The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-10

Tampa to Port Tampa That was an
extremely hot ride, and for time
no water colder than luke warm could
be found anywhere on the route. But
one morning in front of Randolph's
tent and carefully screened from the
sun was seen a large glass pitcher
with what looked like a long, thin
chunk of ice in it. Every officer, staff,
line, commissary or quartermaster,
and many newspaper men, stopped
and called on the General. So many
visitors had never before paused at
his tent in a single morning. He re-
ceived everybody with great courtesy;
offered cigars, whisky and various
other things which are not attractive
when the thermometer registers 100 de-
grees In the shade. But he offered not
one of them a glass of that tempting
ice water. Finally a newspaper man,
who had ridden more than twenty
miles on bad horse that morning and
was full of heat, incepsed against the
censor and generally dissatisfied with
life, Tampa and the American army,
said to Gen. Randolph:
why don't you offer me a drink Of
that ice water? It's the first ice water
I've seen for six weeks. Go on, give
me some.''
The General, who is always most
polished and courteous in his bearing
did as he was asked at once, even
pouring out the water himself, while
his orderly stood by grinning. The
newspaper man was eager and took a
huge swallow greedily. But he took
only the one swallow. 1t turned out
that the seeming ice in the pitcher was
really a piece of glass taken from a
sidewalk light in Tampa. 1t had been
claimed even that the General had the
glass heated by his orderly at some
fro hn' fo
make what would look like ice water.
The decision of the New York Times
to move uptown, rumored some weeks
ago and announced officially in that
paper one day this week is not sur
prising, though 1t does not seem prob
able that any other of the big morning
papers will follow suit, at least in the
near future. The World, the Tribune,
the Sun and the Press all have homes
of their own on or near Park Row, the
home Of the Press, indeed being the
only one not actually on that thor
oughfare. The Press building, indeed,
is only just completed. 1t is just back
of the Tribune building, and is very
brave with its handsome stone work
outside and its marble floors and stair
ways inside. It is the only newspaper
building in New York save the Her
aids that accommodates no tenants
save the newspaper it was built for.
The plan of the Times to leave the
handsome structure erected for its use
by the late George Jones, it's founder,
and for many years its owner must
have tendency to make him turn in
his grave. The Times building was his
greatest pride, as it's erection was al
most the last project which he lived to
carry through. For many reasons his
newspaper which had made him rich.
was not in high state of prosperity
at the time, but he did not despair of
winning renewed prosperity for the
publication, though his hopes in that
regard were not realized until after
his death. the assumption of its mana
agement by George Ochs. the present
proprietor, and the reduction of its
price to one cent.
Perhaps Mr.. Hearst's Journal Tor
American and Journal, as it is now IT,
tledD is more likely than any other to
be the next to move uptown. OF all
the morning papers 1t is the only one
in rented quarters, and these are by
no means convenient, being scattered
about In six or seven different locali-
ties. Some wears ago there were rum
ors that Mr.. Hearst meant to build a
regular Tower Of Babel for his news
paper near the present home OF the
Herald, but these rumors have never
yet materlallZed Duane.