It
was then that Keating, the "star" man of the Consolidated Press
Syndicate, was forced to abandon his young bride and the rooms he had
engaged for her at the Key West Hotel, and accompany his tug to the
distant island of Jamaica.
Keating was a good and faithful servant to the Consolidated Press. He
was a correspondent after its own making, an industrious collector of
facts. The Consolidated Press did not ask him to comment on what it
sent him to see; it did not require nor desire his editorial opinions
or impressions. It was no part of his work to go into the motives
which led to the event of news interest which he was sent to report,
nor to point out what there was of it which was dramatic, pathetic,
or outrageous.
The Consolidated Press, being a mighty corporation, which daily fed
seven hundred different newspapers, could not hope to please the
policy of each, so it compromised by giving the facts of the day
fairly set down, without heat, prejudice, or enthusiasm. This was an
excellent arrangement for the papers that subscribed for the service
of the Consolidated Press, but it was death to the literary strivings
of the Consolidated Press correspondents.
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