The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-14
Especial Correspondence,

ask the question to stir an internation-
al CONSERVATION; but, really, it presses
for consideration Within a few weeks
now Lady Randolph Churchill will have
launched her new quarterly, the Anglo
Saxon; and if the sounding terms of
the manifesto" are one-half lived up to,
it will leave everything else in the way
of British periodicals pretty much out
of sight. And Lady Churchill though
it is now twenty-five years since she
married away from US, is an American.
She showed her American energy very
soon after removing to England in the
part she took in her husbands political
contests; and thereby had much to do,
no doubt, with establishing a new po-
litical method in England-that of the
more or less active participation of the
danes" Ito adopt the designation
sanctified by the Primrose League) in
party warfare. In the founding of the
Primrose League itself she also bore a
very prominent part. And in SO doing
she presented to the world the rather
curious spectacle of an American pro-
noting with all possible fervor what at
first view seemed a rather sentimental
association in alteration Of Tory idol,
Lord Beaconsfield, and in support of an
aristocratic policy. But this first view
of the Primrose League had soon to be
that mo other association has done so
much to democratize English society
and to promote the acknowledgment Of
woman" So perhaps Lady Churchill
was not so un-American in her Prim-
rose deyotions as she seemed. The
same fervor that marked them is now,
apparently, going into the organization
of the new magazine; and one may
safely predict that she will do with
the Anglo-SaXon what Charles Dudley
Warner once predicted that Chicago
would do with culture-'make it hum
Already another American, William
Waldorf Astor, has acquired quite a
large strip of the British editorial prov
ince. OF course, Mr.. Aston has kindly
given Englishmen the opportunity to
serve under him, even admitting to his
various stats some men whose need of
the job was not so unquestionable but
that he might, without any special
Observation-Disclosures, have bid them apply
TO their own countrymen for employ
ment. No doubt Lady Churchill will
be no less amiable. Indeed, she pro-
claims as much, naming as many as
half a dozen EngliShmen who are to be
given a chance under her. But, after
all, there is small comfort in this: one
hates to be subordinate, especially if
one is English. The next thing l eX-
pect to hear is that Lady Churchill
and Mr.. Aston, operating in conjunc-
ton with j. Pierpont Morgan (who
even now is in Europe) and Roswell p.
Flower. have brought their own pub
locations, along with the London Times
and a number of others, into a mag
nificent trust, with preferred stock and
common stock, and no end of fun in the
markets.
Mr.. John a. Hill, the writer of rail-
road stories, isn't a starving, striving
author, as some of his readers may
have surmised, but a prosperous bust
ness man, directing an important pub
LEGATION, American Machinist, and an
extensive business; and lately 1 went
down to see him in a new suite of Of
fees and a new factory to which he
has removed. The visit repeated a Won
der that had first been revealed TO me
on visits to Mr.. Hill in his earlier quar-
ters-an order the like of which I have
never seen in any office, much less a
printing and editorial office, and scarce
~ in any residence. The place looked
positively bare, it was so orderly. ]
could not but remark upon it to Mr..
Hill, and ask for the combination" By
which such a miracle was wrought. He
said that in his early days as an editor
and publisher he decided that there was
no good reason why an editorial or pub
fishing office should not be kept as neat
as any, and he set about TO work soma
change in his own. At first he aimed
only at a little Strengthening up and
the eXaction of a little more care Tor
the future. But he very soon found
that this only mended things for the
moment; before long the same old
habits of neglect on the part of occu-
pants and caretakers reasserted them |
selves, and the place was in as great |
disorder as ever. Then he resolved to /
make disorder a real crime and pursue |
& and extinguish it down to its small |
lest manifestations. And he has. In the |
offices desks are so clear of accumu- /
lated papers and books that they look /
10 be scarcely in use; and the press 4
and composing rooms, in their way, are !
as Sunday-clear of litter as the Offices /
OF everybody and at every point the /
EXTREMIST orderliness is exacted with as
much rigor as aboard a man-of-war |
This sort Of precision in a man who |
has run locomotives in every part of /
the country from Massachusetts to |
California, leading often the toughest !
and most adventurous of outdoor lives: |
one who also is a writer. with not Il |
little of the free, easy-going temporal
meut of the class-seems to he very
interesting.
Professor Harry Thurston Peck is |
soon TO bring out volume of his !
poems. He has been a well known con-
tributor of poems TO the periodicals FOR |
some years, but this will be his first |
collection. No doubt, when it appears, |
II viii be made the opportunity for a
return game with Professor Peck by
some of the persons who have suf-
fered from his own trenchancy as q re-
viewer. But this will not disturb him
greatly, for those who know him init
mately say that he rather relishes the
fire of criticism and that he can take
blows as handsomely as he gives them.
That ruthlessness, however. that he
sometimes shows. rather unpleaSantly.
with a pen seems not to be of the es-
sential character of the man, for in his
personal relations he has CFsn been
very encouraging and helpful to liter
airy aSpirants.
OF course, the most striking fact re-
garding Professor Peck is his versa
tility. That he should be filling a pro-
fessorship in Columbia university writ
ing classical dictionaries, editing the
literary department of a newspaper,
assisting in the editorship of literary
reviewing the latest novels,
writing social essays and occasionally
lecturing and composing poetry, all at
the same time, is a wonder that no.
body could help remarking. And, as
with other wonders, you no sooner re-
mark ii than you begin to try and
argue away; and you say that no man
couid have all this facility without
lack of thoroughnesS. 1t is to be re-
membered, however, that any number
of people who are entirely untram-
meled by thoroughness can't do any
one of the many things that Professor
Peck does extremely well. l don't sup
nose he would measure with the ac |