The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-02-17
A FIGHT FOR MILLIONS.
By JOHN ]. M'GINNIss.
Copyright, 1894, by American Press Associa-
tion.l
CONTINUED

4 STIR IN A NEWSPAPER OFFICE.

what the readers of the paper have pic
tured 1.-THE traditional title of sane
tum sanctorum lifting it to dignity
In public imagination that 1t could not
claim even under the latitudinous Ii
cense of journalistic pretension.
The plate glass windows of the build
ing facing the city hall are covered
with gilt letters. The handles on the
massive front doors are oxidized. The
counters in the business office are of
polished mahogany, and the ratings
from the cashiers desk to that of the
advertising clerk are of heavy brass, Of
beautiful design, and shining almost
like gold. Round the walls are elegant
Autographs, so artistically framed and
SO neatly arranged that they seem to be
the original masterpieces of which they
are but copies.
Let us look behind the partition, run
ming from floor to ceiling, that sepa-
rates the richly decorated business office
from the editorial and reporterial
rooms, and shuts ont from them light
and air. The rich dress of the newspa-
per Cinderella tulns into rags not even
the rubbing of Aladdin's lamp could
work stranger metamorphosis. The
entrance is by narrow hallway, such
hallway as you would find in a tene-
ment where travel has worn the softer
wood and the knots, refusing to sink
beneath sole leather, stand up in gnarl-
ed determination to upset the unwary.
Entering a side door, the uninitiated is
staggered by the sudden transition from
the business palace to a miserable,
stuffy, dingy apartment, where the in
tellectual force of the paper is both an
nalizing and analyzing the history of a
day and molding the policy of decades,
as the great presses in the basement be-
low are about to awaken to breakfast
on tons of paper while all the world is
asleep.
Away off in the further corner of the
room is a boxlilie arrangement formed
by running two sides of a half partition
up against the walls, completing the
quadrangle that makes private office
for the managing editor. At desk
near the door of this little office is seat
ed the night city editor. Two gas Jets
light long table in the center of the
room, where a number of reporters are
seated, turning out stories of murder,
suicide, fire, romance and intrigue that,
after few touches of the blue pencil,
will read tomorrow like the classic pro-
u''c'ioii7 u, oi ieuiile.ohist VINO, unlike
nor FASTENED by time
Against ehe walls are rev common
ueshs ol ruoe construction, ana each
mas gas let % lisen. AT one slts the
teiesraph e,'itor' me others are re-
serNeu ior t''.ae VINO nave risen 10 the
uis1iiie'ioil u department men, OF spe-
el"liS,S, 10 whom some particular lea-
'uie"' .hc paper' from rellsion losports
anu polit'IS' mas peen assigned, At ono
VI tiieso u Laurence Nlailsal: mere mas
peeii r'ah Vi pls stofies' tne hlllhhhg
pafasfapi'a afe awaited III the eolhpos-
ii'S ioo,h' soiiie attleles iiltst DC cut
uo"h slio iacts coiiiptessea mo lesser
space tof newspaper coinmhs are not
eiastle. Mangah Is pressed into duty
as copy reader
"ha, 10 you litliik OF mat NAN
gant asked inc hisht editor as ne
handed him telegram from Albany
announcing the passage at the evening
session Of the legislature of the bill
appointing a commission TO plan sys-
tenn of city parks for BROOKLYN and
another to bond the CITY for the amount
required.
stThink Of if y he renlied "wbv If ia
a conspiracy. 1t can be converted into
a nnbli, benefit Inf II is most lil;o1y Ia
become public swindle. These COM
missioners are Francis Raymond,s s men
and Won can dennpd mon II be owns
so,na nronertv ba wants 10 disnosa of AZ
n b;g nt;ra mr. be knnvs neonlo who
own sndb and will nav him bapdsomelv
In ret rid of II. If they themselves ran
GET an advance above the current realty
yalne However il will NOT do TO say