"
"They're not at all sad down this way," said Howard, "except in the usual
inescapable human ways. When they're not hit too hard, they bear up
wonderfully. You see, living on the verge of ruin and tumbling over every
few weeks get one used to it. It ceases to give the sensation of event."
Their automobile had turned into Park Row and so reached the
_News-Record_ building in Printing House Square. Howard took the two
women to the elevator and they shot upward in a car crowded with telegraph
messengers, each carrying one or more envelopes, some of them bearing in
bold black type the words: "News!--Rush!"
"I suppose that is the news for the paper?" Mrs. Carnarvon asked.
"A little of it. Our special cable and special news from towns to which we
have no direct wire and also the _Associated Press_ reports come this
way. But we don't use much _Associated Press_ matter, as it is the
same for all the papers."
"What do you do with it?"
"Throw it away. A New York newspaper throws away every night enough to fill
two papers and often enough to fill five or six."
"Isn't that very wasteful?"
"Yes, but it's necessary. Every editor has his own idea of what to print
and what not to print and how much space each news event calls for. It is
there that editors show their judgment or lack of it.
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