Telegram-herald., 1890-01-11
TIE CHICAGO REPORTER
Tha Power and Inh0enee lie
Exsrts IN the Garcea City.



sa1 faa4s ~a.cn - al3s the s--etlers and t,-s
eaacks 70 zssf H~ laz does be eerkf
u.s-s - lie asaks uletts rtluklng ~ some
ueav slory o. tel for Ihs giary u the la-eeE
sr--,ula,or eouae T. tasn4 uoes t1ls veteraa
reoortsr k19s how 0-aos .avas himi Let
n..1los sse hia aroe u.1re Ie, Deu1s gaze
over rbe ro1es AZ the Caicago reporters-lte
men who's minds aavs most uolasd the
daily chronicles of Cnlcag0 Tor twenty years
oack
/ sish / rsaighr t-s 4 more service 60 Demos.
f8r Ike this eternal ntnass n lhings where
rs ghs last ho,sule nrss Lac % he tod
tast The people 4 sell nlrl particular attea-
ti1u on tie votsrles whose abandonment
~ tho garish w1g.1 has b-ea most absolute.
Tie reporter has nlais many men They
resound through the known world They 90
O. Europe aad they come aarl A pew pane
gyrlc Is ~ri,teu for ta-m vita every season.
Aud SCI, ss the sum of puclag descenis Al
tae ocean Of horoa,a. -lhs people gaze with a
fshy eye-thsy begin 20 know al about this
and that prominent citizen. Vow tel them
about the invisible s,rihe the ta1ldermist
Who stuffed these speclnl-ns newspaper
reuorter-ths genuine oid tlmer-the man
who believes there Is no prominent citizen
without straw uul.r bis be.t. who believes
there - no good. 10 bad. nopatriot. no traitor,
no orator, no bore. until the reporter hes
written il uD or written IT, down.
The peonis are getting cynical, too In
troduce them 70 the scribe himself lie alone
is not boxus. Te alone in all America has
pricked the bubble reputation Look about
on the sons Of their fathers. on the great
philantAropists with brother who are poor
clerks and sisters who are tvrewriters: on
theelouuent sta tesuen with reporters speech
e. In pocket; or the crack Drained women
who are hailed in the literary notes as she
ShakesDsares gather 1t all. aud there it is.
tho heavens and the earth made bv a report
er in seven favs. ror he gats no rest Sunday.
The rsDorter : the daily paper. Upon his
ability rests the entire destiny Of the morn
iny,s news A Snblinoe event which he back
c,ns be>o4nes an item oree,iilv FORGOTTEN by
a living ae,e which seems like the hoarv past.
wish the reader vo,,ld helm me with such a
thought We have become so forgetfuI. 50
duile5 that our own heroes must sink into
Oblivion. while old Horatius lives on. A
stuDsd welding OF two idiots. with the re-
rorrer's toll. becomes a thing 20 set a world
aro-. Tho rerorter pulls the good down.
The people crv for more vengeance. The
rer,ortar mil, another string and villains
prosner. The people beat the tomtons and
iighf tbe npblir teru]es
The men who bava done these things in
CHICAGO have. Of course. varied in number
Tvys,tv years AGO there were but thirty in
the lor can remember Fred Hall Tod
Cowles. ". =. Walker. Charlie Northrup.
lin, Havnie Georre Gordon. " +. Sullivan
Neacbarn Ssur Mediu. Johnny ENGLISH
Johnny Gallagher. John Ritchie. Mel Stone
Sam Steele, Guy Magee. George Armstrong.
Leo Canman. Fred Cook, the Goodsells. Hine.
Jim Chisholm, Eaton. Mdgley, Colebrook
and later. STANLEY Huntlev.
The group Of today NAV number 100 In
that group remain Jim Chisholm. Sam Steele,
Leo Canman and Hine. They alone have
kept 70 the profession in Chicago They alone
have continued 10 stuff prominent citizens.
1 suppose any one Of these veterans has made
at least 600 grateful-efTusively grateful
heroes. no one of whom viii today speak TO
his creator II il can be helped.
Fred Hall writes editorials on The Tribune.
Tod CowIes IS managing editor Of The St.
Paul Pioneer Press. He and Sam Medill rep
resented The Times and Tribune behind
Weston when the little pedestrian walked
from Portland to Chicago. " S Walker IS
rich and In life insurance Charlie Northrup,
Walkers partner, 4: dead. Both rose 70 be
city editor Of The Times in It's best days Jim
Haynie IS a Parisian and calls himself Henay
TO help the French out George Gordon is
east. W X. Sullivan is chief at The Journal.
and has been there for at least fifteen years.
lie has been to the legislature and on the
board OF education. He Is a man OF success
and is probably well satisfied. Meacham, the
philosopher, IS dead lie edited The Tribune's