New-York tribune., 1909-07-11
XIII.

So evening. ana jun 80, catholic
M0nOas - The light Of the hoiii'--- = +,,.c,
tne - .r-l,,n7 in flames; q stray T,,is
80 70 3 lamppost mere ai'1 -,.,,.,,io,,. an
~ aank movement ol 1''9 e.--,ar+ or
-, not only 10 prevent ''i7 - 20, long
srsft which President L-Ii''.-- xor,As n
80 hui 10 compel the .o,,es
- ,,o-+hward for the defell'e VI NJ.
re1uii - vet for near four oaH -"
=, -ss in possession o. 'i7 -,-i
foLA ,,bv since a couple Of goou
unoers''o- -. any moment have restored
rnen's -. ,,-.-+ showed For want Of mem
oroeI. q - defend itself and did It rather
clr-7s1v enduring neeol79s
hoth Of property and li1e- - 7.st-,,c
Oo-a -T-tt,,,ra Office VAS marked Tor des'I "e
IHV - armed and zarrisoned- and only
u'i' -. -,,or effect an entrance Then 'hey
on15 - she counting house on the ground
s"ef' --s5s . bonfire Of such papers as theE
ho0i moment there was danger Out
TN -,--,a ~, from the Spruce street STA
=. rioters fed and the fire was put out
- the editorial rooms Ne knew hoth-
-. = MI il was all over. Afterward
,-s.a- ,-a,cb was kept Friends of The tribune
volunteered and there was no latA ~ ii---' '
--srs the police again careless
..otbs~ -,,sh was stopped by the police IN the
SAT Al my window looking on the
nm sev this rebel effort But the poiice
- -. .,Ii5 mass Of rioters as CleTerly as Il
'-l,s ,.,-s hee7 done in Paris. where such mat
=. -,-,zers-oad better than anywhere else
=, ,-orr5 once scattered, these rutnans be
..-e easy victims The police did not spare
49,, 7 not only saw. but heard. ] heard the
-, +ar n The clubs on the heads q the fug'-
80 A. each tap q man went down; and ne
=. .o+ s17-avs get I'D again. The street was
s-reUn with the slain
While these incidents were occurring an Il
<o-+ was made 70 keep Nj Greeley away from
.ba ofHce. partly because he was a man Of peace
,,s ne thought scenes Of violence would he un-
-asssan+ % him: partly because he was IN dan
~ bo+b in the Office and as he came and went
Dirt he would listen 70 no appeal The post OF
danger Vas the post II duty. and l1e stood by
-bs shir N-. CraeIev's passion for peace some
fines carried him far but never showed itself
IN an ignoble regard for his personal safety
NJ sydney Howard Gays successor in the
managing e7itorsrfp Of The Tribune WAS Mr.
Iobn Russell Young who brought with him q
,ex life and freshness and something not very
far removed from genius FOR Journalism; i IN
fbe profession Of Journalism there he room TOT
genius There is room. a. any rate. for oriEi-
rsT+r and for bird 's-eve views of things. and
f,r an outlook upon the world which leaves no
ir7norrart point uncovered There is room for
courage and for ouickness of perception and for
sr tn+ui-fve knowledge Of what Is new and
what Is not. All these qualities Mr- Young had
That the end y his relation with The Tribune
wss less happy than the beginning offers no
reason. 10 my mind for DENYING him the tribute
which i his due
Il seems hard 10 believe that in 1866. in the
early summer. the first news q the Austro-
Prussizn war came 10 Us in New York by ship
But SO It was NIr. Young walked into my room
ere morning with z slip Of paper in his hand
from the news bureau Al. I think Quarantine
announcing the Prussian declaration of war,
June Is. and the advance of the Prussian forces
81 should Ike YOU u take the first steamer TO
Eu-ope~ remarked M Young. and walked out
again Il was z Monday- The next steamer was
the Cunarder China. from Boston 10 Liverpool
via Queenstown. on the Wednesday. I sailed
accordingly and on reaching Queenstown was
net by q telegram announcing the Austrian de-
feat AT sadowa. or. as the Prussians prefer 70
cal il. Koniggratz July 3. The war was over
There were other military operations. but an
srnistice was agreed . July -. and the prelirn-
inaries Of peace were signed at Nikolsburg
July &c
On the following DAY. July %, 1866, the lay
ing Of the new Atlantic cable the first by which
messages from the public were transmitted. was
successfully completed by the Great Eastern.
and On the 2Sth q friendly message from the
Queen was sent 70 the President Of the United
States. The President was Andrew Johnson,
and II took him two days 20 reply. II would
have made difference 10 US in America II the
var news Of May and June could have reached
US by cable Even such grave events as Aus
triss demand for the denobilization Of the
Prussisn army SO far back as April, and the
proceedings in the Federal Diet al Frankfort IN
June, made no great impression on American
opinion- suppose We were already in that
state Of patriotic isolation when events in Eu-
ro7e seemed 70 US ike events in an ancient
world. The Austro-Prussian conflict was not
much more 10 masses Of Americans than the
Peioponnesian War Nor, IN truth, did news
from abroad by mail ever present itself with
the suddenness and authority II derived from the
cable Il came by mail in masses. It came by
cable with the peremptory brevity which ar
rested attention. TIE home telegraph was diff
f1se II was the cable which first taught US TO
condense. 4 dispatch from London was not. in
ne beginning. much more than fash Of light
mig; ane went into print as il came, without
being written up; and was ten times the more
Elective
hsd gone on from London to Berlin, and II
was n Berlin that the news came Of break in
tne peace negotiations and the sudden arrest Of
ne homeward march of the Prussian troops.
Nnlch had begun August l. I sent dispatch
. ne Tribune announcing this, and limiting at
'e renewal Of hostilities as a possible conse-
e1ehce- The news came from a source which
as guarantee o. its truth: and true 1t was.
@ out the diplomatic difficulty was soon adjusted,
s"o again the Prussian columns flowed steadily
-'1nNard This messag age-wfich for the mo-
l vas sufficiently startling-was. ! think.
-e nfst news dispatch which went by cable. II
a 70 near Zoe words and the cost of IL was