The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-03-24

| lESRrSN OF them the sur.
| roundings were
! all new. and he asked many questions.
"We've nothing like this in London"
said he TO his companion, q famous
| turf authority noted for his modesty IS
well as his knowledge. Wen go for a
| spin up Jerome avenue. Mr. Ferguson"
| said the veteran of the turf. Lord
| Rosebery has never sat behind a pair
| of trotters."
Young Ferguson, who was interested
in calm way in the British earl, who
was taking in the sights of the metrop-
oils. seemed amused at his costume. A
team which could do its mile in $50
was soon hooked up, and Rosebery
was about to step into the buggy in his
silk hat and kid gloves. when Mr.. Fer
guson interfered. Allow me, my
lord" said he. removing the high hat
and substituting q sealsliin cap. A
pair of big gloves soon hid the kids and
big coat speedily enveloped the dap
per surtout. Once on the road his
lordship was delighted and vowed he
would some day have just such team
for his driving at home,
His New York friends are already
predicting that he may win the derby
and premiership of England the same
year, which would be an astonishing
crop of laurels for even SO lucky a
peer. The new premier has friends in
New York, made in his bachelor days,
on the occasion of his visits here in
h h., fol 1t,-o1v- inf
in the young man who has succeeded
William Ewart Gladstone. He is still
young and he looks it, almos- as
young as when on one memorable
night, some fifteen or sixteen years
ago, he sat over bottle of beer in the
Live and Let Live and chinned away till
daylight peeped into the windows of
the queer old restaurant at Broadway
and Fulton streets. He had two very
lively partners, too, for his seance in
that highly not to say deeply respecta-
BILE cellar.
Plenty of horsemen hereabouts
know the earl of Rosebery's racing
colors. rose and primrose, and not
few of the old-timers know the earl
himself. Three times this likely young
lord has been in New York, and the
grand stands at Jerome and Coney
Island found him at home on race days.
William Henry Hurlbert, who had not
then had the misfortune to meet Will
fred Murray, but was running The
World" as paper by gentlemen for
gentlemen only, was Rosebery's spe-
IL Il y u ~l
did other editorial chores around the
World office with excellent grace. The
old building, since burned. which then
stood where the present Potter build
ing rears its majestic proportions, was
the scene of these novel experiences,
o'nights, when Rosebery would come
down to the editorial rooms to wait
until his friend Hurlbert got through
his work.
Here" Mr.. Hurlbert would cry,
tossing bundle of proofs to the future
prime minister. there. old man, just
look through these to amuse yourself.
while YOU wait. And take precious
good care to mark any errors you see,
too"
So Rosebery, whose friends knew
him as having a sharp eye for bit OF
horsefesh, even if they were ignorant
of his excellence as catcher-up of the
''unconsidered tribes" of proof-read
ing, would take off his coat and sit
down to a desk, with tin-shaded gas
jet over his head and cigar in his
mouth and read for dear life after
typographical errors BY and by he
and Mr.. Hurlbert would finish their
iabors and sally forth for bite to eat
and peep at New York by lamplight.
On a certain foggy morning in the
winter of 1917 the habitues Of the
Live and Let Live restaurant, down
undera hat store at Broadway and Full
ton street, were aroused temporarily
from their assiduous devotion to the
good things there to be had By the en-
trance of William Henry Hurlbert.
editor Of the New York World. and
James Gordon Bennett, editor and pro-
prietor of the New York Herald Mr..
Bennett had CHANGED to stray down TO
the old white marble building, At the
corner of Broadway and Ann streets,
and had fingered until that issue OF
his valuable newspaper property went
to press Mr.. Hurlbert had passed the
corner Of Broadway and Ann streets.
on his way from Park Row and Beck
man streets to the Live and Let Live,
his labors, and was himself sallying
forth in search Of refreshments. Those
were not the days when great editors
along the row would have stabbed each
other with carving knives over 4 mid
night supper table; the old veteran OF
rl1e World and the Young veteran of
nc ncraIG were hale fenows-wer
met" The earl of Rosebery was no
drawback 10 a rencontre between such
,hoice spirits and ne and his friend
Hurlbert and his friends friend Ben
net. all ducked their heads End de-
scended the Let Lives stairs
The two great editors at leas. were
recognized By the walters and u
buzz of expectation swept along
the bar. There was no expectation
that anything less than champagne
would be ordered and q rubbing OF
hands and smoothing down of aprons
attended the seating of MesSrs- Be.-
nett. Hurlb1rt and Primrose Cheese
sandwiches were ordered and three
bottles of beer, TO the disgust OF
the bar men and the auazeTnen, OF
the house. over which three bot
ties o. beer Nr. James Gordon
Bennett, Mr.. william Henri Eurlbert
and the earl of RoseberT chstted
away. according TO she oracles of Parx
Row, until daylight did appear.
A nest democratic and urpre.en.io1s
voungsler seemed Mr.. Primrose, es be /