Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-06
DID JOHN HAY WRITE
 "BREADWINNERS?"
Authorship of Anonymous Novel 
 Attributed to the Statesman.
WHY HIS NAME WAS WITHHELD

WHY HIS NAME WAS WITHHELD. Late Secretary of State, It Is Said, Could Not Have Admitted Author ship When Alive. as the Work Was Directed Against Labor Un- ions-EpiRrams Which Reflect Au- thor's Views on Life, Politics, La- bor Unions and Society.
 Semioficial announcement was made recently that the late Secretary of State John Hay vas the author of "The Breadwinners," the mysterious and much discussed novel which twenty three years ago was the reigning lit erary sensation says the New York Herald. Its authorship has been pug gle to the world of letters ever since Its publication, and every few months the question has been raised anew. Those who were in tollsh with the pub fishers of the work, both as a serial and in book form, have never denied that MT. Hay was the author.
 Remarks of Henry NJ. Alden, the vet eran editor of Harper's Magazine and one of the foremost authorities on American literature, leaves no question as to the authorship. Mir. Alden has for many years been co4lected. with the firm of Harper X Brothers, the publishers of "The Breadwinners."
 "I have not" said Mir. Alden the oth- CT day, the absolute evidence at hand to show that Mir. Hay wrote The Breadwinners. but I think that the Herald can make no mistake in say. ing that he did. For several years l have understood so, and think there can be no question of it."
 Colonel George B. M. Harvey, the head of the corporation of Harper & Brothers, is in Europe. Frederick A. Duneke, the manager of the house, was out of the city. and it was impossible to communicate with him.
 Limitations were given few months ago that an edition of the book which MT. Hay would father and revise was to be published. There was story to the effect that his literary executors might direct the publication under his name.
 From the nature of its theme it was hardly to be expected that Mir. Hay, while in political life. would consent to be identified with "The Breadwin- ners." which sharply criticises the methods of the labor unions. The work appeared in the latter part of 1883 in serial form fin the Century Magazine, and the editor at that time. Mir. Rich ard Watson Glider. is on record as saying that the name of the author was withheld from him. The Bread winners" was published early in Jan nary, 1884. in book form. and the Har- pers paid the royalties to an attorney whose name and address have also been kept secret.
 Especial timeliness was given to the book because it appeared shortly after a series of strikes and labor troubles. The city in which the action is laid in Buffland and the characters portrayed 1n such a lifelike manner have been Identified as living in Cleveland and Buffalo. In view of the fact that Mir. Hay knew Cleveland thoroughly and married s daughter of Amasa Stone. . wealthy resident of that place. it is likely that the Forest City was the original of Buffland
 The chief merit of the book Is in its epigrams. which afford. fin the opinion pf many persons. indisputable evidence that John Hay was the author
 ! A reading of the much discussed novel shows scores of those ripples and flashes which give such an cpl grammatical quality to the authorized writings of John Hay. Here are some of the things taken from The Bread winners" which have his hall mark: T do not care how they look" be would say. They probably look as they talk. without form and void"
 -She carries herself Ike duchess. - was going to say. "but the only duch- ess ever knew was at Schwalbach. and she was carried in a wicker hand esrt-
 The leader of the opposing forces Was q butcher. one Jacob MefzzeT. who hsd r1anaeeI the politics of the ward for yezrsL He soh meat on busine>s princiPless so as to get the nost of q carcass. and he conducted eis political operations in the same Gay.-
 -She felt es though she had found 6w nission- her true trsde- which wss . v1Ik in ezrzens. and enell hosbouse
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