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Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-05-08

ing the week in Chicago, But track STUFF
here is scarce and prices are higher
than a week ago. Shipping stuff is
lower, however.
Oats are firmer to arrive, but on the
spot hold very steady, with only short
supply offering.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02

Dfsheartened over his failure to get the
boat off. the man was anxious TO sell
out the business and young Perkins was
quick 10 see an opening for cmoarking
on his own account.
How much would you take Ior the
boat as IL les2" asked Perkins
"A thousand dollars and not cent
less" was the reply.
Perkins closed the bargain on the spot
agreeing TO pay the money before sun
down. Going to the bank. he drew our
his savings and instead OF returning 70
work spent the afternoon in visiting every
store along the business street OF Wnicn
the town boosted. borrowing money 10
make 10 the balance. From one busl-
ness man he secured SO. but in most IN
stances ne was only able to negotiate
small loans. and even now he remembers
that every 50-cent piece was q welcome
addition TO his pile. but he had the sa.-
isfaction of obtaining the needed amount
and was the owner of the boat before
he went to bed.
His new investment was non-pToducliFt
for a long time as it took him thrc'
months 10 cut away the sandbar- as nt
was Obliged 10 do the work himself H'
never lost heart. however, and his natura
business acumen is shown by the fac
/ that after operating the ferry for only
/ few months he was able to sell out foI
| IS 600
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02
THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING.

IN THE AMERICAN PRINTER Of
L recent date is a description of de-
partment of the government that the
general public knows very little about.
This is the government printing office
where. among other things, The Her
aids esteemed contemporary. the Con-
gressiona1 Record, is published it
costs something like $5,O0O,OOO to run
this great printing office, but when
Uncle sam wants anything in the
printing line he can get it there
More and bigger jobs Of the rush"
order are done in the government
pr1nting Office than in any other es-
Establishment of the kind in the world.
A piece of work that the average office
would ask for from two to six weeks
on is put through in almost that num-
Der Of hours. This is possible because
the government pays high wages and
secures the best help. Compositors
work in shifts of eight hours each and
there are S24 Of them in the main COM
posing room.
Here is an excerpt from the Ameri-
can Printer which gives an idea Of how
that printing Office can work when il
has to:
"I,ate I'm March, 1899, the president
sent to the government printing Office
his message transmitting the report OF
/ the naval court Of inquiry upon tbs
/ destruction Of the Maine. That report
as printed, contained 2sS pages Of text
each five by seven inches, twenty-foul
full page engravings (half-tone and
Iline). and a four-color lithograph. j
was 8 o'clock in the afternoon wher
/ the print shop got the originals Of tbs
I Illustrations: and it was after O'CLOCK
that evening when the manuscript O
the text reached Foreman Brian''
/ hands.
Every facility Of the great plan
was called into service; the norma
/ composing room night force was mul
tiplied b. ten; and before the house
and senate were in session next morn
ing at 10 o'clock a complete copy Of th'
bulky volume, bound in pamphlet form
( was upon every desk in the two divi
sions of congress, Illustrations, litho
/ graph and text as perfect as If the jol
had been a 1sisurely one. A thousan,
copies of the books of more than 30
pages. in printoriaI quality as good a
the best 81. 50 novel and illustrated ia
more deliberately. set UP. stereotyped
printed. bound and delivered, in sixteel
hours from the time the MSS. reache,
the compositor!"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02
MORE APPARATUS NEEDED.

