The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-04
POPULAR ERRORS.
Dispelled Concerning the Reporter
and the Commercial Traveller.

"Ars you permitted to include
drinks and cigars in your expense &C.
countf' a reporter inquired of COM
mercial traveller, On the cars on the
way to Hartford.
mo-" SAID the drummer we are
permitted to include nothing in our
bills except Car fare and board and
sodging-and not fare for psrloi
cars, either, although we do some.
times ride that way and average it CD
in other ways"
Reporters get great many
passes, don't they?" the drummer
inquired.
''No; as q rule they have no right
to take pass. l believe that out
west even the great newspapers per-
NIT that sOTt of thing, but in the
eastern cities if reporters try to dead
head ia theatres and on boats and
cars. they do so at the risk of being
caught. and perhaps discharged. On
the other hand, in about half the
places of entertainment that a re-
porter is sent to his admission is
gained with ticket, which has been
sent to tbs Office as an intimstion
that the persons interested want
notice in the papers. These tickets
come by the dozen, but only those
are used that give sdmittance toI
something which the editors think
ought to be reported.
''The tickets to balls and picnics
by social clubs and lodges are thrown
away unless the affair is in some way
important or peculiar. The general
idea is that reporters ere to be envied
because they go to so many enter
tainments, but IL must be remembered
that what they do is their business.
1t grows irksome; it is by no means
always in accordance with their
tastes and inclinations. They take
in the tedioas and dreary things along
with the good. They move among
strangers. To make business of
anything is work, and work, while it
may sometimes be pleasant, is sell
don graded up to the level of posi-
tive fun"
II often inset reporters in the
towns / stop at, and some OF them
envy the amount OF sightseeing a
travelling man enjoys" said the
drummer. "Wel, can't help see-
ing the Chsudiere fall, or the Battle |
monument. or the East River bridge, l
or Independence hall when I go to !;
the cities where those things are, but 2
have never seen Central park in :
New York, or Druid Hill Park in E
or the Geological gardens r
in Philadelphia, or anything that
wasn't right in my path. When l
strike town take my grip in my
hand and go from store to store, and
rs only on Sundays or holidays tina. b
get chance to do any sightseeing Il
and to tell the truth I'm more apt 70
o write letters or play poker or 60 m
calling on the girls with the cler K of g.
/ hotel then / am to poke around OF
after sights. bl
"You say reporters are expected to Q,
ravel in the best way and stop at the b
,est hotels, but otherwise are allowed 81
he came expenses as travelling Il
nan. Now, when got back from al
)hio, about five mouths ago, the to
,esd of the house called me into the
flee and asked NE il I knew that
ny expenses had been about $50 a
leek while was away. He said he
hcughHI had better not ny to buy tn "
BE country as l went along. That ls
1ade me mad, and ! asked him if he re
'snted to make a contract with me m
u $40 week foc 1884 all oyer the OF
ountry. He snapped me up on st
lst, and I'm making money at it. re
We simply changed from the first L
Lass 10 second-class botels. | used W
, go to the Metropolitan, or Astor q
ouse, and now I go to the Occiden- al al
ii. / get Just as good board, just as ~
om fortable rooms, and oil that, only - -
put up on back streets, and walk -
q ingram instead OF velvet. Last
me went TO Hartford put up at
le Allyn, and now l am going to The
nited States. The travelling men Y
ii each other about the hotels, and Y
Q know where 10 go to in towns We
ave never visited. We get lower a
ties than anybody else. We pay p
2. so at the So houses, or pay about
IL for week when the regular =
rice 10 $18. No, We don't say any We
ling. The clerks see us opening our
rips and looking over samples. or FIR,
ley see our letters sent on ahead by MI
10 houses we travel for. Any one -
no knows anything can tell
aveling man as far as he can be