Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1910 — FAST WORK PART OF HiS JOB. [ARTICLE]

FAST WORK PART OF HiS JOB.

Traialaf lisa Eqalpped the Corre■foadeat for (Ul«k Aetleh. A few years «go .when the managing editor of a big newspaper called Hector Fuller, now the word artist, ahead of a popular dramatic star, into his

room one morning and remarked, “We are going to send you to report the Japanese-Russian war' for us,” the young man showed no special surprise. He had been a sailor before the mast; he had fought with the English army in Egypt—he had been a police reporter. He had learned to be ready for emergency.” "When do I go?” Fuller asked. “To-night,” said the managing editor. That night’s express carried a. broad-shouldered, determined-looking young man with his war klt to New York. Two weeks later Mr. Fuller was picking up bits of war news In Manchuria with the same energy that he used to report the police court in a big American city. It "was Fuller who gave the world the first real news regarding the condition of the Russians in the beleaguered city—Port Arthur.' “It wag no fun crossing a great expanse of strange waters In a Httle Chinese boat with two Chinamen for company,” said' Fuller. “But I had to get the news—that managing editor wanted It.” j In order to be the first newspaper man to get into Port Arthur It waa neceslj&fy for Fuller to cross the Gulf of Pechlli from Chefoo to Pigeon bay, a distance of 120 miles, says the Louisville Times. It was a trying trip, but a man who had traveled the road to Mandalay In the glare of India’s sun, without food or*water for forty-eight hours and who had helped stand the onslaught of 6,000 crazy dancing dervishes didn’t mind it. Fuller landed within five miles of Port Arthur. He was promptly arrested by the Russians and taken Into the besieged city. ,That was what he wanted. He had not bargained, though, for nine days In a Russian Jail. Finally he Waa released by the famed Gen. S toes eel and literally kicked out of the city. Being a resourceful young man, ha hqstled for the nearest point where there was telegraphic communication with the world. Then he.told the story of the siege. "It was pretty tough on the paper,” said Fuller, "for my first cable message coet them $3,400. But the managing editor was game and stood for It. “I had a lot of hot experiences,” he continued, “but they were all trivial as compared >ith the sight I spent In that little Chinese sampan on the Gulf of Pechlli with those two yellowfaced heathen.”