Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-29


complete history of this case, with
such acknowledgment of the part
played by the paper as you choose to
authorize"
THAT is the way 1 like to hear
man talk, Mr.. Chalmers" said Mr..
Morton THAT is business / will
say to you that 1 will break my rule
and write statement which you
can use if it has any value. Your
representatives will find me ready
to talk on any subject connected
with this affair"
The same promise was made by
the other magnates.
'Mr. Seymour and Mr.. Stevens are
experienced and discreet newspaper
men," said Mr.. Chalmers. ''It takes
time to write and put on the wires
story like this. 1 ask that they
be allowed to begin work at once, and
1 will be responsible that not word
is telegraphed which can appear on
the streets of New York before three
o'clock this afternoon"
"They shall have every opportu-
nIly, Sdlu we Will
turn this room into newspaper of
flee right now. Send for Mr.. Sey-
mour and Mr.. Stevens and we will get
to work"
"You can draft me as a reporter"
said Sidney Hammond. 81 can help
out on some of the incidents on the
island"
You see me about Hammond" said
Mr.. Kent. ''He is too modest to tell
you the truth about himself"
Seymour and Jack Stevens were
sent for and they proceeded to their
task with the tact, rapidity and sys-
tenn of experienced newspaper men
They speedily obtained the frame
work of the story. Upon this they
built, incident by incident, the tissue
and body of well-rounded narrative
Mr.. Chalmers became reporter fol-
the first time in years. He suggest
| ed the basis of eight signed state
ments-L. Sylvester Vincent was not
excepted. BY the time the ''Heler
Carmody" was anchored in Vera
Cruz harbor Mr.. Chalmers had the
|
with the rescued magnates and with
them to the telegraph offices. Chal
mers found the manager and ar
ranged for the use of all available
wires on and after one o'clock. Mr.
Morton and his companions filed tele
| grams to relations and business as
sociates and once more was in toucl
with New York.
After a conference with Mr.. Chal
mers it was agreed not to leave Vera
Cruz until late in the evening. 1
was planned to steam direct to New
Orleans, go from there by specia
train to New York. Mr.. Chalmer
insisted that he have all the tim'
necessary to prepare and forward hi
story. At 1910 Chalmers filed hi
first news bulletin, and from tina
moment until ten o'clock at night
corps of telegraph operators wa
busy clicking the greatest beat
ever recorded in the history of mod
ern journalism.
1t may be mentioned in passin!
that the receipt in New York of pr
vate kilograms from the MISSING
millionaires was followed on tn
exchange by enormous buying O
stocks. There were no rumors t
account for the consequent rise i
prices and for some time the marke
stOutly resisted the advance. The
quotations began to rise; slowly a
first, but with increasing momentum
Something had happened! VIVA
was it?
The news of the Wall street booI
came over the telephone to the news
paper office. Mr.. Sharp, the actin
editor of the Evening Record, wa
on the alert. In a fever of excite
ment he awaited the expected wor
from Mr.. Chalmers or one of his a!
sistants. The rival paper, the Ever
ing Gazette, was out with an eXtr
containing a rumOr that the los
magnates had been located in Sout
Africa. Mr.. Sharp could stand it n
longer. 1t was two o'clock and th
market was soaring, but Wall stree
was as mystified as ever. For
week Sharp had held in type til
most startling headlines ever d.
signed in the Office. He had bee
) advised that the 'Helen Carmody
had sailed from Havana and he kne
her destination. 1t was the day fo
news from the abducted men. ShaT
decided to take chance" The fo
lowing was his first effort in heat
lines, which covered the front pag
and crowded the title of the papt
into small type in the upper lef
hand corner: