Dedication 



To my wonderful friend, Mr. Benjamin 

 Block, my owner, and whom it is my increasing 

 delight to serve, whose courtesies to me in my 

 work and travel are without number and un- 

 stinted, always introducing me to the politest 

 society, the Senators, Governors, Merchant 

 princes, and most of all to the most beautiful 

 women in the world, whose gracious interest 

 and pride in me, I am free to admit have nerved 

 me to exert myself and prove my worth; to 

 my trainer, Mr. Frederick Burlew, whose 

 ceaseless vigilance and untiring effort to keep 

 me in the fittest condition, and in it all, not 

 forgetting the menu; to my good friend Mr. 

 Gerald B. Breitigam who so patiently and with 

 such brilliant success took down the copy of my 

 autobiography and is now placing it in perma- 

 nent form that my friends after me shall know 

 my life; to my friends across the street, who in 



