From Martin Eden on submitting manuscripts: "There was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps. It was like the slot machines wherein one dropped pennies, and, with a metallic whirl of machinery had delivered to him a stick of chewing-gum or a tablet of chocolate. It depended upon which slot one dropped the penny in, whether he got chocolate or gum. And so with the editorial machine. One slot brought checks and the other brought rejection slips. So far he had found only the latter slot.

They attempted to have children. London's workers laughed at his efforts to play big-time rancher [and considered] the operation a rich man's hobby. "
In 1914 the New Age Magazine quoted a paragraph from The Eastern Star another Masonic publication.

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney January 12 1876 – November 22 1916) was an American author journalist and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang both set in the Klondike Gold Rush as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire" "An Odyssey of the North" and "Love of Life".