Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-21
DIED OF MUCH EDITING


The Collapse Of a Nes0spopes Satisfactorily
A tramp printer stopped at the Car
son Nev.) appeal Office to apply for o
situation. He was furnished with tenn
porary employment, which enabled him
to secure few nights lodging and meals
to match. He was printer who had
been one of the eighteen proprietors of
the Daily Globe, but recently suspend
ed in San Francisco, and gave full de-
scripton of its inside workings and
management under pledge of secrecy
and promise that no use should be
made of the information until he had
reached Salt Lake, where he now is.
A number OF printers left the Chroa-
sole's employ and started paper of
their own called the Globe. 1t gave fair
prospects of success, and to all out
ward appearance was well-managed
and wen-edited newspaper. Its main
purpose was to kill the Chronicle, and
the enemies of the latter paper "stood
in" quite literally at the start. Let the
story, however, be told in the language
| of the narrator.
"Who ran the concern %
ct did, for one." said the wandering
printer. Then there was Lynch and
Brooks and Woods, and all the balance
| When the force were all on deck it had
eighteen bosses, besides tho reporters
and editors ?"
"Who edited the paper?
CT did-and the rest of the gang.
We all took hand. Some man would
be setting up an article and see some
friend given deal. He would walk up
to tho imposing stone and yell out,
what in blazes is this 2 Then the boys
would all quit work and collect around
the stone.
"Some would think that the man the
article went after was perfect gentle
man, and the rest would think he was
an old snoozer. Then we would row
over the matter half an hour or so, and
pretty soon couple would Jeff to see
whether the item went in or not. Each
day the editors and reporters got their
instructions from eighteen of their regu-
lar bosses and their assistants. I kept
track of the regulars, but split on the
SUBS Each man had policy. I had
two. Some had more. No particular
policy, but general sliding scale, to fit
any circumstances"
"Did the Globe roll along pretty well
at first?''
"Yes, it swelled up big. Subscrip-
lions came in lively and were brisk, and
for spell the great question was what
to do with SO much money. We talked
of buying a building to move into.
Presently, however, the expenses began
to chaw us up. Then it wasn't 80 much
a question what to do with the money,
but where to get it. Some of the boys
were sticking type at the case, and some
we're bustling about on the outside.
Somehow, the outsiders seemed to dress
better and eat at better restaurants than
the insiders. Curious, wasn't it? I
guess we galley slaves at the case didn't
clear over 81 week"
"Did you dabble in politics %
80 yes, we ran most of the politics
there for week. We had Democrats,
Republican, Greenback and Kearney
men ON the managerial force. We
didn't agree for a while, but compro-
missed on sort of Democratic-K alloch-
Kearney platform. The Democratic
Central Committee gave us $500 in
political printing, and owed us about
$4,000, which we trusted. Some of the
politicians offered us S., 900, cash down,
for the paper. We didn't expect over
$4,000, but after that offer we had a
meeting and raised the price to $40, 900.
Some of the boys wanted to set the pegs
at $4,000, but were out-yoted. Twas
one that wanted to settle on 5000
"Have ye got chew of tobacco? If
had cent I'd buy my own. Well, the
$40, 900 proposition fell through, and
then the Democrats bought the EIQna-
aner. After that things went by the
board, and we began to lose interest in
politics. Then some of the typos got
sick, and we ran short Of managers.
Then we ran short of coin. and we were
sorter short al round. Then we shut
up shop and gave the other papers a
| show. We had lots of fun though. I'll
walk down to Reno tonight and see if I
can't get to Salt Lake. I know con-
| ductor that knocks down on the fares,
and If he doesn't pass me in the Pullman
I'll brighten him to death. Next time I
| start paper I'll do it ON borrowed
capital, and don't you let that idea fall
out of your head till see you again.
THE TRUE AND BASE JOURNAL.
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