The Old Reporter
TAKE a walk along Park Row with an old newspaper-man and make him talk about the fellow-craftsmen he meets along the way. Some of his comments may be like this:
"There goes Colonel Sanderson; used to be managing editor of The Globe. Remember how he covered the famous Hattie Harris murder-trial years ago? That was literature. All gone to pieces now; does the Centre Street Magistrates' Court, or some other small department, for a 'flimsy' bureau. … See that fellow in the broad-brimmed hat? Used to be a big man in the Scripps-McRae league out West, where they call a beat a 'scoop.' Wanted to come to New York, like so many of them, you know; left a good place, high up on a St. Louis paper—and now look at him; out of a job, too proud to go home—out there they think he's a big
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