The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-20
NO MORE DEAB-AsADS IN NEW YORK
7 Trials Of Poor Journalists.

law prohibiting the free.pass system on rail-
roads in that State. BY provision of tn e law
all passes we're taken up on and after the lst of
May. Tue law must have been a little heavy on
such editors as got caught away from home. We
understand that number of these wretched
creatures accumulated at the principal points
along the line of the New York Central Railroad,
principally at Utica and Syracuse. Their passes
playing out and having no monev, of course
they had to stop over until they could hear from
home
The Union Telegraph Company kindly per-
n itted them the free use OF the telegraph wires
to send dispatches home. friend forwarded
TO us some oil the dispatches sent from Utica.
where large number OF country editors we're
'stuck." Through the benevolence OF some of
the citizens, the SOLDIERS Home,j which had
been vacant for months past, was fitted up for
the accommodation OF the Impecunious editors
until money could he forwarded to them. Some
OF them, rendered temporarily insane by the de-
eapitation OF ''dead-heads," )" had to be quartered
in the Lunatc Asylum.
One editor teegraphs to his partner:-
Send me some money. Five dollars will do If
sent Immediately. DOM suspend the paper in con-
sequence, If you can possibly avoid it,"
Another, rendered savage and prolane, tele-
graphs his ioreman:-
"Se that office stove, and send on the proceeds
We don't need 1t IN warm weather Discharge the
G,vH.
az. S.-Give our Legislature HI for this"
One poor fellow, who is caught a long way
from home, 1t beng small town on the
Illinois r1ver nearly despairs of getting back
again. This is his despatch:-
"UTIcA N Y, May 18, IS, BLUE LION TAVERN
Dear Wite:-Sell my to her clothes 1or what they
will bnng and remit at once. Had my linen duster
for supper, and my spare shirt will have to go Tor
logging. May be able to make q light breakfast
German silver comb and pair shears that
chanced 10 have with me. Don't know when shall
get home 1t will depend a good deal on the wa k
ing. Don't marry for o rev months; there il bare
possibility OF my getting back. SIMON"
A st. Lawrence county New York; editor
telegraphs his assistant editor:-
nv lnrtn icr't urt nf ont fbofn roF
New York General Railroad. Give them something
about 'SHndhng aonopolyt Dangerous Road way
Rotten Bridges etc. Send me ten dollars"
The Editor OF the Podunk Stuffed Club tele-
graphs his partner:-
DEAR SAM M:-FOrward me all the money you
have, even If 1t IL five dollars.
h"P. The editor of that hreng sheet whose
puny efforts TO rival the Stuffed CLUB have so often
excited our desion, the cringlng tool OF the oppo-
sitiOn, whom threatened to horsewhip If he dared
to address me, has just refused the loan of half
dollar. Ye gods! Review his dsloyal course dur
Mg the war IN column leader, double loaded.
make IL as aDe as you can.
"P. S.-BEng down the Stuffed Club with all its
eW gR5 Won on 1ne mead OF that giant monopoly the
A Buffalo editor, who had his pass taken up
at Schenectady, attempted to make his way
home on toot He got as far as Syracuse, when
he gave out (his shoes gave out some two or
three days before, and he had hooted it along
barefooted), ard dropped by the wayside. He
is performing the remainder OF the Journey on
board OF bullhead canal boat Walking from
Schenectady to Syracuse on the railroad (he
said he was never passed so much betore-every
train passed hm), be has Obtained some lnte.
resting statistics. He says there we're nine thou
sand four hundred ard sxty-two ties laid be-
tween those two points, only one hundred and
thiIty-two of them showing signs OF decay. There
are one thousand seven hundred ana one tele-
graph poles, all being peeled of their bark, eX.
Cept two hundred and thlrty-one.
The Atlantic and Great Western Railway Com
pany were even more strict than the Central in
enforcing the new law. If an editor was caught
with pass and no money, the pass was taken
up and the train stopped, when the editor was
put off-frequentlY in the woods and miles from
any habitation. There are over hundred edi-
tors wandering to-day in the woods on the line
of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway IN
New York State. One poor fellow from Cleve-
land, supposed to belong to the Herald, wandered
about Tor several days in Salamanca, nqurng
for the State line but was SO confused that he
was totally unable to say what line. He was
last seen applying leathercased pocket flask as
a conf ass to find out where he was. The flask
was inscribed 'FairbanKs," supposed to nave
been presC mt from the scale man.
Companies are Deng organized for the pur-
pose OF searching out the lost editors, and re-
storing them to their distracted families.
A large number of the press-gang who live in
Eastern New York, and who had been West, are
stopped at the Pennsylvania line unable II get
any further, They are anXiously watching
and waiting over the border' for succor. 1t will
require whole string OF suckers 10 go around
The Atlantic and Great Western Company have
very kindly extended to them the use of their
water tanks to lodge in.
The following despatch has passed over the
wires from Cattaraugus county, New YORK, to
the editor Of tue Posey county (Ind.) BLOtoer:
CATTARAUGUs COUNTY Poor HOUSE, May 10,
1866-Editor of the POSey County BtOloer-Sir:-An
emaclated and parTa ally demented creature was
picked up in the woods in this vicinity yesterday,
WHO had apparently been wandering for some day 5
without food He could give no IDteligble account
of hmset; bat on searching him the following ar
heles were found IN his pocke s, to witt
"
One pencil sharpener, patent.
One par wooden pocket combs.
One paper collar ibeen turned).
An annual ass on the Posey County Plank road
And letter from the Pose County BtOlDsr, endors
ing HIM "a an attache of that paper, and requesting
railroad supenntendents to extend the "usuaI
cOurtesles," &c.
He is quiet and inofiensive for the most part; but
Is seized with occasional frenzy, in which he CALI
for paper, and writes turiOusly untll exhausted ]
can only make out few sentences, such as 'MT
Editor- broad gauge faiure"G"Atlan road
press''-''not what we thought il was" &c sc Ii
you know anything of this wretched person please
inform me at once. JOHN ShIrH,
Sup't CattarauVas Co. Poor House.
We offer to our unfortunate brethren OF the
tripod our commiseration, not having any
thing else to offer. Let us catch the Ohio Leels
lature playing such trick on us, that's ALL
Cinctfndtt Times
The Buffalo Courier saws the railroad con
ductors are having an interesting time takine
up the passes, by direction of the new act of thu
New York Legislature. One conductor was
shown pass with the name of a railroad maj
attached to it. us not that name sufficient !!
inquired the ANXIOUS passenger. There i
only one name in the United States that is O
any account with me just now,n replied tn
conductor. "WhSt is that ~ was the instan
inquiry. The conductor deliberately unrolle
a ereenback, and, pointing to the right han'
lower corner, said "F. p. Spinner"
An old bachelor proposes the ,followin