The Springdale news., 1889-10-11
BUSES OF REPORTERS.
A Brief Dissertation on the Art of
 Gathering News.
Cheek, Chance and Cunning the Chief Re- dances Of the Newsgatherer-For- tune, Though, Does Not All ways smile Upon the
 Bold.

ways smile Upon the
 Bold.
 Perseverance is prime requisite in reporter. The faculty of holding tenaciously to clue and the knack of absorbing quickly all there is in a ease and not allowing himself to be driven away by rebufs make man valuable 1 in this profession. The one who can do this and not be thought bore is an l artist in his work. but he is a good man who holds to his purpose though 1 he knows the victim he oss-questions wishes him at the antipodes. When 10 l perseverance and tenacity the element of good luck and degree Of tact or l cunning are added. a reporter is pretty i thoroughly armed for his work. Chance and cunning play a great part in the l success of a reporter.
 Guests at hotels, if they desire to avoid a reporter, are harder to reach than under almost any other circum- stances, for the proprietor of the house is bound to guard them against intru- sion. Triekery and cheek sometimes succeed in gaining admission for a 1 newspaper man. but in such cases the guest is so incensed that the interview is chilly and brief, e( sn if the reporter is not unceremoniousfy ordered out of the room. Chance frequently aids the reporter and gains him his wished-for interview, when all cunning might meet with defeat. Senator Hoar twas once at the Grand Pacific, and certain reporter had tried all the afternoon to see him. Regularly every hour he sent d card to the Senator's room only to receive each time the answer: Too busy now to sec any one. Evening came on, and half-past nine o clock had rolled around and the reporter, though tired of trying, still held to his purpose tenaciously. He sent his card up again. The beIl-boy, on the same 1 trip, had card from some other visitor to a friend in some room on the same floor with the Senator. and when he returned he had things slight ly mixed He informed the stranger that the "gentleman was not in, while to the reporter he said "Come up at once. The reporter had shadow of suspicion that mistake had been made, but he was not around rectifying other peoples errors. Here was his chance and he took it quickly, resolved to trust to luck for the outcome. He knocked at the. Senator's door and heard a cheerful "Come in, aud as he advanced into the room that gentleman came to meet him, but surprised the reporter by saying: Glad to see you. sir; Mir. Ellis. believe" The scribe owned at once that his name was not "Eilis," and he told the Senator he was the reporter who had been trying all day to see him. "How dare you, sir, intrude here, and by subterfuge It is dishonorable cheat, sir, to send up the name of a gentleman l am ex- pecting to see: you have gaine1 admis- sion here by fraud, sir. The reporter i hastened to say that he had not done any thing of the kind; he declared he had sent up his own card and that the bell-boy had told him to come up, and he had responded; he said if the bell boy had made a mistake he was not to blame. and he told the Senator about the boy having two cards when he came upstairs. Senator Hoar picked up the card from the table and looked at it closely.
 Well. l decla-e,' ho said. q be- lieve that is Welles, and not Ellis, after all l am expecting a call from a i gentleman named W. Ellis. and that really looks like it. doesn't it?' and in evident good humor he handed it to the reporter That serene young man i said Il was most natural mistake, and | added that the Senator was perfectly exeusable And now, sir. that you are hero, what can say to you?' asked 1 Senator Hoar. You evidently are anxious to sec mo from this pile of cards you have sent up; if they had the spots there is enough of them to play euchre with" and the Senator laugh ingly seated himself. The reporter showed the old gentleman clipping, accusing him of using certain language concerning some person, and as he had not seen it or heard Of it he was inter- ested at once. He denied it in toto and began talking on the subject thus brought up, and gave the reporter all the interview he wanted. Tenaeity. chance and tact had gained success for the newspaper man.
 During the political campaign of 1884 the Democratic Central Committee held their meetings in room on the groun floor of the Palmer House. A reporter working on a Republican paper was in the habit of getting shaved in the bar