The evening world., 1894-06-30

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\ sale men forwarded the affidayits to hin
=. and asked for an Investigation. Tn
VI Mayor was surprised, but Instead o
matter, s and sent the complaint and am
davits 70 the then Police Superintendent
n. AsSs x hft ons a. the
a Smith had not approached. heard OF Tn
story. Just as Smith did, he gathere1t
| I all the facts and then hurried to hl'
ONCE The story was hailed with de
light. and he was sent out to see Tn.
| Hollywood Companys marager. william
IN. Flelss, to get his side of the tale.
iect OF his visit Mr.. Fleiss became great
~ excited, threatened the reporter ant
said that fthe story was written n
from his paper and would make 1t hot
for him in other ways. The reporter
laughed. went back and wrote his story
view with Fieiss. 1t was then about .
o'clock In the afternoon. and the re-
sponsible editors OF the paper were high
" gratified. The article was set up into
\ Three hours later the Managing Editor
4 kfter an interview with some persons
actively interested In politics. Informed
= Xhe city editor and the reporter that the
story could not be published.
! There are reasons he said. with a
rint X ' im sery we ea""0'
member Ss T the my fun ' in the Office that
@ p E. sK faioF 81 S0 ia ss iS
Use. but the managing editors word WAS
MICE nothing could be done, u..
hatched in newspaper office. but one
vas Matched that night to get the INA, man n.
>oarty Of friends. who kept him until
Alftef midnight. He had. over the tele-
was running smoothly at the office. and,
~ proceeding home. he tumbled into bed.
While counting sleep his mind travelled
= over the events Of the day, and then he
y seemed SO glad that he should take n
Z night off. This train of thought led him
to speculation. and then, with anything
/. OF bed, threw on his clothes and running
{. outside hailed a cab and drove down to
the newspaper Office 1t was then l.3O
A. M. Half an hour later the presses
y He hurried upstairs into the compos
ing-room and scanned the forms. There
Sn s the story 81 the police 'e os
8 nection with the Hollywood Company.
The story was lifted from a., the he. frame frame
and other stories Rs. IN to mi ats
tempt at publishing In detail the Holly
4 wood whiskey story had been crushed.
About six months later another news
Z fearlessness, tackled the story. and two
newspaper men who were supposed to
know something about 1t were specially
engaged to gather the facts all over
again. They were told their first story
would be Of two pages. and that the
matter would be followed up until the
- Police Department had been turned up.
These reporters saw some OF the
wholesale men, including Peter Nc
"You will never print that story" Mr.
He was assured that it would be pub
81 will call a meeting OF the Executive
Committee OF the Association and we
will bind ourselves to stand behind the
re brought VIII pay a ths eo Ssi s and
| II by any possibility la verdict is given
.gainst the paper we viii bind ourselves
The Executive Committee did meet.
and whether the resolutions referred
to were passed or not, certain II In
that Mr. Mc0uade did call at the news
paper office and that afterwards the
reporters referred to we're told to 70
!, In the week. and two-page article
was ordered for the following satur-
! 1--WE viii then put out our entire stan.
necessary" it was said, ITO verify
[ f-I- Ms- !tstements. SO that there will be
4 Every day, from early morning until
nearly midnight. the reporters worked.
many ststemtns obtained. From the
%ss ssat wf sap Manray
made an investigation on the complaint
forwarded to Mayor Hewitt. According
each one Of the liquor dealers who had
made affdavit as to the, coercion was
called down to the superintendent Of
Then. II WAS cbarved ~ the time
they were handed second batch Of
amdavits. denying the former ones
which they had signed. and practically
1t was charged that they were told 10
swear. and that 1--WE OF them actually
old SO for fear they would be CLOSED up
brother-in-law Of a well-known ex-Sena-
II viii not" he was credited with say
Ing, commit perjury for any man.:
the liquor e dealer was hs own outside, w
Something, however. happened during r,
tnYe the same retail dealer again APP
s~peAhed at Police Headquarters. He was
asked q he was ready to make the coun;
I was changed SO that he would not
have to commit actual perjury. The
Hfidavit was, it was said at the time
sworn to. Six months later the same
nan thought II advisable to get out Of
The liquor business.
The two-page story was written ant
turned into the newspaper Off, zee early
on the Saturday morning indicated. Tn,
reporters were informed later that tn
entire stan did actually start out to in
terview all the persons named. 1t wa,
also stated that the story had been Sc
up In type.
But It was not published the next da,
! as promised. nor has 1t yet seen th'
light The reporters were never In
formed why.
One OF the men sent out to ocrroborat,
the story stated that he had seen IA well
known official who had been mentionet
In the story. When asked about It, tn
y Dfficial is credited with saying:
= "Ifthat story is ever published I will
railroad to jail the men who wrote 1t a
well as the men responsible for II.
Will kill the paper"
Now, what is the Hollywood story al
about?
GOFF WILL GO A-FISHlNG.