The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-18
DANA DEAD
Continued From First rage.

Continued From First rage.
ed. I have it from eye witnesses that
c. G. roared and snorted more over
that ignoninious title than all else said
or done against him.
DR.. Parkhurst. the least offensive and
least ambitious Of men, so far as no
toriety is concerned, became known to
the world as a scheming foX-like hypo-
critic and apostle Of hypocracy, because
with a few skillfully chosen words the
editor Of The Sun so depicted him. IL
was rank and cruel injustice, but 1t
went" and whole lifetime Of such
virtue as the apostles could not re-
move the impression.
+. The Mr.. Hitchcock referred to Is best
known by two circumstances. 1. He is
the author of those famous Matthew
Marshall letters on finance in the Mon
day morning Sun. g. He is the father
of Thomas Hitchcock Jr., one of the
greatest polo players and german lead
ers in New Yorks 400. The father
doesn't ride polo ponies to any great
extent. He looks like a farmer or
country general storekeeper, and Is
said to be worth ten or more millions,
chiefly made in Wall street. In spite
Of his wealth the joy of his life is to
write that column and half of "stuff'
every week (mighty interesting STUFF,
too, and to run over the suns led
gers with a long lead pencil as he may
be seen doing almost any day In the
week. He was a great pal or Mr
Dana's, too, because. while he can
read Chinese inscriptions, he knows a
heap of more useful things and talks
as he writes-on anything and every
thing. The brains standard seems TO
go in the Sun Office.
The Sun will by no means stop shin
ing. Dana was the biggest, but not the
Only pebble on the beach. Every year
for more than a decade, he has spent
two or three months of the twelve IN
Europe, Asia or Africa, searching out
recondite places and queer languages
to learn. In his absence the paper went
on as before and ''Old Subscriber"
meeting his ancient friend Constant
Reader points out for their mutual
enjoyment editorial passages which
they both recognize as in that mimi
table vein Of Danas." Nor is this so
paradoXical as it may seem. Ihere
are several-say tWo-young men IN
the Sun office who can write in that
.sininitable style" with almost perfect
success. repeating the characteristic
traits of their chiefs 'matchless die
ton Very we'll; it is a matchless die
ton and a style inimitable for all that.
II YOU think otherwise, try to match
it. Try your powers of mimicry and see.
How much Mr.. Dana has written for
the Sun of late is not known, but MS
product has grown less and less as the
years rolled by. Yet until his illness and
except for the vacations mentioned he
regularly spent six or more hours at
his desk. This had been his practice
for many years and surely there could
be no better proof of his force or char-
acter as a writer and as man than
that in this contact young men OF nigh
talents have gladly surrendered their
literary style to his hands and seen II
formed upon his model. 1t may or
NAV not be a great style, but 1t IS
unioue. You would know it in the next
world as we'll as in this. The profound
est learning and the lightest froth from
street life; the severest accuracy ana
the most frolicsome fun; alluslon the
most reconcile. the daintiest perlphraSlS
and the bluntest brOadest jest-What
indeed is not to be found in that Won
derful conglomerate that is known as
1.-The Suns style" to all the English n
speaking world? Whatever its merits
or dement's it has had the virtue of
originality and power-the power to set
all the world to talking about this
or that trife, as the writer Willed. Ana
that is what is meant when men say,
as thew often do, the Sun has circula-
ton of 70,000,000
Mr.. Dana has always Deen d pIOulS-
ious reader of the newspapers or eX-
changes. He had an abnormal capac-
ity for getting the cream of paper at
one scoop, leaving the skinned prod
uct to others for laboriOus consump-
ton. His faVorite working place was
at one of the windows on the third
floor. overlooking City Hall park. He
had a sort of shelf or bracket fastened
to the window frame, which served
him as a desk Here you might find
! him in his working hours, heap of
exchanges by his side and one of
them in his hand undergoing the pro-
cess of being skinned alive. A sweep
ing glance at the printed page, spas
modic movement of the scissors hand,
and 10, the pearl of the oyster IS res
cued and the shell lies in the heap of
"discards." Many a gem has been res
cued, many an inspiration found for
a leader witty and learned. Many a
poem worth reading" from the pen
of a poet hitherto unknown was thus
! rescued from oblivion.
Like all Old-time editors also, Mr..
Dana was at home in the composing
room overlooking the imposing stone
whereon lie the editorial ''stock in
hand" in naked type Though he
wrote sparingly
HE KILLED" FREELY,
going through the room, pencil in
hand, indicating the victims thus:
Kill -kill-kill." By this pro-
cess of selection the quality of the edi-
torial page was brought to it's high
standard.
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