Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-21
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw.

rcfrcshing and long continued. In fact, with Mir. DCpCw 1t is practically a long nap frum the time hc boards tho vessel until he disembarks. Tho trcatmcnt is always sufficient. Whom he rCturns to America, he finds his mind as vigorous ns 1t was in his student days.
 It is no wonder that Mir. DcpCw, when tho midsummer time comes, discovers that his brain r'bcls and calls for psst. Tho amount of intellectual work wholly out sidc of that cntailcd by his duties as prcs- idCnt of one of the great railroads of the country which MT DcpCw doCs would of itself bc Tcgarlcd as sufficient by many professional men.
 In tho preparation of his various ora tiuns and mon informal aoIdrssss,s it Is safe to say that Mir. D''iScw spends as much thought-ConCrntr ratcd,. intense and pa- ticnt-as many of tho clcrgymcn uf tho United States do upon tho sermons which they deliver in the course of the year. In fact. Mir. Depcw makes in n single year al- nsoSt aS many >lEVChcs as do the clergy men in the larElCr cities, many of whom have vacations uf from two to four months
 Last year Mir. nvpew dclivCrJl some r. or i5 carcfully prCpapti addrCssCs and probably twice that numbCr of mnrc in formal spcCChCs- In the preparation of his Worlds fair addrsss, for iustanCe. NIT. Dcpcw gave all the time that he could spare from his railrnad durss.s for thr-e ar four weeks. He shut himself uD in his library in the evening after dinner, con suited his rcfcrcnCc books and worked frC- quently until midnight.
 Tho wonderful intellectual pUNcr which hc rcveals in tho preparation uf an OratiOn was especially displayed upon his rcturn frum Europe last fall. His trip across the water had bccn delayed last summer lSe cause of the financial troubles. Hc did not sail until November. BCfurr he went away he instructed his private SsS-rrtary to cancel n number of engagements which he had made ter speak. Among them was an addrcss to bc delivered in Chicago. By some mistake shc Chicago Ip~oplc wcrc not notified, and Mir. Dcpcw. upon his rCturn, found that they had announced that he would speak and were making grcat prep aratiuns for the oCcasiOn. He did not feel that Inc could in courtesy rCfusc them He found a great amount of railroad hUsi- ness awaiting his rcturn. some of 1t of the utmost importance He tried to snatch a half hour here and them in which tn lay out a plan of the proposed nddrrsS. but even when he found tho time he discovered that his mind was blank At last one evening he shut himself mp in his library. determined either to bc master of hIs rc- sources or else 10 give up in despair. Aft | CT several hours of intense mental applica- tion the whole form of the addrcss and even tho detail of the treatment came to him as by flash of inspiration. He work cd steadily for hours, and at last the spccch | was written. Then hc went 10 bCd and | slept like child for eight solid hours In June of this year Mir. Dcpcw appear | cd bcforc the students of the University oi | Virginia to deliver m nddrcss which he | had prcparcd with very grcat carc and ex- | tracts from which wcrc Aftcrward widely | printed. EIc supposed that 1t would be his last speech befOrc his rcturn from Flu
 rope, but within two days after its dcliv- cry he was called upon to mako m aedrcss | at tho dedication of n Revolutionary mon
 umcnt at DobL. Ferry and within 10 dAys
 to speak to the students of the Wesleyan
 university at Middletown, Conn ThesS
 experiences show how frequently Mir. Do
 pew is called upon and how suddenly tS
 make formal addreSssss- After his trip tS
 Europe Inc will probably enter the politica
 campaign, making n series of addresscs ir
 New York state and possibly in one or twS
 other sections of the country.
 F. J. EDWARDS.