The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-16

Turning Their Backs on Steady Work
They Wander Away to Enjoy the Less
Eenunerative Sweets Of Liberty-seS-
er.iI Examples.
The uagabond streak is very strong in the
telegrapher and the compostOr. Like all
skilled worlSmen they are sure OF living
any where they happen to land, ii they only
care 10 work. Both profit by the sub system,
which, gives them a chance where regular en-
pluyn.nt might be wanting. As a rule II Is
the best men whose facility renders THEM
reckless and Whose habits loose and i'm
prov i,lent, who succumb To the temptation OF
turning their backs ON hard work, and wan
der OH to work "a deal harder to less profit,
but with the sweets of liberty for comperlssa-
ton. l suppose there Is no reason that o re-
porter should not experience the same yearn-
ing But his chances of earning a subsistence
by the way are much less that his appear
ance in the role of gypsy is more 10 he
wondered at.
vAGABoNDS OF THE PRESS.
At any rate, there Is quite a considerable
number Of these vaSabonds of the press now
at large. / met one of them, a well known man
OH The Philadelphia Press couple Of ycari
ago, in Cleveland. / breakfastinS he
tween trains at the depot early in the morn
ing. He came in, dirty and shabby, but no
paid for his breakfast and ate a lusty one
YOU may he bound. He was on his way from
Chicago to Buffalo, returning from tramp
that had led him far west as Louisville
He had come in ON freight train, and some
drovers he had made friends with were going
to help east in their caboose This man,
when l last heard of him was editing paper
in western Pennsylvania, and was reported
to be settled and doing we'll
There used to be a droll, dry genius about
newspaper row, who worked for the Sun
day papers and wrote funny stories that were
reaay funny to read. He disappeared sud
denly and every one thought him dead. n
long while afterwari, being in Baltimore,
came across paper Published on the east
shore that bore his name as proprietor
l learned that he had started on a stroll
south, had walked into Dover on foot, met
an oil friend who possessed some means, and
got him to set up n paper for him They
were doing well at the time write of, but a
few months later the editor did not report for
duty one morning. He sent a note to his
friend saying that he was going west. BY
foot and rail he penetrated as far as Kansas
There l lost track of him, acting as sub
editor on a paper i'm Atchison. He is prob
ably well on his way around the world by
this.
CONFIRMED ROVER.
There recently returned to New York a
pressrnan whom every old timer on the Row
knows He was regarded fifteen years ago as
one of the most able reporters in the city.
He has worked, and worked among the best,
on all the great papers, and done some of the
brightest and clevcrest reportorial work that
has got into print in the metropolitan dailies.
But he is a confirmed rover, and can never be
counted ON from day to day. He makes pc
rioCical disappearances from New York, and
after months is heard of as being connected
with some Out-of town paper. He always
gets good berths, for his ability commands re-
spect and has a tangible value. Formerly he
did not go further away than Philadelphia,
baltimore, Albany or Hartford Then he
began to drift to such distances as Boston and
Pittsburg. Then his operations extended to
Chicago, St Louis and into Minnesota and
Dakota. When / shook hands with him the
other day at the postoffice he was fresh from
Denver.
once asked this man why he deliberately
sacrificed his opportunities as he did, and
broke away from connections he could easily
have made permanently profitable. Il can't
help it, " he replied; Il get SO Internally tired
Of New York that l have to get out"
Then why don't you stay out when you
get good thing!"
because get so tired of being away" said
he shat have to come hack"
Here you have epitomi...,d the creed Of the
traInps Of iouinalism.-Alfred Trumble, in
The Journalist.