The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-10


journal. and what he writes is read every
Sunday in twenty OF the biggest cities of the
Union. His newspaper constituency must
at the lowest amount 10 a million readers
every week.
And now he is successfully started in the
lecture business. or as he prefers to call 1t,
the talk" business. His talks have been
praised as full of new anecdotes, abou1diDg
in new instructive facts and lucidly illus
trated by means Of immense stereOptlcon
photographs.
How did you come to enter the lecture
or talk business. Mr.. Carnenter?"
81 felt there was "A new field for a lecturer
in the Introduction of the news element into
it," replied the talker earnestly, settling
himself more comfortably and removing his
pince-neZ.
The lecture business had come to be run
Dy freaks and bC0ken-down preachers, who
hold forth on such subject as SavOnarola
or Hamlet. Formerly any one could get
anything into the newspaper; alterward
the uninteresting antiquities of description
were relegated to the magazines. but even
these have latterly begun to demand newsy
matter. felt that there was field for
news also in the lecture-Toom, and find /
was right.
"Then, again, in this day,and age personal
news is OF more interest than any other,
and II you take any general assemblage you
will tind that ii is chiefly interested in dis
cussnG public men. So | determined 10
introduce 10 the pubic inc men they have
all read about in the papers.
81 have been peculiarly fortunate in hay
Ing interviewed large number of celebri-
ties. James G. Blaine, the Khedive Of
Egypt, ex-President Harrison. Edison,
Stephen j. Field, Bismarck, General Sher-
man. john Wanamaker. Robert j. Inger-
soil; Ii Hung Chang. the Vleeroy of China:
President DlaZ. are some of my subjects. |
touch on over one hundred in my talk
do find much difficulty in approaching
famous men? None at all. as rule; but it
depends altogether on the man and the way
one is introduced. In my recent trip round
the world | took with me letters from the
President and Secretary of State and per-
soDal letters of Introduction. My letters to
our Consuls instigated their arranging an
| interview for NE with the heads of the diff
ferent States.
For instance, my interview with the
Khediye OF Egypt was arranged by our
Consul General there. The Khedive talked
good English and discussed the troubles of
his domain, intimatlng that il 1t were not
for English interference he would do much
more for Egypt.
Then there was my interview with Tai
mage, another which has bren widely
copied. l startled him when | asked
whether money-making was compatible
with preaching. but he replied deity that he
never worked his brain for money when ne
thought he ought to do so for religion. He
has made at least $4,000 with his pen, and
HcNtI lcCAuIeS IUT leSS IMAM SDUU. Uen i
asked him what he thought of sensational
preaching. He was ready again, replying
that there was nothing more sensational
than the truth. and that lie preached the
truth. Incidentally he scorched the num-
bers Of dry-bono sermons on the ground
that they only preached so because they
did not have the brains to do otherwise"
Then Mr.. Carpenter gave some little per-
sonal details in reply 10 questions. He
said he had not done much regular newsDa-
Or1- I.nrr frNrV a..
the Cleveland Leader Immediately after
leaving college. He soon fell sick, and on
returning 10 Washington after a trip to
Eurore began writing letters and interviews
from there until he went round the world,
returning in 1889. When in Was hington
writing for the New York World and Amer
lean Press Association he was making $50
week. but found he was getting Into ruts,
so determined to shift his field.
He therefore made up his combination
with fifteen newspapers, the Cosmopolitan
and other periodicals, and. taking his wife,
started round the world. The trip cost him
$50 day, but in the end he cleared his ex-
penses and 5000, besides accommodating in
valuable material for future use. lie re-
manned full year in Asia, aud took big
photograph apparatus with him.
Altogether lie wrote upward of 100000
words in that trip, enough to make pig
sized dictionary. His letters were dictated
among the scenes they described, that from
written on one of the fiat house-tops, with
the Bedouins, donkey bays and other pic
turesque constituents Of the characteristic
street scenes below and around.
His travels through Europe and Asia
would fill big book.
Among other things, he was struck with
the independence of the Burmese women.
"Wehave all heard" said he. lot the
slavery in which Indian women practically
live. Well, the women of Burmah are the
brightest. sharpest and sweetest women in
the world. They have as many rights as
| the American girl, and do as much business
| as the men,"
The mention of Russia brought up n
story. showing that Mr.. Carpenter was not
much Impressed with the reputed terrorism
generally supposed to exist in the empire Of
| the Gar.
You know went to Russia with Frank
| Remington and POulney Blgelow. My
| Two companions, however, left Russia sud-
denly and | was partly the cause of their
departure. :,
''They both seemed terribly afraid Of
| Russian officials and always appeared TO DO
! looking over their shoulder for Russian
| spy. Well, MIR. Remington is one of the
| finest judges of horse in the world as he is
also one of the finest horse painters. There
! arc no better horses than la st. Petersburg !:
| some OF the drOskas 90 mile in four min
utes. One day MIR. Remington and myself
| went Tor drive along the fashionable
| alameda across the Neya.
/ 1--WE had fast horse and l only knew
/ about three words of Russian. meaning,
Go faster With these words kept urging
on the coachman and We passed nearly
| everything on the road, until at last a man
with 2:30 horse passed US In turn. l
| noticed thai he wore epau,ets and seowled
as he passed. and also that he stopped a
| little ahead and spoke TO policeman or a
! bridge. Anyway, when we got to the