Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-11-30
l'WH HAT NEW YORK TALKS OF.
h The Elegant Ex- Editor Of the World Discussed
in the Candisa a Light Of. a Tut
HE b ass., @ 5 Hunter. ID
Adelaide Detnhon's Success. and Rev. Mr..
Frothins hams Failure Manicure and
Matrimony Incompatible. Sz 4
A Rash Social Hereto, who Declines to BE
Instructed by Don't" Gossip or ] 1
n s>E 4 the Thtaters. - = i ~

New York. Special Correspondence, Nov.
14.-Mr. Henry Irving asked me the Other
day:
d ''Who IS Mr. Hurlbert2 Mr.. William Henry
Hurlberi2' ~ &s't . # $500,
HE Is brilliant and accomplished America,
editor" / said: who has graduated from this
country and gone to Europe to live" .-; -
He Is quite rich, believer he added, inter
negatively; for he has invited me to come up to
his shooting box in Sutherlandshire. in the very
north of Scotland. and he gave me fine package
OF letters of introduction to eminent Americans"
y did not think it in good taste for me to
enter into explanations to him. but can now
tell him something about Mr.. Hurlbert through
the medium Of your journal mr. Hur|bert,
recently superseded by Mr. Joseph Pulitzer as
editor of tho World, is ono Of the most gifted
Journalists that America ever produced. He
is essentially q great man. In law
he would have made q distinguished
juristr id theology, d famous Arch
bishop: in politics, leading senator. He pos
sessed the overrn ., tering quahtes-a firm
grasp Of things, quick decision, rapidity IA
cility, boldness. elegant diction, scholarship,
nne manners, O. memory SO retentive that he is
an authority to all who know him. He never
r
mental wealth, he lacks the one vital possess
sion, ''nose for news" and an Instructive
knowledge of what tho people want so the
World failed under his ma !agement, and Jay
Gould gave him 800, 900. on which be has To-
tired to Great Britain, where hs will doubtless
spend tho remainder Of his life. He will
never return TO Am RIGA ''D-n American
he used TO e1claim in raka'ive moments; 'tEn-
nd ia ha ,r,i,r ~ re r31 FNr a
gentleman's residence" Hur.bert was born a
century and half too lste, and on the wron.
side Of the planet If he had been crony OF
Steele and Pope and Addison whom they met
to take their gin under tho Drury Lane the
alter, whittier tn latter had fed to escape from
tho torment Of the vixen Countess Of Warwick,
/ think his cssac would now be enrolled among
the famous ones- But no postponed his birth
fatally Hurlbert is a tr,he like Addison; like
him IN ripe scholarship, in delicacy of percep-
ton and sent s1ent in certain gentle humor:
as to the gin. the &c. bows of the Mincio" will
testify. He has NJ countess of Warwick, but
is a perverse bachelor His bachelor quarters
in the old University building, Washington
square, were fitted up in u style of oriental
splendor fit for . prince; Indeed, his few init
mates spoke OF him habituallY as ssPrince
Henry,"a title that we'll fitted him. He some
what resembles King William Of Prussia, and
de cutivates The likeness.
THIS last fact, by the way, is key to his
character. He r"eognizes no human being as
his equal, bat considers al either his interiors
or Supporters Suprriors are all who have
wealth or title; interiors, all o hers. To the
former he is obsequious and sometimes syco-
phantic; to the, latter, severe. discourteous,
domineering never exchanged word with
Mr.. Hur,bert in my life: indeed, he was not
easily accessible to anybody; but
know that to his employees in
the Office he was often terror.
