The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-12

For instance. in the issue of Nov.
p, 1888, while the paper was still
published by Funk & Wagnalls, it
brought out a leader. which had one
of the great universities for a sub
ject under these highly sensational
and thoroughly modern headlines:
old YALE'S TRIUMPHANT
Football Game Inaugurated and
Ended in a Monster CarOuse Lasting
from Friday Afternoon Till the Dawn
of the Sabbath. Two Days and a
light of Maudlin Revelry."
Among the choice bits which The
Voice put before its readers in the
article covered by these headlines, was
the statement that while no students
were killed outright during the time
from Friday afternoon till the dawn
of the Sabbath. seven were badly
hurt, while at least 1000 We're intoxi-
Gated. Undoubtedly some of the stu
dents did indulge a little on that oc-
casion, as they have on other similar
ones, for New Haven Register in it's
report said that the town "aWoke yes
terday with dark-brown taste in its
mouth" that it got up late" tits head
ached." etc.
But while nobody objected to the
somewhat humorous presentation of
the case by The Register (and many
other journals) the accounts in The
Voice kicked up all sorts of a row. 1t
also sold the paper to beat the band,
and The Voice inaugurated a sort of
campaign against Yale. which was
kept up for several weeks.
One article in this crusade was
headed yale University Intrenched
Behind Sixty-six Rum Shops" The
result was quite satisfactory so far as
attracting a whole lot of attention
to The Voice was concerned. but
nothing was done antagenistic to the
university by any of the churches in
consequence, as has been done prev
iously to Princeton on similar charges.
DR.. Funk has made more money out
of his Standard Dictionary, however,
that he ever did out of The Voice.
When the dictionary enterprise was
launched there were many, compre-
hending the enormous expense of get
ting up such a work, who prophesied
disaster. Curiously enough America
has produced more dictionaries than
England, the mother country. so far
as our common language is concerned
at least. Before The Standard there
was Webster's for more than a gen.
GRAFTON the accepted standard work
of its kind; Worcesters, preferred by
1 scholars. and The Century, many vol
umed and far more ambitious than
either Websters or Worcester's.
! There had been rumors. happily ILL
founded, that The Century had been a
| failure, financially.
| But The Standard was got out de-
| spite the apparent glut in the diction-
/ airy market and the work has earned
/ a fine profit ever since: its sale. like
1 that of both The Century and Web
/ ster, growing yearly, instead of falling
/ off.
Personally, DR.. Funk is interesting.
| He is of ample physical frame, and of
/ dignified but not at all forbidding
! bearing. His face is strong. His
/ manner and voice combine the de-
/ l1berate and the hearty in true West
ern fashion. He makes friends with
/ everyone he meets Of he has time, for
/ he is a very busy mani. and is as
likely to enter into familiar colloquy
with his waiter, for instance, as with
a doctor of divinity, a fellow publisher
or a minister of diplomacy.
He is fond of fishing Though he
has not been able to fish much in
Eastern waters he likes to talk Of the
days when he was younger, and used
to lure the finny beauties of the
Western streams from their pellucid
depths" One day he was lamenting
the fact that he is now too busy to
fish to a favorite waiter, who con-
fessed that he also liked to fish, but