The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-10
Three Men Who Didn't.

IS father was a great man. He was
rich and he had filed a place
Of national prominence in q DO
ii'icaI way. He was also old and ven
cradle and most people were clad TO
obl1ge him in any way in their power
he came in one day and saw the own
er OF the WhirIwind
My SON." he said. lis lust ont of
i ale and wants TO get into the news
him trial
So young Goodrich was sent M To
the city editor, with a note of intro
uuctlon. and put to work. He filled
up ms pockets with notebooks and lead
pehcHS' Wore big nickel-plated star
pinned on the lapel of his coat. and
oId almost everything else which the
rear reporter shuns. But he WAS a
IohS-Iegged, athletic youth. and the
CIIy editor found him useful in hunt
nls up photographs and running other
TirdiidS which required leg work -
but ne never showed the slightest sign
81 that nose for news which is the
Vi IHrlSht OF the newspaper man.
ne wouldn't recognize a story if he
was introduced to it." the city editor
saId one morning when he was talk
ing ABOUT Goodrich. but 1 don't know
as ii makes much differences So Ionr
as the senator pays his salary"
me senator was his father.
Inc next afternoon one of the even
iiS papers came out with the biggest
9coop OF the year 1t was an eX-
tremely sensational STORY" It was
spread all over the first two paees of
the evening paper and told of the ar
rest of prominent minister of the
gospel on a charge Of having murdered
ms wife. The story was well writ
ten 1t left little for the morning pa
peTS to say, and was calculated to
int,
OF every other editor i'm town.
Inc city editor of the Whirlvind was
particularly sore" His paDer made
a specially of sensational news. and the
TACT that he had been ''scooped'' so
completely by an afternoon paper hurt
ms professional pride. He sat in his
little room that afternoon with the
scoop in his hands and looked as
IL ne would like to bite somebody.
-, me old man is crazy" said one of
me Oh reporters Look, there goes
IN that little fool. Goodrich. TO talk
drop" "
Young Goodrich walked into the lions
aeh with "A vacuOus grin on his face
The city editor glanced up with a
Pretty good story the Evening
Bells got, isn't it," he said, patron-
izingly.
.Wellr' snapped the city editor. with
a look IN his eyes that presag ed a com
ing storm.
I've known all about that for a
week, went on the devoted Good
rich.
You've what?'' roared the city edi-
tor, springing to his feet and uncon-
sclously assuming a threatening atti-
tude
Why, the governors one of the law
yerS III the case Stammered Goodrich.
backing out of the office. He told me
all about il week ago"
1t happened that the city editors Of
nee was located at the top of the
winding stairs which wound round and
round through the seven stories of the
WhlrlWind building. AS Goodrich con-
firmed the worst fears in the mind of
the city editor the latter started for
him with an oath.
But Goodrich was "A sprinter him
self The other reporters hanging over
the top railing shrieked as they saw
MN fairly fly round and round down
those long steps with the city editor
about four jumps behind him. Eveutu-
ally Goodrich reached the street first
and the city editor took the elevator
back TO his eyrie on the seventh floor.
Goodrich never came back. Next dav
a note came over from his father NV
SON." it said. he decided that he is
not cut out for a newspaper man. and
mas begun to read law in my office"
There was another freak on the staff
of the WhirlWind at the same time
His father was a distinguished sena-
tor Of the United States from one of
the southern states. The son was per
maps 40 years old. and his father was
Chiefly interested in keeping him away
from home. As i'm the case of Good
rich, the salary of Fitzhugh stanton
was always paid out of the paternaI
e&cheGuer. StauutOu had all tho fy-ri-