The Washington herald., 1907-11-17
By DEXTER MARSHALL.

truly respectable list Of those who. like
them. have become world-famous before
thirty.
These two Churchill chaps are as diff
ferent IN type as can well be imagined,
yet there have been some interesting
points OF resemblance in their careers
thus far. There is a difference Of three
years only in their ages As a boy the
American meant TO be a naval man and
was educated at the Annapolis naval
school for that purpose. The Britisher
leaned toward the army and was trained
10 that end at the Sandhurst Military
School he entered the army, as in
tended. after finishing at Sandhurst and
has done some scrumptious fighting in
his time. The American left the navy i'm
mediately after graduation. He offered
his services I'm the Spanish war, but they
were declined. Both finally selected the
pen as the weapon with which 10 fight
life's battles. however. and each had
won some noteworthy battles Herewith
before going into public life. Both are
hustlers and each owes his present posi-
ton 70 his own initiative and ability.
Here the. similarity stops. The English
Winston Churchill inherited a place in
the public eye. his father and mother
both being famous before him. But his
father Lord Randolph Churchill. left
legacy OF final failure. after a career of
unusual brilliance, that almost com
pletely Offset the advantages that were
the sons birthright The second mar
riage Of his American motherxshe was
Jennie Jerome and a cousin of New
Yorks district attorney-to the young
army officer CORVALLIS West, much
younger than herself, added nothing to
WinstOp's chances.
That under all the circumstances the
son should enter public and literary life
and succeed in both before reaching
thirty IS evidence Of his unusual ability.
He is nearer the front in politics to-day
than any other Englishman Of his age;
there is always a crowd present when
he speaks in the House of Commons, Of
which he has been A member for some
years. and his auditors always hear an
interesting and usually a brilliant ad-
dress
American ChurchilTs Career.
The American Winston Churchill is
brilliant dashing, and persistent, also,
but his forbears left him no legacy Of
celebrity. Born in st. Louis November
10, 1Su, he was brought up" in the fam
lily Of James Gazzam. whose wife was
the boys aunt His teacher. James r.
Yeatman. took great interest in him, and
was delighted when, at sixteen, young
Churchill was appointed TO the Naval
Academy.
He is descended from John Dwight.
founder Of Dedham, Mass. and from
Jonathan Edwards as well. Satisfied that
blood would tell in this case. Yeatman
was terribly cut up when the young
man left the navy 10 set up as a literary
man.
He went about it in his own way.
Having become interested in Revolution
airy history at Annapolis. he decided TO
use It as fiction material, and fiercely
fell to studying history, both from the
printed page and the written document.
He understood very well that he didn't
know how to write but believed author
ship could be learned the same as any
other profession, and prepared to learn
It, working mostly by himself, as furi-
ously as he studied American history.
One of his friends called him the prize
young egotst Of the century" but that
didn't feaze him in the least he simply
smiled. laid~in a stock Of paper and pens
and ink and went ahead. often he scrib-
bled away as many hours as he could
keep awake, often only to tear up his
work after the lapse Of a day or a week
or a month. He also wrote for the Army
and Navy Journal. but more to make
public his views regarding the service
than TO get training.
After q while he got on the CosmOpoli-
tan. being one of that magazines Ions
series OF editors under John Brisber
Walkers ownership, Of which w. d.
Howells was one It's office was then
thirty miles above New York on the
Hudson. but Churchill visited the big
town only four or five times in a year
It was while ne was on the Cosmopoli.
tan, in 1925, a little more than a year
after leaving Annapolis. that he married
Miss Mary Harlakenden Hall, a rich
young St Louis woman. Her money re-
lieved him Of the necessity Of earning
his dinner daily before he could eat IT.
and he left the Cosmopolitan forthwith
First Book wins Fame.
But he has worked as hard since Their
as before although not so continuously
with the pen. He went into politics -four
or five years ago, and has made Il biz
mark in public life.
The American Winston Churchill put.
& lot Of hard work into everything n,
does. He wrote his first novel. "Th,
Celebrity" I'VE times, and even then wa.
dissatisfied with it. Going 10 Europ,
after he had gone over It four times. h,
left the manuscript with a friend. whC
sold IL for him. Churchill would not Ie
il so to the press, however, until aftel
he had written II all over once more. L
was published in 1898, when he was TWEEN
ty-seyen and it made him famous a
once.
He wrote Richard Carvel," the first o
his historical novels, published when h,
was twenty-eight, and which luadruple,
his fame, FIVE times over. as he did ais,
parts OF The Crisis" He was living fl
ST Louis when he turned out that story
and did his work upon il in an office Il
the business part of the city, where h,
kept hours as regularly as II he had beer
running retail shop or brokerage bust
ness. He was derided little for writin,
so methodically. but the success Of tn,
book quickly silenced the derision.
1t was after he had removed TO Cornish
in New Hampshire. that he wrote Con
nistOn," the political novel which adde,
so much TO his reputation, and in whici
he made a study of a queer New Hamp
shire character in State poltics-Rue
Durkee. Of Sullivan County-as Jethr,
Bass. IN 1903 Churchill went into tn
lower house of the New Hampshire legis
nature and was the most regular attend
ant Of the entire body. Always in nj
seat, he never missed q vote and D.
showed a degree of interest that Wa
little less than curiosity in everythin,
that was going forward