-ngor man-ngor of tho Empress hore to attach .his substantial self with the Sullivan & Considlne house In Kansas City, the weather was very bad, the smoke nuisance was at its height, the show business wasn't flourishing over-much; and these, with a few others, sent MoCoy away from JSion with a very bad taste in his mouth. He waa frank to state that, under tho circumstances circum-stances above mentioned as attending attend-ing his farewell, he didn't like Salt Lake at all, H met Gene Owen and imparted to him a few smelted sentiments sen-timents concerning our fair city. McCoy was so busy with his discourse dis-course about the. disadvantages of a fat man living In Utah that he nearly missed his train. Not long after he had become pleasantly situated at Kansas City, McCoy received a big express package charges collect. Always suspicious of the practical joke, McCoy refused to pay for the shipment until he saw .the name of Powers .and .MarJoneaux it one orner, as shippers. The name added a tcuch of genuineness to the shipment and McCoy paid the charges a ten case note being obliterated by the transaction. Inside the box McCoy found divers and sundry tracts, printed in many la-arguagos, booklets, pamphlets, brochures, bro-chures, time tables, hotel folders, church publications, tho pictures of the Temple all containing favorable mention of Salt Lnke. Gono Owen didn't stop there. Ho not only gatn-ered gatn-ered all tho literature ho onuld find, ' but he dug up city directories of the past tea years, telephone books, etc., and when lio came to seal up tho paok-ngo paok-ngo ho put in ten pounds of load for good measure. "Vhon'-ho goes east ho plans to miss Kansas City. Tho TIerald-Republlcan observes , that Vermont has abandoned Its September Sep-tember elections and then asks: "What will the country do now for a political barometer?" Vermont, according ac-cording to the returns of tho last election, elec-tion, lost all right to be called a barometer of national politics, and that may be the reason for Its resignation resigna-tion from the job. It is rolated of David Grayson, who writes "Adventures In Contentment" and some other noteworthy things, that In his wanderings he reached a farmhouse about sundown and asked for food and lodging. He agreed, as was his habit, to work for what he received. He ate a hearty supper and was piloted to the hay loft in the barn where he was to spend the nlfeht. Being tired he fell asleep and slept ery scundly. It was three o'clock In the morning when the farmer shook Graysol and told him to got up. "We are waiting breakfast for you," said tho farmer. Grayson rubbed his eyes. Tho darkness was opprossivo. Instead of seeing the first rays of tho morning sun, Grayson saw nothing. "Why, it's still night," he said. "Well," ropliod tho farmer, "we must gei. in tho oats shurry up." "Toll mo," said Grayson, "are those oats tamo or wild?" "Why, tamo oats, of course." "Thon what is your Idea of sneaking sneak-ing up on thorn in tho night?" |