The Washington herald., 1914-12-10
THE GREAT WHITE WAY
By O. O. M'INTYRE.

New York, Dec. e.-The good ship Fill
ba" caused a lot of editors in New York
and all over the country a lot OF worry
and put one man in jail The ''Fliba"
was a phantom ship used to trap H. l.
Linder, a telegraph operator in the Globe
Office, who was suspected of flchlng news
from the Associated Press and selling
it to a small news agency.
The message was sent to the Globe
only and before that paper had time
10 print ii a kill order was sent out
but in the meantime it Is charged that
the operator sent 1t to q news agency and
it was soon appearing all over the coun-
try.
II is an old gag to trap newspapers
with false names. One New York paper
charged during the Spanish-American
war that a rival was stealing its
news. As a trap they carried stories from
day to day about Gen. Wepilfra Thenuz." I"
Finally, as a last stroke, they had the
general committing suicide on the bat
tlefeld. The rival got out an extra on it
swallowing hook. line. and sinker. Gen
eral Wepilfra Thenuz'' is an arrangement
of We pilfer the news" II cured the
offending newspaper at least for a time.
Winter is surely upon US. The cir
Gus press agents are rounding back to
Broadway-a sure sign. The first to ar
rive was W. c. Thompson, OF Barnum
and Bailey, and he was seen on the
White Streak wearing his famous three
ring smile.
Thompson is a former member OF the
STATS Of the Globe, Mail. and Telegram.
hut he believes that the circus press agent
has it all over the copy eater when it
freedpro nd ha -
happiness. He also tells a yarn on Corse
Payton when Payton played the tanks
Payton had on big fur overcoat-the
real actor kind-and stopped of the train
at the village depot. He looked around
and finally spied the town constable
Officer" he said. will you kindly
direct me to your town haI?'
Town hall. your granny" replied the
limb Of the law. we got an opry"
Death Curve and Slaughter House
Cut t'-road!ess and painless stretches
along the Long Island Railroad where
3.0oO or 4,0OU factory employees must pass
daily-are to be made safer at last. 1t re-
Qutred long fight by the Evening World
to bring about this result
Three girls were killed on the tracks
ten weeks ago. In the same unpathcd
and ill-lighted section a few days later
4'''i Sung HOlllc IONaTu
midnight were blackjacked. rolled off the
tracks and robbed. The history Of this
stretch OF ground is a blot on civiliza-
tlon.
New York is growing desperately tired
OF the constant changes in the dancing
steps. Inferior instructors have, it IS de-
Clarcd. completely spoiled the intent of
the original dances. The real artists OF
the dancing world such as Isadora Dun
can, Louis II. Chalif. PavlOwa and others
are making every effort to standardize
the steps, and thus do away with the
cheap catch-penny instructors who grad
uate from the clerkship at a necktie
counter to a dancing prOfessorship.
The beautiful steps which have origi-
mated in Argentine. Brazil, France and
Russia have been taken up haphazardIy.
The famous Chalif says: Inferior in
structors have damaged many a young
dancer beyond repair. In many Instances
the dancer showed great promise in the
beginning"
Harry Vernon, who helped to write Mr..
W." was thought to he an Englishman
as his home Is at Berks. England. All
the critics referred to him as an English
playwright The other day Burns Mantle
received a letter from him recalling the
days when he was a Chicago newspaper
man. He worked contemporary with Eu-
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