New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-04-23
NOTES FROM LONDON.
NIX j. s. MORGAN-MR EDWARD LLOYD-dl
GLADSTONE AND THE TINES -SHIPs
OF WAR - Mr. GREENWOOD

h"cica loses one OIL thc niost distinguished amor
those Of her citizens who live abroad Enclani
and America together have to lament ole OF TIM
most kindly and charitable Of men. His splendid
GIFTS 20 public uses are known; one of them. l
think, was larger benefaction than ay one in
this country had ever before given durin, bis lie.
time. Mr.. Morgans interest in his own country
was shown by his noble offerings to tn Metro
poLtan Museum, and in other ways Ba iced
not speak cf these. They will bring hin anple
tribute II gratitude and regard from many sourcs.
1t is the man we all knew him here in Lo,-
don wh'se loss affects us all the kindly strorr
man, with his extraordinary capacities and hh
amiaoe AID admirable traits of character, whose
successor we shall not soon see. AS i think Of
certain frhnds at home TO whom he was dear
friend, ant of their grief, my own regret is tie
more keen.
There was no one quite like him. l believe
they thought him in the City hard man of bust.
ness as all successful men Of business are hard;
success is not to be had on other terms lie stood
as high in that world anybody: since 1870 no
banker or tinancier was held In more respect;
there was none who had clearer view of the
essential facts of any transaction, or a broader:
none who commanded greater confidence mono
more upright. none whose name was a surcr
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made, and he easily preserved, the name Of great
house. Yet to one who knew him in private he
seemed to care MS much in these later years for
what lie called his farm, and for the life he led
there. lie had bought Dover House, at Roe
hampton, with its seventy acres Of land,
where lie amused himself by the culture of straw
berries and lowers ard Indian corn. lie filed
it inside with pictures and rare embroideries and
brocades and Injuries Of many kinds. He liked
10 show You Lis stables, and to tell You that he
could drive from Dover House to Princes Gate, his
town residence, in 25 minutes perhaps five miles.
He liked to hav. friends about him, his invitations
we're free, it pleased him if you drove out TO dino
without notice On Sunday, and he liked his
cook and his wives to be praised; as they well
deserved to be.
lie talked with that kind Of lucid precision
which is ia itself charm the talk of mar who
saw and thought for himself, and had definite
opinions and acted on them the perfection OF
good sense and In every sentence the force OF
character OF the man came out. The whole tone
at Dover House was one Of genialitg; there was
no better host nor did his kindliness 20 his guests
end when they had gone lie kept them In mind.
as they kept him. Then came the time when
he had to spend his winters on the Riviera, and
there, too, his Inequalities on the sane scale
and of the same fine quality. 1t is all over, tuero
and here One more. who by his powers ana Inc
dividuality stood apart from the rest, and above
so many Of them is gone. lie was seventy-seVen
wears old. and more than half Of them had been
speut abroad: it was here that he piled up tho
great fortune OF which he died possessed. lie was
mono the less American to the last, and by mona
more than Americans here and at home VIII ne Do
lamented
There died Yesterday one Of those unknown or
almost unknown men. who nevertheless have haa
an Influence difficult to measure OF their own
tin,es The man was Edward Lloyd. the founoer
Of "Iloyds News o paper o. which few A'nerl-
cans uerhaps ever heard. It is never quoted
hardly ever seen in the upper world may nos
even be reckoned by official personages as among
those forces which they are bound TO take ac-
count Of Yet it has circulation OF more IMAM
700. 900 copies: perhaps three times as much as
The Daily Telegraph which boldly continues
10 proclaim its circulation the largest IN tno
world when it is not. All his life long MI Lioya
las had 10 do with journalism, aud the struggle
Of his life was for cheap journalism Inc strns-
Gle lasted till the taxes on notwithstanding
duty. advertisement duty. paper duU-were aool-
ishcd He was one OF the few men VINO oenS'eo
II 70 be possible TO publish cheap paper with
ont news. properly so called. OF colfse he came
into collision with he authorities. They iouha
in his penny paper % isi2 story OF an acciden'
in nenagerie, forthwith declared mis- 10 ="
recvs and offered him the alternative of stopping
or stamping his journal. lie stamped it, ana had
If course 10 increase he price Of il. In the end'
with I SUPPOSE. some considerable help from mo
editing Of Douglas Jerrold. "Lloyds News De-
camc what we see Il to-day II is read IN every
nublc house and workshop all over the hinsdom'
It's owner made n great fortune, bat even uI'
did not imnair his energies. for late in He ~
founded The Daily Chronicle. ms JOURNAL
after the usual period Of vibration between SUI
cess and failure has grown into prosperous o'"-
mercial enterprise not yet. perhaps INTO very
rreat political influence. The impression nl@u'
ON the general public by The Chronicle das'
from the war in the Soudan. and the remarHapr
ability Of its war correspondent. Mr. Charles HI
Jams who then outstTipped all his rlvas III ''e
fold and gave his paper the earliest anu 'e''
neys from the scat Of war. That senc up us oi'
cul,tlon. which good business MANAGEMENT hep'
IN and still maintains and perhaps Ihcfea7S'
Still another new departure in Inc hines
which has imported champion writer from inc
nr-yery far-West, expressly III oreoef
saw things about Mr. Gladstone, An
the old stan had worn tnemserse'
cut their parts of speech had peen s e..
hausted: new blood was wanted an" '"' 49,
.nnr, Of il ensanguined yesterday niolnl"s 'I'
c rp columns Of the seventh page. Mr. Cl'a,
>tone has written a letter to Nr. Joun Oo''"N
reply to an address from the parochia' ";.h
q, Midlothian. and this is what the louIn"i WINS
Delane once edited says OF IL -, ho
Thinner bubble was never blown out OF sID
material of human speech, but, like the ii'.i' ny
attepuated films known to physical science, II w..
PLAYS irrdescent hues which VIII piOo ,,;,S he.
wilder and perplex parcchial meliee's VII" Wv
lusive suggestions of solidity'
If there be anything superior TO that IN '.e new rs.
,o,'rnaI,s,, If wyoming or IdaLo, it has not ye'
mode its way across the Atlantic
IN truth. Mr.. Gladstone.s letter Is no rec" 80
:" II, writes 70 thank Nh Cowan ana hs
friends in Midlothian for their address to him. ana
,ar o., ,hot singular combination-the phrase Is vi,
Gladstoncs. not mine-of conil'@hce all" ,n. ,sS
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