The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-01
SCHOON MAKERS
 "REMINISCENCES
(Hartford Tirnes.)

Rt the Allyn House, talks interest lngIy about the newspaper business. His experience began in the days when the business of news gathering was just beginning to be developed and he commenced his career on the stan of the New York Times under the stern guidance of John C. Hen nessey, night editor. It was just after the Times disclosure of the Tweed ring and its doings.
 When Schoonnalxer left the Times to Eo with the United Press there was disposition among several in uenffaI editors and publishers Sl form a news service that would be unbroken. reliable and extensive There had been up to that time what was known as the New York Asso- ciated Press, but that was formed by the papers in New York, whose foreign service was taken care of by lone correspondent who clipped the news out of the London papers and cabled it across several hours after it hada appeared abroad
 There were other press associa- lions in various parts of the country 7o11t fhey served only local ends and were not to be relied upon The United Press was then started and did away with the small organtza- tfons- The United Press covered the country, and through MT. Schoon- makers efforts abroad it's foreign service became possible MT. SchOon- maker obtained the first leased tele- Kraph wires in this country, and thus began the present Associated Press, since what is now known as the As sociated Press later absorbed the Uni- ted Press
 In the Seventies
 MT. Sctoon1naker's "reminiscences date hack to his days on the New York Times, however New York In the TUss differed greatly from the New York of the present The New York Times, said MT Schoonmaker z1sfJe influential and holding pres ffxe. was the driest newspaper in New Yor4 cityseldom a lfne of h<z- nor in it. Every man on the paper who tried to crack something funny simply caused the big blue pencil of Night Editor Hennesssy to perform more labor
 -Ourss' said Afr Schoonn1aker, sstae 111anawmw of the Times John C. Ried, nrok the best huuaorist away from the srrn 3nd took the trouble to pick out his assignments personality so that he would get an opportunity to put into use his clever treatment of stories A week went by and the reputed humor- fst was called into MT. Ried's sane tum-
 I've taken the trouble to give you ssssirnxrzants that thought you could treat humorously. but haven't seen anything funny in the paper, said R5ed- se writer. ssHennesssy blue penciled all the funny strfH-
 If was not long aEfterwaxd that the night editor received orders to send up everything the humorist wrote
 Knows Edison
 while a reporter on the Times MT. EchoonrrrRker lived in Fiainfeid, New Jersey. not far from MenIo Park, the home of Thomas A Edison It was Schoonrnaker's duty to cover the Men 10 Park district for several months. and he came into touch with Mr. Ed ison very often, and became quite fn- innate with him. MT Subcommittee recalled an interview with Edison The latter had been making his an- no11nceueuts concerning the electric light which he was about to put on the the market The scientists said it was impossible for Edison to evolve the electric lamp because it was inn possible to make vacuum
 What have you got to say about that2'' inquired Schoonmaker of Ed ispn-
 .-Schoonnaker." he said, 1do you like music, and do you like to sing ?''
 Tes' answered the interviewer.
 Well, then, have you ever been in the predicament where you knew "a certain tune, and it was humming away i'm your head, but you could not recall it sufficiently to whistle ftz But the minute you heard that tune sung by some one you could pick out the avs in it immediately. Now it's the same way with me ] know that tune much better than the college professors, but they can whistle a great deal better than can That is the same with my electric light know more about it than they do.'s
 Making Foreign News.
 When MT. Schoonmaker went oyer to the United Press it was in trying days. especially for the foreign edi- tor and MT. Schoonmaker was for eign editor seventeen years, first for Associated Press. Foreign news came over the wires greatly con densed The United Press had cor respondents abroad who were highly trained and capable They knew the high price for tolls and when it cost Szs7 a word from Asia. and 50 cents by day and 25 cents by night from London they did not condense fol brevity's sake, but because it was 2 dire necessity
 One day the following dispatch game to the editor from the cable AF7orence Paris Refused Walk Sec pnd'' The message would not con wey' much information to the average reader as it stands.
 But" said MT. Schoonmaker, "tlat was how we had to receive our cable dfspatches- Of course, I was we'll in sorn1ed in continental affairs. and ev prxbody knew that the funeral of { member of the Bonaparte family wa. 10 be held in Florence that day Flor mrce was put in the way it was to savs the expense of an extra date line- Nov the rest of the dispatch concerned atseIf with the Duke of Paris, reIa five of the deceased Bonaparte. wht refused to follow the hearse, waIkin, tecond to the Duke of Orleans Around those five words had to b, .--attar, sto1-z that would con.