Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-03-05

tenn. The operators at that time could
no: tell the letters by sound, but read
them as they recorded dots on long slips
of white paper. BY the way, when the
Banks speakership fight was on, Hor.
ace Greeley came over here to look into
:he matter himself. l was in the tele-
graph office in the old National hotel
about eight o'clock one evening, when
oid Greeley came in, handed some copy
To the operator and hurried out to
join a friend. / heard him say some
thing that indicated that he was 60
ing to the theater, but l do not now
remember his exact words.
We'll, l was writing dispatch on the
speakership situation, when the tele.
graph operator asked me to help him
read Greeley's dispatch. 1t was hor'
r:biy-written manuscript, but, being an
old typesetter, l was able to help the
boy piece it out and make a sensible
dispatch of it. Moreover, incidentally,
/ found out that old Greeley had got
ten some inside facts which | had not
learned; so | tore up what had writ.
ten and wrote for my paper different
dispatch. 1t turned out the next day
that Greeley and were both right in
our representations, but if | had not
seen that dispatch | would have been
awfully wrong in my news matter.
"As matter of precautfon, to pre-
vent others from getting on the in
side, l gave that telegraph operator
fatherly talk. / told him that while
it was all right for me to help him
out in reading that dispatch, he must
be very careful not to let any other
newspaper man see any dispatch, un-
der any circumstances, because he
might lose his place if he did Thus,
with clean conscience, l had helped
old Greeley by helping the boy read
his manuscript; | had helped the boy
with some well-meant advice, and
had helped myself at the same time by
keeping on the right side of the news
market.
The messenger boys and the news
paper correspondents have very close
relations in Washington in modern
times. The correspondents seldom &c
to the telegraph offices with their dis
patches. They write their news il
their offices, then ring for messenger
boy, who promptly responds and car
ries each dispatch to the telegraph of
flee. In the press galleries of the cap
itol the correspondents write theil
brief kilograms to afternoon papers
and, although the telegraph Office is no
more than ten or fifteen feet from the
table where the dispatches are writ
ten, the messenger boys are there tt
carry the news from writer to sender
The successful Washington correspond
ents are pampered in many ways.
The position of Washington CORE
spondcnt has become so desirable tha'
there is an ambitious reporter in every
large newspaper Office who longs anC
hopes for the day when he may be sen
to the national capital. AS a result o
this ambition and consequent intrigue
some of the best and most successful
correspondents have been supplantet
by new men during the past ten years
because of the home influence excrteC
OH the managing editors. Consequent
ly there are scores of new faces in the
press galleries, and the old-timers d.
not know one-half of them. They ar,
all bright fellows, for the managing ed
itor of good newspaper would not, un
der any circumstances, send to this cit,
anyone who did not possess superio
ability and education. Therefore, it i
not an eXaggeration to say that in tn
press gallery of the house of represent
atives there is fully as high an orde
of intelligence as there is upon the foo
of the house; and the average Wash
ington correspondent need not take OF
his hat nor bow too low to the averag
congressman. In the senate it is differ
ent. The members of that body are el
derby, experienced, learned, grave, dig
nified, and command the respect of al
newspaper men. SMITH d. FRY.
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