The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-01

with what we had written, even to the number killed"
 How an Interview Got By.
 A story that was placed on the wires on one occasion caused MT. Schoonmaker the greatest of a.nx- after the foreign service had been organized. The Irish Land leaguers were having their convention here and Colonel Charles H. Taylor of the Bos- ton Globe wired to MT. Subcommittee to get for him an interview with Par nell in Ireland.
 Abroad is was a. difficult matter to obtain interviews Arrangements had to be made beforehand. knew the difficulties, but as long as Charlie Taylor was paying for the tolls chanced it. Now had interviewed Parneu on two occasions when was on the New York Times and Parnell was the kind of a man of whom you could tell in advance what he would say in response to certain questions. I sat down and with another member of the staff mapped out several questions which we took for granted the cores pondent in England would ask Par nell. Having done this wrote an interview with Parnell. relying mostly on my experiences with him.
 I've tired of waiting for a reply over the cable and went out to a popular restaurant, leaving the copy on my desk. While we were out the chief of the telegraph overators came into the room and seeing the manu- script took it for the interview that had come over the wires while we were, out and without much ado put the entire story on the wire. Now the interview had been syndicated to several publishers all over the coun- try and the story created the greatest sensation at the time- The papers that had not bought the story were wild with rage. The Irish Land League of America. which was in ses- interview. The story was one of the best of the day.
 ssI was in a. hole sure enough. for this happened on a Monday and the interview with Parne11 didn't come of the cable until the following day. But what we had sent out was corrobo- rated by the cabled interview and the papers that had the story could not get back at us.'' About New York World.
 Mr. Subcommittee declared that the United Press was the making of the New York World after Joseph Pulitzer bought it. Pulitzer purchased it from Jay Gould. said MT. Schoon- maker, and he was stuck at that But he got money from George w. Childs of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, giving his St. Louis newspaper as security, and went ahead with the World After MT. Schoonmaker con vinced him that he could outdo rivals by specializing in news, he did so- MT. Pulitzer, said Schoonmaker, was a man of a. very receptive mood. He was always open to suggestion. He had gone through such trying expert %I, T< ion.
 sswe told him to turn his regular press dispatches over to a trained staff of writers for the purpose of rewriting the stuff, thus getting the best of his rivals. He collected the finest staff of trained writers he could get and the result was that the World was covered with specials which caught the popular fancy.
 Charles A. Dana
 MT. schoonmaker spoke of Charles A. Dana, as a man who took great interest in his men. He followed his paper very closely and he was quick to commend and reward any clever ness shown on the part of his staff On one occasion he rewarded his hu- morist writer for a paragraph that had caught the popular fancy The hu- morist was walking up Broadway and at each corner he asked the poIicemaI for information.
 Nothing new this afternoon. 'Jhsai6 the policeman at Delmonico's son ons occasion. Just then girl with to. mato red hair passed Both stared after her. tweII,', said the po1icean ..sI suppose a white horse will soon pass
 sswhy a white horse.'' said the hu- morist.
 esBecause have never known the time when 8 white horse didn't always come along after a girl with red hair had passed
 I The paragraph made a tremendous hit and the reward of the humorous came quick from Dana.