Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-03

ing in strength for several months, and
Wednesday suffered from cerebral hemor-
rhage. His physicians yesterday morn
ing told the family that death was simply
question of hours. and those of the
family at distance were at once noti-
fed.
Mr. and Mrs. Halstead celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary little more
than year ago. at which time Mr.. Hal
stead's health seemed frail and as time
passed he grew weaker, so that the news
of his death was not wholly unexpected.
The sudden death of his son Marshall a
few months ago was severe shock to
him. and it is believed to have had an adj
verse effect on his health. Albert Hal
stead another son. is American consul at
Birmingham. England. and other members
of the family are scattered throughout
the country.
Halstead's Life Work.
Mr.. Halstead was one of the great ed
itors of the last half Of the nineteenth
century. and one of the strongest trib-
utes to his incisiveness as a writer was
in 1859, when his nomination by President
Harrison to be American minister to Ger
Senate because of articles he had pub
hShed charging corruption to some men,
Der of that body.
He was native of Butler county, Ohio,
and after short service on literary
weekly he. in 1853. became connected with
the Cincinnati Commercial. in which he
secured d small interest a year later. be-
coming chief owner in 1865. Nearly
twenty years later his paper was CONSOLE
dated with the Gazette, and he was
editor-in-c chief of the combined newspaper
until years afterward, when another con-
SClidatlOn was effected. new owners Sc
curing control. For a time he was editor
of the Brooklyn Standard Union, and dur
ing the last ten years he has figured
largely as a magazine and special news
paper writer, besides issuing number of
books on current matters of historical
interest. In the civil war Mr.. Halstead
personally reported many battles. being
rated as a war correspondent of the first
caiiber.
He went to the Philippine Islands dur
ing the war with Spain. In 1900 he wrote
1op.OOO-Word story about the Galveston
storm.
To Washington, 1857.
After their marriage. March 2. 1857, Mr.
and Mrs. Halstead took the train that
night for Washington, where Mr.. Hal
stead arrived in time to report the in
auguration of President Buchanan, the
4th OF the month. He reported the trial
and execution of John Brown. at that
time becoming acquainted with Col Rob-
ert +. Lee. in command of the troops at
Harpers Ferry. When the civil war came
on Mr. Halstead saw much service as a
correspondent in the field. returning to
Cincinnati to take charge of his paper
after the war closed.
Mr.. Halstead had a narrow escape from
death during the Franco-Prussian war.
He with the German army when he
ascertained its purpose of an immediate
march upon Paris. That curious instinct
which impels one sometimes to think
most of tritleS amid events of momentous
Importance moved him TO hasten ahead
to Paris and rescue some gowns which he
had ordered for Mrs. Halstead of a fash
ionable dressmaker there. He realized
that II the Germans once invested the city
il would be impossible to get anything out,
and already his prophetic eye saw in a
vague way the shadow of communism
and riot hanging like a pail over the
French capital
Hunted by a Mob.
AS soon as he had performed his errand
he bethought him of d service he could
render 10 a Cincinnati woman who was
living temporarily in Paris. and. hasten
ing To her home he sought a private in
tervicw and informed her. under many
injunctions OF secrecy, OF the purpose Of
the Germans. His face, although over
grown with shaggy beard and surround
cd with a halo of unkempt hair, just as
he had come from a long season in camp
and on the march, was we'll enough
known at the house of his friend to have
the word soon spread about the neigh
boThood that he had been there, and when
the woman imprudently admonished her
servants that they must get her movables
ready Tor quitting the city. as the Ger
mans We're coming TO capture Paris, they
promptly put two and two together.
An hour or so later. as he was on his
way through d street near his friend S
house. he met party of tierce-lo looking
fellows shouting "a bas' somebody. He
did not for the moment make out his
own name, though he afterward discov-
cred that il was him they We're execrating
On entering Il hotel where he had been
accustomed to beard while in Paris he
Was net by the proprietor. who. with
much n, nd -wring!nE. uttered inhoSpitable
prayers that lie would be'ake himself
Il ewhere. as the MOB had got winn Of
his presence and were on his track. ANY
one VINO Ventured TO assert, the man ex-
planned, that the Germans were going to
take Paris rot only carried his own life
in his hands but was a menace to the
safety of any hosiery that entertained
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