The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-28


 flashing into the Sound: Alice, the consort of Jumbo. burned up; the Sacred White Elephant destroyed and the Soul of Buddha,' which Barnum said was within the sacred beast. was seen rising from the ashes, slightly scorched and slowly floating over the harbor towards Pleasure Beach,
 There was also related how Mrs Gill1Ean, with q hoe handle had driven a fierce Nun1idian lion (which refuge in her COW house) out of his lair, by wflacking him until he roared Mrs Murphy had stepped on a wrig- sling strip of fire hose when some one yelled: Look out for the boa con strictor,' whereupon she fled, de- mented.
 '@The Sun seemed to take especial exception to the account of escaped monkeys climbing over fences. trees and up the sides of various houses. where they peeked into the windows to watch ladies and gentlemen get ting dressed to go to the fire. 'The Sun also remarked: The only escaped monkey at the fire was the reSside lent World correspondent who saw his reflection in a mud pudd1ei From a journalistic editorial stand point accepted that happy bit, as a great compliment.
 Anyway, the result of the Worlds beat caused New York newspaper IieduS 10 get together ana com pei the Western Union Telegraph company to keep it's office in Bridgeport open all night Since then it has not been closed one moment all these succeed ing years, night or day.
 AS the World had the scoop of the great fire, you can imagine how delighted the World people were At that time this paper had an uptown branch office near the Murray Hill hotel. P. T. Barnum was stopping there George B. M. Harvey was in charge of the Worlds uptown office. He was instructed from the World Harvey reached Barnum's room be- fore the snowman had learned Of the fire and was first to tell him about it. Therefore, the World not only had an account of the fire but an inter view from MT. Barnun.
 That beat gave me a first class rating and a short time thereafter George G. E. Harvey, whom I had never seen before. walked into my office in Bridgeport and introduced himself It seems, Col. Cockerill Ballard Smith and Mir. Harvey had had business talk and had advised MT. Harvey to run up to Bridgeport, see me and talk over a proiect, to publish a supplement of the Sunday World as the Worlds Connecticut Edition The upshot of this led to MT. Harvey and myself going to- gether to every city and large-sized
  correspondents.
 This of course, took time. MT. Harvey made my house on Washing ton avenue his headquarters and later on he visited me several times.
 After everything was arranged, he gave me control of all the state cor respondents, with power to pass upon their copy
 When everything was ready the first Connecticut edition of the New York Snndav World anpparPd-AIav 6, 1889, and each Sunday until March Bridgeport as we'll as from all over the state. It was during these years that MT. Harvey, now Ambassa dor to including visits to the George hotel, diamond necklace was presented to necticut.
 "I had previously collected and sent to the World for the Sunday edi- tfon, photographs of Miss Keller, Miss Murphy, Miss Rogers, Miss Farley, Miss Gilmore, Miss Leonard. Miss Dempsey and Miss O'Donnell. and a long list of names of girls in various manufactures. under the head of Factory Belles' At once the Worlds circulation jumped into the thousands in Bridgeport.
 MT. Harvey telegraphe6 IT., to come immediately to the World office. | There he confronted me with a twinkle in his eye. Said he: You have got us into trouble and you must