Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-02-12

kept the walls of the Times office hot
with profanity. while his condition
was not such as men usually present
when attending divine service sunday
morning. Here was weak spot in our
giant.
Mistakes In business are of frequent
enough occurrence to the wiscst of
his spotted career found 1t advisable
To take the back track and virtually
make confession to thc public that he
was In error. One of these was based
upon u startling increase In the cost of
white paper. at which time he tenn
porarily lost $1,000 subscribers through
an attcmp to make a permanent price
of q cents for che Times. Another
blundcr was an abortivc plan to estab-
lish an evening paper as q running
mate for his successful morning edi-
tion. lie abandoned the scheme when
he realized that he was splitting a
profitable business near the central
joint. Then recall his hesitation
about reviving the Times when the city
lay In ruins--his open expression of be-
lief that Chicago was done forever. 1t
was ten days or so before he was him
self: before he coOlly framed his plans
and prepared Tor u fresh start.
1t happened, midway in the progress
of that wonderful fire. after his estab-
lishment had been reduced to cinders
and he was a ruined man. that for an
hour or so stood on the street behind
him and his wife. arm I'm arm. reyellng
in the weird and costly beauties Of one
of the greatest scenes time has afforded
since Napoleon He'd from Moscow. re-.
member that the calmness and the ar.
tistic sense of my hero. as apparent In
his manner and his comments. made an
indeliblc impression upon me. Every
| new feature excited his admiration; nc
new phase of the destructive forces
escaped his gaze.
Mr.. Storey. after an earnest and bril-
liant but la,terly somewhat rlotOus ca
recr. was stricken down and never
fully recovered. II was n pronounced
case of physical and mental exhaust
! ion after life Of much more than the
| usual interest and success. have no,
explained that his hours Of labor. rest
and refreshment were precisely similar
| to those of Edwin NJ. Stanton In til,
| War Department-rarcly until there
came n relaxed pressure upon him. and
he felt free to consume the time. liz
never appeared to reach his Ideal In til,
way Of news: ever before him wa,
| something Reckoning him to fresh Of
forts. This was n feature that gave
him that national fame ns a hustler
At his desk he was the quletest. calm
est and gravest of men and could en
dure no trhing. Life was too serious
In his eyes. ought to say somewher,
In this letter that his word was usual,
as good as his bond. II your bills fol
supplies aroused his suspicious III
would point you to the court house ant
show you that clean.shaven and com
pressed upper lip until you took TIN
hint.
During the period when he was Civ
Ing way mentally he expended on l
marble palace on Grand boulevard OF
spacious grounds no less than $220,OO'
cash. You may imagine the drain thi
proved on even a profitable newspaper
Before the pretentiOus structure ha'
more than shown its outward sem
blance rs promoter wns numbere,
among the dead. II II a surprisin
fact that to no use could this imposing
architecture be put; no public institu
tlOn or private family could be induces
to purchase AMI attempt to remodel Il
His heirs. therefore. raxed II, and frOn
the materials erected on the rear front
age Of the tract modern block Of hat'
His monumental home In no more. bu
his wisdom In the real estate purchas
has demonstrated itself.
wish I were an artist to paint thl
unique character In precisely the rlgll
shades and forms. On the streets b
presented the figure and face Of col
Presbyterian professor, except that h
v wOuld not wear silk hats. Neatnes
and dignity always governed his clotl
Ing. As he stalked glOOmily fOrwar
he showed a peculiar outward thrus
Of the feet. Rarely bowling to amy on
never opening or closing door for
man. keeping his own counsel. permi
ting no intrusion upon his repOse or III
plans. he was quite an impressive cha
acter. The picture given me by III
manager for my album II to-day ~ so
emn In guise as the sphinx. Thus 70
, see the hero OF my story when he Wa
making himself and the Times. Bl
exhausted nature would occasional
assert Itself and call for stimulants. o
growing prosperity now ana the
cropped ont by indulgence In wine
the high grades. II You had his a
Qunintance and ran across him. his CO.
yersatiOn was full of brilliants III
those from the mines ut JOhannesl'er
Ii you were In privacy he was almO
equal to u song or Jig to show no
well satisfied he was with the sltuatiO
One Joke on him must tell you. A
! ambitious advertising agent named !
Clair sent up u card ana got the marb
. heart. He then handed In note stntlI
that IL was he who fiim.tiammed NJ
! storey out of $50 by biography M
J photograph among the leading men
Chicago. After Mr.. Storey laughed
the Joke he sent down for him NJ
= made Il longtime contract that pa
l the nervy agent $4,000 per year for
. long time. The night he drove ba'
l tn rho office from Cook County In