New-York tribune., 1906-11-12
Il PETERAN JOURNALIST.
Tribute to Thomas Coke Euans.

Montgomery Schuyler, in The New York Times
,Ii1 ne present writer met Mr., Evans at funera!
NE We}9 t9en editor and proprietor of The New York
empsr and M ET%ES vas even then great ex-
h;illsts oy reason of the literary quality which be
he had Leen away for Year or or two away on us
2ouInfy TO Brazil which had it's results in articles
editorial parasraph in The World d. which Ps Para az
heen r1a written by anybody else than the Barons
Inns hlckname BY the way which
hereditary pretensions, had been bestowed upon
M-,y nm by Nat Bangs, then the publisher of "The
Blu But all this does not tend to characterization
nalism. Born in 1894: the son of Methodist min
region OF New York he had come TO the city before
his majority and taken the first means OF livelihood
that oHered, which happened to be a proofreader-
ship in The Tribune That did not hold him long
letters from Saratoga the first phase OF that
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religious daily to offset the irregious and eten
New York dailies of that day. The day was year
epoch and epoch maker which makes in American
history boundary like trench. For the new
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cisatIantie Trip For The World" likewise he ac-
Haasm Las9e & GP his sfR from Gnsd sei
ono 10 or be ta M rat Ihe5 President
Peared it is said that he Served in the Civil war
IS e ne He in IN ase
Years and possibly wrote newspaper letters thence
the photographer. who was making gallery in
Washington. and another In Broadway. of illus
trious Americans, and whose agent for that pur-
pose The Baron Recommended 70 such a
post by his charm and impressiveness of manner
have done In fact. through his agency. Brady
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tSaed S and Brady died poor But in the mean time
that he determined to dispatch MI. Evans to a
OF certain Britons of Importance to come 10 this
country in some kind of lecturing capacity. In
all his victims. He went to see Dickens at Cads-
hill; Dickens walked him off his American legs
burn in Our Mutual Friend" All that .dTh.
Fields (meaning James IT, of rcSnor ta < Fie'5s;
tod me It was true, He saw. Bulwer Lytton at
ing room. down Kensingto way a drawing room
as as The Baron subsequently recounted. STUFFED
The only of his trouts that rose was Dickens.
long afterward, and to different fly.
lpressiveness Of the man This Vas ex
tra9frdinary As writer he had the fastIdousness
expression. He did for the 'choiceness Of
the phrase and the sweet falling of the clauses
than for worth Of subject, life Of invention or
depth of judgment" Doubtless. to go on with Bacon
this th was the flowing and watery vein of Osorus.
ef R ,e But Ut The effect Of was
suited it-a subject that suited 1t in writing; still
9Fs 4S sn suP5eGs eG IN @ talk knsx English
all the British prose classics who may properly be
sailed rhet2Tieans from Sir Thomas Browne to De
an amazing verbal memory. and such a memory he
had. The fruits of it gave distinction to his writ
ing. Even more, II gave distinction to his talk.
More rhetorical talk nobody can have heard But in
it. at its best, in his writing, fastidiousness Of
making or of following the distinction 1t was
wonderful talk and wonderful writing