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Show A LIVELY JOURNALIST. Julia Chamber. f TU World, and. Bla Xom for Special Correspondence. Xew York, June 19. If there is quaint, queer, curious, or in any wy unique occurrence in this or any other country the readers of The World we going to hear of it or Julius Chambers will know the reason why. He in the liveliest managing editor this city of live managing editors can boast. He is said to be the only man in New York who can jump off an elevated railway train, buy a paper and jump on again before the gates are closed. Mr. Chambers' mental and physical dexterity make Min ' quite snperior to the trauitious of the editor's desk. Not even the reputation ! of a clever novelist can restrain iix from doing the most arduous of rejwr-torial rejwr-torial duties when he makes up his mind that he can do it better than any meui- lr of his staff. Besides, the ''Chain-berian ''Chain-berian point of view" in regard to some operations of human passions is occasion" ally so novel that no one else seems able to occupy it, at. which times The World is sure to have a clever story written by the managing editor. Nevertheless Mr. Chamber possesses the valuable editorial faculty of recognizing recog-nizing interesting points of view held bv others, and when a reporter demon titrates once or twnee that he can see into the inside of things and tell what ho sees, that reporter becomes one of the stars within tho managerial orbit. But if this recognition of his ability flatters him into indolence his downfall is even ' swifter than his elevation. If there is anything Managing Editor Chambers positively will not stand it is indolence. I Like most collego bred men he is en rapport with all kinds of outdoor sports. Frequently his desk will not be unlocked during the day. While it is gathering terrifying accumulations of correspondence, correspond-ence, "social copy"' and proof sheets of the morrow's issue, its occupant may be found among the most excited observers at the Brooklyn Handicap, swinging his hat in approval of a three-base hit at tho ball game, or bathing in the surf at Coney Island. Now watch him when he enters in the'evenihg. The night editor wants to see him on three or four very important matters, and one or two special spe-cial men want instructions regarding work of great urgency. A prominent lawyer, a politician, a popular preacher and nobody knows how many other people who appreciate the influence wielded by a great newspaper, have been waiting half an hour. The night editor and the sjiecial men get their auswers, one, two, three, while the managerial desk is being unloaded. Thr prominent lawyer and the politician art disposed of in one and one-half minuter each, and sent about their business with such pleasant tact that they think they leave on their own accord. Tho popidar preacher takes his time, for Mr. Chambers Cham-bers has a soft spot in his heart for preachers who havo bi conceptions of people and thingH. But he reads proofs all tho time tho preacher talks and perhaps per-haps performs also a sort of obligato in the shape of a letter dictated to his sec-rotary. sec-rotary. His "record" was made one evening at 11:15, when big nrws was I flying in from all directions. While revising re-vising the proof of a story coming close to the danger line of lilel ho dictated a letter, talked to the exchange editor, ate a sandwich, drank a bottle of ale and trimmed his mustache with the exchange editor's sheers. That is Julius Chambers. Cham-bers. ' Cl'RTIS Duxuam. |