Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-10
CHAT.

that luxurious journalist, Mr.. Hilton
Clarke, who absorbs the enthusiasm, de-
votion and services of the jeune premier
Fitzgerald, and leaves him to short rations
| and dreams of glory in London, while he
revels in all the delights of fastidious life
and the costly surroundings of a reigning
potentate.
1t is not shown that Mr.. William Henry
Hurlbert, late of the New York World,
ever took with unrequiting and lofty
| nOnchalance, the work of his newspaper
associates, but still when you read about
his art treasures and bric-a- brac now on
exhibition and sale at Leavitt & Co.'s art
rooms in New York, your thought re
verts to his antelope, Mr.. Hilton
Clarke, who retired to the continent
for very good, or indeed very bad reasons
of his own, without having the power to
make such reimbursing disposition of
his costly effects.
1t takes quite a catalogue to number
and describe the fine possessions of the for
tunate Mr.. Hurlbert. There are hundred
pictures of the representative schools and
one magnificent Turner.
! There is oriental Sevres and Saxony
! porcelain, old French furniture. bronzes,
French and flemish tapestries, Daghestan,
Smyrna, Persian and Turkish rugs, Chi
nese and japanese vases, rounding up
with plaques and arms in plenty. There
are prints, gold articles, and aquarelles
which the fortunate Mr.. Hurlbert will
| store during his absence abroad.
%Was ever poet so trusted before"
Was Johnson's saying over Goldsmith's
financial condition and similar
ly ones ejaculation on reading
this inventory is - did ever
journalist before have such noble and ex-
penslve belongings?
! Well, can't remember any.
! To be sure there arc lots of moseyed
! journalists, and large supply of yachts,
fast horses, big houses, Newport villas, old
wines, and no end of brand new glories in
dicative Of the fact.
| But somehow the mind reverts to the
starting power which made all this Alad-
din-like magnifcence possible.
Horace Greeley's foundation is worth
more to Whitelaw Reid than the Mills
finale to his fortune.
The rugged elder Bennett was the gritty
| lode out of which the irrepressible junior
draws his inexhaustible riches. Bonner
| and Childs being the quacks of newspaper
dom are outside in the specious realm of
humbug, and have no share in legitimate
| illustrative point.
Childs' prestige has been to entertain
Gen. Grant, whose presence could always
be counted on where there was plenty of
money, and Bonner's ambition was to get
ahead of all horse flesh on the road
But all these newspaper men, whatever
their reverses and fortune, have given
no eliminating evidence of wealth that
]. Tom Lewis, Daudet's wonderful char
acter in his "Kings in Exile" could not
have given them, until we come to the
fortunate Mr.. William Henry Hurlbert
with his glorious possessions combining
the rarest connoisseurship with unstinted
cash, representing the vigilance and lore
of a lifetime, and possibly the friendship
of Jay Gould.
From Horace Greeley, bristling with the
| eternal verities, as Carlyle would say, in
different about his surroundings and ap-
parel, investing mis- rarely superfuous cash
not in bric-a-brac, but in 1mpecunious,
prodigal Vanderbilts, and in the unreturn-
ing earth at Chappaqua to ''our Greek" as
Manton Marble used to call the
fortunate Mr.. William Henry
Hurlbert, is a jump from heaven
to earth. Greeley sent his treasures large
ly ahead, while Hurlbert's are mostly for
sale at Leavitt & Co.'s art store.
Perhaps in the esteem of estheticism
he who cultivates the line arts and delights
the eye with beautiful things, serves hu-
mainly in his way, and deserves applause
as we'll as if he Iabored among the eternal
verities.''
Pernaps-and moreover they are seldom
well recompepsed in this life
Nov this sort of talk brings me natural
ly to speak Of the remonstrance of a school
mistress in New York to the school board
of the city. She is now receiving $3.50 a
year for her services and she wants $4,000
a day like Patti. Her own petition will
put the case cogently.
''Permit me to inquire, gentlemen 1--WE quote
ment which she will file with the board, ''why
if Madame Patti hereafter is to receive $4,000
a night for her services, should not be paid at
least much for mine. She has a genius for
singing, and lit is the verdict of experts
have an equal genius for teaching. We both
get our living largely in the of our vocal or
gans, she in the opera house and in the school
house; she by entertaining, 1 by instructing.
What then? Is singing to be regarded as of pre-
eminent account and teaching of no account?
am lOath to believe, gentlemen, now that your
attention has been called to this matter that you
will deny my request, since to DO so would be
tantamount to an official decision that the
woman who entertains is first, while the woman
who instructs is nowhere
In some operas Patti gets SIS a breath, as
in Lucia" She is on the stage just sixty
two minutes in the role of Lucy Ashton.
and of a verify she does not waste her
breath. She is the best paid woman in the
universe protesting to work for living.
What are the revenues of all the other
danes, of whatever degree in instruction,
amusement and literature, besides the su-
perb bonanza in Adelina PATHS throat?