HIS WEEK THE COUNCIL viii
have an opportunity to vote on q
proposition TO purchase new and mod
ern equipment for the fire department.
The Herald has no hesitancy in saying
that an sfirmative majority on this
question viii be endorsed by a very
large majority Of the taxpayers. Chief
Devine is asking for a new steamer
and a new truck, both Of which are
badly needed. The present steamer
was bought years ago and has long
since outlived its usefulness. The
truck bow in use IS old-fashioned and
unvieldy, but it can be made to do eff
ficient service On the west side Of the
city.
This summer, as has been frequently
pointed out, the city viii be filled with
strangers. Every hotel and every
lodging house viii be packed from
lobby to lumber rooms. The streets
will blaze with fireworks and electrical
nluminations making the danger of
fires considerably greater than in ordi-
nary years. We cannot afford to han
dicap our fire department under these
unusual conditions by compelling it to
use old apparatus that might prove
vaIueless at the most critical moment.
There is haFdly hotel or lodging
house in Salt Lake today that is prop
erIy equipped with fire escapes. The
possibility of loss of life, If a blaze
should gain Roadway in one Of them
during the night is appalling. The first
duty Of a fire department is to save
life: it's second duty is to save prop
erty. With a modern set Of extension
ladders, such as Chief Devine proposes
to purchase, great dangers may be
averted. The question of expense is
not sufficiently mOmentous TO warrant
the council in hesitating.
Another feature is the insurance rate.
! Several times recently the insurance
companies have considered the advis-
ability of raising their rates for Salt
Lake. With a proper amount and the
correct style Of apparatus it may be
/ possible to secure such reduction OF
existing tariffs as will far more than
/ compensate the citizens for their out
Law in taxes. The step should be taken
at once. The time Of peace is re time
| in which to prepare for war.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02
FINDING a scAPEeoAT.

NEW YORK'S SPASM over the New
N York CentraTs tunnel disaster has
sneut Itself. All Of her virtuous con-
defamation Of the men who were really
responsibIe for the catastrophe turned
ant 70 he words. mere idle words. Not
withstanding the fact that the coro-
ner.s Jury, which made an exhaustive
inquiry into the matter while it was
sim fresh in the public mind. returned
q verdict holding the high officials of
the road responsible. a grand jury has
indicted Engineer John NJ. Wisker and
the rest go free. Poor Wisker.
3e drove his engine against another
tain in q srnoke-laden tunnel. q tun-
nel IN which an lights looked alike,
and ne must answer a charge Of man.
slaughter The men who permitted the
tunnel To become obscUred by smoke
and fog. who insisted that 5heir engin-
GERS make time. signals or no signals
90 absolutely free. Wisker may not
have been altogether blameless; he may
have been over-conhdent Of his ability
To puu his train safely through the
darkness, bat ne is not nearly so cuI-
pable as his superiOrs.
The engineer was merely a humble
instrument of disaster. He did not
hiring about the conditions that made
the horror possible any more than q
revolver brings on q quarrel IN which
Il $ used as an implement Of death
Almost any other engineer on the road
under similar Circumstances. would
have done exactly as John NJ Wiskei
did. bat that isn't going 10 prevent hin
/ from spending a term Of years in pris-
on. Meanwhile. the directors of the
road. ia president, the general man.
ager. the superintendent. win 90 about
their daily occupations unhampered by
the Law.
| What a mockery Of justice is herr
presented. Each ard every one Of TIT
/ officials ever Wisker, according 20 TIT
evidence produced at the coroner's in
quest. knew the condition Of the tun
/ nel ThCv knew IL was unsafe and the!
allowed It 10 remain unsafe for tn
sake Of saving a sHa. Of money that
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02
AN EDITORS CONFESSION"

