that the
directors should find such a one, whether in New York, or Boston, or San
Francisco.

Another director, Mr. Boggs, remarked that it did not necessarily follow
that a thoroughly suitable man must be a New York, Boston, or San
Francisco man. Unless he was greatly deceived, there was an eminently
suitable man, not merely in the city, but in the office of the _Post_,
where, since Colonel Cowles's death, he was doing fourteen hours of
excellent work per day for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per annum.

"Mr. Boggs's point," said Mr. Hickok, a third director, who looked
something like James E. Winter, "is exceedingly well taken. A United
States Senator from a Northern State is a guest in my house for Reunion
week. The Senator reads the editorials in the _Post_ with marked
attention, has asked me the name of the writer, and has commended some
of his utterances most highly. The Senator tells me that he never reads
the editorials in his own paper--a Boston paper, Mr. Hopkins, by the
bye--his reason being that they are never worth reading."

Mr. Shorter and Mr. Porter, fourth and fifth directors, were much struck
with Mr. Hickok's statement. They averred that they had made a point of
reading the _Post_ editorials during the Colonel's absence, with a view
to sizing up the assistant, and had been highly pleased with the
character of his work.

Mr. Wilmerding, a sixth director, declared that the Colonel had, in
recent months, more than once remarked to him that the young man was
entirely qualified to be his successor. In fact, the Colonel had once
said that he meant to retire before a great while, and, of course with
the directors' approval, turn over the editorial helm to the assistant.
Therefore, he, Mr. Wilmerding, had pleasure in nominating Mr. Queed for
the position of editor of the _Post_.

Mr. Shorter and Mr. Porter said that they had pleasure in seconding this
nomination.

Mr. Charles Gardiner West, a seventh director, was recognized for a few
remarks. Mr. West expressed his intense gratification over what had been
said in eulogy of Mr. Queed. This gratification, some might argue, was
not wholly disinterested, since it was Mr. West who had discovered Mr.
Queed and sent him to the _Post_. To praise the able editor was
therefore to praise the alert, watchful, and discriminating director.
(Smiles.) Seriously, Mr. Queed's work, especially during the last few
months, had been of the highest order, and Mr. West,