PAGE TWO
Story of Milwaukee Progress Men W ho
(Continued from page one)
The Puget Sound lines were not built
in a day nor a year.
Long years
passed while the master minds were
working out the details and the cross
ing of the Missouri on the splendid
steel bridge at Mobridge was not un
dertaken until all the details had been
carefully worked out.
This bridge
marks the connecting link between the
East and the West, the dividing line
between the older company's lines and
those of the extension. While the par
ent system has recently taken over tho
whole western extension, the bridge
still marks the dividing line between
the old and the new and for years to
come will designate the link bringing
two gre4t railroads together. The line
from Mobridge was planned from the
very start to be built upon standard
lines with the least possible bar to e ffi
cient handling of freight and passenger
traffic. Close attention was given to
agricultural and general industrial pos
sibilities with the result that the line
has been constructed through a wealthy
and scenically beautiful region with a
“ back cou n try" of undeveloped re
sources that will take years to develop
but which will forever be tributary to
the main line. At Roundup a great
coal mine was opened and the fuel sup
ply was assured. In Montana the route
was selected through the far famed
Judith basin and the valleys of the
Yellowstone, Musselshell, Smith River,
Gallatin, Deer Lodge, Missoula, Black-
foot. Tn Washington the line traverses
the valleys of the Kittitas, Snohomish,
Cherry, White and Stuck rivers, Puyal
lup and the Grays Harbor country. It
also will develop Northern Idaho.
Into all the above sections, branches
will be built from time to time as traf
fic conditions shall warrant, thus estab
lishing producing centers which have
for their market place the far East of
which Chicago is the center, and the
ports of the Pacific Ocean, a future
condition that means the steady in
crease in its freight traffic earning
power.
While the first attention has been
given to the industrial upbuilding of
the country traversed by the new line,
the passenger department was equally
aggressive. The initial train sent out
o f Puget Sound was the equal of any in
the world. Combining all the estab
lished features of modern railroad
travel with many new ideas, the train
made up from headlight to tail light of
Milwaukee equipment of latest build
and steel construction, the Olympian,
named for the capital and greatest
mountain range in the State of Wash
ington, carried through the cities, vil
lages and farms a message of new
ideas o f transportation by rail and it
is no unusual sight, to see the Montana
ranchman entering into the spirit of
four o ’clock tea with a zest that here
tofore has only been known to the lei
sure-loving Englishman or New Yorker.
The work of colonizing the country has
been carried on systematically and al
ready hundreds of sterling families
have been induced to settle along the
line of the road. Every agent has been
named a publicity man in singing the
praises of the West and the Puget
•Sound country throughout the land un
til the East is ringing with the call of
the Milwaukee.
Officered by a set of men who have
largely been together for the last 30
years and more; all working in close
harmony from the highest official to
the most obscure messenger boy; aim
ing to build up in every conceivable
manner and to improve the service, is
it any wonder that results are being
obtained ?
The time will come when the name of
A. J. Earling, president o f the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul, will go down
into history as one of the big factors in
the progress and prosperity of the
West.
In his great undertaking of
building to the Pacific he was ably as
sisted by an army of intelligent, loyal
men and in the continued operation of
the property he is the most ably as
sisted by such men as Vice-President
H. R. Williams, General Traffic Man
ager R. M. Calkins, General Passenger
Agent George W. Hibbard, and their
staffs, men who are making Western
railroad history in their Western
homes.
•
And so, in the words o f the president
o f the line, “ Here’ s to the Greater
M ilw au kee!" to which may be added
the wish of a Western writer, May she
ever expand and develop.
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(Continued from page one)
stories. Not only are the papers han
dicapped in this direction, but tele
graph and telephone facilities are fre
quently limited. This state of affairs
often prevents the correspondent from
getting a good story to his paper, al
though he may have all the facts in his
possession. All of these circumstances
are known, however, and recognized
by the managing editors and “ g o ” as
excuses for what seemed negligence at
the time.
