The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-31

New York, July 2S.-The surrender of
Santiago worked a temporary release
for number of war correspondents
and artists, and they came home to
catch a few breaths of good air and get
a few luxurious meals. Some of them
did not come back in very good condi-
ton, Frederic Remington Of the Har-
pers' staff, for one. My information is
that, at this writing, Mr.. Remington
lies seriously i'll of a fever contracted
at the front He is at his home in New
Rochelle, one of the pleasantest of the
suburban towns, round on Long Island
sound. Here, in his vigor, Mr.. Reming-
ton divides the honor of most notable
citizen" about evenly with his friend
and neighbor, the comedian, Francis
Wilson. The first thing the devoted
townsman tell you, when you pay q
visit to New Rochelle, is, This is
where Francis Wilson and Frederic
Remington live" and if you show the
least interest-as most of us do VINO
value the artistic endowment-he VIII
take you 10 see their houses. Neither
Wilson nor Remington, however, is
permitted, I fancy, to do more than
make a fairly decent visit each year at
home. The calling of each compels him
TO long Journeys and many months Of
absence. Remington is now about ~
years of age, and for the life of In
dams and soldiers, whether in pictures
or in narrative, he long ago became
the only man; no other is to be named
beside him
Among the correspondents whom the
surrender at Santiago set free for the
moment was thessnovelist. stephen
Crane. He had been down representing
the New York World. He gave himself
only the briefest vacation here and
then set off (again for the World) to
Porto Rico I had several talks with
him while he was here, and he told no
end of interesting things that had not
got into his published letters. ] asked
him what kind of life the correspond
ents had of it at Santiago. and his an
sWer was: 'Oh. you had one suit of
clothes and one pair of boots, and
sometimes you didn't have them off
once III a week. You sweated and you
got rained on, but that made no diff
ference; you still wore, asleep and
awake, the one pair OF boots and the
one suit of clothes. and you got dry as
best your could. And then you had the
fever of course-a sort of malarlal
iever-and- now you were shivering and
now you were burning up, and some
times it was so bad that you could
scarcely sit on your horse. But ana
he finished with a shrug that seemed to
mean that. after all, the thing wasn't
so bad: you could live through tiff
you had good luck.
Mr. Crane might make a new open
boat" story of his experience coming
home He came on the hospital ship
City OF Washington, and, through the
carrier part of the voyage, was fenced
off in one corner of the open deck. be-
cga,@f of fsrrq nj \
yellow fever" patient. The fever part
of the disability was not without GER
tain justification in fact, but the color
of the fever was somewhat bverstraln-
ed--in order as [ gathered, to facilitate
Mr.. Cranes getting away from Sanl-
ago. Later he achieved the protection
Of a stateroom, but his comfort was not
much increased. for he had as his near
est neighbor a loud voiced, muscular
coiored soldier, who had been driven
crazy, and was on the verge of violence
all the 1ime. on account of a wound.
Crane was with the rough riders
when they were surprised by the Span
iards and suffered so heavy loss, ana
he was one of the first to reach Ed
ward Marshall, the correspondent of
the New York Journal, who was
wounded in the first land fight, and
helped to carry him from the field. He
saws that the surprise to the rough rid
ers was complete. bat they met it with
a courage that could not be surpassed.
1t has been objected to George
Moore's new novel. Evelyn Inhes'
that in it he follows toe devotedly the
manner of Balzac. There is not much
in the objection, perhaps, but, IN
doubleday Nj. Moore does IN some
measure hold Balzac' for his master
He has. it seems, even adopted some
thing OF BalZacs way OF producing
COPY" He writes his novel out first
as a short story. and then EXPANDS IL
This was precisely BalZac's method;
only BalZac did what [ presume, IN
mis- day OF typographical unions and
printers convenience would be per
mitted to no author, however auto
cratic-he made the expansion entirely
in the proofs. Thus Il story that in its
first form came within the limits OF
galley, would. under Balzac's inser-
tions, written On the margins of the
successive proofs grow into tale OF
900 pages Lines started from the
beginning. middle. or end ii sentences.
Theophile Gautier tells US, and made
their way 70 the margins On the right
or left Or top or bottom, leading TO
an1plifcations. Insertions -deletions--
epithets and adverbs. After some
hours work the paper might have been
taken for . drawing Of fireworks by
child Rockets. darting from the
original text, exploded on al sides
Thon there were d crosses-sinple
crosses, crosses recrossed.
Strips of paper. fastened on by waters
o. pins. were added to the insufficient
margins, and were rayed with lines of
writing, very fine to save room, and
full themselves Of erasures.
Even BaIzac did not secure this Ii
cense of correction without il q way
paving for it. He was in endless
quarrel with publishers and editors,
and one Of his publishers says that at
the bottom Of it al was the enorm-
Gus costs of correction" that the pub
fishers and editors had to pay on his
account.
8fr. Kipling has something of the
Balzacian disregard FOR the cost of
printers corrections. Even he is far
from writing the major portion of a
story in the proofs, as BalZac did; but
still he must see his stories, and even
his poems, in type before he can de-
eide how to finish them. Captains
Courageous, l happen to know, first