The age-herald., 1900-06-03

| Navy" the vigorous stories of Robert Barr,
 the gentle humor Of Dunham's Casino
 Girl" the descriptive force of Julian Ralph
 and the Pickwck Papers of the late MT.
 Dickens. II
 - ..nat things I have written I have | used-so one two critics have said-re- | porter,s English. I confess it and shield
 myself behind a crowd of like offenders, a
 crowd that contains that original inter-
 viewer Boswell the omnipresent James 1 Creelman, Jerome K Jerome, J. M. Barrie, | poor Stevens such writers of reporters 8 | French as Fouquer, De Regnier, Theophie 1 Gautier, the two Dumases, Paradol,- that l scribbler Emile Zola, and such good fel- lo,,,,gi0as K Tyste -Masterson, Winifred Black, Anne oHagan andSs lis lis. Grace the Duke of Manchester. N-, . .
 Unpleasant as his work sometimes sss ana inouisitive as he is sometimes forced te' be- the reporter is by no means the com- bination of Paul Pry and government mule of limited public fancy. What ne uoes he does through sense of duty. What ne is after is the news, and-although you may smile-he seeks the truth
 And let me tell you that this quest TOT
 the Holy Grail of fact costs like the very devil of fancy. Space rates, for example, are $50 a column, but it has been calcu-
 lated for me that the processes oi the
 yerihcation of news added 70 those oL
 securing it raise the expense to the once
 of that column to $40. Moreover, am assured that out of every four pieces or news heard of and sent for only one IS l printed.
 And this not because of any inherent love | for truth as a studiously planted graft on l the old apple tree of original sin, but be- | cause the truth in news pays, as 1t does Tn i everything else-save society ana hctloh' | whether published or domestic Then, too' | 1t should be clearly remembered that the reporter would not seek the news II the news was not sought. It Is you, the Pubic You who create the demand; 1t is he who | supplies it. You stand in loco parents to him, and as a matter of fact, are the ! mothers and fathers of the whole hGAs- paper brood. .
 I have given more time to description | of the local room than I shall be able to | devote to the other parts Of the estaDllsh- | ment, partly because it Is the most inter
 esting and partly because what have said l will largely help you to understand what l follows The telegraph editor, for instance, | occupies relatively the same position that l the city editor does-the only difference be- | ing that his staff of reporters Is scattered all over the world What the local re- porters do in New York Is what the tele- graph reporters are doing In every city, | town and village of the civilized world hunting for news.
 | Just think of it Think of the scramble
 and rush for this commodity: think of the money and brains and life-blood given to | it's pursuit; of the tens and hundreds of | thousands of men directly employed in the | hunt for it, and of the hundreds of millions | of other men interested in the result. | Think of the unsuitable hunger flor this ex- | traordinary thing, this priceless but evan | escent matter-which, like the mama or | old is fresh today and stale tomorrow l. The newsgatherers for the telegraph edi- | tor are the Associated Press, the best | equipped and best conducted news syndl- l cate in the world; the regular corresponds | ents of the paper appointed in every city | and town of the country, and the special I and specially expensive correspondents,
 who are stationed or scampering all over
 the world. With the exception of the As-
 sociated Press reports, which come to the
 office by pneumatic tube. all telegraph
 news is brought into the office by wire to
 the operating room, as 1t is known, the
 air of which from D. m. to a. m &C.,
 tually pulsates with an intermnable deV- | ils tattoo of the instruments.
 That is, our o'clock a. m.-for the | (Continued on Eighteenth Page).