Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-06-13
the dangers Of hoop. .ay.the-sarter. /"

the dangers OF hoop, "hy-thee garter,
"tipcat," "shove- penny" for the carry
ing out of which exciting and amusing
games the juvenile population entirely
monopolize what spare strips OF pave
ment there are. Trust on, be not afraid,
keep struggling, and it is five hundred
TO one that you will eventually turn up
at Printing House SQuare, over against
the TSnes Office. How ever the levia'
than Of the press manages to breathe IN
this close, sitting, elbow.hanpering
neighborhood has always puzzled me,
and has puzzled, dare say, great
many others. How do the managing
editors in their coaches and six continue
10 squeeze their broad-shouldered equip
ages through these bye-lanes? How
can the sub editors four In hand pass
the city correspondents comfortable
yellow chariot, nay, even the modest
broughams OF the compositors-
What contrast, sequestered Print
ips House SQUARE, with its old.fashioned
aspects, its quiet, dingy-looking houses
its clump of green trees within railing
to the left, presents TO the gurgling,
gasping neighborhood which stands In
such close proximity to it! Here is the
great brain.pan of journalism, the GEN.
tre of newspaper activity, the prefecture
of police OF the public press Aeso-
lutely necessary is it that 1t should be
entirely q secret polics, the "awful.
shadowy, irresponsible, and yet pu'ssont,
We" should dominate over the columns
OF the daily journsl. Will the time ever
come, / wonder, when a man will sign
his own article in a newspaper, receive
his reward or censure from the publicT
Will strange day oil revolution ever
arrive, when the mystic I'VE shall De
merged into the responsible, tax paying,
tangible, palpable, Shootable, suicidable
aud kickable "I?" Perhaps never; per-
haps such a consummatiOn would be
disastrous. Old Cobbett, in one OF his
screeds OF passionate contempt In hls
"yrid iron" paper, the Register, once said
tlat ne should like ~ have all the news
paper editors and correspondents 10
London assembled in Hyde Park, in or
der that from their personal appearance
the public might judge by what dis
reputable looking set OF fellows they
were hoodwinked and nose-led. There
would be no need to hold such gather
in, in these scene painting times; walk
bat into any fashionable studio, and
you shall fiad all the "somnites"
OF the press really coiicc,
tiJnized, and stuck on pasteboard
in the show room porlioiio; and II you
entreat the photographers pretty wife
ciyilly she will point ont 10 you Doctor
Copperbolt, OF the "rbunderer." and
Bill Hornblower, OF the "Penny Trump
et" in their habit rs they live.
Printing House Square is to me IN,
teresting at all times of the day and
night. la the afternoon, the dullest
period OF its existence, when the com
positors are gone away, ;he editors not
come, the last number OF the last edition
Of the days sheet printed, and the
mighty steam engine for time hushed,
| wander into its precincts often; make
some pretexts for my presence and
finally retrace my steps. | perceive |
have filled the space allowed mes 50 l
must tell my gentle reader that this
visit to the Times office, in the words OF
the story writer, will be continued Ia
my next" j. +. B.