The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-02-19

JOHN BRISDEN WALKER.
be assigned to duty upon the plains, hay-
ing some original notions as to the man
ner in which tho army should deal with
the Indians.
Today these four men are friends, hay
ing kept up the acquaintance since they
left West Point, and, strangely enough,
they arc 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 as 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 as
the editor and publisher Of one Of the lead
ing magazines than as 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 a
magazine that was almost moribund, and
cured for it circulation Of over 200, 600
copies and remunerative income. Mr..
Walker is now erecting, almost within a
stones throw of Woolfert's Roost, the
home of Washington Irving, a 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 DO removed from New
York city to it.
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, II
he chose teaching, as an instructor and per
| haps writer upon mathematics. He did
write one work upon one Of the most diff
Quilt branches of mathematics which
brought him great repute among mathe
maticians. He became professor of math
ematics In Dartmouth college, and while
holding that post he surprised his friends
and delighted cultured public by an un
expected novel, but Yet Woman. >
The surprise to his friends was caused by
the revelation that this mathematician haf
also remarkable powers as a romancer ant
teller of delightful tales. The public, mo-
ply recognized in this book the advent of {
new writer from whom almost anything
In romantic literature might REASONABLE,
be expected Mr.. Hardy followed this frs
novel a year or two later with another
and he has written some charming poetry
Captain King saw much service upoI
the plains, as he hoped when q student t,
do, but In consequence Of i'll health he wa
compelled to give up active life in tn
army, and at first, perhaps more to occup.
his time than to crafty literary ambi
ton, he wrote stories of army life. The,
were instantly popular, and Of late he ha
received the highest praise from one of tn
most famous and successful of living gen
erals, himself successful writer, Lor
Wolseley, who has said that Captain King
description of charge at the battle @
Gettysburg is one of the most graphic an
perfect Of battle pen pictures. CAPITAL
Kings earnings from his stories are large
and military men who have read his writ
ings believe that 1t may be his lot to writ
the really great story Of the civil war,
The fourth Of this group, Colonel Ricf
ard Savage, has not long laid aside tn
sword to take up the pen. His first story
MY Official Wife," while it lacked pei
haps literary grace, was a thrilling tale {
adventure and intrigue and had an enol
nous sale 1t brought his name to tn
front of the writers Of that sort Of literf
ture. He has since produced with rapidit
: almost equal to Dumas novels Of adver
ture, which find a ready sale.
These four men are the most distir
guished group of litterateurs who have eve
come from West Point. Fenimore Coopt
as an officer in the American navy Of
tanned many Of the incidents afterwar
worked into his famous sea tales, and Cal
tain Mahan, graduate Of the Naval AGA.
envy, has written two very profound worl
upon the sea power in the making Of hi
tory, which have caused the ablest men
Europe to give him rank among the mo-
! brilliant writer's Of philosophical history
L. ]. EDwARDs