The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-11

| Paris. followed the armies of China
and Japan in their late struggle, des-
| cribed the rebellions in Switzerland,
| Hayti and Roumania, and told of the
struggle of the Cubans for liberty and
| the brutality and tyranny of the Span
| iards on that island.
| Creelman is to the manner born. En-
| tering the newspaper world in early
| life he has never known anything else.
He began his career in journalism at
| the age of II, when he was engaged
| as a reporter on the New York Herald.
| He was a success from the start. Al
| most Immediately he attracted the at
| tention of the then Managing Editor,
| Thomas b. Cownery and soon he was
given special work The boy was of
| daring and adventurous spirit and the
deeps of the old journalism were being
| broken up and the new was being form
] ed. The Herald was the leader in this
new movement of enterprise and SEN
sationalism 1t was therefore but natur-
| al that young Creelman should be sent
out on the most daredevil expeditions,
which he was expected to describe to
| the readers of the Herald. Long bal
| loon excursions were made with such
| scientific experts as King, Donelson
| and others. But there soon became
a sameness about this. The young man
| had described it time and time again
| the bird's-eye view of the earth, the
| sky, the cloud effects, the winds and
air currents, the cleaning sea in the
| distance, the sensations experienced
and the philosophic reflections sug
gested by the surroundings. He had
! told Of these time and again until the
subject had become thread-bare and
| he decided to quit it, for his name be
! came attached to such expeditions and
! he was known as "Creelman, the bal
/ loonist."
! But the spirit of adventure was not
yet dead in the man. So, when Paul
Boyden came to this country ,Creelnan
was sent out by the Herald to make
! long expeditions with him, thousand
times more risky and dangerous than
had been his balloon ascensions. Long
I excursions out to sea at night were
/ made, testing Boyden's boats and other
| inventions. And when Custer was kill
| ed they made their famous trip from
| one end of the Missouri to the other
! Investigating the cause of the Indian
| troubles in the West
Perhaps his two most famous
| achievements at this time were in the
city of New York. Certainly the result
ed in very great benefit to the people of
that city. In the latter part of
the 70's, Mr.. Creelman chartered a
steam yacht for the Herald and made
Investigations in New York harbor.
writing a series of articles exposing
| the manner in which the channels were
being Swallowed and filled up by the
| dumping of garbage and refuse of all
kinds from the city into them. This
| led to an official investigation and re-
| suited in the enactment of new laws
| by both the city and State and an en-
/ tire change in the manner of dispos-
ing of the refuse matter from the great
metropolis. About the same time. Mr..
/ Creelman attracted wide attention by
| breaking up DIR. Walter May Rew's
notorious bogus medical college. He
| entered DR.. Rew's institution as a stu
dent, received his diploma as a full
fiedged M. d., and then exposed the
| whole business in the Herald. The re-
suit was that DR.. Rev spent long
term of years in the penitentiary.
| Another daring adventure was his
trip into the Kentucky and West Vir-
ginia wilderness during the McKoy-
| Hatfield war. Every stranger coming
into that section at that time was look
ed upon with suspicion and as an enc
my. Newspaper correspondents were
| especially undesirable.
| Mr.. Creelman then transferred the
scene of his labors to Europe becoming
| European editor of the Herald. He
first had his Office in London, but later
| made his residence in Paris, devoting
ms tlme and energies to building UP
the Paris edition of his paper He has
| at various times had charge of the Her
| aids staff of special correspondents in
Paris, London, Rome, Berlin, Vienna
and st. Petersburg.
The most notable achievement of his
| career as newspaper man, certainly
the most remarkable of it's kind. was
| at Rome, when he succeeded after three
| months of diplomatic work, in break
ing through the conservatism of the
vatican and interviewing the Pope-
an absolutely unparalleled thiflgTn the
history of the world. He took dawn
from the Pope's own lips his views
on the subject of capital and labor and
the relation of the church to the new
problems of society. The Herald de-
voted whole page to this interview
ana 1T was copied in every language in
| the world
Another accomplishment somewhat
| OF the same kind was his visit to Iouis
| kossuth, the former dictator of Hun
gary, at Turin, Italy. 1t was to Creel-
man, in an official interview, that Kos
suth for the first time broke his silence
OF ~ years and unrolled again the
whole matter of Europe with it's Sc
crets.
He also interviewed John Ericsson.
the designer of the Monitor, at Stock
holm, and had him to go into full dis
| cussion of the matter of shipbuilding.
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