The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-02-17
The Reporters Revenge.
Printers Circular.

How great power the reporter really Is
lu journalism was manifested In New York
City some years agO--it was a long time
since; James Gordon Bennett was still alive,
aud 50 was Horace Greeley, but both were
Old men, If silyered heads and boards make
age. 1t was when A. A. Low, the then
President Of the New York Chamber
of Commerce, had returned fiom
a European tour. A great complimentary
banquet was given Mr.. Low at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. His Honor, the Mayor, was
there; SO vas Judge Brady; in fact, all "f
The big guus Of the bar, and all the famous
editors, except the elder Bennett, who never
went to dinners. After all the magnates
were seated, the reporters we're admitted
there were fourteen of them-and were
Iaken to a long able which was not set for
a dinner, though admirably adapted for
writing purposes. The walters trooped In
with viands, but ignored the reporters, who
bore the slight until the course had been
served; then, by mutual agreement, they
arose aud tramped silently out Of the ban-
quet hall In Indian file. Horace Greeley,
Manion Marble, Jones of the Times, Hudson
f the Herald, Brady Of the Mail, aud
Brooks of the Express, saw the departure
Mr.. Greeley laughed and said: "D-d If the
noys amt serving 'em just right" The
guest of the evening locked on in dismay
he was prmed with a long speech that hi
wanted we'll reported.
After an absence If two hours the report
ers returned from the bairoom If the hotel
where they had whiled away the time h
sampling ice waler, aud perhaps somethin.
stronger. No sooner had they got back Il
with WINE aud cigaIs. Both were rejected
! We are here to work, not To drink 2nd
smoke" said the fourteen In chorus. The
| chan man Of the committee Of arrangement:
came to apologize; he was heard ia gin
silence. lie said a special dinner should b
provided. We are here TO woik, not "a
dinner answered the fourteen. To woIl
apparently they went; pencils flew owe
paper; the speakers glanced at the writers
hey seemed to suspect their diligence, per
| haps they Thought II was not deserved at all
Next morning confirmed their suspicious
the poor, snubbed reporters had got eve
with the millionares, judges, and lawyers
| The Tribune had ne reference whatever Il
the dinurr; the Herald had twenty lines
/ the World ap logized that the Low Dime
was crowded out; III the Times there was
slickful dictated by the editor, Who smelt
mouse aud hurried to the Office from the din
u.r to find not line Of IL, just as he es
pected. .... ...a...4
All the reporters were severely reprimane
ed b, their chiefs one Of them-hm Of th
Herald lost his place, for the elder Benne'
sas merclless master; he dismissed me
for the yeriest tribes, hut his shrewd mana.
ins editor re engaged all the valuable one
a. fast as they were discharged by the inc,
otable proprietor, who. IN the last decade
his i've life, did not know his employee
wth perhaps five exceptions, by sight.
However, the poor in.purse reporters di
Q mfiiI-,i the milIIonaires, aud from That di
at day to this he reporters have not bee
snubbed at any If the grand public dinne
given In New York.