The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-20

panel is disc of oak the
grain of which shows through the gold leaf
with which is is covered. This library is
hung with magnificent pictures Its win
dows look out on Lafayette square, and
from them you can almost recognize the
faces OF the people going in ana out of the
Whlte House across the way. Ii was in
the White House that Colonel Hay first
llved IN Washington. and he came here as
President Llncoln's private secretary Mt a
salary probably less than two thousand
dollars year. He was good writer. how
ever, and he could have made big income
outside of his Official career. and he made
am told, something like fifty thousand
dollars out OF the magazine publication of
his history of Lincoln
When Whitelaw Reid came to Washing
ton he was not making much more than
Hay. He began here as correspondent of
Inc Cincinnati Gazette, and he helped out
MS salary by getting an appointment as IL
brsrian of the House of Representatives.
he had been engaged in newspaper work
In Ohio, and l heard him once say his first
work rs correspondent was on the Gin
clnnatl Times, and that his wages were So g
week. He soon made reputation here at
Washington and he added to the fame he
mad gotten as war correspondent He was
given an interest in the Cincinnati Gazette
and then went to the New York Tribune
have been good friends for years, and dur
ing Mr.. Reid's shorter absences in Europe.
colonel hay has sometimes taken his place
as the editor OF the New York Tribune.
LITERARY DIPLOMATS.
Colonel Hay would be a credit to the
United States in any diplomatic position.
he has been connected more or less with
the state department for years and he was
secretary Ct legation at Paris a number of
years ago and was afterwards transferred
to Madrid. He was assistant secretary of
state under MIR. Evarts, and it is said that
had Blaine been elected, be might have
been secretary of state. He isa charming
writer and he has true poetic genius
Years ago he wrote 1.-THE Pike County
Ballads" in order to ridicule the dialect
poems OF Bret Harte and Joaquin Miller,
and he was rather surprised when he
found his poetry taken in sober earnest
and himself famous through it. Heis, 1 am
told, rather ashamed of these poems now
and his work in poetry which has lately
appeared in the Century has been on a
higher plane. During his stay in Spain he
wrote "Castitlian Days. and # he remains
In Paris we may get some of his pretty
pictures of French life. He viii be an
other addition to the literary diplomats of
the United States. Our most popular
foreign ministers have been literary
men. Washington Irving did famous
work in Spain and Bayard Taylor
was the most popular American
minister Germany has ever had.
w. u. Howells got his literary start while
he was consul at Venice and Julian Haw-
thorne wrote some of his best works when
he had soft consular position in England
Elhu Was aburne Kept diary while he
was minister to Paris, and his story of the
siege of that city during the Franco Prus-
G q mr. i1te boO oh,
has been published on the subject Joel
Barlow, the author of the "Columbiad,' -
was minister to Russia, and Sam CoX's
diversions of Diplomat" is one of the
best books published on Turkey. know
of several Of our foreign ministers who are
now engaged in the preparation of books
about the countries with which they have
been connected. Andrew Curtin, who was
minister TO Russia, will have an interesting
chapter or two concerning his experiences
there 10 his memoirs, which he is writing
at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and General
Denny who, for the last eight years. has
been minister to Pekin, has the meterial
for an excellent book on China and the
Chinese. The Hon. Jacob Childs, of Mis-
souri,, who was minister to Siam under
Cleveland, has book on that country in
the course Of preparation and by all odds
the best book ever published on China was
that of Wells Williams who went 10 the
country as a missionary, but who was con-
nected with our diplomatic service for
years.
SENATOR INGALLS, AND THE REPORTERS.
Speaking about public men as writers, 1
understand that Senator ingalls, is again
working On the Washington novel which
he had about ready for the press when the
fire occurred at his house in Atcheson and
burned mis- valuable library This fire de-
stroyed large amount of manuscript and
important letters, and it wiped out in one
night the bottled-up results of Senator
Ingalls, intellectual life. Ingalls, had way
OF keeping his notes upon the subjects he
was studying in the shape of marginal ref
erenceS on The pages Of the books con-
nected with them. If bright sentence or
bright idea struck him white be was read
ing he 1otted 1t down on the side of the
page, and his memory was such that he
could tell just where such note could be
found, ana his library was in this way the
hall OF his soul. He is very rapid writer,
and he writes, il anything, better than ne
talks. He mas not been doing much writing
since he left the Senate, but he has been
put in bad light right along by the re-
porters and by his enemies in Kansas He
has, metaphorically speaking, been kicked
aud cuffed in every direction and by
everybody, and his recent state
ment as to how his own party
treated him during the last campaign
is g fair example of the actions of some of
his other so-Called friends. Not long ago
he came 10 Chicago. He arrived at the no.
tel with binding headache and bad cold
and went 10 his room, giving directions
that he would see no one. Tue reporters
OF the various papers called and sent up
their cards and the word was sent back
that Mr.. ingalls, was not in This was the
case from time TO time during the whole
afternoon and evening and the next day
there appeared in one of the papers what
purported TO be an interview with Ingalls,.
II stated that he could make big money out
OF all the information he gave To the news
papers, and he had no ideas to furnish
gratis in the shape of interviews. This
talk was copied far and wide, and the other
newspaper men of the country who did not
know ingalls, put him down as a snob and
fool. The truth of the matter was that
ingalls, had no talk whatever with this cor
respondent, but the man had some spite
against him and made up the interview out
OF whole cloth. The day it appeared Sena-
tor ingalls, denied it, and the man was at
once discharged from the newspaper.
CALLED INGALLS, LIAR
An interview like the above was great
injustice to ingalls,. He is very proud
man, but he is a thoroughly Democratic
one. He sees everyone who calls upon him
and though he will not always talk for pub
LEGATION, he is full of bright sayings and the
newspaper man who calls is always re-
ceiVed and rarely goes away without par
agraph. Had he said he was sick instead
Of saying he was not IN to the reporters It
Chicago, he might have had no trouble. 1t
was this apparent falsehood which made
some of them angry and one of them told
me last night his experiences with the Sen
ator at this time. Said he
1--WE hung around that hotel all after
noon and we could not get at ingalls,. sent