The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-01-21

A prominent figure at the Nineteeth Century
Club and one of the gentlemen most intimately
associated with Mr.. Palmer in its inception
and early work is Mr.. Parke Goodwin, the vet
eran editor so long connected with the Egenin9
Post, and one of the last remaining of that
famous band who participated in the dream OF
Fourier, and believing that heaven could be
reached by a single bound endeavoring to real
ize their earthly Paradise at Brook Farm. NOr
did they failEsimply the world was not.ready
for such self-abnegation and continued sepa-
ration from it,Or modern mOnasticism was not
to be expected on the part of men and women
so rich in energy and mental gifts. Almost all
the Brook Farm eXperimentaiiSts became IA
nous afterwards, and, with a few exceptions,
they did not believe the dreams of their youth,
although they had discovered their impract.ca-
bility.
Mr.. Parke Goodwin, hearing the same some
what unusual name, and known for his early
advocacy of socialistic ideas, is often con-
founded with the husband of Mary William 1.
Goodwin, the English Author, was born in
Cambridgeshire, England, and died in London
in 1886. He never came to this country. Mr..
Parke Goodwin was born in Paterson, n. j., in
1916. He was educated at Princeton studied
law, but perhaps owing to his marriage with
the daughter of Mr.. William Cullen Bryant,
drifted into Journalism and became first edi-
torial contributor, afterwards managing editor
of the E0eniag Post. Mr.. Goodwin has always
been AMMAN of ideas, interested and laborine
for social, political and religious enlargement.
He has written many books distinguished for
thought and ability and has many of the quail
titles as a leader, but perhaps he is too far in
advance. He cannot work with the instru-
ments nor toward the object of the crowd, and
SO he has generally found himself with the
fated minority who live and die working fol-
but misunderstood by their fellows.
Mr.. Goodwin is now nearing seventy-his
massive head is covered with a name of snow
white hair, but he is seemingly as energetic in
work, and as active in every cause that ap-
movements as tend to the elevation of the
workingman, the opening or building up OF
schools and colleges for women, laying a foun-
dation of a National School of Music, and OF
American opera, work for the Bartholdi fund
all these and cognate enterprises find q will
ing and efficient helper in Mr.. Goodwin, who
believes in man as part of the mind of God,
and in the infinite possibilities of thoughts
and reflection, by which he is distinguished.
The picture given is not from a photograph,
Mr.. Goodwin never having had one taken, but
from an engraved copy of a portrait painted
some wears ago, and which, therefore, does not
convey the serenity which the snow of years
has impaired to the lines of an always strong
and striking face.
One of the vice-presidents of the Nineteenth
Century Club and one of the interesting and
remarkable men of this century is Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie, a Scotchman by birth, the town of
Dumferline having had the honor to be hi:
place of nativity, but a large-hearted lover of
his kind, a genuine man in every fibre, and a
republican in the broad sense, from the crown
of his head to the sole of his boots. Mr.. Car
negie was born in 1885, and is therefore fifty
years old, but he does not look a day over
forty, and combines in an unprecedented de-
gree business habits and faculties with grasp OF