The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-28
MCKINNEY SAVED DAY
l.. AND V. sUPERUTENDENT HELP
 DD THE NEWoPAPERS.
He Assisted Correspondents With Pres iAenf to Telegraph their News of Mobile Heception-Con-
 test for T0urist Busines.

To superintendent J. I. Mckinney. of | the Mobile and Montgomery Division | of the Louisville and Nashville Rail- road the millions of newspaper read | CTS all over the United States are in debted for the full accounts of Pres ident Reossvelt's reception in Mobile Monday afternoon. It was almost time for the special | train to pull out of Mobile for the run | to Montgomery Monday evening. after the President had concluded his speech, and was returning to the train. The | correspondents of the three press asso. citations travelling with the President were in despair. Not a line of their stories had any of them been able to write. The President had just conclud- ed his speech and the party was ready l to leave Mobile. There had been no time to get up any kind Of story, 2 story that was SO essentially important
 to the newspapers of the country. a9 the newspaper correspondents 1t looked as if they were against hard propo- sition.
 Rushing up to Superintendent Mo Kinney the three correspondents poured their troubles into his sympathetic ears. What are we to do. MT. Mckinney asked one of them. "You see it's like Newspapers all over the country are waiting for it. And if it don't go some thing might happen to us"
 MT. Mckinney was doing some hard thinking while the spokesman was
 talking, and when he had finished he
 turned to the three troubled looking
 newspaper men.
 we will fix that all right. Sixty one miles up the road is Flomatou,
 where the first stop will be made. I
 have a good corps of operators in my
 telegraph ofice there and before we
 leave Mobile will make arrangements
 with the Western Union to send cou-
 pie of operators to Flomaton with this train Now it's up to you fellows to
 have your copy ready by the time the train reaches Flomatcn. There will be a bunch of seven operators in my train dispatcher's ofice there and your 'st,tff' will be rushed to the four quarters of the United States" . Over the faces of three newspaper men the Night was breaking. Crate fully wringing the hand of the big rail- road superintendent they made a dive for their car and in a few minutes pen- cils and typewriteers were flying over sheets of paper as rapidly as Henry Copley, the engineer, was laundering the train over the numerous bridges out of Mobile.
 The Western Union. in answer to Mir. McKinney's request. detailed two oper- ators to go with the special from Mo- bile to Flomaton. By the time the train reached Flomaton the newspaper men had their copy ready and it was rushed over to the train dispatcher's of fce It is doubtful if the little dis- patcher's office at Flomaton ever held such a crowd of working telegraphers as swarmed in on Chief Train Dispatch CT Jim Semmes Monday night. There were just seven of them there to ham, dle the keys. Each one of them was given his take of .he newspaper copy, and in a few moments telegraph oper- ators from Maine to California were receiving stories of President Roose- velts ovation in Mobile.
 Superintendent Mckinney had saved the day for the newspapers.