The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-18

Therefore for the first and last time fn hfs fft Mike Film, ianitor in Mr. Pabst's apartment buflf ing, was Pittsburg millionaire To be sure, he carefully smothered under white sheet and his head wrapped up in cotton gauge so that only the fp end of his nose stuck out, be lay in the back office of the Botts suite Close the cot beside him Isy another white mummy, the mummy that vas to sigs second figure the beboy who had eneryeticslly passed out statements and impertinence few days before. The curtains were drawn An angsthedc silence permeated the room Reporters were admitted cautiously tiptoe and to them Bolts, with suDFy soft deprecatory motions of the head and hands, whispered:
 'eThere has been so much noise and rumpus this affair that don't see how am going to be able to perform the operation here I think shall have to remove them both quiet place, if get the necessary conveniences there. No; haven't begun operating yet-he had rather strained smile his face as he said it; Bolts had lost fifteen pounds In weight-"I couldn't let you in. you know, If had begun it. That is all gentlemen Please @ out quietly do not think shall operate fn this c1fy.
 MT. Pabst rubbed his hands later when he went fe be treated at the Botts office for throat Great idea of Pud Pabsts that" said tae other reporteFs "He thinks he'll get on the inside if he becomes patient of the docs"
 Pabst chuckled to Bolts: rf told you Yosrs bn s hot air. s aE rhsr ali @ county wants" He waved an impr sssive, fat arm "Ths biggest bunch of suckers under the blue sky Look how we feed lem this stuff. M"-for instance. fse, Pud Pabst-and all the other feIlers little feIIers gks me. See how we can hand it to lem? Remember old Barnum's saying about lem liking to be humbuExed7 Barnum ough to have been a newspaper man why, I've put bum politicians into office this way. Little me! I've helped keep refers rom B0f0z t0 IHe p>n. I've helped guys grab street railway franchses I've made society women famous--yes, sf, famous-tn ny time. I've helped trusts out of holes when they've been caught stealing I've done my share of helping elect dummy president of the United States. Al this stuff is framed up, it's all put-up job. You've only got to know how to go about it to Dc able to skin these people all the time. Why, I firmly be. lieve they've got doped with dope stun now that they don't want to know the truth about a thing
 He stopped and lit cigarette, glowing fat youth puffed with pride. You talk about free press Botts Rats It simply the press Is free to do as 1t likes Some fellow with bunch of coin starts a newspaper and begins to grind his ax- He puts line across the front page: he Peoples Forum, this newspaper game for. fifteen years and I'm sow giving you practical demonstration of how to feed lem gulf out of spoon. That's what they want too Don't you forget this is the land of the free fma nation and the home of the brave guf-eaters.
 q think it must be because they are all pretty 7 nsncere propositions themselves Maybe tbats f, Dog eat Dog. Maybe not. We're going to PhiladeS- phia in an hour." =
 Bolts gasped. "What do we want to go there forF
 "Carry out our bluff about this being too much or a rough house to try to perform delicate operauoa in. If leave suddenly, they'll spot Philadeipnia all right. It's quiet"
 In Philadelphia the noise got around -mysterfous5y by telephone from New York, a day after Botts nad left But the Philadelphia newspaper men were gn- able to locate the famous Dr. A. 2. BoftS and DIS patient anywhere He was at none of the nore1s nsd appeared in none of the hospitals Reporters stsyed m all night on search, only to return to t6e1r offices and be viciously cursed for coming back empty handed Crack almost lost their jobs throuzn tn- comDetence that day in Philadelphia She wanted to beat New York out on the big story. She failed
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