Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-01

E. J. EDWARDS.
blest of the learned professions. 10 be q
thorough sailor 1t is said one must come
through the hawse holes; to be thorough
journalist one must have commenced at
the beginning, as has Mr.. e. j. Edwards,
who, by a series of remarkable achieve
ments, has directed to himself not only
the attention Of journalists, but OF many
Of the ablest men of this city.
Mr.. Edwards is of Connecticut birth,
and was graduated from Yale college in
1870, and at the Yale Law school three
years later, intending to make the profes-
sion of law his life business. By chance
he became the city editor of the New Ha-
ven Palladium, and afterward was for a
time with the Hartford Courant. From
there he went to the New York Sun, begin
ming at the very bottom round of the lad
der. In a year be was promoted to the
post of Albany correspondent.
1t was my good fortune, when postmaster
general in 1881, to find Mr.. Edwards in
charge Of their Washington bureau, and
cheerfully bear witness to the energy and
zeal with which he entered into the great
star route fight, which occurred at that
time, and the vigorous manner in which
0CuOQuCCO bltC COIluPb OCAdui
gang and held up their crimes to an indig
nant people, The results then attained by
the government were due more to the
press of the country than to the courts
1t cost something in those days to do these
thinga Men were threatened, and there
Is no question that during that terrible
contest, Mr.. Edwards and Mr.. Root, the
correspondent Of the New York Times
carried their lives In their hands. 1t Is
gratifying, after the lapse of ten years, &c
speak of the dauntless courage and loyalty
to right shown by these two men. Re
called to New York to assume the post o.
managing editor of The Evening Sun. be
remained there several years until he ac
cepted the post of New York correspondent
for the Philadelphia Press.
On Mr.. Edwards fathers side, he is oi
Welsh descent and inherits the push, per
sistency and obstinacy, together with the
full poetic imagination of that race.
Long before the outside public had in
quired as to the personality of the writer
of the brilliant articles which appeared in
The Sun, Mr. Edwards had won recogni
tion from the journalists, as was mani
tested by the numerous offers he received
to 30 elsewhere.
Hon. Charles A. Dana, at dinner given
by the staff of The Evening Sun, declared
in his speech that ''Mr. Edwards, in what
ever responsibility he had been tested, ex
celled. AS reporter his work is beyond
criticism AS an editorial writer he il
pungent and thoughtful AS q writer ol
romances his work was delightful, and al
an executive manager his career had beer
brilliant" Previously Mr.. Dana had writ
ten to Mr.. Edwards concerning his report
of the assassination and sickness Of Gen
eral Garfield, that he had never known G
better piece of consecutive newspapers
work in all his experience"
Outside of journalistic circles, Mr.. Ed
wards work has attracted tine attention O
men of affairs here by reason of its accu
racy, the brightness of his narratives anC
his ability to seize the salient point anC
deal with it as it merits.
Not long ago Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depev
said that he had Just witnessed the mos
extraordinary piece of newspaper work ii
all his extensive experience. He said tina
Mr.. Edwards called upon him in referenc
to public matter, and that he for fifteel
minutes narrated to Mr.. Edwards thos
things which were in his mind about ii
He noticed that the correspondent took n
notes, but listened with apparent interest
Mr.. Depew supposed that brief summar
Of what he had said might appear. To hi
intense astonishment, he found that b
had been reported with absolute verbal &C
curacy to the extent of two columns, ant
he regarded this feat of memory as some
thing marvellous
When Bishop Phillips Brooks, of Massa
chusetts, was preaching at Trinity churcl
Mr.. Edwards took a stenographer witt
| him to report the sermon. The shorthan,
writer became dazed with the rapidity O
thought and word of the great pulpit ora
tor, and utterly failed. Mr.. Edwards fel
back on his memory, and produced an ex
cellent report of the sermon.
| Ex-Mayor Grace does not tire of speak
| ing to his friends of a similar feat whic
| be experienced with Mr.. Edwards. an,
| Major Henry Walter Webb, the third vic
president of the New York Central rail
| way, indorses all that the mayor says @
| Edwards wonderful memory. To thi
the editor of the Utica Observer calls edi
| torial attention concerning Mr.. Edwards
and to his solving Of the mystery of tn
Goodwin murder, a problem which ha,
puzzled the New York papers for severa
| days, and which Mr.. Edwards letter t
the Philadelphia Press first explained
AS the New York correspondent Of tn
Philadelphia Press, writing over the nor
! de plume of Holland, Mr.. Edwards ha
made revelation of what legitimate col
respondence can be made.
Mr.. Edwards has very large acquaini
| Rnceship among those men of New Yor
city whom it Is desirable to know, and /
| esteemed by them in some respects wha
| Congressman Amos j. Cummings once d.
clared him to be-''the most brilliant @
| the younger generation Of New York joul
nalists." THOMAS l.. JAMES.
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