The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-28
Has Known Him 39 Years.

You ask me if I know Ambassa-
 dor George NJ. Harvey, this country s
 representative to the Court of St. | James. I am only too glad to say
 that I have known him for thirty
 nine years and if I were to tell you
 all I know about him it would com | pletely fill the columns of the Times. | Tt seems strange but it is a fact | that whenever any thing big happens
 on the face of this globe, Bridgeport | invariably has a string to it! The | good folk of this city will be rejoiced ! to recall the days when George M. | Harvey was a guest here frequently and that his appreciation of Bridge | port over thirty years ago led him to publish in conjunction with the New York World the Connecticut Sunday | edition. The outcome of that bit of newspaper enterprise gave Bridge port fame far and near.
 "In the first place. I began contrib uting to the Word in 1882 and I re- count here from the New Haven Reg ister, published some years later on the following, at the time that l was elected vice president of the Connec- ucut Press club"
 At the outset MT. Sterling made con- siderable stir in the columns of the World by furnishing such thrilling stories as The Female Engineer" '"The Locophone and the Tootometer, which were widely copied. The 10
 
 in the Scientific American. ''The story of Miss Nelson's Educated Jew eled Bug" was reproduced in Span ish, Mexican, Portuguese, French and German newspapers.
 The first account of the Suicide Club" which appeared in the World was sent by MT. Sterling and that gruesome club continues at intervals to attract attention. Other stories were Mrs Hubbard's Baby Under a Io of Bridgeport Society Belles," Jimmy Brady Charmed Up Against Ed Smiths Show Window by Live Snake,% '"The Young Mems Club against Kissing" "The ride-Elect who Left Her Fiance at the Altar Because He Swore While Walking Up the Church Aisle,'' 1.-TWO Trains Passing On One Track" "The Hermit Who Made His Home Among Snakes, and a long list of curious things animals had done at Barnum'S winter quar- ters.
 "Col John A. Cockerin was at that time editor-in-chief of the World, and Ballard Smith was city editor,' says Mr. Sterling. "The principal ob ject of the World in those good old days was to extend its circulation. I was instructed to send in all the live news to be obtainable in Bridgeport, therefore, as the field was open to my discretion a great deal of live news from Brid geport continued to appear in the World for several years.
 Then came Nov. 20. 1887, when the great fire burned up Barnum's winter quarters. The destruction of the Buildings and animals occurred about midnight on a Sunday.
 There was no telephone or tele graphic connection with New York on Sunday evening after o'clock then. Knowing this, I jumped into a cab and told the driver to run his horse full speed to the railroad depot. There the night operator of the railroad wire and made a hurried contract with him to send all my copy over the railroad wire ahead of all other cor of other newspapers l also directed MT. Hunt to duplicate the story to the Boston Globe and the St. Louis Dispatch as I was of both those big jour nals.
 Then I began to write and he be- gan to send. One by one other cor respodentS trouped in but all were held back until my contract was com plte It lasted until 2:S0 a. m. and I knew by that time all the New I ork presses were closed. Naturally, all the local correspondents present were irdiCnant at me - but they would have done the same thing if they had been as lively as I was in those days.
 But the maddest crowd of all was the metropolitan press The World had a beat in its first morning edi- and the next day the New York Sun editoriaLIy referred to the Worlds