The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-09-11
ONE DOLLAR A WORD.
Famous Men who Can Easily Get This
Sum For Writing.

Especial Correspondence
New YORK, Aug. 21.-There are num-
Der of men who have no reputation as
writer's who would be able to command at
almost any time higher rates for magazine
or newspaper articles than almost any of
those litterateurs who have gained fame
by reason of their writings. Mr.. James Il.
Keene, who is well known as one Of the
most successful and picturesque of those
men who deal in Wall street in New York
city, has been many times asked to write
over his own signature upon any topic
which he chose and to name his own price,
which would cheerfllly be paid AS Mr.
Keenc sometimes has found his fortune APP
preciate as much as 100000 in n single day,
it is easy to see that if he charged for such
<ervice in proportion to his earning capac-
ity he would receive an almost fabulous
sum for an article from 1900 to 5000 words
in length
The only occasion since those early days
of his poverty, when he made his living as
a newspaper writer, that Mr.. Keene over
came his Discrimination to write was in the
summer of 1877, just after he had held at
bay an army of Wall street spectators,
having sustained the market single handed
for an entire day, backed by gold which
his California friends sent to him, and
thereby unquestionably prevented such
panic as this country has not seen except
ing possibly in 1851 and 1876.
The strain upon his nervous system of
thus maintaining the market against the
combined assault of frightened investors
and spectators was so great that few
days after Mr.. Keene was stricken with an
illness which threatened to develop into
.
Long Branch as soon as it was possible to
lift him from his bed, and there, after some
difficulty and through the offices of the late
Sam Ward, Mr.. Keene consented to dictate
an interview for publication. Mr.. Ward
labored with him for more than two hours
before the great operator consented.
At that time Mr.. Ward was entertaining
his nephew, F. Marion Crawford, and had
been SO highly pleased with story which
Mr.. Crawford told him of an experience in
India that he advised the young man to
write it out and that he would see that it
found publisher, and thus it was that the
story which made Marion Crawford ia
nous, 'Mr. Isaacs," came to be written and
printed and Crawford's career determined
Mr.. Keene was greatly interested in Mr..
Wards narration to him of this tale, which
had not then been printed, and he told Mr..
Ward some of the early California expe-
riences of his which seemed quite as mar
velous as did the story of Mr.. Isaacs, and
| it was then that Mr. Ward said to him:
'Mr. Keene, If you were not a great specu.
lator, you might become great novelist"
Mr.. Keene finally received the repre-
sentative of one of the New York newspa-
pers. He lay upon his bed, which was in o
quiet room of one of the Long Branch ho-
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