Marble.     Leaning his head on his hand,
by the light of the shaded gas, as if he, too,
found daily journalism anything but  all beer
and skittles, he assured me that not a day,
unavoidable should elapse before I should be put
to the work I m fit for, and absolved from this
miserable paragraphing.   Mr. Spalding had not
consulted him in the $2 reduction.        Marble hoped
I shouldn t throw up hastily.     So I said I d
stand a little more of it and went wearily by
car to my attic-home.
10.  Wednesday.  Office.  Return, writing
about the coming Prince of Wales.  At 2 to
office, paragraphing wearily in a hot room stink-
ing poisonously of paint.     Up-town by 5, on
the steps of omnibus, crowded with passengers,
tired, nervous, ill and dispirited   got home,
swore I d give it up, was going to get Bowery-
em to take a note saying so and declining to-
morrow s responsibility.    Felt better after sup-
per though and didn t.      Had to go down town
to office, returning by 11.
11.  Thursday.  Got up at 6 after very
little sleep, with a wretched headache.   After a
hasty breakfast, into omnibus and to the Bat-
tery, there by boat on board the Harriet
Lane, to report the coming of the Prince to
Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Fourteen: page forty-three
Description: Mentions that he is tiring of his reporting duties for ''The World.''
Subject: Boweryem, George; Edward VII, King of Great Britain; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Marble; New York world.; Publishers and publishing; Spalding
Marble.     Leaning his head on his hand,
by the light of the shaded gas, as if he, too,
found daily journalism anything but  all beer
and skittles, he assured me that not a day,
unavoidable should elapse before I should be put
to the work I m fit for, and absolved from this
miserable paragraphing.   Mr. Spalding had not
consulted him in the $2 reduction.        Marble hoped
I shouldn t throw up hastily.     So I said I d
stand a little more of it and went wearily by
car to my attic-home.
10.  Wednesday.  Office.  Return, writing
about the coming Prince of Wales.  At 2 to
office, paragraphing wearily in a hot room stink-
ing poisonously of paint.     Up-town by 5, on
the steps of omnibus, crowded with passengers,
tired, nervous, ill and dispirited 
  got home,
swore I d give it up, was going to get Bowery-
em to take a note saying so and declining to-
morrow s responsibility.    Felt better after sup-
per though and didn t.      Had to go down town
to office, returning by 11.
11.  Thursday.  Got up at 6 after very
little sleep, with a wretched headache.   After a
hasty breakfast, into omnibus and to the Bat-
tery, there by boat on board the Harriet
Lane, to report the coming of the Prince to
Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Fourteen: page forty-three
Description: Mentions that he is tiring of his reporting duties for ''The World.''
Subject: Boweryem, George; Edward VII, King of Great Britain; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Marble; New York world.; Publishers and publishing; Spalding