The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-18


Mr.. Reed he is pretty sure to tell some
amusing stories or relate some interest
ing "reminiscences before you go. Gen
eral Sickles has the habit also of eau
tlonlng you against printing some Of the
things he has told you. 1t often hap
pens that these are tho very things you
most desire to give to the world.
willing. but Not Ready.
Whist Player Henry Jones, the Eng
lishman who writes of the niceties Of
his favorite game over the pen name Of
Cavendish, is the most methodical man
when undergoing the tortures inflicted
by an interviewer 1 have ever met. He
IS willing to take infinite pains to set
You right, providing you will promise
him that he shall have the privilege of
revising your copy after you have pre-
pared it for the compositors, and he
talks slowly and with great elaboration,
often stopping you to ask that what you
have written shall be read over to him
before you go further All this provid-
Ing ne is willing to be interviewed at all,
which is not always the case. When you
have made a fair copy of your work and
taken it to him, he goes over it with the
minutest care, and you may be sure that
after his revision it will contain no en-
rorS of term regarding whist.
very satisfactory man to the inter
viewer was the late DR.. Martin B. An
derson, president of the University of
Rochester. Dr. Anderson was not so
we'll known to the world at large as he
deserved to be, but among scholars he
received the recognition his command
Ing ability and attainments deserved.
was sent to him once when was a raw
reporter to get talk from him about
art and his collection of etchings, which
was very fine one indeed, containing
examples of the work Of nearly all the
masters of the needle. knew next to
nothing about etchings, but with infinite
patience he explained everything to me,
giving up three OF four hours of his time
for that purpose and going over my
notes to save me the modification Of
falling into errors that would have been
inevitable but for his helpful interest in
the matter
Clarkson's Sanskrit.
James S. Clarkson will not ALWAYS
talk for publication, but he was never
known to receive newspaper man in
any but a courteous manner. But YOU
must be nimble with your pencil unless
you are sure of your memory. And
when he begins to talk you will be glad
If you are able to write shorthand. What
he has to say comes in short sentences,
epigrammatic and crisp, which chase
one another, so to speak, with such rapid
lty that ifyou once miss the thread you
hn,la1ocu1x,
AIR. Clarkson is, as one of them put it
ruefully one day in my hearing, "a holy
terror" If you can wait for him to do
so, and the subject be one which he con-
siders Of sufficient importance, he may
write out what he wishes to say, but if
the writing be in his own hand you may
wish you could read Sanskrit when YOU
get the copy.
Business Courtesy.
Abram S. Hewitt, cx-mayor of New
York, eN-congressman and successful
man of business, will talk freely to the
interviewer when he is not too pressed
for time, and when he does talk he en-
presses himself tersely and to the point.
On one occasion, when called upon him,
he was standing in the larger of the two
"a 'hicO iOOiiiS tildI Illithc up Ills OInc6S
i'll the little old building in Burling slip
that still bears the sign of Cooper, Hew-
lit 81 Co., put up during the lifetime of
his father-in-law, Peter Cooper. Mr..
Hewitt was looking over stock book
when 1 entered, and as he examined it
he penciled figures on pad he held in
his hand. When he had finished, gave
him my card without the intervention of
the Office boy.
"Well?" he said, fixing his keen eyes
on my face interrogatively. asked
question and got quick, comprehensive
answer. Then l asked another, which
was answered with like promptitude,
and SO on until my queries were ex-
hausted. Then, with quick turn of the
head and hasty but not i'll natured
good day, he went into his private office
after the manner Of q man to whom
every separate minute is of great value.
Jones InJunctions.
Senator Jones of Nevada is prone to
tell you that he is too busy to talk when
you call and then go on talking all the
same till you have secured the informa-