The country correspondent is not
supposed to sleep. Technically he is
always with his ear to the telephone
taking orders by “ long-distance” or
else waiting for the messenger boy
with his yellow envelope and signa
ture book. In his book o f instructions
the correspondent is given emphatic
orders to be in touch with the tele
phone or telegraph at all hours of the
day and night, so that he can be given
an assignment with as little delay, al
most, as a staff man in the home o f
fice. Not only must he be on the alert
after events that will read well in the
columns of the city papers, but also
must he be prepared to respond
immediately to an order to secure
an interview with some “ leading
citize n " or investigate some report
which may have reached the managing
editor. He may be required to hire an
automobile and race ’cross country in
pursuit o f some clew or he may be re
quired to secure photographs of per
sons who may feature among “ the
k ille d " or be the principals in some
crime or scandal. There is no time
given him to ask for explanations, in
structions, or just what he is supposed
to get. There is no time for question
ing concerning possible expense, loss
of sleep or meals. The live correspond
ent, however, never thinks o f these
things. He promptly forgets his fam
ily and his body and obeys orders like
the faithful servant he is. That he
must get what he is told to, and that
delay will not be tolerated, is the one
principle under which the correspond
ent works. Due consideration o f espe
cially trying circumstances or obsta
cles is made by the man at the city
desk, it is true, but the circumstances
must be very trying and the obstacles
almost unsurmountable. The country
correspondent does not expect quarter,
neither does he give it. The story his
paper wants is the one that his paper
gets, no matter whom it may concern
or what interests may be involved.
First and foremost, the correspond
ent must be reliable. Exaggeration,
falsification or, worst o f all, pure
“ fa k in g " will not be tolerated, and
the guilty correspondent is “ f ir e d "
immediately his faults are found out.
There is always some reader or sub
scriber of the city papers who sends an
indignant letter exposing the corre
spondent and his questionable story. A
sharp reprimand usually comes before
dismissal. It behooves the correspond
ent, therefore, to obey his instructions
to the letter. Far better it is for him
to let his paper get “ scooped" than to
wire a libelous article or a story that
may call for a retraction in the next
issue. Next to reliability comes alert
ness. The correspondent must have a
“ never-asleep h a b it." To be success
ful he must be in touch with everyone
in his county who is situated at a foun
tain head of news. He must have on
his staff the police, the sh eriff’s o f
fice, telephone and telegraph operators
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__in fact, any and everybody who may
possibly hear of a good news item.
Thus it will be seen that the corre
spondent must be a diplomat aud
“ staud i n " with all sorts of people.
He must be a person of considerable
magnetism to keep his hold on his corps
of volunteer assistants, for he cannot
afford to [»ay them for their trouble in
his behalf. The correspondent with the
most friends is the one to whom the
managing editor many miles away must
often write letters of commendation.
The managing editor does not know
how his correspondent gets his stories.
He doesn’t care. He knows that the
paper is being well served, and that’s
enough to know.
The correspondent’s work is gov
erned by a code of rules to which he
is supposed to adhere strictly. When
a story develops he is required to
“ q u ery" or “ schedule" his paper, giv
ing briefly the nature of the news and
the number of words in his judgment
necessary to tell it properly. For in
stance, he will prepare a message
something like this:
“ Collision on G. & N.; 10 killed, 25
injured; 500.
SM IT H ."
I f he has a less important story his
“ q u e ry " will read like this:
“ John Jones, prominent farmer,
commits suicide while insane; 100.
“ S M IT H ."
The editor who handles the message
will order the story at once, providing
he wants it. I f he orders it he will
send a message something like this:
“ Rush su icide," or “ Send wreck
s to ry ." He may enlarge or cut down
the number of words suggested by the
correspondent. He may order only 200
words on the wreck, or he may ask for
1000. Editors gauge the orders some
times upon their personal view of the
human interest attached to the story,
the policy o f their paper and the pres
sure of space. All these things must
be considered in handling the hun
dreds o f queries that pour into the o f
fice of the metropolitan paper day
after day. It takes genius to pick the
wheat from the chaff, to secure every
thing o f interest and importance and
still avoid printing libelous matter and
spending money for worthless mes
sages.
The principal source of woe to the
country correspondent lies in the prone
ness of the managing editor to detail
a staff of men to handle what big sto
ries come up and thus deprive the cor
respondent o f a chance to fatten his
“ strin g." In cases of important polit
ical gatherings, conventions or sensa
tional or mysterious crimes the editor
may prefer an original and extensile
story, one different from that sent any
other paper, and he sends a man who is
familiar with the style and policy of
the paper, and who will turn out a
story in accordance with the ideas pop
ular to that particular publication.
When such assignments are made the
correspondent usually gets disgusted
with his job and rebels at what he con
siders unfair treatment. He is called
upon to assist the staff man in every
possible way—as a rule, it is the corre
spondent who gets the story and the
staff man who writes it up. The re
ward o f the correspondent is usually a
cigar or a drink, while he loses out on
the anticipated
fattening of his
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more. . It might be explained that
“ strin g " is a well-known newspaper
term for the aggregate of clippings of
stories sent by the correspondent or
space writer to his paper. These clip
pings are saved day by day, and at
the end o f each month are pasted to
gether and marked o ff by the column,
remuneration being made at so much
per column.
thus he able to set the station clocks
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The
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so that the time signals are well
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