The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-02-24
Hsw he \. D. Pleay,Ins startea.

The Albany Statesman IN q leading I
article tells the following story
. "Twenty-three years ago we stuck |
type in the same alley, in the print
ing Office Of the New-Y Yorker, edited |
and published By Horace Greely,t
George Wilkins Kendall (the projec-
tor Of the Orleans Picayune,) Morgan
Bates 1--WE think since partner in the
Of the Detroit Advertiser.
%. A. Bowe (who was afellow-a appren-
tice with Greely, and afterwards pub
lished paper at Little Falls,) stood
at the casein the same office. Bowe,
Bates and Paige are now dead. Ken
dali is still living but has abandoned
the chair editorial for sheep raising
on the plains of Texas. He left the
New Yorker Office to conence the
Pieayune, having acquired the CAPT.
tai for that enterprise in q way that
would hardly be considered orthodox
in moral community: Before leay.
ing New York, Kendall had strampad'
| the South as q jour. printer--travel-
ed for information he said, through
every principal village and city in the
Southern States, sometimes in stage-
Eeoaehes (there was but one railroad in
/ the South then, from Charleston to
Augusta and not unfrequently on
/ foot with his baggage on his back,
pendant in handkerchief, from his
]. walking stick. Sometimes he was
/ flush and well dressed sometimes
/ strapped, and needy but alway witty
genial, and gentlemanly. In his ve n.
lures, he had frequently been boon
lcompanions with many Of the most EN-
| inent men Of the country.
.The Astor House then was but just
opened, and extensively visited BY
lSoutherners. TWAS a fashion with
Kendall to patronize that establish
ment after working hours. Strollint
over there one evening, after having
.washedup, hewas agreeably surprised
to meet several gentlemen whom b
had known as merchants, and lawyer
land doctors, at Matches, Mississippi
! After juleps all round, and sherry cob
lar a piece, some one proposed to clos
the ight' with little game Of poker
kendall had but about five dollars i
his watch fob There was no Watel
there, but he assented, among th
rest, to the proposition. ExeusinI
himself for moment, he made q rus
down Ann street to the Office, wher
The hoped to find some Of his fellow
printers with money 70 lend. Bate
las foreman Of the Office, had bean De
tanned in making up tha forSns. u
had eightsdoIlars, and we 1--WE Wer
helping Bates) had two hundred an
seven cents. Kendall took the dollar
fleaYing us the cents, and thus mad
d purse Of @I5. With this fund b
sat down to play. The play went 9
until day light. AT z o'clock KeI
dali came into the Office paid up Il
9 SO he had borrowed, told Greedy |
would give up his situation, and aske
?, all hands to partake Of 'pious gorg
d that afternoon. All hands were bt
+ too happy to do that same, aud sti
7, more happy when their feliow-crafti
q man announced that he was the fort
nate possessor Of about 500, won
! the little game of poker aforesaid al
that with the 800 he. proposed
start paper in New Orleans
: Edue time the Picayune appeared--w
: sueeess-winning reputation I
! Kendall as polished writer and bri
OF liant wit, and what was better, giyiT
him a princely income. He has h
e many hair bredth escape since tha
We was among the Santa Fee prisoner
= and given up as dead. but afterwar
ba released; he went through the Me,
- can war has passed years in foreil
i travel, until satiated with enioyne
! and tired Of the excitement Of q
life, he retired to Texas, and is n
master Of thousands Of acres Of lal
and reckons more than . hundz
N thousand sheep, cattle, and mules
Wd his individual property"
I'm
me ~ Be careful to keep gu'
constantly before the FIRE IN room
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