The daily Alaskan., 1913-12-11
WHY WOMAN WON
She Made Up Her Mind to Get That News, and She Got Ii.
A FINE FIX FOR A PRESIDENT.

Interviews, Trioked John Quincy
 Adams and 5adgsrsd Him Into Civ
 ing Up the information She Wanted.
 In clearing the ground for some i'm. provements in Potomac park in Wash, ington the contractor some time ago removed a stone that for nearly cen tury was a quaint landmark in the na. tional capital It is called the Anne ROyall stone" and lay on the bank of the river just opposite the White House. about twenty feet back from the waters edge, at the top of a grass covered knoll.
 It was on this stone that Anne Roy all sat when she hNd her famous inter- view with President John Quincy Ad- amS-at least so runs the story that has been handed down for three gen. eratiOus by the inhabitants of Wash iugtUu
 And, according to that story, 1t would appear that the good lady for whom the stone WAS named was not only person of energy, but was endowed with considerable grim determination as well She evidently had a good strong will of her own and an active mind of her own. and when these two started to work in concert in deadly earnest results were bound to follow. Whether the good lady's sense of hu- nor was rranpPd or extensive the reader must determine for himself.
 Anne RUyuI wuS in sort the mother of mndern journalism She was the originator of the interview" She first. in the rttIp sheet that she published in Washington in the second and third dprudrs of the list century. departed from the dry forms that had always characterized newspapers.
 She did not cOntine herself to a mere summary of current happenings. even sRiccd with careful essays on abstract subiertS. after the manner of Steele or Addison She struck firmly the "per- sonnl note" She wrote and printed things about public men as they were in their daily }ives-an innovation the startling effect of which we cannot re. aIZe today. Her paper was called the Washington Paul Pry and afterward the HuDtress.
 During the administration of John Quincy Adams congress passed a cer- tain bill, the signing or veto of which by the president was matter of in. tense public interest. In those days the interview of the president by newspaper man was unheard of, and no one had the temerlty to ask MT. Adams what be would do in the matter.
 But there was one exception among the timOrous journalists ot that day. It was Anne Royall. She dared to ap- ply at the White House for a confer ence with the president. the avowed object of which was to learn from him his intentions concerning the bill.
 Poor Anne, however, was kept at a discUuraginS distance Day after day she waylaid the president, only to be foiIed by his attendants. But she did not grow discouraged She learned that every morning, Immediately after rising. the president walked to the bank of the Potomac, some half a mile in the rear of the White House, and there, after taking of his clothes, plunged into the stream for a swim.
 One morning when the president. after swimming far out into the stream, turned to make his way back toward the shore he was astonished to see, sitting upon bis clothing. which he had left upon a stone on the bank. spec tacled female with a look of great de- termination. It was Anne Royal, and beside her were a pen and bottle of ink. and in her hand was a sheet of paper.
 Woman, departT' sputtered the president as be swan up into the shall lows where be could touch the bottom a-tptOe.
 You know who l am, Mir. Presi- dent" said the woman. "and you know what l want. I'm going to sit here until you tell me what you intend dO- ing with that Cherokee Indian bill"
 "Go away, womanP shouted the president. This is scandalOusW
 Its scandalOus," Anne is reported to have said, that the people of free country have to resort to such extreme measures to find out what their serV- ants are going to do. You give me the Information that am entitled to; then IlI give you your clothes. Otherwise I'll stay here-and you'll stay there|
 There was only one outcome to such Ia struggle. The shlVering president told Anne what be expected to do and why he would do 1t. Then, and not until then, did Anne, armed with copi- Ous notes, rise from the stone that she had made famous and hasten to her little printing office. where she lost DO time in getting that first and most famous presidential interview into print-Youth's Companion.