JACK JOHNSON'S MAIL BAG

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 221, 12 January 1911, Page 3

JACK JOHNSON'S MAIL BAG

A PEEP THROUGH THE CONTENTS. EXTRAORDINARY OFFERS AND REQUESTS. The following story is published by the American journal Examiner: — President Taft, Mr. Carnegie, John I). Rockefeller, J. P. .Morgan, and other gentlemen of prominence are not the only ones whoso mail weighs heavy these days. Y'ou 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 lie comes down to his eoll'eo and chicken, he finds the letters heaped high around his plate, and all day long they continue to come in bundles so big that if 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 tlieir losses. "The funniest tiling 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 thev all ask for money. In fact, nearly everybody seems to want a bit of my winnings.

''l get a lot of mash notes, too, and you jest ought to see my wife tear 'cut up. They get on her nerves. Some of 'cm she won't even let me read."