The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-19
A KANSAN IN NEW YORK.
CHAPTER xxxIv.
The Wyandots.


The Wyandots. TE
The reader may wonder why , chap
ter is scheduled to be devoted to THE
Wyandot Indians" in connection with
the peregrinations of "A Kansan in
New York" Well, 1t is this way:
One morning few weeks ago at the
annual meeting of the Associated
Press in New York. Doh c. Seitz bust
ness manager of the New York World
motioned me to sit down beside him
have seen Mr.. Seitz at least once a
year for many years. He Is an inter-
esting man. well informed upon many
subjects. He has been IN the printing
and newspaper business all his life.
Born In Mare, learning his trade
on the papers up in that New England
country. when a young man he drifte1
| to the Brooklyn Eagle. for which he
was first Albany correspondent and
later city editor. This was abou,
twenty-nine years ago. Seitz Is now
about SIS years old.
Since going to Brooklyn. so far as I
know. he has been ever since contin
uously connected with New York daily
! newspapers, filling important execu-
tive positions in various departments.
He was assistant publisher of one pa
per. managing editor and later adver-
Using manager of another. Fer the
last twenty years he has been business
manager of the New York World, one
of the worlds greatest newspapers.
| Mr.. Seitz Is a man of wonderful ac-
! tivities, varied interests and inclina-
lions. He has written numerous books
on widely differing subjects. have
from him an exquisite autographed
copy of. his work on Japan relating
and recording his experiences while
travelling in that country. The book is
/ a fine specimen of printing from Har-
per Brothers press. tie illustrations
are dainty, exquisite and profuse. Ev
cry page is embellished with a sketch.
no two sketches alike. He is an ex-
pert in knowledge of paintings; has
written several books on the noted
artist Whistler. He writes poetry. col
value to the youth entering, and men
and women following. the newspaper
calling.
His talks before the American
Newspaper Publishers association on
topics assigned MIN a.e unique, full
of information and given with terse
episrammatic sentence. He delights
to ridicule the hypocrite and the par
'asite, especially the species. of the lat
for. lr In
the free publicity promoter"
One can never be lex to Seitz with
out learr ing something, as well as be-
ing entertained, so when he asked me
to sit beside him did SO and awaited
his opening, which was:
II have written a book on The
Wyandot Indians of your state of
Kansas and am now arranging for its
publication
THAT is interesting" said I, amazed
that the man knew anything at all
about the wyandot Indians and par
ticularly enough to write q book
about them.
This started the idea for this chap
ter, which was originally scheduled as
Chapter XIV to appear in the State
Journal Saturday. May rs; here it is
June 10 and the chap ter is number
XXxIV and is just now this morning
in preparation.
Since that first conversation in New
York with Mr.. Seitz I have been try
ing to get "a line" on his book, but
not word more than he told me that
morning. He said his connections
with the Wyandot Indians were in the
neighborhood of Upper Sandusky, O.,
where the Wyandots lived about three
quarters of century ago and where
there Is Wyandot lore, legend and
history. Seitz having lived at one time
in that part of Ohio
AS the last chapter of this work
"a Kansan in New York" is sched-
uled to appear day after tomorrow
and this is the last one that could be
devoted to topic Of this nature. 1.-THE
Wyandots" must be written I'D TODAY
or not at ALL
Mr.. Seitz has apparently not as yet
made arrangements satisfactory to
: himself with his publisher, which he
thought would possibly be the well
known New York book man, e. p
Dutton.
By all odds the best informed man
in the United States on the wyandoi
: Indian. and the correct spelling of the
l word is with one st" and no final "e.
f is W. E. Conneliey. the distinguished
$ secretary Of the Kansas State Histori
cal society.
: Connelley. tho a Kentuckian By
1 birth, with no Indian blood in his veins
! Is an adopted member of the wyan.
dot tribe of Indians. For many year.
S Connelley lived in wyandotte county
I one of the most important counties ir
: this state, lying at the mouth of tn.