Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-09

where only sagebrush grew before, was
entitled TO some consideration.
Before he arrived here young man
named StlsOu was sending jnnamma-
tory reports 10 the New York Herald,
and had excited the country. Mr.
Perkins arrived, and was met at Ogden
By John W. Young who invited HIN
10 call on his father at the Beehive
house. AZ dinner given Mr., Perkins
m the Lion house. he and his bride
began To talk local conditions WIN
the pioneer leader.
ELS OWN STORY.
Elrs own story of what happened
| II as follows:
81 asked GOV Young " he thought
| the Mormons would fight In case an
army arrived here from the United
| states
flight. he replied deliberately, and
turning towards me earnestly NO,
sir. Whenever the Mormons DO any
fighting I, VIII be on tho side OF the
United States government and not
against them. You can write that TO
your paper, and ] viii sign " myself
Il wrote il out" went on Ell, 'and
the prophet put his name In the corner
near mine. The New York Times en-
graved the message bearing Brigham
Young's signature, and printed with my
story begging for consideration for a
people that had broken the deserts
power and made bleak desert into
garden The troops were recalled, ard
the people changed In their bitterness"
A MAN or LAUGHS.
Eli Perkins is a man Of many mar
ratlves all OF them with a laugh con-
cealed somewhere IN the telling. lie
says they are not witty but merely
humorous. and they circle the earth IN
their geography. just as his travels
have At one time he was secretary
OF the American legation at 81. Peters-
burg. He has done much TO compile
bright sayings In America. Whenever
no read a thing that made him laugh.
he kept Il, and gradually he put them
into books. one IL an edition OF Art
emus Ward, complete, well edited. and
Illustrated. Another Il entitled 'Thir-
~ Years of Wit" and II takes In all
the fayorites from Bill Nye to Billings.
Perhaps the riost pretentious IL kings
OF the Platform and Pulpit" which EN-
braces the important contributions 10
literature OF many men, both orators
and humorists.
GRAFTON AT COLLEGE.
When asked this morning to tell how
he got started along the lines on which
he has built his life work, he said that
II was through delivering an Grafton at
college. when he got his A. Nj. degree
at Schenectady. In the audience was
s. T.. Chase. destined to become secre-
tary Of the treasury under Lincoln. AT
a reception that night Chase put his
hand on the young mans shoulder and
told him he liked the speech. The 9TH
er graduates had spoken In Latin and
Greek to show their knowledge OF the
two tongues, but he had spoken red
hit Grafton on slavery and live local
topics, lie told some OF his close
friends that Chase had told him TO call
on him II he ever came to Washington,
and they advised him to go.
So Perkins went, Chase remembered
him, gave him a $1,000 job IN the treas
ury, payable in gold, which was then
rarity with greenbacks as the favor
ito currency, and afterwards enlisted
him in a battalion OF troops that slept
at the White House as a guard to gov
eminent property
GOT BULL RUN SCOOP
When the battle of Bull Run was be-
ing prepared for the newspaper bee
buzzed In Els bonnet. He had himself
sent out by the New York Tribune TO
report the battle. and after II got well
under way he started back for the Of
fee. At Chantilli, where Phil Kearney
had been killed. he secured horse. at
midnight. and rods 10 Washington,
where he arrived at p. m. 1t was
record run, and he was luckily IN time
to catch special train departing for
New York. He rushed into the Tribune
office at II y. m. and Editor Horace
Greedy said. Where are you from. my
boy"
Right from the battlefield" was the
answer, and Greedy led back by asking
when he had left. He was told at mid
night, and then said, ITS lie; you
couldn't have possibly got here In that
time. but sit down and write all you
got"
II did went on Ell, and that was the
scoop story Of the battle of Bull Run,
and the beginning as well as the end OF
my cub reporter days. Since then, how
ever, have always been at work for
the newspapers more or less"
LECTURES TONIGHT.
Mr.. Perkins lectures tonight under
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