The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-31
THE PASSING THRONG.


who il to give ono of his inimitable portrait
Talks" or lectures at Plymouth church next
Monday night, was in the city yesterday. and.
after viewing the city from the street cars and
meeting number of citisens, left for Tacoma,
where he lectures tonight under the auspices Of
tho Commercial Club While here he enter.
ealnod . number OF gentlemen By roIatinG some
OF his experiences In Russia last summer. He
travelled 5000 miles through the interior Of the
land OF the car and took photographs every.
whero. He carried with him letters from Secre.
tary Blaine. the Pinkertons and the head Of the
detective service OF the treasury department.
and he says he had no trouble with the
police anywhere. He laughed ct the idea that
Frederick Remington and Poultney Bigelow
were expelled from Russia, and says they were
frightened at their own shadows rather than at
real danger Mr.. Carpenter 10 one OF the best
travellers who trot the globe. He has covered
more than 1900 miles In the past four years.
and the lecture trip he 10 now taking In the
United States will embrace about $500 miles.
He came from Warrington City to Puget sound
via St Paul and Minneapolis, and hs goes from
here ~ far south - Los Angelica From Los
Angeles he will return to San Francisco to talk
for the Press Club there, and will thence 60
East via salt Lake and Kansas City to Chicago
He carries . photographer with him and he
keeps up his newspaper work in connection
with his lectures He says the big men and
big things of the East have been written 70
death, and the most interesting matter now to
be found lies In the West He speaks in glow.
Ing terms Of his visit 70 Jim Hills mansion
In st. Paul, and had IN interview with the
Anaconda millionaire, Marcus Daily. In Mon
tapA He will write . letter or 20 from Puget
sound and then 20 to visit at Senator staniord's
big ranch In Northern California Asked how
he came to take up lecturing, Mr.. Carpenter
replied: 81 don't call my entertainment q
lecture. It IL . portrait talk. The old style
lecture 10 played out The people want some
thing fresh and new, and think have It Ny
idea IL to show them the men they read about
IN the newspapers, and make them know them
by stories about them, accompanied by the
finest Of stereopticon pictures Of them 20 that
they could not forget them II they tried. have
interviewed most Of the famous people of the
world. and I tell my adventures with them.
The people, somehow, seem to like it" ''Why
don't you give travel talkr' II do" was the
reply. II take my audience with me on flying
interview trip around the world, and the last
third of the talk 70 spent with the Oriental
nabobs whom l met during tina year spent In
Asia The trip with me beats that of Nellie
BY. She went around in seventy-two days
take you around in thirty minutes. As to travel
lectures am now preparing course of three
for next year which am going to call The
Royalty Course. This will consist of talk on
japan. illustrated by the photographer of the
Miksdo; talk on Korea, illustrated BY paintings
made for me BY the uncle OF the king, and
talk on Russia and its Famine, which I will
illustrate BY photographs taken for the crown
prince and the csar. got these through Rus
sian governor last summer. These three lee.
lures will be wonderful In their illustration,
and am to have the one on Russia ready 70
give it In August ct the New York ChautauQua.
Bishop Vincent was in Buffalo this month when
delivered my portrait talk there and he liked
1t so we'll that he made arrangements for
Av.Ae L nh.
the way" continued Mr.. Carpenter, you would
be surprised to know how wide reaching that
Chautauqua system Ia It embraces the whole
country, and all classea Why, when inter.
viewed President Hayes. only few days before
his death, he told me he was Q college freshman
In the ChautauQua university course, and he ex.
pected to graduate in 1895 His daughter Fan.
ME told me she was also q Chautauqus student,
and you find them everywhere.
"How get my pictures 10 . long story.
Every one OF them has history. The collsc.
ton made by the uncle of the king OF Korea
arranged for when was in that country. The
old fellow was an aristocrat, and would only
paint when he felt like it left some money
with our minister and he sent me the pictures
My portraits I have gotten in oil sorts of
ways. and many OF the famous men posed
for pictures especially for me. This was the
case with Edison, President Hayes and Others
Gen. Grants picture bought In China Bob
Ingersoirs 10 from an untouched negative In
Washington. The patriarch OF Jerusalum gave
me his with his own hands, and Clara Barton's
is from favorite negative of hers. believe
the pictures are the finest ever made, and they
almost talk to you from the canvas. BY the
way. took LOOK at your Plymouth church
here today, where am to talk. 1t has hne
audience room and each OF the pictures az
shown will be nearly twenty feet high, and will
each cover nearly 400 square feet OF Canvas"
Louis F. Post, who lectures here tonight on
single tax, was born on farm near the village
of Vienna, Warren county, N. j., November IS,
lsia From the age of to Is he attended the
Vienna district school. and for year following
went to one OF the public schools In New York
city After leaving school he learned the trade
Of a compositor on the Hackettstowu, N j..
Gozette, and after working for Brddstreds and in
the Brooklyn Union office, where he set the first
tyre of the Christian Union, then called the
Church Union, he began the study OF Law, at the
same time studying Munson's system Of pho.
biography. soon after admission to the New
York bar, Mr.. Poet went to south Carolina.
where he was CLERK OF the judiciary committee
OF the senate, and where. III conjunction with
Benson Pitmsu, he reported the ku K.ux trials
In 1872 he began the practice Of Law at New
York, continuing It until $780, and holding thu
position of assistant United states attorney dur.
ing a part of that time. While practicing law
he for three years did editorial work for the
Daily Truth. which fourished from 1879 10 lssa
lie was married to Anna johnson, of Hackstts-
town, Ia ls52, who died twenty years later. leay-
ing one son. IL was while editor of Truth
that Mr.. Post became acquainted with the writ
ings of Henry George aud . convert 10 his doc
trines- He caused progress and Poverty" tn Ia
publised seriaIy Ia his paper and a a labor