The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-24
AN ALL ,RouND JOURNALIST.
He studies Law and Medicine by Way
of Recreation.

Washington Post.
Edward Marshall, the newspaper man
who was shot in the spine during the
Rough Riders and regular cavalrys night
before Santiago is young man of thirty,
but he has had about three times the
amount of experience usually included
within the lifetime of man twice that
age. He has been in the newspaper bust
nsss ever since as ro printers a nevi adit IN
ors almost to madness with his yells for
copy" and he knows the newspaper pro-
fessiOn in all it's branches. He has always
been addicted to the habit of finding out
about things. For example, few years ago,
when he was the Sunday editor of the New
York Press, he slowed away on a steamer
bound from New York to Charleston, S. c.,
for the sake of finding out how it feels to
be yanked out of the steerage by the purser
pa ssage by shoveling coal in a temperature
of 1876 degrees He shoveled coal for four
days, and, being a six-footer and a giant in
strength, he didn't mind 1T little bit, and
wrote very amusing account of the trip.
| A little later on he took a trip from New
tions of the brutality with which cattle-ship
! mot as passenger, dining with and sleep
! ing alongside of the skipper but as per-
| SOnal convoy for his especial bunch of Texas
| steers which it was his business to look
| out for. When Marshall wrote his story of
| this experience there were some modifica-
| tons of the brutality with which cattle ship
sailors were at that time treated. A bit later
| on Marshall became interested in the tene-
| ment house problem in New York city.
He didn't dive into the subject at long
| range, but he took room in the worst
dive of a tenement house in New York
and lived among the people, and got next
| to their ideas and ways of thinking. His
writings on the subject of New York tene-
ment houses were filled with knowledge
| that Marshall was made secretary of the
| New York tenement house commission.
| Marshall lived in the Chinese quarter in
/ New York for some months, in order to
study the CelestialS. He broke his arm on
| an ice-boating trip a few years ago and
| during his laid-up spell he decided 10 study
| surgery. He put himself under the tutelage
| Of one of the best surgeons in New York
| and after couple of years of hard study,
| put in between working hours as a news
paper man, he became an uncommonly
| good surgeon. The account he wrote of the
| Lourdes pilgrimage that he attended for a
| syndicate of American newspapers a few
| years ago attracted almost as much at
tention as Zola's novel on that subject
| While serving as London correspondent of
| a New York newspaper, Marshall fell in the
| way of Cecil Rhodes the master of South
Africa, and Rhodes made some very invit-
| ing overtures to the American newspaper
man to become his private secretary at a
| hve-hgure yearly salary in dollars Mar
SHALL however; besides his American news
| paper connections, was making money hand
| over fist in Long island real estate and he
couldn't see the proposition of Rhodes for
this reason. AT the time he started to Cuba
for his newspaper he was hard at work
studying law as little mental exercise