PAGE TWO THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1912. ill RISK Ml! IS 11 i iilflllSl Was a Holed Civil War Corre spondent - Succeeded Horace Greeley. WIIlTELAW RE ID, who died hi London on Dec. 10, be ruuii! the ambassador at the court of St. .1 nines in 1005, being named by President Roosevelt to succeed Joseph II. Clioute. lie had previously served three years in the diplomatic service as ambassador to France, 1SS0 to 1S!)'2. under President Harrison. Ho had tvrico been our spe cial representative at British cclebra tious. in 1SD7 at Queen Victoria's Jubi lee and again in 1002 at the coronation of Edward VII. Presidents Hnyes and Garfield had offered him the em bassy at Iierlin, but these offers he had refused to accept. It was only within the lat months of Ills tenure of olilee that u public utterance by him caused anything like n stir in this country. His address be fore the University 'College of Wales on Oct. 31 called attention to Inconsis tencies in Jefferson philosophy and career, and Representative A. Mitchell Palmer brought up the matter in the house of representatives, bitterly at tacking the ambassador for his re marks. Additional attention was at tracted to the speech by the fact that President Elect Wilson expressed ap proval of Mr. Palmer's position. But while members of the house were de manding that the ambassador be re proved he was already coufined to his room with what proved to be his last illness. All his life Mr. Held had been n thor oughgoing party man. His pubic life began before the civil war. when he made speeches for Fremont in 183G. He was then nineteen years old. hav ing been born in the little town of Xenia, O., in 1S37. At that age ho was already a great admirer of the New York Tribune and of Horace Greeley, with whom a few years later he was to be closely associated. After being put through a prepara tory course by bis uncle, the Rev. Hugh McMillan, a Scotch covenanter, who had settled in Ohio, young Reid enter ed Miami university. His family was not well to do, and as soon as the young man was graduated he became the principal of n school at South Charleston, O. no saved enough money in a few years to repay his father for a part of his college course and to buy a small paper in Xenia. Almost the first service of his Journal was to support the candidacy of Abra ham Lincoln. He met Lincoln soon afterward when the future president came into Ohio on a stumping tour. Reid gave up his own newspaper to become the Columbus correspondent for a journal In Cleveland and one in Cincinnati. He soon took the city edi torship of the Cincinnati Gazette and held it n short time, until the possibili ties of gathering the news of the civil war took him to the front. He went through the first Virginia campaign and attracted country wide attention by a ten column account of the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, which no other correspondent had seen. In 18G2 Mr. Reid went to Washington as the Gazette's correspondent. This proved to be a most Important step, for lie soon afterward met Mr. Greeley. The latter took a fancy to the young man and offered him the position of Washington correspondent of his pa per. Mr. Reid refused to leave the Gazette, but consented to do the work for Greeley In conjunction with his own. Joins the' Tribune Staff. When the war closed Mr. Reid was one of the first northern writers to make a tour of tho stricken southern states, and in this he had the com panionship of Salmon P. Chase. They made a wide study of the results of the war, and tills gave Mr. Reid material for his first book, which appeared soon afterward under the title "After the War A Southern Tour." Ho decided to try ids hand as a southern farmer and took three plantations In Missis sippi. The venture failed, and nfter making 11 soeoud attempt in Alabama Mr. Reid returned to Cincinnati and the Gazette as chief edlfSrial writer. Then Mr. Greeley's invitation to comq to New York was ronewed, and the young man accepted, displacing John Russell Young as managing editor. In 1S72 came the nomination of Greeley for the presidency. Tho Trib une was bound to support his candi dacy, and Mr. Reid. who had added to his reputation as a newspaper man by his remarkable handling of the news of the Franco-Prussian war, took the