Show iI- xH H I I I 11 1 ooh ng f Gach ach i By SAM JR t H HI I 1 I I I t IHo In Dads Column a couple of weeks ago Uncle Bill BIU XV W. A A. to you and for tor many years years ago junior partner in pubU publication of The Record listed a few of the many men of colorful personalities who used to make The office c n a sort of regular rendezvous In the old days Some of them we remember very well Some of them we do not Among the latter La is the visitor referred to by W. W A. A as the tho electrician Strangely enough we have absolutely no of of- memory And were we're sorry The name IntrIgues us We probably would have liked him as we did old Judge Barry Frank Count Collins and others among those mentioned Dad by the tho way had another endearing pet name which we shall not repeat here for Count of whom he too was very fond Count worked wor ed at the case setting I type in The Record office on occasion 1 and on other occasions he worked about the office at carpentry as a 0 machinist electrician at and odd JobS He was a a. most versatile fellow with tools but was most at home and hap hap- happiest happiest we believe ba bard f stage In the theatre Ho was a genius at theatrical carpen- carpen tr try We believe belleve that our very dear friend and time old pal Harry H. H H Mex Hall will wUl bear us out in this recollection of the count With Harry Mont Allen and C. C T. T Charley we had the manage manage- management management ment or 01 the old Dewey theatre In the days back when and Count was our stage manager electrician and general man He conceived and executed the inca ot of the tho tilting floor loor feature in inthe th the Lewey The floor loor was mechanically leveled oU off for dances tilted for tor We accommodated both the legitimate mate o and movies at the Dewey Some of the road shows were top class too bark City was a 0 one night stand of course but some of the companies play play- playing ing Salt Lake City considered the camp profitable enough to make the run and show nights bights were really something Motion pictures those days YS were in their flickering infancy Count Collins built a projection room in the back of the house up over the lobby entrance We Installed one of the industry's most modern machines oI of the day and also to change the cIty's alternating current to direct current so that it would work In Inthe the projector we installed a a fancy tancy electrical gadget Through the the front of the building leading from the machIne room the Count cut an opening from which we projected a huge phonograph horn and at show time each night wed we'd turn on the tho music to attract not nl- nl ways successfully Too bad were there no loud speakers in those days to amplify tho sound but we had the right Idea iden anyway Miss Ida McFarlane who beCame and andI I b Mrs H Harry rry Hall and Miss Beth Witherow who became and is Mrs Airs Sam Jr were vitally tally interested in our project and used to get in free Our big first run picture was of the memorable the around age of the United states fleet That was during Theodore Roosevelt's administration tion m in 1908 It must have been one of the first of the news reels and It pack packed ed em in as we put It on with music and appropriate decorations in the pa- pa patriotic patriotic motif Cop and robber pictures and custard pie comedies were popular In InI I those days and there were many French rench films too some of them colored not I technicolor as we know it now of 01 course but film flim colored more or less natural natural- naturally naturally ly after the picture was made I Count Collins was In his element messing around the theatre and Bin BiU Collins no relation was as we recall one of our stage hands At about that time too Count super super- superIntended superintended Intended the building of a theatre at Baker Daker or LaGrande were we're not Certain which in Oregon We made no money ot at the Dewey and had folded up before snow wrecked the building Somewhere among our old snapshots is a 0 picture of George Georgo J. J J Barry men men- mentioned tione by Uncle Will It is a snap ot of oti i the exterior front of The Record office I with Ed Walker standing In the door door- doorway doorway way some small boy it t may be Lee at his side and through the window can be seen Judge Barry seated reading a newspaper Mr Barry was quIte elderly as we first t remember him with white hair and a white imperial beard which he kept well trimmed The way he shifted a quill toothpick from side to side of his mouth as he talked used to fascinate us The judge wo we believe he was from th the South always carried a small magnifying glass too and on occasion he would take tako a 0 specimen ot of ore from his pac poc- pocket ket ke scrape It a bIt with his poCket poCket- poCketknife pocketknife knife or spot it with a drop of acId of some sort and then squint at it through the tho looking glass for color He was on an Interesting talker must have had a romantic background and career Judg- Judg Judging judging ing from the tho stories he used to tell W. W A. A mentioned also Jim Safford as asa asa a frequent Record office visitor Wonder if Bill DUl remembers that Jim had a brother George who was with him in Park City in those days Just the other day we met George h here herein re reIn In Portland where he has made his home for a number of years and has as rl raised a family lie told us that he be went to Park City in 1888 and lIv lived d there for nine years Ho worked for Johnny on ona ona a hand band con concentrator for some time and later prospected around and put in his hand at varIous activities He and JIm drove stakes stake in other camps camps of Ui west westin in suc succeeding years before settling down Jim passed on some years ago ao George Georgo In his late now Li is in fairly fauly goOd health h has taken a rung fling at atthe the shipyards during the h war ar emergency And indeed we ve rem well Judge Judg henry Shields lawyer whose hose office was was' wasa across a lOSS the tho street from I Tie e record for so J i long IT I I- I The judge who wore a bit of 01 a goatee goate rather rother awed Us in our boyhood days by by hIs size his and his llis rather abrUpt manner although he wart always kind to us lie He and Dad did not always see to on political and some other eye eyo eye issues and at times used to argue quite heatedly in support of their Individual beliefs The judge was WIlS given at times to Continued on Page Five Looking Backward I Continued Irons from Page One rather picturesque profanity Not an uncommon falling In n those days nor days nor nori i these Peace to his soul I I As ono of our first memories of ot Uncle I Will Incidentally we picture him In n the tho thoI I dawns dawn's d wn's early light sitting on the edge of the bed h d that he shared with us in 1 our our old home before the fire picking picking- at ata a n mandolin It was sweet music for aboy a aboy abo boy bo to wake up to Will wm belonged to A Amandoline mandoline and arid guitar club with Dick DickI I Waters Mater and F Aubrey we wo b I nt ethers whose where names and faces tac the passing years have blurred J red Later La r WA W W. A took up tho the clarinet but there Is u some some- something something something thing about a clarinet when ono one Is just dust T r t j- j Tnt tint lent lairs Ito alts- gether soothing Long Long- Sunday walka walks in tn the canyons ons and hills with Dad and Uncle Un l BlU Biti t d bring i recollections j I The Tho 10 P ark Pk uk Record c ait mL this morning t O. Mir O. O ur t Mason Maron n 11 ruy y tM r h hr har r 1 mi m. n iii n Berkeley Call Call- CI lH fur ca 4 n rt A J. iu W n i i a. wl sal your yur Looking D o u. u d K t. l r r. r cuts C CJ J about eating my r i 1 bonk you 1011 Mrs U 7 r T M t a ch ch N tl fc e V 3 t to t fe lle fi e pi ec 1 n. V y iret iri c ii 1 ci i ura am sure sore some somo of ot the names and Incidents you mention will prove entertaining to read read- readers readers readers ers In the near future And Lee Lae relays the word that Jimmie Watson wonders If It we remember the Dirty Dozen And howl Jimmy but In truth only in a general sort of ot a way They were a rather older bunch probably than our crowd They were usually feuding as we remember with the lower enders They were a 0 venturesome crew not bad at nt heart and were they In the prime of their youth and spirit in these days day as they were In the old days they'd be among the brave lads flying our bomb bomb- bombers ers em and fighter planes over Berlin and the South Pacific and carrying on In inthe tho the hills bills and the valleys of Italy and andin andIn andin in the swamps and the jungles on the tho way to Glad Olad to t hear henr from you Jim It is nice to be remembered by an old neighbor Portland Oregon November 26 26 1943 |