The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
BENNETT AND GREELEY.
The Two Grcat New York Editors i'm
q Rage.

iioiu III interesting arClCle on Now
York journalism of q past era, written
by Hugh Fnrrar McDermott for the
World, VIC make the following extracts
Ned wilkins did the drama and opera
in those days for tho Herald. Alboni
was singing at the Academy of Music.
Before going to the Academy Ned
thought he would take in Pfaff's on the
way. He did, and he took in hot whis-
kies with Hallcck and the gay company.
Before losing his senses he called for q
newspaper and looked over the cast of
the opera. Then he dashed off a criti-
cism of many pages, called q waiter.
gave him a dollar and told him % hurry
at once to the Ke,aN Office with the
critiQuc. There were no messenger bows
then Next day all the morning papers
save the Herald had a couple of lines
each stating that there was no pcrfor-
nance at the Acad my owing to a sud-
den ind:sposition of Alboni. Old Mr..
Bennett did not see the statement. But
he did sec, on the following day, very
funny articles in the Times and Tribune
on the He'aH's blunder. They main
tanned that that was on a par with the
Herald's claimed correspondence from
Thebes, Damascus, Bagdad and Jcrusa-
lem. Bennett was wild. The joke went
over the country. Nearly every paper
had a slap at Bennett. AS he read them
day after day he would jump from his
chair and tear through the Office, shout
ing in his broad Scotch accent: ooh, the
dom fool? Where is he? Where is he?"
But Fred Hudson gave Ned the hint that
Old Sandy was in a towering passion,
and, like a discreet young man, he did
not put in an appearance, except to draw
his salary of $35 q week, for two
weeks. Just as old Sandy's wrath had
cooled and Ned was once more in favor
a bad error occurred in one of Mr. Ben
nett's editorials. In those days many of
the regular hands in the composing-room
put on substitutes on Sunday. Those
substitutes were and arc now called
''subs" for short. Mr. Bennett had
written for Mondays paper an editorial
about the Spanish Government, and
he abridged the word government
govt" believing, of course, that the
printer a sense enough to spell it out.
But a 'sub" got hold of the copy, and
the proofreadcr that night was in a
lnaudlin state. The "sub" set it up the
''Spanish goat" in every instance. and so
it appear to Old Sandy's astonishcd gaze
the following morning. Then there was
in the Herald Office. Bennett
could eat no breakfast. He came with
he siecd of q crazcd and ruined man
from Mount Washington to the office.
He glared at Hudson. lie asked for
Bill Smythe, the foreman of the compos-
lng-room. He wanted to know if every
body in the building and about the
building was n 'dom fool"
''It's a subs bluudcr," said Fred
elisa subs error said Bill Smythc.
"What's q :soby shouted Mr.. Bennett.
Dom the 'sobv Is it a mule or a luna
"Sob" was explained to him. and as
,e was leaving in despair he met a young
on the stairway smoking a cigar"
Don't you know" thundcred Ben
lett, "that it's against the rules to smoke
this buildingT
ono, sir. I do not" answered the
moker with fear and trembling.
"Then who are you, and what do YOU
here?" asked Bennett, ready to
bitch the smoker downstairs.
''I'm only a SUBJ" was the implorine
"Ho! ha? You're the dom sob That's
'cen making all the dom blenders! Go
and get your pay and never come
nto this building again"
Before reaching the foot of the stairs
dr. Bennett met Ned wilkins going up
nd whistling a lively air from the latest
'pera.
"Whistling, is it2 This is your sorrow
or the misery you have caused me!
YOU'LL live on kale, Ned, two weeks
noIe. Not a cent will you draw" and
he great old man passed Ned all broke
p. But Fred Hudson paid Ned his
alary all the same.
No more tender-hearted man than the
lder Bennett ever lived. His fury was
over in a couple of hours aud he
lad a fatherly liking for every employee
f the Herald.
Speaking of Benefits anger by times,