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Show Bill Nye's Experience. : The Wisconsin Press Association . held ' its twentv-eighth annual meeting recently. recent-ly. The" address was delivered by Bill Nye, in which he saidi -- "My first experience in journalism was in a Western town in which I was a total stranger. I went there with thirty-five cents, but I had it concealed in the lining cr my clothes, so that no one would have suspected it if they met me. I had no friends, and I noticed when I got off the train that there was no band there to meet . me. I got a chance , to work oa a morning .paper. It.-used to go press , before dark, : so I always had my evenings to myself, and I always liked that part of it first-rate. - I worked on that paper a year, and - might have continued con-tinued if the proprietors had not changed it to an evening paper. Then a company incorporated itself and started a paper of which I took charge. The paper was published pub-lished in the loft of a livery stable. "That is the reason they called it a stock company. com-pany. You could come up the stairs into ' . ." 3. .. the office or you could twist the tail of the iron-gray mule and take the elevator. eleva-tor. "It wasn't much of a paper, but it cost $16,000 a year to run it, and it. came out six days in the week, no matter what the weather was. We took the Associated Press news by telegraph part of the time, and part of the time we relied on a copy of the Cheyenne morning papers which we got off the conductor on the early freight. We got a great many special telegrams from Washington in that way, and when the freight train got in late I had to guess at' what Congress was doing and fix up a column of telegraph the best I could. There was a rival evening paper pa-per there, and sometimes it would send a smart boy down to the train and get hold of our special telegrams, and sometimes the conductor would go away on a picnic and take our Cheyenne . paper with him. |