Connecticut western news., 1890-02-19

AN ENGLISH JOURNALIST.

AN ENGLISH JOURNALIST.
 ". T. Stead of the Fall Mall Gazette
 He Has American Ideas Phe-
 nomenal Energy.
 In England the editor of a news paper has no such interesting person. 4ality as he has here. No matter what the influence or circulation of jour- nal, the name of the editor is rarely asked for. The two notable excep- tions, who prove this rule, are Sir Ed win Arnold, of the Daily Telegraph, and w. T. Stead, of the Pall Mall Ga-- zette. Of these two, Stead is by far the more notorious, for he has the more striking and eccentric personali- tY. The Pail Mall Gazette is the one sensational daily of Lou- don, and many sensation it has made. One of them landed Stead in prison and fame. ssThat was every thing to me--everything to me-" he is wont to say in his nervous, rapid way. "Why, do you know, woman told mo that she and ~lot5' of other women way off on the Cape of Good Hope used to have 6 prayer meeting for me every day"
 E Since then Stead has never dropped below the public horizon for more than week at time. No one gave such attention to the Maybrick case, or managed to gather so many little items of sensational in crest regarding it. No one keeps such sharp look out on public events, or moral lapse; no one makes so much of his material, or so arouses public scorn and sense of justice. A man of social standing who finds himself on the verge of. being inn plica' ed in an unsavory scandal, thinks shiveringly of the Pail Mall Gazette, before he does of the witness stand. Stead has motive in sensationalism aside from love of notoriety and the sale of his paper. He is. religious man, fanatically so, and is powerfully impressed with the idea that he has a mission in life. ....
 That mission is to expose sin and promote virtue, and he .smakes. for righteousness" to quote his own pet expression, for all he is worth. His energy and enterprise are phenomenal. No celebrity living has ever put his or her foot in England without being interviewed by Stead, and there are few in Europe whom he has not man. aged to mceG at some time or other. He may never print these interviews, he may stow them away in groom kept for the purpose, but sooner or later they have their value. He works ten hours day. The first to reach his office, he is the last to leave it, and during that time he supefintends every article that goes into his. paper, writes every leader, reads and replies to a correspondence which flows sina like waves of air, and receives innumerable visitor :..- ..-r .
 In appearance he is short, wiry, active, with fine head, and bright, restless, china-blue eyes. When 8 visitor is shown into a private office in the little alley of the Strand, he makes l grab for his hand and rattles along with such volubility, darting from one subject to aHother, haranguing, preach. ing, laying down the law, advising, re l proving, that the. bewildered visito' forgets his errand-which is probably what Stead intends. All the time his blue eyes dart needles right into one'f very soul. Stead thus knows his man
 without being obliged to hear him talk
 Suddenly he springs to his feet, grabs your hand again, and, when he is in one of his more inexplicable moods, bursts into peal after peal of laughter, which echoes after you as you grope through the labyrinthine corridors, as you stumble down the rotting staircase. and into the narrow little street. It is reported that Stead will sever his connection with the Pal Mall Gazette in the spring, come te this country, study American journal ism, and return to London to establish a paper whose idea, original witt himself, vii assuredly be like no other of which the world has ever dreamed