The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-10-01

be assigned TO duty upon the plains, hay
ing some original notions rs TO the man
ner In which the army should deal with
the Indians.
To-day these four men are friends, hay
ing kept up the acquaintance since they
left West Point, and, strangely enough,
they are all distinguished for successful
work not as army officers, but as writers
or men having to do with the publication
of writing. They are not In the army, but
they are earning more money than they
could hope To do rs army officers, some of
them receiving yearly income larger than
the senior major general OF the United
States army does in salary. These
four West Pointers who are not now Of
the army, are John Brisben Walker, AL
pheus S. Hardy, Colonel Richard Savage
and Captain Charles King, or Charley
King, as he is known to his friends
Mr.. Walker Is perhaps better known rs
the editor and publisher of one of the lead
ing magazines than as II writer, although
after he left the army he was for some
years a newspaper writer and managing
editor at one time of the now traditional
Washington Chronicle. He took hold Of u
magazine that was almost moribund, and
after an expenditure Of some 5000, 900 Sc
cured for it IA circulation of over 200, 900
copies and IA rcmunerativc income. Mr..
Walker is now erecting, almost within
stones throw of Woolfert's Roost, the
home Of Washington Irving, great build
ing fashioned in imitation Of the senate
wing Of the capitol in Washington. Here
his magazine will be made. Even the edito-
rial offices are to be removed from New
York city to 1t.
Mr.. Walkers associate editor is his old
West Point chum and lifelong friend, Pro
fessor Hardy. After Hardy was graduated
from West Point 1t was thought by his in
structors and his associates that he might
become conspicuous as an engineer, or, If
he chose teaching, as an instructor and per
haps writer upon mathematics. He did
write one work upon one of the most diff
| cult branches of mathematics which
brought him great repute among mathe-
maticians. He became a professor of math-
| ematics in Dartmouth college, and while
| holding that post he surprised his friends
| and delighted n cultured public by an un-
expected novel, but Yet n Woman"
The surprise to his friends was caused by
the revelation that this mathematician had
also remarkable powers as n romancer and
teller Of delightful tales. The public, not
knowing of his mathematical powers, sim
ply rccosli@eu III tllis pooH 'no nu,ehI VI u
new "ritcI run Whoiii ail,oao any .hilB
IN rulnantic i.ernturp ihignU [e.'sola n
DO e1pccoeu' MI iiaiuy ioIioWeu uiis hrsV
mover year OF TWO ia'er Win nhotncr'
anu no mas Mrlu'eii soilic oii"rlilIhs poeti!'
Captaih Ming saw inuch services upon
the piaihs' as nc hopeu Wnel, u s.uuchU 10
no. put III consequence Vi III he',ith ne was
compelled 10 give up active ne IN thc
army, ana at hrst' perhaps more 10 occupy
ms uho thah 10 gratny literary aInol-
tion, ne wrote stories OF army me, Ihey
Were instantly popular anu Oh iaoe ne mas
received the highest praise from one Oh inc
most famous ana successful OF liVlhg gen,
erals, himself successful writer, Lord
Wolseiey, VINO mas SAID that captain hlhB