LOOKING FOR "COPY."

Lake County Press, Issue 2114, 12 April 1906, Page 7

LOOKING FOR "COPY."

.JOFRNALLSTS' AMAZINCJ APVENTi RES IN SEARCH OF SENSATIONALISM. American journalists arc usually conceded the palm for sensntionalism but the adventures of reporters in Talis suggest that yellow journalism ii horn in the States, has been developed in Europe. Highway robbery, burglary, almost murder, violation 01' laws of every, kind. dartnc adventures, risk of their own lives and the lives of others for the sake of a story, antagonism of the police, fomentation of discord and revolt marl- ihe careers of tin.' newspaper men of Europe. To ret inside information of the intentions of puhlic officials 01 o»her personages whose opinions or anions are wanted l>\ his pap"!', the reporter will even go so far as to seereie hjm-s«-ll in the home nr office of thai official for almost an\ length of time. A report er of the '' IVi it Parisian shut himself up in (he oil ice closet of a judge in order to hear a private conversation between him and another ol his profession. RISKED HEATH To SEE A HEEL. The crowning feat of one reporter was perform:--! when he hung from a te.lt-graph ui re for a full half-hour, suspended above iu •> military ofticers who were fighting a duel. His position -as a dangerous one, and his life was in trij |e peri!, for the two duelists had ttu euiem-d that no one could see it without being shot. At the i ime of the Humbert family a representative of the French paper "Le Mat in," who had in nine man tier got wind 01 the intended flight, look up posil urn 1..-hind a door of an hotel opposite, and slaved there for tv. o dav s and night s or until Ihe famil.v made on He cv en had his meals brought in him. and ate them whole keeping watch In order to make n. sensational f.tor.v one paper Bent a man round the world. \i Steiglcr took tile trip m order in show his paper was rorrert in ;\ statement which it made. and which was challenged by a rival paper. SPEND MONTHS To (JET ' "STORY.'" It is impossible to tell of all .virh voyages whirh have I n taken to make news for the newspapers a broad. (inl.v a lit: t1 -■ vv lule ago one reporter was given Hie task of we.lk ing across Asia on foot, and another v. .-nl to the Klondil e to get mat eritil for a story on Ike life nl the goldminers of that territory. Man;, foreign newspaper men have spent niiitiy years of their lives as amateur tr« tllps W al.dei til'! IS b.it II ei • jes a lid • mini rie.s to I- arn v. hat could be I ai lie,| aboi.l ihe lives of lie- | ramps , .Sew spajier men hnv .• spent motit lis j and nore w■ >! king at different met - i opolit an ' n'cii pa t ion- nn-rr-h to be ] able io write knowingly for lie' pub- j In- alee,i ihe rights, wrongs, and e.\- | periences ot those ways of life, TURN RCROLARS TO EXI'OSE | POLICE. There n. pract icall.v no limit to the j list of iohs at whirh reporters have j worked. Some time ago one of Hie! Paris papers printed an editorial to the effect that tie- conductors oT l':v | trams were in a, position to defraud I the companies. This assert ion was ! denied |,y the companies and n feu of the other papers of that town In j order to prove i heir si atemetit cor- , rert, the publishers of the accusing newspaper assigned one of then- stall , to secure ,-i posil ion as conductor This he was able to do ami furthermore succeeded in defrauding Ihe company of over £2<*' In a nfiori I n suppoi i of a claim to lhe effect that the police force was insufficient, one paper engaged a housebreaker in burglarize houses, (he location of which was announced beforehanHl in the columns of that paper. Each dav this newspaper would tell in what street their man would work, and would publish an ace,,unt of what he had accomplished the nigh', before. This was kept up for some length of time, and the burglar uevei was captured WOMEN REPORTERS WORK AS MEN lournal secured a fob as chorus girl moii-hs. Die result for' t\v six monk'' v, ork was sun pi \ a st on on the life of a ; how w ..matt Madame Malwiy a new papei woman spent \wi i ■; as a w oil. ing w omen !• i lea rn l hen hfc \ga in. she speni a bun; 1I me in Ihe arm; of the u le-m pin- ed . Coin;. inn e eiuplo' meiil agen< V I n anot her, arid spent nig In ■ in pta< t icall.v all of lhe refuge house. in l-Yniic- \iiol her w ,n i !- ed t'ol a lone while as a street cleaner to pet ail art ie|e oil the life ol I he.se workers COMMIT CRIMES To d'E'l REFORMS. In France Ihe newspupers are run (ftanUy at war with Ihe police. Time lifter Ome they sent their repiv-eent-alivus Lo commit crimes, simply to

j «how the public how inefficient is tl j police service- Such examples 1 that of the housebreaker are not ill ( I rommon, and often the repnrtei .' j have escaped the oflicers oi the law, (Jeorge Daniels, ill order to judj 1 the vigilance of the Paris force, die , j sed himself in the skull-cap ai 'clothes of an "'Apache" (a band desperadoes) and for two hours wal cd Ihe streets with a valuable ne hicy cle in his hand. During this lot walk not a single officer molest* him nr even stopped him to as where he got the machine. Charles Vallier, of the "Pet Bleu," pretended to he a lunatic, ar paraded up and down the boulevnr* trying out that he was Napoleon r turned. He passed two guards hj - lore a third arrested him. Anoth. French newspaper man feigned lunai to get a story on life in an asylun I and came near not getting out. I.KAI'S INFO KIVFW TO I'EST LIFK SAVKKS. d It does not require great courage 1 com • ir-t ion to feign insanity or t hide from the police, but 10 thro II oneself in t.he river, bound wit e ropes, in order to see whether yo will he saved to write a story for r paper shows a rare love of sensatioi One day in the middle of March - young man tightly hound and in a his clothes, threw himself from 111 top of the highest bridge over th Seine. "Disappointed in love, thought the bystanders. No : sin s ply curiosity on the part of a report er. He was a M. Christian. wh wished to prove t lie zeal of the iliir employed as aids by the River Briji ade. to help those in danger c drowning . I Christian jumped into the watei : and waited vainly for aid from land ■ guards of the police force. The;.' bin hist eaten their dinners, and feare the effect of a plunge so soon alte - their meal. They preferred to le him die rather than risk hurt in their digestion. lie was pulled out however, by the life-saving dogs thn had been but recently declared in ■ competent by the land police, am his story in the next morning's pape 1 reinstated the dogs in their place o 1 honour with the public.—"Weekl, 1 Budget."