The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 27, 1916, Page 2, Image 2
"COVERING*' NEWS.
Getting a Line on the Mexican Situation.?How
Press Men Work.
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Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican ambassador
to the United States, is an interesting
person in this year of grace
1916. Likewise is Maj. Douglas MacArthur,
the censor of the war department,
and the man upon whom
the Washington newspapers must defrkr
thAir dailv supply of au
pcuu IV* v
thentic information concerning Mexico.
Upon Senor Arredondo, Maj.
MacArthur, Robert Lansing, secretary
of State, and Josephus Daniels,
secretary of the navy, are centred
right now the eyes of every newspaper
man in the national capital
who is "covering" the Mexican sit'
- . uation.
g-- And
how is this covering done?
Whom do you see to get the real
news, and when, and how much of
what, you get must you print and
how much must you leave unprint
ed? These are questions which to
the novice might at first seem more
or less perplexing, but which to the
? experienced Washington correspondent
become a comparatively easy
? matter, at least after he has paved
the way before him by establishing
a confidential relationship between
* the paper he represents and the big
men with whom he is to work from
day to day.
Beginning the day the big papers
Wochin?tnn "cover" Mr. Arredon
' do, it being recognized that he is the
gateway between the department of
State and Gen. Yenustiano Carranza,
t the de facto leader of the Mexican
C government. #
Spy Making the Rounds.
The first call is made at the Mexican
embassy at 10 o'clock ig the
r: 1 morning. Mr. Arredondo's plans for
the day are then secured. At 11
o'clock it is the secretary of State,
j? y then the war department and the
fev V secretary of the navy. That is the
run for the afternoon papers, but it
is much more complex and, at th'e
Hi same time, more interesting as the
day goes on. During the afternoon
there is another conference with the
' four officials named, each lasting perhaps
half an hour, the last of these
being with Senor Arredondo. That
. finished the man writing the story
for the morning papers begins to
check up all the day's stuff prepara
tory to sending in his "copy." He
y , . i has, meantime, while en route from
one of the departments to another
hastily read the afternoon papers and
if there is anything in them which
has escaped his attention, another
call must be made upon the proper
-and that official haughtiness which
I clothes many officers, and which
forms a barrier between themselves
and the outside world.
A Bit of Excitement.
So when Maj. MacArthur gives the
"boys" the tip that he is ready to
talk business about what Carranza,
Villa and others may be doing bef
yond the great border line of the
Rio Grande, every man takes out his
pencil and note book and is. ready
for the job. May be it's a real long
story which must be prepared before
it is sent to the "office." On the
other hand, if it is a "flash"?possibly
from Funston, or Bell or Pershing?there
is a wild scramble for
one of the half dozen telephones in
the press room and in a minute the
air is sizzling with reports going in
with telegraphed dispatches received
| from the front.
Th^n aftpr Mai. MacArthur has an
nounced that "the department is
g: " closed for the night'' the newspaper
man must again check up Mr. Lansing,
Mr. Arredondo, Mr. Daniels and
all other lines of communication, before
he may feel safe in leaving his
post. But all is not over yet. After
Lansing and Arrendondo and Daniels
and MacArthur have announced that
they are done for the night, there is
official either for a confirmation or a
*
; 4 denial, if the situation demands a
categorical answer.
The morning man, with his data
/. . before him, rattles off his "copy"
and rushes it on the wires. That
done, there is half an hour for a hurried
dinner, but not always so. Indeed,
there is many a Washington
newspaper man who rarely gets home
to the evening meal, and at times
even the quick lunch must be passed
up for a more convenient time.
Then the big stories for the coming
day are written, but the troubles
of the "night run" man on duty at
ai rti-i. j - v..:i j: j
tiie outie, war aiiu uav^y uunuiug aiiu
at the Mexican embassy are but just
beginning. He must be everywhere
at once.
The "night run" is begun at about
8 o'clock with Maj. MacArthur, and
a big help he is to the men who depend
upon him for their nightly supply
of information. Although he has
been on the censor's job but a little
while, he has made a friend of every
newspaper man with whom he has
come in contact, and they already admire
him greatly. He gives out
whatever is proper for the press in
a business like manner but he is not
stuck up, even if he is a major in
the army, and is free of red tape
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FABULOUS PRICES FOR FOXES.
Silver Variety Most Valuable of Furbearing
Annimals.
Prince Edward island, lying northeast
of the State of Maine, has within
a few years developed a silver fox
industry of enormous proportions.
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unmauc uuiiuiuuus iui uio cuiciprise
are considered more favorable
there than anywhere else. There are
233 fox ranches, of which 101 are
owned by incorporated companies.
In these ranches are nearly 2,500
foxes of all grades, of which 1,325
are classed as silver black.
