Arizona republican., 1911-03-19
VETERAN WRITER
 GIVES ESSENTIALS HAS WRITTEN DAILY LETTERS
 SINCE 1887. Foreign and Home Correspondent of Chicago Paper Gives Inter
 esting Interview.

Although it was the intention of | William F.. Curtis of the Chicago Record Herald to leave for Los An gelcs Friday evening. as announced 1 in yesterdays Republican, his long delay on the road between Roosevelt
 and Tempe prevented his catching the Southern Pacific train >for the
 west He stopped at the Adams An
 nex all day yesterday. and left last
 night for Riverside. Cal
 The visit of MT. Curtis to the val | ley at this time is strong proof of
 the interest manifested by the large l eastern dailies in the completion of
 the Roosevelt dam. and the statement
 of c. J. Blanchard, statistician of the | reclamation service, made a few days ago at the Adams Annex, to the effect | that more inquiries have been re- 1 ceived at the reclamation offices in | Washington in regard to the work in
 this valley than of any other gov ernment project has been verified
 in a gratifying way by the presence of numbers of correspondents. The newspapers of the country are mak- ing greater effort to cover the dedi- l subscribers than they have so far done for any other reclamation project.
 Since 1887 Mir Curtis has been a special correspondent Of the Record
 Herald. and during that time he has written a daily letter to the paper. sometimes of one. more often of two. columns in length. which have been | appearing on the first column of the | first page. space exclusively de- voted to his writings. These letters have been written on every conceiv able subject. and from every con ceivable place In order to satisfy the management of the Record Her aid, he travels constantly. and. re- | ferring to his long sojourns in for | eign countries, Mir Curtis said yes terday:
 They don't like to have me stay in this country. but are always urg ing me to stay abroad However, I have arranged things in such a way that l spend year at home and year abroad. alternately. which has been satisfactory to all of us"
 Considering his long and distin-
 
 and special correspondent. brief resume of his life will prove of in- terest.
 MT. Curtis worked his way through Western Reserve college of Cleveland by writing for the Cleveland Plain Dealer At the time he began to Norl, for the Cleveland paper he was barely r years of age, but from the beginning of his career his writings had the quality of truth. which he holds to be the main essential for good newspaper work. After his graduation from the Western Re serve. he went to various cities of the country. and finally found himself on the staff of the Chicago Inter ocean. Sixteen years later he left this paper to write for the Chicago Record, which consolidated few years later with the Chicago Herald. the :. new paper receiving the name Record Herald" He has served the paper continuously ever since he left the Inter ocean. and gave it out yester day that he had life contract with the mana cement
 When asked what clements in his work had been most instrumental in bringing him success, he replied at length:
 "The first essential for a news paper man is accuracy. Four people. seeing tine same happening or inci- dent. would write four different ac counts of it. and none of the four might be correct. A good newspaper man would write the correct account.