Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-11-23
CAREER OF A CORRESPONDENT.
An Old Journalist Tells the story o
Henry Wizards Career-Whitelsw Reid.

An Old Journalist Tells the Story of
Henry yiIIard's Career-WhitcIaw Reid.
simultaneously with the transfer of the
Dutch Castle" which Henry Willard built
in this CITY, to Whitelaw Reid of The Tri-
bune. the former reappears IN New York as
agent of syndicate Of German bankers,
who have employed him to make invest
ments here on n wholesale scale. The CON
Germs of these two men have been remarka-
bic and they have been simultaneous and
almost on the same fields. ! first knew Vii
lard in lS6l, i'll Kentucky. where he had
gone as a New York Herald correspondent,
with the idea of establishing Il Herald bureau
in Richmond His earthly possessions at
that time were his salary and his audacity.
He employed the latter in proposing TO Gen.
Tecumseh Sherman his plan of serving The
Herald IN the south, ami was told that he
attempted TO cross the lines into the Con-
federacy he would I've shot as spy. There
upon Willard got out of Shermans depart
ment and published the story that Sherman
was crazy He made another attempt when
Gen Buell. was in command of The depart
ment but never succeeded. rs late rs l>,Hi
he was Tribune correspondent.
| heard little or nothing of him after that
until about 1870. when he was getting UP a
guide book for emigrants to this country
He had little money then. His aCcunIula-
tiou Of several milliouS-in bonds and other
paper-muSt have been made between IS-J
ami 1883 1t had all to he surrendered ex
c,pt the Dutch castle he had given his wife
and for which Mr. Reid has just paid al gu.
S4UO, ,UpO-about half the cost Of the unfinished
structure.
originally met Mr. Reid shortly after my
fist encounter with Willard. 1t was before
Corirth. and he was there rs war CORE
~pondent He had some property i'll Ohio
and owned some stock in The Cincinnati Ga
zette, but | fancy hi, pay as a correspondent
more than equaed his income from other
sources He was Washington correspondent
of the same paper after tine CioSe Of the war
and until about 1861, when he became an edi
torial writer on The New York Tribune. He
bought some of its stock az the time On the
expulsion of John Russell Young Reid he
came managing alitor. After the death OF
Horace Greeley, whose brain had succumbed
at the almost simultaneous loss of his wife,
his defeat for the presidency and the knowl-
edge that The Tribune had been sold to VIII
liam Orton and Il syndicate of capitalists,
who wished to make Schuyler Colfax the edi-
tor, Mr. Reid showed me check for $4,000
paid him for four shares of stock, aud which,
he said, represented his dissolution with The
Tribune
suppose Reid i worth 81, ,0OO, 900 or more,
which he has made since 1871 by personal in
yestmentS. Unlike the mcteOric Willard, he
has managed to keep it all in secure invest
ments. There was another thing in which
| the two men were in direct contrast. Reid
had very delicate constitution and had TO
take care of it, and at ~ he is strong and
healthy. if not robust Willard was of mag
nifcent physique and hardy constitution. He
has used them roughly, and at - he has by
no means the health he once enjOyed.-Wil-
liam F G. Shanks in Chicago Herald.