The Washington herald., 1907-01-20

Pa, and saw other active service
His experiences as paymaster were con-
fined to the old Camden and Amboy Rail-
road. which now forms a part Of the
Pennsylvania system. He didn't Ike the
job and no wonder among other things
for the reason that he used to have TO
take the money with which TO pay of
the men over the road on q hand car and
at a time when hold-ups along the line
were rather frequent
After the paymaster's job he became a
reporter on the Newark IN j. Daily
Advertiser. Later he was editor and part
proprietor Of the Newark Morning Regis
ter, which has long since passed away. It
was while he was running the latter
named paper that he did his hardest
work. Being fearful Of the Registers
future, he took the job Of editing Hours
at Home, published by the Scribners. and
divided his working hours between two
editorial desks, one in Newark and one IN
New York. The friend who speaks OF him
as chain lightning and steel springs
says that no one could tell when ne used
TO sleep IN those crowded years.
Glider began to find himself when Serb
ner's Monthly-nOw the Century-was es-
tablished, with the Scribners as publish
eTs. and the late DR. J. G. Holland as
editor. Holland selected Glider as man
aging editor. and gave him a department.
| The Old Cabinet" 10 conduct After
Hollands death and elders promotion
TO the editorship. THE Old Cabinet was
discontinued. much to the regret Of many
readers
Sitting at his editorial desk one day. Mr..
Glider received a call from II. H
Helen Hunt not yet Mrs. Jackson-the
author Of 'Ramora." With her was
| young woman art stUdent-Miss Helen de
! Kay-daughter Of Commodore de Kay and
granddaughter OF Joseph Rodman Drake.
author of The Culprit Fay" Glider and
the art student fell in love at first sight
/ and in due time she became Mrs. Glider.
/ Everybody knows what a big man he Is
/ in the magazine world to-day. although
/ few remember that II was he who created
! modern magazine Illustration. but Il was.
AS chairman Of the New York Tenement
/ House Commission. in 1894 he was great
/ factor in the Improvement Of tenement
/ house conditions everywhere, and the
/ Authors Club owes its being 10 him. He
| is proUder Of his poetry and his Topics
| Of the Time editorials IN his magazine
than Of any other OF his achievements.
/ One Of his first pieces Of verse published
/ in Newark told how
The red moon stood in the sycamore tree.
and this led to a reference in a rival paper
/ to "the young poet who has the moon up
tree" But nObOd. now knows who
wrote that sarcastic reference
/ R. ". elders sister, Jeanette Glider,
one Of the Critic editors, and his brothers.
Joseph and ". H. have all made names
! for themselves in the world Of letters
An Expafriafed Minister'S Son.
The only bachelor among the minister
! sons who have become really eminent Is
/ Henry James. the expatriated American
/ novelist brother Of William James, the
/ Harvard professor Of psychology.
! Those who do not like Henry as a novel;
/ ist say that he knows too much about
| psychology to be a really good story
| teller; those who decry William as
psychologist say that he knows too much
about the novelist's art TO be a successful
professor. but they have both made good
| for al that. Their father. Henry James,
was a theOlogian. his speciality being the
mystic doctrines Of the SwedenbOrgians,
still strong in Philadelphia though not
now in many other places in this country.
Henry James. the younger. was born IA
/ New York sixty-three years ago. He
esteems the town as he knew II half a
/ century back, when a boy. much more
/ than he does the big city of to-day with
/ its subways, L roads. ana skyscrapers-
/ You may remember that he returned 70
/ this country last year after a residence
/ abroad of twenty or thirty years. occupied
/ mostly in the production OF fiction, most
/ Of it rather close to the edge" but OF
such peTsistently indirect style as TO lead
one critic TO speak of the shsltering
/ vagueness of his vice"
/ He was received here with the same
! fall-down-andworsh -thegenius attitude
lon the part of certain classes-that is
/ almost universally accorded to him in the
literary world Of London. Prim Agnes
/ Reppller. Philadelphia's favorite and
really charming essayist, said OF him the
day after he had entertained Philadel-
phia's Contemporary Club from the plat
form. that no one IS mere able than he
/ 10 prick US into that mental alertness
which leads US almost 10 the verge OF IN
I derstanding." Wherever he went the
elect" made quite as remarkable COM
ments upon him as those which he emit
| ted concerning the people and the cities
I of his native land
Mr. James lives at ''the decayed port OF
/ Rye in Sussex, sixty miles from London.
/ in an ancient. tawny, brick structure OF
/ the Georgian type. known as Lamb House
I
cupied it for many generations. He is Of
middle height. slightly bald, and his once
black hair is rapidly turning white. He
/ dresses with the utmost care and gives
| personal attention to the affairs Of his
house. He is a great favorite in society,
and has a large following OF society and
literary women who are known as '-the
very elect" Not all of these women are
/ beautiful, but every one Of them is clever.
/ Mr. James viii not be bothered with
stupid disciples, either men or women
Presidential Minister'S SOM
Grover Cleveland, the only living min
! ister's son who has ever been President
OF the United States, is also the only liv-
/ ing ex-President. His personality IS at
least as strong and pronounced as that OF
any other minister's son in the land
/ The people Of Caldwell, n. J., where
| stands the house in which he was borBs
/ a modest two and a half story frame
/ hOuse-now painted brown. but for half a
century the Old-time, staring white-are
duly proud that their town is his birth
/ place They have never purchased the
/ house for preservation, however as was
stated in print a few years ago. Mr..
/ Cleveland was born in 1887 and was taken
/ to Fayetteville, y. Y. when three years
/ Ole He got most of his schOOling-for
/ like Mr.. Glider, he never went 10 college
at the Fayetteville district school, and
while pupil there marked his desk with
/ his name so that President Finley. Of the
/ College of the City of New York. being
able to identify it. bought it few years
| ago to present to the college.
Mr.. Cleveland's uncle. Prof. William
| Cleveland. was head Of the New York
Institution for the Blind when the Rev
Mr.. Cleveland died, and Grover, then
/ boy of sixteen. went TO New York to live
/ for. time, Fanny Crosby, the noted