The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-18

Der of the international committee
which organized 1T. King Leopold
made him consul Of the Kongo Free
State in 1904 and consul general in
1905.
Three Journalists Decorated,
| American journalism has come in for
a generous share Of this kind of re,
ward from royalty within recent
months. In fact. among Americans in
civil life more Journalists than men of
any other profession have been deco
rated.
The misado recently conferred the
Order of the Rising Sun upon Charles
Augustus BOynton. who has been SUI
perintendent of the southern division
| of the Associated Press for the past
| fifteen years. and who for a quarter
of century before that had been New
York agent of the Western Associated
J Press. This veteran journalist. who
| has handled every great news event of
the past forty years, first got printer s
ink upon his fingers back in civil war
times, when he became assistant TO his
] father. the Rev. Charles Boynton, editor
of the Christian Nation, Cincinnati.
During his service in Washington he
has had intimate relations with the
makers of history and has been the safe
repository of the most important gov
ernment secrets. During the South AT
rican war the British embassy relied
upon him for its news from the front.
as did the Russian embassy and Japan
ese legation during the Russo-Japancsc
war
Another American journalist deco
rated by the mikado in recent weeks
is Hamilton Holt, managing editor OF
the Independent. Mr.. Holt, after go
ing through Yale, had just finished a
post graduate course at Columbia and
was only twenty-five when he succeed
ed to the managing editorship of this
! magazine, In 1897, since when he has
been a factor in the great state. ma
tional and international organizations
for the promotion OF peace between ma
tions and the arbitration of industrial
disputes But what has led more di'
rectly 10 his decoration by the mikado
has been his activity as member OF
the Japan Society of New York. He
is given the Order of the Sacred Treas.
ure.
Gets "the Crown Of Prussia
The kaiser some months ago con.
fercd the Order of the Crown of Prussia
upon William Charles Rcick, the well
known journalist. who is now one OF
the principal owners of the Philadelphia
Ledger and New York Times and who
like Mr.. Holt. distinguished himself
for his precocity in the journalistic
field Starting as Philadelphia re
porter, when but nineteen, he had be
come editor of the London and Paris
editions of the New York Herald when
4 but twenty-four and city editor Of the
home edition when twenty While
still in his thirties he became presl
dent of the Herald company. Two wears
ago he became president of the Phlla
dclphia Public Ledger company.
st. George Tucker and Nathan straus
The "commandatore So degree OF
tho Order of tho Crown of Italy has
boen received from King Victor En-
manuel by Henry st, George Tucker
Of Staunton, Va, who was in congres!
for eight terms until succeeding hl>
fnthcr us professor ut Washington anc
Lee university, where he afterwards be
came dean of the law school. His deco
ration il the result of his internationa
relations ms president of the James
town exposition. The order conferred
upon him was founded in 1868
The Grand Duke of Baden has re
Gently conferred not only decoration
but 81 lifc-siZc portrait of the late grand
duke upon Nathan Straus. the million
aire merchant of New York and Brook
lvn. who is brother Of Oscar Straus
our newly selected ambassador to Con
stantinople. Mr. Straus is well known
for his pure milk charities in Greatcl
! New York, where for the past twenty
wears he has maintained at his own ex
pcnse system OF distributing steril
lied milk to the poor-a system whlct