The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-08-22

( the engineer went along with him to
Jail on a charge of aiding a murderer
to escape from justice. The hand-car
was placed on the track, and in three
/ hours the cheeky reporter was tele-
graphing full particulars He was
arrested next day on some charge or
other, but the joke got abroad, and
the prosecution was suddenly dropped.
Knowing the thirst of the public
after latest news and that the paper
will suffer in character through negli-
gence on their part, reporters often
risk their lives while seeking after in
formation A year ago a vessel in
attempting to enter lake port struck
on a bar, and was at the mercy OF the
waves. The storm was raging with
great fury, and the crowd congregated
on the piers had little hope that the
ship would hold together above a few
hours. She was a new vessel, un-
known in port, and her position was
such that her name could not be seen.
There were no life-boats at the port,
and no crew could be made up to take
an ordinary rOw-bOat and row out to
the rescue of the unfOrtunateS. While
all were talking and none doing, a re-
porter on an afternoon paper was seen
pulling a light skitf out of the river
an over the tremendous waves. He
is lostr Come back Come back y
shouted the crowd, but the man bent
to his oars, and, despite all predic-
tions, reached the neighborhood of
the vessel without mishap. Holding
the boats head to the sea, he shouted ::
"'What schooner is that?'
The Princess, replied the amazed
captain, who had taken to the rigging
along with the crew.
Where from? what's your cargo?
and how large is your crew = were the
next inquiries from the reporter; and,
after being replied to, he continued:
Hold by for an hour, and III take
You all OFF,
He then set about the return voy-
age, and successfully performed it,
entering the riveramidst cheers which
even reached the ears of the half
drowned sailors on the bar. De
.patching his information to the Office,
he was about to row back to the yes
sci, when she suddenly broke up, and
the crew foated ashore on q spar.
"The desire to secure 5he news eX-
clusively for the Journal, Wing, or
whatever paper he may represent,
often leads the reporter into indulg-
ing in strange freaks. \ wealthy and
widely known gentleman, living in a
city on Lake Michigan, committed
suicide one day by throwing himself
into the lake His action was not no.
ticed, and there was great excitement
throughout the city when it was known
that he was strangely missing. Day
after day went by, telegrams were
sent here and there, and no one sus-
pected that the body was in the lake.
A reporter out for a sail, came across
the body, after a week or SO, and he
at once recognized the sensation which
would be created at his news. This
was Friday afternoon. All three
dailies would publish on Saturday
morning, but his daily alone would
have a Sunday edition. He there
fore dot o,-r,1i11acI r., Gay-n I,i7 ----tI
too late for the other papers to make
fastened the body to spile, and it re-
mained there until Saturday evening,
when he had boy discover 1t, called
a coroner, and had the satisfaction of
knowing that the Sunday Bugte sold
five thousand extra copies on account
of his article
Zone of the saddest thoughts in
connection with the terrible accident
on the Grand Trunk Railroad, which
occurred a few months since, arises
from the death of a well known West
ern reporter-a man who had served
twenty-one years on one journal with
out the loss of one days pay. He
was caught i'll the wreck of a car and
fatally injured, though no one knew
that such was the case until death
had closed his eyes. Stretched out in
freight depot with two score Of dead
and diving, he stated that he was not
badly injured, and requested the sur
geOns to attend to the others first.
Taking out his diary and pencil, he
iotted down an account of the acci-
dent, procured full list of the dead
and injured, and his report to his pa
per in the distant Western city was
the first which passed over the wires.
After sending his first account, he
proceeded to gather more minute de
tails, and had just finished his work
when death overlook him. When the
surgeon came back and kneeled beside
him he found a white, cold face, closed
ewes. and q cold hand holding fast to
book and pencil. The last sentence
which the man had written was, 9th
ers will die before morningp y His
second report was sent over the wires,
followed by these words from the
operator, Your reporter is dead =,
The line was read TO thirty com
positors in the office Of the reporters
paper, and every man shed tears,
Reporters, after two or three years