New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-20
HOW THE PAPERS MADE.


A youth from the hury-bnrly street
Ard they shoot him stories high, to meet
Another who bendeth Ger dIlit
or copy Who smokes and softly s"ears
A. some ones poem he idly tears,
or chuckies with mirth sardonic;
He calls 10 Barrett and Jones and flynn;
Brown and the one who has just come m
And in the language, terse and laconc'
Assigns Thorn I'll
TO City hall
Sermon. horse race. boat race cIuo
Lecture banquet. ball or rout,
Write the news and not fu6,dub''
lie adds a; parting so on his run
t;ors each reporter uudismayed.
The chase for copy has now begun
And that's the way the papers MADE.
over desk. in another nook
Solemn as Poe's lugubrous rock.
He writes leader on Public bnG Me enins
Reading one line TO ten he sklps,
With pipe in red eruption
Ana ,b sc t%p m nI Shs So stately rows
hot screed on corruption
song OF cheer.
Interview with Gottherooks.
Story of devoted wife
The mills go grinding LhT maT SSe roS comes
Put ne sorts the sugs with nmble thumbs.
And that's the way the papers made.
A rush and a roar Is heard below
Where the hurried presses Gang ana 'l'sn'
Toch hour thev run. while the newsies dash
Adown the street with something 70 sell sell
Paper sir? Latest edition =
And pat pat. pat fan the folded sheets,
Ready for sale on the crowded streets,
And each with special mission
Tx Tx fakes Of snow.
To meet I'm the throhbinR crowd
Eager each 10 scan the news,
On level all peruse
Politics crime. society stuff.
While IN" presses struggle to print enough.
And that's the way the papers made
-(Richard +. Steele.
Missouri man I'm Dawson city writes home
thus: Business OF all kinds Is very duh here now.
In the summer and fall charged so an hour for
team and man. and was kept very busy. But ex-
pcnses are very high | paid drivers $40 day and
gave them their dinner Board without room. Is
s25 a week this IS the cheapest Bread Is % cents
a loaf pies IS cents each. l pay $50 month for a
cabin. Hay and oats are 500 ton. Twenty dol
lars TO get a team shod Flour is IS a sack and
sugar L. rs cents II pound. There is "A scarcity Of
sugar now: the standard price IS 80 cents
An Instance-'Isn't II peculiar how some men
can feel proud Of their misfortunes?'
Yes ] know one man VINO went around Drag
ging until he became n positive nuisance Just be,
cause his wife had presented him with twins
Journal.
Here are some recent news paragraphs from The
BillYille (GaD News .
I'VE have seven crates OF fresh poetry on hand
which we will dispose OF cheap for cash.
I'VE are not worrying about the weather. We
know that spring will be here about the middle OF
August.
Time brings its revenges. The Sheriff sold IA
out. bought the paper In himself. ran |; for three
weeks lost all his money in 1t. kissed his mother
in-law goodhy and resigned by blowing his head OF
we understand that We are 10 be court-mar-
tailed for selling the Billville regiment mules for
beef We don't why the Government should
kick II the mules didn't
THE Goveram ent has demanded resignation
as Army chaplain. and all because We insisted on
singing all the time and taking up collection
after each hymn"
one OF the wealthy women on the South Side
teaches "A Sunday school class composed OF street
ufchins. She lost an Angora kitten last week ana
on Sunday told her class she would give reward
10 any boy VINO could find It, The next day small.
red-headed boy rang the front door bell and was
ushered Into the presence OF the sunday school
teacher. The boy carried dirty bundle done up In
u piece Of burlap "liereth thoo thltten." he said.
holding out the parcel. The woman did not under
stand the tongue-tied remark. and drew back from
the untdy bundle. My child. don't know what
you are talking about. said she, In tone OF
offended dignity. "Hereth thoo thittcn. thaw him
understand you" declared the woman. Don't try
TO give me that horrid-lookng bundle. for don't
want H." The boy gave her one keen look Then
he seemed to be carefully framing up a sentence.
"Hereth thoo tam old tat" he said. the thratched
me. and want the money."-(Chieago Inter Ocean.