The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-22
The Only Paper in Chicago That
DaTes to Print the News.


The bright electric globes spelling
the name of the paper caught AIDE
attention that night as he looked up,
and. turning to the boys with him, he
said:
3 Aha, gentlemen, the Inter Ocean.
the only paper in Chicago that dares
10 print the Inter Ocean"
/ W. d. Nesbit the former Baltimore
humorist and now second vice presi-
dent of the Chicago Press club, has
/ for a long time been filling the profess
1 sional funny mans job formerly held
! down by Bert Lesion Taylor on the
/ Chicago Tribune. Taylor used to run
that famous editorial page column of
fooIishness in the Trib called A Line
o. Type or Two" Taylor had a hot
rival in Barrett Eastman of the jour
nal and his Little About Everything"
column, but to the average mind Tay-
lOT's Witticisms were indiVidualistic
enough 10 be in a class by themselves.
Taylor left the Tribune to go with
Puck, on which publication he is now
a valued funnaker and editor. He had
been Eastman's predecessor as the
Journals humOTist and 1 would tell
you how Taylor was hired by Mandg-
ing Editor James Kelley of the Tribune
away from the journal.
Taylor had been making people howl
at his drolleries. E-eeley decided the
Tribune could use b. L. r." One
morning Kelley telephoned Taylor at
the Journal office and invited him out
To luncheon, naming the hour and the
place. Taylor accepted, wondering
what it was all about. and appeared
at the restaurant at the appointed time
But Kelley didn't, and Taylor ate his
luncheon alone. in disgruntled mood
smelling possible joke on the part of
some of his newspaper associates.
Kelley telephoned. however, an apOl-
ogy later in the afternoon, pleading
that pressing business detained him,
and inviting Taylor to dinner. Through
the telephone operators Taylor quietly
made sure the talking had been done
from the Tribune office and. satisfied
he was not being made the butt OF u
practical joke again kept the appoint
ment at Kinsley's.
Sure enough Kelley appeared. and
the pair dined together. All through
that meal Taylor wondered what in
thunder Kelley wanted to see him
for, quite likely enough suspecting the
protfer of job but receiving no Yeri-
everything under the sun but shop.
Finally the repast ended, the waiter
brought the check TO Kelley, finger
bowls and hats and coats. The two
Went out into a clustering, dirty, dis
agreeable Chicago night. They walked
10 Dearborn street, and Kelley bade
Taylor good night leaving the latter
standing in "a semi-stupefied state on
the corner. Kelley walked half Il block
and turned around Putting his hands
20 his mouth, the better TO carry his
voice. he shouted back in Taylors di-
rectiOn:
"Oh, / say, Taylor"
well. hello" yelled back Taylor. at
the TOP of his lungs. against the blast.
I'm give YOU SeVenty-GVe dollars a
week if yOuu come over 10 the TTib-
une next Monday"
All right" responded Taylor lust
ily IN be there. Good night"
From a country reporter to publisher
OF the Chicago Tribune is the story Of
James Kelley. a Chicago newspaper
man who has proven one of the Fourth
estates marvels of the past, decade.
His history, as told by his inumates.
is one that has been an inspiration to
many a struggling reporter and sea-
soned editor.
Kelley came to Chicago looking raw
aud rural. That was only about ten
years ago When Kelley struck what
Oscar Wildrs understudy, John staple
ton COwiey- Brown Of London, has been
pleased to call the queen of cities.
he was clothed in the garments pecu-
liar 10 a HOOsier agricultural district
raiment of an ancient vintage. He had
done some newspaper work on a coun-
try journal which had filed his great
heart with a sublime confidence in his
ure. He was penniless and friend
ess IN q city which is superlatively
chilly to the man who is dead broke.
Kelley did not repine nor lament.
Neither did he attack the denizens OF
editorial and composing rooms in en-