The provincial government derives
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a revenue of 1 per cent, of the young
foxes born from year to year, < and
last year $37,000 was collected. At
present the value of the foxes and
the ranches on the island is more
than $10,000,000, which is 25 per
cent, in excess of the value of all the
horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry
on the well stocked farms of the
province.
The value of silver fox skins is
shown by the fact that at the great
auction sale in St. Louis, some single
undressed skins brought $1,000 each.
It is not uncommon for a coat of
silver fox to cost from $5,000 to $10,000.
The rise of the value of the first
class breeding stock of Prince Edi
ward island has been- meteoric. In
1910 a pair of silver fox breeders
could be bought for $4,000; today
they bring from $15,000 to $35,000.
The average female fox will breed
eight to ten times during her life and
each litter will contain from two to
seven duds.
The silver fox is really a black fox,
instead, as some persons suppose, of
being almost white or a silver gray.
The name is given on account of the
presence of glistening white and grayish
hairs which appear among the
black. In the better grades the long,
silky brush has a tip of pure white.
About a quarter of a century ago
the little animal, which weighs when
full grown only about 12 pounds, became
almost extinct. Because of the
beauty of its fur, the species was
trapped until the last of them had
disappeared. For a long time the .
standard price offered by the Hudson
Bay company for silver fox pelts
was arouncl $1,000, and the efforts
of the* French-Canadian, half-breeds
and Indian trappers to obtain this
sum, to them a fortune, can be better
imagined than described'.?Detroit
News.
KILLEI> BY LUMBER TRAIN.
Walter Coxe, Deaf, Meets Tragic
Death at Brownsville.
Mallory, July 22.?Walter Coxe,
aged about 60 years, was killed by a
log train on the Marion County Lumber
company's track, in Brownsville,
Thursday morning according to news
which reached his relatives here. It
is stated that his head was completely
severed from his body. The tragedy,
though deplorable,.is believed to
have been accidental, as the victim
was completely deaf. He made his
living doing odd jobs among his relatives
and kindly disposed neighbors,
and did a great deal of walking about
the neighborhood. He had been hit
by a train on a former occasion. The
scepe of the killing was where the
lumber road crosses the public road,
about one hundred yards from where
the deceased made his home.
MILL MAX KILLS HIMSELF.
James S. Jones, Boss Spinner, Fires
Bullet Into His Brain.
Anderson, July 19.?James S.
Jones, aged 35 years, employed as
boss spinner at the Gluck Mills, committed
suicide at his home in the mill
village this afternoon. He was at
' i.? TT.
Home alone at tne time. ne uxy
across the bed and fired one bullet
from a thirty-eight calibre pistol
through his brain. Ill health is said
to have been the cause of the act.
He leaves a wife and one young
daughter.
still one very important point which
must not be neglected. See that no
"late stuff" gets by you at the white
house. That would be most unfortunate
and would doubtless have a
tendency to expedite the "firing"
process, with which every newspaper
man, big or little, is more or less
familiar.
When your stuff is all in and you
think you have done about enough
for the day, there are yet a few
querries from the home office to investigate.
Go to it, then you may
quit?if it is anywhere near midnight?until
the forenoon. But answer
everything no matter whether
it concerns a change in the Chinese
government, a suspicion that we are
short on munitions, or wThat not?
answer it?then if you have time you
may sleep for the nonce. Wake up
again and it's the same old day. This
is the routine of the Washington man
covering the big. news of the day.
He works hard but he likes it because
he knows he is playing the
game for all there is in it.
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Real Enlightenment.
"Father," said the son, looking up
from a book with a puzzled expres-j
sion on his face, "what is a pride?" j
"Pride," returned the father, I
"pride! Why?a?O sure you know j
what pride is. A sort of being stuck J
up, a kind of?well, proud, you |
know. Just get the dictionary; that's
the thing to tell you exactly what it1
is. There's nothing like a dictionary,
Johnny."
"Hrere it is," said the latter, after
an exhausting search. "Pride?being
proud."
"Um?yes, that's it," replied the
father.
"But?"
"Well, look at 'proud.' That's thu
way you have to hunt these things i
out, my lad."
"I've got it," answered Johnny.
"Pre?pri?pro?why?"
"What does it say?"
" 'Proud?having pride.' "
"That's it! There you are, as
clear as day. I tell you, Johnny,
there is nothing like a dictionary
when you are young. Take care of
the binding, my son, as you put it
back."?Pathfinder.
RAILf
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Shall they be <
Industrial 1
Federal j
To the American P
Do you believe in
trial warfare?
