The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

mad gone or ahead for the purpose Of break
ing into French journalism. Everybody
j knew over there was handing out rlty
with both hands. They sootned and en-
couraged ire by telling me that ] might rs
we'll try to write an advertisement acr oss
the heavens as to get anything into the
French papers without paying good and
well for it.
"You know French papers are about as
large as a lady's pocket handkerchief any
way. And the owners would rather have
three of their four pages blank than print
anything free for which they could pos
sibly get money.
Also, they have a habit which is calou-
lated TO wiring profanity from a ginger
bread man. They don't announce things
in advance. They Just tell you ahOut n
thing when it's all over and You can't pos
siblv go to 1t.
"Oh, there's no denying that | had my
work cut out for me But Went TO the
editor of lie Petit journal which, ] suppose.
has the largest circulation in the world.
and | said to him:
Monsieur -, you can't afford to have
, lis come to Paris, rent the biggest building
in the world, the Galerie dies Machines,
and spend thousands of francs getting it
ready, without your letting your readers
hear about il. You pretend to give them
the news. This is news. And if you don't
give it. you're getting money under false
pretenses.'
Rather brutal. | know, but it scored.
And when had convinced that ore editor
| had them all settled. 1t was the same
in the other European cities.
an Budapest l went to see the editor
Of the Pesfer- Lloyd. He had advertised
that they would publish several feuiVe'ons
that is, short stories running across the
foot Of a newspaper page;
@'Ill give you something better than
YOUR. ieuiHcions,' | said. You go on ring
ing the changes on the same old theme Of
love- I'll give you something that Will
stir more interest and curiosity in your
readers than forty of your bic stories
Go ahead he said.
so ] wrote an account Of what do you
think? OF our business Office 1t was
translated and printed in his. raNer; and
he told me ~afterNard that, for the first
time in wears, he had received letters from
his readers apropos Of a feuille'on.'
While he was abroad with the circus.
az an Offset to his achievement in tanning
the foreign press, Tody Hamilton was over
taken by a mania for collecting; You'd
it understood, a tall and hearty man. who
ca sit up after o p. NJ. without the slightest
Inconvenience. Make the company good
enough and he'll see 0 A. NJ. go by, too.
and never blink, That's the kind of man
he Is.
Well. he coflected-he really did collect
TOW silver. That's all. No sword canes,
or arrnor, or pipes, or Ieer mugs, or antique
furniture. just TOW silver. He has about
ffty miniature silver articles, each one
representing a piece of household furniture.
He got everything that belongs in a well
regulated house except a clock and a bed
He did ace a clock, but he declined to see
the dealers price for it.
He's sorry now thot he baked, but nothing
can raUsh him OF the iov of possessing an
inch high silver armchair, a lady's foot
stool Of corresponding dimensions. and a
tray about as big as a silver dollar and
furnished with six cups and saucers and
lacking only a siphon and a few extras.
just why he took to these little MASTER
pieces he doesn't pretend to explain. In
cidentally, he owns up to a longing for
| paintings, statues and ivory carvings. But
the toy silver ia the only fad that has made
him succumb utterly.
The summer of 1906 is to he a most eXtraor-
binary one in the career Of Mr.. Hamilton.
He is going to have n vacation.
The last one he had was in 1881. That
time he seized the opportunity 10 start the
original Sunday afternoon newspaper.
He had been laboring under the convic-
ton that the world was i'll at ease for want
OF that very thing. The world set his mind
at rest on the subject. The newspaper
went the way Of h three Others with which
he had tried to sltisfy his one ambition.
He came back to Mr.. Barnum's fold.
chastened of everything but his gift OF eN;
preston. II is expected that when unBlnd