Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-01

ter and thereby hangs a ta.e:
Washington, d. c. Nov. 20, 1901.
To THE EDITOR OF THE GLOBE:
In your last issue, you gave a long
list of the eight of unsuccessful guesses
and only one of the successful individ-
uals In your next issue please give
/ the names of the remaining more"
learned individuals of nowadays, who
were successful in placing the word cat
aract in the coupon blank.
And oblige a miss"
N. f. TURNER.
A posted correspondent.
Mr.. Julius Murry, the proprietor
Of the Dramatic version Of Joseph
Arthur's novel of Lost River" with
an eye to business secured the pub.
| licatiOn of the novel in the columns
Of The Globe, rendering besides other
| consideration ten reserved seats to
| the first ten successful guessers in a
Missing Word" contest. Sunday last
| this contest closed and we published
| the result Monday morning the re-
! served seats not having arrived at the
Globe Office, as per contract, we ad-
! dressed a note to the manager Of the
! Lost River Company at the Academy
of Music. In response thereto the
treasurer Of the company called at The
Globe Office and having expressed his
readiness to comply with the arrange
ment entered into with Mr.. Murry, he
volunteer the information that he
knew nothing about it and had not
been instructed by his principal in the
matter. Howevr, he very courteously
accepted our word and the evidence
presented and Immediately wrote out
ten orders of which the following is a
sample
"One % seat. Missing Word" con-
test. Sunday Globe.
E. j. MARrINEAU.
The editor in person took the ten
orders to the box office on Monday
night to exchange them for tickets of
admission and reserved seats The
Office export tipped the orders back con-
temptously and in his most freezing
tones said:
You Will have to Bang these things
here tomorrow
The waiting patrons at the box office
eyes us suspiciously and the sneer on
the So per week box Office manipulator
was responded to with the imbecile
filters of the aforesaid patrons. Swal-
lowing our indignation we retired and
was compelled to send three Of the
written orders the next morning to
the winners, as the aforesaid individu-
ais were department employees who
had to have them that day in order to
realize On them for the evening show.
they being limited to Tuesday evening.
Early as the box office was opened on
Tuesday morning we sent a Globe |
Office employe with the orders, that
we might be able to deliver the seats
during the day for the evening per-
tormance. The messenger returned !
and stated that
The fresh guy i'm the box Office re- !
fused to give me the seats and told me
TO tear them things up, they were no
good"
BY this time our stock of patience
was exhausted and we Immediately
started for that fresh guy" and the !
boX-ofiice. Presenting the orders of !
the treasurer Of the Lost River COM
pany eve demanded the tickets of
admission and reserved seats in ex-
change. There were several patrons
Of the house waiting to purchase seats.
The boX-office individual curled his
lip and looking at these patrons with
a killing grin he replied:
you will have to call when Mr..
Martineau is here
Now, Mr.. Martineau had informed
MS that he intended to lay up at the
Lafayette bath rooms while in the
city and hence this reply we regarded |
as equivalent to a refusal, We had
already wasted considerable time on
this matter and been to some expense. |
The humiliation Of dancing attendance !
on a whipper-snapper holding down !
a boX-0tice job was bad enough but |
to dissapoint and unwittingly deceive |
our readers who, in good faith, had |
sent in their correct guesses, was too |
much and we exploded. That box |
office heard 1t. He heard something |
later in the day, too, when we attached |
the bOX-otiice receipts before Justice |
Bundy, and sued Mr.. Julius Murrey |
for the amount due The Sunday Morn |
ing Globe. The case is set for Decem- |
Der 10th, and we shall see whether |
travelling companies and dude box
office clerks can put it all over a |
Sunday paper and its editor.
Subsequently Mr.. Martineau called |
at The Globe office, expressed regret for |
what had happened, related the fact |
that Manager Osgood had skipped out |
when the attachment was served, and |
that he (Osgood) was entirely to |
blame for the whole matter, as he was |
preiudiced against The Globe and |
spoke disparagingly Of the paper, even |
before any trouble had taken place. |
This was revelation to us, as our so
licitor had repeatedly Informed us that |
Mr.. Osgood spoke highly Of The Globe |
and preferred 1t, as an advertising |
medium, for the Academy.
However, both Mr. Osgood and Mr. |
Martineau, are especially the simpering |
box Office experts, must not imagine |
that because The Globe is honored with |
their favors such fact gives them IL |
cense or liberty to treat its editor with |
rudeness and discourtesy. We shall |
enforce our rights in this mater, legal |
ly, and we shall at all times be pre- |
pared to resent like a gentleman either |
the disrespectful or rdiscourtesy Of Doors |
whether employed In the box Office of |
the Academy or managing that place Of |
amusement The further publication |
Of Lost River" Is discontinued pend |
Ing the legal decision Of Justice Bundy |
December II.
Since the foregoing was put in type |
the difference between Mr. Mart;neau |