Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-25


 ceptional circumstances, a little of the old time glory of public notice is shed upon them. it is quickly withdrawn and some one else comes ns quickly into view. In New York, as in every metropolis, there are many men of the first rank. Each profession has its galaxy of stars, any one of which would Inc wondrously bright, shining all alone by himself, but who, with the rays of all the other stars of the constellation shining in rivalry with his own, is comparatively lost sight of by the public eye unless brought to the front by something unusual
 Murat Halstead In Brooklyn.
 Among the brightest stars of all in the galaxy gathered here at the mouth of the Hudson river iS Murat Halstead whose name and fame were won in Cincinnati. Mir. Halstead is not n resident of Manhat- tan Island, nor is his paper the Brooklyn Standard | nion, located in New York, but as the big town across the bridge is part of the proposed greater New York it is fair to speak of him as a New Yorker. MT IIalstead is in no sense has bcen." The hair on his head and face is pure white now. and there are q few wrinkles about the eyes, but his eye has all its old time -lcanI, his face Is ruddy, of yore. and his speech iS quick and direct. So, too, is his prncil-for he writes with a pencil-and he is rather proud of the fact, fancy, that his daily output of snappy, vigorous editorial uttCrances is several col umns, and that he writes it all, never die tating.
 II have dictatcd.'' he said to me ycster- day afternoon. sitting at his desk after the day . work was over, but my dictation has mostly been when I was reporting conventions There was time when l wanted pen, good ink and hard paper in I and a soft pencil and write everything with such materials and have for five or six years
 AIr. Halstcad is at his desk by or S:3O every weekday morning when he is in town. At o'clock. or a little later, when he has finished his big days work, he goes To lunch, returning for an hour or so at 3 or I. Then he is accessible to any one who has something to say to him, and then he is apt to drop into rcminisccnce when the trend of the conversation suggests it. As he talks he clears his desk of the debris of the day His dozen or two pencils, all sharpcned, are placed in order, all loose and useless sCraIs are thrown on the floor, and such newspaper clippings as he wishes to consult ara folded and put in his pocket. When that is done, he closes the roll top of his desk with the air of n man who is | ready for rust.
 My only system through life, " he said, l in answer to a question, has been to shut I the cover on an empty desk every night, | so that the next morning I shall not open | il on d mass of left over dcbris.'' As he swings in his revolving chair so 1 that his back is to the window he holds | his black derby in his hands and polishes | it with his fingers, and when he leaves the office for the night he generally carries | with him n bundle of letters to post. He said yesterday that he felt quite acclimat- ed here now. and that he counted his New | York and Brooklyn friends among his warmcsr- He has attended nearly every notable political convention in the coun- try since he bcgan as n journalist and was at both of New Works nominating gath. l crinEs in Saratoga this year. He was struck when Hill was named for governor the other day l'y the fact that the senator used the same words as seymour did when, like Hill, he was presiding over tht | Chicago convention that named him fol president, Your candidate 1 cannot be. . Mr- Halsrcad says that the coincidence was not, however, perfect, for Mir. Sey Inour wanted the nomination, while Hill did not.
 Ex-Cabinet Ministers.