The herald., 1895-06-10
THE SALTATORY HUTCHINSON
He Animadverts on Newspaper
Italian
SCORES BIERCE AND MEWEN
The Evil of Projecting Mutual Admira.
tion Societies
SCORES BIERCE AND M'EWE
Former Devotees to Each Others Talents,
They Now Forlay the Other and Are
DernfuI and Melancholy

Nearly all the papers of this city made
many mistakes in reporting the late cele-
bratons in honor of the great Garibaldi
and in commemoration of the adoption
of the constitution of Italy.
A little more familiarity with our fel-
low ctizens would enable us to call them
by their right lanes, and to give credit
where credit is due, to say nothing of
blame when such is due and unpaid and
should 60 to protest.
The Garibaldi guards held their inter-
esting exercises at their hall on Date
street recently. The picnic held at Ar
royo Seco on Sunday, May 26, was also
held under the auspices of the Garibaldi
guards, assisted by the Legion Francaise.
The picnic held at Arroyo Seco on Sun.
day, June I'd, and the banquet at the
United States hotel on the same evening
wer. held under the auspices OF the exec
'itive committee of relief Of the Italian
colony of Los Angeles. The handsomely
uniformed military company that added
so much to the pleasure OF the day was
the famous San Jose Hussars.
The orator Of the day was Cavalier 6.
Calegaris of San Francisco. He has had
a very romantic career, and was honored
last year by King Humbert of Italy, who
bestowed upon him the title of cavalier
of the crown of Italy, in recognition of
humane and meritorous labors Tor the
Latin races in America
Cavalier Calegaris is considered one OF
the greatest orators in this state. His
orations in the beautiful Italian language
are fine specimens of eloquence.
Certain newspapers and writers OF San
Francisco are having merry war.
The disgraceful personal squabble now
and for some weeks past INDUCED In by
Ambrose Bierce and Arthur McEwen
should be a valuable object lesson to nu-
merous citizens of Los Angeles with
optimistic proclivities and the reprehensi-
Bile habit OF projecting mutual admira-
ton societies.
About three years ago Bierce seemed to
admire but one man, and chat was A.
McEwen. Esquire.
Nc Even SAID that A. Bierce was so
great that the San Francisco of thou
sand years hence would be known to
fame simply as the home of Bierce.
At present each forlays the other and
is provided with such a discrlminous
weapon that we should be prepared to
see each or either forelie the other
whereat we hould by all means be fol-
Iorn and dernful and melancholy like
boy with the melon collie.
+ 4 4
Arthur McEwen is an erratic Bohemian
who has explored all the caverns of his
native coast. He has a clear mental pic
ture of each OF the denizens OF the coast.
and all the peculiar characteristics OF
each individual are so graphically out
lined that the artistic Arthur is able to
project a cartoon OF any one at mo-
ment's notice. McEwen is able, fearless,
humane, pessimistic, cosmopolitan, and,
for biped, fairly honest.
4 4 q
Ambrose Bierce is a peculiar linguistic
genius whose vocabulary consists OF hall
a dozen languages entire. to say nothing
of such peculiar com binations OF words
and letters as lie scattered about in his
verbaliferous orchard
"Thick as the leaves that strew the
brooks
In Nalam brosia."
He writes prose and rhyme and criti-
cism and condemnation and editorials and
answers to correspondents for the Exam
iner, at som ething like S75 week and
the relief OF his surcharged nervous sys-
TEN.
In his present unseemly squabble with
McEwen he says he does not write at
the behest of the paper he writes tor.
Peradventure no.
Per a misadventure, yes.
He has said many good things, but all
his skill and practice have not suffced to
eliminate certain coarseness that taints
much of his work. He delights in put
ting together such wild, weiid, ghoulish,
uncanny. hair-raising, flesh .defylng.
mirth destroying, nerve-torturing. and
din-creating combinations of vocalferous
dry bones that the auditors and observers
stand aghast at the bowling phantasma-
goria.
Yours as always, -
EDWARD HUTCHINSON.