Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD. ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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FRANK HARRIS
Frank Harris, picturesque traveler, poseur, racon-j
teur, editor and author, who died Tuesday at Nice,;
France, wrote himself into comparative poverty and i
self-exile from the land of his adoption.
The author of “My Life and Loves,” who was born,
coincidentally enough for his romantic adventures, on
St. Valentine’s Day, revisited America only once after
he vdent abroad in 1922 to write the frank revelations j
of his wandering career.
That visit was in the fall of 1928 and Harris was
incognito for its 10 Weeks. Pressed for money—-he was
almost always in need of funds—-he came to New York
to sell a series of sensational letters and perhaps to
make a lecture tour. But on advice of a certain lawyer
friend that he might become involved with the Federal
authorities over the smuggling of his banned “My Life
and Loves,” he went back to the Riviera. *
His last residence in America was during his editor- '
ship of Pearson’s magazine, which he sold in 1922 to go
to Nice to write the confessions of his biography. J
He already had made a reputation as a rebel, icono- (
clast and stormy petrel of Anglo-American literary cir- 1
cles. During the war his magazine was closely patched i
by the post office authorities, and at least one edition 1
was denied the mailing privilege. \
But creditors of all kinds kept him unhappy while \
in America until he finally retired to France. In his
last years he had little left but the mementoes and gifts j
of a lifetime, immensely valuable to collectors.
The gaunt, haggard Irishman, egotistical, vain, j
opinionated, but withal loving, refused to part with any j
of those gifts of Emerson, Whistler, Thoreau, Hardy j,
and other literary and artistic celebrities of the nine
teenth and twentieth centuries.
Frank Harris was a literary prospector, whose de
light was to find evidence of art and genius in the works
of others. Thus he was one of those who first acclaimed
Shaw, and he helped develop many writers in the half
century of his activity.
In his late years he pointed to a bookcase near his
bed. It contained first editions, signed by leading writ
ers of his own lifetime; sheet after sheet from the pen
of Oscar Wilde, cases of letters from other contem
poraries, sketches and pictures by artists he had known.
His mother had died in his infancy, but this son of
a British naval officer of Welsh blood, received a good
schooling until he won a Cambridge University prize.
As he was too young to go to Cambridge, the judges
gave the prize to an older boy and awarded Harris sec
ond money. He was so infuriated he took $50 and
shipped steerage to America.
He must have been a hardy youngster, for here his
first job was as a “sandhog,” digging for the founda
tions of the Brooklyn bridge. Wandering on to Chicago,
he was a clerk in a hotel where he met the Spanish
daughter of a southwestern rancher. It was his un
requited infatuation for the girl that lured him to the
plains of Texas, where he became a cowboy, Indian
fighter, cattle rustler and companion of “Wild Bill
Hickok in the romantic Seventies.
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Seward looks like one of the busiest cities in Alaska,
remarked a Southeastern Alaska business man who
passed through town the other day from a trip to the
Interior. Not only is Seward one of the busiest but it
is one of the most substantial. The first 100 years are
the hardest but, compared to other cities we have in
mind, Seward has an exceptional bright future. We
could wish nothing better than that every city’s future
in the Territory appeared as roseate.
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National Editorial Association
| WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 27.
!(/P)—Chairman Gifford is seeking
; to estimate the total fund needed
to prevent acute distress among
the unemployed this winter.
Among the evidence gathered,
;were statistics from the children’s
I bureau of the Labor Department,
j indicating distress will be mater
ially greater than last winter.
“BORAX” SMITH CALLED
j OAKLAND, Aug. 27. (JP)—E. M.
{“Borax” Smith, 84, one of Cali
j fornia’s early day capitalists and
! miners, died. He suffered from a
j broken hip in a fall down the
stairs of his home three days ago.
ADMIRAL WATSON SAILS
SEATTLE. Aug. 27. (A5) — The SS.
Admiral Watson, of the Pacific
Steamship Company sailed at 10
la. m. Wednesday with 24 passen
I gers, four of whom are for Seward
I as follows. V. H. Debolt and son, T.
C. Feldman, Robert Scearce and
one steerage M. Tirachino.
_ _
HOOVER SELECTS DIRECTOR
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. (JP) —
President Hoover selected Fred C.
Croxton, of Columbus, Ohio, as as
sistant director of the reorganized
unemployment relief c o m m i 11 ee,
headed by Walter S. Gifford, presi
dent of the American Telephone
and Telegraph company. •
I
TAMPERING CAUSES ACCIDENT
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 27. (^—Evi
dent that the speedboat V-214
which exploded in San Diego Bay,
endangering the lives of eight mo
tion picture employees and two
boatmen, had been tampered with
shortly before the accident oc
curred was disclosed with the
start of an inxestigation into the
cause of the blast.
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