The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-15

BEING TAKEN IN BIZ ANOTHER REPORTER.
The reporter made cOpious notes. and that
night made two columns of the story for
the Sabbath paper.
When it appeared, all the papers made
fun Of him, because both the driver and
the conductor of that car were reporters
who were also getting material for their
journals, and when they saw that he was
securing information for publication, they
proceeded at rapid rate TO fill him up, and
even as the reporter was listening to the
smooth and fearful tale of the driver, the
conductor was thinking up what he also
would tell him.
In the afternoon, the editor told him that
he would not do; "you ought to know better
than that" he said. you have made US a
subject of mirth, for the other papers have
got their stories direct from the driver and
the conductor of the same car, and the
worst of il is, that they tell all about how
they loaded up with property facts and low,
coarse falsehoods You ought to know
better than to show your note book any
way unless you want to be done up. Now
60 and act at once and do something credit
able, or go away and never come back
any more. l am sick and tired of people
who have no originality Of thought. Why
do you not lead life of shame, or murder
some one and write it up for US!
The reporter said he would do the best he
could. He began by taking a drink at
place where you can get a cocktail, fresh
egg and bowl Of bread and milk, with
music and shave for 10 cents. When we
stop to consider that the cost of the bread.
milk, egg, music, etc, is all taken out of
the quality OF the cocktail, we at once ar
rive at the conclusion that the liquor is of
al inferior quality
He drank another, and then decided to
gradually work his way over to the Inebri-
ate's home, whore he had heard there was
very poor food for the inmates and a good
field for newspaper work. He took another
Attorney street cocktail and breath of
air, and soon let of yell which awoke a
police sOmnsmbulist Goaded to madness
by thus being aroused in the middle of the
afternoon, the policeman hit the reporter a
sickening blow on the head and took him to
the station.
On the following day the reporter tried
to write il up as far as he had gone, but
his head hurt him so that he gave it up.
The other papers, however, had real good
accounts of the incident, giving his name
and also stating that he was the reporter
who had made an ass of himself by inter
viewing two other reporters on a street
car, and filed the columns of the press with
horror over an imaginary tale of woe, well
calculated to iniure the street car line.
So he did not try to investigate the In
eorlatS nonle al an, lie Just stayed Tor
a few days at little inebriate's home OF
his own, and tried to make his wife believe
what be told her about the origin Of the
trouble.
He hired out then for a dav or two as
assistant to timer, and went with him t.
assist him in putting tin patch on thu
country seat Of a wealthy mar, Here h,
got to thinking once more OF mis- old WORK
ard also Of the5great field for usefulness ii
the detective line. First he thought b,
wonld try it as a stowaway, but he on,
tried one vessel and found that anothe
paper had representative there and on,
stowaway was really all that the Vesse
would accommodate.
Then il occurred to him to get smnggle,
INTO 4 ssecting class He had heard that