The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-12-15
FAME rs CHEAP.
How IL May BE Obtained Through
New York Hotels.

I He who l. thirstiBg for fame let him
come 10 New York, put mp az one OF
! the leading hotels. and then get on
good terms with the clerk who has
/ charge Of Is literary department.
/ When / say fame, reckon that news
paper notoriety counts for such That
[ being the case, the literary bureaus of
( the hotels have system by which fame
| IL easily manufactured. These bureaus
are new attachments to the machinery
of well-Tegulated hotels, and. consider
I ing the time they have been in opera
| ton, they have done remarkable work.
Many a man has gained by them. e.
| peeially politicians, and a conspicuous
example among the latter class i
/ Postmaster-General Don VI. Dickin-
I son.
/ what does a hotel want with liter
Z airy bureau you will probably ask.
Because IL Is the best means possible
OF advertising the hotel One hotel
having adopted it the Others were
compelled 10 do so The genius who
I invented this system Is l.. r. Wall,
himself one OF the best advertised
men in New York lie IS connected
with the Hoffman house, and the sys-
/ tenn has become known among hotel
men as Walls perfect system SO
far az known this u the only city in
which II is ia operation. The eircum-
stances existing here are peculiarly ia
yorable 10 il. In the first place the
New York papers have n great par
TALLY for news OF the character usu-
ally picked up about hotel corridors.
Besides this Is the news center OF the
country, and correspondents Of out-of-
FaaEn "a. zf.anfalfx of This
matter.
The system had got in full working
order about the time of the inaugura-
ton of President Cleveland. Don II.
Dickinson was then little known out
side OF his State, except among the
leading politicians. For years he had
been coming 10 New York almost
every month without attracting
passing notice in the newspapers. All
OF a sudden he began to loom up as
national character. Every time he
came to New York some ingenious
story was worked up so as TO give il
new color which would act as an ex-
ouse for highly complimentary
sketch of the Michigan statesman. II
was owing TO the efforts OF this bureau
that Mr.. Dickinson's name was mem
toned for yice-president.
The most notable case is that of NY
ron Bangs, whose name has recently
appeared in every Democratic paper in
the land as the bosom friend OF the
late Roscoe Conkling who had given
$4,000 60 the Democratic campaign
fund. Two years ago Mr.. Bangs name
was hardly known outside OF the little
village in which he lives in central
New York. The literary bureau took
hold Of him, and to. day he is one of
the most conspicuous figures about
New York.
Nearly every newspaper has con
tanned something OF Colonel W. H.
Wilson OF Denver a. one OF the leaders
Of the American party and iae owner
of the birch rod which beat beneath
Stonewail Jackson's weight. as he fell
to the ground mortally wounded. lie
was nstonished when lac returned
home and found that his visit 10 New
York had made him famous. The
people ot my own town. said the col
onel. laughingly. "did not know ! was
a great man until they learned il by
way Of New York Colonel Will
Jam II Wade of -. Louis. now one
OF the best known men about the re.
sorts here, Is seldom mentioned by
the papers OF his own city except
when they copy what the New York
papers say about him. Here he IS
known as q double millionaire and the
man who took the last drink with
Jesse James
Francis, the Democrats candidate
for governor OF Missouri. IN one visit
here last winter achieved more news
paper notoriety than he ever did he
lore. and he Is now receiving the BEN
eft Of it. General William L Walsh,
eX-Mayor Of Hot Springs, now lives
here. and not week passes that two
or three paragraph, do not appear in
the papers about him, II left Arkan-
sas Because was plain. everyday
citizen. he saws. but by living here
az a leading hotel | can he one of the
conspicuous men Of the metropolis OF
the country And So il goes.
1T is likely 20 become general.
said the father Of the system, repeat
, ing my question. Yes In ali the
large cities, Tor il pays the hotels here.
Tho average man i fond OF newspaper
/ notogietv. only he may differ As - the
/ kind, II he is much ST politician Il
is necessity To him of course we
/ Csu only have men written up that
have some standing at home, even If
he is from small city and Is MAYOR
OF it. Every man has had some inter.
cStinE event ia life \ paragraph
about Il In a New York paper Is SURE
10 bee copied ip the local paper at hi,
home, aud his pvighaors cOaclude that
he must he a man of some consequence
"a attract attention In New York
This pleaScs him aud he becomeS a
drummer for car hotel and a gen
cral thing he wbl remain louecr and
come ofJeacr thsa he would ether
Wise.