El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-21
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Advertisement is the foundation up
on which all popular honor is built.
Some men have anoSe for it as the
trained journalist has a nose for news.
Others. as the charitable must think.
obtain it by lucky accidents.
Take Mr.. Winston Churchill. The
papers can't get away from him. He
is always doing something opportune
making a speech. getting captured.
standing for parliament. And all these
things bust be duly announced next
morning with editorial comment.
On the other hand, there are men
who, work as they may and succeed as
they wish. never are noticed. Not that
they desire to be photographed and in
terviewed: far from it.
But, in some strange way they never
do things that bring them into the
watchful searchlights that play from
the upper StoryS of the thousand and
one newspapers of the world.
Sir Edward Chichester. now on his
way home. is one of these | should
not mind wagering snail sum that
but small percentage of my readers
outside of men in the services know
anything about him. Yet he has rem
dered two most signal services. one to
his country and one to our Yankee
cousins
If you will trouble to take up the
navy list YOU will see that among 9TH
er notable deeds. for which he has
been thanked by the lords of the ad-
miralty and the board of trade. he was
awarded the c. NJ. G. for services in
Manila.
At Manila.
have no wish to dwell upon mat
hi hut W
be some who do not remember that 1T
was Sir Edward who. when the Amer
lean and German fleets We're grinning
defiance at each other in parallel
lines. their decks cleared for action.
stolidly steered his British squadron
between them. giving indeed an eXh1-
bition of calmness. tact. and nautical
good humor that probably saved bat
tie which would have resulted in dis
aster to the peace of the world
The work. however. for which Sir
Edward deserves the thanks of his
country is in connection with the naval
transport of the army of 100000 men
for 5000 miles, of diSembarking them
in docks of no great size, which have
been crowded in a manner bewllder-
ing to landsman. and of landing
stores to feed that same gigantic army.
has been successfully accomplished
through his untiring efforts
He has had to face the grumbling of
sea captains from all parts of the
world: the indignant protests of
tradesmen in Capetown. who vowed
that it was through him their stores
were delayed. and the constant COM
plants of all sorts and conditions of
officers-medical transport. and mill
tary.
Yet such was his good management
that it wrung admiration from even
the rough merchant shippers, so that
in the end they presented him with
a model of the clock tower at the docks
in which the sturdy captain lived and
wrote an address which might have
made him blush if he were not too old
bird to be caught by such compli-
ments.
A Sea-Dog After Nelson's Heart.
| cannot better describe Sir Edward
than by saying mat he is the exact
model of bluff war-dog of the times
of Nelson and Collingwood. He some
how seems out of place on board the
finished machine which a line-of-bat
tie ship has become. One feels he
should be arrayed in cooked hat. knee
breeches and pumps. Stumplng the
quarterback of one of the towering sea-
castles of Trafalgar; and it is not diff
ticult to imagine with what JOY he
would have laid his ship against the
pick of the enemy's fleet and hammer
ed away muZZle to muzzle till she sur
rendered.
Yet beneath the somewhat rough eX-
terror there lies the real man, practi-
cal. shrewd. fearless in doing his duty
whatever opposition he may encounter
He was a well-known figure in Cape
town-a worker who lived between his
little turret of an Office and his club
and would have nothing to do with the
sham gaieties engineered by the fair
ladies who had flocked to South Afri-
ca He was the subject. however, of
plenty of comment in those select and
aristocratic circles which Lord RoSSlyn
so feenngly describes. for there was
always some new story about him.
A gentleman who had gained much
advertisement from his charges against
the hospitals had an unfortunate en-
counter with the captain. Striding in
to his room somewhat brusquely one
fine morning he demanded to be shown
the system of landing hospital sup
plies.
Sir Edward kept on writing as if he |
were not aware of his entrance:
will you please attend to me-" said |
the fussy visitor. and then Sir Edward |
looking up, mildly remarked: Have |
you bought these docks, sir?''
Certainly not" said the aStonished |
visitor. Il don't know what you mean,
/ Then go to the deuce" said Sir |