Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-10-26

the Mast" and Games D. Dana, the geol-
ogist. He followed the ancestral track at
rupted his studies and obliged him to leave
the university without taking a degree, I1f
spite Of his high scholastic achievements.
College life over, he joined with Theodore
William Curtis, Hawthorne, Charming and
others in their attempt to found the Brook
Farm community. This was an endeavor to
form an ideal society based upon real equal
ity and perfect fraternity. The plan was
not success, and the members of Brook
Farm were soon scattered. Young Dana
abandoned his visionary hopes and turned
his face to life OF toll He at once en-
first employed by Elizur Wright. who was
then publishing paper called the Chrono-
type in Boston. He earned five dollars a.
week: From this point his rise was rapid.
In 1847 he went to New York, having been
engaged as city editor on Horace Greeley's
rising paper, the Tribune, at ten dollars a
week. The following year he was sent as
special correspondent to Europe. His work
there soon gained him renown as corre-
spondent, and on his return to New York
he became Greeley's principal assistant.
His aoo salary ar Zog gradually was increased from
salary paid at that time by any newspaper.
Enters the War Service.
June 16, 1862, he was appointed to the
war department commission to investigate
claims at Cairo, ILL.,; on March r. 1869. as
special commissioner Of the department
to report on the condition Of the pay serv.
ice in the western army. June l, 1868, In or
der that he might be subject to military ex-
change if captured when visiting the front
of the army, he was appointed major and
assistant adjutant general, and on De-
cember 3D. 1863, was nominated to the SEN
ate for that office. but he never formally
accepted it, and the nomination, at his re-
quest, after he had returned from Viclzs-
burg, was withdrawn on February "a, 1861.
January TO- 1854. he was nominated for as
sistant secretary of war for one year, from
January, 10, 1864: confirmed January 20,
and took the office on January Is; renom-
mated January g. 1865. and confirmed on
the same day.
Takes Hold of the New York Sun.
When the war was over. in 1867, he went
TO Chicago, and for year acted as editor
Of the Republican. Then he returned to the
metropolis and organized the company
which now publishes the New York Sun.
journal, having first appeared in 1888
Dana's conduct of this journal was so fear
less that in 1873 his criticism of the Grant
administration led to an attempt on the
part of the heads of the government to
hale him to Washington for trial in a DO
lice court on a charge Of libel. Justice
Blatchford. then of the United States dis
trict court in New York. declared the at
tempt an invasion of constitutional rights
and refused to grant the necessary warrant
| of removal. For nearly SC years Mr.. Dana
made the Sun an Independent democratic
journal. In its issue of October II. 1897.
in the heart of the Greater New York
municipal campaign. Mr.. Dana repudiated
democracy of every stripe and declared for
the principles and policy of the republican
party. This was on the ground that the
democracy of William ]. Bryan represented
principles. tendencies and purposes which
| the Sun abhorred, and that the gold democ-
! racy was impractical and without definite
purpose or significance.
In private life Mr.. Dana was a conno,s
seur of books, ceramics, bronzes, painting
and orchids, a lover of chess and athletics
and enamored of all things OF refinement.
Dana Laid to Rest.
New York, Oct. 21.-At the base of q
tall, rugged locust tree in the highest
part of the churchyard of St. Paul's
Protestant Episcopal church at Glen
Cove, L. l., all that was mortal of the
late Charles Anderson Dana was buried
shortly after noon Wednesday. The
funeral services were simple, in strict
accordance with MIR. Dana's expressed
wish.