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   THE REPORTER WHO 

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     The Old Time Journalist will tell you that the best reporter is the one 

who   works   his   way   up。      He   holds   that   the   only   way   to   start   is   as   a 

printer's devil or as an office boy�察�to learn in time to set type�察�to graduate 

from a compositor into a stenographer�察�and as a stenographer take down 

speeches at public meetings�察�and so finally grow into a real reporter�察�with a 

fire badge on your left suspender�察�and a speaking acquaintance with all the 

greatest men in the city�察�not even excepting Police Captains。 

     That   is   the  old   time   journalist's   idea   of   it。 That   is   the   way  he   was 

trained�察�and that is why at the age of sixty he is still a reporter。                  If you 

train   up   a   youth   in   this   way�察  �he   will   go   into   reporting   with   too   full   a 

knowledge of the newspaper business�察�with no illusions concerning it�察�and 

with no ignorant enthusiasms�察�but with a keen and justifiable impression 

that he is not paid enough for what he does。              And he will only do what he 

is paid to do。 

     Now�察  �you   cannot   pay   a   good   reporter   for   what   he   does�察  �because   he 

does not work for pay。          He works for his paper。           He gives his time�察�his 

health�察�his brains�察�his sleeping hours�察�and his eating hours�察�and sometimes 

his   life�察  �to   get   news   for   it。 He  thinks   the   sun   rises   only   that   men   may 

have light by which to read it。           But if he has been in a newspaper office 

from his youth up�察�he finds out before he becomes a reporter that this is 

not    so�察 �and   loses   his   real  value。    He     should    come    right   out   of  the 

University      where    he   has   been    doing    ;campus     notes;    for  the   college 

weekly�察�and   be pitchforked   out into city  work without   knowing   whether 

the Battery is at Harlem or Hunter's Point�察�and with the idea that he is a 

Moulder of Public Opinion and that the Power of the Press is greater than 

the Power of Money�察�and that the few lines he writes are of more value in 

the Editor's eyes than is the column of advertising on the last page�察�which 

they are not。 

     After   three   yearsit   is   sometimes   longer�察  �sometimes   not   so   longhe 

finds out that he has given his nerves and his youth and his enthusiasm in 

exchange for a general fund of miscellaneous knowledge�察�the opportunity 

of personal encounter with all the greatest and most remarkable men and 

events   that   have   risen in those   three   years�察 �and   a   great   fund of   resource 



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and   patience。     He   will   find   that   he   has   crowded   the   experiences   of   the 

lifetime   of   the   ordinary   young   business   man�察  �doctor�察  �or   lawyer�察  �or   man 

about town�察�into three short years�察�that he has learned to think and to act 

quickly�察�to be patient and unmoved when everyone else has lost his head�察�

actually or figuratively speaking�察�to write as fast as another man can talk�察�

and to be able to talk with authority on matters of which other men do not 

venture even to think until they have read what he has written with a copy´ 

boy at his elbow on the night previous。 

     It   is   necessary   for   you   to   know   this�察  �that   you   may   understand   what 

manner of man young Albert Gordon was。 

     Young Gordon had been a reporter just three years。                 He had left Yale 

when his last living relative died�察�and had taken the morning train for New 

York�察   �where     they   had   promised     him   reportorial    work    on   one   of  the 

innumerable Greatest New York Dailies。               He arrived at the office at noon�察�

and   was   sent   back   over   the   same   road   on   which   he   had   just   come�察  �to 

Spuyten      Duyvil�察   �where    a  train   had   been   wrecked      and   everybody     of 

consequence   to      suburban     New   York     killed。   One   of   the   old  reporters 

hurried him to the office again with his ;copy�察─�and after he had delivered 

that�察�he was sent to the Tombs to talk French to a man in Murderers' Row�察�

who could not talk anything else�察�but who had shown some international 

skill in the use of a jimmy。          And at eight�察�he covered a flower´show in 

Madison Square Garden�察�and at eleven was sent over the Brooklyn Bridge 

in a cab to watch a fire and make guesses at the losses to the   insurance 

companies。 

     He went to bed at one�察�and dreamed of shattered locomotives�察�human 

beings   lying   still   with   blankets   over   them�察  �rows   of   cells�察  �and   banks   of 

