The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-25

Editor UiIIiGBt T. Stead
In the undertaking, and he Is to-day fight
ing the same war with crime in other
quarters.
Mr. Stead is new IS years old. The son
OF Congregational minister, he left school
at IA 10 take the place of an Office boy In
mercantile establishment. After working
here eight years his salary had risen to
S323 year, when he gave up his place to
be assistant editor of halfpenny daily.
lie at once showed his talent for newspaper
work and soon became editOr-in-chief.
He rapidly advanced from one journalistic
position TO another, working on various
newspapers until along about 1888 he be-
came chief editor OF the Pail Mall Gazette,
which, under him, soon got TO be one of the
greatest newspapers in London. He left the
Pail Mall Gazette in 1890 20 found the Re-
view OF Reviews, and he 10 now deyoting
his whole time TO this
/ called upon him not long ago 10 bis Of
fee on Norfolk street, just of the Thames
embankment and between the houses OF
Parliament and the Savage Club. | sent in
my letters of introduction and moment
later / was seated in his workshop. This is
big room which looks out on the river
| Thames, and every part OF which is hacked
with individuality and ideas Upon its
doors IN letters of brass are printed the
words. THE Sanetum." It's walls are COW
cred with photographs and upon Tue mantel
over the open fire were many portraits of
buS uAob tdcu anu WOIn9n OF the
times. Among these were the lean intel
lectual face OF John G. Whittier, the kind,
fatherly countenance of Walt Whitman
and the cultured features of James
Russell Lowell. Over the doors of
the Office were texts of Scripture and
between the windows was a rOller-top
desk which was Uttered with manuscripts,
and near wide diyan, which was also COW
cred with papers Of various kinds. large
bust of Cardinal Manning looked down from
tOn \ H.
stead rose from chair in front of It and
took my hand. He at once plunged into
business with me, and in FIVE minutes he
told me more about London than had been
able 10 learn In the week had spent in try
ing to find out about things before coming
TO him. lie Is more like an electric dynamo
, IN clothes than any man 1 know. He talks
like lightning, and blaze of intellectual
sparks follow his words. He. looks more
| like practical American Methodist
preacher than a London litterateur. He is
plain in his dress and habits. His soft
| brown hat is crushed in at the top and his
| snuff colored suit of business clothes looked
| as though their owner had been on n rough
! ing tour and had just got home He talks
| more like an American than an English
nan. lie has no coekneyisms or anglicisms
| Tn his conversation. He never SAYS You
know and the only English slang noticed
| In ms talk was the word blooming" by
which he would now and then refer to some
| people whom he held in contempt as the
whole blooming SET" He is. / Judge,
/ about feet Z inches high and he weighs
about 150 pounds. He has norid COM
| plexiOn, bright blue eyes and a bushy, red
| dish-brown beard. His hair is combed up
| from high, broad and full forehead, and
| he steops little in his shoulders he
| laughs easily and tells story as we'll as he
| writes il.
1t was during n lunch with him at GattI's
! on the Strand that asked him how he came
| 10 originate the Review Of the Reviews.
| he replied: 81 had long had the IDEA OF
such magazine, and intended to make it
! monthly supplement of the Pail Mall Ga
zette. The owners Of the Pail Mall Ga
| zette. however. did not want to put any
money into the scheme and got outside
| parties to take hold Of 1t. / believed there
was a big held for 1t, and thoughtit was my
| duty TO work it, / did not expect to make
any money out of it. and my widest
ambitions were that it would pay
me, perhaps. from thousand to
fifteen hundred dollars a year, which,
as an addition to my salary on the Pail
Mall. was not to be sneered at. After de-
clded TO start the magazine the owners of
the Pail Mall objected and told ME that |
would have to leave the Pail Mall Gazette
if / did so. i considered it my duty to
| found the magazine, and / resigned from
the Pail Mall Gazette and took charge of it,
1t succeeded at once beyond our expecta-
tons. Instead Of netting me a thousand or
iliteen hundred dollars year 1t is bringin
In an excellent income. and l find myself
| now in the condition of Saul, the son of
kish, L started out to hunt my fathers
asses, and 10, / have found kingdom"
"How DO you lock upon the monthly
magazine, Dir. Stead? Has it as much In
nuence as the daily or weekly newspaper?
| L asked.
II believe the strongest journal of mod
! erD times must be the monthly" said Mr.,
| Stead. ''The daily has such q short life
that It's area OF influence must be limited
hn hox- 10 lrr a "a
never reach the world at large. The weekly
extends farther, but its news Is also tran
sent in Its character. The daily is a re-
volver. 1t is good for six shots at short
range, and II does It's work admirably. The
weekly is like rifle. It's range Is longer.
but 1t is effective for that distance only
| The monthly is the modern cannon. IL
carries 500 pound shots for miles, and when
they 90 forth the atmosphere Of the whole
earth quiyers. Our field in the Review of
Reviews | conceive to be that of the English
| speaking people of the world, and our end
and aim to bring these people close to one
| another. We want to see Canada, the United
States. England and Australia brought to-
! getheT into one great international union
| a union not affecting the governmental ar
| engagements of to-day, but making il SO that
these Angio-Saxon people shall work to-
gether under common International laws,
and SO that all the world over they shall
! protect and stand up for each other Asfor
the English and American naval stations
working together this could hardly be so
now. The disparity Of the two navies is so
great. and you have almost twice as many
people to protect a we have, but your navy
Is growing. and the time may come when IL
an American Is ill-treated In any part Of th Q
world where an English man. of-war stands
he will be defended by that vessel, and the
same service viii be rendered by an Ameri-
can naval vessel TO an Englishman ia
| trouble. 1 would like to see a union, offen-
sive and defensive. among the English
speaking nations. and the time will come
| when we will have it."
The governments Of these countries nre
so Different, however. that union is hardly
| possible" said /.
There is not half so much difference as
| there seems to be-" said Mr.. Stead. ssThe
| whole w0fl0 IL GAMING n oarar -.