New Britain herald., 1924-07-17
NEWSPAPER WRITERS,

has been established in fiorida and The strain on the Reorhauses ought io be considerably relieved, ,"-MaisFbnry Republican,
 Al last We have discovered where warnrout, fagged.out, hraihaNeaFy' spa,ined newspaper workers go, or course, we were aware that every last one Of them went 10 heaven, weFmins their way past st, Peter on a pass oh' tained from the business office and Hopping down IR an orchestra seat, there forever 10 remain,
 But, according to the Waterbury editor they have to so through a poorhouse purgatory before shufliing off this mortal coil and soaring to- ward the empyrean cancellations So be it. then; reserved seat in the county poorhouse, providing the pros visions are acceptable and the beds downy. will not he considered a hard ship in view Of the glories 10 come.
 If the boys of the city room. not to mention ye iraseible editors with the constant brain storms, simply must end their earthly days in the poorhouses where and how are they to obtain gasoline for their motor cars? Rumors are that tobacco Is doled out at the poorhouses but there is no record of gasoline being given away there. The lads of the city room arc such inyeterate bounders with their Lizzies that when they ar- rive at the threshold of the charity institutions some way will have to be found to keep them supplied with transportation fluid. or else we are afraid they will forego this cleansing purgatory and take chances at finally going where they manifestly do not belong.
 |. But a little Item in a New York paper commanded the contemplative eye and convinced us that all news paper workers do not produce their last copy" within the sombre portals of the poorhouses before playing with assignments in more congenial at- mosphere. The item tells us that F. J. Price. newspaperman for half century, who labored like a pack horse on a string of newspapers be- fore helping to put charm into the New York Morning Telegraph, has re- tired, He was lone of the most popu- lar figures in newspaper circles which means that he had considerable more favor among the rank and file of hired hands in the profession than Herr Frank A. Munsey Is credited with commanding.
 Brother Price for years conducted the Review of the Town" in the Morning Telegraph, and was regarded as very good friend to the theatrical profession, among whom the paper largely circulated; many of the stage stars got to know him personally. He wrote pamphlets on financial ana economic subjects, and during the war some of his suggestions were adopted by the government An all- round. crackerjack writer was this gentleman. and he knew high life ! from the inside.
 Did Brother Price hie himself away to the poorhouse over the hill? Brother Price did not. Brother Price "has gone back to his farm in Pike county, Pennsylvania, to find time to read some of the things he has writ ten" reads a journalistic farewell in rival paper.
 Back to the farm, eh! He's going to wrestle with the soil and cavort around in a flivver in rural paradise, far removed from the New York hull labaloo, the smell of ink and the chesty pretensions of the suave ur- banite.'
 It will be but short time before Brother Price, reading an item in his favorite paper which does not set well with "us farmers" will wax indignant and soothe his injured complex by writing letter to the editor.