New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-02

qulps ana cranks and natty stories, fresh and new
lie Is not favorable subject whom to play off a
good thing heard at a club" What is called club
talk is generally little after date aud is not spark
ling enough for Hyde Park Gate Between 10 and
II he Is on hand to his staff and all other properly
accredited persons who do not want more than a
quarter OF an hour and at noon he gets ready for
the Row.
Probably no man in the history Of English Journal
ism has enjoyed such exceptional position as the
Proprietor of The WorId has conquered by sheer
ability and perseverance,. The latter word is used
adylsedly, for never did man work more diligently
to achieve success than Mr.. Yates. Married early
with four children to bring up on the salary of a
clerk in the Post Office he began at once, like many
Government employees here, to look on literary
work as kind of help to his salary and when quite
a youth produced dramatic notice and a copy of
verses for guinea, after the scale of remuneration
not uncommon in London thirty odd years ago.
When the young Iitteraieur first faced the world
he bad as guide. philosopher aud friend his guard
ian, Colonel Charles Manly, OF engineering fame a
partner in the house of Stephenson & Co., and a
part lessee of the Adelphi Theatre, a very amlable
gentleman, who told MIN many excellent stories
taught him to smoke huge cigars, and INTRODUCED
him 10 the artistic society of the day. He was not
long IN emerging from the dramatic-nOtice-and-
copy-of-vcrsescOrner of a weekly paper and soon
became one of the most active of " Mr.. Dickens's
young men," The period was peculiarly favorable
for the development of talent among the clerks in
the various Government Offices. Peter Cunning
ham, whose edition of " Walpolep and Handbook
of London are known to everybo w. was a Gov
eminent clerk SD also were both Frederick and
Alfred. the brothers Of Charles Dickens as well as
Mr.. Clement Scott and the late Mr. Tom Taylor
OF the last-named gentleman it was said that hs
department, the Local Government Act Office, was
established in order that he might produce origi-
nal" English plays from foreign models, upon Gov
eminent paper This is almost as comcal as Mr..
John HOlllngshead when he was managing the
Alhambra a variety theatre, writing vrtuous
stories for Good Words and similar periodicals
in bis gerIal room, and on paper with the mark
of the beast upon IT,.
Soon after he was One-and-twenty years old Mr.
Yates elaborated with poor Robert BrOugh IN
writing volume of verses of the Ingoldsby type
aud reprinted several volumes of articles. Then he
became dramatic critic of The Daily Ne,rs, and sub
sequenty developed into a brilliant novelist.
Land at Last and " Black Sheep" were perhaps
the most successful of his novels. He also figured
as editor of Temple Bar and TiHsleys Magazine and
IN the meanwhile acquired experience as a Journal
ist by writing for The Star. and subsequently for
The Ne,c- York Herald and other American papers.
In The star ne wrote the signature of Flaneur,
and showed DO, h IN that column and in other Lon
don letters knack of personal description and sat
ire which got him into several scrapes. His quar-
rel with Mr.. Thdckeray needs more than
allnsion, and he had several similar brushes with
literary 70 k-uotaoly with the late Mr.. James
Hannay. who attacked HIN savagely. He was con-
cerned in various journalistic attempts to found a
paper somewhat on the lines of The World, and
brought the knowledge so laboriously gathered TO
bear at last.
The genesis Of The WOrld was very curious. The
late Mr.. Grenville Murray had come to signal grief
over publication called The Queens Messenger, and
being an outlaw unable to appear in London, was
anxious for vehicle in which TO attack his en-
emes or rather the persons whom he saw
fit TO hate with that hatred which
passeth show. Mr.. Granville Murray was
writing at the same time for The Daily Necs, for
The Pal Mall Ga-ette, and for Vanity Fair; but
neither of these journals would permit him to at
tack Lord Derby, against whom be was furious be-
cause of his removal from the COnsuship at Odessa.
Poor Grenvllle Murray, being the natural son of a
Duke thought ne Ought TO be taken care OF by the
Government of England, and tU "A certain extent he
was :" looked After Lord PalmeIstOn gave him
appointments IN the diplomatic service, but he got
scrapes every where aud quarreled with the late
Lord STAFFORD de Redclile whom he satlrlzcd as
" Sir Hector StuOOle,' while he was actually his
subordinate ar COustantlnOple, Having written
q" he Rowing EugllSlInan,' aud shown himself one
of the best literary journalists IN Europe, ne lost the
Odessa COnsul,hlp hrough the gross lmproprlcty OF
his con luct, quarrelled with Lord Derby, aud had
kind of impOLent fracd5 with Lord Darlington, IN
1t. james stOwn, on account OF an article IN me
QHeeHS Messenger, entitled bon Coaching on
Lord Jarvey." lie was OutlaWed, and while Mr.
Yates was in Paris the pair OF admirable writers
and brilliant satlrl,ts laid their neads together.
The JOINT capital put INTO The World was about
1900, aud the journal was announced III the most
Impudent prospectus ever written lt Is great luli
To talk over these things now with MI Yates, VINO,
quite admitting the lmpudence Oi many OF his crude
efforts Will yet wink hIs eye after the manner OF
MIR George Augustus Sala. and observe: on
must beat the drum, or nobody would come To see
the show"
10 this bright couple one element was wanting
knO ledge or finance, perhaps for the reason that
neither OF them had ever had any money 70 speak
OF during MS natural life. They were admirable
writers and had earned great deal of cash In "a
hand-tO-mOuth kind OF way, but they were not
hOardcis, either of them This was all according TO
the general order of things; and financial knOWI-
edge was supplied IN singular pIoViueuliaI
or accidental way. Mr. Ia,e5 went 10 As
cot some two or three weeks before ms
Lew journal was to appear, and there be-
came aware of Mr.. Henry LaJouchere on the Top VI
a drag knowing MIR. LaOOuchere, MI. Yates was
struck with happy thought, ami asked hun tueh
and there when he would write u cIty article 1OI
him. adding observation to the effect that ne
supposed journalistic pay would barely ma nm III
cigars. MI LaOOuchere Thought lt WOuiu oe. goOu
luttcr the rOOBs nests OF the stock EXchahge
once week, aud the arrangement was MADE wan
the result that every body knows. The three chiet
writers OF The World were speedily carlcatuIed as
the World tue .esh, ami the Devil" and the sue
cess 81 tho journal secured. Soon alter"arI,
III. Yates, whose partnership with Mr; OrehVihe
Murray mad Deen Il Stormy one, bought MS partner
out. subsequently Mr.. LabOuchere founded run
Oh his own account, and was succeeded as financial
eGItor OF The u ord by Mr. Louis Jennings some
time editOr OF The Nt4C OrE LINES, VINO was again
succeeded Oy Mr. Henderson. ~
. Many oil the contrib ,tors to The World have
already been mentioned III connection Win Oinet
newspapers but Two have been 80 intimately as
socIatcd with II that au Omission OF thclI hAihes
would seem an oversight. llr. l. H. :. Escott, "A
wri.er OF editorials for The standard recently ap-
pointed Eultor OF The fOrttightiy Heriec. mas been
from the 0uts,t Assistant kuItOr OF lie UOrtd and
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