National Republican., 1880-12-27
A BOHEMIAN,S TALK
About Newspaper Mcn Who Formerly
Worried nj the Cnsc-Our UumOrIsts.


"Im bohemian and have been around and
had lots of fun in my day." The speaker was the
centre of an admirllig group in q resort where he
ingly at his companions, who frequently lynpplauded
his statements. "Yes, sir; my name Is Charles APP
Whole Whole business. % guess @ wonttrayeimUeii W @ more. ore
am guest of General IIincks now. I'm getting
along past sixty I've seen lots of the boys get up
Away back In 1889 or 40, after the Canadian rebel
lion, l worked on Thurlow Weeds paper, the New
York Commercial, at the same frame with WilburF.
handsome, dashing fellow, and a good printer He
got the Western fever In 1Si9 and struck jackson,
Mich, where he published the Patriot with Rufus
B. Cheeny. At the end of about three years Storey
bought the Detroit Free Press from the Bagg family
John /. Harmon put some money into the concern,
teen s months. THEY were both tony chaps storey
used to get his boots from New York and his
clothes from Boston. think Storey married his
the superintendent of public instruction OF Michi-
gan. She wrote the book notices for the Free Press
MSw s in E Vent THEY BY ssma
$1,000 The Times had been started if remem,
Der Alright, with the money of Stephen A. Douglas,
the United States Senator, and Cook, United States
marshal. About 1852 c. ii. Mccormick, the
reaper man wanted to 20 70 Congress , to get ms ms
Times and secured n controlling interest. McCor-
mick didn't get to Congress, and about 1860 he of
had lost several thousand dollars on II. Here
Storey appeared and bought the Times for Sl2,00O
o th sne e OF ss e wh pSs e IN 0a Hoe press
Storey edited the paper himself
Burnside placed ehain-gang around the Times
Office to stop the publication Of the paper, which
was. printing reasonable articles. Jack Woodloch,
the prcssman-and he's there to this day-took a
hose and swore he would scad anybody who in.
terfered. They run off twenty-five papers and
Storey took them under his arm and climbed out
upon the roof and got down into the street, saying
the telegraph Office and sent dispatch to Lincoln,
and Abe sent back this
have enough on my hands without claiming the
"storey run his paper the next night; but Storey
lost money on the Times. About 1864 the concern
began TO pay. The thing has been going by fits
and starts ever since.
"Theres General Hincks he's o practical prin.
ter too as good a one as l am. Yes, sir; he used
to work at the case in the office of the Post He
was afterwnrd shippingclerk in the hardware
store that had the contract for furnishing iron for
the United States navy. lie married into the
same family with General Butler. He got up in q
hurry.
"Igot acquainted with Sam Clemens, or Mark
Twain, as he Is best known, as u brOthertypo in
smdusky, Ohio, In 1852. How old is Sam? Well,
was ON the RdiRded!er. He came up to Detroit on
aboat. The next heard Of him he was playing
starved and Went to Nevada. There, for an hour,
Sam was worth sl0O0DO0 or more. lie struck
what Is known as the Comstock load Virginia
with him, was sick, and Sam failed to report and
the claim was jumped. But he made a little stake
there ana went 10 the sandwich Islands. He
came back by the way Of Cuba, and struck New
York city. lie met HIS wife there She had a
fortune. lie wrote TN autobiography which made
ing It. Since that time, 1 take 1t, you fellows
know something OF him.
"Did j know Artemus Ward-or Charles +.
Browne? don't know my own son better Browne
was reporting ON the Cleveland Pdindcdier. lie
was Q practical printer, ! struck him ON the
Toledo Bidde and Detroit Free Advertiser. lie was
anatiye of Portland, Maine, went TO Cambridge,
Mass, and worked In book-prnting establish
mcnt, and then went to Boston, where he got the
Western fever.
Petroleum V, Nasby2 wish knew myself as
do him. have known him since he was Il boy
twenty-five years oi age. we uldnt use 10 associate
with David X. Locke-that's his real name, you
know Locke was typc-snatcher, TO begin with
but he took the place Of Charles +. Browne, who
got on drunk. ns city editor Of the Toledo Blade
Locke Went up fast as the Crossroads Man. and
now owns the sheet.h-friRterS Circular.