4 WRITER who, for obvious reasons,
4 signs a pen name at the bottom Of
his article. has. in the current Atlantic
Monthly, The Confessions of a Provin-
cial Editor" They are confessions, in
deed, for the writer Acknowledges that
he allows himself to be bribed in
hundred different ways. He says he
mad some exalted notions about indie
pendence when ne founded his paper.
but they quickly eyaporated under the
pressure Of want So he quickly sold
himself. and Of the experience ne says:
Il saw the policy was a good one. /
also saw that it could not be carried TO
the extreme. So have become merely
threat ening. I have learned never to
overstep my bounds. I take my lean
wears and my tat years. still a hireling'
but having somewhat to say about my
market value. What provincial paper
does not have the same story to telt?
The Herald hopes very few provincial
or metropolitan papers have such
story to tell ,truthfully. It is not true.
as the writer infers, that provincial
papers are obliged to sandbag corpo-
rations and individuals III order to exc
out an existence. When men. in order
to continue in a business. are com
PEELED to prostitute thier highest ideals,
it is time for them to get out Of that
business. unless they are born rascals.
In such case they would be thieves in
any business
The Atlantic Monthly writer tells
how one Of his best advertisers came
to him with a request that the story
Of how one Of the advertisers friends
had swindled an innocent farmer be
kept out Of the paper. The friend was
/ a criminal and the advertiser and the
/ editor knew it. The threat was made
that if the story was printed the ad-
vertiser would withdraw his patronage
/ The writer confesses that the item OF
news that might have protected Other
! innocent people from a common swim
der was left out of the paper.
IF editors only realized it, adver-
tigers don't pauonize any newspaper
unless they expect to get returns al
/ least proportionate with their outlay
! No advertiser pays for space in news
/ paper because he likes the papers pol
icy or the people connected with it. Il
it hasn't. the circulation It doesn't get
the advertisement. That is all there j:
/ to it. So threats to withdraw adver'
Using should have no more effect on
! newsDaD er's news or editorial pOlicy
| than the Dabbling of an infant
! 1t is a pity that such things as these
| Confessions" get into print. They
! hurt the tone Of the profession viii
/ people who take them as true of Z
majority Of papers and they can serve
no possible good end. When MAJ
says, as does this writer, that th'
worse a paper is the more influence i
has, he states an untruth which j.
none the less an untruth because it Il
/ eDigra mmatic.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02

the Moo York Sun" The Sun became
the property OF Charles A. Dana in the
early sixties. He did not. as many
have supposed found the paper. for SC
was in existence more than twenty
years before he purchased it. 1t was
Dana. however. who gave to the sun
It's national, its even international
prominence.
He went 10 the sun from the Trib-
une, where he had been intimately as
ISOLATED with Horace Greeley. Almost
instantly the paper sprang into prom
lnence, for Dana was a giant among
his kind. Actuated often by prejudices
which must have seemed 10 his enc
mics unreasonable and unreasoning-
the editorial page of the Sun sciutil-
lated with radiance Of his genius. What
he said was not always so, but he him
self believed in his writing so thor
oughly that the reader was often con-
Nlnced against his VIII, swayed by the
passionate eloquence of master mind.
Dana rarely wasted his ammunition
on small game, and it became a prov
erb among New York politicians that
an advers, criticism from his pen was
more valuable to q career than col
umns of praise from others. A story
is tod of a young man who was once
flaye1 by Dana. He went to see the
editor with fire in his eye and malice
in his heart. Young man. said Mr.
Dana, when the Wrathful youth had
finished, you ought 70 feel that you
owe the business Office Of this paper a
considerable amount of money. You
are the best advertised youngster in
the state Of New York today" and it
was trre.
The bitterest enemies of Charles An
! derson Dana, and he had many, as men
Of his ca'ibIe must, conceded TO him g
wealth Of intellect such as few men
have possessed. At his death the prop
erty passed into the hands Of his son,
/ Paul Dana, bu~ the mantle Of Elijah
I could moi be said 10 have fallen Upou
/ Elisha: the mantle of Charles Ander-
/ son Dana could not be worn success
fully by any other man. The deca-
/ dence of the sun began with his death
and, while it has continued to be a
great newspaper, it has never been
! what it was.
". NJ. L9ffan, for many years pub
/ Usher Of the sun, has now become its
owner. The paper, under his unre-
/ stricted management, may take high
er place than it has recently occupied
/ but it is doubtful if it ever regains the
hold it once had upon the respect and
the affection of the reading public.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02
HOW he GOT HIS START.
The First Business Transaction Of a
California U. S. Senator.
fyVaehirofou Post

