The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-09-30
Authors and Journalists i'm New Jersey.

AuLHUfS anu JOui udIlStS LII NEW JtIStys
Garfield writes to the Springfield
Republican:
New Jersey, that much abused State
seems to have unusual charms for our
journalists, whether from its accessible
ty or what else l cannot say, but the
fact is patent that thas perfect crowd
of literary residents The neighbor-
hood of Newark and Orange seems to
be the most popular with them. At
the former place there is quite coterie
which those who know say is a charm
ing circle A brief sketch of some of
the dwellers in this modern Acadia may
be Interesting:
Mrs. Mary Z. Dodge is one of our most
successful literary workers, and shows
what woman can do in literature.
She is the daughter of the well known
Professor Mapes, inventor of the fer
tilizers, and owns part of the latter's
farm two miles from Newark which is
under the management of p. L. Quinn,
formerly agricultural editor of the Tri,
bune and author of several books on
farming Mrs Dodge has salary of
So, 600 from Hearth and Home for
writing exclusively for that journal.
She excels particularly as writer
of children's stories, and combines
accuracy of fact with beauty of style.
Marian Harland, wife of Rev. Mr..
Turbine, has wide fame as an au
thoress, and is over-run with requests
to write. In her personal appearance
she is anything but blue stocking.
She is very fond of children, and may
often be seen going through the streets
of Newark with couple of four-year
olds clinging to her skirts, and stopping
to look in the shop windows and listen
to their protectors lively remarks about
everything there is to be seen therein.
Edmund G.. Stedman divides his at
tention between Mount Olympus and
Wall street, and while nominally poet
is at the same time a stock broker. He
will have a new poem in the October
Atlantic, and is at present engaged IN
trauslating some of the Sicillan poets
at his leasure. His house is a favorite
rendezvous for New Bork literati, and
Whitelaw Reid, Bayard Taylor, and
others are frequent visitors. Whltelaw
Reid owns six shares in the Cincinnati
Gazette, and is worth $40, 600 or $40
GOO which is ample success for man OF
his age. Mr.. Stedman's next door
neighbor is John Y Foster, who though
young man, is one of the best lourn-
aiists In New Jersey r. ". Glider is
young writer of much promise, who,
though he has not long been engagedi in
literary life, has made his mark. The
son OF a Methodist clergyman, who
died IN the war, he began his career
as assistant paymaster on the Camden
and Amboy railroad, but having natu-
raj inclination to journalism, he applied
| to Kinney, of the Newark Daily Adver-
tiser, and obtained the position of city
editor of that paper He also wrote
/ editorials at times, and contributed to
| the periodicals. One of his poems,
called ''By the Potomac" first publish
ed by the Harpers, attracted consider
able notice, and was reproduced in r.
Grant Whites "Poems of the war.
Mr. Glider has been Office editor of
Scribners Monthly since its start, hav-
ing been previously connected with
! Hours at Home. He does most of the
work of editing, besides writing the
Old Cabinet and attending to other de
partments.
Mrs. Calhoun Runkle lives on farm
with her husband, near Summit. Mrs.
Richardson has removed permanently
to Chicago--and, quite naturally, for
the air of New York must seem tainted
| to her. Mrs. Calhoun's sister, Miss
| Gilbert, married Junius Henri Browne
about year since, and they are living
at Jersey City. '.Junius," as every
one calls him, is fine fellow, brave,
! independent, and sentimentalist to
and does a great deal of writing Tor
newspapers and magazines.
Among other literary frequenters of
! Jersey are Orestes Bronson, who lives
at Elizabeth, shattered hulk, a mere
remnant of his former greatness. G.
A. Dana has Summer retreat down
among the highlands of Jersey, where
| he can look out on the ocean and see
the Sun rise, while Charles Nordhofl
raises tulips at the cottage on the Pal
isades Mrs Stanton, from her home
at Tenafiy, sends out her clarion APP
peals on behalf of suffrage for women.
| Amanda Douglass, who has written sew
| eral novels of merit, lives at WoodSide.
! not far from Richardson's old place,
while OrphelIs G. Kerr lives at Jersey
City, in the quiet seclusion of his fam
lily, going every day to the City to write
his popular Social Studies for the
World. H. J. Winser, formerly of the
| Times, but now United States Consul
to Germany, used to live at Woodside
AIr. Goldsmith, managing editor of the
Leader, lives at Paterson, and his edi-
torial chief, A Oakley Hall, at Mill
burn while I might add that Joe JEFF
ferson, the actor. and Durand, the ar
fist, are also included among Jersey
ties. Thus it viii be seen that the vi
cinity OF Newark is becoming literary
dormitory, where, far away from the
hustle and noise Of the smoky City,
art and taste can reign supreme, and
the toilers of the press can recuperate,
after their labor, among the trees and
strawberry beds of the fruit-9rowing
State.
A preco cious Couple.
A few days since a lad of fifteen and
q girl one year his junior, whose very
respectable parents reside in Benning-
to Vt, ran away and went to Troy,