“New” Journalism

                             Written by request, for the first edition of the “Cambridge Times”

                I.

Hark! A strange like call upon the street,

     A newsboy’s piercing cry;

“De Cambridge Times, sir,” loud and clear,

     “De Cambridge Times, sir, w’y

It’s de new paper, ain’t yer heard?

     So much der worse fer you;

De Ward T’ree paper, first edish,

     A corer, mister, too…

                 II.

“New Journalism’s” bound to win,

     New Journalism, clean;

And that the “The Times” is all of this,

Will easily be seen.

Progressive and aggressive lines,

     Fearless and up to date;

“Without a muzzle,” a-la Post,

     But wise and full sedate.

                III.

Still rings the cry along the street,

     A journal new is born;

And hark unto the editor,

     The while he took his horn.

Again the newsboy’s pleasant call,

     “De Cambridge Weekly new!

De Cambridge Times, sir, right dis way,

     A corker mister, too.

               IV.

O, there are “times” in Cambridge

     “The Cambridge Times” will show;

There’ll be no keeping shady,

     The things we ought to know.

Cry up, my boy, your journal,

     Plant courage in your tone;

There’s better “Times” for Cambridge

     Than she has ever known.

Pub. July 10, 1897