Senator Perkins OF California is one of
the few members Of the United States
senate who could afford to lose $50. GO
and then have q balance sufficiently large
to purchase a controlling interest in a
large ocean steamship company. That.
however. is just what he did, but the IL
teresting event took place half a century
ago when he was a merchant in a small
California town. during the time that the
geld fever was at its height and the dust
vas plentiful.
The senator had none Of the advantages
that accrue to most boys OF the present
day. and when lad Of Il years be landed
ia California with nothing but plenty of
pluck and determination to begin LIES
battle for himself He lost no time II
starting out, and managed to secure en-
ployment as an erFand boy in a grocery
store. receiving for MS services $50 a
month and board His earnings were
carefully laid away. and when an op-
pOrtunity came 10 invest them he had a
bank account which reached the sum %
$3.50 One day he met man who opera ted
the fesry across a near By stream and
learned that the boat had gone aground
on 2 ssndbar
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02
His First Law Case.
washington Post)


When Henry c. Smith Of Michigan
started to practice law he had as his first
client a negro, and he won the case. The
hearing was before local magistrate,
and the charge was stealing a ring. As
his client had employment on a farm
outside the town where Smith first hung
up his single, the young lawyer is said
to have taken the precaution Of hiring a
carriage and riding out to the farmer.
where ne secured promise of the negro S
wages for a few days as his retainer.
~ made an eloquent plea said Mr.
Smith recently in recOunting the pro-
ceedings Of that case. Il did not fail to
ring the changes on the downtroddeu
face and all that sort Of thing, with the
result that my client went free. Still, ]
had sort of lingering suspicion that The
verdict was certainly all my man de-
served. and when the case was over
wanted 10 be rid Of him. He continued TO
haunt my office.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02
THE STAR OF EMPIRE.
New York SUM

New York SUM
They are loading for the Prince,
In Chicago,
They are seeking social hints,
In Chicago:
For they want to show him that
They've got etiquette down fat
And know just where they're at,
In Chicago.
Thev are yet a wee bit mixed,
in Chicago,
But they hope to get things fixed,
In Chicago:
Before His Niblets comes
With the boom Of horns and drums,
To meet the real lum tums,
In Chicago.
They are having shades Of doubt,
Who is ''in'' and who is out
IN Chicago:
Seven hundred are set down
AS the ham-meat of the town,
But the Middlings seek renown,
in Chicago.
They won't give the Prince a knife,
In Chicago.
To eat pie with, betcher life,
In Chicago;
And they'll not forget his rank.
l Thinking maybe he's a Xank-
And so greet him; Hello, Hank,
In Chicago.
So when the Prince arrives.
In Chicago;
! THEY'LL have the time of their lives,
In Chicago:
/ And they'll make him feel so gay
In their highly cultured way
/ That he'll always want to stay,
in Chicago.
And the Prince will say to them,
In Chicago;
| From beneath his diadem.
| In Chicago;
! Dear friends whom now | greet,
! For this really royal treat,
/ Brother Bill shall buy his meat,
In Chicago
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02

On Sept. q Czolgosz was sentenced
to be electrocuted in Auburn state
prison during the week beginning Oct.
%, 1901
On oct. % The Herald published a
dispatch dated AubuCn, n. T., Oct. p,
regarding the execution, in which this
paragraph occurred:
THE details of the execution have
been practically completed, and while
the prison authorities guard with great
secrecy all facts, it is thought the ex-
ecution will take place before S o'clock
on the morning Of Oct. %, or, if every
thing cannot be made ready on that
day. at a similar hour on the 18th.
On Oct % The Herald published the
statement that the execution would oc-
cur at O'Clock on the morning of Oct.
%. Czolgosz was electrocuted at 7:12
o'clock on that morning. The state
ment published on Oct. IS. four days
before the execution, was the first au-
thoritative publication as to the exact
date
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02

Why don't you go out and OH
around .. ;,, with the ooys: said finally in
Deed. boss. I thought vo fec -
too small an / want yer to accent 10
ere ring. ''--a
And the negro produced from his 5s.-
the ring which he had been supD0se5 ~
have stolen" 20
But Mr.. Smith refused 70 accent o.
prOffer Of stolen goods and applied bf-
self to the prosecution OF Other en- In
which have gained him an eminent 49,
tation with the legal profession i'm Nicb5
gan.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02

to such a corporation as the New York
Central, would have been triie. It
is occurrences such as this that make
men anarchists
When the law throws its protecting
arm lovingly about the shoulders of
the rich, when it is unsparing in its
Negotiations where the poor and the
humble are involved, it is not SO Won
derfUl that men feel like taking the
law into their own hands or abolishing
law altogether. Hereafter when New
York pirates about what she is going 10
do to her ldw-breakers high in official
life. she need not be surprised if a
cynical smile goes round the country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02
TIE NEW YORK SUN.

