Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-05-08
GEN. LOGAN AT WORK.
The Progress He Is Waking with His
History.

The Progress He Is Waking with His
History.
Gen Logan is Just now the hardest
worker among the statesmen at Washing
ton, writes correspondent Of the Phil1-
delphia Press. Besides attending to his
senatorial and social duties and very
large private correspondence he works
four hours day on his history. He
finds time for this extra labor by adopt
ing the good old plan Of early rising.
BY the time that most of his fellow
senators have risen and breakfasted the
generals pen has travelled over several
pages of manuscript. He is always at
his desk by o'clock in the morning.
Between that hour and II all the daily
work on 1.-THE Great Conspiracy" is
done. The room in which he works is
the smallest Of the apartments in his
beautiful home near Boundary. 1t adj
icins his dressing room, and is furnished
in style of soldierly simplicity. The
floor is shining black oak, covered with
here and there rug. A bookcase ill
one corner contains about three hundred
volumes mostly historical and politico-
economic works-bound uniformly in
red leather. Two pictures adorn the
walls, one fine portrait of Gen. Grant
on horseback and the other printing of
the battle of Chapultepec. The senator
sits at large walnut desk directly in
front of the only window in the room.
The general works in his usual senate
attire, with his coat buttoned closely up
to his neck. With scarcely movement
of WEAKNESS he sits erect hour after hour
till the usual daily quota has been add
ed to the book. He is by no means a
fluent writer, but he is very painstaking
one. A page of about two hundred
words is bis hourly average. He is
never satisfied with the first copy, nor
does he instrust it to his secretary to be
rewritten. He writes it over again him
self, often spending more time on the
revision than on the first draft. At near
ly every page he takes down one of the
books of reference from the top of his
desk. He can readily find the matter he
wishes to see, because, before beginning
his history, he spent several months
hunting up authorities and marking the
pages which he fore-s saw would be of
use to him. When he has referred to
book he does not indulge in that habit,
SO dear to the heart of most men of let
ters, of throwing it aside on chair or on
the floor, but replaces it carefully. If
thoughts refuse to come or words decline
to express them the only sign of annoy
ance observable in the general is a vigor-
GUS pulling of his mrstache. At the
stroke of II o'clock he stops writing,
often in the middle of page, wipes his
pen carefully, and sees that every book
and every sheet of paper is it's proper
place before leaving for the senate
chamber
A great deal has been said and written
about the important part that Mrs. Logan
has taken in the composition of ''The
Great Conspiracy This is all bosh.
Gen. Logan has composed every page
of the book yet written, doing even the
work of copying without aid.
In fact, he has imposed on himself much
labor. With mind full of
on the subject and good
flow of language he might have had his
history in press long ago if he had avail
ID himself of the services of steno-
yrapher and secretary. He loves this
work of itself, however, and fingers over
t as lovingly as the youthful poet ling
srs over the first offspring of his i'm
lgination.