The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-18

deed the distinctive feature of the SUM
will survive after Mr.. Dana's death,
it will be interesting to watch. The
great editor is the last of his race.
He was the sole survivor Of that dis
tinguished coterie, Greeley, Weed, Rip
ley, Raymond, Gordon Bennett the first,
Prentice, McCullagh, ct al, the last Of
the great editors remaining, at least
in New York. Other New York papers
have passed under the rod and en-
tered upon the new order. Cheap
white paper, fast printing machines,
typesetting machines and the page
lad" have made all the Suns contem-
poraries over into purely commercial
enterprises operated exactly as a mer-
camille establishment directed from
the counting room, the editorial depart
ment being like the composing or press
room, merely an adjunct. To this or
der the Sun has not yet succumbed
To this day, though most of the paper
is printed from type, set by machinery,
the editorial page and some others are
set by hand, because Mr.. Dana would
not brook the mechanical restrictions
imposed by machine composition. From
every department the lines of authority
ran, not to the counting room, but to
the editors chair.n Il
How will it be in the near future.
when another sits in that famous seat
at the window overlooking City Hall
park, whence the lively philosopher
(and his office caD have watched one
whole generation come and go, rebuk-
ing them as they passed, laughing at
(and With them, scolding, administer
ing. melting, restraining them, but al
ways loving them as fellow sinners
prone to error, but after all not so bad
as might have been-who will take his
place? 1t ls no serious reflection on
the others to say that there is no man
in sight armed and equipped as Mr..
Dana was when he assumed the seat.
Other men there are of great gifts and
wide knowledge, but who can combine
with these the wealth of experience
that he won in the stirring days of his
young manhood?
The German philosopher, who died
happy because he felt that he had
completed the cycle of his experience,
had seen no such variety and depth of
human life as he. What a careeri
Graduated at Harvard in time to join
with Bronson Alcott Emerson, Hecker,
George William Curtis and that ilk in
the foolish, glorious colony at Brook
farm, apprentice, then partner then
master of Greeley; tourist in Europe
when men still Travelled post. chaise,
and a spectator of the great wars
which, though of our own century. be-
our civil struggle the intimate of Lin
coin and Stanton, Grant and Sherman,
and by their sides witness of all the
great battles of the war-what living
man has comprised so much even in
four score years. Eighty years and
not an idle day in one of them. Know
ing no rest but that change of work.
in which Gladstone also finds his only
relaxation, that matchless mind, like
Byron's, wax to receive and marble to
retain" penetrated every field of knowl-
edge, with sympathies as broad as the
sky and as open.
When Mr.. Dana visited the vatican
he had audience with the pope, and
spent an hour Gaping Italian verses
and quoting alternate lines from the
Inferno" Soon after he returned he
attended prize fight one evening after
besting his son alta post-prandial game
Of billiards This very year he has add
ed Russian to his list of languages,
grown a new rose and written a mono
graph on the culture of mushrooms.
In his hours Of repose- he collated his
experience in the civil war, as Lin
coins reporter" for a magazine which
thus became the lucky heritor of one of
the greatest books of the century.