St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1870-02-25

"Stop the press" was the first order ut-
tered, ''Why." inquired the foreman.
''Bcc nuse the HeruM has got hold of a
survivor of the Arctic, and is trying one
Of its old games E; but we'll beat yet ~
\ bell tinkled a message went down
the speaking tube which led from COM
posing room to cellar: the great press
stopped \ workman in :he press room
was called up, and these words passed
"South, you know the Herald office
they've got hold of Il story about the
Arctic, which belongs to all the press,
and they mean TO keep it, and cheat us
out OF it, want Il copy of it. l want
YOU TO get IT any way you can; will you
do it,
GLOW doyou know they've got it ?"
The circumstances were recited.
"AIl right - sad South, ''Tll get it,
provided you don't ask me any questions -
The promise was given. ''South''
departed, to return few minutes after
wards with the information that the
Ueraid office was all alight (the hour was
four o'clock in the mornings that the
press room was fast locked and that all
carriers and new-boys had been excluded.
'What shall do !' asked South"
Get the first copy Of the Herald that
comes oft the press, was the order in
1tantly given. Buy it, beg it, seal it,
anything, so lonL as you get it and to-
morrow you shall get :ilty dollars for
your trouble"
Enough said" observed south
Twenty minutes later he appeared in
the office OF the Times Uhen at the cor
ner OF Btekman and Nassau streets) with
Il copy OF the He7uld, containing Mr..
George III. Burn>'s narrative of the loss
ot the Arctic, entire, printed i'll double
loaded type.
Meanwhile the whole force of Times
conpusitors had been routed out of their
beds, by messengers sent in urgent haste;
each man stood ut his case" ''stick"
in hand, and when South" returned,
waving the next mornings Herald tri-
umphant over his head,a mighty hurrah!
went up, that might have been heard
tor several blocks. The Herald "copy"
was cut mp into four lines "lakes - in
an hour the whole story was in type
and tie people of the HauH, blisstully
unconscious that Il copy of that journal
had been adroitlv distracted, Withheld
all their city circulation until a. M,
,endig ctf'only the mail copies containing
the | M expected relation OF the dreadful
disaster. by eight o'clock in the morn
inE, the Times wa, procurab at all the
news stands in the city, and its subscri-
hcrs had received the news an hour be-
fore Edition after edition of the Times
w:.- callr,! for: and lis Hoe press ran
without mtcrmi>>ion from seven o'clock
III the morning until two o'clock in the
.i,'rnoun, TO supply the continual demand.
>Iyr WAS this all, for Dn the following
day thc Times gave twelve columns OF
statements "I pa,, en- -ers who had escaped
by hUat- from tn sinking steamer, and
one column of editorial comment upon
the disaster. Mr.. Raymond, entering
fully into the spirit of the occasion, vol
untecred his services as a reporter, and
for one day actually put himself under
the orders OF the city editor who had the
m ,tter in charge. 1t is needless to add
that Nj. Raymond's report was the best
of all. On the following payday
South" received his gilt from the pro-
priet"rs of the Times and the city editors
al .ry was increased at the rate of 50
week. a> a reward for the energy he had
d.-played