The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-28
ED HOWE'S NOTES
Atchis0n Editor Is on the
Bounding Billows.
He Marvels at Politeness of New
York People.
BIG DAILY NEWSPAPER
Impudenee a Source Of Wonder
to Him.
Sun Building Not an Example
of Order.
BIG DAILY NEWSPAPER
Friday. January 81.

other city In the country I was riding
down town today, when the gentleman
who was with me recognized friend
across the aisle of the elevated car,
and stepped over to speak to him. An
entire stranger who was sitting on that
side of the car, gave up his seat, that
my friend might sit with his acquaint-
ance. Then my friend desired to in
troduce me to his friend. and I went
over. Another stranger, in order that
I might be seated in the party, gave
I'D his seat to me. The incident i'm
pressed me as unusual This was po-
likeness amsng gentlemen to gentle
men, and see much of it here. Geo.
S. Terry, assistant treasurer of the
United Stats, and in charge of the
New York sub-treaSury, is a very
polite gentleman. met him during the
rush hours of the day, simply as citi-
the sub-treasury, and Mr.. Terry's
manners were SO genteel as to impress
me. / will think of Geo. s. Terry for
years. because of the ease and grace
of his manners. Mr.. Terry spoke only
few words to me, but managed to
impress me; I shall try to be potter
myself because of my chance meeting
with Geo. s. Terry, his manners so
properly fit gentleman I am always
wondering hat there are not more
gentlemen: they invariably attract so
much favorable impression and get
along so much better than those who
are impudent, impatient or cross :
A New York man called on me twice
at the hotel and found me out on
each visit Finding myself in his vi
cinity today, I called on him He &C.
cupied a suite of fifteen rooms on
the tenth story of a sky scraper, ana
I was compelled to send in my name
This man also impressed me because
of his unusual politeness. I didn't re-
main long, but he followed me out to
the elevator, and dismissed me in such
a way that I shall long admire him.
How delightful a gentleman is! How
can men justify themselves IN pelns
rude, coarse and impolite?
Tn the down town district of New
York, some OF the streets are very
narrow I measured one street today,
and found the distance to be twenty
buildings were from fifteen to thirty
stories high In this vicinity noticed
a curious thing: certain street, for
two blocks. was crowded with people.
who left the narrow sidewalks, ana
walked in the street, Across an in
tersecting street, and in the same
street. the crowd ceased, and only
few people were seen. / spent twenty
minutes trying to solve the puzzle. but
couldn't Why was there great
crowd in one portion of the street and
very few people along the same street
at other places? I couldn't make 1t
out.
If lived in New York, all my time
would be required in getting to and
from my work. getting about Is such
a puzzle to ne. I made this remark TO
a New Yorker, and he replied: About
all we New Workers know is the routes
to and from our work. We know very
little of the other parts of the city"
l have noticed that several New York
ers have accompanied the Atchison
party about ard seemed interested
called ar tl,e steamship offices this
afternoon. an6 was told that the
''Moltke" would positively sail at 8
o'clock tomorrow morning. So we
are going on hoard tonight. I know
as we'll as I know anything that the
ship will not sail at a. M; 1 never
knew a ship 20 sail at the time adj
vertised. but I can't afford to run the
risk of being left, so we are going on
board tonight: our first meal on the
ship will be breakfast tomorrow
morning But I would IKE to pet tnat
we do not set away before 10 a. m
At one IF the rests urants I pat
ronized here. every toothpick was in
closed in a serarate paper case The
tooth picks were quilts, and seemed
to have ben made by hand
I wonder that everyone living in
the West does not take a New York
newspaper; there is certain impu-
dence about them that is refreshing.
You know What we whisper about as
print it herr. Richard Harding Davis
is noted man; an evening paper I
picked up last evening said that Mr..
Davis was paying good deal of at
tention to Bessie mccoy, an actress
Mr. Davis is a married man. but the
paper says Mrs Davis may secure a
divorce because of her husbands at
tentions to the actress We might
talk about that sort of thing at home,
but we wouldn't print it in the news
papers.
This morning I met Colonel W. r.
Nelson, of the Kansas City Star, in the
lobby of the Waldorf, and talked to
him awhile. You may think he is here
looking for newspaper talent but he
isn't. His men were trained in the
little towns of the west. or in the
Star Office. I'D rather have young
man from the Leavenworth Times than
from the New York HERALD Colonel
Nelson said. Gas a matter of fact,
the Leavenwor-h Times is too big; the
kind of newspaper men we want would
be more apt to come from Beloit than
from Leaveaworth- One of the great
ager, Mr.. Sisted. Colonel Nelson
picked sisted up, he was a German
boy with a good head and good habits,
and a willingness to learn In his
department. sisted is one of the noted
newspaper men of the country. I in
troduced a New York newspaper man
to Colonel Nelson, and he said to me
later:
ssCoIonel Nelson's talk was the best
lecture en- the newspaper business /
ever heard
Some noted general once said that
the Lord is always on the side of the
army that has the biggest guns, or
something te that effect That is Col
onel Nelson's theory: luck Is always
on the side of the best newspaper. The
New York newspaper man said to me,
when ne were riding down town:
81 suppose the Star is in the market
for the bes- newspaper men,"