Reminiscences of a Raconteur, Between the '40s and the '20s
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1. Front matter2. CHAPTER I3. When I Was at School4. Some of My Boyhood Friends5. Getting to Work.6. The Rod Was Never Spared7. A Cub Reporter8. Other Adventures in Employment9. Put Off the First Train10. CHAPTER II11. I Own a Race Horse12. A Sailor Bold13. Stories of Pets14. Poetry—and Me15. An Exaggerated Report16. A Brief Summary17. CHAPTER III18. The Live Wires of the Seventies19. The Rivalry Between Smith and Schultz20. The Political Leaders21. I Strike Winnipeg22. Something About Hotels23. The Trials of a Reporter24. Not Exactly an Angelic City25. The First Iron Horse26. The Pembina Branch27. Lord Strathcona—and Profanity28. The Republic of Manitoba29. The Plot to Secede30. CHAPTER IV31. Winnipeg the Wicked32. Interviewing a Murderer33. Schofield’s Escapade34. An Express Robbery35. The Case of Lord Gordon-Gordon36. The Farr Case37. Some Prominent Old-Timers38. The Inside Story of a Deal39. Real Trouble Arises40. Always Have Proof41. Winnipeg Doctors Play Practical Jokes42. A Big Scandal43. Donald McEwan and the Waiter44. Mistaken Identity45. CHAPTER V46. An Adventure With Colonel Denison47. The Riel Rebellion48. Middleton and the Queen49. Selected for Dangerous Mission50. Lost on the Trail51. A Naval Battle in the West52. Rescuing the Maclean Family53. A Church Parade in the Wilderness54. Indian Signals55. Some Curious Indian Names.56. CHAPTER VI57. The Highland Laddie.58. The Kindness of Princess Louise.59. The Marquis of Lansdowne.60. Talking to Aberdeen61. A Great Horseman.62. Earl Grey.63. The Grand Old Duke.64. The Duke of Devonshire.65. CHAPTER VII66. Intrepid Scotch Voyageurs.67. The Tale of a Cat.68. Indian Humor and Imagery69. CHAPTER VIII70. Hon. Frank Oliver and Yours Truly.71. When Sir Wilfrid Didn’t Blush.72. A Scotch Banquet.73. Banquets in Winnipeg.74. Bouquets and Brick-Bats and Democracy.75. Mayor Hylan and the Queen76. CHAPTER IX77. Adventures in the Occult.78. ”Getting the Dope” on the “Prof.”79. Telepathy and Fortune Telling.80. Story of the Haunted House.81. CHAPTER X82. Mark and the “High-brows.”83. The Human Cash Register.84. My Old Friend, the Chicago Cub Reporter.85. Several Gory Sequences.86. Stead and Hinky Dink.87. CHAPTER XI88. With “Kit” in St. Louis.89. The Mormons.90. CHAPTER XII91. The Leader’s Drill Shed Story.92. When “Three Pair” Won.93. The Toronto Press.94. The Markham Gang.95. Comic and Other Papers.96. Toronto’s Chief Magistrates.97. ”Ned”—Hon. Edward Farrer.98. Theatrical Recollections.99. Bonifaces of the Old Days.100. CHAPTER XIII101. Col. Irvine’s Services Against Riel.102. Treating With Sitting Bull.103. The Why of the Scarlet Tunic.104. Western Justice As It Was.105. Passing Death Sentence on a Nuisance.106. Grand Old John Kirkup.107. A Lethbridge Pirate.108. The Mounted Police To-Day.109. CHAPTER XIV110. A Really “Substantial” Breakfast.111. An Afternoon of Gloom.112. To be “Queen of the May”113. Down in Washington114. Case of “Much Wants More”115. Some Anecdotes116. Canadian Club117. CHAPTER XV118. Pawn All But Christmas Stockings.119. Everybody Should Believe in Christmas.120. CHAPTER XVI121. A Man Who Mastered Self.122. Youth With Strange Power.123. All Faiths Among Patrons.124. CHAPTER XVII125. Political Tragedies.126. A Wit-Provoking Stairway.127. The Old War Horse From Cumberland.128. Sir John’s Trusted Lieutenant.129. Laurier’s Magnetic Personality.130. Two Tom Whites.131. A Few Veterans.132. The Jims.133. A Soured Senator134. Familiar Faces in the Old Days.135. The Social Side of the House.136. Not Good Mixers.137. When Hansard “Mixed” Metaphors.138. Some of the Other Good Fellows.139. Some Well-known Members.140. Appointing a Governor.141. The Wrong Hat.142. A Telephone for Each Language.143. CHAPTER XVIII144. Big Undertaking, Broad Policy.145. Conspicuously Canadian.146. The First President.147. A Temporary President.148. Sir William Van Horne.149. He Helped Make History.150. A Well Informed Porter.151. Early Advertising.152. His Work in Cuba.153. Lord Shaughnessy.154. Lord Shaughnessy’s Big Heart.155. He Eschewed Public Honors.156. His Repartee Like Rapier Thrust.157. Hats Off to the Chief.158. The Present President.159. His Father a Transportation Pioneer.160. David McNicoll of the Old Guard.161. Vice-President Ogden.162. My “Fidus Achates.”163. Floored James Oborne.164. Haunted by Presentiment.165. Captains Courageous.166. Masters of the Inland Seas.167. The Active Men of To-day.168. Some of the Western Men.169. Prominent Passenger Men.170. The Train Staff.171. The Advertising Men.172. The Ocean Service.173. On the Retired List.174. Politics Interfere With Business.175. Company Never Evicted a Settler.176. Other Old-Timers.177. Some Who Have Passed Away.178. Some Reminiscences.179. Others Gone But Still Remembered.180. Medical Staff.181. Officials Honored by King.182. The Dominion Express Company.183. The Live Wires.184. Important “First” Trains.185. Greeted Train With Music.186. A Belated Prosperity.187. An Old-Time Roadmaster.188. When Coal Was Costly.189. Gate-Keeper, I Hope, in Both Worlds.190. Don’t Own the Alphabet.191. Flour for Lady Macdonald.192. Good-bye, My Reader, Good-bye.193. TRANSCRIBER NOTES