Duncan Hines (42 page)
Authors: Louis Hatchett
27
Spiller, 16 August 1993.
28
Park City Daily News
, 18 August 1948.
29
The Times-Journal
, 7 October 1905.
30
Park City Daily Newsy
18 August 1948.
31
William Warner Hines fact sheet, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
32
Spiller, 16 August 1993; Warner Hines lived at No. 4 Proctor Court which is now across the street from Western Kentucky University's South Hall.
33
Park City Daily Newsy
18 August 1948.
34
Spiller, 16 August 1993.
35
Jane Morningstar, typescript, Kentucky Library, n.d.
36
John Porter Hines, “Reminiscences of Green River,” 1.
37
College Heights Heraldy
13 January 1956.
38
Park City Daily News
, 19 June 1961.
39
Interview with Caroline Hines Tyson, 27 July 1994.
40
Spiller, 16 August 1993 and 25 March 1994. This last enumerated child was the only one not to have been born in Bowling Green. Shortly before the baby's birth, Cornelia had come down with consumption, and Edward had taken her out west because of her declining health.
41
Bowling Green Gazette
, 31 December 1884.
42
Spiller, 16 August 1993.
43
Courier-Journaly
29 August 1992.
44
Although Hines says in his autobiography that his birthplace was torn down to make way for the Bowling Green High School, in this he is mistaken; that institution is several blocks from the place of his birth. Duncan Hines,
Duncan Hines' Food Odyssey
(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955) 6.
45
John L. Andriot, ed.,
Population Abstract of the United States
(McLean VA: Andriot Associates, 1983) 1: 304.
46
Park City Daily News
, 29 September 1943.
47
Spiller, 16 August 1993.
48
Interview with Robert Wright, 25 May 1994.
49
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 6-8.
50
Ibid., 7.
51
Ibid., 8.
52
Spiller, 16 August 1993.
53
David M. Schwartz, “Duncan Hines: He Made Gastronomes Out of Motorists,”
Smithsonian
15 (November 1984): 92.
54
Anna Rothe, ed.,
Current Biography 1946
(New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1945) 259.
55
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 122.
56
“Spiller, 16 August 1993.
57
John Porter Hines, “Reminiscences of Green River,” 1.
58
The Bowling Green Junior High School occupies the site of this now extinct institution. St. Columba closed in June 1911.
59
Spiller, 16 August 1993 and 10 May 1994.
60
Ibid., 16 August 1993. The Rochester house was located in a small hamlet nestled just outside Bowling Green's city limits known as Forest Park. The site of the home is now a block or two from the campus of Western Kentucky University, just across the L&N railroad tracks on the Morgantown pike.
61
Hines, “Reminiscences of Green River,” 1.
62
Spiller, 16 August 1993.
63
The Bowling Green Business College was located in downtown Bowling Green on College Street between 11th and 12th Streets.
64
Park City Daily
News, 8 January 1950. The building that Hines attended no longer exists. It was moved to another location a few blocks away in 1899 when the building was razed by fire. The castle-like edifice that replaced it was also razed by fire in the 1960s.
65
Duncan Hines,
Duncan Hines' Food Odyssey
(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955) 13.
66
Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 16 August 1993.
67
Ibid., 16 August 1993 and 28 June 1994.
68
Milton MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop For Dinner?,”
The Saturday Evening Post
211 (3 December 1938): 80.
69
Spiller, 16 August 1993.
70
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 15.
71
Courier-Journal
(Louisville KY), 7 July 1957.
72
MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 80.
73
Lesley Poling-Kempes,
The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West
(New York: Paragon House, 1989) passim.
74
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 16-17.
75
James A. Cox, “How Good Food and Harvey âSkirts' Won the West,”
Smithsonian
18/6 (n. d.): 136.
76
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 16-17.
77
Courier-Journaly 1
July 1957.
78
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 18.
79
Spiller, 16 August 1993.
80
Telephone interview with Jean Brainerd, Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne WY, 2 September 1994.
81
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 1.
82
Ibid., Peerless City Directory, comp.,
1902-1903 Cheyenne Wyoming City Directory
Tribune Press (Greeley CO) 94. In the
1902-1903 Cheyenne Wyoming City Directory
,
Harry P. Hynd is listed as the proprietor of the Capitol Bar, not Harry Hynd's Restaurant. Hynd ran the dining facility with the help of his wife Nellie. The restaurant must have been the first one on the street that caught Hines's attention, because the same city directory shows there to be eighteen restaurants then serving Cheyenne denizens.
83
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 1-6.
84
Spiller, 16 August 1993.
85
MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 82.
86
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 18.
87
Joseph M. Carey, the owner of the ranch, was Wyoming's senator (1890-1895). After he was defeated in his re-election bid, he returned to his lucrative law practice. He entered politics again in 1911, becoming that state's governor in 1915. He died in 1923. Hines's friend, Robert D. Carey, became Wyoming's governor (1919-1923). He later served as a US Senator from Wyoming from 1930 until his death in 1937.
88
Duncan Hines,
Duncan Hines' Food Odyssey
(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955) 18-19. The Careys are erroneously referred to in this book as the Gearys.
89
Adventures in Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc. and Carl A. Barrett, civil action no. 1844 (1940), Procter and Gamble, Duncan Hines collection, 30. Although Hines believed this incident to be in 1903 or 1904, chronology does not support this assertion. Also, from this same source, Hines states that he lived “eleven” years in the western states; he was there for, at best, almost seven. It is possible that this is the stenographer's error, mistaking the word “seven” for “eleven” while transcribing Hines's recollection.
