The evening world., 1894-06-30
COFF and
HOLLYWOOD.
tContiru,d from First Piggy

davits TO the then Police Superintendent,
| Murray.
About that time another reporter, con
! neCtcd with one OF the papers which
| Smith had not approached heard OF the
/ story. Just as Smith did. he gathered
| all the facts ami then hurried to his
| office. The story was nailed win DE-
| light. and he was sent uht to see the
| Hollywood compHny's MAJ agcr, William
| NJ. f'lciss, TO get his side, of the tale,
| After the reporter had stated the OBJ
| iect of his visit Mr. Flriss became gIua,.
! ly excited. threatened tho reporter and
said that II tn" story was written he
! ,fl"issl would have the writer discharged
/ from his paper and would make 1t hot
for him Ia other ways. The reporter
laughed went back ana wrote his story
giving little extra spice to his inter,
view with F'lciSs II was then about
o'clock IL tn" afternoon, Hnl the re
! spOnsihlc editors OF III" paper were high
! ~ gratiiicd. The articl, was ret up into
Three hours later the Managing Editor
! after an interview with some persons
actively Interested in politics. Informed
the city edit and the reporter that the
| story could not b" published.
| gloomy counienance, "w why we cannot
print 1t. I'm very sorry.
| member the /" fun" in the oilice that
night The city editor thought the story
| shhlld be published. So did everybody
| else, but the managing editors word was
|
office nothing could be done.
1t is rarely that conspiracy Is
Matched in "A newspaper Office, but one
was Matched that night to get the man
aging editor away. He was actually
aecoyed uptown, and thrust upon a
party OF friends, who kept him until
phone. satisfied himself that everything
was running smoothly at the office, and,
Inorc.ding home, he tunbled into bed.
| " hllc counting sleep his mind travelled
| We ~ ,N a -
wondered why the men In the office
socm. 80 glad that he should take.
mAh' on This train OF Thought led him
but "A sanity ejaculation, he leapcd out
o, bed, threw on his clothes and running
outside hailed n cab and drove down to
| the newspaper Office. 1t was then 10
| \. NJ. Half an hour later the presses
would be at work.
He hurried upstairs into the compos-
ing-room and scanned the forms. There
on the first page, under big headlines,
was the story of the police officials con-
nection with the Hollywood Company.
The story. was lifted from, the form
and other stories put In to fill its place
and what was probably the nearest at
tempt at publishing in detail the Holly
wood whiskey story had been crushed.
About six months later another news.
paper, wanting To make record for
fearlcssncss, tackled the story. and two
newspaper men who were supposed TO
know something about II were specially
again They were told their first story
would be of two pages. and that the
matter would h" followed up until the
Police Department had been turned up
side down.
These reporters saw some of the
wholesale men, including Peter Me
tluado and John kercsey.
You win never print that story" Mr.
McQuade said.
lie was assured that 1t would he pub
lshcd and then Mr. McQuade said:
| n Executive
Committee of the Association and we
Will bind ourselves to -tand behind the
are brought We will pay the costs, and
If ty any possibility verdict Is given
against the paper we will bind ourselves
editor and tell him So"
The Executive Committee did meet.
and whether the resolutions referred
that MIR McQuade did cali at the news
paper Office and that afterwards the
reporters referred to were told to go
ahead with the story il was then early
was ordered for the following Satur-
I've viii tFien put out our entire staN,
II necessary" II was said, ito verify
all the statements, so that there will be
no sip-up.'
Every day, from early morning until
nearly midnight, the reporters worked.
Dozens OF saloons were visited and
many statements obtained. From the
wholesale men, as well as from Smith,
II was learned that Supt. Murray had
made an investigation on the complaint
forwarded to Mayor Hewitt According
to the statements made at the time
each one OF the liquor dealers who had
called down to the superintendent Of
Then, it was charged at the time
athdavits. denying the former ones
which they had signed, and practically
taking back all that they had sworn To-
swear. and that i've of them actually
/ did SO for fear they would be CloscC NJ
altogether. The sixth one, who Mas d
hrothcr-ip- law of n well-known eS-S'na
Il will not" he was credited with say
ing, commit perjury for any man,
~, "N ,,I,,,o VEL, Mr. sn god o nay ""'
Something. however, hlpp"nei uurint
the week, for at the expiration o' tha
time the same retail dealer again np
penred at Police Headquarters. He wa
asked II he was ready to make the Cuun
ter anidavlt. lie said he was provide
IL was changed so that he would no
have to commit actual perjury tn
affidavit was. it was said at the tim"
handed to him ami changed into some
thing of a prevaricatIng nature an'
man thought II advisable to get out q
| the liquor business.
The twu-page story WIS written an
turned into the newspaper office. carl
on the saturday morning indicated ~
reporters were informed later that tn
entire stan dii actually start out TO in
terview all the persons named. II wa
also stated that the story had been -
M in type,
But IL was not published the next day
as promised. nor has II yet seen tn
light The reporters were never In
formed why.
one of the men sent out to Corrohorat
the story stated that he had seen a well
known official who had been mcntonc
in The story when asked about it, IN
official IL credited wish saving:
III that story is ever published | wi
railroad to Jail the men who wrote II a
w-N a. the men responsible for it,
will Kill the paper"
Now, what is the Hollywood story a
about?