The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-06-15
WINE And WIT.
Gath TeIIsof q Chicago Banquet for.
journalists.

COPYRIGHT, 1888.

at Inc OllOn cluD, IN N Orth Chicago, bV
Moses 2. Handy, to meet some persons
of the foreign press and in the art de-
partment, and as we mingled together
from haH-past seven o'clock until ono
in the morning, and I may not have
leisure soon for another such bout, I
will narrate the appearance and adj
ventures ofssome> of these persons. We
had OF foreign journalists Mr.. ViIliers,
Mr.. Senior and Mr. Millet. Mr.. Millet
is also an artist, who resides about
equally in England and the United
States. He is the author of an adyen-
turous trip down the Danube river, in,
to the Turkish regions. Then, we had
MIR. Atwood, the chief architect of the
worlds fair, and the only author of
the magnificent Art building, which is
the; admiration Of all beholders, and
turns out to besequally happy in its in
ternal arrangements Mr.. Atwood is,
q fne-looking man, rather youthful,
with an.expression of moral decision
in his face, yet mild, and looks like an
artist as much as an architect. Then,
we had am eminent Holland artist, Mr.
vos, who exhibits in the fair, and has
also been teaching art classes in
America. Two Of the newspaper pub
fishers in Chicago, Mr.. Kohlsaat- and
Mr.. James Scott. were present The
portly and frank Sam Raymond, Of
Chicago, dashed thee occasion with his
strong sentiments. ME- Haynie, who
has Lived long time in Paris, as an
American correspondent, was at hand.
It would have appeared, in few,
minutes to any novitsate that
all the persons at that large
round table, somewhere in the
intricacies Of the club house. were of
the American. race, though Mr.. Senior
toldme that he had been twenty-five
years on the London News, and had
never seen the United States until the
opening of this exhibition. Thesemen
of the world had no pronounced Eng.
ish accent. believe that one,of them,
indeed, was anIrishman, for the Irish
have algUays made the best English re-
porters. w. Il. Russell, who had the
first opportunity as specialcorrespon-
dent during the Crimean war. and
handsomely improved it, was an Irish
man. Macgahan, who was a good deal.
spoken Of During the night, and who
was theefavorite OF the Russian camps,
both from hissociability and his writ
ing, was smother Irishman of Ameri-
can or Irish stock. Intercourse is such
q talent ip the newspaper profession
that the Irish with their superior so-
ciabihty easily surpass the Danish and
Gox ,1,<>vre, 49, ~ L.
Thought out before they can know any
body, The British elements get even
with the Hibernians by more applica-i
ton 10 writing out their copy. I rel
call an Incident in my own life, where
/ bad to choose between seeing very
mnch and writing just enough had
been 10 the far left of the union army
and upon the battlefield Of Five Forks
freshly after It was won, had inter
viewed Gen. Sheridan himself and such
surrounding officers as Griffin, For
sythe and Chamberlin. I did not
the battlefield until late at night, and
when started to return to Humphreys
station, in front of Petersburg, where
must take the train for New York. at
five ca. six O'CLOCK in the morning, for it
went only once in twenty-four hours
down to City Point to meet the boat,
it was some time after midnight. I had
hardly got under way when tremen-
dous firing from cannon and muslketry
broke out at and below Peters
burg. It was twenty-eight miles,
think, from my situation in
Dinwiddie county back to, this mill
itary railroad. As the road crooked
and now threw out the sound to the
right andagain to the left, all kinds of
queries arose in my mind. thought
for some time that the confederates
had poured out, of their works and at
tackled us in front of Petersburg, in
order to be compensated for their
losses upon their own right. Itwas
the dawn Of the morning when I
reached Humphreys station, and there
] found that we were in Petersburg.
having closed out thirteen months OF
q siege aud battles by breaking the
confederate lines; and such an achieye-
ment as the capture of this Important
town. the key and back door to RICH
mond, appeared to me to throw the
! battle had just obtained sat Five
Forks into the shade. The battle
seemed at the moment to be only one
Of the movements, Of which the fall Of
Petersburg was the great result,
When 1 was at Humphreys station !
was SO close to Petersburg that !
couldssee It's spires, and knew that,
by going a very little way down the
lines, could enter that town and get
naanH3an item Of information. ] asked
nayseH what was my duty in
the ppeniisns; the answer came in'the
wordsi .'Ehey do not pay me to see
things, but to write them The seeing
is but the incident to the writing, and
I have in this battle as much as T can
write during the next twenty-four or
thirtyssix hours" So I left my horse
with our two correspondents, who
were snugly tucked up in bed, having
worn out their curiosity by lying for
thirteen months in the vicinity Of the
trenches, and got upon the slow hos
pital and provender train which was
going dowffato the James river at City