San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-06-27


One morning the newspapers were obliged
to desist from their attacks; poor Jacob had
passed away from earth.
The same day met the editor of one of
the large daily papers
WELL" said, here Is fine occasion for
grand head line tomorrow; you are not
going to let it slip, supposer
what do you meanF'
"How can you askl Why, Jacob gone up
the ladder, of course"
Splendid" he exclaimed.
"Shame on thee, my dear editor, thou
didst not find that one"
~ must have it. How much will you take
for itf"
"I'Il make you present of it," said
Next morning the death of the fnancier
was told in two columns, headed:
JACOB GONE UP THE LADDER"
If ever wanted to apply for a journal
istic post in America this would be my most
weighty Recommendation in the eyes of my
future chief.
This is how one American reporter made a
reputation at a bound The Chicago people
are still proud to tell the story:
The young fellow was taking walk one
evening in a retired part of the town, on the
lookout for what adventure history does not
say. All at once human form lying mo-
tionless on the ground attracted the sight of
our hero. He drew near to it, stopped down,
and found it to be corpse His first inn
pulse was to Immediately seek policeman
and tell him of the discovery. But second
idea came; it was more practical, and he
adopted it. This was it:
His paper comes out at 2 in the afternoon,
so that by running straight to the police sta
ton he would be making the matter public
and furnishing his brother reporters with a
column or two for their morning papers. 1t
is a catch, this corpse, and not to be lightly
given away. What to doi Simply this. Our
journalist drags the body into an empty
building near at hand, and carefully hides it.
At II next morning he discovers it by chance,
goes as fast as possible to make his declara-
ton to the police, and then hastens away to
the office of his newspaper with two columns
of description written over night At 2
o'clock the paper announces; mysterious
murder in Chicago; discovery of the victim
| by one of our reporters"
The morning papers were outdone, the
| evening ones nowhere.
An American newspaper is conglomera-
ton of news, political, literary, artistic,
scientific and fashionable, of reports of trials,
of amusing anecdotes, gossip Of all kinds, in
terviews, jokes, scandal, the whole written in
a style which sometimes shocks the man Of
taste, but which often interests, and always
amuses
A literary celebrity of Boston said to me
one day; II am ashamed of our American
press. We nave only two papers in the coun-
try that do not blush for, and those are The
Boston Post and The Evening Post, of New
York"
must say that, if you want to hear
America and everything American severely
criticised, you have only to go to Boston.
There you will hear Boston and England
praised and America picked to pieces.
Are you an Americana" once asked of O
gentleman l met in New York.
"Well," he said, after some hesitation, I'm
from Boston"
You must visit the offices of the great New
York papers in the evening if you would get
an idea of the colossal enterprises. There you
see about fifty reporters with their news all
ready for print in their hands. Each one in
turn passes before the heads Of the various
departments, political, literary, dramatic, etc.
What have your asks an editor to the
first reporter who presents himself.
IAN interview with Sarah Bernhardt."
Very good Half column And what
have youE he says, turning to the second.
"A report of John Smith the bankers
case"
Right. One column. And youT"
II have an account Of the presidents forth
coming journey to the south"
What have you for us this evening"" says
the editor to his correspondent in Berlin.
Bismarck threatens to send in his resigna-
ton"
"One column"
"Boulanger has just received an ovation at
Lille. A riot is feared in Paris" wires the
Paris correspondent.
Capital Send two columns"
"A scandal in Rome. The Marchioness of
n. has run away with her husbands score
tary"
Good Where are they goneg'
"No one knows"
'No matter Send a good stirring column
all the same"
"Whats-his,name, the fnancier, has made
off, b" ticks the wire from Chicago.