The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-06-12
COREELL,S LOST MILLIONS.
strange Romance of wOman's VIII
FIsKE $4,000, ,000-AN EAGER EXEcU-
TOR AND A SHARP LAWYER.


FIsKE 1900, ,OOO-AN EAGER ExEcU-
TOR AND A SHARP LAWYER.
Daniel Willard Fiske was born in SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, and there, back in the for
ties, he passed his boyhood with Andrew
ID. White. Both were studiously in
clined. White went to Hobart Universe
ty and afterwards to Yale, and tlske en-
tered Hamilton College at Madison, n.
Y, where he became the friend and in
innate companion of Charles Dudley
Warner and Joseph r. Hawley, now u.
S. Senator from Connecticut Young
Fiske was recognized by all who knew
him as possessed of exceptional mental
brilliancy. His linguistic powers were
remarkable. At the present time, be-
sides being a fluent talker in the Eng
lish, German, French, Danish, Swedish,
Italian, Spanish and Arabic tongues. he
is looked upon as the most accomplished
Icelandic scholar living. A curious IN
cident in the Scandinavian languages
led to his going to Europe, and with that
purpose in view he left Hamilton College
before taking his degree. During that
| trip he became the champion of Bayard
Taylor, who was then trudging ON the
tramp that resulted in his Views
| It
PEELED him to become a student in Up
sala University, in Sweden, in which in
stitution he was the first American stu
dent, and there he subsequently obtained
his degree. After his graduation he
came to New York city, and was ap
pointed the assistant librarian of the
Astor Library. 1t was at that time that
his strong mental powers found dem
onstration in chess playing, in which
pastime he displayed remarkable ability
He organized the great American Chess
Tournament of 1851, which led to the
discovery of the wonderful powers OF
Paul Morphy; he was made secretary of
the American Chess Congress, and in
that capacity raised the money that en-
abled Morphy to make victorious tour
through Europe; he edited and pub
lished the records of the American Chess
Congress, and issued the first chess peri
odical ever published in this country,
The american Chess Mdgdzine. After
Morphy's return from Europe Fiske
showed his mettle as a master of the
board of sixty-four squares by defeating
the American wonder in what Morphy
said was the best game of chess he was
ever engaged in. In this connection it
should be recorded that Fiske had the
advantage of the advice OF two other
players of renown.
Fiske, however, had trend toward
journalism, and in 1865 he became editor
of the Syracuse journal. His manage
ment of that newspaper was not con-
spicuously brilliant, and was chiefly dis
tinguished by his success in achieving
the lasting enmity of Roscoe Conkling
A rather trivial thing was the cause |
During convention held in Syracuse
Conkling was called upon for a speech,
and delivered, apparently without prep |
aration, one of "the greatest efforts of
his life" Editor Fiske betrayed the |
fact that he had had the speech in type
for six hours prior to its delivery. In
1867 Fiskes boyhood friends, Hawley
and Warner, induced him to go to Hart |
ford, Conn, where he was made the edi-
tor of the Hartford CowrRt. He re-
mained there for about one year.