THE ELIMINATION OF the name of
Dana from the hea5 Of the edito-
rial page Of che New York sun is an
event of more than passing interest IN
the would of incorporation Fer near
~ half "a century Dana aud the New
Y5rk sun were almost synonymous
terms. Gre could never think Of the
one without remembering the other.
Al one time IN this country the fact
hat a man had worked on the Sun was
a guarantee Of standing and ability
which passed unchaHenged everywhere.
The poet laureate & newspaper
workers. the lamented Eugene Field.
tod the story when b. wrote about
"The man that worked with Dana on
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02
BABY GLoBE TRoTTER.
Has Travelled $4,000 Miles in Sixteen
Months.
Washington Post)


4 I6-months-oId girl. who has tray
eled 5000 miles. is little Miss Rather
inc LeOnore Adelia Glenwood Moran,
who is at the Shoreham with her
mother and father Mr.. and Mrs.
George Moran of Chicago. Since her
birth in GIenwOOd Springs, Colo, in
the famous Colorado hotel, until the
present. sixteen months in all, she has
been almost constantly on the go. She
has visited thirty of the states and
territories. has traversed the country
from ocean to ocean. and from Duluth
to the gulf several times, has toured
Canada, and has been q guest Of the
principal English and continental
cities Her journeys cover distance
equal to 10000 miles more than the cir
cumference of the globe.
The average distance Travelled each
month since her birth has been 2,1S112
miles, or y $40 miles a day She has
never been i'll a day or an hour.
- . .
Not only has Miss Moran travelled.
but she has seen. Her shrewd little
eyes have fallen on sights which many
an elder pair would have missed. She
has viewed mother earth from the
summit OF Pixies peak, and she has
looked on the laundering falls Of Nj
agara. She has seen the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. the Great Lakes. the
principal points OF interest IN Paris
Berlin, Vienna. London and other Eng
lish and European cities. She has stood
within the halls of "Biltmore," George
VandeTbilt's famous castle at Ashe-
vile, n. c.. and has been in Miami,
Fla, the extreme southern point in tbs
country reached by rail. Since COM
ing to Washington she has shaken
hands with the president OF the United
States, and has received directly from
him the choicest flower in the magnifi-
cent bouquet which is placed daily IN
the chief executives Office But these
are but few of Miss Moran's con-
quests; 10 enumerate them all would
require volume
She is bright little tot. usually Of
exceptionally good disposition. Her
yellow curls cling closely to her we'll
formed head, and from under the
pretty locks peep as sparkling a pair
of blue eyes as one would meet In a
lifetime. The little globe trotter has
walked since she was 9 months old,
and although not get a linguist, talks
nuently. the only difficulty being that
no one but her parents can understand
/ much Of what she says.
! After her birth in Glenwood Springs
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02
THE ozoLGosz EXECUTION.
Salt Lake Herald 4:

To The Salt Lake Herald:
Please answer the following question:
Was it published in your paper week
beforehand the day that the assassin
of President Mckinley was to be ex-
ecuted? SUBSCRIBER.
Park City, Feb. %.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02

Harvard is going to confer an homo
Tary degree on Prince Henry. It would
be q delicate compliment to call it the
BID. or Doctor OF Deutscher Beer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02

Senator Tulman says that among
gentlemen an apology is usually con-
sidered sufficient reparatiOn. Wen.
does he still insist that he has made it.?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02

New York girls have taken to the
punching bag as a form Of exercise.
Here's another chance for the man who
saws woman is taking the bread out Of
his mouth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02

Now that the irrigators have gone
home we may reasonably expect a spell
of fair weather.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02

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