The Portland daily press., 1892-06-29
as a .son-in-law Of the rich Mr.. starin

as a -son-in-law Of the rich Mr.. Starin
he is sinking his identity in the steam
hoat business. There have been great
opportunities in journalism since Mr..
Carroll forsook it for steamboats,, and
had he remained true and steadfast to
his profession he might now be editing
a daily newspaper instead of frittering
away valuable career on board a
yacht.
A melancholy and almost deplorable
case of son-in-law isathat of Mr.. Mckee,
who married the presidents daughter
and is the father of Baby Mckee. Mr..
McKee's progeny is a factor in the re-
public and would be recognized making
mud pies on any roadside in this coun-
try-particularly if grandpa was in the
vicinity-but who would recognize Mr..
Mckee, ST., If he met him in the big
road9 Baby Mckee might, but it is not
certain that he would care to. q
The son-in-law who does not material
ize is another sad phase of this subject
He is almost as sad as the son-in-law
who does matersalize and the old man
wishes he hadn't. | was told the other
day that Broker Giovanni Morosini had
very promising young. man picked out
for a husband for his handsome daugh-
ter Victoria, when she interfered with
the arrangementsb Shy clipping with Ernest
Schilling, the family coachman. The
young man was George Gould. Mr..
Morosini had not, it seems, taken his
daughter into his confidence in the mat
ter any more than he had Mr. Gould, so
it is not claimed that the elopement
was intended as an expression of disap-
proval of her fathers choice.
Roswell P. Flowers on-in-1aw is q
young man named J.. B. TAYLOR. He
comes from Watertown, and is still con-
tent to live there and plod along regard
less of the attractions of city life,
which he could have for the asking
Mr.. Taylor is in the mercantile bust
ness, and at the time he married Miss
Flower he was employed as a book
keeper. This did not make any differ
ence either to the bride-elect or her
father. The fact that the young man
was not wealthy was no objection to
Gov. Flower, who said at the time that
his son-in-law was a worthy young
man, and that the lack of money was
no detriment whatever. Mr.. Taylor is
well regarded by his friends and
neighbors in Watertown.
Judge Barnard was a conspicuous
son-in-law during the Tweed dynasty.
He married into the Anderson tobacco
millions and assisted in designating
some Of this fortune. The story which
has been related Of Judge Barnard in
his capacity as a son-in-law is worth re-
calling. One day the judge was enter
tanning friend when one of the young
-Barnards, boy not old enough to real
ize the delicate position in which SON
in-law is sometimes placed, came into
the room and said to his father: sGim1ne
ten dollars" After this demand had
been several times repeated the Judge
told him to run along about his bust
ness. The boy did SO, but came back in
few minutes and repeated his demand
with this supplem entail statement:
''Gimme ten dollars Ma says it isn't
your money. anyhow" Judge Barnard
looked helplessly into the face OF his
AL4CA1A blId LIN WV ulO u4lG ulIIGS
of Solomon compensate son-in-law
for that?'' 2
A JOURNALIST EXALTED.
The nomination of Whitelaw Reid
for vice president on the republican
national ticket may be accepted, pre-
sumo, as a great tribute to American
Journalism. just twenty years have
elapsed since the Tribune had candi-
date on national ticket. The sad and
tragic ending of that experimental at
tempt to exalt a great newspaper
writer and thinker has initiated some
what, think, against the elevation of
newspaper directors in politics. Mr..
Reid is a splendid example of what may
be accomplished by man who enters
the world with fixed and earnest pur-
pose imbedded in his soul. I can i'm
agine him when a writer on the Cincin-
natl Gazette looking forward to the
great daily newspaper himself. Gifted
with energy and patience and equipped
with good education and good habits,
he had only to form purpose and ex-
ecute 1t. AS a war correspondent he
achieved distinction although it took
Gen. Sherman fully twenty years to
forgive him for the account of the bat
tie of Shiloh which he wrote at Pitts
burgh Landing two days after the fight
from information furnished by people
who saw very little of it. That piece
of work caused great discussion in Ohio,
but Gen. Sherman, who was one of the
most forgiving of men, finally came to
number Mr.. Reid among his intimates.
Mr.. Reid's greatest literary achieve
ment, perhaps, was the writing the
History of Ohio in the War; This he
did remarkably well. When he came
to New York as a lieutenant to Horace
Greeley it can well be believed that he
nursed in his bosom the ambition to be-
come the owner and editor of the Trib-
une Fate SO decreed it. He passed
through all the intermediary stages of
ridicule and then abuse, and then en-
joyed the sweets of adulation which
come to those who succeed. Always
afable, diplomatic, trained to observe