Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-11
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 ''HslIo. is that the DEMOCRAT officer" ]. Yes"
 s'well. for heavens sake why did you make that price on ladies' wrappers 49 cents in the Miller & Peck Co.'S advertise ment yesterday. It should have been 59 centsg'
 '.We're very sorry. the printer and proof reader will be murdered and the mistake will not occur again."
 ''All night. but that error has already cost us S3 and we will charge it up to your account Goodbye" or
 The above conversation was by tele- phone at s:45 yesterday morning. Of course errors like that mentioned will oc- casionally creep into print, but 1t speaks volumes for the value of the DEMOCRAT as an advertising medium when twenty wrappers are sold before S:45 a. m, be- cause the printer knocked ten cents of the bargain day price. There is a double moral: It pays to advertise in the DEMO- GRAF and people are looking for bargains.
 THE ice men have been laughing all over their faces for several weeks. They have been reaping rich harvest. and naturally they are in a jubilant mood. Well, they are not to be blamed for these evidences of satisfaction. though their joy would be more seemly and would be more generally appreciated with complacency by the rest of the community if with increased de- mands for their frigid commodity they did not so materially reduce the size of the pieces served to customers, and without lessening the price.
 THE attack on Reporter John H. Curley of the American at the fire on Railroad Hill street calls for more than a mere passing ! notice. Very few people understand the difficulties surrounding the work of a newsgatherer for reputable journal, and l any attempt to interfere with him in his efforts to secure an item of legitimate news should receive the condemnation of | everyone who desires to learn the facts in connection with matters on which the pub- | lie desires to receive full and accurate in. | formation. It is the aim of every honest reporter to get the facts and submit them | to the public in a fair, impartial manner To do thls he is often obliged to ask ques. tions which some people not conversani | with his work consider impertinent, while in reality his aim is to verify what he has heard and prevent misrepresentation and | injustice, which some people seem to take | SpcSAai uehShI HI pEdCticinS on re- | porters. If the average newsgatherer was not alert and scrupulous quite a good many flake" items would appear in the papers, and it requires a cautious man tc | ferret out the facts from a hundred and one conflicting stories which the reporter often hears from different persons in rela ton to the same subject. Be candid witf the newsman. If you can impart the in I formation which he is in search of do it 1T a cheerful manner. If you are not willing to do this you can get rid of him withou offering him insult, abuse. or worse thar all. by giving him a version of the stor, which you know to be false. In trifinC with the reporter you subject him to mucl annoyance and often do him a positive in jury in his profession and place yoursel | in the power of a man who. If he wishes t' retaliate. has many opportunities of givinl | you rub when you least expect it. IT. be subjected to a personal assault while il the discharge of ones duty is very humili ating and should meet with summar, punishment, but bad as this may appear i is hardly as exasperating as to be sen away with wrong version of the story.
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 ''YEs. the barbers feel the hard time just as much as other people" remarke, a tonsorial artist who operated upon
 newspaper mans chin to-day. "How al of the barbers in Waterbury manage to ge a living now is mystery but I hear ther are some people thinking of starting moI shops. Somebody ought to apply to Judg Lowe to appoint conservators over them because they surely cannot be in thei right senses. Some of our best customers men who used to get shaved three ar fou times n week. now only come once a week and don't have bay rum at all. l suppos they consider clean faces R luxury, an