Arizona republican., 1891-07-19

which It's publisher Charles De Young founded, in 1869 or 1870, the San Fran cisco Chronicle. De Young-was alway: predicting that he would start a great morning paper. Almost every op< laughed at the idea. But one morning he did start it. Then they stopped laughing,
 One morning while correcting my proof in The Dramatic Chronicle com. posing room the building commenced shaking. It shook and shook, and then shook harder. It generated general tendency on the part. of the printers and editors to steer rapidly for the stairway. Iwent with the rest, bringing up the rear, That was the great earthquake oi 1868. l was the first to go back to the office. It looked as if it had been ern. phstically, industriously and elaborately struck by lightning. In about thret minutes afterward a pale, scared com positor put his head in the door. See ing me, he exclaimed: Great Gosh Did you stay here through it all?' In advertently l said no. With more pres ence of mind might have said, ''yes, , and gained a fine and heeting reputation for courage.
 In 1868 had a call to edit The Stock ton Gazette, Democratic campaign pa. per. obeyed the call, ran the paper fol five months, was well paid, but got tiret of the job and retired to San Francisco where 1 skirmished again on the ragged edge of a decent living by throwing il contributions wherever they would b, accepted In the latter part of 1872 an inspiration seized me to go to England to advance by writing and talking tho good and glory of California. I raised about $500 from the business men of Sar Francisco by representing to them tht profitable possibilities of my self i'm posed mission.
 raised it in about forty-eight hours Ralston, the noted banker, handed m, $l0O in gold after curt and crusty in terview of three minutes. It was like boarding the lion in the big banker den, but the lion came down with tht dust, and l left the den, shaky and per spring with the agitation of the inter view. But the five gold twenties wer, in my fist. The San Francisco Bulletin engaged also to take a certain amount o correspondence from England
 To England went. l did there tht best could in writing and talking Cali fornia wherever l found opportunity, ir cities, town and villages, and think earned my $500 advance wages. Ispen1 two years there.
 One of my greatest troubles was the English chairman. One cannot give { lecture there without a chairman. The chairman must be somebody of impor- tance also The English cannot heal anybody without a chairman. The pc culiarity and infliction of the English chairman is that he will make such { long speech in introducing you and tell ing the audience what you are going tC say, so that by the time he is through most of the wind is taken out of youl sails and the audience want to go home
 In 1872 The Bulletin made it an ob. ject for me to visit the Vienna Worlds fair. l staid there two months, and got back to London with four dollars in my pocket, thanking my stars that had run the gantlet successfully of the many languages l encountered at different railway stations, and had not by mistake got on some train which might have landed me pennlless in Turkey or Siberia
 l returned to America in 1873, bring ing only wife and nine dollars. After some months of misery as an occasional contributor" the San Francisco Bulletin sent me as correspondent to the Centen, nial at Philadelphia. l forgot to say that operated the preceding winter iI New York as a weekly Sunday evening lecturer on divers and sundry descriptiv, topics, an occupation that brought mt more fame than new shirts.
 Once during this phase of my existence preached from Unitarian pulpit. But not acceptably. They never called fol me again.
 Destiny soon after this placed me on the editorial staff of the New York Graphic. There l suggested the con. densed column of local and general mat ter under the title of History of { Day" It was just what the paper want ed, for their illustrations took up SC much room they had not much left fol local news Mir. David Croly was the managing editor, and very good ont too.
 One morning while on The Graphic found on my table letter from The Bul letin asking me to serve as their Paris cor respondent at the exposition of 1878. IT forty-eight hours l was on French steamer.
 Returning after six months resi- dence in Paris l resumed my former place on The Graphic as the head boilel down and condenser of news. 1 fille( that position for six years, and left it fl 1883 because of being thoroughly tiret and sick of chronicling in short meter day after day the eternal round of mur ders, scandals, burglaries, fires, acci dents and other events which people deem it indispensable to know and swal low after breakfast. l became so thor oughly saturated with the horrors con sequent on civilization as to feel some mornings after l had stewed the preced ing days miseries down into smal mess that wanted to go for a dose o arsenic, razor, a pistol or Paris greer myself. So out of consideration for my sanity, if not my life, left the paper for they would not let me do anything else.
 retired then on very small fortune, and built with my own hands ram