Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-31
Our HumOrists.

KING IN the Cur1SC that Is 70 be-
Our Humorists.
Something About story, Twain. Ward end
Printers Circular.
"rm q Bohemian. and have been
around and had lots of finn in my day." +"
The speaker was the ccntrc of an admir-.
ing group in a resort where he alternately
quaffcd his beer and looked patronizingly
at this companions, who fequently ap.
plauded his statements. eyes, sir my
name is Charles Appleton Stevenson, and
I've been through the whole business.
guess won't travel much more; I am
guest of General Hincks now. I'm get
ting along past sixty. I've seen lots OF
the boys get up. Away back in 1889 or
40 after the Canadian rebellion,
worked on Thurlow Weeds
paper, the New York Commercial,
at the same frame with Wilbur
F. Story, now of the Chicago Times. Story
was a handsome, dashing fellow, and a
good printer. He got the Western fever in
1849, and struck Jackson, Michigan, where
he published the Patriot, with Rufus B.
Cheeny. At the end of about three years
Story bought the Detroit Free Rrcss from
the Bagg family. John l.. Harmon put
some money into the concern, but think
Story bought him out in about eighteen
months. They were both tony chaps.
Story used to get his boots from New
York and his clothes from Boston. l
think Story married his first wife there,
her name was Isham, daughter of the su-
per;ntendent Of public instruction of Mich
igan. She wrote the book notices for the
Faee Press. Now lives in Virginia they
separated by mutual agreement. Story
went to Chicago after selling the Free
Press to politician named Walker
for twenty thousand dollars. The
Times had been started, if 1 remember
Alright, with tho money Of Stephen
A. Douglas. the United States senator,
and Cook. United States marshal. About
1852 G. II. Mccormick, tho reaper man. ,
wanted to go to Congress to get his patent
renewed. He brought up the paper of the
Itmes and secured a controlling interest.
Mccormick didn't get to Congress, and
about 1860 he offered the sheet at private
sale, declaring that he had lost several
thousand dollars on it. Here Story ap-
peared and bought tho Times for $12, ZOO,
investing the other $1,000, which he had
realized from the sale Of tho Free Press
in Hoe press. Story" edited the paper
himself.
"Burnsile placed chain-gang around
the Times Office to stop the publication Of
the paper, which was printing reasonable
articles. Jack WOOdlOck, the prcssmall-
and he's there to this day-took hose
and swore he would scald anybody who
intcrfered. They run off twenty five
papers, and Story took them under his
arm and climbed out upon the roof, and
got down into the street. saying that he
never lost an edition. He went down to
the telegraph Office and sent dispatch to
Lincoln, and Abe sent back this:
"'Order Of General Burnside counter
manded. i:avo enough on my hands
without claiming the press
"StOry run his paper the next night
but Story lost money on the Times.
About 1864 the thing be IAN to pay. The
concern has been going by fits and starts
ever since.
"There's General Hincks he's prac-
tical printer, too; as good one as am.
Yes, sir ; lie used to work at the case in
the Office of the: Post: He was afterwards
shipping clerk in the hardware store that
had the contract for furnishing iron for the
United States navy. He married into the
same family with General Butler. He got
up in hurry.
got acquainted with Sam Clemmens,
or Mark Twain. rs lie is best known, as
a brother typo in Sandusky, Ohio, in
1852. How Old is Sam? Well, hes
about thirty eight now. As 1 was say
ins, he was on the Raindealer. He
came UP to Detroit Oh boat. The next
heard Of him he was playing tho Bo-
hemian out in Frisco. where he nearly
starved and went to Nevada. There for
an hour. Sam was worth $1,000, 900 or
more. He struck what is known as the |
ComstOck lode, Virginia City. A friend
Of his'n, who crossed the plains with him,
was sick, and Sam failed to report, and |
the claim was jumped. But he made a |
little stake there and went to the Sand |
wich Islands. lie came back by way of |
Cuba, and struck New York city. He
met his wife there. She had fortune.
he wrote an autobiography which made /
him popular. and thci, he published his
I" "ROughing It." Since that time, l take
It, you fellows know something of him.
"Did know Artemus Ward-or Charles
F. Browne? l don't know my own SON
1ettcr. Brown was reporting on the
Pldiadcaler. He was = practical
,-inter. struck him on the Toledo Blade
md Detroit Free Adrsr;ser. He was a
lative of Portland, Me-, went to Cam
bridge. Mass, and worked bOok-print-
ng establishment. and then went to Bos-
;on, where he got TIC Western fever.
Petroleum V. Nasty? wish l knew
myself as do him. l have known him
incc he was a boy twenty two years of
lse. We didn't use to associate with
David Il Locke-that's. s. his real name. Won
now. Locke was type-snatcher to be-
i'm with, but he took .he place of Chas.
:. Browne, Who got on a drunk, as city
ditOr of the Tc!odo Bio,.ss. Locke IN went
s fast rs the CROSSROADS Man, and
Ow owns the sheet"
Wicked for Clergymen.
y believe it to be all wrong and even wick. !