The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-06-06
BTOadbTim'S New York Letter.
Special 70 DC CARpoN ADVOCATE.

newspaper Is? Go through the Offices
of the great dailies here, and in them
you encounter scores of young men,
keen, bright, enthusiastic, who have
cast their lives with the press. Hundreds
drift into reporting from the different
professions; few ever leave il alive.
They unite themselves all the attributes
of Bri@reus and Argus, the gods of a
hundred eyes, and a hundred arms.
They are strange lot, these reporters,
wild, daring, dashing fellows, with no
more sense of danger than n wooden
Indian. All that you have to do to a
New York reporter, is to say "news;'
and at that magic word, hunger, thirst,
fatigue and suffering are forgotten
and If IL were necessary to go to the
North Pole, he would start at moment s
warning, without packing his gripsack
even II he happened to have one.
There is nothing your genuine reporter
loves so much as good, knotty subject,
the tougher and more mysterious the
better. Some years ago when Chastine
Cox murdered the landlady of q fashion
able boarding house, by choking her to
death; there was absolutely no clue left
the murder seemed to be one of those
unfathomable mysteries that the judg-
ment-day alone could unravel. The
entire detective force of the city was
turned upon the case; theory after theory
was woven and exploded. 1t seemed as
If the authorities had made up their
minds to hunt down the lady's husband,
a kindly old gentleman, who, in addition
to the grief of losing his wife, was sub
iected to the ignominy of being branded
has her murderer. After days of suspense.
a young Boston reporter with only the
faintest shadow of clue, followed it up
so successfully, that he did what the
assembled detectives of the United
States could not do, and hunted the
murderer to the foot of the gallows.
A few years previous to that, we were
thrown into the widest excitement one
day by a beautiful young woman throw
ing red pepper into the eyes of large
manufacturer, down town, and when. he
was blinded, cowhiding him within an
inch of his life. She declared to the
applauding crowd that the miserable
wretch had employed her in his factory,
and had there attempted to wreck her
virtue. The wretched man, blind and
helpless, could not escape, whichever
way he turned the crowd pushed him
back, till his face was covered with
welts and his clothes were cut in pieces
with the rawhide. The scandal became
SO public that his customers. all left him.
and the man was ruined. The loss of
property was bad enough, but the loss
OF friends and character was more than
he could bear. When all seemed lost,
the ubiquitous reporter appeared on the
scene and he gave him some clues to the
lady's history. They followed the
tangled thread from year to year, from
State to State, and across the ocean to
Europe, from there to the penal colony
in Van Dieman's Land, and back again
to San Francisco, and finally to New
York, where this innocent virgin was
assaulted. And it was discovered that
this poor, young unsophisticated crea-
ture had lived with seven different men
that she was the mother of four ille-
gltlmate children, and young as she
was, mad passed seven years of her time
in prison for theft and blackmail, and
the poor injured creature, who had en-
listed the sympathies of the entire COM
munity, and had engaged herself as an
innocent young maiden to be married to
an excellent and worthy young man,
was safely landed in States prison for
four years.
A case in many respect similar oc-
CURED TINS week where female adven-
turer tried to blackmail lawyer; a re-
porter again came to the front and the
syren took to flight, thus saving herself
a long term of Imprisonment and the
lawyer number of ducats. The untir
ing energy of the reporter was never
better illustrated than in the case of
Miss Bedient, who committed suicide at
the Grand Central Hotel; not thing
was known about her; she had taken
pains to destroy every clue; all the let
ters were cut from her underclothes-
there was absolutely nothing to found a
theory upon, and yet, inside of thirty
SIX hours the reporters had located her
in little town in the interior of the
State; and in forty-eight hours had set
up for publication every material incl
dent of her life from the hour of her
birth. Another remarkable case of re-
portorial enterprise is the discovery of
Maxwell the murderer of Preller. He
Kills his man, packs him up, and then
gets safely off to the antipodes; but the
aVenging Nemesis, the press, is on his
track, and long before he gets ashore on
the other side of the world, the history
OF his crime has preceded him: and i'm
due time he will doubtless be brought
back and made to suffer the penalty of
his assassination.
What strange fatality is it that brings
about succession of like crimes and
like accidents? Since the death of Prof.
Odlum there have been three attempts
TO leap from the Brooklyn Bridge. Since
the suicide of Miss Bedient last Satur-
day, three other young women have shot
themselves; and since the fall of Bud
ienseik's houses we have had two other
terrible disasters of the same kind, one
m Brooklyn and the other in JERSEY
City;-as SHAKESPEARE says: "There is
more than natural in it, if
philosophy could find it out"
we do not often look for theatrical
sensations in summer, and yet we have
most pronounced one in the production
of Nordeck by Frank Mayo at the Union
square. The piece is good one and
mas IN 1t all the elements of great and
permanent success. One peculiarity of
Z Is that though affording an infinite
variety of character and the most adj
verse passions, there is not line or let
,er in it to which a Mayfower Puritan
'ould object. 1t is remarkable in its
in another resrect: it is not
written to display the abilities of one
nan or one woman. Mr.. Mayo sustains
he leading part and plays it nobly, but
here are several parts in the piece quite
IS good as Mr.. Mayo's if the actors who
,lay them had Mr.. Mayo's ability. The |
production of Nordeck was especially in |
eresting, as it brings to the front a
Ioung lady who is destined to be the |
'ival of Mary Anderson. For this rare
'reature we have been looking in vain |
or several years and it appears we have
ound her at last. She is but little over
ixteen years of age, and her name is
Aaytherlne Kidder. When Mary An
ierson first appeared in New York she
vas much older than Miss Kidder and
n beauty and finish and thorough hatur-
illness, Miss Anderson's early efforts
we're not to be compared to the perform
nee Of this. young girl. The story of
he piece Is simple and well told-the |
Gene being laid In Rnssian DolanI A