The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-17

! "Ha ha. hal funniest t. he, he. he Fun
nicst thing no, no, no! Funn est thing IN
he world"
Charley Jenkins tanpad his forehea signih-
cantly to those who stood around the llollen-
beck counter. "Wheels in the Gargoyle's head
working ag ,tn," he seid that's all"
'Not much; that isut ALL" said the Gar
goyle, whose b0isterous hilarity had made him
del to all but the last words OF the hot i clerk.
There's VIII lie lot more OF it-ha, Ia, he, he
Why, | could laugh from now till midnight
when think Of it Been in this city who c
month been coming here off and on for four
years-been Mt the hotels and about lown all
these days-and never foun out that Los An
geles had an evening newspaper-not till this
morning did make the discovery"
''Pshaw! is that your joke? There's nothing
funny in that I've spent three months a year
out here for naqrly 10 years aud haven't made
e discovery yet" said the Chicago drumme'
who in times past had been an attentive lis
tener to the Gargoye's dscourses and an
ardent admirer OF his classic wrinkles,
The Gargoyle Looked panied and was about
to go into the grill room all by himself when
the Chicago drummer stopped HIM "Oh,
well said he of Chicago to him of the wrin-
kle5. go on. tell your story Let's hear all
about it. II the is an evening paper in this
town want to know it
"Why, of course you do" said the Gargoyle
ats quitea curiosity in its way. l gained my
information by reading the HERALD, and I've
been wondering eversince how much the eve
ming paper paid the HERALD for the ADVERT c.
ment Tue a must have been worth n great
deal to the-the-a --Wha. do they call it,
Charl~y?"
The Evening Express, l believe" said the
tall, handsome young man behind the clnnter
On, yes; knew it belong ID to thu railroad
in some way. but would havs tax Il it for
Freight if you hadn't told me- OF course,
Charley's right" id the Gargoyle, turning
again to his listeners. Hes been here good
while and has things down pretty fine in this
city.
"Well, Iwent out and bought copy OF it
right off as soon rs | knew there was one.
had little trouble to get it, for most OF the
Poop | asked didn't seem to know much
aboutit. gugss they were all strangers here,
like myself, an only knew OF the Evening
Freight"
Express, said" came the voice from behind
the counter
'oh see here Charley I've read the thing
and know what Pm talking about. Expressis
too speedy for such movement Pm not going
10 missioner just to conform with the
printed head line. Now, it'll be Freight, or
I'll quit talking, right short
LAS I saying these newcomers who
have only been ont here for three or four
ars probably only know of the Evening
Freight by reading THE HERALD But | found
a eppy OF i: at last and tried to read the
editorial page - ahem! -"
We'll, go ahead, tell us what yot cad in the
Evening Freight" said the Chicago man. who
seemed to be the only other talkative membe
of the group.
on have to pass, gentlemen-though l
started out with good hand when it comes
to telling what l read on that page They
print no DIAGRAMS with their jokes, it seems,
and the rambling two-column editorial made
me positively dizzy. I'm going to write to my
friend Coils and tell him that he's vast ing
money on the Freight The old man is usually
We careful with his money n ld only places it
where he thinks he sees hundred fold profit.
He's wasting it on the Eve ling Freight, and
I'm going to let him KIN w it.
when turned over to the news columns
yes, that's whrt called them, news columns
l read something that was really very start
Judge Smiths court? Well, when the Freight
man reported that case he announced that the
corpse not in court. Strange thing that
must have been unavoidably detained by
press of business. The Evening Freight man
didn't give the reason. He just put it this
way tthe Gargoyle wrote it on the back OF his
visiting card: