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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17TH, 1923.

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THE "PALL MALL"

SOME REMINISCENCES.

{BY AARON WATSON.)

You mean wh. I hatched that cocka trice." Lord Morley is reported to have said to a friend who reminded him that t had made a great mistake in his life time. This was immediately after the appearance of The Maiden Tribute which, it need not he said, could never have appeared in the Polf Jian Guzette had that journal continued under the Marley editor hili,

questions in a cataract. It was a con- Fenience that he did not in all instances" expect replies. No man born of woman could, in the most favourable circum- stances, have replied to more than half that he was asked...

In

One day, in 1863, not long after call frem l-beaded Henry George, another man with rufous hair ascended the stairs of the office, two steps at a time, to ask John Morley to come forward as 'candi- late for Newcastle-du-Tyne, in succession to the brother of Sir Charles Dilke, the days when he had plunged into Spiritualistas be plunged into every John Morley and W. T. Stead get into thing else, head over heels, W. T. Std touch with each other over souse election told or the suggestion that Joha Morley should stund for Newcastle had come to cering affair at Darlingtou at about the him from the spirit world. It was a mis- time when Mr. Pusmere Edwards made a transient appearance as a candidate there, take of memory. The suggestion had been The wunger man must have made an au- made to him by a member of the staff, who had also written commonly strong ippaion on his senior,

ou the subject; and here was for when Mr. George Smith transferred to the Pak Mall Gazette as a wedding gift Dr. Robert Spence Watson, president of the Newestle Liberal Association, and to his son-in-law, Mr. Fate Themis afterwards of the National Liberal Fede nud when Frederick Greenwood and staff

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down fate, the Floetsstreet ration, arriving choke full of argumenta weightmurhood and funded a rival are designed to lure a great writer from the ing newspaper, Stead was induced to peaceful pursuit of letters to the tar resign the slitorshiji of the Northern Echamoil of a Parliamentary career.

Not long afterwards there was a not- and to become the principal assistant of John Morley on the Pall Mall Gazette able gathering at the Crystal Palace, the practical round a set of tables wall garnished. Here The new editor knew little of

Ha part of journalism.

writing one saw what a staff, the Pall Mall On one editor, who thought much of the leading fozetle had at its command. article and little of the news columns, side of the modest proprietor sat John Stent, on the other hand, had picked un Marley; on the other. Leslie Stephen, his knowledge of journalism in Actual thin, austere, looking like an Elizabethan perience. He had begun writing for the without his ruff. There was Stead, there Forthern the when he was a clerk

The was Grant Allen, and several other Russian Consulate at Newcastle, and when writers of turnovers." and the young he was catching mice in the office and Oxford men, Alfred Milner, E. T. Cook, eating them grilled, on toast, by way of

A newspaper written by realising the art of trials that the inlabi and the rest. tants of Paris were passing through dar men of such conspicuous ability should have a large circalation, you would sag. ing the siege. A little later he stepped Why confided Stead, rejoicing at a into the editorship at bound, acquiring later day over his own enlarged public the neary technical knowledge-with great aridity: and there John Morley" the Pall Mall Gazette never had a cir found him, despatching marked copies of culation of more than 13,000 under John his smali newspaper to almost every emin Morley's editorship."

It had, however, something that one of ent perquage throughout the world.

There can seldom have been a more the biggest of circulations might not have Its influence was pro singular d

nud apparently incompatible as procured for it, sociation of minds, Both men thought digiously out of proportion to its vogue. nobly of the importance of journalism, but One reason was given for this in the clos que was bent almost solely on impresinging words of the speech in which John his views on the public consciousness Morky that night announced his resig "What is popu The other bad his views also, and what he nation of the editorship. held to be a high mission; but he was cognised." he said, is that we of the fore everything else a sensational journ- Polt Mall know our own minds" alist, determined to get a crowd together Stead's succession was immediate; but and then to fill it with his doctrine. He there had been no struggle for the succes Some hol- sion" on his part. I have had real was insatiable in his curiosity, lowed sections of tree trunks had been dug difficulty in deciding," he said to the An easy refer writer of these fragmentary recollections, up in London street. ence would have shown that they were whether to become editur of the Pall the water pipes laid down in Sir Hugh a Gazette or a captain in the Salva Middleton's day, Stend ordered an tion Army."-Daily Telegraph. dependent investigation. A woman died in destitution at, Peckham, and the bod was taken to a mortuary. This suggested a special inquiry into the condition of all "the mortuaries in London. Sometimes a success was made of these sensational in quiries. Investigations into the truth of statements made by dier just returned. from Egypt led directly up to Lord Mor ley's the other Lord Marie-Commis sin. of Inquiry into the conduct of the Egyptian cunipaign.

THE MOUNING SKIRMISIE “

The distinguished elitor of the Fall Mall Guzte, seriously engaged in driving Mos. Mr. Forster from office, loathed all this pandering to a public that was sure

to have fuw tastes. There were prelimin

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ary skirmishes every morning at the Pall Wed 19 m Wall Gazelle office, Stend would come out of the editorial room flushed and tour. 21 m smiling. He has carried his poiat. John Maricy, no doubt, playsk for peace, F but it is a mistake to suppose that, as had born neenthy represented, he was a

the contrary, oftéti 3. mag of invariably enim and patient tem arrogant, per. He was, on

Stead in comparatively Thigh mall natters, obtained sure victory after another over the judgment of an editor whom he hell in the most resurent esteem, he heard maus things from John Morley that it must have heen hard to hear or to pardon,

The pazition, however, was one that stished his ambition for the time being, Except in regard to a page or two of encounter leading matter, he was in full command of the paper when the opening of the morning had come up an end.

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Jaily Fortnightly Review John Morley liked to have Oxford nien laut him. He had gone to Oxford for the main part of his staff. It had great distinction, There was Alfred Miler, of whom Stea would say that he had refused lucrative ties at the Board of Trade in order to gain distinction in fournalism: there was E. T. Cook, who came to London with a great Oxford Union reputation and there were some others who, in Browning's -in their phrase, were of importance

day, but have

are neither edited Ruskin nor

become notable Agimes. In the House of not Lords. At Oxford journalist is taught as a business, and the technique is not picked up in a month or two, Strad "knew the rope; he was the practical man; otherwise there is no great difficulty in guessing what the result, of these morn- ing interviews with John Morley would have bren

A DUFFER STATE.

He was an incessant worker. He arriv ed at Waterloo every morning, from. Wim- blrifon, on after eight clock Before that hour he had, glanced through all the ading newspapers and taken his child- rent for a donkey-ride on the common, When be arrived at the office, after a walk over Charing Cross Bridge, he would have all the work of the day arranged in Iris, min. One of his functions was to act as a laffer slate between the great man in the editorial room and the ensual visitor. John Morley did not suffer foola gindly Visitors, wise, or unwise, he shrank from na devourers of time. Yet her was half the world converging on the Pall Mall Gazette bieenise John Morley way its editor! However it was Hot sficient to pass the usual Cerberne at the font of the stairs; W T. Stend was standing at the top of the frat flight ta pass the visitor on or to dismiss him, as circulastane might dictate. He had his own theorie on the suject of visitork They should all he received by somebody and closely questioned, on the chance that they might know something that would be useful. Stead himself would pour out

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