The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-11
ARoMAHoE IN REAL LiFe.


a announced the close Of "a career in
some respects the most remarkable OF
modern times. Obscure I'm lineage. liu~
1ted in early opportunities. known by
auother's name, Henry H. stanley be-
came the greatest explorer OF all time,
honored OF kings. admired by men OF
learning, recognized the world over as
man of heroic mold.
AT his death. Stanley was NOS an old
mamie was born iu Wales in ISL
but he had crowded into his life al
ventures and experiences such as come
to few. So little is known of his par
eutage that his real name is not siven
In many OF his biographies and Indeed.
comparatively few people ever knew it,
lie shipped as a cabin boy before he
entered his teens and worked his way
20 New Orleans. There he secured eu-
ployment with a merchant named stan
ley and adopted that name as his own.
When the war of the rebellion broke
oUL Stanley, having been surrounded
by pro-s9uthern Influences joined the
confederate army and served lin Is with
some distinction. After a comparative
Iy short time, however. his sympathies
changed and he entered the United
States navy. AT the close of the war
he received an honorable discharge ana
engaged in the newspaper business
Some years ago, at a gathering lis
the Press club of Chicago, Stanley told
iu outline the story of his newspaper
career, which was an epitome of his
greatest achievements. His service as
soldier and sailor during the civil war
save him a knowledge of campaigning
that proved TO be the foundation Of his
future career. soon after the war,
while i'm Omaha, he formed a connec-
tion with James Gordon Bennett Of the
New York Herald and was sent as cor
respondent with an expedition against
the Sioux Indians. 1T was his first big
venture and as he himself modestly
said, il happened TO be a fortunate one.
with The daring that characterized his
life. he rode through hostile country
after the nrst and decisive battle of the
campaign and got the first news of the
result to the country through the col
umns OF the Herald.
Following that he was sent 10 ABB
yssilia. News of the movements Of the
British column could not be sent out,
she censorship was So rigid. ana for
months the world was fra ignorance OF
what had been done Finally. after the
campaign was concluded, the CORE
sp0ndeuts reached the cable station at
Alexandria. SJauley-s dispatches were
filed first and sent, then the cable
broke down for days and the New York
Herald had the only news of an eXDe-
dition all Europe wanted 90 hear from.
Stanley himself called it d colossal bit
If luck, but it wasn't luck that got his
dispatches into the cable office iu time
TO so ahead Of AN his competitors.
The story of his African explorations
IS so well known as 10 need no com
meut. Nothing finer exists in history
or romance than the narrative OF his
search ana nnaI meeting with Living
stone. The expedition was more than
q search for one mau-it opened con-
tfneut TO commerce and eventually
must lead to It's civilization. IT
changed the map Of q tremendous area
of country, and may finally lead to the
IeadiustmeuU of the worlds CONNER
cIaI ana political forces.
Practically all the years between 1871
and 1880 were spent 10y Stanley in Afri-
can exploration. He became the most
eminent authority of his time on the
geography Of that then unknown land
and was houored by scientific oEsauiza-
lions throughout the world for his
work. A biographer says of Stanley:
TO him is due the resolution of the
greatest OF the African geographical
problems-the demonstration that the
great system of waters Immediately
west OF Lake Tauganyiza, including the
lake itself. lies iu the upper basin OF
The Kongo and Is tributary 10 that
river"
During the few months lin every year
that he spent amid civilized surround
iugs. Stanley found time to do much
writing. His best works are How I
F0und Livingstone. Through the
Dark Continent" I'm Darkest Africa"
ana slavery and the Slave Trade in
A1rica.
Personally, Stanley had very little
caarm en- approachabIeless. though me
WAS "a most interesting conversational
Isr. AS those who heard him ou that
memorable occasion at the Press club
uiu testify He prided himself on bis
calling, ana came near being the ideal
newspaper man ia his determination,
his fertility of resource and his read
mess 10 undertake any task assigned
HlM Ills ability 10 f0resee emergeu-
ciea and provide for them made him
one of The great correspondents Of his
day ana until he retired lrOm the
newspaper profession he stood at the
mead OF his associates. Excepting pos
sibly Archibald Forbes he had no peer
as newsgetter, though Forbes had the
sift of apt description in higher de-
gree.
CurnusIy enough staniey's fame
waned wneu DE married 1iss Dorothy
Tenant and fors00k exploration r0r
The quiet Of English political life. APP
pareatly, politics WAS not his forte and
lac has been heard from but seldom
since his abandonment of the news
paper Held IS 80 author De- had a
clean. comprehensive style. bat u0 hu-