Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-10
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aasaaRs, he has drawn togathsle ~ -.
amount BIT Int ormation about eV,ss H. i u
has been 10 the papers at all sInc6s 4ss.ss.
system il tho most comp thi.,sof Els kline
in America, or il the world When he reads
I ever his book, he sits down and falcgraphs all
he can ind. or inYen 81 that. makes goos read
ing He seems to- haYe taken the cs:pping
notion from Charles Read who is weli-knoRn
+ since he Was d yaungster. Reads, however, does
not go in for parsonal information, OF course,
because he is not in journalism Reade's
scheme Is to out ont from the papers every in
teresting inoident be can find, and every ene
Of those curious complications OF human
lafe which he came across every few days in
the reading Of every large journal, wherever
published. Raade also keaps q complete list
OF the newspaper reports Of great crimes. He
will take one OF these crimes us the basis Of a
novel, and out OF it he can draw a plot Of great
vigor and depth. u. S5 7..s Z o== ID.
Townsend is a STOUT may,{ OF medium height.
with Horld complexion, and quiet manner.
he usually wears a Prince Albert coat, dark
trousers. and plug hat He has D dark
moustache and gray eyes. 4 His nose turns
slightly downWards at the end, and his hair
ls brown: Tits singular thing that a man
w jail tsttA 20 .WeiI 10 SH0fb-nauos }WTltsfS
makes 80 bad q speech after dinner But an
after dinner speech, when yous come Ito think
Of It, IL about the hardest thing on
earth TO do in ~ q a38 satisfa factory man
nor. Townsend usual gets around it
by making two orf three intro dnc tor y remarks,
winding up with ing that hel cannot at this
time fix his mind upon any particular thread,
but that Instead Of making a speech he will, if
his hearers consent, recite few verses of his,
own compositions. He then gives them Little
Grisette-a rhymed story Of the sort of,*iife III,
Paris which everybody reads about and nobody
gets a look At The little grisettes saw in
and were abnorma!ly TO tho use Of IN
toxicants. II the students in the Latin quarter
like that sort of thing they can hare it, so far
az any civilized human being is concerned
However, MIR. Townsend's poem is full Of life
and very well written, but it is too ideal "a be
at all realistic. He recitos it very well, between
puffs at his after dinner cigar 1t is a good
scheme to have something of this kind always
on tap, and to have q proprietary interest in it
that will keep anybody else from collarins; its
idea. A+.- = ~
GENTLE JOE HOWARD. ! -
While am about it, might as well tell you
something OF the other actors IN this littls
acknowledgements episode. 1t has always
struck me, by the by, as rather curious that
Journalists do not fight oftener. No class Of
men on earth say bitterer things about each
other, and none feel SO badly when they are
attacked Isuppose Joe Howard has fred Off
was the boss editor of tic New York
Star, at the beginning of that papers career.
he made things pretty lively around Printing
House square while he was down there. The
first thing done by Howard to attract general
attention was the framing Of the bogus proc
lanation puporting to have been signed by
Abraham Lincoln, for which Joe was sent
down the harbor and kept in irons for q long
time That wss during the war. Even
under these trying circumstances he was full
Of good, nature and generosity: Some other
went down with Joe, didn't have penny to
his name. Howard found in the bottom of one
of his pockets, rolled up so small that
You, could have put it in a goose
quill, $l0o greenback, !. which, with
journalism to which he is addicted. he had put
there out of reach, This he produced, and
during his stay down al the fort, dragging
ball and chair around, he '<whacked up" with
his companion, not because he had known
him, or had been friend Of his, but simply
because he was a fellow prisoner in the same
hot water he himself was tiounderng through.
Joe is one Of the most versatile and inexhaust-
ible writers in America; although he has writ
ten until the hair is all of his head, and
although he can remember back SO far that
everybody who has only been in
journalism simple matter of half
him as a. patriarch. Joseph is
one Of the most energetic aud Woodworking
men in the profession and he earns a lot Of
money When he left the Star he went to-. the
week. He sends the Philadolphia Press a
letter for every Sunday, which pays him 800
It is pretty tart letter. but it brings readers
to the Press office, and that settles its value in
the publishers eyes Every now and then, too
I notice some work over his signature in the
know what other papers he writes for, but he
does some work for commercial houses in
$4,000 to $40, 900 year. Howard is one
Of the gentlest aud incest chaps in
all Ways, anybody can wish :; to
single man in journalism, barring Townsend,
who feels resentment enough against Joe
Howard to give him a rub Of serious import in
q newspaper. He had lots Of enemies at the
time he ran the Star in the interest of Bill
Tweed and that clique, But By his genuine
good hunor and iunfaltering clinging to all
those who have been friends of his, Joseph
has lived down every particle of ill-natnre
there ever was against him. He works in a.
chaotic and spasmodlc sort Of way, but man
ages to turn out interesting material all the
time There is about as much system 70 him
into an article and spreads over pretty much
the entire surrounding territory. but he sell
doms shows any violent hostility for anybody,
and his extremely wide knowledge OF men gives
him value to a. paper like Il the Herald
where his position is of that semi-editorial
Whenever any big thing occurs anywhere In
The country, Howard is sent to g do'' it. Dur
ing the last presidential contest he had charge
of the campaign. He came out OF it smiling,
contented, fun Of friends and af1uent He
knows every 5rick and rope.of Journalism, and
he pulls them all with equal success -
Idon,t know, how old joe Howard is, and r
don't know anasyo1y who does know how old
he ia. He has ground, benevolent face, with
q gray moustache, and patch Of goatee on
his under lip, about the size Of a, dwarfsd
mushroom ~ !. He has pleasant gray eyes.
through gold bowed glasses. His head
shines like the top OF the Massachusetts, state
house, and. hair is equally visible on both
globes Usually he wears white, soft felt hat
which is the only remnant OF his ambition to
step intosthe shoes Of the late Thurlow Weed.
Around his neck he has q long gold chain,
which leaves you divided ia opinion as to
whether he is 3 circus man or the press agent
of a railroad company. He is addicted to low
vests, and on the middle of his shirt front
there is q gold cross, with q diamond in the
centers Hs, has 8 ssenial3and comforting man
minute than any other man in Americas He
is just the same man be was twenty years ago,
in. every particular !. that can SEQ.
time: comes ne will quistly blow away. without
aging day, or growing venerable worth i
darn Between you and mel say it secretly,
mind yonI believe Joe Howard has found the
eternal spring Of Ponce de Leon. The other
day was up at High Bridge, on the HARLEM,
river, when saw him coutenlpa ating sliding
elevator which was carrying people up The
high bank from the water ''s edge in warns.
y s'Im the capitalst Of that affair. said Joseph
It costs $15 week to run il, and We are taking
800 d day. Lets take Pomnery. You can get
cam-b bake at the top.aud glass Of beer ct The
bottom. Is & Il LEANDEE RIuHARDs0N.
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