Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-07-26
TINE LONG FELT WANT.
Bill Nye's Experience in Toying With
Daily Paper.


Robert j. Burdette, having related his
experience with young and strug-
CLING daily. l move that other brether-
en- present relate their own little history.
| think il is sometimes relief to un-
burden the soul by confession.
toyed with a daily ence which was
incorporated to ill long felt want. l
did not know it was loaded. There was
a rival daily that had been running two
years. and we entered the arena, hop
ing to win an easy victory over this
other paper and become great power
in the west. We made it our business
to boom every thing that was boomable
and to sneer at the lack of enterpri e
of our adversary. We got specials by
mail, press reports by slow freight, and
showed style of fearless enterprise
that was the envy and the admiration
OF many large metropolitan journals.
We thought that our adversary wouldn't
last more than month after election,
but Thanksgiving came and found the
Erening Sgumcker still On deck. The
editor would come and borrow pr mt
paper OF us and then use it to call us the
slime bedecked aud putrid exponent of
still more baneful and political faction.
We would borrow a font of BREWER Of
him and characterize his paper as the
wailing foundling, dying in poisonous
vapors of the deadly swamp of political
filth, wherein it has chosen its bed, edit
cd by the bitter foe OF the laundress and
Lindley Murray, a man who had evaded
Justice for forty years, and not content
with the outrage of all moral sense, had
declared war on the spelling book.
Thus, we kept up spirited contest
for long time. Sometimes we could
not get our paper OUT of the freight
office, and sometimes he couldn't, but
we would loan each other the last quire
we had and keep friendly, while through
the columns Of our respective papers we
spoke of each other in language which
might have been constructed reproach-
able to some people.
1t was an exciting time. One day
the S9UaCker would offend subscrib.
er, and he would come over to US, and
the next day we would unwittingly
tread on the toes of one of our great
army of subscribers, and he would go
over to the enemy.
The editor OF another paper and my.
self saw that it was going to be war OF
determination. We ground our teeth
and our shears and sailed in. At the
end of the first year he had discharged
his servant girl and my paper owed me
$500 salary. At the end OF the second
year he had blown in his fine brick resi-.
dence and had taken my salary as
police justice and thrown it into the
rapacious NAV of my little hungry long
felt want.
One day the little, muddy, measly,
long suffering features of the EreniRg
lSQua,oker failed to appear. We kept
asking the office boy why the Squawker
did not come. He didn't know. Fin.
ally he went to the publication office.
The door was locked. A map of Dakota
was hung over one window aud a prin-
ters towel over another. The office boy
raised the map and stole in. The un.
certain light here and there broke in
struggling rays through the threadbare
places in the towel. On the desk lay
letter from the advertiser of q Colo
Eraser in which he offered to take col
unn in the Squa,oker a year, following
Pure reading matter and with 1000 lines
of reading notices to be strung all along
through the editorial from day to day
! in bold-faced type, and in consideration