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When redheaded Dave Beck took office, the gusty breath of all this excitement still hung in the air. The headsaws of lumber mills screamed along almost every lake and waterway. Loggers, fishermen, sailors and bums lounged by the hundreds beside the Skidroad's missions, hash joints and flophouses. Seattle's tough cops still took pride in using force sufficient to make an arrest, and dragged in many a prisoner by the heels...
...written much of anything, but he knew everybody in town, and knew how to spin a yarn. Stone set him to writing a Tuesday-through-Friday local column. It turned out to be a wise and whimsical journal about the odd corners of Seattle life, with tales of seamy Skidroad characters, the scavengers on the city dumps and such old Seattle landmarks as the once-grand Globe Hotel. Seattle took the new columnist to its heart. His prizewinning column was typical: a half-bitter, half-sentimental piece about Memorial Day in Victory Square, where a wooden imitation of the Washington...
Focus and locus of most of Author Mitchell's studies is the environs of McSorley's Old Ale House, which for 88 years has resisted change just off Cooper Square, where Manhattan's skidroad-the Bowery-ends. McSorley's has also provided a haven for Manhattan's literary transients-writers, newshawks, painters, poets (grateful Poet e. e. cummings once immortalized mcsorley's: "Inside snug and evil. ... the Bar tinkling luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps. . . ." The venerable saloon still has soup bowls instead...
Last week the Skidroad was fit to bust with pride over Sexton Fitzgerald. For his 32 years of shy and selfless service, the Pope himself had sent him a gold medal-the Benemerenti medal originated in 1832 by Gregory XVI to reward distinguished civil and military service for the faith...
With it went a name the "Apostle of the Skidroad" had never before been called: "A Strong Soldier of Jesus Christ...