The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-25

FORCED q Presidential PrOclhMR.
FFoni The NerO York Gazette. T.
JOSEPH HOWARD, JR.
Howard is one OF the busiest men
and most voluminouS writers on the
New York press. he gets up early In
the morning, spends his forenoon in
getting up the Brooklyn Press, his az
ternoon in writing for the New York
Times, and his evening in recreation,
or in scribbling light articles for va
rious local newspapers. On the Brook
lyn Press he is editorial antocrat and
manager-in-chief; on the Times he does
BREWER and "minor topics" and super
intends "local politics." on the BROOK
lyn Eagle he writes up New York the
atricals. His other newspaper engage
ments are ephemeral and varied. He
has done considerable service on the
New York Citizen, and Miles O'Reilly
thinks there is hardly man in New
York that can do as much on news
paper, and do II as well as Mr.. Howard
can.
Mr.. Howard's history may be given
in few words. BE was born in Brook
lyn; educated al the Polytechnic Insti-
tute at Troy; went to Boston and
worked on various newspapers there:
came to this city seven or eight years
ago, and went on the Times, and since
then has made his home here.
Howard is a genuine newspaper man,
and, in literary sense, nothing else.
Ne has never been guilty OF a book
never even, so far as we are aware, of a
magazine article. The newspaper Is
his first love, and is likely to be his
last. He has all a newspaper mans
love for sensation, and some of the
most startling sensations with which
the New York public Is familiar, have
been the work of his ingenial and fer
tile brain. The presidents Procla-
nation" was the greatest of these, and
came near proving an unfortunate one
for its author. 1t is claimed by great
many men, who certainly ought to
know-such as Mr.. Raymond. General
Halpine, and others of Howard's-
staunchest friends-that the proclama-
tion was nothing but joke. 1t was cer-
tainly very bad joke Tor good many
people. -.Is. u. 81.
Howard is a very genial and compan-
ionable man, Familiarity called "Joe"
by his friends, and of these he has
host. He also has a good many enc.
mics and detractors, as every stirring,
energetic, wide-awake man, welding
the pen of the readY-writer, and slash
ing about with it sometimes as If 1t
were two-edged sword, Is likely to
have. ..l... ar sl
Whenever a new play is announced
at one VI our theatres you may see
Howard In the audience, almost always
accompanied by his wife, a pleasant-
looking, intelligent, black-eyed lady.
His personal appearance is such as
would be likely to attract attention any
where, and has the Understandable aspect
which we usually term "literary." A
ShRkespearean forehead, expressive
blue eyes, which look through tortoise
she'll eyeglasses, pure Greclan nose,
oval features, an oriental complexion,
dark curling hair, good teeth, black
mustache and goatee, slender and
graceful figure, and peculiarly pol
ished and elegant manner make up his
tout ensemble. He dresses with good
taste, and with careful regard to the
tenets OF fashion, wearing kid gloves
and black coat in the warmest wealth
er. About town his dress is more
jaunty and careless, and he affects a
broad -brimmed-or otherwise pro-
nounced-style of hat.
Howard has pleasant residence in
the "aristocratic" quarter of Brooklyn
-to-wit, on the Hights-a brick, high
stoop mansion on the corner OF Willow
and Middagh streets. Here he dispenses
hospitality TO his friends, or surrounds
himself with his pleasant family cir
Gle. He has strong love of home and
family, treats his children with an
easy, happy familiarity that wins their
confidence and love, and is never hap
ton and Beecher live but a short dis
tance from him; the residence of the
autocrat Beadle is close by, and in the
same street.
So industrious a man as Howard must
necessarily have a very snug income
from his literary labors, and he con-
fesses to an income of 81, 500 a year from
this source of income, wedo not know,
but believe il. f.I E1a.
A writer of Mr.. Howard's skill, and
having his numerous channels OF utter
ance, necessarily possesses great power
for good or i'll in the world. Whether
he fully realizes the importance of his
influence upon the public mind and
we are not prepared TO say. We have
noticed with genuine pleasure, every
indication of a leaning toward the
cause of right and reform that he has
displayed-as, for instance, in his
sketches of tenament life among the
poor in the Citizen of last summer. It
is stated that these articles did great
and positive good. ~ ~
Howard is young yet-thiTty-two-
and is destined to WELD much influence
over the community If his lite Is SPAR
ed. Let us hope that it will be, and
that the mark he makes with his pen