The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-13
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ChlcagO was OutWitted. @ I've had some odd experiences in tn e way of catching notables on the fly fo interviews in the middle of the Rock! : Mountains said a well-known Wash mgton correspondent for a string O \ wyoming, Colorado and Utah newspa l pers. One of them was when Presi dent Dole of the Hawaiian Islands came to this country several years ago was then attached to Cheyenne newspaper and was the Rocky Noun tain correspondent of number of Chi cago and New York dailies When
 President Dole debarked from the Hon.
 oulu steamer in San Francisco he de- clned, for some reason or other, to be
 interviewed by the representatives of
 the San Francisco newspapers, and at
 the time Of his arrival there were a
 number of Hawaiian matters of con-
 siderable interest to this country, par
 tlcularly the perky attitude Japan was
 then taking with reference to the treat
 ment of the Japanese employed on the
 Islands. Shortly after the president of
 Hawai-! left San Francisco for Wash
 lngton I received a dispatch in Chey- enne from Chicago newspaper whose Rocky Mountain work l covered, direct
 ing me to corral MT. Dole on his train l and endeaYor to get an interview from | him. l hoped the first west-bound
 train for ogden, Utah, and I just got ! there in time to get aboard the train
 that was carrying MT. Dole east. This
 was at one o'clock on a Friday after
 noon, found MT. Dole in a pretty easy, complaisant frame Of mind just after his dining car dinner, and he gave me about as fine a presentation of
 the whole situation down on the is
 lands as newspaper man could wish or hope for. After he'd talked for an hour or so I hustled into the smoker
 and wrote the interview, making about
 five thousand words of it. When the
 train reached Green River jumped off
 and filed the copy with the telegrapher,
 and he hustled the stuff into the office
 or the Chicago paper. Then I went into
 the buffet car of the train to get bite
 to eat
 aThe only other man in the buffet car
 at the time was a good looking, rather chesty young fellow who engaged me in conversation with reference to the measliness of the eating gear service on western railroads and all that sort of thing. He was a bright fellow, all 1 right, but he had no sort of an opinion of the west at all, and he knocked the whole country west of the Mississippi river in picturesque fashion-said there was no enterprise or 'git-up' out there; that the folks didn't know they were , alive; that the newspapers and news paper men appeared to him to be in the continuous performance doldrums, and | so on. l just let him go on talqing without saying much myself He final ly let a word fall indicating that he himself was newspaper man, and, without deeming it necessary to men ton just then that was in that busi- ness, asked him what paper he was connected with. He named Chicago oaper that was a deadly rival to the one to which l had short time before sent that five thousand word talk with Mr. Dole. Moreover. he told me that he lad been sent all the way from Chicago o nail MT. Dole for an interview. He lad met up with the train at Salt Lake, lad found MT. Dole rather weary, and ad arranged to have his interview with he Hawaiian president on the follow i ng day-Saturday-and my interview with that gentleman was already in the ffice of the rival of his paper, We'll wasn't up to me to cheat myself out f such neat little scoop as that and 0 l continued to remain mum as to my eWspaper connections. After I'd ap- 1,,ty own and wrote for number of my iestern papers a short resume of my 'ole interview, and at the next stop here there was a telegraph office I ropped off to file this matter. The chesty young newspaper ian from Chicago dropped off to send
 message at that stop, too, and he saw le passing in my newspaper copy
 Say he inquired of me. are you a ewspaper man?' and I couldn't help Ut grin over the astonished expression l his countenance
 " We'll yes, a sort of one, replied " Are you on this train for any spec l purpose? he asked me, eyeine me 'etty closely.
 ' Well, little special perhaps 1 met up with you in the buffet car. | ed a five thousand word talk that l Id with MT. Dole this afternoon for Q Chicago -,' and I named his per's chief rival Now I'm never amused when hear ofanity issuing from the lips of real une man, but the way that chesty r. ung fellow volleyed out hot language
 that raretied air was, under the cir instances, enough to make a hyena lgh. Only a little while before he'd en telling me what dead ones western Wspaper men were, and here he was ted right out of his shoe leather on a 'ry that he'd hiked all the way from icago to get. It was then about nine lock at night-eleven o'clock in Chi so-and MT. Dole was in bed and an if he had been up and willing to at that hour there wasn't another asraph office for several hours ahead.
 got his interview with MT. Dole the d morning and hurled it into his Chl go paper, but not a line of it was I'd in the Sunday paper. My inter- W had got into the Saturday paper . his papers rival and of course his erNieW was valrelese. ' met the ' ing fellow in New York about a IF later, and he told me that he had n fired for getting beat on the Dole erVieW that time, and he added that hadn't emitted a word about western ! hni I11ff ,;,, !