New-York tribune., 1921-08-07

oieS "oo1o oe popusheo. Durlng the day
message came from Frohman. It rs,i
Great pictures-use them" We did.
THE Sunday editor Of Chicago newspans.
once sent man to st. Paul for ths -.
purpose of propounding to the late Jams.
Hill, then president Of the Great Nortbns
Railway, one short question. Whatever y.
Colossus might reply would be a good stnr
he declared. It was one Of those 'hunche a,
signments. The reporter was to ask Mr.. Hin
what he considered to be 'the essentials 10 su,
cess"
Mr.. Hill could not be reached at his Thss
Street Offices. Secretaries barred the yay
They said the question was TOO general anywsv
and that the president couldn't be bother
with an academic problem. In this dilemus
the visiting scribe sought local editor and Or.
tained wisdom.
Those familiar with the magnates DALI
routine knew that he 1unched every day when
in St. Paul at the Minnesota Club, an exclusive
organization Of big business Representative,
with leaven Of doctors, lawyers and ether
professional dignitaries.
Precisely at noon each day Mr.. Hill aud
Henry P. Upham, banker, walked together Up
Fourth Street to the club. Usually Mr. Bill
would be talking and gesticulating and Mr.
Upham listening. Everybody listened attsn.
lively when Mr.. Hill talked. Nearly always
the Great Northern's president held his nose
glasses in his right hand, gesticulating With
them to emphasize his points It was char.
acteristic gesture.
One day, after a nervous wait, the Chicago
reporter rushed from concealment behind The
club grill as Hill and Upham came near. Con.
fronting Mr.. Hill with eager determination
the young man, who looked like an anarchist
and almost was, shouted his message:,
"Mr. Hill, quick! What are the elements
essential to success. My paper wants to know"
The astonished magnate surveyed his que
TONER moment, wagged the nose glasses fun
ously, and then, with dehberation, replied:
"The principal elements Of success, my boy
are Determination and Good Luck"
"Fine!" exulted the scribe, backing away
~That's great, sir-worth page"
He was on his way at top speed when de
great man recalled him.
"Also," continued Mr.. Hill, with final wave
Of the gold-rimmed pine nez, "you may tel
your editor that I said you had all you re
quired Of both elements"
THE late John Ireland, Archbishop OF s.
Paul, once honored me with request to call az
the archiepiscopal residence. I had returned
from Canton, Minn where, amid deep snow
drifts, at the terminus of a narrow-gauge rail-
way, fifteen hundred men, women and chi
dren, suffering from all manner Of ills lingerea
to pray before a supposed supernatural ap
pearance of the Virgin in the gable window O.
a country church. The Archbishop desired H.
formation with regard to housing conditions Of
Canton.
According to daily newspaper reports numef
GUS miraculous cures had taken place. Inc
little frame church was Uttered with crutcnes
mechanical devices for correction Of spinal GUY
vature, steel braces from the legs of crlpple'
children. Each of these relics was said TO rep
resent cure. So great was the daily influx o.
invalids that there was danger of deaths ITO"
exposure.
The Canton exodus was accorded columns u
space daily by metropolitan newspapers. FIVE
Chicago staff men besides myself were assignee
to the story. New York had several there ais"
/ described conditions to his Grace and Wa
about to depart when it occurred to me 10 u
quire the Church's attitude with regard y
modern miracles. The Archbishop smie'
rubbed his long white hands together charas
teristically, deliberated briefly and answefsu'
"The position of the Roman Catholic Churra
upon the subject of modern miracles Is tna'
such miracles may be performed, but, prlor'
l do not see why Canton should be selected q
the scene of special grace
o.
John L. Sullivan was once sought ont az as
request of famous newspaper editor y y
discover if it were true that he planned to5'
ing temperance lecturer. Sullivan said u W.,
true. Whisky was a curse, and he intenas'
going on the platform to prove it. ,A
"Ask your own wife," said Sullivan. 90
her if she don't think whisky ought to be o'4'
off the earth.'
"Mr. Sullivan" deprecated the reporter ~
: lady's from Cork
Eye don't say now," chuckled John. "a,s
down the addriss an III sind her posht csrp,
The postcard was only received oOs,.. q.
of Kinahan's LII Irish, and written acress s.
label, in Johns own Grabbed hand, his fa'n1'
slogan Yours truly, john L. Salliyaa