The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18
REPRESENTATION LYON

VI l. N ! N " A stories across that pretty that bad. Listen here. Want to make bet?"
 "No don't want to make bet"
 Want to make bet?" pursued Mir. Pabst in his best New York style "Want to make bet? If you want to make bet on it, I'll just bet you five hun dred dollars make you known from one end of this country to the other, from Seattle to Boston, from Minneapolis to San Antone inside of three weeks!'
 "Honorably7"
 "Honorably," asserted MT. Pabst, bit vaguely. "Just as honorable the microbe theory"
 eff you do that honorably." said the sluggish Bolts, awake and shining, rIl give you five hundred dollars!"
 "Done '" said Mr. Pabst, impressively, drawing up his double chin with frmness and dealing the table good smack with his fat hand.
 Flaw, haw Go ahead :" responded Botts. Y You've got to stand by me clear through it," warned Mr. Pabst "Got to obey orders and do as I tell you and keep your head closed as to how this thing started"
 Anything in honor," assented Bolts, with glow "When do you begn?" .t
 'To-morrow morning." answered Mr. Pabst. Dr. Bolts paid the luncheon check and they shook hands The next morning in the personal column of the New York Herald there appeared the following amaz- ing communications:
 WANTED-A RIGHT EAR One thousand dol
 lars cash will be paid for live human in
 sound condition. Sex must be mcle, and only
 healthy need apply. Address Herald 465.
 City desks all over town felt genuine thrill that morning by city desks is meant those desks in paper offices at which sit the omnivorous insatiate persons politely called city editors. It is custom of these remarkable men to search eagerly through rival newspapers every day hunting for news which they can develop for their own paper They select items which have been poorly covered" by the oppo siton; they find hints of greater stories where the opposition has slurred or faltered they interview people that the opposition simply mentioned without interviewing; above al they with the greed of netoothed comb that tangled hank of mystery, the personal column where mania passion is half hidden and only obvious to the one pair eyes it is meant for City editors go at such columns with scissors They clip items lovingly out of such col nmns. They paste them onto pieces of paper and call them assignments They give them to their crack reporters and tell them to stay that job until they bring in Haroun-alRaschid story. Not of them missed the thousand-doar Not one of them failed to have his crack reporter have his land lord address letter of inquiry to Herald 465 Not a of these communications got beyond the sage eye of Mir. Alphonso Quintus Pabst as he collected 465s mail that day. The city around Park Row trembled for twenty-four hours. The next morning the advertisement appeared again again Park Row twitched galvanically under the force of the hd den battery. On the third day the slow unfolding of Mr. Pabst's ducet voice went over the wire to Ragg city editor: five got line on the thousand-dolar ear" he drawled. E s
 Rags eyes simply fared. They were old friends He knew what coming; he scid: "How much" "I don't know much about it," went on the imper- turbable voice. "Al1 know is that it is feller named Bolts. I looked through the directory and spotted A. z. Bolts, M D., that. looked likely He's at 26 West 56th Street Couldn't get anything much out of him, but I believe he's the fellow. want fifty Ragg. I'll see you later"
 A. E. Botts was the man: Mr. Pabst got the fifty dollars. But Dr. Bolts would not talk. Bolts was faithful to instructions That night Raggs paper car ried much of story possible, plus little that The next morning the Bottss doorbell kept under the feverish ringing of reporters fists Also the hallway and the street in front of the house comfortably filled with ragged park persons who were willing barter both and leg or two for thousand dollars, Nothing could be obtained out of Botts, but there good human interest story in the poor, bedragged wretches who thronged to sell
 part of their flesh to keep the rest ofit alive in dreary world. Lady reporters brutaly known as the sympathy squad, and the "sob sisters, went out to the Bolts office and interviewed wreck after wreck, getting a life story from each in which mention of whisky was made althou yh the lady reporters came back to the office saturated with its plantve breath Those that there did not dare go away for fear something would suddenly happen, and their number constant augmented by droves of fresh arrivals, spare mep. extra writers. tipster" even and reW police. sn+ts getting nervous. but he still held firm IT. name had been put in the papers now; he could DO TlthdraW ana say 1t was al a SnaIn de could fell the reporters anything for the very good that Es dId not know anything to tell. MT. Pabst had not given him any vital statistics in the matter The thing dragoed three days and the strain all sides intense. Already the Asso- cated Press beginning to whimrer the news (sucl it was) out thrduch the country. Sunday came around and showed the unanimitT of Sunday editor renius by the fact that less than four coOred sup rlements carried the sanna s+or-. yi- doctor with knife from which dronocd rel red ink. stan.t i1- O-er gentlemen dressed in Tu"Gpean costume ho hoo e.. . mentS and nl"Stpred with dnt+od lines TWO doctor hOhine in bis hand of t,n "n'' 'e>'~:s ears and apnearPd to be ffcrvn'i" '>""'"rt"-- - at '' rreat red leoend "oroe~ ''le '-s of r. N""~r ' io" it ran:
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