New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-14
NO STORM COULD STOP 1T.
IN SPITE OF ALL OBSTACLES THE I"io
UNEn PRINTED rHE NEWS

uNE. PRINTED rHE NEWS.
Rover EXPERIENCES OF EnIroRs' Rkfohss"''
rrrysETrrns. AND ALL oTRrR WORKERS On
THE PAPRw IN GETTING TO THE oFfi'A
AID Doing THEIR WORK
un...-as NAV como and billiards. may go, buc
.,,r,t daily newspaper goes on forever nan-
rfha, led an army across the Alps IN spite OF
the many little obstacles in his way. 30 oio
Nanoleon. II those warriors had lived nowadays
when. AZ least in America, the pen Is away
ahead Of the sword, they would have made pretty
good newspaper men. The world may rest con-
tent that in the direction Of perpetual motion the
force of invention can no further 60 than the
daily newspaper. Yesterday, when no pos'man
came to the door, when electricity was 'an-
ouished and the power that in the words OF
Puck can put girdc round the ,S eart %in ID
sang through tangled and broken Telegraph ana
telephone wires; when stalled and forsaken
trains cumberd the great trunk railway Incs;
and when commerce and business were blotted
out like the features Of the landscape. oy inc
overwhelming snow shroud-even In the midst
Of this desOation and this paralysis OF actiVi'y,
1ul. " N"kg rIB' NJ usual. presented
the news of the day 70 Its storm-bound readers
MORE TH,> Nv CIR AT wonK
,Ict the least curious feature about this unin-
terupted regularity was the matter-of-fact way
in which people regarded it, "'Specks growed'
SAWS Topsy when asked about her creation
Some people have similar idea about their
newspaper Under the best circumstances, the
newspaper is by no meaps sp'n.aheous
product. Under the worst circumstances-and
none worse than MONDAYS are desirable-the
amount of hard work. pluck energy and unnag,
girg determination required to overcome all
difficulties and get out the paper on time,
can only. be well appreciated by those who have
he tower of Tur T"rpr,r Building was on
Monday Mecca. in reaching which. little scat,
iar "a army Of writer's and other workers dared
mere and endured more than most of Mdhomrt's
Nil rim bands ever endured lat least in one day.
The reporters and tho editorial writer's live al!
over" mono Of them near III" office, some OF
them far remote In Naturalization. in Staten
Island in Westminster County. and In New-Jersey,
IS well as uptown or rather midtown, IN NsW
anil on the surface roads INTERRUPTED or aban-
. 10 led. getting down 10 the Office" was, TO say
the least Of II. no Joke"
Those who lived uptown or in Harlem, on
stcnning ont Of doors naturally and hahualy
mn de- for the ncnrest elevated station after thew
hal recovered from the surprise Of finding them
sol yes M to III" middle in drift. One yonng
t,en after rloddine and struggling along. wish
hia' at each stride that his 1egs BEGAN at his
neck snccoedod in iammino himself into the
crowd on tho station platform. b. and nv slowly
AMI s9dly a train came alone and he rot aboard.
only TO have to maxi his escane little distance
down the line when for away fr'm anv sfation:
the train ~ last mado IN us mind that II con'd
not move any further The Young man knew
thft n wonld NOT do tn keen n great pa ner wait
mo and he shnnod- IL down one CT the pillars.
and tramped the rest Of the way.
FLATS or E>DrRANCr II WALKING.
This save the gymnastics the pillar-was
The experance Of ooo' others Ioug
distance walkers should look to their anrels Feats
Of endurance on the sawdust path all verv we'll
in their wav but thew shrink into insig,fcance
beside feats of endurance IN q bowling wilderness
of uDow.
The broadway route was the favorite; and OF
he man
side streets INTO the central thorOughfare and
struggled downtown; not few we're newsnaDer
men. no q who lived in "rooklvn near the Bridge
managed IN most cases 70 get across: but the out
living pars OF the citv, for which there are as vet
no elevated roads provided, ana when are depena-
metropolis: and the " BOYS" who pre- er these
seqnestcTed spots found them Oil this occasion al
toaei her ton sequestere1.
Such Of the onto town members of the editorial
reporting STATS as managed to make tho
journey TO headquarters had hard nne OF
H. An editorial writer in travelling from
New jersey tow on the Mort hern Railroad of New
jersey a branch Of the Erie, had TO walt three
chcerless hours in his train az tho mouth Of the
tunnel Two extra locomotives were dispatched
through the tunnel from he JERSEY .Citv side to
tunnel AID the fe.rv stuck again. and nearly all
the passengers rot, off and made their way
thence to the ferry. But The TRIBUNE
mans troubles were not set at an end When he
goi aboard che ferrvboat he found thai. his ears
were freezing and he applied the orthodox snow
remedy Just III time.
TROUBLES IN THg MECHANICAL DEPARTMENTS.
But waen, through much 'rbulatou. enough
reporters and writers reached rHE TRIBUNE office
10 guarantee sufficient amount of copy, the diff
Guilty of putting 1t n 'ype and printing 1t next
cropped up. The heads of the various depart
neDts-the composing room, stereotyping and
press room-telegraphed to their men TO come if
they possibly could. The result was that suff-
Gent force was got together.
Ire work of newspathprInQ was gone ahOut with
even more than accustomed zeal. he fifteen
columns of matter in relation 10 the storm alone
which were IN / HE TRIBUN of ye"terday. reure-
seated great deal Of "hustiing" and OF rough
Ing H. asslpnments were given 10 the reporters
as usual. Inc aer 'front.' was covered were
the.police and departments the hospitals he
csI llnes the ferries, the railroads. and all OF Ger
points where ANYTHING of public Interest could be
cleaned Ard when each lied reporter stumbled
and CROPPED DIS way home IL the darkness and
s ncwdiits be felt with jpstifable pride that he
the wires THE TRIBUN supply Of Geographic /,
news was surprisingly large.
30. N spite OF the elements TIE Tnnrvr
Speared well written, well printed, and we'll
rad though only one proofTeadcr, who walked
over three miles, was at ms place. Yesterday the
we ither was somewhat improved; but there was
ieNerthciess some grit" in the lad employed in
me composing room. who walked to The Tribune"
Building all the way from Rutherford. n. J.
One of the heads Of the business DEPARTMENT
showed up after being showed up for twenty
tN! hours in train near McCombs Dam Bridge:
LII '''-' '"''"''+'
The New-fork public may rest assured that
the newspaper enterprise Of their city is equal
or rather superior to any snowstorm. rather
hoary headed story attributes to ~ we-l1nown
nan this remark to reporter: suppose your
idea OF the Day Of JUDGMENT is that your be
at a table taking notes" perhaps the idea is
NOT altogether extravaganza its rigintor should
haze known that table is not an absolute ne
ceSsity. Table table, notebook or none,
the American reporter gets " there"
ARRANGING FOR Mr. BEKGHS FUNERAL
Arrangements have not VET been completed for the