Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-04-27

county. Playing the slip horn along
the country roads. MIR. Blythe first
stopped at Piffard, just a few miles to
the west OF GeneseO. and got a job as
musical critic and all around reporter
on the Piffard Weekly American Eagle.
Upon losing this job he next accepted
a position on the Gazette in Retsof,
Livingston county, which carried him
nearer to Buffalo, his hearts desire at
this time.
The editor OF the Gazette, who was
also the cashier Of the paper, gave
Mr.. Blythe a lot Of advice as he handed
him his money at the end Of the month.
Mr.. Blythe in a hun quit the paper and
went to work on a paper either in Syr-
acuse or Rochester. Between these two
towns is a 6O-foot waterfall called
something or other, and it was the am
bition of the local Steve Brodies to try
falls, miss q Jagged rock part way
down n land in the pool below and
get away with it. MI. Blythe himself
never tried to jump. but when a local
Brodie attempted 1t and broke a leg.
up from Manhattan came a bridge
jumper named Tommy something or
other and announced that he was not
only going to jump the falls but do it
at night with a spotlight on him.
Mr.. Blythe was sent by his paper
either from Syracuse to Rochester, or
maybe it was from Rochester to SYRIA
cuse-at any rate to the town nearest
the waterfall-to the story. For
almost two weeks Mr.. Blythe did try to
find this mysterious Tommy something,
but, like all the other reporters work.
ing with him. the jumper could not be
located after the night of his first ap-
pearance in town.
Mr. R1vtha hain~ q clovar vor,,cp.ror
man, realized toward the end of the
second week that this boaster who had
come up state with his boastful an
nouncement and who had then disap-
peared wasn't going to jump the falls
at all. So he gave 1t up and went to a
club with a friend n spent an eve
ming playing billiards.
He went back to his hotel then and
before retiring wrote five topics for
his paper. Every reporter on the pa
per in addition to his regular work had
to write at least five of these topics
a week for the Saturday edition. Mr..
Blythe's first topic" vas merely q SEN
tence which ran. where's Bridge
topics to his paper and went to bed.
At breakfast the next morning Mr..
Blythe saw his query about Tommy the
Jumper at h head OF the topics col
umn. Picking up the other Rochester
and Syracuse papers then he got an
answer to his question. Tommy had
jumped the night before and had got
away with 1t, SO Mr.. Blythe learned all.
over the front pages Of all the other
papers
So Mr.. Blythe went to Buffalo. Here
it was that he met the Hon. William j.
Corners, and thus began a friendship
that will last through life. There has
been no break in their friendship since
the first day Mr.. Blythe rel to work
on Mr.. Corners paper, the Courier. ex-
cept during a few moments while he
was being fired. Nevertheless. with q
let bygones be bygones attitude. he
went down to the cashier. and got his
money, and so he and Mr.. Corners con
tinued to be fast friends.
Then Mr.. Blythe went over to the
Express and wrote a newspaper story
made Buffalo sit up. About this
time there had been a string of muir
ders. holdups. burglaries and other
crimes. and the police seemed to be un-
able to check the crime wav or even
make an arrest. Consequently the Buff
falo papers. especially Mr.. Blythe's pa
per, were each day devoting columns to
the police force and saying their say