Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1886-03-23
Nouths Companion
NEW YORK NEWSPAPER RE-
PORTERS.
~ NAEsmlLL VIII.


ne~spspsi rpoii,r Is tia, be u an i'm.
pudsni. dissoluie psrson. Who wander'
over The city until be fad, some piece Of
news.-no matter Of VIA, char eisr.
provided il will fad readers. This he
take. 70 ks ohce. and write. on, in very
bad English. Like many other sensrsl.
ly accepted conceptions Of men whose
business bring. them into Pabhc notice,
this i 10, a correct ose.
Not oaly ate q majority Of Newspaper
reporter. upon our mos, influential met
ropoliisn pspcis mea o. edseaiion and Of
culture. bat their work il s~y,,smizsd and
gathered through ~ofsanifsd channels ~
Investigation.
The work o. The reporter !, given him
BY The chief Of The local news dspai,mtn,
Of The Journal with which be i. connect.
81. Who Is known a. the City Editor.
The da,ie. Of hi, editor require un,inns
Energy and the u,mo., dilisenee and sp'
pliea,ion. lie mus, sec TIA, bis paper
give. al the imPofiAn; AID Interesting
news o. The city and vicinity While Il 4.
ye, frs.h. aud II possible before i, has
been Published in any other paper. Eisr.
nal vigilance Is the price Of bis position.
Every imPor,sn, and unimPof,sn, sveni
in politics. finance. society and crime be
mus, follow. and see ,hA, the reporters
under him Investigate ard present
promptly Tor the nsx, edition Of hi, paper.
The City Editor Of a great New York
daily has The whole city under obser,A'
ton. as well A. brooklyn. Jersey City
and the adjoining country for fifty miles
around. lie assigns q reporter TO each
police court. Msn are also detailed 20
each Of the other courts. civil and erimi-
nal. from the Dis,rie, Courts 10 the Sa-
preme Bench.
An impor,An, bureau Of news.saiher-
ing !. the ~headqusr,sr. Of the police de-
par,ment. Two men from each news.
paper are KEEP, watching the returns Of
this department day and night. Each
Of these journals has rooms Ia a building
directly opposite the police headquarters
in Mulberry Street. where the sirie,es,
observation Is KEEP, upon all criminal
matters.
II a murder OF = crime Of any Kind Is
committed in any par, Of the city, !, Is
At once reported by the police officer in
whose patrol it occurred to the police
station Of bis precinct. Thence /, is a,
onee ,slegraphed to police headquarters.
A record Of every event Of this kind IL
made on q ''blo,,er' in the reporters
o a, headquarters The moment
,hi. Information is obtained, the reporter
starts out to hun, up the facts. lie may
have a whole day in which to make his
Investigations, or be may have only an
hour; perhaps but half an hour.
Whenever = Gre freaks on, 10 any part
Of the city. or an accident occurs, an
alarm Is Al once sent to police head
quarters. The same transmission strikes
= similar alarm 10 the reporters building
opposite. Ten seeonds after IL has
.oanded.-be i, midday or midnight
twenty men. representing all the papers
in the city. bur, on, Of the door and dis
appear in the direction Of the fire. They
get there very often before the engines.
II the victim Of an soeiden, is carried
to the hospital, the reporter visits the
place where the sufferer Was injured, and
lscer,sins how he was hurt, and then
goes to the hospital and learns his cor.
di,ion.
In order ,hA, nothing Of this sOr, shall
escape notice. reporters are sent out after
midnish, to all the polioe-s,a,iOns and
hospitals from Harlem to the Battery ;
for. a. NOS, Of the papers 10 TO press be-
tween half. past two and kslf.pss, three
o'clock in the morning. there would be .
psiesp,ible loss Of time while waiting for
information to ge, to police headquarters.
Even five minutes makes an importap,
difference in = newspaper Office At two
o'clock 10 the morning. Another bureau
Of criminal news is the eoroner's Office.
Auy sudden death under suspicious or
Extraordinary circumstances Is q, once
reported to the coroner and registered for
the reporters Who cover that Office. They
investigate every case for themselves. or
report !, TO their city editors for their
judgment. so much for the news OBJ
tanned through the departments Of justice.
Each newspaper has also . reporter
Who calls daily at the Offices Of all the