Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1904 — Brilliant Record of a Newspaper Man. [ARTICLE]

Brilliant Record of a Newspaper Man.

The success which has attended William E. Curds, the famous correspondent jf the Chicago RecordHerald, is rarely attained by news paper writers Beginning his career in Cnioago in 1894 as re porter, he rapidly rose to the position of managing editor. He re signed that positron on receiving a government appointment as secretary of the South American commission. Mr. Curtis traveled extensively in Central and South America while in this poatioi) producing several popular volumes as the result ot his literary labors. Afterward co-operating with Secretary of States James G. Blaine, Mr. Curtis organized the work of the bureau of American republics, with the result that he was placed in charge of that organization, and at the World’s Columbian Exposition he distinguished himself by his labors as the executive bead of the Latin-American department. As correspondent of the Chicago Record-Herald, Mr. Curtis’ travels have carried him into every section of the United States aa well as into all quarters of the globe. Hi 4 China and Japan letters were published in book form; likewise bis letters from England, Germany and France, ss well as thosa Written during his travels in Mexico and South America.

No newspaper correspondent possesses the facility shown by Mr. Curtis in writing on any of the diversified subjects embraced in his correspondence and making it luminous. Nor is any correspondent followed so closely year after year by the thousands of readers of the Chicago RecordHerald. Ou his recent trip to toe Holy Land Mr. Curtis’ letters have been read more closely than ever, and his descriptions of that interesting section of the globe as it appears today have been quoted everywhere. A daily letter from Mr. Curtis appears in the Chicago ReoordHerald