Carleton As A Reporter

Henry Guy Carleton, the now success'u playwright, used to be a reporter 012 ;he Chicago Tribune in the good oíd i lays when Sam Medill was raanaging ! ïditor and Fred Hall city editor. One ïay he was assigned to do a Democratie prünary out on ' ' Archey road. ' ' He re;urned vo the office at night with his tace beaming with enthusiasm and with as much rapJdity as his halting tongue would permil - he sfruttered dreadfully - told Mr. Hall what funny experiencea j he had gone through. Of course Mr. ! Hall told him to "write it up, " and that's -what Carleton did to the best of his marked ability - described the odd oharacters at the polls, pictured the ecoentricities of the oíd times in the ward and threw snch a huniorous glow over the many brawls that the objectionable features of the system of elections was lost sight of. Mr. Hall read the copy and chucklcd loudly - compliment enough for auy reporter - but when he had finished the report he called Carleton into his den and said, with that quiet irony for which he will always bñ remembered: "Carleton, you do not seem to have learned the names of the delegates elecfced?" Henry Guy was forced to admit that he had "for-for-forgotten" that little incident. "Well, " resnmed the city editor, with aggravating explicitness, "you go right down here to the corner of Stat and Madison streets and take an Archer avenue car. When you get out to the polls, you alight and hunt around in the gutter till you find one ticket of each kind voted, and then go to the neareat saloon and learn which ticket was elected." Carleton returned to the office about 1 o'clock in the morning, and he had tho right