The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-29
HOTEL LOBBY GLEANlNGS
GEORGE b. LOCKWOOD BUYS A GOLD
BRICK FROM A NEwsBOY.
He Wanted TO Read the Football
News and Was Buncoed-Other
Hotel Stories.

george Is. LOCkWOOu, superintendent VI
the press bureau that is maintained by the
Republican state committee, met with
newsboy Thursday evening who belongs to
the enterprising class from which will
spring future presidents, Napoleons of
finance and such. Mr.. lockwood is some
thing of a football enthusiast and as he
was going home Thanksgiving evening ne
was casting about for an evening paper
with the stories Of the days gridiron
events. Just north of the Denison raga-
muffin came running up to him, waving
frantically a single paper and calling:
'Extryl All football news! Only one
left. Want football extry, mister?
Mr.. Lockwood produced his coppers and
reached for the paper. This has all the
football news, has it?" he asked in order
to be sure of what he was getting.
"Sure Dis is de football extry. It's got
de score"
Mr.. Lockwood put the paper in his pocket
without glancing at the front page and
went on home. After dinner he settled
down in his easy chair for a comfortable
hour with his football extra, drew out the
paper and discovered the enterprise and
genius of the newsboy. The paper was the
ordinary afternoon edition of an evening
paper. In the upper left hand corner Of
the front page the boy had scrawled in al
most illegible hieroglyphics the word
Extra" A little farther over on the mar
gin he had put in his football special from
a staff correspondent in the shape of
capitals and figures, IS. H. s., II; M. T. H.
s., o."
81 was a little bit sore," said Mr.. Lock-
wood in telling the joke on himself yester-
day, because L wanted to see the football
stories and / was just In the humor for an
hours good reading, but my admiration for
= n ercfn -hN nod cold fhn GOLD
brick was such that L couldn't get very
mad. I'd like to meet that boy again and
congratulate him. He has the same quality
Of enterprise and genius possessed by the
managing editor of one of New York's yell
low journals who in reply to question
as to what he would do in the event that a
day came around without single story
that could be spread for sensation, said:
Why I'd run big red headline across the
front page reading IF the President Should
Be Assassinated" with the words the,
could be read at distance of fifty feet,
and the words If, should and be in type that
it would require magnifying glass to read,
and then I'd follow the headline with a
story en- the probable effect of the asSaS-
sinatiOn.
eff that newsboy ever gets a little edu-
cation he will be bright and shining
light in the world of saffron Journalism, .
concluded Mr.. Lockwood.
w. s. Chambers, New Castle Editor.
w. s. Chambers. editor of the New
Castle Democrat was at the Denison last
night Mr.. Chambers has one of the COM
paratively few good things" in the way
of newspaper property in Indiana and he
is making the most of ii. His paper Is the
only Democratic weekly published in Hen
ry county and there is no Democratic daily
nor is there likely to be one until he estab-
If-Hn he sc
large plurality and as a result there are
dailies In New Castle. In every county the
law provides a comfortable slice of the pub
| Mr.. Chambers gets all of this In Henry
| county, while his contemporaries fight for
the larger slice, with the result that he
| gets more than any one Of the Republican
papers.
gether with A. w. Tracy, now of the Hart
ford City Times, founded the New Castle
road of daily in the town at that the ff time
| and sold the paper at the first good oppor.
| tunity. Mr.. Chambers then bought the
weekly Democrat The recent boom ir
| New Castle has prospered Mr.. Chambers
| to the extent that he felt justified in build.
| ing modern building for his office and he
has recently completed putting in new
and up-to-date equipment.
| When Does n Pup Cease to Bet
when is pup not pup" or, in other
| words, when does a pup become a dog?'
| These are questions that are botherine
House Manager Cunningham of the English
| Mr.. Cunningham recently acquired the sol,
| title to valuable piece of property in the
shape of one fox TERROR pup and his JOY
| in the new possession was unalloyed unit
| cynical unfeeling friend suggested Il
him that a dog would be nice thing Il
| have if ii were not for the dog license
| Mr.. Cunningham replied lightly that tn,
| question of license did not trouble him be
| cause no one would be expected to pa,
| such a big tax on such small pup, blu
| home and the hotel man has been askin,
| everyone he has met for the past thre
| days at what age a pup ceases to be
| pup and become eligible to a collar an,
| tag. He fears the dog-catcher may sill
| upon him unawares and steal his prize
| and he fears to go to the proper official [,
| make inquiry for he is certain that he will
be informed that he must pay the tax. II
the meanwhile his friends are enjoying hi
| dilemma, even if he cannot see the ful
| in it.
A Party from bloomfield.
Bloomfield, Greene county, was repre-
sented at the English last night by part,
| of about forty of her substantial citizens
who were in the city to attend the produc
ton of "Ben-Hur" at Englishs Theater
1t was one of the largest parties that ha