The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-17

 with the list. It was to remind them of the interests about which nothing un- favorable was ever to appear in the Chronicle. At this time the Chicago base ball club of the National league was not l making a good showing. This was said to be because some of the best players had been sold. Newspapers began to refer to the team remnants. In a news item I was assigned to write about another matter I had reason to mention the club and I called them remnants The next day I noticed that the word had been cut out. The city editor in giving me an assignment, said: I saved your neck last night MT. Walsh has no sense of humor. He doesn't think 1t funny to call his baseball club rem nants' You would have been dis charged if that word had got in the paper
 Walsh doesn't care much whether the Chronicle makes money or not I heard some one in the office say. He is worth from 15,OOO,O00 to s25O00, 900. What he wants principally is to pro- tect the many corporation irons he's got in the fire. And he'd keep the paper for that if it lost $100,000 or so a year. It prevents other papers from Jumping him very hard, because with a big newspaper at his command he can get back at them
 MT Salisbury was on the Tribune and the Record Herald both of Chicago. He talks about those papers also at length.
 The Chicago Tribune was founded by Joseph Medill, who in his lifetime was looked upon by many as a Horace Greeley of the west After his death the Tribune passed into the control of his son-in- Jaw, MT. Patterson, who had once worked as a reporter on it. "Doubtless nearly all of the Tribunes readers believed everything that l and my high -salaried associates wrote for it One story in particular must have seemed to them a stroke of enterprise The winter before a lot of homeless men had met in the cheap lodging house district and discussed ways and means of bettering themselves. Some of the papers. including the Tribune, had stories the next day about tramp convention. To make <he thing artistic the reporters said an association of tramps had been formed and a date and place set for national conven- tion. Britt. Ia., a small town, until then unknown to fame, was stated to be the place and the middle of tn fol- lowing July the time. As the date ap preached some of the papers sent cor respondents to the scene. The Tribune featured the story more than any other paper. Its correspondent wrote columns of matter. He described the assembling of the delegates, telling how the smoke was rising from more than one wayside camp fire. How the Weary Walkers tin cans slung over shoulders dotted the horizon in many directions. After three days of such descriptions came the news that the convention had chosen a candidate for President. His name was Admiral Dewey. 4 When the Tribunes cor respondent came back he was con- graduated upon his good work.
 Well, we had plenty of time to think up stuff he said to the other staff members. There was absolutely noth- ing to do there except drink up the booze some of us were wise enough to bring and decide what the tramps should have done if there had been any of them there"
 "'Why did you nominate Dewey""
 Because all of the political parties had passed him by and we thought something was coming to him.
 In this way does MT. Salisbury re- late his experience the different Kansas City newspapers, the Chicago Tribune, Record Herald, Chronicle and Mir Hearst's American.
 The author afterward went to New York wh ere he had some experiences and near experiences on the New York Times, Sun and so on.
 The book is very interesting and would act as an antidote to much of the New York and Chicago yellow Journalism" which is thrown at those cities and the provinces from day to day -. and the end seems not yet.
 By Their Fruits" by Mrs. Campbell
 Praed. (Cassell & Company
 This is an English novel, long and extended, to say the least. But it is an unusually good story to read slowly and from which much real pleasure can be secured.