Connecticut western news., 1913-06-26
WILY WOMAN WON
She Made Up Her Mind to Get That News, and She Got 1t.
A FINE FIX FOR A PRESIDENT.

Anne Royali, the Mother of Ns~spapsr
 Interviews, Trieked John Quincy
 Ada~ns and Badpered 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 stone that for nearly a cen tury was a quaint landmark in the na- uonal capital. IL is called the Anne Royail 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 grass covered knoll.
 It was on this stone that Anne Roy all sat when she had her famous inter view with President John Quincy Ad- ams--at least. so runs the story that has been handed down for three gen. erations by the inhabitants of Wash ington.
 And. according to that story. it 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 cramped or extensive the reader must determine for himself.
 Anne Royall was in sort the mother of modern Journalism She was the originator of the interview" She Hrst. in the little sheet that she published in Washington in the second and third decades of the last century, departed from the dry forms that had always characterized newspapers
 She did not confine herself to a mere summary of current happenings. even spiced with careful essays ou abstract subjects, after the manner of Steele or Addison. She struck firmly the per sonal note" She wrote and printed things about public men as they were in their daily iives-an innovation the startling effect of which we cannot re- alize today. Her paper was called the Washington Paul Pry and afterward the Huntress
 During the administration of John Quincy Adams congress passed cer- tain bill. the signing or veto of which by the president was matter of in- tense pubic interest In those days the interview Of the president by a newspaper man was unheard of, and DO one had the temerity to ask Mir Adams what he would do in the matter
 But there was one exception among the tmOrous journalists of that day. 1t was Anne Royall. She dared to ap- 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 discouraging distance. Day after day she waylaid the president. only to be foiled 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 mile in the rear of the White House, and there, after taking off his clothes. plunged into the stream for q swim
 One morning when the president. after swimming far out into the stream. turned to make his way back toward the shore be was astonished to see. sitting upon his clothing. which he had left upon stone on the bank. spec tacled female with look of great de- termination. It was Anne Royall, and beside her were a pen and bottle of ink. and in her hand was a sheet of paper.
 Woman, departr' sputtered the president as be swan up into the shai- lows where be could touch the bottom a-tiptoe.
 You know who am. Mir. Presi- dent" said the woman, "and yon know what want Pm 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 scandalousr'
 Its scaDdalous," Anne is reported eO hd w cdA0s AhaL bbC PVOpIC VI d IT ACC 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 I'll give you your clothes. Otherwise I'll stay here-and you'll stay therel" There was only one outcome to such struggle. The shivering president told Anne what he expected to do and why he would do it. 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 no time in getting that first and most famous presidential interview into print Youths Companion.
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