Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-01-13
EUROPEAN YELLOW JOURNALS.

journals of Europe, especially OF
France and England.
Highway robbery, burglary almost
murder, violation of laws of every
kind, daring adventures, risk of their
own lives and the lives of others for
the sake of STORY" antagonisms OF
the police, lamentations of discord
and revolt mark the careers of the
newspaper men of Europe The eff
forts at yellowness and sensational
ism OF certain papers in the United
States appear dull and lusterless COM
pared with sending men to commit
grave crimes in order to get a story.
To get inside information on the in
tentions of public officials or other
personages whose opinions or actions
are wanted by his paper the Euro
pean reported will even go so far as
to secrete himself in the home or Of
flee of that official for almost any
length of time. A reporter of the
Petit Parisien shut himself up in the
office closet of a judge in order to
hear private conversation between
him and another of his profession.
The browning feat of one reporter
of one of the European papers was
performed when he hung for a full
half-hour suspended above two mill
tary officers who were fighting duel.
His position was a dangerous one,
and his life was in triple peril, for
the two duelists had threatened that
no one could see it without being
shot. Yet the reporter maintained
this position, hanging by his hands
from telegraph wire until the duel
was over and the scene was cleared
At the time of the fight of the
Humbert family a representative of
the French paper lie Matin, who had
in some manner got wind of the in
tended fight, took up a position be-
hind door of a hotel opposite and
stayed there for two days and nights,
or until the family made off. He
even had his meals brought to him
and ate them while keeping watch.
In order to make a sensational
story one European paper sent a man
around the world. NJ Steigler took
the trip in order to show his paper
was correct in statement which it
made and which was challenged by
rival paper. The trip cost over $4,000,
but it filled a page of space in the
newspaper for each of the sixty-three
days and few afterward and before
as well.
1t is impossible to tell of all such
voyages which have been taken to
make news for the newspapers
abroad. Only little while ago one
reporter was given the task of cross.
ing Asia on foot, and another went
to the Alaskan Klondike to get ma
terial for story on the life of the
gold miners of that territory. Many
foreign newspaper men have spent
years of their lives as amateur
tramps, wandering in both cities and
countries, to learn what could be
learned about the lives of the tramps.
European newspaper men have
spent months and more working at
different metropolitan occupations
merely to be able to write knowingly
for the public about the rights.
wrongs and experiences of those
ways of life. A representative of one
paper bought a horse and cab and
spent a full year of his life hauling
people around the streets simply to
get a single two column story about
the life of the cabman. Later this
same reporter secured a position as
an omnibus driver and worked a long
while driving a bus for the sake of
single article on his troubles and
streaks of fortune.
There is practically no limit to the
list of jobs at which these men have
h.