The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-21


make the very best sort of material
for the manufacture of a high grade
of book paper this manufacturer made
a lump bid for the lot. 1t was accept
ed, and straightway the carting away
of the documents was begun.
BY chance Surveyor Clarkson saw
some of them as they were being
taken away. Picking up one of them,
found that it was of parchment, and
signed by President Jefferson. Com
tinuing his investigation thus casually
begun he discovered that the mass
which was shortly to be turned into
pulp fairly bristled with priceless
documents, the arranging and anaiyz-
ing of which would furnish the stu
dent and the historian with invaluable
and hitherto unsupported data.
Naturally he took immediate steps
to prevent its wholesale destruction,
but it was too late to do all that
should have been done in the way of
preservation.
The paper makers contract called
for the delivery of the waste paper"
as he termed it, on a certain date and
that having arrived he was decidedly
unwilling to grant any leeway at all
for the examination and sorting of the
documents. Under pressure, however,
he finally allowed two days of grace
for that purpose, and considerable
force was set to rescuing from the
mass such of the documents as could
be picked out in that wholly insult
ficient time Some thousands of pa
pers, nearly all of great interest and
many of them of genuine value, es-
pecially to the student of the Repub-
lies commerce, were saved, but, of
course, thousands more were carted
away and long before now have been
transformed into paper on which have
been printed the pages of some ephe-
neral publication of the day.
Though the competition between
those newspapers which exploit what
is termed "the new journalism" to the
utmost is not now as strenuous as it
was Immediately and for some years
after the irruption of w. R. Hearst
into the field, it is occasionally gall
vanized into life again by an episode
that smacks of the old-time hustle and
vim. The central figure in the latest
of these episodes was a cartoonist
who has secured a large following
among the readers of so-called up
to-date" afternoon newspapers.
For a long time the publisher of
the rival to the sheet upon which this
cartoonist had been employed had
been trying to get him to transfer his
services, but without success. Plead
ings and the promise of more paw
with less work to do were alike in
effectual, until at last the cartoonist
was invited out to dinner one evening,
The meal was served in irreproach-
able style, the company was entertain
ing and congenial, and, more import
ant than all, i'll this case, the wines
were of the best vintage
Moreover the cartoonist was made
the lion of the occasion, and between
the attentions showered upon him by
all present and the seductive beverages
with which the viands were washed
down, he lost himself very consider
ably" Not to put too fine a point upon
1t, he became obvious, during the lat
ter part of the evening, to everything
that went on about him, and he did
not regain his mental equilibrium I'M
til some time the next day. When he
did recover himself he found a rep
resentative of the rival sheet" at hand.
who, as gently and tactfully as possi-
Bile, congratulated him on having sew
cred his connection with the one pa
per and attached himself to the staff
of the other.
II have done nothing of the sort"
exclaimed the surprised cartoonist.
oh, yes, you have" replied the
other; "see-here is your contract,
signed in your own handwriting and
properly sealed. There's a fine well
come waiting for you at our office and
I'm sure you'll never regret the
change"
Then to the puzzled and growlingly
indignant cartoonist was jubilantly I'M
folded the story of how on the previous
evening, under the influence of the
good things and good company he en-
joyed at the dinner, he had accepted
the proposition to transfer his services.
When the tale had been completed his
anger knew no bounds, and he vowed
and declared by all the gods that he
wouldn't stand for any agreement he
might have made in the matter Later
he saw lawyer and from him learned
that unless he went into court and al
legged that the contract was obtained
by fraud he would surely have to SUBJ
nit. To do this would be to confess
more than the cartoonist wished by
far, and such course was therefore
not considered for a moment.
The lawyer suggested however, that
the cartoonist get over into New Jer-
sey. where New York law could not
easily reach him.
You can do your cartoons over
there and send them into the news
paper you draw for" the lawyer ex-
planned. land so long as you don't
cross the North river into this state
the rival sheet can do nothing with
YOU"
The cartoonist decided to accept this
suggestion, and inside of half a day
had transferred himself and his per-
sonal belongings to the western shore
OF the Hudson. There he remained
for some time, and his old Journalistic
favorite printed his cartoons triumph
antly every afternoon to the great
chagrin of everybody on the rival
sheet. There came a day, though,
when the longing for New York over.
came him quite. and he decided 70
make the old town a visit This visit
was his undoing, so far as remaining
on the paper of his choice was con-
cerned, and since then his drawings
have been printed regularly by the
rival sheet.
The hottest contest ever made for
certain men by these two newspapers
involved Sunday supplement editors.
Each paper was setting a lively pace
Tor the other and each publisher was
dissatisfied with the work of his own
man.
One day the owner OF one paper
sought to engage the supplement edi-
tor of the other.
I'll come at the price you name"
said the editor, IF you'll let me bring
my own men. but not otherwise, be-
cause I need them TO carry out my
ideas"
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