Connecticut western news., 1907-07-11
REWS(?) FROM TWISTED.
New York Newspapers Have Some
 GuiIible Editors.


 Over in Winsted there lives man who writes ''pieces" for the New York pa pers. They comprise tales of the wierd, tales of the uncanny, tales of the improb- able and the impossible. Occasionally one of them has some slight foundation and at other times-but let that pass This sort of thing has been going on for some time, so long that the readers of these New York papers now doubt any thing they see printed under a Winsted date line. But the reliable, enter prising" and "modern New York dailies want this stuff" therefore the Winsted scribe does his best to supply the demand. It means so much per col umn for him, and as he has become pro- ficient in this line of journalismC0 the monthly checks provide him with con- siderable pin money.
 Here is what the Hudson (N. Y.) Ga zette has to say about the Winsted sto- ries:
 "Some weeks ago from Winsted, Ct., came dispatch about an old man from Coxsackie who was about to join some secret order and let the goat buck, with some interesting details thrown ill about the ,octogenarian's or nonegenarian's life. A Coxsackie paper rose to remark that no such man was known in that village. Other things have come from Winsted way which bear every ear-mark of being just as trueC), yet there are gullible New York editors who seem so proud of it he shouts abound in his head lines :. What hol Scribes, Listen to Win stedl Claims No Locality can beat her for News variety and Furnishes sam ples." Then under these faring head lines the World of recent date gave nine and one-half inches of space on the first page to special from Winsted, Conn.,, the introduction to which was as follows: " If any locality can beat Winsted in the variety of twenty -four hours news, the local editors will stand treat for any ve- racious fellow-scribe who can do better"
 The correspondent then gives three stories, the first referring to reconcih- ation and marriage at Windsor Locks of a couple who were divorced sixteen years ago.are married again, only to lose their mates.
 The second story told how ten freight cars each took a jump at an old building at Colemans, in which one Herman Johnson lodged.
 The third story related how J. E. Blackman erected nice fence about his farm at Woodbury (Conn) placing horseshoes on the posts for luck and to hold up the bars.
 Now, 1t won't take much of 0 para graph to 'sbeat" this Winsted scribe at his own game When it is pointed out that the first story originated in Windsor Locks, Hartford county, the second at Colemans, point near the Harlem road and the third ill Woodbury, far away portion of the county in which Win sted is located-Litchfeld boast ing of the Connecticut scribe won't carry much weight.
 But the funniest part of the whole af- fair is that the desk men of the World continue to allow stories to be clipped from papers in all sections of Connecti- cut (and some in Massachusetts, to be sent out under Winsted date line But, what name Lou Stone is giving Win sted. At home, on the paper which he is regularly employed, such variety of twenty-four hours news never ap- pears, for the simple reason that the peo- pie there would not stand for it. The World seems to put premium ol the man who can palm off such stuff on 1t and we write this to say there are many scribes who could work off a lot of s;mi- lar stuff on the World if they felt that their territory was anywhere i'll two or three states"