Scribner's magazine (1887) (14595401047)

The Chess Editor, (1894)

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Title: Scribner's magazine

Year: 1887 (1880s)

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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons

Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Printing-House Square on Election Night. up these points as many telegrams hadbeen hurried off, and office-boys stoodin a httle queue awaiting their turns atthe long-distance telephone that was inuse to prod up men in Connecticut, inSyracuse, on the edge of the Catskills,and at the far end of Long Island.Vol. XVI.—59 The chief leader-writer had been hid-den in an inner room writing the edi-torial comment on the nights news.He had thought of a sub-editorial para-graph that greatly amused him. Heshowed it to one of the busiest men atthe election desks, a man on whose 541 542 ELECTION NIGHT IN A NEWSPAPEH OFFICE brow a cold sweat had already formedin anticipation of the i-ush and worryof the approaching climax. Still, a

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The Chess Editor. chief leader-writer always commandsdeference and polite attention. Theunfortunate calculator took the edi-torial manuscript and looked at it. Tothe man in the next chair the hand-■vNTitinof api^cared to be Greeleyesque,illegible, fly-trackish. I rather like that, said the leader-writer. Yes, its veiy good, saitl the manof figures. I think 111 let it go, said the edi-tor. ** I certainly should, said the other. When the leader - writer had gonesomeone asked the other man what theeditorial was about. It looked like what is carved on theobelisk in Central Park ; I could notread a word of it, said the man of cold sweat, but I had no time to tell himso. From some counties the official fig-ures have come in—p e r h a 23 s from morethan half, and moreare coming every min-ute. But from othersthere are six, and eveneight different, contra-dictory returns — lain-ning the majorities upand down a width of athousand votes aj^art.The man who knowshow each county is inthe habi

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