Volume 16 , Issue 39

1914, Bustling Young City of Markham (Dropright)

This image of a scene at bustling young city of Markham (Dropright), in creek county, Oklahoma, appeared on page eight of The Tulsa World, dated Wednesday, 18 November 1914, concerning seen at Markham (Dropright), Creek county, Oklahoma.

At top ... part of the automobiles furnished by Holland and McDonald, auto livery of Yale, that were used by the Tulsa representatives Sunday to go to the fire and various other points of interest in the north Cushing field.

At bottom left and middle ... "Shorty" McDonald and "Lute" Holland, owners of the auto company. Shorty is said by many to be the chauffeur who drove Harry K. Thaw away from Matteawan. This he refused either to admit or deny and yet he has been known in various conversations, to have referred to a time when he drove a Packard car for quite a distance at the slow rate of seventy-five miles an hour. He came to Yale with enough money to start an auto livery with several cars.

At lower right is a picture of the man that put "ale" in "Yale" and he answers to the call of "Col. J. Whiting" all at one time. Mr. Whiting was field secretary of the Yale Chamber of Commerce and was in Tulsa on 17 November 1914 negotiating with business men in connection with procuring a large hotel for Yale.
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