New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-04
UH1T STAMBULOFF VAS LIKE.
A LrFELIKE PORTRAIT OF THE MURDERED BUls
GARIAN.


GARIAN.
r. p. Mahaffy in The London Saturday Review.
The present writer came 10 know him just year
ago, when he Was sitting in his house at SOMA
nursing hopes OF vengeance amid the pangs OK
disappointment. As another writer said Of him.
ne was Ike Gagged lion but lion who had been
free 1--WE minutes before. He constantly and
and at times seemed to bless his pain OF body in
that It somewhat relieved his agony OF mind His
We're curious head and face The head Was dome.
shaped and taId at the TOP and 2okei Ike hf
nan no 70 'r ,e shker Nrupp bullets wnSh soSs
ana letter-weishts. \ story hung by those bullets.
II one might believe his enemies. for he said 10
have taken big sums Gom the firm In return for
orders for his army but mis- head was distinctly
black bushy eyebrows which crowded down over
them as his glance read the lnmost soul OF his
fraordinary piercing brl!ancy: his teeth sharp and
pointed. but very whte-in fact. regular Tartar
lie spoke with his lips pgrsst up and when 10
tS looked FATHER as u ne We're "hisper'n' n
terlarded with bulgarian words when ne got eN,,
s hs me Fsneh ce fSa Ills arms
were extraordinarily muscular. and seemed CON
figure was suggestive OF violence and strength;
Many people have said that he was personally a, :
guards But personal experience and the story OF
his looking on and talking cheerfully while ms
this charge He certainly was always prepared 10
night for his S long Nn'sr ' S,Ssr G%
cations that the who shot at him might get
as good az he gave II he did not kill his game ~
the first shot.
The weakest points IN NJ. Stambulons charac.
ter brought out strongly by his conduct dur.
ing the last year. lie did not know how to take .
knockdown blow. Ii came suddenly after a long
period OF victories and success. and he nursed hie
defeat and disappointment In lmpotent rage ana
with reckless recrminatons against his successors
The proof OF a leader for the "Svoboda" was on his
table on the evening l met him. and when II APP
pearei next day II was simply mass Of scurrllouS
and vindictive abuse stambulof had nothing 70
help him through those cruel days OF disappoint:
ment. The blow was hard. indeed. TO bear and
men who have in other spheres suddenly received
such crushing blows. and felt their whole life ana
mind paralyzed and viley cast away. can sympoS
thze II they cannot excuse.
His study and house simple TO a fault ana
practical to ugness. The bare walls and the com.
fortress chairs the rooms sparsey decorated Win
hall a dozen l-placed and tawdry ornaments, re-
minded one OF the houses OF Irish Catholic priestS
Cigarettes were the only amenty; abundance OF
these. branded with his own name, OF his own spc,
cial tobacco. But the Individuality OF the man
submerged all these details and while In nj; phe0
with amasement tempered at times by xlnd
was fond Of sports OF many kinds fair snoI
good card player. but chiefly devoted 10 gamo'ins
games. To him and to talk with him was ~
education and discipline. The remembrance %
him will always be one OF the deepest ana moss
lasting impressions Of their lives to those who keg