The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-28
SENATOR NEW MADE FIRST REPUTATION
 AS NEWSPAPER MAN
Was Largely Responsible for Development of Remarka- bIe Literary Colony
 In Indiana
Fly HARRY WILSON WALKER


 Washington, May 27.--(speclal.)-- The fame achieved by Harry s. New of Indiana as politician and United States senator appears to have eclipsed his earlier reputation as an editor and writer, but 1t is said by his friends that Senator New not only was an art ist with the pen--as he stillsls today, but that the development of the great literary coterie for which the Hoosier state is famous was due largely to his encouragement to young and ambitious authors.
 When MT. New was a young man, the Indianapolis Journal, now the Star, was owned by his father, John c. New, and the present senator was one of It's editorial managers. The Journal at that time made a. specially. of it's liter ary edition, published on Saturdays, and this was the pride of the heart of Harry S. New. In conjunction with Miss Anne Nicholas, who still remains literary editor for the Star, MT. New lavished his best thought and energy upon the literary features of the pa pe-, and 1t became a receptacle sor the efforts of all the young authors of the day.
 Charles Major. whose When Knight hood Was in Flower" was one of the earlier Indiana successes, was regu> lar contributor to the columns of the Indianapolis Journal. General Lew Wallace, author of Ben Hur,'' ire. quently wrote for 1t. Another con tributor of much local note, although not so well known nationally, was Benjamin F. Parker, whose poetic Of ferirgs were highly esteemed. Proba- bly, the most outstanding product, if he may be so called, of the Journals literary mill was James Whitcomb Ri- ley, whose verses are known wherever the English language is read. Still an- other contributor whose name might surprise the readers of today, was Ste phen B. Elkins, later United States senator from West Virginia, who was a man of fine literary attainments and possessed one of the best private H. braries in Washington.
 New As Managing Editor
 Elijah Halford was managing editor of the Journal when he was appointed private secretary. to President Benja- min Harrison New had been city edi- tor, and under his regime the Journal actually became recruiting office for the great metropolitan newspapers Of Cn.cdSO. It was said or any neWSpa- per man going to Chicago for a jo/ that if he worked for Harry New in Indianapolis and won his approval, he was sure to get one. Another contrib utor to the old Journal was Brock Morton, son of the celebrated Oliver P Morton, who wrote more or less regu> larly for the paper and afterward wen, to Chicago to assume the editorship of the Dial.
 - Brock Morton was probably the closest personal friend Col. Edward M. House had in the world. as he would readily testify. MT. New at that time was one of the handsomest of young men and something of an athlete. and he was great social rival of Billy English, son of William II. English, who ran on the ticket with Hancock aga Garfield in 1880. The elder English built in Indianapolis what was then one of the finest theatres in the west, and his for a long time was known in the profession as the best two-night stand in the United States. Billy English, like Senator New, saw staff service in the war with Spain.
 Speaking of Oliver P. Morton, David Graham Phillips used to tell the story that once when Morton was receiving the crowd after he had made politi- cal address he placed his hand on the head of a tow-headed youngster and