The train employe:
are voting whether they
authority to tie up tJ
country to enforce the
> million dollar wage in
The railroads are ii
your service. This ar
the public service?yo
You pay for rail tr;
dollars a year, and A
dollar from you goes
On all the Southern railroads in 1
train employes earned these wag
of all) as shown by the payrollsPassenger
Range Average R
Engineers. $^2 ?2306
oolU
Conductors 1847
2696 ;
Firemen . ^ 1209
D lo5J
- - 1 CK7
Brakemen. I 1109
I 1736 .
The average yearly wage payir
ployea (including those who w
sho'*- by the 1915 payrolls wer
Passei
Engineers. . $21'
Conductors 17!
Firemen 101
Brakemen 10!
A 100 million dol
men in freight and )
one-fifth of all emploj
cent advance in all fr<
The managers of tl
for the public, have
1 i <
burden on tne cost 01
without a clear mand
bunal speaking for yc
The railroads hav<
ment of this controv
existing national arbit
ence to the Interstate
sion. This offer has
employes' representat
Shall a nation-^
investigation 1
ernment deteri
National Conference Co
ELISHA LEE, Chairman.
<> d AI nmr.UT non'l Matuurer.
Atlantic Coast Lip* Railroad.
L. W. BALDWIN, Gen'l Manager,
Central of Georgia Railway.
C. L. BARDO, Gen'l Manager,
New York, New Haren & Hartford Railroad.
E. H. COAPMAN, Vice-President,
Southern Railway.
S. E. COTTER, Gen'l Manager,
Wabash Railway.
P. E. CROWLEY, Asst. Vice-President,
New York Central Railroad.
G. H. EMERSON, Gen'l Manager,
Great Northern Railway.
C. H. EWING, Gen'l Manager,
Philadelphia & Reading Railway.
?. W. GRICE, Asst. to President,
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.
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WHAT PEOPLE READ.
The Rooks From Which They Get
Most Pleasure.
A lawyer recently conceived the
idea of taking the books he had read
two or more times and which he still
occasionally enjoyed "dipping into"
and having them rebound in special
covers, the World's Work for July
asserts. His choice of pleasure-reading
carries well back into his childhood.
"Alice in Wonderland," "The
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood,"
by Howard Pyle, "Tom Sawyer," all
hold their own against such books as
"A Gentleman of France," and "The
Three Musketeers." Out of the yearly
deluge of sellers of past years;
"Queed" and new works one finds
one or, two best "The Broad Highway."
And here one can find the
owner's hobby in reading, three volumes
of Stewart Edward White.
That is not all. "Les Miserables,"
his most friendly volume of poetry,
and others that you immediately recognize
as pleasing?twenty-eight
books in all are on that shelf, every
one of which he, in different moods,
enjoys picking up and reading in his
leisure time.
IOAD
GES
determined by
Warfare or
Inquiry?
ublic:
arbitration or induss
on all the railroads
' will give their leaders
he commerce ot the
:ir demands for a 100
crease.
1 the public service?
my of employes is in
>ur service.
msportation 3 billion
cents out of every
to the employes.
L915, seventy-five percent of the
;es (lowest, highest and average
Freight Yard
lange Average Range Average f
1455 ?iqi? $1156 (./?/?
3505 $19 1 6 2424 31566 r
13o3 icon 10OO 1 rs a r
2358 1 580 1749 1245
848 979 488 777
1638 1302
.I5.5 958 ,?54 990
1834 | ifuo
lents to all Southern train emorked
only part of the year) as
e?
tiger Freight Yard
14 $1712 $1313
23 1488 1157
*6 865 688
13 845 868
lar wage increase for
'ard service (less than
^es) is equal to a 5 per
sight rates.
le railroads, as trustees
no right to place this
i transportation to you
' 11- ^
late trom a puDiic tri)U.
e proposed the settlerersy
either under the
ration law, or by refer:
Commerce Commis>
been refused by the
ives.
vide strike or an
under the Govmine
this issue?
mmittee of the Railways
A. S. GREIG, Asst. to Receivers,
St. Louia & San Francisco Railroad.
C. W. KOUNS, Gen'l Manager,
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway.
E. W. McMASTER, Gen'l Manager,
J t -U- V-im Railrnnd.
n nccnug auu i^aikv m -v.
N J). MAHER, Vice-President,
Norfolk and Western Railway.
JAMES RUSSELL, Gen'l Manager,
Denrer & Rio Grande Railroad.
A. M. SCHOYER, Resident Vice-Pr
Pennsylvania Lines West.
W. L. SEDDON, Vice-President,
Seaboard Air Line Railway.
A. J. STONE, Vice-President,
Erie Railroad.
G. S. WAID, Vice-Pres. A Gen'l Mmnager,
Sanset Central Lines.
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