Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-18

the coroner's and undertakers the district court
county clerks office to transcribe the real estate
transfers, interview with all the city and county
officials brief usually society CALL and hasy
return to the editorial in write up
material cleaned before noon. This little journey
followed at IL o'clock by a visit to the depot to
take in the overland westbound train, to pump the
depot officials and to interview distinguished travel
ers, real imaginary. After this another flying trip
made before O'Clock to the coroners and court
house, when prepared and handed in for the
afternoon edition, proof read, visitors received, adj
agents of shows entertained, and numerous
other minor matters attended to- After the paper
went to he often at liberty for the of the
evening, excepting when fire broke out, enter
tanment presented itself to be reported which
he was expected to be hand. Omaha has never
reporter, with the reportorial legs of Soren-
son, in the years gone by, when he made the local
of The Bee the despairing envy Of all competi
tors, even when they included such rusters
poor Sam Donnelly of the Herald Edwards Miner and
Cuddy of the Republican and Kent of the News.
Tom Fitzmorris foreman of the news-room,
with eight printers to herd. He added to
the duties Of cutting copy measuring strings and
employing and discharging typesetters the responsible
tiles of editing telegraph, making the forms for two
daily editions and selecting matter for and arrang
Ing the weekly His skill a head-liner phe-
nomenal The most commonplace item article.
der the glow of his imagination, appeared CARRIED in
were out and the calls for copy loud, he used
to rush in desperation into the editorial room, seze
the shears and clip miscellany by the column, thus
usurping the functions OF the editor Is only
fair to say that the paper suffered by
of his ineursions. Later Fitzmorris gained wide
reputation for The Bee by his concise and witty hand
ling of the department of state and occidental jottng
which were extensively copied throughout the west.
Characteristics of The Bee Men.
It a small staff, but doubt If that of any
other newspaper of the country worked hard,
half ambitious more faithful to the interests
of the paper which they served. There esprit
de corps which, in spite of hard times, small pay
and the constant contentious in which the paper
engaged, bound together the little band of work
make Its fights their and felt that it's interests
their interests and its their msfortunes
They fought its battles soft paper and drove In
the line OF retreat aferward the streets. Among
themselves and in the office they cursed perhaps the
internal. driving persstency of the proprietor, but
they invariably defended him the outside. They
unselfishly and manfully did five mems work. each
man OF them, because they knew it necessary in
order to keep ahead OF the procession but they
allowed their grumblng to interfere with the regular
outpour OF copy. The Bee advanced steadily, pri-
mariy of course. because of the push the pluck
of its editor who a OF ideas, but less be-
cause, like good general, he gathered around him
staff of subordinates who integenty and faithfully
carried out his policy. W. Z. AMIN.
Omaha, June 1889. -