| Show e N t i l t o i A 4 ORIGINAL i I ARTHUR ARTHURI BRISBANE DR Ty 1 I UNCONVENTIONAL IN i N I p IN THOUGHT TH 0 UGH T 1 eTh JOURNALIST O f EXPRESSION 1 i Intuition and perspicacity p were never more conspicuously shown or more morn completely by E subsequent nt events than when In the late Inte A Dana Dann made Arthur Brisbane managing editor of at the tho New Yolk Evening f Sun having been b n born In Buffalo In 1863 was only 24 years old He had hat been carefully educated abroad having studied live five years rears ears In France and Germany Ho was Wad awarded the first prize In French literature In the academy mid and returning to tho the United on hit hi twentieth birthday be bc began gan pan work ns as a a 1 reporter on The Tho Sun Bun lie He modestly ascribes his success ns ne a 1 reporter to tho the tutelage of ot Bogart the city editor and the night editor of at hla hia who he hi says taught him alt all he has ever over known about writing English J and observing facts This statement however may ma bo be taken with some Rome reserve ns nil but for tor the tha Innate Innot tal talent talent talent ent of ot the tho reporter himself the seeds sown by hy his mentor mentors would have borne no fruit At 22 Brisbane succeeded William Henry Hurlbut and T P OConnor ai nI London correspondent ent of ot The IM Sun In which capacity ho lie served ervell with distinction In an article written just jut ten years ago Harpers Weekly said Ills London letters signed A B lJ tire are brilliant full tull of ot news and young oung enough In their points point of ot view to bo be somewhat alarming to those thoa who look lo k on an queens and their ministers ns as from tram mortal m criticism He lie Is III clever aggressive original and takes few tew things thing seriously Mr lr Brisbane talks even butter bettor than he writes write and rides across country almost as al well ns an he talks There Th ro will be much more written about him a 11 few tew years from now note This time as nl before the editorial acumen was unerringly accurate for tor not only has haa much been written of Arthur Brisbane of late lato years yearn but what he himself has hilA written line has been read real with Interest nil alt over tho the United States The Tho Buns Juns London service It Is raid cost about a year salary of ot 75 a week did not pay his expenses end and he might have succeeded less well wall wollIn In getting news n WI hud had ho ha not had hlll private means to draw raw upon ul n But Dut the tact fact that th t ho he got Rot the tho news MOWS and that he made It Interesting won wen tho the admiration of at Mr rr Dana Pana who on his his return from I n land gave Kave him a dinner to which were Invited all nil the tho members of at The Tho Sun staff tarr Under management The Tho Evening Sun Increased Its Us circulation by dally and carrying out the Ideas of at W M Laffan Lattan who control controlled led tho rho paper under Danas supervision he strengthened the staff with the tho best writers organizing it much as It re remains rev mains today Among tho the men discovered dl by Brisbane who have since become famous for their work are aro Richard herding Harding Davis Dali S 8 Moody and Jacob nil motto seems to have been beon ad nd astro astra and perhaps per por aspera for difficulties do o not seem to count with him but at all nl events ho has some high particular star over ever In view Vl V Ho no gave up the tho London position be bet beIr t t J I I Ir t tI tl Ir r ia f r J A 11 Ar pI t r 1 j jt I Iw q w t 1 1 J rf t s sk f t Y II k 1 A At r I t I t f i t l if r j t r i ii ic i c I I f t tr t r 1 I p pt t 7 v 3 i i iI tj 1 It c tit I r 1 fit rt tilt N r rf f G of y r 1 r rI rp rt p I t 7 I ARTHUR BRISBANE eau cause u u limited In Its possibilities and he left leCt The Tho Sun after alter seven seven e i years cars service and when his salary WaR mo 1150 p per r o k t u he hi felt lie he had done all he ho could do within hit his hi environments Accepting u a 1 po pa position on The Tho World he worked for Cor I s proprietor seven een years ear He lie le was wa editor of or The Sunday World of at The Even Een Evening EvenIng ing World and of ot the tho Morning World always s Ing for tor the success ss of at his paper always original and Inventive making his fill felt In Inn n a masterly way wa When the Now ew York Journal was bought by W H R Hearst t and tho the gnat overturn followed by b which the entire editorial staff of or The Sunday World was transferred to The Journal Bris Brisbane bane was t placed eel In chaw charge char e of ot The Sunday Sunda World He lie was wal told by b Mr Pulitzer et that the circulation would doubtless suffer end and It Is no secret s ret that the situation was wall regarded as a critical Brisbane was all however at lit his hla best In Just lust such lIuch an emergency He lie literacy buckled to his hla work and under his management the circulation of ot The Sunday Sunda World Increased Ine copies cOllies per Issue In Iu tens IMS PilI than a year despite de the unprecedented un ree competition of at Mr paper Mr Brisbane has hOIl been b n editor of or The Evening Journal since Ince December rember D He lie has hns written the tho editorials of ot that paper ever over sine since he ho took charge and nud these editorials are now published simultaneously In Chicago and aud San Fran citrO They The have hc attracted widespread attention and are regarded as ns potent factors In circulation building Thou Thousands sands of oC renders readers take The livening Journal solely for tor the tho pleasure and anti profit to be 1 11 extracted from edito editorials rials great success SU I It la doubtless due to the fact that ho lie writes as lIB men ordinarily speak sp ak and deals with such subjects as men m n discuss among themselves It Is Ie his of ot diction and thought which has hall been found ac acv acceptable en even by b highly Intelligent readers But In this statement resides only half halt the truth While Mr diction Is II pure his Imagination brilliant his hll humor native and naive nahe and his command of oC language wonderful he states slates his premises and Ind propositions In the plainest form Corm In the writing of or an editorial fated to delight at the same time that It affords food toad for Cor reflection to thousands hr ht Is said Mid to occupy but a 1 few tew minutes In the dictation lie He Is la but putting on paper It should be remember remembered ed cd but a 11 small email portion of ot the knowledge gathered through long years enra of ot acute observation While the editorial are expressed In strong Idiomatic language well within the understanding under of at the common people yet et within their depths r resides the profundity of at wisdom It Is I because Arthur Brisbane has hili equipped himself at every oer point has studied deeply and digested thoroughly what hat he has ties studied and observed that he Is enabled to Interpret the most abstruse matters mAttera understandingly understanding Wh When hen n Brisbane ne first flashed across the journalistic heavens h aen some mistook him for tor a n meteor melcor me or doomed to bust t ex i but he has hns rather ther shown the lasting qualities of ot a fixed Axed star brighter at 01 some times than at al ther other times time but always bright To convey conn nn an Idea Iden of ot Mr terse terM diction and vigorous orous style with its suggestion of reserve force ample equipment and aid m mental menial grasp one of ot his hll recent editorials Is given hon II 11 ys jm H it i MW aw sad i s r pal l Ida to W tn tee I nm eesa I will Ill hay life flee n el t t ten n will rM repel It tilt the Wei du tnt fait U bt f t It li is I new ne and nd te le tk tit j tWi teI slid r ass tt l II It IV tk sat Mil line will eta tr the tx lot b IUt It II IL but reds It Th They r rIM IM Mil Mr uy N that 1 they Ie Wall tilt the Mi ids a t net t I li le I they will rat III V be 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