Peter B. Kyne to Make World Tour

Peter B. Kyne, nationally known author of short stories, and particularly famous amohg his lumber brethern of the Pacific Coast, will embark from New York on April 17th, accompanied by Mrs. Kyne and his personal secretary, for a trip around the world, on the Dollar Around the World Line Steamer, "President. Van Buren."

The party will stop at San Francisco for two weeks between boats, arriving there.May 8th, and leaving about the 22nd,. This is the first lap of his trip which will take some months, and which is being taken to write for the Hearst publications, "Cappy Ricks Impressions of World Wide Conditions."

the game as practiced here on the coast, and by his careful accounting of some of the problems encountered by the lumbermen, and his ideas of solutions.

Everyone lnows "Cappy Ricks," and loves the character that has put across so many clever deals, with his string of steamers and with the seemingly inexhaustible supply of lurmber etc. from his logging operations. Hislexploits with the clever, and somewhat to be doubted "Gus Redell," and his dictation to his ahcient office managerland right hand man "Skinner," and his son in law "Matt Peasley" have, come in for their share of praise.

As said before, Capt. Robert Dollar is the original "C"ppy Ricks." His son, Stanley Dollar, rvas another of the trio mentioned in the first paragraph of this article. At that time, Stanley Dollar was riding herd on a flock of steam schoc,ners oWned and operated by his father, and was one of the busiest men in San Francisco, in those days when competition was keener and business was carried on in a different way than of today. Today Stanley Dollar is Vice President of the Dollar Steamship Compahy, one of the largest shipping companies in America

The third member of this to. become notorious threesome, was no other than A. J. (Gus) Russell, now head of the Santa Fe Lumber Company, of San Francisco, and one of California's best knolvn wholesalers. In those days, even as today, Gus haunted the lumber quarters of the city, seeking orders. He also rvas a yotlnger man in years, full of

It could not be more fitting for Mr. Kyne to have chosen the steamer.line of his friend and crony for many lyears' Mr. Stanley Dollar, vice president of theDollar Steamship Compiny, and whose father, Capt. Robt. Dollar has furnished - suih wonderful copy for Mr. Kynes famous "C"ppy Ricks" stories.

Trventy years ago, on the water front of San Francisco, three men,-all englged in this great lumber industry, and at the time well known in their vicinity and famous to a degree, but not the hationally known and famous characterl that they are today, met and formed what was to be in later yeais a strong unbreakable friendship, with ties that have bound them together through the years and rvhich still clings, and which is exemplified by that devotion that only men can show toward each other through a period of time.

Peter B. Kyne, now known the world over, was at that time a lumber salesman, selling in San Francisco for Dolbeer & Carson. Peter was a young man then, he is young today, was full of the enthusiasm and vision that was to carry him to the position that he has attained. There is probably no bettei known, at least no higher paid writer ioday, in the world. His works have been printed all over the world, especially his "Cappy Ricks" stories that are read from Coist to Coast, and rvhich have ruh the gamut of praise and criticism of the lumbermen of the country' His first stories, most of them, were laid in the desert cattle country of Nerv Mexico and Arizona. These thrillers u'ere published, years ago, in the Popular 1\{agazine and .others, and won a name for this man, long before he ventured into the lumber field and took for his "Cappy Ricks" character, Capt. Robert Dollar, head of theDollar Portland Lumber, and also president of the Dollar Steamship Line. Mr. Kyne has given the fiction reading public an insight into the lumber game of .today, both by_his humorous accotlnts of the buying, selling and shipping ends of pep, even as he is today, and also gifted rvith a vision twenty years ahead of his time.

His company represents the Dollar Portland Lumber Company, in California, in.the rail trade.

These three met, loved, fought and bled together. Gus Russell was destined to become the Augustus (Gus) Redell of Kyne stories, a name that is holv a by word among lumbermen. Redell is a clever fellot', a keen business man who apparently bows only to his one master in business, Cappy Ricks.

In those days here were three men, in the same business, in practically the same branch of the industry, and-today rve-have the three, widely separated in their line of business activities, but remaining the pals that they were in 1904 and 1905.