Evening journal., 1914-05-04
New News Of Yesterday
A Great Editors First Ex-
perience in Newspaper
Work
By Holland.

In the year 1880 Nhaiiee a. JANA
was urgently invited to visit Boston
as a guest Of those who We're to cele-
brate the completion of a public
building. There was great satisfac-
ton IN Boston when Mr.. Dana re-
sponded cordially to the invitation.
He had not been in that city in some
years, and he wondered whether he
should discover AZ the time Of his yis-
IL any of the landmarks which were
familiar to him when. IN his early
manhood, he lived in Boston. He
knew, of course that the old South
Church remained, and there was no
doubt about his instant identification
of the statehouse. But much of the
growth of the city toward the west
had been made since his departure
from New England.
When It was known that Mr.. Dana
was anxious to look at Boston as a
spectator who had long been away a
committee was appointed, consisting
of two or three men who were famil-
lar with every part Of the city and
with the story of the new buildings
as we'll as the traditions of the past
to accompany him in an open car
riage.
Mr.. Dana was delighted. He looked
to the right and to the left He ask
cd to be taken on long walks. He
pointed out many buildings with
which he had been familiar in his
early days, and he told some interest
ing anecdotes respecting some
of them. He seemed to care
less about the new part Of Bos-
ton, the Back Bay region, than he did
about the old part, with which years
before he had been familiar. At last
one of the hosts said to him:
"Why, Mr.. Dana, you seem to be
very familiar with Boston. You know
quite as much about the old part Of
the city as we do. You have told us
some things which we did not know.
You could not have known more II
you lived here"
81 did live here for a time year or
two after my course at Harvard was
ended" said Mr.. Dana. 81 began my
career here. was graduated from
Boston into a larger field"
He smiled as he said this, keenly
appreciating the interest and some
thing like establishment with which
his hosts heard this statement.
One of them ventured to say to
him. "You have said that you began
your career here Did you mean your
experience at Brook Farm, for I have
heard that you were a member of that
/ community for a timew
"Oh no, said Mr.. Dana, Il don't re-
/ fer to Brook Farm. That wasn't a ca
reer. That was an experience. What
/ do refer to is the fact that l began
my newspaper experience here?"
When he said this he looked inquir-
ingly at his hosts as though awaiting
| the inevitable question, "What news
paper were you connected with?'
One of his hosts did ask the Ques-
ton and Mr.. Dana, with a merry
twinkle i'm his eye, said; 1T was a
newspaper of which I presume none
Of you ever heard. I was employed
by the newspaper at the then very
comfortable salary of So a week. Hor-
ace Greeley In some way heard of me
| and of my association with that pa
per and he offered me $40 a week tc
90 to the New York Tribune. I ac-
cepted without hesitation. So you
see that It was here that my news
paper life began.
But what was the name of the pa
ped? Mr. Dana. Was IL any one OF
the present Boston newspapers"
"No, it gave up the ghost many
years ago. / suppose it has been com
pletely forgotten. It was called The
/ Chronotype."
you don't say sol" exclaimed one
of the hosts. "That paper is certain
ly familiar to me, for my father was
at one time the publisher of it,"
"Nour father was the publisher
When?" Mr. Dana asked.
After a moments contemplation tn,
gentleman recalled the time when his
father was the publisher of Tn,
! Chronotype
"lhat was the very time ] was EN-
ployed on that paper" said Mr. Dana
He reached out both hands and shool
cordially the hand OF the son of tn,
man who had first employed him il
the newspaper work, and thus begaI
q friendship which was continued al
long as Mr.. Dana lived
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