Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-29
FBUR F. STOREY.
che Great Chicago Journalist
4. Many Personal Char
acteristics.
loitable Energy and Great In
he Made the Times
Some Anecdotes.

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IN lost one OF her ablestjourn-
Eor almost a quarter of
/, Mr.. Storey has stood at the
'enterprlslng, aggressive and
.6,irnallsm in the Northwest
& has been on everybody's
Shopsands have pretended to
ultimately who would not |
.nIzed him IL meeting him
y During the greater part |
I've journalistic career he was
"a With his work and so UNI
n ali social obligations that
few friends of any sort. |
a dozen men in Chicago
an intimate acquaintance
His manner was such as
4 S,i.ndship, though when he
oonld be almost courtly in his
Known to hundreds Of
nv reputation, he daily
Toueh the streets of Chicago
iSsd when. If same one famil.
Nm eould have been at hand
I'M ont he would have been
nv a gaping crowd. Old
came a sort of popular super
His friends and enemies in
n with all sorts of angelic
Mo attributes. The Times
y and Storey was the Times.
nublic knowledge Of the
haracter who now lies
COLD IN DEATH
he'd, If the fact could have
a secret from his few inti-
might have died years ago
on the outside would have
difference. Mr.. Storey en-
Immunity from public in
ess. In the old days, when
4 quickly down the steps of
Sto his carriage, few of the
oticed him. During the last
"a of his newspaper career,
this Performance became
Mil, Paralysis had rendered
bst helpless, and as he was
N down the steps and across
8alk scores of people would
snd look Curiorsly at the wreck
ia man. Hundreds, doubt
Ind an idea that he was
10, for these were about the
flie appearances he ever made,
f oh were grievously mistaken.
went to Europe, in 1878, he
b, alert, nervous and almost
M Since then he had been de-
teadily in physical and men,
b, and for a year or more he
afflicted with hopeless inn
After he became incapable
Aging his property 1t was
hands Of men appointed by
ong before his health failed.
PATTON that recently resulted
to q quarrel between these
Mrs. Storey who is ambitious
in the journalistic field.
not curious that Mr.. Storey
ume to that state ofimbecility.
d done enough work
a dozen men. Fol
be was editor-in-chief,
e editor and the night editor
lines. He saw the last form tC
ceiyed the first paper in the
and was always at his desk
long before any of his as
He was a master of the bust
hll its details, and not until ht
pelled to did he relinquish any
be active direction of affairs
when he started an evening
Of the Times, he found thu
managing both papers to-
u him and he appointed al
taking good care, however
be known that the new maj
lRnsging editor of the evening
pnly. Some time after tina
anized the Times staff, naming
INST time in twenty years
glng and a night editor
authority. Before that tim
the Times was at the height O
lerlty, the Office was without
We the owner. All were re
70 MIN, and the plan workel
staetOrily.
days Of his strength Mr.. Ste
y Tor no man, high nor low
giants with pleasure; pig
~ an, or with contempt {
The bigger the game tn
enjoyed thepursuit. No ma
iiVea was more disincline,
Fhlenuy upon the failings {
When the Times was abou
rye a broadside against tn
episcopal bishop of Mich
storey was urged to forbea
lle OLD man was in his d0tag,
1e Kind ofsinners Pm after,
y; He is old enough tOkno,
de believed consclentisusl
way to make the world bette
; pose wrong wherever foun(
lpt OF shams was intensI
naa no patience with pr,
toadies. A poet of som
once called ON him. II
4 inqniringly. ~ am Mr..
SAID his visitor, land
pay nay respects.n "Whi
AM, sir" said Storey icil,
.ning,n replied the dashe
], as he hastily withdrev
3 oiey was fighting Boss He
b a. politics, the Times Gale
i ~ leader a thief repeated,
nsslng sent word to II
If that epithet WI
nm again he would do SON
one OF the Times write
summoned and instructe
ssn editorial calling Hesin
~ every other sentence, and
{ , s.S There was no shootlnl
sheh the Times had about
Az, scoops" on its contempor
SioI summoned the heads
Z NJ ~ 70 his room and said
I Ivy sss aIamnable" that the D
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