Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-12
HOW THE REPORTER DID 1T.
Tho Way Senator Hoar Was Inter-
viewed in Chicago.
From the Chicago Herald.

From the Chicago Herald.
Guests at hotels, if they desire to avoid re-
porter, are harder to reach than under almost
any other circumstances, for the proprietor Of
the house is bound to guard them against in
trusion. Trickery and cheek sometimes sue
coed in gaining admission for q newspaper
man, but in such cases the guest is 80 incense
that the interview is chilly and brief, even if
the reporter il not unceremoniously ordered
out of the room. Chance frequently aids the
reporter and gains him his wished-for inter-
view when all cunning might meet with de-
feat. Senator Hoar was once at the Grand
Pacific and q certain reporter had tried all the
afternoon to see him. Regularly every hour he
sent q card to the Senator'S room only to receive
each time the answer, TOO busy now to see
any one" Evening came on and half-past
o'clock had rolled around and the reporter,
tenaciously. He sent his card up again. The
bell-boy, on the same trip, had a card from
some other visitor to friend in some room on
the same floor with the Senator, and when he
returned he had things slightly mixed He in
formed the stranger that the gentleman was
not in" while to the reporter he said Come
up at once" The reporter had a shadow OF
suspicion that a mistake had been made, but
he was not around rectifying other peoples
errors. Here was his chance and he took 1t
come. He knocked at the Senator's door and
heard cheerful "Come in, /" and as he advanced
into the room that gentleman came to meet him,
but surprised the reporter by saying: "Glad
to see you, cir; Mr.. Ellis, / believe" The
scribe owned ut once that his name was not
Ellis" and he told the Senator he was the re-
porter who had been trying all day to see him.
How dare you, sir, intrude here, and by q
subterfuge. 1t is dlshonorable cheat, sir, to
send up the name Of a gentleman I am ex-
pecting to see; you have gained admission here
by fraud, SIR" The reporter fastened to say
that he had not done anything of the kind; he
declared he had sent up his own card and that
had responded; he said if the bell-boy had
made q mistake he was nos 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. declare" he said, 81 believe that is
'Welles' and not Ellis after all; am expecting
q call from a gentleman named W. Ellis and
that really looks like it, doesn't it?" and in
evident good humor he handed it to the re-
porter. That serene young man said it was
most natural mistake and added that the Sena-
tor was perfectly excusable. Sand now sir,
that you are here, what can I say to you?"
asked Senator Hoar. .'You evidently are anx-
ious to see me 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
laughingly seated himself. The reporter
showed the old gentlemen q clipping, accus-
ing him Of using certain language concerning
some person, and as he had not seen it nor
heard of it he was interested at once. He
denied it in toto and began talking on the sub
ject thus brought up and gave the reporter all
the interview he wanted. Tenacity, chance
and tact had gained success for the newspaper
man.