The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-10-26

par with the New York Herald
man who managed an interview
with RUDE Burrows, the Alabama
outlaw three years ago, and J. r.
Spears, of the New York Sun, in
writing up the McCoy-Hatfeld
feud for that paper.
Mr.. Bigelow is a newspaper man
of sixteen years experience, and
has been detailed by the manage
ment of the Examiner to write up
and work up what have proven re-
markablej Journalistic achievements
for his paper.
The great de Blowitz has said
that interviewing is an art with
men of less note in the newspaper
world it is a gift. Bigelow says the
secret is ''luck." In his case it was
pluck, for no man of ordinary
newspaper nerve would have ven
tured into the haunt of Sontag and
Evans, after a half-dozen murders
had been added to their crimes.
Bigelow says he prefers to inter-
view women because man is al
ways brute, and if he don't want
to be interviewed he will insult
you; on the contrary, if he seeks
an interview, he will slobber all
over your neck. In seeking an
interview with a difficult person."
says Bigelow, 81 do the work by
allowing him to do the talking
everything will come just as [ want
it by simple suggestions at the
right time"
In addition to having pluck, to
be a good interviewer one must
have a good memory, which is in
fnitely better than shorthand
notes.
Mr.. Bigelow will be remembered
in Honolulu as the Examiner man
who accompanied the remains of
the late King Kalakaua on board
the Charleston from San Francisco
to this place. It will also be re-
membered that some of Mr.. Bige-
lows articles to the Examiner on
the ceremonies attending the late
Kings funeral stamped him as a
monumental liar, or as a man whose
powers of imagination were in no
way impaired. 1t may be possible
then that Bigelow's ability to ina
CINE what did not take place with
the same aptitude that he shows in
writing actual events has helped
him largely toward reaching the
goal in journalism at which his
latest venture places him.
In recent article to the Exam
liner he gives his experience in in,
terviewing Her Majesty Liliuoka-
lani and the Queen Dowager while
the body of the late King was lying
in state at the Palace.
The following excerpt will illus
trate just how far imagination has
helped Mr.. Bigelow as descriptive
writer when it is known that Mr.
BOYD met him but once, and ther
through the intercession OF the Eek
cellent photographer, Williams.
Mr.. Boyd it was who arranged tn
photographing, on the plea that
would be better to have a loca
photographer who was well know
to do the work, than to have al
outsider of whom the people knew
nothing. The posing by Blgelo'
is mere balderdash:
ONE INTERVIEW.
IT. happened once upon time /
nv experience to photograph tw
Oneens. 1t was in Honolulu when
went down on the Charleston In tn
cortege of King Kalakaua. The Ell
tire Palace was in mourning. HUI
girls were dancing in the basemen
and eating pork and poi betwee
dances. The two Queens--kapl
lani and Liliuokalani-were mourn
ing in the upper portions OF tt
Palace. The courtroom was occ
Med by a lot of kanakas, who carrie
huge. heavy fans and INDUCED in
pleasing solemnity that consisted
alternate bowls and waving OF fan
x + * In the throne-roonl, whe
the body lay in state, were a lot
Hawaiian army officers. They hs
red ewes, and I knew why; because
could match them with my own. v
had been playing poker betwe'
meals the night before. There we