A REPORTER'S RUSE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 108, 8 May 1909, Page 10

A REPORTER'S RUSE.

An American reporter once succeeded in interviewing that most unapproachable person, Mr. J. P. Morgan. It appears that the newspaper man, who had made sundry attempts to see the financier, both at his office and at his residence, was each time denied admittance. The young man was at his wits' end to devise a means to carry out the instructions of his chief.- Finally, however, his opportunity came accidentally. This occurred in the course of an interview the reporter was having with another man high in financial circles. In their conversation the moneyed man, for some reason or other, had given tlie reporter his card ; whereupon the latter was seized with a great idea. Hastening to the residence of Mr. Morgan, he sent in both his own card and that of the financier from whom he had just parted. As he had surmised, the doors were opened to him, and a most gracious re ception was accorded by Mr. Morgan. When he had stated the reason for his call, the financier said : "Do you know, young man, that at least ten reporters have tried to see me to-day with reference to this question ? I have declined to see any of them." The reported smiled and replied : "Yes, sir, I know that, for 1 was the whole ten !" Whereupon the magnate was so pleased with the enterprise and persistence of the reporter that he violated his rule, and gave his views expression at some length.