The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-06-26
JOURNALISM AND FAKEISM.

| contemporary, The Bulletin, nearly every
evening. Some persons, we also believe,
occasionally read our other esteemed con-
temporary, The Telegram. AS everybody
reads THE NEWS, we shall have pleasure
in letting them all into the rare enjoy
ment that an nter-iournalistic episode
gave us last evening.
1t may not. be generally known, but it
is fact, nevertheless, that sometimes our
esteemed contemporary, The Bulletin,
prints things almost as soon as the other
papers in town, and on rare occasions
prints something that the rest of us
don't have. It's also fact, though prob
ably not of universal knowledge, that
our esteemed contemporary, The Telegram,
never gets left. 1t would rather print
what isn't so, than get left, and 1t makes
no bones OF getting out an "extra" to
catch up with the procession of the
news of the day. instead of waiting until
the next afternoon to copy from THE
NEWS, as our more easy going contem-
porary, The Bulletin, is content to do
This simple but sufficient, exposition of
the characteristics of our esteemed con-
temporaries is essential TO proper under
standing OF the episode which gave us
such rare enjoyment last evening, which
enjoyment we want to share with the
public at large, and thus reap new
pleasure for ourselves.
1t appears that clever artist attached
to our esteemed contemporary, The Bulle-
tin, learned that the hinder parts of the
new cup defender were exposed to view
from the Herreshoff shops at Bristol, and
he went down there, and from the stern
sheets of a rowboat proceeded to take ad-
vantage of the coveted opportunity to
sketch the mysterious craft, whose lines
have been so closely guarded. Despite
the uneasy bobbing of the rowboat, and in
the face of fusillade OF spikes and old
iron, with which the Herreshof workmen
bombarded the venturesome artist to drive
him off, the artist got first rate sketch.
His enterprise and his nerve, under fire,
as well as his artistic ability, are COM
mendable, and we congratulate him In
presenting in yesterdays Bulletin pic
ture that will be curiously viewed, and
greedily studied in every newspaper office,
and by every yachtsman in America and
England 1t was fine stroke OF news
paper enterprise worthily executed, and is
especially calculated to make those Bos-
ton yacht-newspaper men green with
jealousy.
The remarkably fine sketch appeared i'm
an early edition of The Bulletin. Had
there been time to have duplicated il
THE NEWS artist would have reproduced
1t in late edition, and we should have
cheerfully credited and quoted The Bull
letin's original. Our esteemed contem-
porary, The Telegram. however, recognized
no such limits, either to artistic possibili-
ties or ordinary newspaper amenities. In
a later edition, our esteemed contempor-
ary, The Telegram, appeared on the street
as big as life and several times as natural.
with what it was pleased to call .'De-
tenders hull as seen looking upward
from the whatever point of view
that means. With the sketch was a state |
ment that "the only authentic picture of
The Defender is herewith presented, 4" fol- |
lowed by few paragraphs lifted bodily |
from the description furnished by our
other esteemed contemporary, The Bull
letin.
No language can properly describe that |
'only authentic picture, taken, "looking |
upward from the stays" In our minds |
eye we can see the artist OF our esteemed |
The Telegram, with the
early edition of our esteemed contempor-
ary, The Bulletin, i'm front OF him. strue- |
Cling heroically to copy the "only au-
thentic picture" on a chalk plate, while
the rest Of the boys were fevcrishly
clipping the only authentic description
from our esteemed contemporary, The
and somebody else was describ-
ing how it was "seen looking upward
from the stays" and the foreman was
swearing blue streak, because his forms
were being held, and the presses were
painting at the leashes, so to speak, to
run off the edition. What tho artist pro-
iuced he is not TO be condemned for.
Some other than he called il the "only
picture" Being an artist, he