Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 27, 1891, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba daily free Wiuff Lefi feb. 27 some reminiscences Ameri Ca s famous humorist. life in London town. Jar. Anil Converse recall their experiences Atli Tho genial mirth pro a cubby Tho Amer Way to secure a Browne s clock. Copyrighted by the american pros aus oblation 3 sue also loved s jellies. After her return to Boston one autumn she received by express a Long strongly built Queerly shaped Box Oak. When opened it was found to contain Tho coveted clock and in every about the timepiece were stuffed cans preserves porno which had broken in transit. The recipient was course delighted Imd Ogi in meet ing mrs. Browne Hattid you must at least allow Ino to pay you for that splendid packing Box. How much did it Cost you to have it land s Sakcs no responded mrs. Browne. You Sha n t give me a red cent. That Box did t Cost no Thiu. It s the Case they sent Nephew Era s body Home in after to was killed in the lumber at Tho beginning i mentioned the in Dian room the Converse residence. This is an apartment probably without n fellow in America. It is gorgeous with displays in Silver skins cloth and shells Tho Handiwork Tho six nations. Of that once powerful federation Verso is an adopted daughter and an unfailing Friend. Feed c. Dayton. Artemus Ward s materials. One evening not Long ago i set in Tho Indian room . Frank b. Converse s cosy new York Homo and listened for an hour while my Host and his i Ted wife Harriet Maxwell Converse entertained me reminiscences their famous Cousin can rfcs 1 array Browne better known to the world a Artemus word. To were married in remarked . Converse and left America what May he called an unlimited wedding Jour to wandered through Europe and to Orient for live year and Didu t turn our faces homeward until the Early fall 18c6. Then while stopping at Tho Lang Ham in London i Learned that Art coms was in town. I bunted him up and Horo turned with me to Tho hotel. His Faeo was bin his eyes abnormally Bright and his spirits somewhat depressed. He had just contributed his first article to punch. It did t suit him. In fact he regarded it with scorn and referred to it As infernal gibberish thus weighted Down with the tines he greeted mrs. Converse and after formal Welcome Hud been exchanged exploded Harriet How Nice your hair looks i never can get mine to suit. Indeed Noth ing to curls except this blamed big Noso mine. All the rest is angles then he went to us Burden his soul various grievances. The chief these was his inability to secure i suitable Hall in which to deliver his lectures. Finally he brightened Tho quaint Anil lovable fashion that so endeared him to his friends and suggested a visit to Tho theatre. Well get you a Rico sent he urged Aud then i want Frank to Loal around among Tho gods with to. Perhaps lean pick up n few hero is mrs. Converse s version what followed Tho boys saw to comfortably placed in one the still s and then left. 1 grew interest cd us Tho play progressed and j bad for Sotteau Thorn for a moment when Alt at once Tho House was tilled with n Sharp penetrating uproarious laugh. It came from Tho top gallery and looking up i saw Artemus and my Hus bawl surrounded by an amused and sympathetic crowd people Whoso attention had been distracted from Tho Stogo by the funny i h american s stories. Quiet succeeded i but Rietl Iho Tiv Tui wont Uovino one appealed to escort Ino Home. I wont to the front Tho theatre and there found Frank trying to reason with his Cousin. Artemus Wasiuk one Tho wildest his Frankish Humours Aud was engaged in disseminating information to a Cabman Tho results the civil War and Tho Outlook for recon traction in Tho Southern states. It that Trio boys had left the Guilory and were coming in from Tho Street to take charge to when they Woro greeted with the query Kab Artemis stopped and Here s a Clynce to do missionary work.1 then turning to Tho Driver to continued no sir i Don t wish a Keb but i desire u Kerman. Whit is your charge per two and six anywhere in Tho City sir Here s your two and six and a shilling extra for a tip. Now i want you to stand there look me in the Eye and receive la regarding perilous state att sirs now pie Aulont in the great Republic and some wit Whoso intellect had worked forty fifty years in such a limited sphere that within limits it tin naturally acute. There was no Contact m Ith the world to Brush Oil their eccentricity. It wis accentuated by time. Then there Wei ill Tho Odd and ludicrous experiences the Woods and the Rivers the bayous Anu swamps and Tho struggle with ogre creditors and paddlers. In Short these men were often extremely funny without knowing it. Tho Man with a keen sense Enmor and coming from an older Mora settled Community saw it at in California and Ward in the Central West. With Trio instinct Genius they seized upon this Rich material and much that which seems so droll so keenly ridiculous Quartermus Ward is after All but n slight touching up an artistic condensation Tho actual talk the homely humorist unconscious satirist the secluded v Llano the to s in Tho West. Tho following letter Artemus Ward recently brought to Light shows Tho sources his charac ters especially the reference to his two years peripatetic life in the West Watuis Foid me., june my Dah is really nothing very remarkable in my history. I was born in this quiet Little town about Twenty eight ago. My father died when 1 was 13 years old and at Tho age 13 i entered a printing office at Lancaster n. H. My father was a magistrate and lumber a Clear headed