The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-06-08

when ne wrote and fought for GTee.z
independence. They celebrate the an
niversary Of Macgahan in the schools
and museums in the Turkish prov
inces. They teach his name in their
schoolbooks. No correspondent Of the
press has so far reached into the asfcc-
tions of the lands he saw and whose
battles he narrated"
In a few minutes Mr.. Villiers arose
and described the death of Macgahan;
his journey to Constantinople, the con-
sideration he had from the Turks
as web as from the Russians,
and finally his sudden death from dis
ease. and the grief of Gen. SlSobelef
and the Russians, who knew this fine
fellow. Ohio. by act of her legislature,
sent ont to Turkey and brought Mac
gahan's remains home, and inferred
them under public monument at Co
lumbus, think.
Mr.. Kohlsaat, who sat the evening
through with us, is one of the very
live men of Chicago. He is probably
the greatest baker in the world. He
has established. in all portions of Chi
cago large bakery restaurants where
bread is the chief staple, and around
it cluster milk, coffee. confectionery
cakes, etc. Some Of these restaurants
Al e so large as to seem great mercan.
tile establishments. All over town you
can see wagons flvine with Kohlsaat's
wares. In everything pertaining TO
Chicago he is consulted, and he is
liberal giver. He is still in the early
forties of life, and he told me that he
now gave his almost exclusive atten-
ton to the newspaper which he owns,
the Inter Ocean. To build up a
daily newspaper in these times, in a
large city, is very much like establish
ing new kingdom in the world. At
ter James Scott came in, who is the
publisher of the Chicago Herald and of
it's evening edition, the Post, he said in
his speech or remarks:
Gentlemen: If you were to read
our newspapers, you might suppose
that Kohlsaat and myself lived at OPP
posite ends of a dagger. On the con-
trary, we are old friends, from the old
town of Galena, where my father pub
lished a newspaper and previous to that
his father published a newspaper in
Massachusetts,. Galena, in it's day,
was the Chicago of Illinois, when lead
and the mines were regarded as more
important than commerce. Mr.. Kohl
saat had enough regard for old Galena,
where, as you may remember, Gen.
Grant lived at the outbreak of the
civil war, to manufacture and send
there statue of Grant, for the delecta-
ton of that town and to commemorate
our great citizen
"Well,' said Mr.. Kohlsaat. in his
turn, Il suppose that would never
have gone into the newspaper business
but Tor James Scott. l knew that
what he did not know about it was not
worth knowing, and at almost every
step have taken I have asked his
counsel and suggestion. People who
think that newspapers are really fight
ing ought not to get mad, for they
might be deceived"
Gentlemen" said Mr.. Scott, 81 will
tell you a little something about
Grant which you may not have read
anywhere. At the conclusion of the
civil war had an idea that some
where in the south would be a good
place t. start newspaper. So went
into Prince Georges county, east of
the city Jof Washington, an old slave
region, and there esta blished news
paper. could not understand for some
time why my efforts in that paper were
not appreciated. I certainly worked
harder at it than I have ever done
before or since, and everybody seemed
to ike it, and yet l could not get it
above hundred or two of circulation
which brought me any pecuniary re-
turn. So l made up my mind to look
into that subject, and found that my
constituents of the republican party
were Africans who could not read a
newspaper. Hence, with a preponder-
atirg ma jority, we made 20 Roadway.
In course of time / turned my atten-
ton to a community where everybody
could read. Newspapers are not made
for men as much as for readers. AS
Gen. Grant had come from Galena,
where Kohlsaat and / lived, l con.
clnded to break the monotony of news
paper existence in Prince Georges
county by going to see the general.
He was president, but quite natural
and affabie. and always seemed glad to
see me; and, as his second term was
about to come on and he was anxious
to be renominated, l used to go in
there and consult with him about the
best wa- to carry Maryland for him.
It still strikes me as remarkable that
our greatest general was SO innocent
in politics that he concluded with me
earnestly that he would be renomi-
mated if Maryland would come up for
| his support. So / wrote the able
articles, and Grant read them with
perfect faith. and Prince Georges
county did go all right for his second
term. -
Mr.. Haynie took exception in his re-
marks to current American idea that
the French newspapers are inferior
and are not good news vehicles. He
| instanced LIE Petit Journal as a model
paper of it's kind to convey in con-
| densed form all the news necessary to
be related, with criticism, feuilleton
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