The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-05-05
"THE NAN OF FACTs.v
Mr. Henry W. Grady, the Itinerant Jour.
nalist MIXED in Charlotte.
Charlotte Observer.

"There is Henry w. Grady" said q
gentleman as representative Of the
Observer was passing through the office
of the Central Hotel Sunday little be-
fore church hour.
The representative looked in the direc'
ton indicated and saw face at corner
of the writing desk in the Office which,
by the shadow cast over it in this part of
the room, was anything but prepossessing.
The owner was writing on plain white
paper such as is put to every purpose in
newspaper Office. With his travelling
satchel and duster on chair beside him,
he seemed ready to fit at any moment
but, for the nonce, was entirely absorbed
in his work. He stopped, however,
when the Observers desire for an intro
duction vas communicated.
II write everywhere" he said by way
of explanation.
IT was just desiring TO see one of you.
see by your paper this morning that
Louisville and Nashville Railroad stock
has gone up to 96s. This represents a
profit to me of $4,000. 1t made an ad-
vance day before yesterday worth $4,000
to me, and I was little afraid when I
saw this second rise that it vas too good
to be true, and [ wanted to ask if there
was any probability that it was an error
of the printer"
There is nothing unprepossessing about
his face now. He has cock-eye but
otherwise it bears the good natured sim.
nI;n;tv of a child
II arrived on the Wilmington train
this morning and 60 South on the next
train, which leaves, understand, in q
couple of hours. / came last from the
Albemarle fisheries, which I have been
writing up for several journals. Two
Atlanta artists are with me for the pur-
pose of sketching the necessary illustra-
tions. One of them, Mr.. J. 81. Moser,
represented the Harpers', and the other,
Mr.. Horace Bradley, the New York
Graphic. We are going to Mississippi TO
sketch and write up j. R. Richardson's
place and industries. am on the wing
all the time. I passed one.third of my
time last year in sleeper, and haven't
had er&s rest in ten years"
"Ksgn Old are you, Mr.. Grady% (The
representatives impression before seeing
him was of a middle.aged man, and he
was surprised to find him exceedingly
young looking.)
A scarcely perceptible twinkle in his
eye indicated that the suggestion in the
tone with which the reporter asked this
question was understood, and he pro-
ceded in q simple, unpretentious way as
follows:
II am 20 years old. My father fell at
the head ola North Carolina regiment in
Virginia during the war. / graduated
from College at 19. Ihad been educated
for lawyer, but was crazy to get on
newspaper. At the time vas rich. The
proprietor of the Rome Ga.) Courier
gave me $500 year to edit his paper.
I stayed with him two years. wrote
an editorial on the Ku-Klux. BE
refused to publish it. I became angry
and went across the street and bought out
the other paper-there were two in the
place. After running this awhile, I went
to Atlanta and started the Herald in con-
nection with Bob Alston. We got into
fight with q competition paper and
whipped. We next 'bucked' against Joe
Brown and busted had an offer of
$50 q week to come to North Carolina
and edit Raleigh paper, in which Zeb
Vance, I think, was interested, as he
wrote to me. I hesitated about it, but
finally concluded as was in the busi-
ness had better strike high and so went
to New York, engaged on the Herald,
and have been with it ever SINCE"
"You don't consider your time 80
much the property of the Atlanta Con-
stitution, then as that of the HeraM?"
"Well last year 1 became co-proprie.
tor of the Constitution, paying 100000
cash down for s25,000 interest. There
are four proprietors equally interested.
the capital stock being 100000.
I write for the Constitution as | do
for great number Of journals, but am
under more particular obligations to the
Herald. I have co.equal supervision
with Mr.. Cuthbert, of Richmond (only he
does not travel), of the Rerald's South
ern correspondence, and can direct what
correspondents shall write up occurren
ces which are expected to transpire. !
am now engaged in writing a review Of
Jefferson Davis book for the Herald It
will appear between the first and fifth OF
May. And, by the way, I am the only
newspaper man in the world who has
.ead this book. The Memphis paper
published some advance sheets, but they
have no knowledge Of the the contents OF
the book. The Herald has contract
with the Appletons for the first view. |
have more work laid out for the rest Of
the month than I can accomplish. !
am engaged for contributions to both
Harpers's and Scribner's next issues, be-
sides contributions to other journals,
some of which will have to be disap.
pointed"
"Have you any prominent ideas Of the
prospects of the Sonth gathered while
travelling through it?"
~ don't know that l have. have
written more about the South, / suppose
than any other ten men living, and tkeeps
me stripped. 1 can say, however, that
the prosperity of the South is going to be
greater than has ever been known. Oul
people have hitherto neglected the small
industries, but I think their eyes are
opening. AS an instance, I found one
man in your State who makes $4,000
gallons of wine yearly. These things
will be developed more in future. The
tide of immigration is finding its way
South, and as an instance forty German
immigrants caL!e into this State on
train behind the one I was on, and the
great resources Of the South properly
developed and peopled, will make hel
the richest and most glorious country il
the world"
Mr.. Grady is of stout, not corpulent
build, weighs about ITO pounds and say =
the tailor has to extend the measure o