Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-04
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Some Stray Leaves From Reporters
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 Tally one for the professional school of journalism Out i'll a well known university in the west the faculty re- gently purchased a newspaper plant and set out to teach the boys how to do the trick in the anti-sensational and highly respectable way. They have been at 1t five months and now they have on their hands libel suit for describing how a boarding house Served poisonous veal to sixty /persons, and 1t turns out that the veal was healthy, only | four persons were made sick, and what trouble there was came from failure to cook the meat thoroughly. Apologies have been made; even the profession has to teach that art; but these are not deemed sufficient, and the improvers of the profession" are to be sued for damaging regulations of well-meaning folks.
 Careful and continued counting shows that approximately 100000 per sons cross the Brooklyn bridge each day. If these people were to stand I side by side the line would reach rom New York to Schenectady. Standing
  tend 427 miles into space. But as the atmosphere goes up for a matter or only POO miles, they would have to lie 1 on the ground, ones head touching an others feet, and then the string of hu- manity would reach from New York i nearly to Pittsburg. Marching in sin 8 gle file in one direction, at the army 1 rate of speed, 1t would require seven days of eight hours each for them to, cross theN bridge. They would weigh as much as two 15,000-ton battleships. A They would fill 666 railroad trains of ten coaches each. and these trains would extend in an unbroken line # from New York to Philadelphia They include more persons than are in the combined armies of Japan and Rus sia in Korea and Manchuria.
 The studies of HaveIock Ellis of the lives of the great men show that the majority were from families in the business walks of life. The so-called I stgood families'' furnish a smaller number, while those coming from the clerical professions have been compar- atively few. Taking 103 men of emi- hence in ten centuries, thirteen we sons of carpenters, five of weavers, five ofsshoemakers and four or black smiths The father of Brawningt was a clerk, of Carlyle mason, Huxley schoolmaster and of Keats livery stable proprietor. Mir Ellis's statis- d tics show that men of genius are rare Iy town sons," and rarely have par ents who are noteworthy. Often they are tall men. Twenty-six of them were six feet In height and over. D Among them were Darwin, Scott, Ten nyson, Thackeray and Fielding. As a rule the great men have been long lived. More died between the ages of sixty-five and seventy-dve than any | other. Two hundred and thirty lived beyond seventy-five, one hundred and thirty over eighty, and twenty over ninety.
 The public was entertained and in- etructed to some extent by the com munications published in the Demo- # crat this week from the Rev T. x. M Crowley of the north end and the Rev F. Lewis Brooks of the south end. Tn some respects the minister made more out of the tilt than the priest. Prior to the opening of hostilites, if such the incident might r1ghtfully be termed, almost everybody knew Fl he could do q good job with the pen, but the public was not so well ac- quainted with the Rev Mir Brooks and when the remarks credited to him ap- peared many said harsh things about lhim. After reading his own explana- ]tion of what he actually did say and }how he said it, people thought better of him and concluded that, after all, he was not as black as they had been led to believe. To be sure, the Rev MT Brooks had one advantage over Father Crowley, and everybody said so when they learned that he lives on Baldwin street, one of the most popu- lar thoroughfares in Waterbury, where probably ninety-five per cent of the residents are of the race he was charged with having traduced in his Memorial day address. Tn addition to this he is a home ruler and in fur nishing him with an opportunity to say so and also set himself right in the community Father Crowley has done him great favor, for if the tat tack" had been permitted to go un- noticed, no doubt the Rev MT Brooks would have remained silent and the bad feeling stirred up among people who want to be friends by the antics of the strangest of all animals, the reporter, the monster with his tale coming out of his head, never would have been cleared up. Both articles were timely. Father Crowley holds about the same place in the public mind he occupied before anything was said and the Rev MT Brooks appears to much better advantage in certain
 quarters than he did before he spoke to his neighbors through the columns of the Democrat