The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-18

Of the Prayer Book; and no one really
knows how many other feats are to be
placed to his account. nor, to vary the
inventory Of his exploits a little. just
how many times he delighted himself
and his comrades by his ability to cook
"A good meat pie in a tin wash basin
when on the firing line.
He had some difficulty inducing his
lHamiy to permit him to leave the home
in Glasgow for the States. His father
was a master mechanic, and the devices
which the adventurous youth carried
across the ocean we're his fathers in
ventions.
Concerning Charles Carleton Collins
famous ride from Gettysburg the
author says that nearly every epi-
sodc OF that historic conflict was
observed by this veteran correspon-
dent. Several times he was under
fire. on the third day Of the battle
he watched PiCkett's famous charge.
and as the Southern commander retired
he rode into the wheat field and made
notes of the carnage whose tokens he
found there The battle over, II was
his duty to get the news to Boston with
the utmost speed. The army telegraph
could not be used. and the nearest rail-
eight miles away. whence a freight
train was due to leave in the
early evening. Rain was falling heav-
| fly as he started from the field. White
law Reid was his companion. Covered
with mud and drenChed to the skin,
| they rode into Westminster five min
utes before train time. having made
| the distance under difficult conditions in
| two and half hours. Carleton" man
| aged to have his horse cared for. spread
| his blanket over the boiler of the loco
motive to dry and stretched out on tho
| floor Of a humping car. From Balt-
more next morning he could get barely
half column through to the Journal,
but he sent "A despatch To Washington
| which proved to he one of the first au-
| thentiC messages received by the Presi-
dent and the Cabinet. The special took
the first train for New York and thence
hurried on to Boston, wiring ahead that
, the biggest story of the war thus far
was on the way to the office. As he
reached the journal building he found
Newspaper Row packed with people
clamoring for news. lie was smuggled
into the building and locked into a
room, where he saw no one but the mea
handling his copy" and wrote steadily
until the paper went to press As the
last sheet was delivered he threw hr-
self upon "a pile OF newspapers in &
corner and instantly rell INTO the sleep
Of utter exhaustion. At his home In
the suburbs OF Boston during the one
day which he allowed himself for rest
the popular correspondent was Cheered
and serenaded by Thousands and he had
20 repeat his story OF Gettysburg ynti:
he started back to Maryland and the
trail of the army OF Lee. In all, he
travelled to make this score for his
paper nearly a thousand miles, about
ne-sixth Of which was done on horse
! back
= Mention has been made Of Whitela~
r Reid as the fellow rider Of Charles
t Carleton Coffin from Gettysburg The
} late Ambassador TO the Court OF st
James's had career as a working Jour
: nalist which was OF the first importance
t in the development OF the American
/ newspaper, coming to the control of the
I New York Tribune after an apprentice
0 ship as IA country editor, a war special
= Washington correspondent and an
9 editorial writer.