Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1869 — Anecdote of Henry J. Raymond. [ARTICLE]

Anecdote of Henry J. Raymond.

Mr Raymond was personally exceed ingly popular with all the employes of the Times. His well-known sense of equity and justice made him the person to whom all, high and low, appeal whenever they felt aggrieved. Employes of the press room,the composing room, the proof room, the stereotyping room, equally with the editors ana reporters, came to him for justice whenever they felt aggrieved by the action of the individual under whose especial supervision they were. ’Whatever his decision wits in the matter, for or against the applicant, was received as final, and universally accepted as just. In no one was the spirit of fair play so strikingly manifest. He was sent before the day of the telegraph to Boston to report a speech of Daniel Webster, then in the height of his popularity. Rival city journals also dispatched their reporters, each selecting for the purpose two of their best short hand writers, to work against Mr. Raymond. The speech was delivered, and proved to be one of Mr. Webster's greatest achievements. The several New York reporters took the night boat to return to New York, and all, save Mr. Raymond, gave them selves up to such enjoyment during the evening as the boat afforded. Mr. Raymond sat quietly in the back cabin, and was observed to be writing furiously. Presently one of tifo reporters had his suspicions aroused, and setting out on an exploring expedititm, found that Mr. Ray mond had on board'a small printing office fully equipped. His manuscript wa* taken page by page bv the compositors, set up immediately, and on the arrival of the boat in New York, at 5 o’clock in the morning, Mr. Raymond’s report, making several columns! of the Times, was all in type. These columns were put into the forms at once, and the readers of that journal were at 6 that morning served with a full report of Daniel Webster’s speech delivered in Boston on the previous evening. This, at that time, was one of the greatest journalistic feats on record, and so completely astonished and astounded the IHbune's rivals that they never published the reports furnished by their short-hand writers, bat acknowledged themselves fairly beaten. Another instance when he captured a locomotive which had been chartered by a rival, and by its aid succeeded not only in “ beating ” that rival, but all others, was an anecdote he was fond of relating.