The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-30

pressmen were thought Of and cabs were
clerk and his assistant 4 clock never
Travelled as fast as that one did IN the
Eagle Office that night. Two o'clock had
come and passed: then s. then 4 and the
paper was sun far from being published
AT 40 the stereotypers had not received
that first page and the papers should have
been at that hour running of the press.
The Rock Island train south carrying the
news 10 western Oklahoma was due 10
leave at 5 o'clock. There was a hopeful
belief that 1t might possibly be late that
morning. a telephone message soon set
tied that i was precisely on time One
CT the Eagle staff. the smoothest tongusd
in the crowd, was sent down 70 the depot
10 Try and hold the train. He first went
to the agent and explained that the paper
would be a daisy. The agent explained
that nothing could hold a train. The
Eagle man was IN despair. He tried the
conductor, but the conductor told him that
holding a train was serious matter. Buc
the conductor said that the superintendent
was aboard and he might be willing to hold
II.
The Eagle man tackled the superinten-
dent. This latter gentleman said it would
be impossible
The Eagle man listened down The silent
avenue and said: II believe I hear the
mail coming now"
eve viii have to pull out" said the
superintendent.
But you don't know what has hap
pened," explained the Eagle man. growing
eloquent There has been a terrible bat
tie. Dewey has wiped out the Spanish
feet. II was terrible, terrible"
The superintendent and the little group
Of trainmen became interested.
Dewey rammed their vessels through
and through Some OF them exploded.
throwing thousands Of men into the air:
the sea is crimson with blood; !: IS
awful"
The trairnen and superintendent we're
interested So were the passengers The
Eagle man was etraining his ears for he
sound Of gallopng horses GOWN the ave-
nue., He didn't rear then. But he said:
"There elsey come w;n ;he mail. I con
hear them. Dew ey was rsht in the midst
of il. He Nated right inco the Snaniaris
and blew EN- M and sank EN- on all
sides. The whole country s excited.
hear the cab coming with the mail now"
The crowd was excited now at the news
and the Eagle man was successfully hold
ing the train
Why said the Eagle man to the sup
erintendent, you couldn't afford to 90
down in the territory today without news
If that fight. You wouldn't feel right You
would want 70 know about it all day and
YOU can't know unIees you see the Eagle.
There, I think I hear the hack coming
with the mail now"
''Fll hold her fifteen minutes" said The
superintendent, who really wanted to see
an account Of that fight.
There was a murmur OF applause from
all sides.
Meanwhile the tapes on the perfectlng
press were monkeylng. The tapes are in
the folding machine and must be Of a GER
tain tension, because if they are too tight
or too loose, and there are many Of them,
the paper. which goes through the folder
like lightning. will tear. Some mornings.
without the least apparent cause. these
tapes will monkey and delay the paper
with maddening effect on all present the
pressman alone remaining cool and agon-
izingly methodical in repairing the trouble.
The fifteen minutes passed and the sup
! erIntendsnt began to be restless again.
when the Eagle man added few new
bloody features to his description OF the
fight
Finally the great mail sacks were
rammed into the cab and reached the de-
pot and the first war paper was of.