Evening star., 1914-12-27

want to save time. This roundabout way you have of
going from Jim John with letters of introduction is all
bosh can beat it to sandstill, here in London
go ahead!' said he.
1t was then two o'clock l took cab to Capel
Court then entered the greatest private banking in
stitution in the world, and very cvly greeted by
the brilliantly vered porter. l had figured out just
how to handle this gentleman and said, "Mr. James
Gordon Bennett has sent me with message to Lord
Rothschild'
Mind you, didn't say 1 from the paper l
made the thing personal and Immediately found that
James Gordon Bennett to conjure with.
"Tll take in your card Sir" said the man with the
fat calves.
wrote on nv personal card, From James Gordon
Bennett In a few moments the porter returned.
"IIs Lordship will you,' he said, and presently
ushered me into vast room in the middle OF which
was very busnesslike mahogany desk Baron Nathan
Rothschild was seated there. He handsome man,
with pointed beard cut rather the French order,
iron-gray hair, and handsome eyes, He greeted me
cordially shaking hands, and asked what Mr. Ben
nett wanted of him.
In half dozen words told him my business. Mr..
Bennett had started this twentydolar bond idea and
wanted to know what he thought of it.
He then closed his eyes, stroked his beard with his
hand, and dictated about column of good stuff
finance anyone would care to read. He particu-
larly into comparison of the French and Aneri-
can characters claiming that while the Americans
were greater money than the French, they
were nowhere 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 talk with the manager
of Coutts' Bank and with Mr.. Burns of ]. P. Morgan
& Co. found that the name of Bennett was one to
conjure with with the government; for the Post
master General Immediately and gave
very interesting talk the subject, telling particu
ary what the postal savings institutions had done for
England.
That evening about o'clock 1 drove back to
$50 of .~far o,I f,n
spondent could scarcely believe that they genuine
But he sent them along, and they made distinct hit
So much for directness.
In the Postmaster Generals statement 1 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 its variant
ran in italics the foot of every editorial for
months generally giving the Postmaster General credit
for tim afraid somewhat to that gentleman's
barrassment
@Hang it, he said day when l met him on the
Strand. "Im quiet and nothing but public
want, and you've gone and made great orator of me-.
PUT there was one case where my much Wanted di-
rectness failed me in England, and curiously it
in the of an American whom l was sent to inter-
view. But think my failure due to the fact
that my physical courage fell down at the last minute
rather than that my method was wrong.
story got af1oat in London about curious man
named Bayard Brown, American, who lived on his
yacht Brighngsea, at the mouth of the Colne. 1t
was said that he had lain there for five years; in
fact, that his yacht had been in the harbor down
the of Essex for long that her bottom
cred with barnacles and grass. He foated the
American flag in the harbor long that the British
government made him take it down. for by interna-
tiona law foreigner float his flag in your harbor
than SO long. He used to pull up anchor about
every six months, out to just beyond the
marine league limit then back, drop anchor and
raise the flag again. He had idea that if he got out
side of British jurisdiction some American ship would