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Show HE WAS A DAISY. " Bat as a Reporter He Made an Awf ol mm. de on a Big Scoop. "As funny a thing as I ever knew of In the newspaper business, ' ' said the reformed re-formed reporter, "was the way Sandy McLean gave the . Cbioago Tribune a scoop. Now, Sandy, to my way of thinking, think-ing, is the best reporter in Chicago. He Was a lawyer once, and a mighty good one, Dut ne saw that the law had no euch opportunities as the newspaper business, and he came to Chicago from the Iowa town where he was practicing and began work on one of the big dailies. He hadn't been there a week before be-fore the managing editor realized that he had a star, and Sandy was given every ev-ery opportunity to make himself a name. ' 'He made it too. He was put on big etory after big story and beat every oth" er reporter in the city. After a time he got to The Tribune and kept up his bril liant work. He was with The Tribune for a long time. - Tho Herald and other papers wanted him, but Sandy stuck to The Tribuna He got a bit free and gay, but the old man put up with him. Finally Fi-nally patience ceased to be a virtue, and one day Sandy drifted into the office nly to be told that they thought thev might be able to get out a paper without him if they hustled. "He went out whistling gayly and walked over to The Herald offica He told them The Tribune people had just fired him and asked for a job. The Herald Her-ald was too glad to get him. They snapped snap-ped him up right away. The next day B,mdy reported for an assignment. The ity editor of The Herald put him on a big story he had been keeping on the ice for awhile and told Sandy that it was exclusive. "Sandy went out and got the facta FTfi fnnnrt t.linJ: Vi urna tia fii-cf n-nA iou uuiJ newspaper man who knew anything about the tale, and it was a corker. He started back to the office to write it up. He had been 80 used to going to Thj Tribune office that he mechanically got off the car there and walked up into the local room. He sat down at his old desk, wrote the story and handed it to the city editor. Tho city editor saw that the etory was sensational, put a scare head on it and ran it on the first paga The Tribune was the only paper that had it, and Sandy did not wake up to what he had done until he had got a note from The Herald city editor next morning calling him all sorts of names and dis-charging dis-charging him. He got back on The Tribune, though, a'" he's there yet" Buffalo Hxzzzzz. A Different Question. Father (impressively) Suppose I ehould be taken away suddenly, what would become of you, my boy? Irreverent Son I'd stay here. The question is, What would become of you? -pWest Chester Critia |