The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-12-07
A TRUE TALE.

A CeIthlH He"SPupeI HVt oNei
thousand miles from Detroit was
once owned and operated by syndi-
cate OF lawyers, business men and
politicians, says an exchange. About
half of the board Of directors at first
wanted the fun and honor of run
ming the paper. So wherever one of
them fancied lie had an idea in his
head he would run up to the office
and interview the managing editor.
Director No. rs idea was that the
editor and reporters were loafing
most of the time, because they were
not in the building every minute of
the day like his own mill hands.
"Do you give your whole time to
the paper?" he asked one time of the
managing editor.
"Oh, no." said the editor. II
take seven or eight hours for sleep,
and an hour or more for meals, a
quarter of an hour for dressing in the
morning, five minutes undressing at
night. | don't shave, so there's five
or ten minutes saved there; but l
black my own boots, that takes time.
Then there's the time going to and
from the office. Sometimes | lie
awake an hour or two at night think.
ing out some scheme for the paper.
That ought to offset the time L take
for meals. 1t seems to me, though,
as if | gave all the rest of the time to
the paper.
"Humph! You ought to write
more for it Three columns a day,
at least"
"You ought to put a barrel of
water into every gallon of whisky
you'd get more for the money until
people found it out"
81 saw the gas burning here as
late as y O'Clock one night. The
gas bills are something frightful,"
said director No. 2, when he called.
eyes; well, you see this is morn
ing paper, and it gets pretty dark by
midnight, and along until the paper
goes to press the compositors-those
are the men that set the types, you
know-they can't read everybody's
copy in the dark, and so whenever
they come across u piece of copy
they are not familiar with we have
to light the gas for them. Probably
when you came by the office that
night they had just struck piece of
that kind of copy
sob, of course, If it's necessary,
we can't object; but don't burn any
more than yon actually need
Director No. 3 remarked:
81 don't altogether like what you
copy from other papers. | don't
think it's very interesting. Now,
I've taken the Observer for several
years, and there's lot of interesting
reading matter in that. When | get
through with it hadn't l better send
the paper down to you and you can
copy things out of it. | have kept a
file of it for years, so | wouldn't like
to have you cut it.
so, yes, send it along. | won't cut
anything out of it.
Another director came in one day
and remarked:
"That's fine article you've got
on the editorial page this morning !!
Gets me in nice mess! Why, the
mans one of my best friends and
he'll lay for me. Who wrote it!'
"Mr. Jackson"
"Well, Jackson is - fool.
He's no more judgment than sheep.
We ought to get rid of him."
In order to appease Mr.. Director
the editor few days afterward had
another article prepared carefully,
taking back what had been said and
making a yelled apology for it.
In came director No. D.
you've made an awful mistake
you ought to stick to what you said
last week. That was just right. II
bit the nail on the head, went right
to the spot. Now you've gone and
taken water on it. You ought tC
consult Jackson about these things.
His judgment on such matters is
excellent. w.
By this time the editor began tt
think how his name would look al
the bottom of q resignation N. I.