The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-28

\ sires to know more than it car
/ citation, and in C. +. King, a
Il years has risen to BE a natiou
esque subject whom he has tire
be one IN tho forceful case OF G. +.
King--a romance vivid and striking
romance the moro engaging because
an unmingled story OF success
Boston is not to me unknown. It
is the home OF q publication whereof
am part owner and whole editor, and
go there to argue questions of bust
ness and editorial policy with my
partner, who Is gentleman Of positive
views and possesses genius for
polemics. What questions are nooted
between US are generally decided his
way. However, as kipllng l,ath It, that
Is another story. I resolved, upon q
next invasion to Boston, TO look up
Mr.. king. had all my ink-and-p paper
life been writing about politicians; I
would step aside into paths of COM
merce and have an instructive day off
III the society OF q great financial
figure. Knowing something Of my
business set about Informing myself
concerning G. b. King. Such knowledge
would BE Worthwhile preliminary
to that personal call meditated.
In the equipment OF every metro
politan daily Is what is known to the
outside world as the Obituary De-
partnlent.' and to newspaper inner
circles as the "Morgue." In the
.Morsue'' are filed from day to day all
clippings and printed data relating to
the worlds mighty, from President
Roosevelt to the Pope In Rome, This
Is to the end that when one Of these
great folk dies, the paper may COM
pact his past from his Grad 'e-days into
a. memoir, and enlarge more or less re-
gretfully thereon throughout divers
grieving columns Also, tho "Morgue"
in its collections includes leading
names Of business and science, as Wei
as those Of potentates political.
HIS Impress Left Upon His Times.
Aware of these things, L called at
a newspaper office where l am know!
and loved and asked for the envelopes
devoted to &C. E. King" They We're
many, a fair armful In truth; evidently
Mr.. King had left his impress upon his
times.
BY a thorough ransack of these
"Morgue' envelopes. I acquired the fol
lowing knowledge: q. =. king was
born upon a. North Carolina planta-
| ton, In Rockingham county. in 1857
His people were not rich as We're
few Of North Carolina in years closel,
following the Civil War. There Were
nine. OF the King children, two younger
and six older than the present cor
pcration r11agnate.
c.. r. King was seven years ofFage
when his father died, and the poor cir
cumstances of the household Were
promptly rendered poorer stil' by {
Irascally executor who robbed bare thu
small estate and fed. It was on the
plantation of his grandfather that tn
subject Of my inquiry lived. following
his fathers death, until he attained tn
age Of twelve During that qutnte
/ Of years, he attended a country school
the only seminary he ever saw the IN
side Of as a pupil.
At the age Of twelve young King
feeling a crowdihg .1eed OF doing some
thing towards his own support, be
came a book agent, and WANDERED
hither and yon in North Carolina, sell
ling the Life Of Christ" Shakespeare
and "The Worlds Wonders" He wa
SO successful that at the age Of t1ftee
one finds him engaged by the souther
Methodist Publishing Company OF Nash
4 VILE to sell its publications.
la,Nr,. a q a hook
j until he reached the age OF seventeen
1 at which time he became associate
4 with a newspaper published at Char
He later became a general newspape
correspondent representing a lon
string of papers IN the south, East an
West, and some Of the liveliest news
IN those pa days carried his signatur,
The last negro uprising seen
the southt! was :, best rep q a (, !
ing of alarm bells. and his descriptio
! over and chung to by sister, swee
sIhearts, wives and mothers the ga
3 quell that servile insurrection. wei
highly effective.
I A Chapter of Newspaper Enterprise
: His GROWING effort was his stori,
= VI lIS 1SOsloAa ~ 'AS way VIZ
: when twenty four. We're killed an
twice as many injured. G, t. Kin
y first on the. ground. camped on T.
y single wire tor forry.eight hours. +
$ sent live copy; dead copy. any kir
: him four deep. stood circle Of sp
: cial correspondents. gnashing thei
4 defeated teeth. i4
= = Following the Bostain Birds
Q triumnh the Atlanta Journal invit
d the energetic Mr.. King into its bus
q ness office, where for Ave years
: drew mankind's attention 10 eve
8 Southern advantage, from watermelo
$ to Uncle Remus" Harris. Then,
Il kindred lines, lie put In three yea
with the st, Louis Republic. On 4
heels Of his Republic work: early
1887. Mr., King joined the Bost,
Traveller. and labored two years
| the business VINEYARDS Of. that jouyni
: The year 1890 arrived, and G.,
6 King was in his thirty-second yea
Ha became Impatient at being s
t resolved to start II pay-roll of his oW
He combined the Boston journal, t
/, New York Sun, the Philadelphia Tim
] the Baltimore Herald and the Chica