The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-11
GOSSIP ABOUT STANLEY.
Major Pond Tells Something About tho
Lion OF England.
New York Sun.


TIVE of the mementoes of the Stanley
craze in England. which Major ]. b. Pond
landed with day or two ago, were q
STANLEY cap of the kind which the ex-
plorer manufactured on the Congo from
piece of tent cloth, and some elder sprouts,
and q magnificent menu card, bound in
Carthagenian COW skin, the major says,
after the fashion of the first treaty made
by Carthage, the greatest African city.
The Stanley craze seems to have affected
almost everybody in Great Britain, from
the Prince of Wales down, except the new
governor of the Congo Free State himself.
STANLEY will be married July TO-" said
Major Pond, land his honeymoon is to be
spent in the Highlands of Scotland and
perhaps the north of England. inferred
from what he said to me that he would be
in the saddle a good deal. L am going
north after the 10th, but am not to leave
the island. / was guest at dinner to
which Stanley and Miss Tenant were to
have come, but Mr.. Stanley wrote that at
the last moment an unexpected call out of
town necessitated their absence. His
hair is gray. not white, now, and
he weighs, ! should say, from 100
to 10 pounds. He isn't tall man. not
more than five feet eight inches in height.
At the Stanley dinner Theodore Parker.
the famous London preacher came up to
me and said. Major Pond, l wish Won
would introduce me to Stanley Il will
not have TO GO far to do that, said l. the
gentleman with whom l have just been
talking is the man himself No, no. said
Parker. that can t be; why. that is a small
mani Stanley must be a great big fellow
wouldn't be surprised If on his wedding
tour he should do good bit OF writing.
sergeant Parks, OF the army, one of
StanIey's now famous quartette of COM
panions. is great social lion in London
now. He is a man of fine family and nres-
ence, and would. | imagine, create some
thing OF a sensation were he to come to
New York. Some week or two ago he
said to me: II consider Stanley an alb
soiutely trustworthy man. As a writer he
has the power OF putting facts as they are
not as he sees them. He is an intensely
earnest. always industrious man. As soon
as he goes into camp and into his tent he
gets at once to writing. describing his sur-
roundings aud the events and scenes of the
sias just past.
III is that habit of his. continued Major
Pond, which explains the straightioryard.
ness and accuracy of his descriptions. y
). olave. who went up the Congo with him
when Stanley set ont TO organize the Free
state, was thrown constantly with him on.
The voyage. He would stand up hy the raj
or balwarks OF the steamer, Giaye said To
me, paper and pencil In hand. and busv
himself constantly yith jotting down our.
line and bits OF narrative about the scenerv
through which We passed. So carefully vas
this done. though his companions scarcely
realised IL at the time, that in reading Stan.
ley 3 book afterward Glave recognized from
the explorers words the trends of the
river and the objects on its hanks observed
by Stanley and himself so long before
fond, II seems. Knew Stanley before he
came East, when the future exnlorer was q
reporter on the ST. Louis Desaoc,nf and tho
future lycenm director was living in WIS
eonsin. Pond, who had been in the army
used 10 go To st. Louis often. ana when
Stanley first Went TO Europe for the H,voly
aeout lsbs, considerable surprise WAS ex'
pressed IN 81 Louis by some of those who
had known Stanley that he should have
succeeded IN mission for which thew had
hardly supposed him fitted. STANLEY. IN
.hose DAYS, Was smooth-faced, black.
naired, rather stout young man. not nos;.
nyeiy good looking, and devoted to hisov,
business When lie was wanted TO do any.
thing he was always relied on and ALWAYS
proved trustworthy, He never had anv
other engagement" His mode Of life NJ -
as economical as quiet: no one in fscs
knew where he lived N''
former Cinelnnatian told me- soon
aiter eianiey's hrst return from Africa y
Major Pond says, that before he siarsss
on that hazardous expedition Stanley WAS
athsnoed 10 Miss Alice Pike, daughter nj
Samuel \. Pike, the rich old Cinclnna.;sn
who built the Grand opera-house tbers
on Fourth street. He said il was after her
that Stanley boat was named the Lady
tiics The story was, IS has been related
thaf not hearing from her lover Miss pits
married another. know personallv natn
ing about the truth OF the story. But do