Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1886-03-30
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interesting. Particularly Is this the case
In out-of.,own work. where he has TO
rely on the telegraph to &c, hi' ne~s to
bis paper.
The reporter and tho country telegraph
operator are instructive foes, aud IL re-
quirs every species Of threa, and bribe
TO induce the latter TO s.sy late a. night
to send = long press dispatch. have
myself been obliged to 10 into a village
ballroom a, midnight. and tear an un.
willing telegraph operator from his part
ner 20 re, an ImPortan, dispatch through
to my paper on time.
Many are the devices Of the reporter
TO "bes," his fellows. and get an erelu-
.iye piece Of news to bis wi paper. l
know one Of the eraf who was sen, q
year or two ago to re, the particulars OF
a terrible tragedy In a country town on
Long Island. The place Was disdsn'
sish, mile. from the village where the
railroad lsh him. aud he hired a convey
! anoe TO take him 10 the scene Of the &C
eurenee.
knowing ,hA, reporter, from all the
other papers would &c, to the village by
the ns,i train. he hired every horse and
vehicle in the village. and bowled gaily
on, into the country with bis long ,rsin
Of carts. wagons. carriages and buggis'
rsiiling behind him like = particularly
Jolly Kind Of = funeral procession.
lie 20, back by a rOund.aboa, road
jus, after the other reporters had started
GU, on foot. and "a. the only man who
70, the news through in time for bis pa.
per the nsx, morning. The publisher Of
the paper gave him a check for hand
some sum 10 reward bis enterprise.
Another reporter. Who Was one OF four
TO obtain an imporisn, piece Of news. on
Staten Island. late A. night after the
fsru.boAi. bad stopped running. engaged
the captain Of one Of tie beats. =, an en-
ofbiiani rate. TO steam up and take him
over 10 New York. az there were no
Available Telegraph facilities on the "a
land The agreement WAS iha, no other
person should be taken on the boat. aud
the reporter congratulated himself that
BIZ, paper would have an exclusive piece
Of news In the morning.
lie vA, surprised the nsr, day TO read
the story in three other papers. aud be
aherwArd learned tia, bic three rivals
bad concealed themselves OF the boat be
had paid fcr. aud taken the TIP with
him.
Danng the excitement over the Their
Of The rsmsin. Of the late A. I. Sis~sr'.
a reporter ~oa a beat on all the other
papers by a stroke Of enterprise and =
kao-lsdge q geography. Late a, nish,
Il va, leaned that there wefe lmPofisn,
development. in The case a. a little town
in New Jersey twenty miles from the city
Reporters Of Ill the psP,r bs, one
~eni over to jersey CITY 10 ~ai, two
hour, for q railroad train, by taking
~hieh they might hope 10 &c, a bare out
line of the new. In time 10 telegraph II
to The morning papers. The other re-
porter rushed down 70 the Battery. and
hired q ,ug.boa, TO take him up the eoas,
to . poin, opposite the village. The cap.
tain would no, 70 on, fof less than one
hundred dollars.
"Ge, the in there in an hour aud a
half said the reporter. "and III give
you a hundred aud fhyl jus, pat on
all the steam you've got. and III hold
the ,afs,y valve do~n!"
lie 70, there within time. hired a man
At the ooa,, to drive him 70 the village.
and sent . column and . half over the
wire, TO New York before the railroad
train dragged in,o the place bringing the
other reporters an hour too late TO send
anything 10 their papers.
The average number Of hour q report.
er on q morning paper works !. probably
greater than in any other calling which
involve. much brain.work. A we'll
kno~n journalist. in m aftsr.dinner
speech. once divided nsw'papsr men into
three classes. There are the publish
er.." be said. "~ho &c, al the money ;
the editors. who get al the glory and
the reporters. who re, all the work"
; A reporter work. very frequently from
I fourteen to sixteen hour. = day. lie ha.
I. no time ,bs, he can call his own. and
mus, Away. hold himself In readiness TO
20 anywhere or DO anything. no matter
how dangerous. unpleasant OF ineonven.
lent. that hi, city editor asks Of him.
lie can 10. make ~ engagement, one
day before LIN. because no one can tell
wha, may happen thA, will make bis
presence imperA,isely necessary AZ his
Office. OF course the fourteen hour la
Dor /. no, q continual strain. because the
reporter spend. much Of the time going
from place to place. and often when a
number Of reporter, NEE, OF an assign
men, they divide the work ur between
them, and have a jolly time.
They don't tell their editor about Il.
however. since there Is an imperative rule
in every newspaper Office that the report
sr shall DO his work alone. OF send Tor
assistance 10 his own office.
Reporters have An unpleAsan, rePa'A-
ton among people who are not thrown
into frequen, eOn,ae, with them. because
the wor,, OF the class are those who put
themselves forward. aud by them the
whole are judged. There are on the
New York newspapers. to-day young men
connected with the best American fAmi'
lies, and no, . few from good families IN
England. France aud Germany. There
are graduates Of all the great uniyeri'
ties 10 Europe. including Oxford. Cam
bridge. Dublin and Heidelberg. and o.
all the prominen, American colleges.
, Some Of them have taken up Journal
ism from choice. some have been thrown
into /, by necessity but. As class, the,
are men Of education. culture and refine
|. men:, and all the world will yet hear o
some Of them.
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