Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1889 — Some Figures by a Reporter. [ARTICLE]

Some Figures by a Reporter.

One of the problems with which a reporter on a morning newspaper has to deal is the probability of finding at home men whom he is assigned! to interview after 8 o’clock in the evening. Long experience teaches him that the vocation, age, and social position of the person sought will enable him to estimate the chance very accurately. Assuming 100 to represent the certainty of finding his man, the probabilities will run about as follows : Clergymen on Monday and Saturday nights, 86; other nights, 40. Old lawyers, 75; young lawyers, unmarried, 25. Capitalists and bankers, 75. Politicians, between campaigns, 5. Clerks, living at home, 20; clerks, boarding, 10. Physicians, 50. Merchants, 60. Me’chanics, 70. Young women, unmarried, 50; married women in society, 60; married women without special aspira.tions, 80. Old people, past 70 years, 59. After 10 o’clock at night the chances of finding middle-aged people at home are double the 8 o’clock chances, while the younger ones on the average usually come strolling in about 11 o’clock. —Buffalo Express.