The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-26
STORIES ABOUT STANLEY.
AS Lecturer Twenty Years go Ee
Was Not Brilliant Success.

AS Lecturer Twenty Years go Ee
Was Not a Brilliant Success
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 22.-Henry NJ. Stanley,
the great African explorer, was. as has been
frequently stated, connected with the daily
press of st. Louis when a young man.
What that connection was, and how long it
lasted, has been variously and enormously
stated. Besides Mr.. Stanley himself, there
Is, perhaps, no better authority on the
question than Mr.. William Fayel of this
city, an old newspaper correspondent who
was Stanleys companion and associate.
Mr.. Fayel, speaking of Stanley to-day,
said: THE first time 1 met Stanley
was IN Jefferson City, in the win
ter OF '66. was in attendance as a cor
respondent at the legislature and vas board
l 6 at the Tennessee house. On walking
Into the office of the hotel one evening saw
young man neatly dressed, wearing a soft
lett nat with turned-up brim, seated it'll
his feet upon the stove He was iuuuisitive
and also communicative, and in short
time he had informed me that his name
was Henry NJ. Stanley; that he was
traveller, lecturer, and newspaper CORE
spondent; that he had recently returned
from an extended journey through Asia
on Turkey. He told me in detail the sub
stance Of his lecture, and in his enthusi-
assn got up and, taking a large sheet
OF Drown paper, made o diagram, or
syllabus as he called it, of the lecture.
DE also showed me some handsomely
printed tickets that he had struck off in
st. Louis on his way up, and which he in
tended placing for sale in the news stands
around town. The printing of tickets cost
him, he said. SIT, and after paying
for them he had but 81 or So left. / up
braided him for his extravaganza, and
asked him why instead he had not written
out his tickets on cheap cardboard and
saved his money. The idea, it seemed, had
never occurred to him, but struck him so
forciblY as the right thing that without
word he sprang up, and, getting the paste
board box containing the tickets,
hurled the whole package into
the fire and burned it up. The
following night he delivered his lecture,
but there were, to his great discourage
ement, only seven persons present, and three
of these were deadheads. From Jefferson
City Stanley went to Kansas, and l didn't
see him till some two months afterward,
when l met him in st. Louis one day while
on my way to the Democrat Office, to apply
for the position of correspondent on the
Hancock expedition against the Indians. He
informed me that he had just arrived, and
had got the position l was after. He left
Immediately to join Gen. Hancock's army,
then en- route from Leavenworth to the
Smoky Hill territory.
"At tie close of this expedition Mr.. Stan
ley located in Omaha and became CORE
spondent for several eastern papers, fur
nishing them with graphic accounts of the
depreda ions then being committed by the
Indians. Here was where first saw him,
in 1876, when. as correspondent of the Mis-
souri, Republican, i accompanied the Indian
peace commission sent out by President
Grant to make treaties and perfect arrange
ments for removing the various tribes of
Indians to the two great reservations l
saw a great deal of Stanley during this
time. He was quite a favorite with
and quick to see and comprehend points
and features of interest. Though young
and quite boyish looking on accou t of his
delicate frame and small stature he had
constitution of iron and possessed an in
domitable will and great persistency. Re
turning to st. Louis with the commission
where it adjourned, he remained in the city
two days to straighten up his aft tirs with
the Democrat. Not having drawn on his
pay during the trip he received some $500,
and remember that when he came to sign
the receipt he wrote the name of John
Rowland
"'What does this meant asked Mr.. Dan
Houser, who waited on him; 4 thought
your name was Henry NJ. Stanley The
young man explained that that was only
one Of his MONS de plume as a correspond
ent adopted out of respect to Mr.. Henry
M. Stanley of New Orleans, who had
greatly befriended and helped him when
lone boy in that city. This was in the fall
of 1862, and the last time Stanley was here.
went TO New York.