The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-02
JOURNALIST OWNS UP.
Entertained TOO Much Company
While Writing Els Paper.
(Waumbek's Penny Daily.)

tWaumbek's Penny Daily)
The Tuesday morning issue of the
Penny Daily published the usual con-
cert programme under the inaccurate
statement that 70 was an evening af-
fair. But when some one lacked me
up about It. / took II as a bit OF con-
vincing evidence that every line of the
paper was read, and was quite uneis-
! turbed as laid that fiatterlng JUNCTION
/ 10 my soul. A little later Master
Wymberiey DeReene threw in a few
words of criticism. to the effect that
IN the story OF his party 1 had given
a girls name and place TO q boy, and
that my list was one boy short. any
how. Then | began to wonder what
niaiign influence was at work
IL is a case where frank confession
is best, and / viii make the plunge
without ado. ! have done too much
entertaining. in which a second or two
OF divided thought has done its fatal
work. on Monday evening, Just as the
telegraph stun was coming. Assistant
Manager Murphy dropped in. followed
d moment later by Manager Plumer. I
had just introduced them 10 each 9TH
er and got them 10 discussing a point
which left me free 10 attend TO my
work. when Lydecker, the landscape
and voice specialist, fell down the hill
and effected an entrance. He wanted
to talk music, having just listened to
the two coiored singers up at tae house,
and being filed with enthusiasm.
agreed with everything he said, and
that kept him talking while I was
drilling away at my own little voca-
ton.
Well. was just wondering whether
the Penny Daily would stand pat on
three OF kind, when Charley Murphy
entered-or rather blew in. Hadn't
been in the office before this season.
but happened TO see Lydecker and
came in on suspicion that there was
something doing. And Charley must
tell me all about a dream he had.
which he erroneously thought would
interest me. BY this time We were a
full house. and there were three sep
arate and distinct alterations in prog
ress. Murphy had the only spare
chair IN the room, because he came
first. Plumer had second choice in "a
handsome style of soap box; Lydecker
had dumped my writing machine on
the floor and was sitting on the table.
and Charl@y could only walk about
waving his arms in illustration of his
dream. And all the while the door was
open and other moths and millers and
night-bugs OF various sizes and styles
of architecture were coming in out OF
the cool and silent night. l realized
that / was up against it hard.
Under such lamentable and distract
ing conditions the moments tickeu
themselves away into the irreclaimable
past, as il were. and 1 struggled on
doggedly, only held up by the belief
that my guests couldn't stay forever.
But they made a much closer play TO
that end than the probabilities Justi-
fed. They all seemed TO be short on
sleeping quarters and very long on
time, and when one got up with the
trite remark that it was time TO be
going" the others would call him back.
their voices drowning out my prompt
and fervent good night" In fact il
was only after l had stumbled through
my work and the press had started,
completing the issue, which contained
the two points of nisinformatiOn men
toned in the opening OF this confession
only did my visitors break away. The
nefarious work was done, but l was
yet TO suffer the consequences.
l have moved all the chairs but one
out of the Office, and shall come close
to filing that one myself during the
busy season. Moreover, the soap box
has been taken away. and ! think
there is now no place for visitors to
sit save on the floor. The Penny Daily
is not, In spite Of this depletion of fur
niture. inhospitable by intention, but
is acting in self-defense. individuals
arrivals will always be welcome at any
time, but when they come in droves, it
win be best if they make their call
somewhere between and O'Clock in
the morning. The Office does not open
until $3.50. and / get around about 8.
Under such new arrangements I hope
in time 10 regain the confidence OF
concert goers whom l have bewildered
by misinformatiOn, and of my small
but valued friend, Wymberley De-
Renne.