Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-04-12
ENGLISH idea OF NEWS
interviewing an Unknown Art
and Strictly Prohibited
in England
The Earl of Aberdeen and His
Experience With Ameri-
can Reporters
Editorial Opinions the Only
Information Regarding I'M
portant Public Questions

Tribune. They are beginning 10 Hhu
out on the other side that it is worth
something as an adjunct Of modern jour
nalism. But the idea takes slowly there
And if there is art in interviewing, so is
there art in being interviewed. Chauncey
M. Depew has got the latter down to
fine point. Englishmen have not had
chance to do that, and sometimes they cut
a sorry figure when being questioned by
reporters.
This was the case with the Earl OF
Aberdeen, who visited this country some
thing over two years ago. He came to
New York via San Francisco, and while /
crossing the continent managed. somehow, /
To elude the interviewer But when he
arrived here he was waited on by re-
porter from every morning newspaper, /
and the odds being too much for HIM he
was forced to capitulatc The reporters
interviewed him In body. lhey dluh L
get much out of him. lie was apparently
willing enough To talk, but was com
nIetply "nabbergastcd' by the novelty
IF the situation Yet, as everybody
knows, he is a man OF unusual a0luty LOT
an earl. As viCerOy Of Ireland ne maze
himself exceedingly popular. In parlia-
ment he made several guod speeches;
with reporters He nOuudercd aud STUN
bled. aud all he said in the course OF haIl
an hour. when boiled down, made only
half a column, and not a very interesting
half a column at lhal, II ne mao aIlo"eu
the countess to do the talking the result
would have been much better As twas,
she did help things along by coming TO
the noble earl's relief occasionally with
the right word in the right place,
Asa rule IriShmcn pass through the IN
,r1ARl hotter than EnullNn-
men. But Joseph Percy lyman, the sup
posed leader of the Irish lnvlncOleS,
showed up TO poor advantage Wheh ne
was first confronted 10y the lnierVlGWers
here. In Ireland he was credited with en-
gazing in the blacklist sort Of conspiracy:
IL was allcged-and he has never denied
it-that he PLAYED a prominent part IN I'D 81
stigating the Phoenix Park murders. ne
was, Therefore, presumably a man Oh
nerve. But when he first met the report
ers he actually ucmbled. lie reminded
one of timid young man making ms hfSI
speech before u debating club. lie SIMPLY
COLLAPSED" The meeting was by APP
polptmcnt, too lie was gotten up cIabo-
rate,y for the occasion in SUIT OF broau-
cloth and black kid gloves. lhal was
several years ago. since then MI lyman
has done some Interviewing himself, ana
would PROBABLY aCQuiJ himself much pet-
ter now. r,t.
first time ever went through tlic inter
viewing process better than dld lu'
Right Honorable Joseph Chamberlain
NJ. F." To use a slang phrase, ne 'caughI
On, at once Some OF the reporters who
intarvinwpd him subsequently paid hin
tho highest compliment they could pay
W. H., ,oTnarad him TO Chaunccy NJ
Depew, that best and most gGnlal lileh'
vi w., ~, rig,bt eidn Of that boJherSume lGiSl
om 7he would have been exceedingly
qu0,,SI,r harn
b. CbomherIaip ON his native hcati
vii rnt he suteryicwcd. Nor will any %
Ihe o.ngi n,S ,I,d Ihrn IN Involves no en-,
ldio 80 49,, w., ,',t.,,,ca IL once when II
r%u doing some newspaper work
! ra,,,ivcd a ra6legram ordering me TO in
t.,,i,,g, .,C;Iadstnnp. Salisbury, Bright
!. E ~ to,l,in Ralfour. etc" At the en-,
Cna'iu vi III H., 4 ,htaincd "A few autograph
of 'b"so notable. attached TO curt note
from priyatc secretaries ''reVreJtng' an
rom ai,,,,,,,s concluding by decliuin
80 p,i' ntnry,ic.vGd
10 W lu'T' fFJ tho EuVlishman VIII
b"I far no cn,uiug TYNE of Englishma
SIanuI IT, IHi IN. the man of the people
III H., ',n',cassible 10 the interviewer, eve
ip liz native land lie is not haunted b
III NE St ,,,' gbn.ts and traditions, and
anJV,O, ,l oGiioations 10 nut on airs in TN
u ln,g,,,n n of anvbody. lie is at liberty Q
PieSLh 80 w. in rs own wav. Such a ma
ff"S ~, ,iiayy,,rt u,ill treat the report,
nucb ag does the average COugIcSSNd
hnr, Iahouchpre. Bradlaugh, Couy
heara HowelI. and mem brrs Of parlia
ooai1' - ~ etatnn are lust as ea-il
intor,io,vod as the average American VIII
ie in nublic life.
Whrn Won get into the tory camp Oh
o,''n rg is aIfogrther different. 50 ia
tt,d intcryInw Is concerned. 1t is d,
iJodI, nbiIrv I rpmcmbc once callin
Unon SOM tory member of parliament
ppyn forgotten his uamc.-to get inform,
tIaT, ,n sor,e matters that we're then "a
latino 10 ,ttention ON both sides Of the A
a aaTIr'7
TAw yeally. NV dear sir" he said, az
i,,gtin, bis mnnocle. "wcally, | mean !
ygarg6 don't Won know. hut, aw. veal
olo', ~ dear sir we haven't been intr
S,,aod ,lonit Won know"
uuS IA MIN mat was quite aware OF tn
~ 80 ibot where nrySDaper work WI
IaGy' &c / aasn moi al particular who
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