Show c CARLETON AS A REPORTER How the riayrrrlelit Wrote Dp an Account of a Primary Election Henry Guy Carleton the now successful success-ful playwright used to bo a reporter on the Chicago Tribune in the good old day when Sam Medill was managing ediisr and Fred Hall city editor One day he was assigned to do a Democratic primary out on Archey road He returned re-turned to the office at bight with his face beaming with enthusiasm and with as much rapidity as his halting tongue would permithe stuttered dreadfully told Mr Hall what funny experiences he had cone throuch Of course Mr Hall told him to o write it up and thats what Carleton did to the best of his marked abilitydescribed the odd characters at the polls pictured the eccentricities ec-centricities of the old times in the ward And threw such a humorous glow over the many brawls that the objectionable features of the system of elections was lost eight of Mr Hall read the copy and chuckled loudly compliment enough for auy reporterbut when he had finished the report he called Carleton Carle-ton into his den and said with that quiet irony for which he will always be remembered Carleton yon do not seem to have learned the names of the delegates elected elect-ed Henry Guy was forced to admit that he had forforforgotten that little incident Well resumed the city editor with aggravating explicitness you go right down hero to the corner of State and Madison streets and take an Archer avenue car When yon get out to the polls you alight and hunt around in tho gutter till yon find one ticket each kind voted and then go to the nearest saloon and learn which ticket was elected elect-ed Carleton returned to the office about 1 oclock in tho morning and he had the right ticketChicago MaiL I |