load In the campaign. The disastrous defeat of tho Greeley causo was a hard blow to the Tribune and its now man Beer. Broken in Bplrit, Mr. Greeley return ed to his duties, Samuel Sinclair, Mr. Greeley's partner In tho Tribune, was in financial straits, and ho offered the paper for sale to a syndicate of promi nent Republicans, who were to re habilitate it William Orton headed this group, who purposed to buy tho paper for $500,000 and put Schuyler Colfax In charge. Sinclair was to re nln nuhllahrr. hut tho other heads Republican Candidate For Vice President Ambassador to France and England. of departments were to retire. It seemed the end of SIh Rcid's connec tion with the Tribune; Hardly had the decision booh mado to sell the paper than the open charge was mado at Washington .that Colfax had been concerned In .bribery cases then before the government The news meant to all the Tribune stnff that Colfax would never head the pa per. The very night the news came Mr. Rold went to William Walter Phelps, got him out of bed and told him tho nltuatton. Phelps listened to tho story of Mr. Reid. who before be left receiv ed assurances that money would bo provided for buying a controlling In terest In the paper, and tho Tribune came Into Mr. Rcid's possession. Tho next few years were the most Important In Mr. Rcid's career. After tho defeat of Greeley he set out to make his paper again the recognized organ of his party. Ho wan thirty-five Hubert in iajgfjjvero widely circulated and were foltorod in 1609 by "Somo Consequences TojUfjo Last Treaty of Paris," WMhW'sttldy of the results of tho Spanish-American war. Tho sarao year ho publlslmd "Our New Duties," nn address on America's foreign rela tions, and In 11)00 "Our Now Inter ests" anil "Problems of Expansion." Ho wrote tho Introduction for tho cen tenary edition of Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" In MOM and was one of the speakers at thu English celebration of the centenary of Dickons' birth. In English history his best known study was his address on Edmund Burke. Mr. Rcid's Family. Mr. Hold's only daughter. Miss Joan Reid. was married In 1003 In tho Chap el Royal at St. James' palace to the Hon. John Hubert Ward, u brother or the Eorl of Dudley and equerry In waiting to the king. This Internation al event attracted an unusual amount of ntteutlon. The king and queen were there. Mr. Rold also leaves one son, Ogdoi; Mills Held, who was graduated at Yale In 1001 nnd recently took charge of the Tribune. In New York Mr. Rold belonged t the University. Century. Metropolitan. Union League and Republican clubs. For fourteen years he was the presi dent of the Lotus club, He belonged to the Ohio. New England nnd St. An drew's societies and the Amcrlcnn Geo graphical society. He was an honorary member of the chamber of commerce, an honor that has been rarely given. As n newspaper editor Mr. Reid made a prediction several years ago of the Journalism of the future. In part ho snld: "This, then, I conceive to bo tho next great revolution in journalism. We shall not have cheaper newspapers. Photo by American Press Association. RECENT PHOTOGRAPH OF THE LATE AMBASSADOR WHITELAW REED AND MRS. REID. when he faced this task, but his suc cess was swift. Within four years he had again raised tho Tribune to party leadership and had made it a paying property, no began the erection of tall buildings in New York in 1873, when he built a home for the Tribune. In 1881, when Mr. Reid married Miss Elizabeth Mills, daughter of D. Ogden Mills, be was already well to do, and thereafter he assumed n prominent place In New York social life. Three Years In Paris Post. For his generous support of tho Re publican party Mr. Reid was asked by Hayes and Garfield to take the diplo matic post In Berlin. He refused In both cases nnd devoted himself to his affairs in New York. But in 18S9, when President Harrison took office. Mr. Reid accepted tho ambassadorship to France. Hero he took a palace be longing to the Due do Grammont in tho Avenue noche, the rental of which was far beyond the salary this coun try allows Its foreign representatives. He returned to America to become tho nominee of his porty for tho vice presidency with Harrison ill 1802. After tho dofeat of the ticket he was out of public office until tho return of his