The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-08-20

IL
itiially inienpet4ite and therefore habit
6uaily UNRELIABLE. dld not drink, MS
manly journalists do. 70 stimulate my
iphyslcnily Impossible for Inc to remain
sober fos more than two weeks at q
i lad, that day, been discharged from
y i celebrated tho bad luck in my char.
actcrstIc Manner and finished h With i Il tu n
sense eouglto cleaqr s seaa WIN 1nGk
an use with Coffee John, and more 70 hls
( pl i "a and for the as, time II my l'fq
REQUEST cd what conld no up pay " 6s,rfee
and d plnte OF 5tdoughnuts were handed
me Without comment or advice .,.
vas iak,s ny are meat n br ne , pnsh
at at my table n he general s, sony ,,!a
ton that ensed deunqb oa hat one w mas to
}hr aVe wpo rhnadff and Jumped lis billboard
in nearly every State IN the jnioon one y,
was book agent whH2 had been ZEE nttffmps-
Ing to dispose r. th,rd n was nm m Insurance.
solicitor WHO had failed to make good
tho trades Ten M f9r af inc that ali
four Off us were out of funds, and ready y
5o5 f" ffom re th oor Sth srna
ts nsnas a f9r p11nfi 70 e me- BY wheh
We could ali ind d way out Of the O. a.
1eInmn aiEis !. ~. F1fnr
aids peiiodical upheavals had occurred
,nn s yfny a4S ar eiy
eGtor after s,odTny n had Carried WITH
G Kim four Of TIE best men on the staff;
Other reporters who had TAKEN ms i,. . PAL,
s ST sne -. It t. vas very likely that any
many who could put up any kind OF e, 2
stsas fa If c fnqsn6 81 @ sua
ton without any trouble. ~, .,,roe
My plan vas this: Each Of a1t1 1ne ion Ihre as
Teort Tas IN e 3ha aPmP eyyald and
y VAS to report the next day for his as e.,
slgnment and thsn come wa nmf 70 siYs
t K me iii III the s + necessary
t 10 obta ming tie matsrial and y wh hen
they had brought me IN, n - iaic 6 wr'le -
tnf h s'o Three ee' men agreed enthusasticaly
to the venture. and spent the even YEN
nE in ro feafhn a ham they wd ssa
Is in one sitting-a man has to haze ,a g
nose trained to smell IN ya nla hut de
Story; and ''covering" detail: 7 tola
them TO- keep Their nS he eyeS o dften I
'.single-head' story, would, II ne .s% ,.,ea5
sharp get hint tha. 99n c1n 11 W scare
~ 'i.''
4 There Is Of course, no royal road &c TO
Journalism, but there are short cuts tnat
Be ses EEay new at the city
desk, for I knew him well, and, pr,oVl ..,nl
each of'them with, a. yarn about ms s,; SUP
posed previous wopp Ikasds on t The ST. Iouis
Globe Herald under George comstoGk;
one had done special writing on the NH,
n ot p6ont A a the qp rs IN
f,xed nv men SO they couldn't easily be
TIPPED up their autIobiqpYra1}hh'e ei,,ce
that ateS hight Mt''t and after had waited an
hour or So L had the satisfaction !. OF
hearing that all three Of my Pupils al e na6
Of them Was to give me half his salary,
and so had a fair show Of ,,, earning m q
man and a half's wages as Fresiueiit -
the Great Bauer Syndicate.
II AT 4 o'clock the next AFTERNOON ! $, u
down in Coffee Johns and waited lor. my
subordinates to report. AS each man came te
gave him minute instru W. nI as his is
the trade didn't know, and had never +
been beaten by anX PAPER
Hostile Il, to my sheet had got pho.egra p p
noRoay e 6css a 9Ia @
Mlt atieal g posyehclog.st and Where
know only ons w SoSr Of NJ Ese msn w had
iitf5a excuse for falling to obtain their
stories and they walked ont OF Cones
Johns Ike yautomata th nut i'au !" ouio
Flp for three hours.
they returned between 4 and o'clock,
gave me the informatonttl1ey had 4 sec ~,
ed, and, while they reported TO tne ,t G,uS
ct IN IS
ment. I wrote the articles at railroad
speed could tell as VEL s as any S caIs
Worth and wrote the headlines accord
inrlV3for in the Herald office every re-,
porter was his own headline writer.
BY any chance the EDITORS td jTdg p,e
few minutes to cut the thing down or pad
it to any length. and my men took the
COPY back before they went out on the
their new directions and when they turn,
ed I'm toward 10 and II at night. II had
the whole batch of writing TO- 40 a gam ;tan,
1t was terrific pace for any one, id IN
San Irnncsco could have kept three
busy and turned out tlrst-classs work H.,
went on ad for es3 aays JOINT Garny
head Quarters. That was the only place
where could hope to keep SOBER SOBER w W.
Ing at such high pressure, 1 tor = u nd
cou l afford to hire an office; The
amount black coffee consumed G mada
me yellow, for year Whe1hee r $Go nef
I never knew; at any rate, he asked no
questions and made no objections.
The Great Bauer Syndicate, went merrl-
and the members r wdh tns saar
easily enough Il the JOB vas s., especially !St
the story myself. At the end q the y tir :,
w drew our pay and 6 6nt eder 4
that my snn men th n Ssh
die the work alone: Il fly II ia hadn't been
come in managed to write several col
amns e faxed d AND and ot nsp nsid
for without any work at all would
have had trouble in holding them down
PROSPECTS we're bright Ra relttdles,
civ editor we made record for two
weeks, and then came the crash,
had been &c sober as q parson for
ffteen long weary days. beating my racr
ord i h9Srs, add h9d dssnoh
copy like a linotype machine, keyed up