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George H. Ham. Reminiscences of a Raconteur, Between the '40s and the '20s
Reminiscences of a Raconteur, Between the '40s and the '20s
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
When I Was at School
Some of My Boyhood Friends
Getting to Work
The Rod Was Never Spared
A Cub Reporter
Other Adventures in Employment
Put Off the First Train
CHAPTER II
I Own a Race Horse
A Sailor Bold
Stories of Pets
Poetry—and Me
An Exaggerated Report
A Brief Summary
CHAPTER III
The Live Wires of the Seventies
The Rivalry Between Smith and Schultz
The Political Leaders
I Strike Winnipeg
Something About Hotels
The Trials of a Reporter
Not Exactly an Angelic City
The First Iron Horse
The Pembina Branch
Lord Strathcona—and Profanity
The Republic of Manitoba
The Plot to Secede
CHAPTER IV
Winnipeg the Wicked
Interviewing a Murderer
Schofield’s Escapade
An Express Robbery
The Case of Lord Gordon-Gordon
The Farr Case
Some Prominent Old-Timers
The Inside Story of a Deal
Real Trouble Arises
Always Have Proof
Winnipeg Doctors Play Practical Jokes
A Big Scandal
Donald McEwan and the Waiter
Mistaken Identity
CHAPTER V
An Adventure With Colonel Denison
The Riel Rebellion
Middleton and the Queen
Selected for Dangerous Mission
Lost on the Trail
A Naval Battle in the West
Rescuing the Maclean Family
A Church Parade in the Wilderness
Indian Signals
Some Curious Indian Names
CHAPTER VI
The Highland Laddie
The Kindness of Princess Louise
The Marquis of Lansdowne
Talking to Aberdeen
A Great Horseman
Earl Grey
The Grand Old Duke
The Duke of Devonshire
CHAPTER VII
Intrepid Scotch Voyageurs
The Tale of a Cat
Indian Humor and Imagery
CHAPTER VIII
Hon. Frank Oliver and Yours Truly
When Sir Wilfrid Didn’t Blush
A Scotch Banquet
Banquets in Winnipeg
Bouquets and Brick-Bats and Democracy
Mayor Hylan and the Queen
CHAPTER IX
Adventures in the Occult
”Getting the Dope” on the “Prof.”
Telepathy and Fortune Telling
Story of the Haunted House
CHAPTER X
Mark and the “High-brows.”
The Human Cash Register
My Old Friend, the Chicago Cub Reporter
Several Gory Sequences
Stead and Hinky Dink
CHAPTER XI
With “Kit” in St. Louis
The Mormons
CHAPTER XII
The Leader’s Drill Shed Story
When “Three Pair” Won
The Toronto Press
The Markham Gang
Comic and Other Papers
Toronto’s Chief Magistrates
”Ned”—Hon. Edward Farrer
Theatrical Recollections
Bonifaces of the Old Days
CHAPTER XIII
Col. Irvine’s Services Against Riel
Treating With Sitting Bull
The Why of the Scarlet Tunic
Western Justice As It Was
Passing Death Sentence on a Nuisance
Grand Old John Kirkup
A Lethbridge Pirate
The Mounted Police To-Day
CHAPTER XIV
A Really “Substantial” Breakfast
An Afternoon of Gloom
To be “Queen of the May”
Down in Washington
Case of “Much Wants More”
Some Anecdotes
Canadian Club
CHAPTER XV
Pawn All But Christmas Stockings
Everybody Should Believe in Christmas
CHAPTER XVI
A Man Who Mastered Self
Youth With Strange Power
All Faiths Among Patrons
CHAPTER XVII
Political Tragedies
A Wit-Provoking Stairway
The Old War Horse From Cumberland
Sir John’s Trusted Lieutenant
Laurier’s Magnetic Personality
Two Tom Whites
A Few Veterans
The Jims
A Soured Senator
Familiar Faces in the Old Days
The Social Side of the House
Not Good Mixers
When Hansard “Mixed” Metaphors
Some of the Other Good Fellows
Some Well-known Members
Appointing a Governor
The Wrong Hat
A Telephone for Each Language
CHAPTER XVIII
Big Undertaking, Broad Policy
Conspicuously Canadian
The First President
A Temporary President
Sir William Van Horne
He Helped Make History
A Well Informed Porter
Early Advertising
His Work in Cuba
Lord Shaughnessy
Lord Shaughnessy’s Big Heart
He Eschewed Public Honors
His Repartee Like Rapier Thrust
Hats Off to the Chief
The Present President
His Father a Transportation Pioneer
David McNicoll of the Old Guard
Vice-President Ogden
My “Fidus Achates.”
Floored James Oborne
Haunted by Presentiment
Captains Courageous
Masters of the Inland Seas
The Active Men of To-day
Some of the Western Men
Prominent Passenger Men
The Train Staff
The Advertising Men
The Ocean Service
On the Retired List
Politics Interfere With Business
Company Never Evicted a Settler
Other Old-Timers
Some Who Have Passed Away
Some Reminiscences
Others Gone But Still Remembered
Medical Staff
Officials Honored by King
The Dominion Express Company
The Live Wires
Important “First” Trains
Greeted Train With Music
A Belated Prosperity
An Old-Time Roadmaster
When Coal Was Costly
Gate-Keeper, I Hope, in Both Worlds
Don’t Own the Alphabet
Flour for Lady Macdonald
Good-bye, My Reader, Good-bye
