The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-09

1t is nothing short of amusing to read
| the accounts of the interviews" those
| Queenstown reporters had with the
/ American commissioners. With note
| book and pencil in hand, they piled
Judge Day and Whitelaw Reid and
Senator Gray with such harmless and
unimportant queries as, What will be
your policy at Paris regarding the
Philippines?' What are your instruc-
tons from President McKinley?'' rs
the cabinet in favor of the imperial
policy?"
or course the commissioners Winked
both eyes at their verdant uuestioners
and shut their mouths tight as the
doors of a fire-proof safe, when such
awkward inquiries were shot at them
by group of men armed with note
book and pencil, and the correspond
ents left the Campania baff1ed and ILL
humored
Then the Cork Examiner comes out
next day with the following:
How is 1t that so many notabilities
who absolutely refuse to speak to a
newspaper man on this side of the At
| lantic will succumb TO the American
reporter? Mr.. Chamberlain is a noto-
ciously hard nut to crack, but, accord
ing to transatlantic exchanges, he has
given numerous interviews. Chief
cut against the Establishments of the
American interviewer. This would
not be possible in ireland. 1t would
| appear that only an American can
risk the attack"
| The trouble - not with the American
traveller, but with his old country in
| terviewer. Imagine a New York re-
porter bouncing up to Mr.. Chamber
lain with half dozen pencils sticking
cut Of his vest pockets and a notebook
big as a grocer's order-book open in
his hand and asking him right off such
! questions as were put to the United
States commissioners at Queenstown!
| Not he. The sly New Yorker begins
| by telling the British statesman OF
kitcbener's great victory in the Sou
Gan. and how the Darlington election
resulted in a thousand triumphs, both
or Wh.cf events took place since his
voyage began. Mr.. Chamberlain is
at cnce interested and delighted He
Is grateful to his kind informant who
brought him such good news. A ci-
gar IS proffered and of course accept
ed, anc as the boat passes up by Sta
ten Island and Fort Lafayette. the
statesman and his well-informed friend
are talking quite pleasantly about the
TRIP, the people on board, our war with
Spain and half a dozen other innocent
| topics, which any statesman might talk
ABOUT at any time or place with the
| BIenlest propriety and safety. Never
note book or pencil has appeared in
| an the conversation, but the man that
Is doing the interviewing has all his
| WIS ABOUT him, and he is besides gift
| &c WIN a retentive memory and more
| or less of sturdy imagination.
Consequently the English minister is
| sonleWhat surprised when he reads
next morning in his New York hotel !
column and half story of himself. his
| voyage, and his views on Kitchener's
victory, the Darlington election, anc
what he said Cor ought to have said
the same thing) about the possibilities
Of an Anglo-American alliance.
The British statesman drops his bin.
ocular in utter amazement, and for 8
| moment is indignant But it is all 81
cleverly written, there are such nice
things said about his pretty American
wife and the picture of himself that
goes with the article is so excellent and
life-like, that his good humor quickly
returns, and the next moment he is
reading the story to his wife and com
panions in appreciatiye tones.
And that's how it's done Those
| Queenstown reporters don't know their
business.
The present lord lieutenant or vice
roy Of Ireland Carl Cadogan) is COM
| ing in for some sharp criticism for his
frequent and prolonged absences from
Dublin, where his fine official residence
Is, and where he is supposed to spend
the greater part Of his term of office
leading society" and doing something
J for the benefit of trade with the hun
dred thousand dollars a year he gets,