New Britain herald., 1916-04-08
TWAS EVER THUS.
By Way Of Showing "How Soon They
 Arc Forgotten

time land marks of the profession are being left in the background, and the well known characters of a generation or so ago are either gone or forgot ten Because this is the day of inn personal journalism, when few names of newspaper writers appear in the journals there is not so much known of the younger generation. But the old timers were eVcrlastinglN at the front as long as their day held out, and readers in various parts Of the country knew them and held their favorites deeply cherished, In New England there were many men who achieved success in this undertaking, the compiling of news, and among them was one whose name was by word in every household not so many years ago. His death occurred last Tuesday in London and yet his passing is practically unnoticcd by the great papers of this country. Ihe Springfield Republican is one of the few who recall his achievements, and has the following to say about this old time correspondent:
 "'The death of George w. Smalley in London at the age of nearly S3 years recalls old days of journalism The l meant much to the readers of the New York Tribune is duly recorded in the news columns of that paper, but the compilation is by one who did not know MT. Smal1ey. We are told that he was born in Franklin county, Mass, of Old Colony stock on June s. 1S33.' His birthplace was in
 Franklin, Norfolk county, but the good old colony stock IS by the book. In former days, there would have been editorial tribute to this vet cran, but he had passed beyond the interest of present workers on the paper which Horace Greeley founded.
 MT. Smalley was perhaps the last survivor among the group of brilliant men who got a foOthold in newspaper work and made their regulations as correspondents during the Civil war. He was graduated from Yale in 1853. read law for a time in the office or George F. Hoar of Worcester, studied in the Harvard law school, and was admitted to the bar in 1856. Having gore south for his health just prior IT. 'ho outbreak ,f the war Mr. Smal- ley, who had been writing letters to the .\ew url> Tribune iliumiEative of slavery, was commissioned by that paper one of it's war correspondents when the break between the north and the south became a reality. He was at the front until late in 1862, when he was called to do editorial work in the office. In the carly cam l,aigns of the Shenandoah and the Potomac Correspondent SmalleN made his mark. His story of the battle of Antietam reached New York in ad vance of other accounts, and was brilliant piece of writing. The knOWl edge which Mr. SmalIeN had gained through direct contact with military operations served to increase his value as a member of the editorial staff.
 "In 1867 Mr. Smalley was sent to London to act as European c"rrc spondent of the Tribune. He wrote letters from the German hcaduuar- ter: during the Franco German war in 1870, and on occasions of unusual interest in Paris and Berlin he was on hand to portray them for the Trib une. For twenty-eight years MT. SInallcy remained the London corre- spondent of that paper. He became enAmored of everything English, and came to be dubbed by his critics the old tory suuire' so extreme was his conservatism in all things British. His relation with the Tribune finally ter minated when Whtclaw Reid was pralising Gladstone and his Irish home-ruIc policy and Mir. Smal1cy was firing hot shot into both. Mr. Reid hired an English liberal to conduct the Tribune's cable service from London, and this lead to MT. Smnllcy's retirement. In 1895 he was very fit tinely sent to New York as core spondent of the London Times. This arrangement continued until 1906, when MT. Smalley left journalism and went back to London to spend his declining days.
 "rhere ne was thoroughly It home. The atmosphere was to his liking and his residence was always a meeting place for interesting people Mir. Srnalley's wife, whom he married in 1862, was Miss Phoebe Garnaut of Boston, the adopted dau~hter of We ndell Phillips. She had the social gift and was of much help to her husband.
 MT. Smalley in 1890 collected many of his letters in two volumes en- titled London Letters,' in 1895 he published Studies of Men, and in 1911 and the next year his 'AnGlo- American Memories appeared. Mr. SnnalleY was fortunate in his contact with life on both sides of the Atlantic. iIe became an uncommOnly well in- formed and interesting man. but the scale of his liking swung to the Euro pcan side, and this made him less of an American than any of the men with whom he had made his start in life He had much breadth of ac- compliShmcnt and too little dcmoC- raCy."
 Tn his day he was a wonderful newspaper writer George w. Sn,alley. He lived when the game was in it's in fancy. His memory will finger for a