Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-07
NEWSPAPER WRECKED IN A DAY.
How Two Unpaid Comps" Got Even
With a Pious Fraud.
(New York SUM

unique" said John F'limsey at the last
regular meeting of the sun Rise club.
Il was knocking around the mining
towns of the West in the summer OF
SO, trying my hand at prospecting
when / was in funds, and when luck
was against me | published neWSpa-
per. You see l started in the business
sticking type and L could set up my
own paper. | started eight different
papers that summer in as many towns,
l. and none of them ran for more than
two numbers. When | balanced ac-
counts late in the fall l found that |
| had two nearly healed bullet wounds
have been worth something, but they
| were not. 1t struck me that | was too
delicate for that sort of business. My
| nerves were shattered and L needed
repose. | thought longingly of the
1,liet Old shop in the East where |
| earned to set type, to chronicle the
| movements of the hog market and the
| grain and corn receipts and sales. |
| lidn't have the car fare, however, so
| started to beat my way East, and
| landed one winter morning in Boiler
| own busted and disguised.
Boiler town was the strangcst kind
l
| laws that | ever saw. 1t had two long
| streets. On one of them were three
churches. a Y. NJ. G. A. headquarters
| and all of the respectable houses in
town. The other street had always
been known as Back alley, and no
| boom town that | had struck could
| show anything to beat it. Every
| house on it was either 4 music hall,
| saloon, gambling house or something
| worse. 1t was supported by the men
| who worked in the mills, and 1t was a
dull Saturday night that passed With
out at least one shooting scrape on
Back alley. With the instinct of the
tramp printer, as soon as L struck
town | asked for a newspaper Office.
| Two weekly papers We're pubilShed
there One was the Back Alley Ca
lzette, and | found that | couldn't get
work there if | had desired it. 1t was
a paper devoted to Back alley, and |
saw that the office was too breezy for
me The other paper was the lioilcr-
town Advocate and Farmers Guide
land a sub-head announced that it was
the official organ of the y. NJ. c. a
That was what | was looking for, and
found the editor. Jim Jackson. to be
reformed gambler. He was very severe
on all his old companions, and NJ
, would only employ mon who Wer'
members of the Y. NJ. c. a. / joineC
Z that organization and became type
/ sticker and general utility man on The
Advocate.
l The staff consisted of three men
< and four BOYS and one of the former
proved to b. Red Kelly, whom ! Eac
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