The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-04-05

with almost equal facility and success
Each OF the observation-disclosures. the
Colorado Senator included-is a smelling
expert, proving his worth in the days
before the smelling trust was organized
by building and successfully operating q
smeter Fall by his lonesome.
The elders furnish another example
As every one who reads knows, Richard
Is the editor Of the Century. and rides
Pegasus as recreation. Joseph. with his
sister. jeanette founded the Critic and
when il was merged with Putnams Mag
azne the two of them became the editors
Of the latter publication. The late Will
lam r. Glider on the staff Of Gen.
Thomas during the civil war, was one OF
the most daring newspaper men Of his
day. John f. Glider. though a writer
produces neither books nor poems. but
music. thus being the exception TO the
Glider rule of work.
Ia the interests Of science and Of the
newspaper he was serving. ". + Glider
made TWO remarkable trips far into the
Arctic Circle In the late '70s he and
Lieut. Schwatka. in their search for the
lost records OF the Inflated Franklin ex-
petition, made the longest sledge journey
ever undertaken for scientific purposes
with their dogs. During the three years
they We're absent from civilization, they
found and buried the bodies of forty Of
the earlier explorers along the coast of
King Williams Land. On his second trip
Mr. Glider was a member of the Jean
nette's relief expedition. The Rogers, the
relief ship, being burned in midwinter
and the party reduced TO the verge of
starvation. Glider volunteered and I'M
dertoolS a sledge trip across Siberia in the
hope Of obtaining relief
Did Not sleep for Weeks.
His sole companion was trader with
a reputation highly unsavory Glider,
being fearful that his companion might
desert him In the trackiess desert of snow.
did not take a single minute OF sleep
during the ffty-four days that were spent
IN covering 1.So0 mites 10 the first settle
ment where the trader lived. Glider would
lie down and rest. but because the horror
of possible deserti0n was always with
him, by an almost incredible exercise Of
viii power. he never let the trader get
out Of his sight for an instant After
completing this truly narrowing portion
of his race for lives, Glider. accompanied
by Cossacks. pushed on to Irkutsk. reach
ing civilization after remarkable jour
new of nearly COO miles by dog sIedge.
The three elders. who are now maya
zine editors, began their respective liter
airy careers on the same Newark, y. j.,
newspaper, graduating therefrom direct
TO magazine chairs. The careers of the
able pasaielism-
lNbar pau1 Gar1f,or, NON k.,,ba--,,J,r
10 the Court of St James, left the French
army at the close OF the war with Prus-
STA. he entered the diplomatic service;
Jules Cambon, who. as q captain OF Mo-
biles. had made name for himself I'm
the Franco russian conflict. espoused
diplomacy a short while after his brother
The year 1870 found Paul project OF Lille
Jules held the same post at Constantine.
A little later Paul was sent to Tunis
jules took his brothers old post at Lille.
In Tunis. as French resident, Paul won
the appellation OF the "Cromer Of Tunis;'
meantime Jules. in Lille. was attracting
wide attention. like Paul before him, by
his wise prefecturial conduct which
finally won for him the governor general
ship of Algeria He accomplished In that
dependency what Paul had done for
Tunis.
Paul meanwhile had been ambassador
to Madrid for some little time. In 1890 he
was sent to Constantinople, saids to be
the hardest diplomatic station I'm the
world When British uneasiness of his
success at the Porte was at its height.
Delcasse transferred Paul TO London.
That was in 1888, and just about the time
when Jules secured his first ambassa-
dorial post being sent to Washington,