St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 11, 1909

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No. 1 and 2 are “reat busy’’ in Today’s Wants

ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1909.

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¢eoe - | Was 28 Years on the Road, Is a Keen Observer, Knows Sanitation and With It All, Is a Life- - Long Republican. 4 VAST there! ; A sail is in sight for the buffeted, storm- ‘oa tossed traveler. See the cwell of the nine- t sheet which looms up in the offing. E: | £11 hands on deck to salute Rear Admiral on and his mosquito fleet. ‘To L. is the handle tothe Admiral’s name a a he has just been put in command of the hotel quadron of Missouri. Yhat’s that, you say? Hotels don’t sail? Well,

' one, deat you? Besides, Rear Admiral Johnson ‘ can | sail anything. He even sailed the Huntress; agship of the Missouri Naval Reserves.. | taving done that, why can’t he sail a hotel, or He tells you proudly that he fought with Far- t and Porter, so what chance will any Bon!- er e or, for that matter, any first-class fighting dy, have against him when he gets busy in conning tower? : Ze says he's going to make the hotels and ; ing houses of Missouri the models of the id or forfeit his reputation as a disciplinarian. ’s pretty far inland fo? naval operations, but ral Johnson has two strings to his bow. ‘He B, a it were, an amphibious warrior. He is a pldier as well as a sallor, and if his military title ere | ee ene eral be wrt " RICHMOND, tnd, July 10.—The police Dvesasn ina, July 0.— } department ts trying to fix the identity An unusual circumstance connected with will soon be appointed to the same rank on the staff of Gov. Hadley. , Col. Countem Johnson has one besetting fear. “Please, please,” he said, “don’t belittle my new position as'Hotel Inspector. I tell you, sir, phis is a serious matter. It isn’t merely a question of nine-foot bed sheets. I, sir, will be charged with maintaining sanitary conditions in the hotels and boarding houses of Missouri, and I tell you, sir, I am going to do it. “Tt will. be no sinecure for me. ' I won’t let it ‘be. I would resign this minute if I tnought there was a popular impression that I was merely hold- ing a political job. Telle the Governor of His Three Qualifications for the Job. “In my application to Gov. Hadley I pointed ‘first to my knowledge of fire apparatus, next to my knowledge of sanitation, and lastly, mind you, to the fact that I had always been a Re- publican. “I shall not personally do the inspecting, you understand. That work will be left for my four deputies. I shall maintain general supervision over them and look after the conduct of my office, which probably will be in Jefferson City. “T might say that I was one of the first to see the need for a position such as the one to which I have just been appointed. I helped to draw up the bill creating it.” Col. Johnson says that his knowledge of what most hotels lack comes of his 28 years’ experience as a traveling salesman. ° N that period aE TIMES. Looked in vain for clean spot on roller Ee ee Found yellow pounery soap on wash- BR oc neh iw ttoecdass sccceseccene £6018 . Detected waiter’s thumb in consomme, 18,412 Suspected waiter’s thumb had been in CONSGOMIMCG «Fs cescescs “POP eecca eens 48,314 Found wrong baggage in his room..... 12,020 Was kept awake by thumping of radi- BLOF DAPOD oo cn csserevenccccnsacsae 17,068 Rang for ice water and didn’t get it... 13,201 Left call, but wasn’t called..,........ 29,010 Soedoetoctoatoete toeteetoetoetonds eate & » —- . . AIR er REI AENEID ER: ROR IET SB. 7. er ;

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you are taking St. Louis off the map, aero- nautically; that you are driving A. B. Lam- bert, Stoney Von Phul and the Rumsey boys to take their recreation eisewhere, and that you are destroying our last hope of seeing Bud Dozier go up? Shall the people of St. Louls submit to this, and even beg for it as a favor? No, eleven hundred times no! Not on your cor- poration income tax! Perish the thought! Forget it! MAY COMPETE WITH BOATS ) ad FOR EXCURSION BUSINESS. | UT whether the Captain tries _oratorical B flights or not, he expects to add one or two a week to his record of flights in his big wicker basket. He will not try to get the Sunday school excursion business away from the steamboat people this year, but just wait, he

Quebec put hinr in the John Wie class n | ont a few dozen miles behind the actual record of tha old-time and almost mythical e ing of San Antonio was © ith they ‘took” two of the Texan ready to try _ well got his share of plan, but he’ now eave: always break all the land records | cs Beers lish a water one. He is g - ee Woe at the land record in Cen Ballooning was 80 4 occasionally remarks, until he builds his com- | bination balloon and aeroplane. Honeywell was figuring on that aeroplane when he worked at a printer’s case in San Fran- cisco in the nineties, and after he joined the “navy he was reminded of his plans every time he’ saw a flying fish rise out of the water. When the war of ’98 was coming on, he went to Asiatic waters as a musician on Dewey's “Olympia.” He enjoyed pushing the slide trom- bene back and forth, but he coula..’t help think- ing that he would rather be gliding through the air than over the holystoned deck. And as soon as he got out of the navy he went back to his old home in Cleveland and went.to work on his model. To find out what being in the alr was lke, he ee