Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-18

WEDNESDAY, JANUA-
dress. He made. rapid progress in cuitivat-
| ing such men, Ind almost led them on to
| pursue things they were shy Of
| For instanceifhe planned for Forney to
| be secretary{ of Lincoln. and had the
Philadelphia corh exchange pass resolu-
! ton pressing him for the cabinet. The
Irish auaa4y .EEve Young political friend
Illness and(fetch
| In New York.
| II found John Young in control of For
! ney's Press when returned from Europe
in 1854. and 1 nessess the letters he wrote
me there during two years, full of now
l curious personal information His plans to
make theNPress continental newspaper
! were twenty years ahead of time, and were
| resisted by Forney's business man, an old
country printer, who finally made an issue
| and Young and about all his staff left the
paper in a body
He soon reappeared on the New York
| Tribune, whose managing editor, Mr. Gay.
was his roommate, and a deXterous review
| of Greeley's American conflict secured the
! admiration of Greeley, who, at the period
ical shake up of the office, named Young
| to the stockholders as his preference for
| the cessien. Greeley. however. had a
| prime favorite in Whitelaw Reid, who sue
| ceeded Young.
I'm John Young's span ofseveral years on
the Tribune he made it a newspaper, and
especially extended it's European CORES
pondence The Importance he gave the
paper caused a dead set to be made against
him by it's contemporaries. whose later
plofts with the teIegraph agency made
Youngs cause of 'offense harmless inter-
Jude. He had, however, cultivated Mr.. Ben
nett, who gave him long variety of occu-
patton in Europe and America, and let him.
at Iounes request go around the world
with General Grant and become an author
Grant prevailed upon Arthur to send him
minister to China at the age of forty, and
l nave been assured by persons then In
/ China, like Edward H. House. that he was
an effective minister. The Chinese legati
asked for his reappointment under Harri-
son.
His Salary Life.
Mr. Young necessarily spent great
deal Of money in the enjoyment of such
friendships and ambitions, and he never
mad other money than his salaries. His
| election to be president of the Union
League Club in Philadelphia probably add
ed to his expenses. 1t gave him, however,
increased status and was among his recon-
mendations to be the congressional libra
| r1an, which Office by the worry of office
seekers. etc. shortened his life. 1t might
De said that he was too large for the rou-
| tine of the office. His love of reading and
OF books would have made him, under more
piacld conditions, a great reviver of that
library in its International scope and acqui-
sition of volumes, as his alertness and
power over Congress should have prevailed
in time He had something like childish
caring IN his projections, and was not
afraid to ask for unexampled appropria-
tlons FOR reaiizations which might seem
fanciful.
He did not desire that Office, but some
thlng ambassadorial as he had full conf
uehce IN his persuasiveness of personal in
tercourse. His gentle nature was cramped
IN executive routine, and his friendly quail
ity blocked by the inexorabe necessities of
lie made an equa! impression, however,
upon President Mckinley with his many
| preceding conquests of men in control He
was a brotherful helper, never afraid of
committing himself to a friend by public
endorsement. He was a father to his
brother ana sisters. Shrewd in compre-
hendins men he wrote around rather than
at their lnt1rmltieS, and had nothing of the
new journalism TO worry and arrogate and
to personifys himself. He liked women and
The elenifnt Of precocity seemed to at
tach to him9to the last, as if he were still
mshiy gifted child. / walked through the
library building With him just before Christ
mas looking at the deaf and dumb room,
ana at his tiesll 1in the attic He seemed
uIiusuaily well and ford and comrade-like.
Almost thiEty-nine years of my intimacy
with him thare ended.
Jehn Souns's Rank.
His superior qhality lay in the fluent tenn
permanent, which, lcomposes with slight eff
fort, perceiVes freely and gracefully acauits
itself in all the forms of prose- Industry
was almost a relief to him. His aptness
seemed to reside in the cuticle and to have
susceptibility almost pivotal
II think if he had been compelled to
| rally all hls"pOWerS upon his own paper in
Philadelphia twenty years ago he could
| have made it an important property.
The impress of John W. Forney was al
most legible upon John Young in sponta-
Dr,1
| ton. Both destined to work for others,
they We're liberal almost beyond fore
! thought, diurnai beings born fresh every
day, rejoicing in the obvious, spirits of the
newspaper.
A Helper Of Others.
Mr.. Young started the Daily Standard in
New York af er he left the Tribune There
you would find about all the men he had
gathered together in Philadelphia. His old
foreman, Michael Hart, he landed for life
in the New York custom house. and James
Sheridan, Forneys and Douglas old stem
ographer, he made a judge of the marine
court in New York, so that he died We'll
off Young established his family counec-
tons in the Philadelphia Star, where they
have prospered and ne impeiled his brother
James TO enter Congress.
AS John was about to start for the
Chinese mission a dinner was given him
at the Lotos Club New York, and he de-
name when told the story above. He
was princely to the extent of his means
and illustrated his profession in dinners
with noble guests. The shop never be-
Titled him. Old friends could count upon
his assistance and he had the hlial devo-
ton.
Il reooilect a breakfast given to Young
and myself by Daniel Dougherty in 1SG2
where Setchell, the comedian and Edwin
Adams and John Mccullough the TRACE
dams, were guests. In those days newspaper
writer's We're known and indicated and the
literary repute attached to them Syntax
and characterization were more profitable
than rumor. Although salaries were small
we could live we'll upon them and boarded
and roomed at an excellent hotel on Chest
nut street for So a week.
Though he never wrote ANYTHING ex-
travagart, exciting, or intended for humor,
John Young maintained a national charac-
ter for a long period of time and was the
favorite son of the press, wholesome nat
ural, democratic, civil and helpful to his
day and generation; His passing out
removes tender chord from the Lutte
of memories and gives consolation to
the idea of death, where he has
Joined the untroubhng and the gracious
In death as in life he was without any