My favorite book. You can't win, by Jack Black.
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| Born ca. 1870 New Westminster, B.C. Canada- Missing/Died >1932 New York City, U.S.A. Jack's body was never found. " My name is William Brown, from Pocatello, Idaho" "Jack had been a sort of a reign of terror...just before the earthquake and fire of 1906. Every crime committed in San Francisco during the first three months of that year was ascribed to Jack Black." (R.L. Duffus) "He returned to New York and Fremont thought Jack did what he always said any down-and-outer should do, “fill his pockets with rocks and take a header into the bay.” (Mrs. Cora Fremont Older) "To cut a long story short," said Jack, "I left it all." "Enough of this "I" and "me" stuff. I must get to the point. You have a big, true story with one hundred thousand readers. Tell them all how to help the under dog. They are willing, but they don't know how. " "He is in a class by himself. That is why he is so interesting." (Fremont Older) |
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| "I look so much like a judge." Portrait by E. Weston, tramp art cigarbox frame. |
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| San Francisco Bulletin, Jan. 1917 |
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| S. F. Bulletin, Feb./Mar. 1917, these serials are the blueprint for "You can't win" |
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| Prison record, Postcards from the Bulletin building and S.F. Cliff House "where first I saw the sea..." |
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| Harpers Monthly Magazine, June 1929 |
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| Harper's Monthly Magazine, Feb. 1930 |
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| Letters to Fremont Older |
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| French edition, Librairie Gallimard, 1932 |
