Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-10-23
meet Mr.. Herbert Corey'', Herald's
Special Correspondent i'm Europe's
War; Is But Recent Literary Find

H,Sny thlnSS. But IT remains for Her.
bert Corey to have the most unique
the only person in the United States
who signs his name to what he
writes who isn't in who's Who in
America"
1t may be that Corey's laurels have
been won so recently that the editor
of Who's Who" hasn't heard Of him
yet. Three years ago Corey was
paper men and the readers Of the
Cincinnati Ttrises- Star. & al the New
yYorls correspondent of es.fhat--paper
who wrote d Particularly BREEZY let
ter every day His letters we're go
good that-they attracted the atten-
tion Of the Associated Newspapers
and Corey was engaged to write for
them. Now he gets his name in capi.
tai letters over a column or more Of
story every day in the Star and thirty
or forty other newspapers all over
the country.
Now War Correspondent.
When he went to work for the AS
ISOLATED Newspapers they had him do
something besides write anecdotes.
He interviewed bank presidents,
statesmen. politicians, suffragists and
ditch diggers. He reported big con-
ventions, wrote a fiction story now
known for his light and breezy way
Of telling things as Sam Blythe.
He went to Europe when the war
began with a commission to prowl
around wherever he could and write
whatever he saw fit. His letters have
been appearing almost daily in the
Star.
Corey is a reporter. He can see hu-
man interest in a. story where
chemist couldn't find trace. He can
take an incident that the ordinary
person would hardly notice and make
a column story out of it that clergy
men will read from pulpits The 9TH
er morning in the Star he wrote
about conversation he had had with
Herbert Corey's narrative Of a COM
monsoldier there was better picture
Of the fierceness of the fighting dur
ing the allied retreat on Paris than
In all the other reams written about
1t. Last Tuesday he introduced his
readers to Lance Corporal Igoe of the
Hussars. who was home waiting for
war q personal matter and one sens
ed. through him. just what It means
to be in a modern battle.
Corey and the Piece of Beef.
, The stories told about. Herbert Co
rey are almost as numerous as the
ones he has written. One is about the
time he decided to remodel the gem
to that time he had been, SO to speak.
warehouse of generous proportions
He aspired to cathedral effect, and
began reducing. .r'
In. the course Of events he met a
friend who was long and lean and
rather weak looking, and proposed to
the friend that they take walk. The
nkN 4
gayly of. explaining how the nation
was going to the Hail Columbia bow
vows because Of overeating He inn
pressed upon his friend that he had
at home q nice piece Of roast beef.
And after this nice walk" Corey
added. I'm going home, cut off a
slice Of it. eat 1t and be satisfied"
then on some more. Finally they
passed suburban train station. The
train was coming in.
DO you see that train ?" inquired
Corey. well, I'm going to. get on 1t,
ride home. grab that piece Of beer
and crawl under the bed with it,
j. There isn't thing on record to
smokes. whether he has a favorite
dish or like red neckties but he does
favor soft hats, wouldn't think it a
hardship at all to stay up all night
and walk twenty miles to SEQ q good
prize fight, dislikes everything la,el-
ed politics, and has 80 many friends
in New York that it takes him hall
day to walk two blocks downtown.
There isn't very much known about
the how. the why. the when, and the
whore Of Herbert Corey. Not that he
objects to people knowing about him:
but no one seems to have taken the
trouble to- look him, up. He. admits
to being about forty-fve years Of age
and also to being born in Toledo.
that Wayered between preaching and
innkeeping..'..
Into the Newspaper Game.
Thirty years ago he went to Colo
rado in, search OF adventure. He got
It ~ q cowboy, stage driver ana sheep
herder in turn. Then he. became
bartender. whore no one every order.