and thoroughly honest Man so competent in his business As to to consulted All kinds Law questions und so honest that he in variably Hud his hands full business involving Large sums Money. I fear he was a Little too honest for to died poor after All. I ran from the office at Lancaster and entered i similar establishment it Norway rats state. This establishment failed and i roamed through the state setting Typo n Short time in one place and quietly running away to another. Run Ning away appears to have been my chief weakness at that time. I finally landed in Boston and worked at my Trail until 1 was declared a tolerably Good Printer. I then we it West and South and for two years led a peripatetic kind life. I commenced writing for a Pune in Oledo o., about ten years ago. I succeeded As a paragraph St Well enough to achieve a very Good local reputation and moved to Cleve land and took charge the Plain dealer newspaper. I hero commenced the Artemus Ward papers. Tho selection that com de plume purely accidental. I wrote the first Ward sketch a purely local subject r. supposing i should Ever write another. Somehow Tho name Ward entered my head and i used it. Five years ago i moved to new York and assumed the editorial con duct vanity fair succeeding Charles g. Leland. For Tho past four years i have lectured almost constantly and with a Success that is perhaps unequal de consid ering what a startling innovation i have made a Long established institution. My writings and lecturing have Given me a competency. I have a Liberal offer to go to England this fall a lecturing tour Natl i May accept. I am writing now a Book travels giving my experience among the mormons. I live in new York City although i spend a portion my Summers hero with my Mother. That is about All. I have Only drifted with the current which has carried Megally its own Mccoul. As i am Frank enough to say this i Hope i have a right to Tay that i have Al ways meant the creatures my burlesque should Stab error arid give right a Friendly push. You Are at Liberty to use these facts although my letter is necessarily written in a great hurry for i am very Busy. I no popularly supposed to be rus Tica Ting hero Bat it is a ghastly mockery. Isim working hard. The sketch in Leslie was please try written by my Friend Frank Wood Wao died just i i we All were predicting a Brilliant future for him. I thank you for your Friendly letter and kindly intention and am faithfully yours Charles f. Browne Artemis there hns a lays been a mystery about Artemus Ward s Money. To returned from his Utah and California tour with and paid but for his farm he received it least Sis 000 More in the Short interval before his do yet his executors found barely enough in England to pay the claims against i a there and still less in America. Yet in will indicates that he believed himself n i. It had somehow slipped away without 1 b knowing converso sat silent for a moment men continued let me Tell you a Conj Browne s Mother. Tho Sou Svca in Maine and nearly had for Guesta n family Nurmi real a huge old fashioned Hall i for years. Let alone. For Many Yenart. Post everything Pisca trial hns Hud i Witik Walton attached to it in some Way and to Are now glad to record the fact that be knew Little nothing about the habits fish never caught half to Many is lots other fishermen and was too Lazy to dig his own bait. Lay him Wuy with free Tuou Good a richly dressed lady with an lbs but minded look was in a fourth Avn to car a few nights ago. Who ii she left the car sue turned at Trio doorway and with a dig i bed Bow Caid i wish Yon ail a very plea int evening 1 and several passengers towed York letter. Familiarity Breeds contempt. Old Patron at the Here annal you Are paying no attention whatever to me. I have been waiting three quarters an hour without anybody serving to. Sir you Are an old Patron the place and have so Many reminiscences Good dishes that 1 ought to serve Tho strangers Blatter. Hudson buy railway. Or. Campbell s views in his own words. It could not be More than an even competing electors Winnipeg read for yourselves . Campbell s words i March 2nd, 1889, the Hudson Bay railway question being up in the legislature . Isaac Campbell made a lengthy speech. From that speech As published in the paper always Friendly to him the following extracts Are made the h. B. A would be a competing line bub not to much More that to would have to it extra privileges. Then consider the Road As a competing line. The distance from Liverpool to Montreal was Miles from Liverpool to Nelson 2.96c Miles 132 Miles in Montreal but 100 Miles an Ocean voyage amounted to nothing. Consider next the routes from Winnipeg to Montreal and from Winnipeg to Nelson. From Winnipeg to fort William a 427 488 Miles to Nelson it in from g70 to 700 Milea to Churchill rather More Between 700 Ani 76? Milcb--300 Miles in Tuitoga and 400 Milea Eui hide. That would be 260 Miles farther to Nelson than to fort Milliun. To fort William the Cost hauling Grain from Winnipeg a 12 cents per Bushel. Add the probable coat three fifths greater would be cents for the so Miles extra. But the speaker said he won Nob going to add 74 cents. Long hauls were always less than Short hauls. Instead the he would say that to Hudson the extra charge would be 4 cents More. Then there was Nelson against fort William with 4 cents in favor the latter. When at fort William the wheat was still to go to Montreal at a Cost from 8 to so cents per Bushel during the summer season. Six and a half was the computation tha coat part last Trammer. These were shippers figures. So that 7j cents might be counted As the Normal Ratu from fort William to Montreal. Via the East and West line it Cost 4 cents less to deliver wheat at port Arthur than at Hudson s Bay via the h. B. R against that 4 cents was the extra 7i cents a Good average the expense the haul from port Arthur to Montreal. 