Evening journal., 1912-09-18
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Famous Editors EffeC-
tive Street Cleaners"
BY Holland.

The late Theodore Sedgewick, who
was for many years one of the lead
ing lawyers of New York State and
who, in addition to his professional
reputation, gained some renown as
writer and especially as a critic, num-
bered among his most intimate
friends Henry J. Raymond, who, with
the late George Jones, founded the
New York Times, and who was the
editor of that paper from 1851 until
his death in 1869.
Raymond" said Mr.. Sedgewick,
when speaking Of the distinguished
editor a few years after his death,
when only forty-eight years old,
gained much greater political sue
cess than did his chief editorial rival
Horace Greeley, for Greeley had no
political success until he was nomi-
mated for the presidency by the Lib
eral Republican party in 1872.
"Mr Raymond was speaker Of the
New York Legislature. He was
member of Congress for one term.
He was Lieutenant Governor of New
York when "a years of age; and he
narrowly missed being elected to the
United States Senate In addition, he
was the chairman of the Republican
National Committee in 1864, and he
wrote his partys platform in that
year.
Raymond was always a most
earnest and steadfast supporter Of
President Lincoln and his admins
tration. He never wavered in that
support, as Horace Greeley some
times did For that reason Mr.. Ray
mond was especially obnoxious to
wnat was called the 'copperhead ele-
ment' in New York city during the
civil war. so-called because it was
thought they sympathized with the
South. Therefore, 1t was known that
the Times building and Mr.. Raymond
personally were in grievous danger at
the time of the draft riots in July,
1868.
For three days the city was in the
control of a mob. This mob had burn
ed orphan asylums. murdered negroes
and planned an attack upon the New
York Tribune office and the New York
Times building It was also known
that the mob purposed either kidnap-
ping or shooting Mr.. Raymond.
"On the morning Of the second day
of the draft riots I met Mr.. Raymond.
! was astonished to observe how per-
fectly cool he was. / asked him
what he was doing to protect himself
"Oh, l don't need any protection
he replied. The fact is, l am just
at this time preparing to experiment
with new and what ] think will be
a very successful street cleaning ap-
paratus.'
This remark surprised me some
what I knew that Mr.. Raymond was
not man who was led away by Chin
eras, for he had a much better prac-
tical business sense than Greeley did.
At the same time, I knew that there
had been a grievous complaint over
the inadequacy of the street cleaning
of New York and that various street
cleaning apparatus had been invented
and offered to the street cleaning au-
thorities.
"'AIy street cleaning apparatus is
all ready for a demonstration said
| Mr.. Raymond TO me. If you come
around to the Times building at about
| two o'clock I will show it to you
"I marveled at the GOODNESS and
nerve of the man who could talk in
this way when he must have known
| that the Times building was in danger
! OF AIIdfh anu HIS uMAl AAAN IN RNAA IL
Il went TO the Times building about
i two o'clock and found Mr.. Raymond
in his office.
You have come to see those street
cleaning machines that / am interest
ed in, said Mr. Raymond. Well, they
are all ready for a demonstration
"He piloted me down the stairs O
the building to the front which faced
City Hall Square There / saw three
rifed cannon with ammunition, an'
behind each cannon stood. three o
four artillerymeen.
These said Mr. Raymond, AR
the street cleaning machines of whicl
/ spoke to you. have no
the slightest doubt that they viii
serve even before being put int
operation to keep the square in from
OF this building clean
"And they did, were Mr. Sedge
wick's concluding words.
Copyright, 1912, by f. ]. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
Tomorrow Mr. Edwards will tell o
~The Two Unexpected offers Tha
Relieved Horace Greeley of Financia