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Updated: July 15, 2025
They found the Territorial Enterprise, a poverty-stricken weekly journal, gasping for breath and likely to die. They bought it, type, fixtures, good-will and all, for a thousand dollars, on long time. The editorial sanctum, news-room, press-room, publication office, bed-chamber, parlor, and kitchen were all compressed into one apartment and it was a small one, too.
On the table lay a Testament, but there were no tokens of its having been in recent use. In the press-room below, were three men, the nature of whose offence rendered it necessary to separate them, even from their companions in guilt.
I led from the press-room to the stifling office with the maps on the walls, and the red-haired man rubbed his hands. Thats something like, said he. This was the proper shop to come to. Now, Sir, let me introduce to you Brother Peachey Carnehan, thats him, and Brother Daniel Dravot, that is me, and the less said about our professions the better, for we have been most things in our time.
"Because the paper must be put to press. It must contain the very latest news and it must also catch the mails; and the mail-trains do not wait." They descended in the main elevator to the ground floor and then went down a dark and winding staircase until they faced an iron door. Howard pushed it open and they entered the press-room.
"And after all your seeing and blustering I shall not do it," added Benjamin, in a tone that indicated he meant what he said. "Ben is right," interrupted Mr. Watts, who had listened to the colloquy; "he has met that condition once in the press-room, and he will not be required to repeat it. I forbid his doing it."
But he had been a newspaper man himself; the printer's ink had struck in; he had many associations with the press-room and the composing-room; he loved the common, democratic character of the newspaper; it was the average man's library. The homely uses to which it was put, and the humble firesides to which it found its way, endeared it to him, and made him love to see his name in it.
They found the Territorial Enterprise, a poverty-stricken weekly journal, gasping for breath and likely to die. They bought it, type, fixtures, good-will and all, for a thousand dollars, on long time. The editorial sanctum, news-room, press-room, publication office, bed-chamber, parlor, and kitchen were all compressed into one apartment and it was a small one, too.
In the mean time, the proceedings in the press-room were of a still more terrific description He now resembled the stag at bay; his strength became more than human. On attempting to tie his hands, five men were found insufficient for the woeful task. He yelled, and flung them aside like children, but made no attempt at escape, for, in truth, he knew not what he did.
As the door of the press-room, in which men were at work, stood open, the editor felt no alarm from the sudden appearance of the burly figure before him, but, supposing the man had been drinking, he said impatiently: "Please state your business briefly, as my time is valuable." "If yer time is worth mor'n news, I'll go to another shop," said Pat stiffly, making a feint of departure.
When he had concluded his speech, Beauchamp bowed coldly to Albert, turned his back upon him, and went to the press-room.
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