Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1901 — Stedman’s "Offense.” [ARTICLE]

Stedman’s "Offense.”

Edmund Clarence Stedmfln was the “man of the year’’ at the Authors' the other night, when several nice things were said of the poet-banker. Richard Henry Stoddard, -who used to be an apprentice in an iron foundry and probably regrets entering the literary shop, arose. on the him “boy.” Edmund Clarence Stoddard told of the day when Bayard'Wytor, in the. Tribune office, whence have been graduated so many shining lights, called him over to took at a poem in' manuscript. “It strikes me as being pretty good,” remarked the great traveler, passing it along. “What do you think of it? Worth printing?” For a time the discerning editorial mind lingered in doubt, but the final verdict was in favor of acceptance. The author was one of Yale’s bad boys—Edmund . Clarence Stedman—and the poem, if I mistake not, was “The Diamond Wedding” or “The Ballad of Lager Bier.”—Victor Smith in the New York Press.