party to power under McKinley. Then he was sent to Queen Victoria's Jubllco nnd King Edward's coronation and was also a member of the com mission tbnt negotiated tho peace with Spain. It was generally expected that Mr. Reld's torm nt London would come to nn ond with tho accession of President Taft in 1000. Mr. Taft had decided on Presldont Emeritus Charles W. Eliot of Harvard for tho post nnd went so far as to offer the post to Mr. Eliot at a conference in tho Whlto nouse. Mr. Eliot had Just given up his placo as tho head of Harvard university. With this turn In affairs Mr. Reid retained tho office. Mr. Reid had been before English peoplo principally by his occasional addresses. His "Two SDeechea at tho Queen's Jubilee," pub- They are tho cheapest things sold now considering the cost of making them. We shall not have continually growing supplement upon supplement of adver tisements. Individual wants will seek mediums more suitable Only general wants will need the wider publicity of great Journals, and tbeoo will bo kept by increasing cost within mnuogeable compass. "Wo shall not have more news. The world is ransacked for It now. Earth, sea and air carry news for us now from every capital, from bvcry people, from every continent from every is land. Wo shall not have bigger news papers. They aro bigger now than a busy peoplo can rend. Wo shall have better nowspapers the story better told, better brains employed in tho tell ing, briefer papers, papors dealing with the more important of current matters in such style and with such fascina tion that they will command tho wid est interest" Of Horace Grocley Mr. Reid wrote: "Most truo it ia that the foremost editorial writer of our times has had and is to have no successor. Horace Greoloy stood alone without a peer nnd without n rival not perhaps tho Ideal editor, but fairly Judged, tho ablest master of controversial English and the most successful popular edu cator the Journalism of the English speaking world has yet developed." WOLF, FOX AND BULL THERE. Alio Duck Take Part In This Brooklyn Wedding. Tho names of tho principals and guests at a Brooklyn wedding would have served as a fairly comprehensive catalogue of Noah's charges. There were Muss Birdlo Wolf, the bride: Rob ert For, the bridegroom; Miss Annlo Wolf, tho bride's attendant; Herman Wolf, tho best man, and among the guests wcro Mr. and Mm. John Bull, William Duck, Joseph Bauer and Miss Loretta Sweet The honeymoon was nnt nt Lvons. N. Y. $6,000 Farm for $4,500 If sold within a woek Ono of tho best farms In Wayno county, assessed at $6,000, will bo sold for ?4,G00. Farm contains 118 acres of land, 50 of which aro cloarod and balanco in pasture land, excopt ing 20 acres of good young growth of hickory. Ideal placo for dairy farm. Milk station two miles from placo. Good farm iioubo, two barns. On R. D. Route Telephone con nections. Locateu 111 Berlin town ship on main road 3 miles from Honesdalo. Remember this farm Is assessed at 16,000. If sold immediately wo will closo tho deal at $4,500. Iluy-U-A-IIomo Roaltr Co. Box 52 Jndwin Building Ilonesdalo, Pn. APPLICATION KOU CHARTER,. Notice Is hereby given that an ap plication will bo mado to the Gov ernor of Pennsylvania on Decombcr 30, 1912, at ton o'clock a. m. by Catholina Lambert, J. Wallace Lam bert and W. F. Suydam, Jr., under the Act of Assembly entitled an Act to provide for the Incorporation and regulation of certain corporations, approved April 29, 1874, and sup plements thereto for tho charter for an Intended corporation to be called "Realty 'Weaving and Spinning Com pany," tho character and object of which Is In manufacturing of all fab rics, using, therefore, wool, cotton, silk or any other vegetable, animal or mineral fiber of mixture thereof, silks, spinning, dyeing, printing and finishing, and for the purpose of any and all such raw materials as may be necessary for tho above mention ed purposesj also for the erection and maintenance of such buildings and dwellings as may be necessary In the above mentioned manufac ing business and for these purposes to have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges of the said Act of Assembly and supple ments thereto. SEARLE & SALMON, Solicitors. Honesdalo, Pa., Dec. 3, 1912. 96eol3. 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