The New York herald., 1878-11-16

taken away wcie more actuated by morbid curiosity
buried there admitted TO the graveyard.
and. far possible they pointed out whore the
shown to these people. and the remains were removed
in decent, Christianluxe manner. Those which
sd, not ssI called rs.s for and vs assn nss 9 sr a
able boxes and conveyed to Cypress Hills
Cemetery the expense Of the trustees Of the Oliver
at that time captain Of the Fifteenth precinct, had
relatives buried there. and visited the grounds on
several occasions to ASCERTAIN whether the dsers had
found his friends
Ibid you have call in the police to preserve order
while tho removal was going on r
Never; had no occasion TO ask the assistance OF
the police to preserve order or to put any one on the
grounds"
In connection with the present epidemic Of exhu-
nations it is curons to note that the HERALD OF the
2ith OF September which found after the rob-
berry in ST. Marks churchyard and which had evil
IDENTIFY been left there by the ghouls contained ue
tailed account of the exhumation OF the body OF MIS-
hhiuchalt at Silver Lake.
TRACING RUMoR--A HERALD CORRESPONDENT
In SEARCH OF SUPERINTENDENT wALLING--
FAST RIDE BY MOONLIGHT ON SPECIAL
rRAIN--BRIGHr ANI1cIPErIoNs ENDING IN
BASKET OF CAME.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.
SHAMoNa N. j., Nov Is, 1873.
Few readers Of the HE1iALD have any conception
OF the amount Of work great journal which
is performed under the surface. I do not mean
the brilliant and striking pictures of events nor the
manifestations OF enterprise and skill which result in
the publication Of important in advance of other
papers This Is all labor which has visible and sat
isfatory result. There another class of effort fire.
quenty necessary in making up the daily record Of
the worlds history contained in the newspaper
which has no tangible result and which may be
called work that does not tell and is
not often told. I refer to the investigation
Of runors and SO called information which turn out
to be false and valueess after patient search and ex
penditure OF both time and money, making up the
thousand and one occasions when the enterprisng
and panstakng journalist has nothing to show for
his labor-his only recompense being the conscious
ness Of having done his duty. Nobody outside the
Office great has the slightest idea of the
number OF missions which end in nothing but this
negative result 1t often happens, moreover, that
they constitute the most difficult and troublesome Of
all the reporters tasks they certainly the most
unsatisfactory and annoying. The amount Of hard
toll, personal dangers and lavish expenditure of
money which produce nothing worth laying before
its readers incident in the daily life of great
ne ewspapcr which seldom finds arecord in public.
TRACING A nUMoR
An ustlation Of this phase OF journalism had its
origin in the rum NOR disposed In dispatches
thus morning in regard to ,, the s finding Of Mr.;
Stewarts stolen body . The o., story was that
New York and turned up in an obscure point Of New
Jersey at Shamong, and that the inlionnares
dead body had been found there When at half past
six O'Clock last evening" tho HREALD correspondent
Philadelphia informed OF this rumor and
ordered from the home office to $50 Immediately 10
Shamong. he knew that but one thing to be
done. namelyto get there ut all hazards in time TO
investigate and write report for to-day's HERALD
hurried investigation showed that Shamong was an
obscure village away down among the Jersey pines
the Now Jersey Southern Railroad.
SEARCH FOR LOCOMOTIVE.
litt1e teleUraph Othcc the had closed
and nothing remained to BIO done but to hire
special train and get there. A quick journey to
West Philadelphia and rasping interview with
petty railroad official, who drawed out chilling
nouncenen that no engine could be had to go there
respondent on his mcttle. Recognizing that in the
lexicon generally used in the modern newspaper
fretting largely under the loss Of time application
made to the superintendent of the New Jersey division
OF the Pennsylyania Railroad. That individual hap
pened to be nearly one hundred miles distant ut Jersey
City but being man of business he answered tel
egram promptly ana with equal promptness upset all
ordinate ut the philadepha end. Stating the difii-
culties in the way Superintendent McCray tele-
graphed that he would do his best to get the CORE
spondent near to his destination AZ his railroad
could 20. The start was TO be made from Camden,
N. j., fve-inile ride by street and boat from
West Philadelphia. BY the time this Brooklyn of
Philadelphia was reached--a short stop was
made enlist first class telegrapher a
valuable asaistantit was nearly ten O'clock Engine
No. 81, OF the Burlington county branch OF the Cam
den aud Alnboy Railroad. was already attached TO
passenger car in waiting for the HxnALD man. and
superintendent Buckalew giving all the ald in his
power to hasten matters The engine did not quite
nave enough steam to start, and another little delay
fretted the soul OF the traveller.
How far you take inc Z! was the first question.
ITO Writings. forty-hve miles the end OF our
road, was the superintendent response.
Can you reach the superintendent OF the other
road by wire and &c. another engine =
Doubtful, but III try
"By all means do 50, ana spare no expense as this
is question of tiInc not money.
Tho telegraph operator then ordered to telegraph
to Writings to have the best team in the place in
ing Tor midnight ride and lest this should fa aiid
the second locomotive also, superintendent Buckaow
was asked IL he could get for hand car to
take the correspondent from Writings to Shamong?
doubtful was the response again, '.but III try
"Anyhow, said thc writer, "havc hand car watt
ing. We will work our own passage if necessary
At ten minutes past ten the engineer took hold Of
his lever and sang out "All aboard" As the HERALD
man stepped on he said:--
"Mr. superintendent We want to make that forty
Ave miles in fortyfvc minutes. Win you order your
engineer to DO itr
well" replied he. laughing Il have ordered tho
last train up to wait for you at Hartford. He cannot
go East until after he passes that place. Then If he
has mind 10 break MS neck trying to mako sixty
miles hour on this railroad that is his look
out" Very we'll" And then the last ques-
tion:"Haye aeain permission to push ahead at our
..ycii have Good night and safe Journey. Re-
member you are on Jersey railroad
rnf ROAD 10 ssiAMoNG.
AZ eleven minutes after ten the start made.
There npping snd an eager air. but. fortu-
natey. Il beautiful moonlight night and The
engineer said ne guessed rs now ne could see u COW
on the track IL one happened to be there. On we
ruinbled and bounced with gradually increasing
speed. the telegraph poles seeming and
together. The road roayh and "wabbling."
the car with the two solitary passengers swayed
from side to side in manner not calculated TO
soothc the Ihe impatient scribe had
to content himself with thirty miles an hour until
the up train passed on siding for the road has
but single track. Then began systematic nagging
OF the engineer to increase his speed. and the
ious traveller thought with profound rgrct OF those
good old days of steamboat racing the Mississippi
River, when the order to "throw In another Niger
was invariably followed by increase OF speed
SOMEWHAT FASTER.
BY dnt of scramblng the coal in the tender 10
reach the cab and persstently arguing with the
engine driver to show him how IL was to
think that ho couldnt do sixty miles an hour, the
engineer finally induced to ''lct her out though
with many misgivngs Three stops were made to
oil UP and water aud to oil up again Then twenty
Ave minutes to twelve drew up alongside the plat
form nt Writings. Then another cxasparating delay
took place. There WIS second engine to take ,is
nxnr The Lcrsax Southern division. After aerdiiin