The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31
swore he was sober as the night manager.

swore he was sober as the night manag or,
and insisted on going to work - ..-
| He went over and opened his wire
all right, and as he seemed to be run
ming pretty smooth we didn't pay much
attention to, him.. He had a little bunch
| OF commercial messages in front of him.
and he was sending rather irregular, loaf
! ing bit and then sprinting when he got
| ready. So nobody thought anything about
| him until message came to the night
| chief saying: NIX. says break that man
| on your South wire NIX! was Mexico
signature, so we went over and took
| stock Of the Kid. He was sending all
right, but he was still at work on the
little ten-word message he started with
and it was time-checked all over till you
couldn't read it. But the. Kid evidently
had the wording of it hammered into his
head, and was sending it over and over
at the rate Of sixty words a, minute, and
time checking it with his pencil hand
every time he finished. His head was ev-
identity paralyzed drunk, but his fingers
were working on an independent circuit
Mexico hadn't been able to make. him
break, and as there was no other way
clear to get into our office they had tC
route a wire up through HermosilIo, Ben
son, Los Angeles and San Francisco to
get back to our office and call the Kid
Off"
TELEGRAPHING FOR A CHEW.
THAT wasn't much worse than round
about message I got the other day. re-
marked press operator between mouth
fuls Of mince pie 81 was working one
Of the New York wires in the A P. Office
here, and Conley was working the other
at the next table. Pretty soon the man on
my wire in New York says: Tell Conley
to tell Pete to send me a chew of tobacco
You see, the two wires were right togeth-
er in the Washington office, but they
ended in different rooms in the New York
office. The man on my wire was too busy
to go into the next room and borrow a.
chew from his partner, so he tells me In
Washington, and 1 tells Conley, and Con-
ley tells the other New York man that
his partner in the next room to him was
perishing for piece Of plug, and that
wire not being SO busy as mine. the man
on the New York end had chance to go
In and lend my man chew"
at is all very we'll to have friend
on the other end of your wire" remarked
the eX-night chief, IF he don't think he
knows anything about horses. But I've
lost more money on sure things that the
man on the other end had an inside tip
on than I ever expect to save subbing
for an ungrateful corporation Say, did
you happen to get caught in that General
!
| ago If you didn't you are about the only
people in the business who didn't. GEN
era1 Jackson was a pretty good horse
some time before the war, but he'd got
into the selling platter class while l was
| o. Sing for the railroads. Then he
turned up with a glass leg, and that fin
! ished him. Ike Hennessy had him on his
string In. Chicago that year, but he never
! could get in trim to stay over FIVE fur
! longs, and Hennessy decided to sell him.
, There was a fellow reporting the races
! for the old Herald then that thought
| General Jackson had just one moro race
in him If he was treated right, and he
! breaches the subject to the sporting
| editor. The sporting editor thought the
! same way, so they bought in the CID
| horse at street car prices when he was
sold and sent him off to the country
They let veterinary surgeon in on the
scheme, and he tended old Jackson's leg
like he was working to save the mother
of six fatherless children. About the time
| the fall meeting was winding up they
| thought they had General Jackson fixed
| just about right, so they brought him
| back to the track and entered him, and
then, being real generous, they passed the
tip to a very few of their friends that
they had just the hottest thing that ever
burned the wings of q bookmaker, and to
get in on it quietly.
TRICK THAT FAILED.
"There was a fool friend of n1lne taking
the night report in the Herald office and
he got onto the good thing and he tipped
me, being on the other end of the press
wire in Milwaukee,. I tipped a friend of
mine down in st. Louis and another man
that l owed q good turn in Kansas City,