Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-19

tors, even when they included such news
rustlers as poor Sam Donnelly OF the Herald,
Edwards, Miner and Cuddy OF the Republi-
can, and Kept,9f the Nows.
Tom titzmorris was foreman OF the news
room, with seven or eight printers to herd.
He added TO the duties OF cutting up copy.
measuring Strings and employing aud dis
charging tyfse2setters, the responsibilities OF
editing Telegraph, making up the forms for
two daily editions and selecting matter for
and arranging the weekly. His skill as n
head-liner VAS phenomenal The most com.
monplace item or article, under the glow OF
his imagination, appeared garbed In an
attractive hueu On occasions when tho edi-
tors were cut and the calls for COPY were
loud, he used TO rush in desperation into the
editorial room, sieze the shears and clip
miscellany by the column, thus usurping the
functions OF the news editor. IL is only fair
to say that the paper never suffered by
reason of his incursions. Later titzmorris
gained q T.3o reputation for TIE BEE by his
concise and witty handling of the department
of state and occidental jottings which were
extensively copied throughout the west.
IL was small staff but / doubt IL that OF
any other newspaper of the country worked
as hard, was half as ambitious or more faith
full to the interests Of the paper which they
served. There was an esprit de corps which
in spite of hard times, small pay and the con-
stant contentious IN which the paper was en-
gagged, bound together the little band of
workers. They were all BEE men to the
backbone, tried to make its fights their own
and fer that It's interests were their inter-
ests and its reverses their misfortunes.
They fought its battles on 'soft paper' and
drove in the line of retreat afterwards on
the streets. Among themselves and in the
office they cursed, perhaps, the internal, driv-
ing persistency OF the proprietor, but they
invariably defended him on the outside
They unsel6shly and manfuliy did five mems
work. each man of them, because they knew
it was necessary in order to keep ahead of
the procession, but they never allowed their
gi giumbling to interfere with the regular out
pour of copy. THE BEE advanced steadily,
primarily, of course, because of the push
and the pluck of its editor who was man of
ideas, but no less because, like q good gen.
cral, he gathered around him a staff of sub
ordinates who intelllgently and faithfully
carried out his policy.
! venture the assertion that there is no one
OF the old staff of 1879, wherever or however
he may be engaged to-day, who does not feel
sense of personal qualification ut the show
ing which the BEE makes on this its eigh-
teenth anniversary. The old building is
abandoned. In its place rises the largest in
area and one of the most palatiul newspaper
structures in the world. The old faces no
longer peer anxiously over the battered edi-
torial tables, but in their stead younger and
perhaps brighter men direct from editorial
desks the reporters and writers who serve up
fresh news and virile opinions The job Office
has long been consigned to junk, but its old
manager, Harry Haskell, q little grayer may
hap, but none the less vigorous, ,presdes over
the largest, the llghtest and the best arranged
composing room in the country. The dingy,
dirty and hot editorial den of ten years ago
is metamorphosed into handsome parlor
with massive mantel, lnlaid floor, oriental
rugs and elegant furniture; but at the central
desk sits to-day, rs he did a decade ago, the
handspring of the establishm ent, the editor
and proprietor Mr.. Rosewater, Justly proud
OF the results of nearly twenty years of
labor, of which he is for the first time reap
ing the fine fruits. w. E. AMIN.