The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-01
THE PASSING THRONG.

AACOAAs AStCn 0l.-tSpeCioL t-EI00k 0s Cor'
penter. who has interviewed % many prominent
people and Travelled 70 extensively. said today:
"The most annoying men to interview are the
little 6csnt fellows who assume they are OF
great Importance A rule, the greatest and
ablest men are the easiest ones to get and the
most sattsfactory ones = to interview. Two
classes of men are trying in this respect-the
one extreme being the man whose every word
conveys m idea and means something. and the
other extreme II the man who Il very verbose
and practically devoid Of ideas Fred Douglas
ana John Sherman stand for one extreme and
Joe Blackburn, for instance, for the other.
ABOUT the most annoying man for an inter.
Viewer" Mr. CARPENTER said. sis the man
who tells good story. but not for publications
Ia rather have no interview at al than 20 have
such onsl" Shortly after Gladstone was made
premier. Ne Carpenter was In London. He
failed 70 get at the premier. In fact nobody
could get a. Gladstone about. that
time. w. I. Stead, OF the RevtcW Of
ReviesSs. was to have arranged for an
interview for Mr. Carpenter, but he found it
impossible 20 do 20 at that time. For ten years
M Carpenter has been working to get start
~ q lecturer. and be expects now to make use
OF only the very best OF al his great assortment
OF sketches. photos and scenes In connection
with men interviewed by him. 81 am in the
lecture neld to stay" he said today. "My next
trip expect will be from Spain, through Glib
ratar. taking In . slice OF Africa, jumping over
TO Italy, TO Greece, Comtsntinople, Into the dis
trict from which the harem draws it, recruits.
along the Russian military road, Into Afghauis-
tan and India and out through Japan and
China Stevens, who went around the world on
bicycle. got into the Afghan territory. but was
quickly picked up and carried outside the lines
and dropped. think could get through the
country with . caravan, however" Summing
Ia In Rvyas Mr. raeD Tar hn
considered Mr.. George Ksunan had painted only
one side OF the Siberian question. Again re-
turning to pubic men and interviews he said:
"One Of the most remarkable things about them
10 their tendency to deny an interview II they
think 1t 10 going to hurt them in any way. The
night before Garfield was nominated I asked
him II 1t was true that he was unfaithful to
John Sherman. He had . way OF throwing his
arm about ones neck, and he did 50 then, say.
ing, My boy, IL 10 untrue: ! would b .
villain to prove untrue to him. He said he
would 60 into the convention and work for him."
Mr. Carpenter IL very easy man to interview.
because . few crumbs gathered here and there
from the sort OF conversational banquet served
~ him In the guise OF q chat constitutes an un.
usually satisfactory interview. Physically he 10
small, rather thin and wiry. the distinguishing
feature OF face and head being big ears and nose.
heaped up m0uthtul of finty teeth, q full
forehead. which on account Of abnormally de-
yeioped perceptive organs appears to retreat.
and browntsh hair. that evidently has no ambi.
ton but to remain smooth and glossy where
combed. No one would call Carpenter Q hand.
some man. He Is said to be the living picture
OF Artemus Ward and to look not at all unlike
Joel Chandler Harris, the famed Uncle Remus
of Georgia Uncle Remus is said to be the
ugiiest man In the South, and he has the same
red hair az Carpenter Both Carpenter and
Artemus Ward come from Ohio, and both
Hef faA ~
mus Ward received . fortune Tor lecturinr
but he died worth less than 5000 One of his
lectures was entitled "rhirty Minutes in
Africa" and he once went from Cleveland to de.
liver 1t at Oberltn, the most pious town in the
union. He came back On . train about O clock
In the morning. and upon being asked why he
hurried So he replied che found 1t very easy TO
stay thirty minutes in Africa, but he could not
for the life OF him spend all night in Oberlin."
The last part OF Carpenters lecture IL confined
to thirty minutes in Asia, and 1t remains to b
seen whether he will be able to survive his two
days in Tacoma Carpenter admits, In connec.
ton with his ambition to travel, that he likes
to explore UNEMPLOYED countries where there are
good hotel accommodations" His converse.
ton il checkered with humorous thoughts OF
this kind.
81 like this country very much and shall
probably make my home here" said s. H. Gan.
non, q retired Chicago lumberman, at the Ar
lngton last night II was here three years
ago, and the change in the appearance of this
city 10 something marvellous. My son, who 10
now in California, and will soon be here also
likes this place very well and he will probably
go into business here. While think this coun.
try is a splendid one to make money In should
Ike to have little more sunshine than you ara
now having, though presume one soon gets
accustomed 70 it At any rate your winter
weather Is far ahead Of that OF Chicago We
have there a nice summer climate, aud Il ia
still a good place to make money In, 40 il ID
growing larger Gil the time"
J. J. Mcdonald. OF Chicago, 10 q guest OF the
Occidental. III used to i've in California" said
be last night. land arm still some what inter-
ested there. but l am now making Q pleasure
trip l think the Pacific coast country the
greatest in the world, and say 40 much about
1t in Chicago that my friends call me crank on
the subject. Chicago. though, 10 q great place.
aud the people there 90 much taken M
with the fair that they have no time to think OF
any outside In veatments at the present time"
J. W. Emerson, Of the Emerson Land Com.
rsuy. leaves today for New York He will bs
gone month or six weeks
DINK BOTTs' HALF. BROTHER