News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-13
STARTING A NEWSPAPER.
RlrdeSs Gives Us Little Sketch OF the
Way it IL Done,

TFrom the Louisville Courier-Journal.l
Did you ever start a daily paper
No? Well you ought to try it. Failing
down stairs with a stove on top of you IS
nothing to be compared to it in point OF
excitement. The name of that paper
was The ReUie,O, and it was started to
| fill a long felt want Jerry Cochrane
was my partner. There were several
very comforting things about that paper.
For instance, Jerry and | ALWAYS knew
on Monday that we wouldn't have
enough money to pay the hands Off on
Saturday, and we never did. The hands
knew it, too, and so their nerves were
never shocked by disappointment. We
ran that way for awhile, getting more
deeply in debt all the time. At last,
one morning, l entered the office and
found Jerry looking rather solemnly.
Jerry" says I, ''you want part
ner"
eyes, we need new one, Bob" he
rejoined.
ga business man, said I.
Gone with executive ability" said he.
| "A financier, observed.
ga man who can take hold of the
thing and turn it into money" he con-
cluded.
'Then I've got the man you want, /
| said, and introduced Frank Hitchcock,
| the sheriff. Jerry said Frank was the
very man he had been thinking of, so
we installed him at once. Sir, he proved
TO be all we had anticipated, and he ran
| the paper with the greatest success till
| he had turned it entirely into money.
When we wound up the concern there
was nothing LETT but two passes-one to
| Cincinnati and one to Burlington. We
| divided them, and went in different
directions.
1 got to Burlington feeling pretty
bad. / was about two hundred thou
sand miles in debt, having managed to
owe everybody [ knew. / would have
owed the strangers, too, only [ had no
way of making their acquaintance. One
| day | remarked TO Mrs. Burdette that
| believed I'd go over and see if / couldn' t
get job on the HaaOkeye. 1 postponed
| it for awhile, and one day the business
manager came over to offer me a place.
| could have Rugged the man, but |
didn't want to be demonstratIve, so |
held back rather coyly. He asked me if
[ had anything in view, and 1 told him
[ did. It was the truth, as / had an
idea of going out to the poorhouse, If 1
could get ride on the cars was too
proud to walk. Well, he urged me, and
finally agreed to take the matter into
consideration. | was to go in at six
o'clock the next afternoon. and ] bid
him a chilly good day. For fear I'd
miss the train, was down there at a
quarter to four, but when entered the
HaWkeye office | walked in like lord
and called the business manager
Charley" slapping him Familiarity on
the back. I tell you, his offering me the
place gave me great moral advantage,
and I used it, the result being that
was allowed the usual princely salary of
reporter.
L worked along for while, and final
~ got an interest in the HaaOkeye, which
then increased its circulation. A curl
Gus thing happened after awhile, which
has caused me to laugh many time.
There we're four of us on the editorial
page-Frank Hatton, John L. Waite
and John Burdette, my brother. Frank
was the first one taken from that elori-
GUS band, and he became First Assistant
Postmaster General. John Waite fol-
lowed by becoming postmaster of Bur-
lington, and my brother was then APP
pointed collector in the First Internal
born in Cadiz, Waite in Ravenna, and
my brother in Cincinnati, all in the
same State. / was from Pennsylvania
and didn't get anything. 1t takes Ohio
men for offices.