The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-01-20

! and there, like Ward and Twain. found
I fodd'r ~ The right sort for his Pc
sasus. He has been living abroad for
Z thc past quarter century and writing
novels, bat he can't do better than
when he produced "rhc Heather Chi
Z nee" 'The Society Upod the stanis-
laus," Luck OF Roaring Camp and
| things OF that ilk
Lesser lights Of 1889 are ~. u. Landon
I CEli Perkins,. who now lives in New
/ York city, author or wit Humor ana
I PathOs.' Thirty Years uf wit" and
many other humorous books and Cy
/ Sulloway the tail congressman from
I New Hampshire. who occasionally de-
lights his hearers with n speech thar
for humor can hs compared only with
something similar from his colleague.
Champ Clark. his junior by eleven years.
one CONGRESSMAN is a Republican, the
other is a Democrat bur both men are
rich, rare ana juicy in their speeches
although az authors they have not yet
reached fan beyond The Congressional
I Record.
George Wilbur Peck, bQrn 1870. who
has been mayor Of Milwaukee and gov
elnor Of Wisconsin IS well known as a
journalist but better known as the au-
thor OF the "Pecks Bad Boy" stories
and plays. His present address Is Nil
| Waukee.
The year 1871 introduced TO the world
two such celebrities as {. h. Clark
I Max Adeier) and James NJ. Bailey the
once famous panbuly News Man.
Each one had his innings. but only
Clark. author Of out Of The Hurry Bur
ly." Elbow Room. etc. remains alive.
{ Year 1912 is responsible for a brace OF
worthless, C. r. Adams. author OF Lee
die Iawcob strauss, native OF Mas
sachusetts and Charles r. Lewis. 9TH
erwise and better known as NJ Quad. a
native Of Ohio. Both have been sue
eessfnG and, Whit is far better from
our point of view. both are stir alive
ana doing ,remuneraiiye work. ...4..
Robert Jones Eurdette. once known
as the .HsWkeye Alsn.. a lhumorist by
brthright and preacher by adoption.
lives nov in PASADENA, Cal. being at
the present. thns ttfty-ssven Yeets old
joel Chandler Harris racy Uncle Re
mus owns UP 10 ffty-threc years, half
of them spent in editorial work lie
lives in Atlanta and is dcvotlne all his
time 20 the production Of more stories
OF the Uncle TlfuDps~ sart.. $685..
In 1850 Edgar otherwise known as
BID Nye-Was born in smiley. Nc. Ar-
tsmus Wards native state. Like him.
he had only a common school educa-
ton. drifted into journalism anll tnen
INTO fame. Nye ~ almost The only hu-
moist who looked the character. hav-
ina had physiognomy provocative of,
merriment and a Jolly disposition lie
died young unFortunatelya-fhat is.
.ssrp1;np for him - as he might bii1ter ~
have said --haying departed this life in
1896 But, though physically absent, he
will be long remembered as the author
Of ."Bin Nye and the Boomerang" The
Forty Liars" "Baled Hay and other
interesting works
., Another journalistic humorist also
born i'm 1850, was Eugene Field, whose
untimely death in 1898 has, been. like
Nye's, universally laniented Few oih
er writer's, except r. l.. Stevenson, have
received such posthumOus praise as
Field, aud his books such rs his Lit
tie Book of Westetn Verse and with
Trumpet and Di1lni.' lare Had wide
circulation.
James Whitcomb Riley surviving lec-
tune partncr Of Aye. humorous dialect
poet, author ~ @rhe rOld r swimmfh'
Hple, etc. was born in 1883 His adj
dress is indianapolis. In the year 1896
promising light~Was- rex xttnguished when
II. g. Bunhel died 81 the age of forty
bue The year of his birth 1858. was
also that Of Edward W. Townsend. au-
thor OF "Chimmic Faddcn Major
Max" Days Like These" etc. books
that have had large seles and won a
reputation for this'huIhorist. He lives