The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-08
0TR NEV YORK LETTER
FEW NEWSPAPER MEN PUT ON
NJ" "o.1 FITTED BY CAPTAIN KING.
x.v,y Made General Passed Several
i"s -, Years mt Coiumbia's Preparatory
T.. John Y. McKane Figuring to
later public Life?


NE" tfing known the country over as
C haIi Charles King, a, recently made
Cap.", General in J0ole SAINTS new |
mls'i," not resident New Yorker, but
army ncs IN this state and city In sense,
nc g.,V ,res horn at Albany, his GRANDPA |
lor ~ ~ a president of Columbia college, |
tno' len n boy the present general was |
anu a student at Columbias prepara- |
eabool And, of course, his books
,ois hoon rs popular here as anywhere
nav s;,ce the first of his volumes was
published. .,thfr, oua,ity of Captain
- non cot him into very pretty con-
hine With n lot of New York newspa-
w. mon some years ago, though luis nara
Ioi ,bable he would have spent much
.;oie and ink on the matter had ne been
eli aware of the journalistic grade OF his
Iu ia;os Captain King may almost be con-
oii.n ncysnaper man himself. His ia
na General Rufus Kirg, of civil war
~ from Wisconsin, was an editor be-
e e".o Tho var first in Albany and later In
wr,ronkee and the captains boyhood
L. were largely passed i'm the journal
80 otmosphere. But IL was healthy
nt,oosnbcre for all that, for Rufus King
balanced TO that class of newspaper men,
iii In the majority by very large mar
Gin. whose guiding motto Is TO get the
ruth and tell it without prejudice.
consequently when as an officer on the
Indian frontier Captain King came In
contact with some journalists OF the SORT
that would nowadays be termed yellow
no ofrcnse intended to those who oon
deserve the title-he naturally conceived
violent dislike for all the members OF their
class In their case, as in many others,
be carefully treasured up their dolngs IN
his memory, and when later, retired De-
cause of disability incurred in the per-
formance of his soldierly duties, he took
20 writing tales of army life these vel
low correspondents were neatly impaled
ON the point of his trenchant pen.
Did the Coat Fit?
have forgotten the real names OF the
scribbers thus punished by Captain King
and il is to their own credit that they per-
sonally made never protest A similar
course was followed by newspaper men in
nearly every city, who recognized ana were
ashamed of the type portrayed.
But there was little coterie OF writers
in this town who could not allow his tenn
erty in critcising the class which lives by
crticisng others to go unpublished. un
fortunately lOf INC BOOu lltiillS VI WV Ni"i'
the columns of certain weekly paper
here were open to them, and they made 1T
papcs fairly bulge with the attacks which
they promptly contributed on the subject
One reading their letters without pleni
tudcof newspaper knowledge would surel,
have inferred that the good of the craft dc
mandcd the captains instant outwiping
Unfortunately the captain made the mis-
take of replying, and for weeks the nm
sayory quarrel went on, the only redeem
ing feature of the whole wretched cuisines
being the fact that the paper was not q
large circulation, and SO the controvers
attracted no attention whatever from tn
great public Had it appeared in the col
umns of a widely read periodical IL mus
have greatly increased the sales of tn
book, An Army Portia," in which tn
Objectionable newspaper writer's served q
characters.
John v. McKane Again.
twas announced by minor sheet som
days before his release from Sing Sin
that John Y. McKane, the one time Poo
Bah of Gravesend (Coney Island), VIII
went too far in the manipulation of ele'
tons in 1892 and was jagged therefo
that he purposed raising regiment
fight for free Cuba as soon as possible at
er regaining his liberty.
When he came out, however, he man
tested no warlike intentions whatever
was meek to all men, even to the repor
crs, and some of the newspaper men WI
had known him before" as well as "af
er" marveed greatly at his chastened spi
1t. To these men he conflded his intel
ton Of making as little noise in the wor
ms possible in the days to come. He d
not purpose resuming his residence
Coney Island, and he had no notion
again entering or venturing to critici
public affairs. He meant to live ne
Coney Island, in South Brooklyn, becau
he could thus the more easily carry on b
occupation as a builder, since his frien
were mainly Coney Islanders and hi
promised him plenty of business.
But change seems now to have col
over the spirit of his dreams, and while
may yet have no intention of re-enteril
public life he has certainly taken up
himself the task of criticising those w
are in with vigor that Is refreshing a
apparently commendable. The object
his criticism is the alleged filth of {
streets in his former domain, and
words appear to be founded on fact, for
spite of the pressure of war news Il
6"NS NhNiii thc "a
nifty OF n display head one day last weel
McKane Against Tammany?
Mckane was generally considered n 81
OF political freebooter in the days of
power, but he was oftener hand in ha
with Tammany than otherwise, thou
not able to contribute directly to its 81
cess or failure from the fact that Cor
Island was not then part of New Yol
Since the creation of the Greater n
YORK, however, Coney Island is as mt
subject to Tammany's power as the isla
OF Manhattan itself, and criticism
dirty streets in Gravesend is criticism
the organization" itself
just how the sachems will take {
criticism Is matter of some local int
est. 1t has already been announced Il
the general sentiment of the organizat
Is that no is making preliminary str
Tor some of his old time recognition. II
many Coney Islanders would like to
Mckane in again is incontrovertibly tr
and this was shown by the enthusiastic
somewhat informal manner of his rec