16 was perfectly Plain that if a dealer had Bua hols wheat the Way to Montreal the same amount would average from 2 to 3 cents better to England if leaving this province for direct shipment. The doubt us to the navigability the Strait would Romako a difference in insurance. In the summer by the lakes Tho rate was half a cent per Bushel in november a cent and three fourths. There was also the consideration Competition. There were a class steamers known As Ocean trainee that come in and compete against the regular lines steamers. If they could not make a car Fryer tit Boston new York then they could come along the coast to Home other places. These Ocean tramps1 Cut rate to Little nothing some times. It would be a Long time Tho speaker thought before the Ocean tramps would go to Hudson Bay. Of co Rae it was proposed to establish a regular line steamers in connection with the railway bub there would be no Competition. Instances were Given times when via Tho East and route wheat was carried for ballast and paid for by ship owners. By the calculation made Between the rail route to Montreal and the h. B. The speaker found that it would be about As cheap transportation one Way As Tho other. The h. B. R., no matter if the season is what Lieut. Gordon said it was Only four months would be outlet for the Northwest territories bub in could not to More than an even competing Lino to the province Manitoba As com pared with the East and Westa routes. Again the 24th March 1890, the Hudson Bay railway question under discussion. Or. Campbell that occasion according to the report the Tribune paper also always Friendly to him opened Bis speech by admitting that it was to be deprecatory the Enterprise. These his opening words intending As i do to support Tho Bill which proposes to give the hum to the h. B. E. The Ordinary debate would be to offer reasons for giving that amount but inasmuch As the criticism offered to the Bill is that the amount is too Small for Mich a meritorious enter prise it places upon me the duty apparently deprecating the too High estimate which i think has been placed upon this Road. To latib will be by fair estimate a railway competing even terms with Road a running to the East we admit and therefore it should be assisted to the same extent. The proposals former Days when people were excited Over the scheme which were overstated and when disallowance prevented the open Iii competing routes to the Southeast form no reason for placing a Burden upon the province greater than that these Are the words . Isaac Campbell two different occasions a year apart As reported by papers Friendly to the speaker. Are they tha words a Friend an enemy the Hudson Bay railway 1 . Yon to broken that lecture item off said Tho editor to like Foreman. How you be cat off All the names those present but two and made to say scattered through the Hill were j. Branson Smith Era and mrs. So Etnere a great scheme. Saw you buying an alarm clock yesterday. Have you to get Down Early no . I bought it to the purpose Iii nth waked up so that i can cd Joy the Bliss turning Over und going to sleep weekly. For the Spring. First Boston Mii Nirna and i have been awfully Busy today. Second Boston say and what Tih made you so Busy f. B. Have been Getti gout and cleaning our Spring circular. Our use the Diamond. At object lesson. Are some the uses the Diamond Only know one. Let to hear that. Make Popper dream to is going into circular. Tho Ubo superstition. In the restaurant. T you superstitions snively is for children. Let to have that Bill Gooda 1 placed with you this morning thirteen Mouths circular. An end to Friendship. Do you do with Tho cigars Given Yon by your friends i have no friends. Since when Boggs since i began to work their own cigars Oft them. Munsey a weekly. G n poor Uon. What is Smith doing now he is travelling with the circus. Pretty lined work in t it no to bus nothing to do except to stick his heat a the lion s Mouth twice a Texas sittings. Enough to make him gloomy. Why old Man what makes you look so gloomy you Haven t had a Fulling out with Yoor wife have you than that. With our ser vant girl woah know Vliem. Alien i Ercoles had gnashed his twelve labors Thuro were not wanting plenty people who said what Only Flieg Encl Blatter. Nig make Many lists miserable needlessly when a prompt cure be Budock blood bitten a obtainable j. Maedonald s Ward Oom Mattheis Abbt to As follows 1. River Avenue fort Rouge. 2. No. Joseph wolfs auction Rooma. No. At a euro hotel Portigo Avenue. 3 at residence near St. Bridigo. 4. No. 1-at the Comer to Wilnin and Lead streets. No. In Kennedy s Block Mcdermot Street. 3l Wargp. I so no at Sproule b Block Mali Street Coiner Fonsega. No. 2-Atso Laura Street. E. At Hague Biown s Montc main Street North. All in favor Good government Canada for Hudson a Bay rail Iroy Ore req nest d to attend , and assist la Cleol ing it. Macdonald. Jfhn b. Mather Balman. Rank 1. Clarke search nay. Election Day supporters . Hugh j. Macdonald who hive teams to place at t e disposal Hie Friend skin poll no Day Are requested to Leavo their names at Tho Antral committee rooms Corner Llain and Kan it John b. Mather chairman Central committee. Frank 1. Clarke Secretary. Galt Coal. Unm rpm d for team and Tim ratio purposes Vale lit Large and email q mutinies m Winnipeg ;