St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-26
DORSEY.
The Memorable banquet Where
There Were Oceans of Cham

payne.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Stephen w. Dorsey is no longer nur,-
oereu among the picturesque charac-
tiers OF New Mexico. The log mansion
with Its beautiful hardwood finish and
elegant appointments, looking out from
the edge of high mesa over fifty
miles of plain and mountain range
WITH FOUNTAINS playing on the lawn,
no longer knows the presence of the
man VINO designed it and dispensed
lavish hospitality which New Mexico
taste could not appreciate. Through
the mutations of a cattle company ex
senator Dorsey has transferred his
residence to Denver This territory
mas her quota OF talented story-tellers.
but a big gap was made in the ranks
when Mr.. Dorsey departed.
You are perhaps not aware that I
nave made some notable contributions
TO literature, he said on one occasion
with an entirely serious manner. eff
mad given my whole attention to that
instead of to politics, and later to the
cattle business, it would have been bet
ter for me. I remember once, years
ago, when 1 was in Paris, 1 met Dick
ems on the boulevard. I was stopping
at my accustomed hotel, where l oc-
cupied the suite of rooms which is oc-
served for the Prince of Wales when
ever he is in Paris. 1 knew Dickens
well, and as he came up I observed
that he was looking depressed in
spirit
" Hello, Charley said I, what are
you doing over here and what is the
natter
oh said he, I just ran over to get
away from my creditors. 1 am doing
nothing. I am too much harassed to
do any work.
Charley said I, come with me-
II led the way to my hotel and we
had a most excellent dinner. 1 talked
to him. and gradually he became more
cheerful. After dinner we
SMOKED AND RESTED.
''Now.' said I, Charley, FIJI tell you
what we are going to do to get you out
of all of your troubles. We will shut
ourselves up in these rooms and not
go out until we have together written
a book. I'll furnish the material and
You will dress it as tell it to YOU
Dickens agreed, and at it we went.
I unfoided the plot and described the
characters Dickens wrote. We lived
in those two rooms two weeks without
leaving the hotel and without seeing
anybody except the servants. AT the
end of that time the book was finished
and was sent to the publishers. 1t
proved to be one of the most successful
books ever printed. 1t has been trans
lated in other languages and circulated
+ oil "a 1f
have been sold. Mr. Dickens is sup
posed to be the author of it, but it
was my conception in general plot and
in detail'
What was the name of it." asked
the listener, himself a man who had
travelled widely and read much, as
Dorsey well knew.
The TaIeof Two Villages replied
the ex-senator without preeeptible
twitch of the tell-tale muscle in his
eyelid.
Il have written many other things
poetry as well as prose, which have
become famous In literature" con-
tinued Dorsey in the same serious,
matter-of-faet manner, s'but my work
is not generally known
The hospitality which Dorsey dis
pensed at the log mansion on the mesa
is still the marvel of New Mexico.
ST remember" said a territory Of
fetal, that one time when court was
in session at South Las Vegas, SEN
ator Dorsey invited us out to his
place to stay over Sunday. Naturally
we all accepted, and in the party was
Judge Vincent, whom President Cleve-
land summarilys and. as we all thought,
untustly removed for appointing Dor
sey one of the jury commissioners of
the county. We had heard much OF