Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-10-24
RECOMMENDATIONS FIRST.
The Clever Ruse which an old Foreman
EMPLOYED Ia Get II Published.

/ read in The Tribune Of this morn
ing a very interesting Paris etterabout
the deplUrable quarrel between Erck-
mann and Cnatrinn, the literary part
ners who, under the united name of
Erckmnun-Charian have written 80
many patriotic novels, most of which
are translated into English and much
read in America. The particulars
furnished by your Paris correspondent
respecting the feud now dividing the
two are completed by the following
details, which | get from La Repub-
lique Franchise. They are highly in
tereSting, picturesque and true. since
they bear the signature of NJ. Edouard
Siebecker, a well known French pa
triot and a literary friend of Erck-
mann and Chatrian.
Erckmann and Chatrian's first
novel, The Ilustrious Doctor Mat.
theus," had been offered for publica,
ton as a ''feuilleton' TO the Paris pa
per Le Constitutional. The feuil-
Teton is a standing feature OF all
French journals; it is a novel pub.
lished daily, in slices, at the lower
end of the pages of the papers. The
novel had been ruSting for a long
while in the drawers of the paper,
when they found a friend inside the
place. And low, To cut the story
short. | viii merely translate the mar
rativc published by Siebecller.
Old Nathan Sichel was the foreman
of lie ConStitutiounel's composing
room. He interested himself in these
two young writers, who came every
month, each in his turn. TO inquire
about the future Of their copy, and he
resolved 10 help them along. The oc.
casiUn 10 dose came at last. II was ON
Il Sunday. On the preceding day the
word end had been printed at the
bottom of the leuilleton or novel then
in course of publication and the read
ers expected another 10 begin the day
after. Sichel invited TO breakfast the
compositor who had the key of the
bureau in which We're kept the manu-
scripts of the novels already approved
by the management and which was
nicknamed the bears cage" He
managed TO get his friend thoroughly
drunk. Then he repaired TO the pa.
per, and affecting 10 be ignorant of
everything, he raised a terrible stir
about that animal and Ounce" Y,
who did not turn up 10 open the man
uscript chest, and thus prevented him
from distributing the copy" Of the
new novel to be published.
WELL said he at last, Il have
just tished out in another drawer a
novelette,. III distribute enough of
it TO ill up the place of this mum
ber's feuilleton.n 1t was the manu-
script of his young friends. On the
arrival at the Office OF the managing
editor, old Sichel told him all about il.
whats the name of the author
asked the editor.
well, sir, a queer name. L. krian,
or Chairman. No, no. See, Erck-
mann Chatrian."
Don't know. But perhaps just on
this account the novel may prove bet.
ter than others. How many fcuille,
tons: How many days will it take
to publish ito
Five or six, by rough guessing"
That's very much. The director
may be down on us. But, after all.
You do not have the key of the bears
chest nor | either; and we have 10 fill
up the bottom space reserved for the
feuilleton. We cannot print in its
place: Ground floor TO rent Against
force no resistance is possible. Let il
GOT
And il did 90. THE Illustrious
Doctor Matthews" not for five or six
days only, as had said the cunning
Sichel, but it lasted fifteen ~feuilletons,
or days, aud hada tremendous success.
The door leading TO fame and fortune
had been opened 10 Erckmann and
Chatrian. Let me add that they were
not %ungrateful toward old Sichel,
whose eyesight soon failed him, and
who vas kept in alIluence until his
death by the two young writers whom
he had so smartly protected, and who
are. unfortunately, no longer the same
friends they were for thirty years.
Letter i'll New York Tribune.