Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-24
What Led A. N, Kellogg to Invent
Patent 0utsides"-- Men Whose
Fortunes the Press Has Made.
Yale Bored by PrOiectlonist. David
Davis Early Ambition Phil
Sheridan Angry.
KATE Bayards Position Ia Social Circles
in Northumberland ms
Financial Circle.
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newspaper like THE GAZETTE does not |
care anything about "patent outsides,r |
which are SO largely used by smaller |
newspapers throughout the country, but |
its readers are, | am sure, interested in /
knowing how a poor printer, who hadn't |
enough TO keep the wolf many feet from |
his door, became millionaire. II they |
are not, then Texas people are not like |
the benn.eaters of Boston. Here every
body Is In such scramble for the dollar
of their own or anybody else's daddy
they dent care which--thnt the story of
how some fellow-unfortunate bagged
the silver siren makes, TO them,
mighty interesting reading. A, N. KEEL
logg, who now lives in an elegant man
sion ON Euclid avenue, Cleveland, which
Baynrd Taylor, 10y the way, pronounced
the handsomest street in the world, was
the originator Of the "pateDt outsiden
scheme, Why it is called "patent out
side" ! could never see, unless because
| It was never patented and is seldom used
I ON the outside of the newspaper. A
| quarter OF n century ago Kellogg was u
country publisher in town in Southern
| Illiuois---that region known as egypt
and where II used TO be popularity said
that they raised more hell than hogs,
though the chief manual industry was
/ corn growing. Kellogg was In the habit of
printing one side Of his paper In the mid
die OF the week and the other half
ON publication day. On one occasion
after half his paper had been printed his
press broke down Having no machinist
Mt his call, be found IL impossible to get
the machine in shape in time to print the
other side Finally he did what many
other publishers have done under similar
VlN... f,1
to he'll him out His own press could
not be ready for several weeks as Que
accident followed another. He therefore
made an arrangement by which his es-
teemed contemporary, located dozen
miles away, printed the local SIDE
of his paper after he had get IL up and
sent II over to him His friend sup
piled the general and miscellaneous mat
ter, and ms the papers circulated among
entirely different subscribers no one WAS
bit the wiser for the fact that the two
papers were exactly alike except in their
local departments. 1t then occurred 20
Mr.. Kellogg that great business could
be built up by having the general matter
, for large number of newspapers set in
an Office located in some central head
quarters, The patent outside was the
result. The idea suggested 10y the broken
down press made its owner millionaire
have never heard, but imagine that the
other fellow to whom the idea didn''
occur, is, unlike Kellogg, still pegsing
away in country newspaper office
I what wonderful power the press o
= this country possesses. Did you eve
4 think of IL 2 Why, the correspondents a
1 Washington have almost absolute sa!
S about the regulations and political pros
o poets OF any public man there, Shouit
three or four put their heads together aux
agree to mention a certain member Of thu
! house, upon any and all occasions-men
ton his name, simply, ! do not say t.
= puff him--note every political turn an'
attach great weight to his opinions, the.
would certainly make his political for
tune. TN the Other hand, should the
take an opposite course, the man woul
% he, unless possessed of the brains of
Fl Sumner or Stevens, politically ruined
I'd That this great power is not oftenerabuse
IL is a sufficient answer to Tn
very indiscreet attack which Pres
AZ dent Cleveland recently mad
IN upon the press Somehow | cannot hel
or thinking that some superseryiceable cler
made Cleveland say the papers Of tn
he country were internal liars, Mr.. Clev'
IN land, it seems To me, is a far too sensih
Sc man to ever indulge in such broad stat
rnents, besides he knows, to my certai
knowledge, because have heard him q
so, that he owes his wonderfully rapid a.
nv vancement IRON mayor Of Buffalo 10 pre-
,s. ident of the United States III the pr
space of thirteen n onths, almost whOl
10 the position taken towards hun .
friendly editors. However, even the pe
.lss. .s.fsna mol ALI
No.. Nj. Pasttur Is good illustration OF q
a., mower of the press. Three months ago
80 was almost unknown outside the city
,sh Paris. To-day his fame is world-wid
Yet ne has done nothing at all remarkabl
Thousands OF other men have tried ne
theories. Some have proved of valu
-, MANY more have not. AS yet no O
knows whether Pasteur's theory Is go
for ANYTHING or not. II is still only
theory Yet consider for moment I
value OF his great reputation. Men W
:. are spending thousands upon thnusau
~ az dollars annually 10 advertise, perha
I'n themselves or possibly some really usei
~ article, will thoroughly realize the gre
-" value OF that which Pasteur has DN
lucky streak secured for nothing.
There was no particular reason why
hydtophohia doctor should nave DC
ure taken 40 by the newspapers any me
ect- than a acknowledgements. Hydrnpno'
}. i not a huudredth part as prevalent
consumption. But the papers took
Pasteur. They also took up the J.
the Newark children and the one physlcl
who went to Paris with them. All M
now national regulations, gained upon
notion held by newspapers that the p'
lry. liz was diving to know what would c'
avs hydrophohia. Now as matter o. y
cir, the public didn't care rap ABOUT ", =
tied more than /. did for Pasteur before II
II a heard of him. often wonder the pun
doesn't rebel.
prof. W G Sumner, who has succeed
H., IN making Yale college the headcentei
~, Inc free-trade school OF econonl
fh ,hoHght in America, is not 10 have I'M
sll mis- own way, even In Ola iale, ~
IA n, ner is a strong thinker and an aole ~
.,p,, Int be has way OF dealing sleuse-n'
m.r blows without much regard 70
consequences. lie is like Charles -
mar 4 namesake, but no relative OF
nv The way. who used 20 Hire such
$ At Guns In the United States senste, uu'
r.gardIees Of the s'kick" when ~
powerfuI guns have. The laie Gun
has nonderous literary style, Is re
the lous worker and is feared ny PloeS ~
, Sil opponents more, even than, DAWN w a. y
imself. But be has an AIR ihas NY ~
re.traiut. lie not only wants "
Yale college wholly over 10 iree tl l.'l
the t,e ,,ses hl- position Ia disseminating