New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-27

"We don't want 10 rush things, Said J. we SilPy
want to save time This roundabout way you have OF
going from Jim to John with letters Of introduction is
all bosh / can beat it to standstill, even here IN
London
$50 ahead, said he.
II was then two O'Clock | took a cab TO Capel
Court then entered the greatest private banking IN
stitution in the world and very cvily greeted by
the brilliantly livcried porter had figured out Just
how to handle this gentleman, and ! said, MI mas
sent me with a message to Lord RothschiId
Mind you didn't say was from the newspaper !
made the thing personal.
an take i'm your card, Sir, said the gentleman with
the fat calves In a few moments he returned.
His Lordship will see you, he said, and presently
ushered me into a vast room, in the middle OF which
was a very busnesslike mahogany desk Baron Nathan
Rothschild was seated there He a handsome man,
with pointed beard cut rather on the French order,
iron-gray hair and handsome eyes. He greeted me
cordially shaking hands
In half a dozen words told him what my newspaper
proprietor had sent 20 him for. When ne realized
that was a reporter he laughed heartily
@That's one on me- he said He then closed his
ewes stroked his beard with his hand and dictated
about column Of as good stuff on finance as anyone
would care to read He particularly went into a
comparison of the French and American characters,
claiming that. while the Americans were greater
money carriers than the French, they were nowhere
near so thrifty and that he thought that the habit
Of saving would have to be taught them as it had the
British.
used the same tactics to get a talk with the manager
Of Coutts' Bank and with Mr.. Burns Of j. p Morgan
& Co. The Postmaster General Immediately saw me
and gave me a very interesting talk on the SUBJECT
telling me particularly what the postal savings instlu
tons had done for England.
That evening about seven O'Clock drove back 70
the office with shcaf Of interviews and the CORE
IL, hot. tfr fprf mo
But he sent them along, and they made distinct hit
SO much for dircctness.
In the Postmaster Generals statement | took the
liberty of inserting the sentence "The government Of
the United States should be made the custodian Of the
savings Of the Masses and this sentence or its variant
ran in italics at the foot of every editorial tor some
months generally giving the Postmaster General credit
for tim afraid somewhat to that gentleman en-
barrassmcnt.
~Hang it," he said TO me one day when met him on
the Strand Pm quiet man and nothing but public
servant and YOU gone and made great orator OF me-
DUT there was one case where my much Wanted di-
- rcctncss failed me in England and curiously it was
in the case Of an American whom ! was sent to inter
view But thin; my failure was due more TO the fact
that my physical courage fell down at the last minute
rather than that my method was wrong.
story got aAoat in London about a curious man
named Bavard Brown. an American, who lived on his
Yacht at Brghtlingsea at the routh Of the Colne II
was said that he had lain there for five six years in
fact that his Yacht had been in the harbor down on
the coast of Essex for long that her bottom was COW
cred with barnades and sea grass. le foated the
American flag in the harbor so long that the British
government made him take it down; for by nterna
tiona law no foreigner float his flag in your harbor
more than so long. He used to pull up anchor about
every six months, out TO just beyond the
marine league limit then come back, drop anchor, and