Mr.. Hurlbers has a mania for titled people, as
poor Mrs. Bobbins had for fried cucumbers,
and he probably knows more of them than any
other American mot excepting even Mrs. Paran
Stevens Like Tom Moore, he ''dearly loves a
lord;" and be loves wholly who can make him
acquainted with = lord Ho seeks to know 3
Squire az a stepping stone to baronet; he
eultivates baronet as :. stopping stone to an
earl have No doubt that he and the prince
of Wales have chunlmy acquaintance by this
time, Everybody knows abou, his intimacy
with the khedIye Of Egypt, which enabled him
to wheodia that august parsonage into giving
him Clsnpatra's needle for Central park. He
is now happy in England He may sometime
stray to Br ,zl, for be speaks Portuguese; to
italy, Prussia, Spain, for he is familiar with
hose Languages, and would be at home; but he
will never exile himself by returning to Amor
lea. Hurlbert always was as lonesome out Of
England as John K as was out of Greece
MISS DETcHoN IN ENGLAND.
Speaking of England, I am reminded Of 4
young American girl who is making her mark
tl ere aud is about to come out in a London
theater in ar part under frst-rate auspices
Miss Adelaide Detchon. This lady possesses
very captivating sort Of petite beauty, and a
voice like bird, which is trained to all sorts of
bird utterances; and she has made striking
success in New York in a narrow range of char
acters, like Dolly, in Wives, q comedy, which
she has bought It is known to be almost i'm
possible for an American TO get q star engage
mant in London without paying large bonus.
but have ju~s received g. letter from Miss
Detchon whch announces her success. Mrs.
Labouchere, having had falling out with Mrs.
La"gtry has taken up the New York beauty
sdyised her, coached her, praised her, made
way for her in society. On first arriving in
England six months ago, Miss Detchon {pro-
noupced De-shon. accent on last syi1able) spent
some weeks atStratford, whore or whereabouts,
an plain blue flannel dress Tor gown, as they
always say IN England), she ransacked all the
haunss Of shaksp are, and shouted her favor-
ite parts through the woods and over the hills
pretty vision, doubtless, to the rustlcs OF
those parts She went to London, and Mrs.
Labonchere ard husband became her ,nfuen-
tial frien'1s, and for some months, now, she
has been ehirpingl in the houses OF the nobility
Al last Mr.. Edgar b. uce manager OF the new
London thea or to which the prince of Wales
has given his lame, decided 10 accord her a
hearing as candidate to open that line place
of amusement . r.
Il have just been through most trying ordeal, ,
Mr. BrrcA, everything depended on being il good
health and voice. Alasl J. caught a slight cold,
which frightened and frightened, aud closed dawn on
my voice, which grew DINNER and DINNER. Inc
gasp. resolved not to ru1 the risk OF postpone-
NAV, but to call up all my resources and depend on
I ! 1unned and froIicked reckless'y sang like a
creskiug doar. 1cairrnped like frog. I boho,
linked without the bobbte. Well, won. Aud
now hold contract with MIR. Bruce. bs the terms
of which he brings me out properly as star DUR
ing the gay Loa1ou season. on terms highly advau-
tageous and satisfactory to me" ~ :.|.,l. >
u On this very point New York manager
8showed me a Iettrr from London yesterday
I which said: .'Ilsste Miss Detchon, who ma e
sucn biz IN Wives. has been engaged to open
to open the Prnce's, at the same. salary that
was paid Langtry here" I know lot of
: Young men here who sre so badly mashed on
AGel&lue 6Qat SOIDe Ol tilStl Dcf6Fy 4thoAy
to go over to b- prevent on the: great occasion
- Da. rRoTHINGHAM's CHURCH.
On the retirement Of Rev. Mr.. buckingham
from the platform of the Third Unitarian So
ciety hare, fpnr years ago, the church became
( inert and iifelass as the members had been
!. drawn together mainly by his peculiarly rad
zeal views and p,werful method Of statement
AS thev@ had not been attracted by any phase
of religious feeling. but only by . variety Of
theological Thought, they could not be held to-
i gr Their when the MI gnet disappeared. They
we're pure deists Oh tneisis, believers III one
God only, ansi In Him, not rs q personality,
4. but as tho Soul OF Things: and this they de-
f clared Jesus himself to have bean. whom they
never aposs Of as Christ more than Matthew Ar
terin n, t.a firi. tt,st mem bars Of The