90
Interview with Maj. Gen. Richard Groves, 10 August 1994.
91
Wyoming Census
,
1880
, (Cheyenne WY), 306. Mary Jennings Jeffres was born in 1844.
92
Groves, 10 August 1994.
93
Telephone interview with Jean Brainerd, Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 2 September 1994.
94
Cheyenne Daily Leader
, 22 December 1903.
95
Wyoming Census, 1880
(Cheyenne WY) 306.
96
Groves, 10 August 1994.
97
Charles Apple, ed.,
1884 Cheyenne
,
Wyoming City Directory
(Cheyenne WY: Leader Steam Printing Co., 1884) n.p.; Charles Apple, ed.,
1895 Cheyenne
,
Wyoming City Directory
, (Cheyenne, Wyoming: Leader Steam Printing Co.,
1895) n.p.; Peerless Directory Company, comp.,
1902-1903 Cheyenne
,
Wyoming City Directory
(Greeley Co: Tribune Press, 1902) 55. Chaffin's greenhouse was first located in Cheyenne at 352 Ransom; after 1895 it was located at 1718-1722 Central Avenue.
98
Groves, 10 August 1994.
99
Phil Roberts, David L. Roberts and Steven L. Roberts,
Wyoming Almanac
(Laramie: Skyline West Press, 1994). It would be illuminating to know the exact date that Hines left his job as a Wells-Fargo relief man, but Robert Chandler, resident historian of the Wells-Fargo Company in San Francisco, California, says that the answer will never be known, because all the company's files from that time were destroyed in the fiery aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of 18 April 1906.
100
Duncan Hines,
Duncan Hines' Food Odyssey
(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955) 19.
101
Hines,
Food Odyssey
, 20. In this source, Hines says his employer was the Wells-Fargo Company. This is either his mistake or the book's editors, because in every other account Hines states that his employer was the Green Copper Company. Wells Fargo's company historians concede that the Green Copper Company may possibly have been briefly involved in some small way with their company, but its ties with them were only tenuous. In fact, they had never heard of the Green Copper Company.
102
Cheyenne Daily Leader
, 28 March 1903.
103
Ibid., 22 December 1903.
104
Ibid., 28 March 1903. Maj. Richard H. Wilson was the commanding officer at Fort Slocum from 1904 to 1906.
105
Groves, 10 August 1994. Eva, it seems, continued to live with Florence at one time or another for the rest of her life.
106
New York Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics.
107
Interview with Maj. Gen. Richard H. Groves, 8 September 1994.
108
Ibid., 10 August 1994.
109
Chicago, Illinois, city directory, 1906. In the fall of 1905 they made their first home at 4628 Lake Avenue.
110
Adventures In Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc. and Carl A. Barrett, civil action no. 1844 (1940) 15. According to the 1905 and 1906 Chicago city directories, when Hines was first employed by the J. T. H. Mitchell Company, the firm operated out of room 1201. Shortly after he was hired, the firm moved downstairs four floors to room 816 where the office remained until Hines left the firm.
111
Milton MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,”
The Saturday Evening Post 111
(3 December 1938): 80.
112
Interview with Robert Wright, 25 May 1994.
113
Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 16 August 1993.
114
Chicago, Illinois, city directories, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912 and 1913. It must have been hard for his relatives to keep up with him. In the first few years of their marriage, Duncan and Florence Hines moved to a new address nearly every year. In 1907 they moved to 4123 Drexel Boulevard; that was followed by a move one year later to 4217 Berkeley Avenue. In 1910 they moved to 4335 Greenwood Avenue, which was followed by yet another move in 1911 to 1123 East 47th Street.
115
This apartment is no longer in existence; it was torn down after World War II, probably a victim of a 1950s urban renewal project.
116
Adventures in Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc., 18-19.
117
MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 80.
118
This restaurant is still in existence and remains quite popular.
119
Adventures In Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc., 14.
120
Ibid., 15-16.
121
Chicago, Illinois, city directories, January 1915; July 1915. In 1914, Hines and Joseph A. Coyer started the National Sample and Color Company; Hines was its president and Coyer its vice-president. Nothing is known of this foray into entrepreneurship, not even the nature of the company itself, but it must not have been very successful; the business was listed as a going concern in the January and July issues of the 1915 Chicago city directories, but by the time the January 1916 edition was published, the firm was no longer listed.
122
Chicago, Illinois, city directory, 1917.
123
Adventures In Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc., 2; Chicago, Illinois, city directory, 1928. Both Rogers and Company and the Mead-Grede Printing Company were located at 2001 Calumet Avenue at the corner of Calumet and East 20th Street.
124
Adventures In Good Eating, Inc. v. Best Places To Eat, Inc., 3-4. In a 14 June 1997 conversation with William Jenkins, a retired professor of government at Western Kentucky University and a man who had conducted considerable research into Hines's past, he related to the author the nature of the “advertising specialties” Hines sold as a traveling salesperson. Jenkins is convinced that these objects, also referred to as “printing ideas,” were the little office knick-knacks on which companies advertise their names, such as pencils, key-chains, fans, erasers, calendars, etc. In fact, in the sales trade they are still called “advertising specialties.”
