The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-09
Discoverer Of Dr..
Friedman Loses
Reporter Gave Him World. Wide.
Prominence-L d Ia nj nd
Duty Because They Are Easy to
Smuggle.
.(By Herbert Corey.l.

80 ,Agt Ny I1cTOeCL .COrcy.) i.
Every little minute has its value on
the time schedule Of w. G. Reick, the
new master Of the New York Sun. He
goes by the clock. His hours are met
ered and apportioned for days ahead.
Ihats how he rose to be owner and
managing editor from the, position Of
correspondent in q Jersey town, in.
which nothing e happened that
didn't ultimately get on Mr.. Reick's
space string.
The other day." said n of the
u stan, Mr.. Reick lifted his eyes
at 2:4O o'clock p. m. and observed
without emotion that he was.due to
take the 3:05 train to Washington.
Between 2:4O p. m. and ESQ p. M, he
dictated eleven letters, signed q guam.
tity of checks. n put various Sun
persons contiguous to a lot Of work.
At 2:5O p. m. he put on his hat, locked
his desk, and went to the street. He
had planned to take a taxi. AS though
Fate was sticking her scissors in the
Reick machinery, there was no taxi in
sight. AT n other hour of any other
day two or three would have been Wis
BILE on Park row.
There was a Sun delivery auto
standing there. Mr.. Reick climbed to
h seat. Watch in hand, he allowed
the missing chaffuer nine seconds in
"s4SA " eSS odGh OIl IilS JOU. NQSn
he failed to get back, Mr.. Reick press
ed the se~lf-starter's button. He fooled
the car to the nearest ferry, stepped
on the boat as 1t oozed out of the slip
ana on the trip across the North River
wrote a telegram directing the circu-
lation department where to find the
stolen auto. He walked through the
gates, stepped into the chair car as it
began to move and reached Washing
ton IN time. His SySfan, had rrayo1
ITSELF"
Maybe MIR. Alfred Moves can make
a lot Of money writing poetry in Eng
land. 1t may also be tina English edi-
tors differ from the American breed.
Maybe they give real money for poetry
instead OF paying the talented author
of! In reading notices.
No one pretends. of course, that
George Nj. Conan writes poetry. But
he does write singsong jingles that are
chuck full of human nature. Large
audiences beat themselves into in
flamed happiness when he humps
himself across the stage, and drones
out a little ditty that only rhymes here
and there, perhaps. but somehow
touches a soft spot. There was that
ago. for example. to the effect that
My Best Friends Myself" For a
Few months every II in the country
knew it by heart. Preachers took it
for a text and raped Mr.. Conan pain
fully. Editorials were written on 1t.
Young actors got a crick in the back
trying to recite 1t the way that G. NJ.
;. did. Last week some plagiarizing
mothban up in Montreal copied that
small epic in n trembly hand, and sent
It on to one of New York's magazines.
The editor was enraptured with it.
He talked about the beautiful punch
owned by the Montreal thief, and
wrote that person a letter that fairly
ooZed enthusiasm. The concluding line
read as follows:
IN payment Of all copyrights. etc.
l enclose herewith our check for 81"
Do o think that Alfred Noyes's
could get by. IL his knockouts were
paid for at that rate? The Montreal
person was a real humorist. He re-
piled that he'd be doggoned if he'd
take - for m of the best things that
Cohan ever wrote.
Here's a little paragraph. Of gossip
which fioated Yer from Washington.
The other day Senator LaFollette took
a drop kick at John Shelton Williams,
assistant secretary Of the treasury,
through the columns of his magazine,
Senator La Toilette indicated tina: nc
feared Mr.. Williams is on terms OF
friendship with a lot of dangerous
bankers. Senator La Toilette indicas-
ed that If the Goddess of Liberty
didn't hold on to her robe she'd find
her pocket picked.
Whereas" said one of the foxes in
the political wheat field. John Skel-
ton Williams and William Gibbs Nc
Adoo, the secretary of the treasury,
were once closely associated in the
seaboard Air Line Railway. MIR. Nc
Adoo thought that he. would be tie
president of that road. Neither gem
tleman realized that this would not be
the case until various New York
bankers had thrown them out of the
fourth story window 1t was. cns IF
the hardest n suddenest falls either
gentleman ever took"
There isn't any more to the story.
Except that McAdoo and Williams are
again associated. And it is popularity
believed that a thin blue smoke winds
its way out Of each gentleman's COL
lar whenever he thinks of the Sea-
hoard Air Line. OF course both gem
tlemen have forgiven the New York
bankers long, long ago
Sentiment is soft and intangible and
soppy, and all that; but it does things
that dollars won't do sometimes, as