The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-27

ity of the whole. so that he is beyond
any conflict with his authority.
Paul Dana as editor will always be
the Young Chief while the present
generation in the Sun office endures;
but the term conveys no suggestion of
youth in the sense of ineXperience. The
editor of the Sun is well past 40. the
father of a family, has Travelled much
and has been fully eighteen years re-
ceiVing the training, in his father S
Office, which of late years enabled the
elder Dana to leave the conduct of the
paper in his hands for long seasons
and during critical periods while he
sought needed recuperation abroad. He
is a Harvard man of the cl2Ss Of IA,
in which he had something OF q record
as an athlete. He held the first single
scull championship, was a substitute
or the varsity crew, and roWed for
three years in his class crew. Today,
at IS, ne is among the most energetic
champions of golf as a game calling
out the qualities of endurance, judg-
ment and skill in the highest degree.
Perhaps to his fondness for open-air
sports are due his youthful looks as
well as his good health. Mr.. Dana
looks like a young man of certainly
not over go He is tall and slender
clear-eyed and quick Of movement,
with d long, nervous stride that be
speaks the man Of action. He wears
big round glasses, and looks through
them straight at the man he is speak
ing to. They are searching eyes, but
not unkind except to cant and humbug,
or what he holds TO be such. The two
may not be. probably Will not be, al
ways the same. The editor of the Sun
is bound To have fights in plenty on his
hands; he is built that way. But 10y
atty to his own beliefs will not prevent
him from being fair TO the honest con-
victions of others, once they are made
out to be that, however much they may
clash with his.
From college the tradition has come
down that he liked the classics and ma
thematics, rather an unusual combina-
ton with athletics. The former he
has Kept up. The classics are still his
companions. Any lingering prediction
for mathematics has apparently run to
chess. with which he solaces an occa-
sional idle hour in the editorial office
Add a course at the Columbia law
school. and an acquaintance with music
which has come to him largely, but not
solely. through his studies on the Vio-
uh, aud you have the picture of an all
round welI-trained man, and that in
fact Paul Dana is. He has inherited
his fathers aesthetic and artistic tastes.
and. better than all, the strong common
sense which in the elder Dana formed a
large part Of the genius that made the
sun great. There is no more valuable
factor in the making of a newspaper
than sense.
The observation extends to public life,
though there the quality is not always
SO readily recognized. It was said of
Mr. Dana during his term as park COM
sfoner IN New York that he was always
in hot water. and. from the point of
view of the unintereSted onlooker, he
was. His term III the board was a run
ming fight from first to last. But it was
the onlooker who was to blame for not
being interested. For as q matter OF
fact. the whole community was pro-
foundly interested, or ought to have
been. in the fight he made. Throughout
it was for the principle of official re-
soonsibility 10 the people, that is ever
a foreign doctrine to Tammany. 1t was
a fight for common sense and official
honesty against private interests and
Grass ignorance.
MI. Dana never held any other Office.
barring the militia rank OF major on
General Fitzgerald's staff as command
ar OF the First brigade in New York