Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-15
JULIAN RALPH
Ups and Downs ia the Life of a Well
 Known Journalist.
Special CorrcSpqRiencc.l

AsBURT PARK, July 9.-Julian Ralph, whose articles of travel and more infre- Qurnt sketches of New York life are at tracing much attention in the magazines of late, is |: native of Red Bank, a small town not many miles from hero. His sum- mCr home is there also, for, in spite of his familiarity with many parts of the world, he likes that part of New Jersey that is near the shore much better than any other section of the worlds crust.
 Rall,h'S family was in some way connect ed with rairoading, despite the fact that Ralph himself, when travelling or at work as d journalist, looks more like a dressed up farmer than like anything clsc. This is nnt tu hi discrcdit, of course, for very n.any = q. sSful mcn are rather careless about ring thcE4SClvcs in the height of f.eshiulr ur seeing to it that their clothing fits well. Yet it was Il little amusing rc. gently to those who have seen Ralph or his full length photographs to read his criti- rt-m% upon Ih" fit uf the clothes worn by the Grrl:l;.n emperor.
 Ralph foInd out while yet he was a boy that tio only way fer him to be happy would be {" go into the production of "cupy." Therefore, when still quite young, he went to New York, where ho got employment on The Sun as a reporter He did good, honest work even then, but failed to SCOT" any great hit, and after aW'iilr left Bhna x paper tO be city editor fer Tine NUrld then under the manage mrnt of William Henry IIurlbrrt. When Joseph Pulitzer bought the paper, p,ssi- bly, before, Ralph left it and returned to The Sun. His first notable work was done ln series of articles descriptive of the ice carnival at Montreal one winter. They were so thoroughly descriptive as to make hiS 1fnfi ylrN make the reader see through the writer's eyes. and since that time he has been re- gardcd by newspaper men as one of the best pon picturers living.
 A little later he began to write for the syndicatcS, wherC he obtained sigma turc, and this made him known to the general public as well as to the profcs- sion Then he went abroad, where his pen found plenty of things to describe in new and interesting though perfectly simple ways, and so his fame grew. At about the samo timo he began to find an occasional place for his work in the periodicals, and then, like so many other masters of the art of word painting. he became seized of the desire to bo publisher and established a weekly in New York under the title of Chatter. It was success artistically, but as business venture it failed utterly. have always thought this came chiefly from poor printing and the cheap paper used, for he initiated many of the English papers in these matters, and poor "stock'' and too rapid prcsswork will not go in the United States. Perhaps it is not generally known, but the successful weekly papers of this country average higher in mechan- ical beauty than those of any other coun- try ill the world. If the comic papers of America were as badly printed as Punch, JuGy, Fun and the other English comics are, they would find it decidedly hard to get on.
 But to return to Ralph. Chatter died, and he went back to The Sun, remaining there until about six or eight months ago, when Inc left tho field of journalism for that of periodical writing, the inducement being the offer of big salary-how big is not part of the public's knowledge-by one of the b"st known publishing houses in the land. This houso set Ralph to tray cling to and fro between the uttermost parts of the earth. China and Japan were included in his latest jaunt, but singularly enough he has never yet visited Maine or Texas, two of the most interesting states ill his native land.
 What is the secret of his success? He is enthusiastic. He looks at the things he has to write about with the eyes of a child and thus discovers n lot of facts, interest ing to every one, which writers without his enthusiasm and fresh eyes miss alto gethGr. When you come to think of it. most successful men in every line owe their success to their enthusiasm, and most unsuccessful men are and always have been without that quality.
 M. I. DEXTER