Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-04-27
WHITELAW REID.
BRIEF SKETCH OF THE NEW UNITED
 STATES MINISTER TO FRANCE.

His House in New York-He Will Proba- bly Have Some Difficulty in Getting Such Comfortable Quarters When He Goes to Paris.
 Whitelaw Reid, lately appointed United States minister to France, was born at Xenia, O., Oct. 27, 1887, and graduated at the Miami university in 1856. After acting for year or so as superintendent of the graded schools at South Charles ton, O., he bought The Xenia News, editing it for two years. He joined the Republican party at it's birth, speaking for Fremont. His newspaper was the first one in the west to advocate the nomination of Lincoln. He took an active part in the campaign of 1S60-61, and went to the convention as corres- pondent for three daily newspapers At the close of the session he became city editor of The Cincinnati Gazette, and at the outbreak of the civil war went to the front as war correspondent for that journal. He served on the staff of Gen. Morris, in West Virginia, with the rank Ol CdDU<tAu ab LllS ClOo6 O1 Ill6 III West Virginia campaign he returned to Cincinnati and wrote for The Gazette until the opening of the second cam- paign, when he again went to the front with Rosecrans, writing vivid descrip- tions of the battles he witnessed over the signature of Agate"
 In the spring of 1862 he went to Wash ington and was appointed librarian of the house of representatives, and acted as correspondent of The Cincinnati Ga zette. In 1865, accompanied by Chief Justice s. P. Chase, he made a tour of the south. MT. Reid published After the War, Southern Tour," as result of his excursion. In 1665-67 he engaged in the cotton planting business in Louis jana and Alabama, and published ''Ohio in the War" In 1868 he returned to The Cincinnati Gazette and became one of its leading editors. Soon after Hor- ace Greeley renewed his offer, first made in 1862, of position on The New York Tribune. The offer was accepted and in 1869 Mir. Reid became managing editor. Upon the nomination of Greeley for pres ident in 1872, MT. Reid became editor in chief, and upon the death of the founder became owner of The Tribune.
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 His New York residence is situated on Madison avenue, at the corner of Fifty seventh street, and looks out on the white Roman Catholic cathedral, with it's beautiful spires reaching far up into the heavens. It is in the center of the l residence portion of New York, and is on that avenue which is today what Fifth avenue was twenty years ago.
 Henry Willard on this corner began what he intended for an Italian palace to be composed of three wings in the form of a square, with one side open The structure was erected, but MT Willard became involved and the south ern wing passed into the hands of MT Reid. "By itself," says George Edga, Montgomery, corresponding with the Boston Herald, "this southern, or Reid wing Is an immense building quite a' large, fancy, as any of the Vanderbilt mansions It has the appearance of { massive square or rectangular building perfectly symmetrical, of brown stone and fiat roofed."
 The same writer thus describes the en trance: After going up 6 few ston' steps, one finds himself in a vestibul' which is large, lofty and cheerful; thi is lined throughout with Siena marble the frieze being marble mosaic of up right floral forms. A crystal light i pendant, and broad marble steps lead ul to the glass doors that lead into the mail hall This hall is, one may say, full 0 dignity and yet extremely cheerful.
 "Indeed, dignity and cheerfulness seen to be the key of the whole house. Blu to confine my attention to the hall fo the moment-this is superbly propor tioned and built completely of marble