The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-20
OUR NEW YORK LETTER
SOME POINTS ABOUT HENRY NOR
MAN OF THE LONDON CHRONICLE.
or English Blood. but American Educa-
tion-He First Studied For the Minis
try-Had to DO with the Preservation


London Chronicle who is also associat
editor of that paper and came in collisio
with General Greely the other day becaus
Of dispatches that told too much, is @
American training I'm spite of his Englis
blood, and no doubt his course at the tim
the Venezuela trouble was up was largel,
influenced by his training. He is a RICH
good fellow at all events, and he has 10
of friends in this town.
Norman's father was a Londoner-s
broad gagged chap, who determined while
yet his son was a lad TO give him a training
that would make him "A citizen of the
world It was not the idea 20 belittle Eng
land in the youngster' eyes, but at the
same time il was desired that he should
understand the tight little island TO be
only part of the universe Accordingly
the lad was sent TO Paris for the begin
ming of his schooling. Whether ii was the
original intention that his entire education
should be continental am not sure, but l
think 1t was. For some reason, however,
the plan was changed and when old
enough TO enter university Henry was
sent To this country and enrolled at Har-
ward. There he speedily took high rank
socially, in athletics and as a student, and
was graduated with exceptional honors.
Studies Divinity.
He received his degree in 1879, or posi-
bly, in 1880, and took the part of second
Importance in the Greek drama played that
year by the Harvard students, the leading
part being assumed by a Greek tutor
named Riddle
AT that time Norman's notions seem 20
have been directed toward the ministerial
calling AT all events he took the divin-
ity course after finishing his academic
studies In the divinity school he was as
brilliant as ever, and when graduation |
time came round he was elected TO deliver |
the valedictory address. The subject |
chosen was the philosophy of Kant, and |
he handled il so ably that The Atlantic |
Monthly afterward printed it entire.
Norman had not been long out of the
divinity school when he decided 70 go in
for something more worldly than the min
istry, which he began to fear would not
furnish him with life of sufficient activ-
ity. 1t may be added that some of his
friends had long suspected as much and
that their suspicious had been partly based
on the fact that he was with difficulty pre-
vented from taking part in a boxing con-
test while divinity student. Not that
his general conduct was anything but ir- |
reproachable quite the contrary, as was |
shown by the fact that he was befriended |
by Longfellow, Howells Holmes, Aldrich
and most of Cambridge's choicest lights.
For some little time thereafter Norman |
devoted himself TO writing, the products |
of his pen finding ready sale. Among 9TH
er topics to which he gave attention was
the vandalism then rampant at Niagara
ialls In order TO protest the more effec-
tually against 1t, the exorbitant charges
then imposed there and the general mis-
IN ma of 81, l.
months mt the falls during which he sent
many letters to many papers, nearly all of
which were published in a spirit of hearty
cooperation with his design TO do away
with existing abuses. Undoubtedly his
writing had to do with the creation of the ,
state reservation at Niagara later
Becomes "a Journalist. Z
Down TO this time, however, he had not | q
been dependent upon his pen for a living. | i
as understand it, his father being well to | q
do and supplying him with something of :
an income. But his father died suddenly
IN the eighties, and he had TO return to
england to settle up the estate 1t was
found to be Unexpectedly involved and n
when settled the residue was only the | /,
equivalent Of about $3.50. This made il | p
necessary for the young man TO earn be- >
fore he could eat Naturally he chose Jour :
nalism as calling, and naturally, being
a stranger TO the London editors, he had a g
pretty hard row TO hoe for "a time. \
But he kept a stiff upper lip, and he | P.
worked all the time. He didn't get dis y
couraged when his articles failed TO sell. | ii
as they sometimes did but he studied the | q
market and wrote more, striving con- -
stantly meanwhile to hit on something 4
THAT would make the people talk about
him. IL came when Matthew Arnold. who | 9
had recently been in America, printed a
some criticisms about this country which p,
Norman did not like He answered Ar q,
hold, was answered in turn and 50 at. n
Iracted the attention OF y T. Stead, then r.
editor of The Pail Mall Gazette, now the -
property Of William Waldor. Aston.
Success In SHIT. .s
Norman was engaged stead little al
before his imprisonment f.r publishing | 10
some unpleasant facts about certain phases eli
'f London life While stead "a, locked | at
up the circulation Of The Gazette in
creased. After he came out. feeling crate.
ul Tor Norman $ efficient services. stead
ent INN on "a tour round the world That | In
our was tie making Of Norman 81
~ would take many newspaper columns ar
ather Than The leavl8gs Of one to tell the | eli
tory oi that trip Norman Travelled west | I'll
''N l-'-'44+~ haiyAEu the OHllGu states 1 Ia
lrst AZ san Francisco The Examiner. | th
'Wned D. w X Hearst. who still owns il | nj
also the New York Journal-printed co
ornethin2 the young Englishman did not | sh
Ike ms resulted. a. some say in "A Der. | III,
onal encounter between Norman and | of
iearst, who had been old time chums. | w
hough others say that Norman only tried | II,
o meet Hearst. who kept out Of the way. | ~
AT all events Norman finally continued | an
M his journey tarrying months I'm Japan | is
ther months in Korea and vet other | N,
months In Spain In the latter country | th
'orman and the king became such friends | -
hat the monarch gave the Englishman
ome gold mines, said 90 be Of immense
lchness. but far In the interior and very
ifiicult 20 work What has become of the | q.
hines no one here knows One report says 90
hat Norman sold them. another that he "
pcnt good deal Of money trying TO real -.
70 on them, and still holds the title there 80
}. At all events he got stacks Of material -,
nc OF the king and used IL In "a book. -.