The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-11-04

dafous the way they would go afler MIN
II the new man didn't have it thrown
into" him for column on the first page
before the week was out he could call
himself lucky.
This Dumping process was accen-
tuated IL there was suspicion that the
newcomer was a college graduate or
"rah. rah boy" as he was called by the
police gang.
Before the night was over AIDE had
made friends with every reporter on the
lob. He did not try to impress them
with the fact that he had come to Chi
cago to resuscitate journalism.
But he was in for dumping" never
theless. The second or third night he
missed out on porch climbing diamond
robbery in Grand boulevard. and from
a perusal Of the story in the papers
all except the Morning News-one would
think that the entire police department
knew of It. How AIDE could have failed
| to hear something about 1t was puzzle
| to his city editor. 1t was one OF those
stories that were plugged" but one OF
the night reporters got tip on it from
| druggist, from whose store the police
were telephOned AIDE, of course, knew
/ nothing about this, and it would have
done him no good If he had. When he
reported at his Office the next evening
| the city editor asked him for an ex-
PLANTATION. He was handed clipping
about yard long, and cross was on 1t
| in blue pencil from top to bottom. AIDE
looked at the clipping for second and
then laid it down on the desk with the
remark:
Il suppose the young man who ran
the blue mark through that thought he
had something on me. Well, he didn't,
for / can do it myself"
This explanation as to why he had
been ''scooped" saved George AIDES
bacon. The city editor leaned back In
his chair and roared at the new report.
er's unique excuse for being bumped
by the gang. With the injunction 70
keep awake" the city editor told him
to go ahead with his work.
That night AIDE drifted out to the
Brighton Park station, where a reporter
had not been seen for years. He had tc
ride on horse car and he was two hours
in getting to the station. The towr
could have burned down before he got
back, but he didn't care. Old-timers OF
the Job satisfied themselves by telephon
ing to Brighton once a month over thu
police wire, just to know if the station
was still there. Nobody was ever known
to get line of news out of the station
and it was standing joke with the re
porters when leaving Central in tn
evening for one Of them to say: well
III guess I'll drop out to Brighton tn
!. night. I've got bunch there's some
thing doing out there"
On the night in question AIDE ha'
heard one of the gang make that re
mark, and he was not going to b
, caught mapping the second time whe
, there was anything in the shape of new
floating around.
> And it so happened that there wa
!, something doing that night. The lieu
/. tenant in command had tip early !
. the evening that a notorious saft
4 |
tire country had been searching fc
months, was hiding in house in b
. precinct. He surrounded the buildin
and then raped on the door for admit
lance. His knock was answered by
;, revolver shot from within. The doc
was burst by the officers, who sprang IL
- side with drawn revolvers, and, after
! desperate fight, the fugitive was cal
- tured.
= AIDE was just entering the static
: when the patrol wagon with the prison'
drove up. He ''butted in" to use b
a own words, and dragged of the story
: What was more, he had it exclusiv
:. a nice, Juicy" column, with all the
- tails Of the arrest and few others
make it more realistic. The South sit
:, gang took him into the combination Il
:. next night and he's been making goot
- ever since.-Chicago Record Herald.