evening paper very much. He didn't have to
get down early in the morning, and at three o'clock in the afternoon
he was always through. He was very glad indeed that there was no night
work, for he now spent his evenings in studying shorthand, which he
thought might be helpful to him in many ways. He didn't have much
routine work to do upon the paper in the beginning, but he told Mr.
Jennings that he would like to get as much experience as possible, so
the good editor gave him a lot of regular reporting to do, as well as
the special work which was daily featured in the paper. This special
work consisted of interviews with various successful men. Archie had
always felt a great admiration for men who had "done something," and
as New York was simply filled with wealthy and successful men, who had
started as poor boys, he found a wide field for work. He found it very
interesting to meet these men of affairs, and have them tell him of
their early struggles, how they had begun on the farm or in the factory,
and had worked themselves up through industry and perseverance to the
high places they now occupied. He found it very easy to get access
to most of them, for they had all read of his experiences in the
Enterprise, and Archie found that his fame as the "Boy Reporter" was
quite general and widespread. Some of the great men were quite as much
determined to interview him as he was anxious to interview them, so
that he usually got along very well by telling them first of his own
experiences, and then asking them about their own boyhood days. It
was work that never became monotonous, for each day he saw a man quite
different in most respects from the man he had interviewed the day
before, and of course every one had something different to say.

These interviews proved very successful when published in the Evening
Enterprise, and Mr. Jennings had him continue them during all the weeks
Archie was connected with the paper. And of course he did other things,
too, work which took him into every part of the great city, looking
up this event, or investigating this reported disappearance or murder.
Archie was quite successful in this line, too, and, as he was being paid
by the column, his weekly income was something larger than he had ever
dared to hope for in all his life. He was now enabled to study his
stenography at the best school, and to indulge himself in many things
which had been denied him before. He could, for instance, attend