JOHNSON'S LETTERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 942, 17 January 1911, Page 4

JOHNSON'S LETTERS.

The following story is published by the American journal Examiner : President Taft. Mr Carnegie, JohnD. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan and other gentlemen of prominence are not the only ones whose mail weighs heavy these days. You had better understand that Li’l Artha Johnson, late of Reno, is a very much written-to man, and has been ever since he began training for the fight. Each morning, when he comes down to his coffee and chicken, he finds the letters heaped high around his plate, and all day long they continue to come in bundles so big that ii Jack undertook to read even one-quarter of them he would have little time for anything else. All sorts of people are writing to the champion—women who want an autograph, a photograph, or even an introduction; men who want him to set them up in business; ministers who want money for their churches ; sore sports who lost on Jeffries, and think Johnson should make good their losses. “The funniest thing about my mail is the letters I am getting from ministers,” says Jack. “They tried to stop the fight, but since it came off I’ve heard from over six hundred of them, and they all ask for money. In fact, nearly everybody seems to want a bit ot my winnings. “I get a lot of mash notes, too, and you jest ought to see my wife tear 'em up. They get on her nerves. Some ot ’em she won’t even let me read.”