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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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imes were cheering something,when there was no time or way to findout what that something was. It wastiresome, too, to haye ones mind dis-tracted when the climax of the workwas approaching. The desj^atcheswere coming to fill up the missing de-tails, but the worst of it was that theclock hands were moying much faster.Presently the managing editor wouldbe certain to walk round the desks, tohear how each table was progressing, andthen to say, quite regardless of all theomissions and unceriainties : Well,IU giye you all twenty minutes ; eyeiy-thing must be closed up in twenty min-utes, the tables footed, and the stuffup-stairs. That order had not come, to be sure,yet it certainly was at hand, and itwould neyer do to think of it, for tolose ones coolness would be to delayand even to bungle the newspaperwhich most prides itself on its electionreturns. And yet all was still confu-sion, and two dozen important countiesand contests were either unheard fromor left in a muddle of doubt. To clear
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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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