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Benjamin P. Forbes
From Brooklyn Centre Wiki
The following material was found in a folder within the Ruth Ketteringham Collection:
- Item: Handwritten multi-page document, which appears to be copy for a prospective newspaper article about Alonzo Hyre.
- I dropped into the Chamber of Industry the other day and found its genial Secretary in his comfortable office with a pile of work papers before him.
- Alonzo E. Hyre looks much as he did when he first came to Brooklyn Village. Then as now his polished dome and prominent glasses gave to him a sort of distinguished appearance, and enabled one always to single him out in a crowd and with his natural ability to discover a joke and put it into print where others could only see the serious side of a situation he earned the sobriquet of "Bill Nyr".
- For several years "Hyre's musings" was a leading feature of the old Cuyahogan and this was headed by a picture of Mr. Hyre in a characteristic Bill Nyr pose.
- Mr. Hyre also wrote the editorials, those I didn't get from The Kellogg Newspaper Union in boiler plate form, or that we didn't get from C. A. Snow and Co., Washington, D.C. for running a little two inch advertisement on "Patents"..
- Mr. Hyre would sometimes be at his wits ends for a bright idea, when lo the afternoon mail from Washington containing dope seet would enabe the compositors to proceed and the publication to appear as usual, and the next morning our brilliant editor would be the talk of the town while he sphinx like would listen to the comments on his latest editorials.
- In exchange for these secrets which I have held inviolate lo these many years, I hope some one will publish an unfailing remedy for falling hair, it is too late to Mr. Hyre any good but it might help some of the rest of us.
- It was a pleasant little chat that folloed and afterwards I let my mind wander back to the days when Hyre played an important part in the development of old Brooklyn Village just north of the Brooklyn Bridge. Mr Hyre has always been engaged in moulding public opinion - at least ever since I've known him, and that is longer than I would like to admit to my friends and buisness associates.
- Those were happy days although sometimes a little hard to meet the payroll; I know because I did most of the collecting I collected the advertising accounts and money and.