beautiful flowers nodding their heads to the tunes of the brass band in the 

gallery。    He decided when he awoke the next morning that he had entered 

upon a picturesque and exciting career�察�and as one day followed another�察�

he became more and more convinced of it�察�and more and more devoted to 

it。   He was twenty then�察�and he was now twenty´three�察�and in that time 

had become a great reporter�察�and had been to Presidential conventions in 

Chicago�察     �revolutions     in  Hayti�察   �Indian    outbreaks    on   the   Plains�察  �and 

midnight meetings of moonlighters in Tennessee�察�and had seen what work 



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earthquakes�察     �floods�察  �fire�察 �and   fever   could    do  in   great  cities�察 �and   had 

contradicted   the   President�察  �and   borrowed   matches   from   burglars。           And 

now he thought he would like to rest and breathe a bit�察�and not to work 

again unless as a war correspondent。             The only obstacle to his becoming 

a great war correspondent lay in the fact that there was no war�察�and a war 

correspondent without a war is about as absurd an individual as a general 

without   an   army。     He   read   the   papers   every   morning   on   the   elevated 

trains for war clouds�察�but though there were many war clouds�察�they always 

drifted   apart�察  �and   peace   smiled   again。     This   was   very   disappointing   to 

young Gordon�察�and he became more and more keenly discouraged。 

     And then as war work was out of the question�察�he decided to write his 

novel。     It was to be a novel of New York life�察�and he wanted a quiet place 

in   which   to   work   on   it。  He   was   already   making   inquiries   among   the 

suburban residents of his acquaintance for just such a quiet spot�察�when he 

received an offer to go to the Island of Opeki in the North Pacific Ocean�察�

as   secretary  to   the American   consul   at   that   place。    The   gentleman   who 

had been appointed by the President to act as consul at Opeki was Captain 

Leonard T。 Travis�察�a veteran of the Civil War�察�who had contracted a severe 

attack of rheumatism while camping out at night in the dew�察�and who on 

account of this souvenir of his efforts to save the Union had allowed the 

Union   he   had   saved   to   support   him   in   one   office   or   another   ever   since。 

He had met young Gordon at a dinner�察�and had had the presumption to ask 

him   to   serve   as   his   secretary�察  �and   Gordon�察  �much   to   his   surprise�察  �had 

accepted his offer。        The idea of a quiet life in the tropics with new and 

beautiful surroundings�察�and with nothing to do and plenty of time in which 

to do it�察�and to write his novel besides�察�seemed to Albert to be just what he 

wanted�察�and though he did not know nor care much for his superior officer�察�

he agreed to go with him promptly�察�and proceeded to say good´by to his 

friends   and   to   make   his   preparations。    Captain   Travis   was   so   delighted 

with   getting   such     a   clever   young   gentleman   for   his   secretary�察  �that   he 

referred to him to his friends as ;my attache of legation�察─�nor did he lessen 

that gentleman's dignity by telling anyone that the attache's salary was to 

be five hundred dollars a year。          His own salary was only fifteen hundred 

dollars�察�and though his brother´in´law�察�Senator Rainsford�察�tried his best to 



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get   the   amount   raised�察  �he   was   unsuccessful。         The   consulship   to   Opeki 

was instituted early in the '50's�察�to get rid of and reward a third or fourth 

cousin     of   the   President's�察    �whose     services    during    the   campaign       were 

important�察     �but   whose     after´presence      was    embarrassing。       He    had    been 

created consul to Opeki as being more distant and unaccessible than any 

other known spot�察�and had lived and died there�察�and so little was known of 

the island�察�and so difficult was communication with it�察�that no one knew 

he   was   dead�察  �until   Captain   Travis�察  �in   his   hungry   haste   for   office�察  �had 

uprooted the sad fact。         Captain Travis�察�as well as Albert�察�had a secondary 

reason for  wishing   to   visit Opeki。         His physician   had told him  to   go to 

some   warm  climate   for his   rheumatism�察  �and   in   accepting   the   consulship 

his   object   was   rather   to   follow   out   his   doctor's   orders   at   his   country's 

expense�察�than to serve his country at the expense of his rheumatism。 

     Albert could learn but very little of Opeki�察�nothing�察�indeed�察�but that it 

was situated about one hundred miles from the Island of Octavia�察�which 

island�察  �in   turn�察  �was   simply   described   as   a   coaling´stat
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