Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1903 — A Host of Reporters. [ARTICLE]

A Host of Reporters.

It is said that a reporter who had been assigned to talk with an American millionaire on an important question was repeatedly refused admittance to his house. Then he sought out a senator who was a personal friend of the millionaire and petitioned for his aid. Armed with the senator’s card, he returned to the millionaire's house and sent in his talisman. This time he was admitted. “Young man,” said the millionaire, “do you know that sixteen reporters have called upon me today about this very question and that I have refused to see them all?” “I ought to know it, sir,” responded the visitor, “for I am the whole sixteen!”