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Under Orders: The story of a young reporter

Chapter 1: UNDER ORDERS
By Kirk Munroe
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The novel follows a young college athlete who, after his family suffers financial ruin and his father loses his sight, leaves college and takes up newspaper work. He learns the routines and rivalries of city reporting, covers labor unrest and violent confrontations, becomes entangled in a criminal accusation, and faces arrest and trial. Through perseverance, careful evidence-gathering, and assistance from friends and a devoted sister, he clears his name, is reinstated, and matures professionally and morally. The narrative examines journalism's demands, the tensions between public order and labor strife, and a coming-of-age tested by hardship and duty.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:

—Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.

”ANY THING GOING ON TO-NIGHT?” VAN CLEEF ASKED THE POLICE SERGEANT. (Page 44.)

UNDER ORDERS

THE STORY OF A YOUNG REPORTER

BY

KIRK MUNROE

AUTHOR OF “THE FLAMINGO FEATHER,” “DERRICK STERLING,”
“DORYMATES,” “CAMPMATES,” ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

NEW YORK
27 WEST TWENTY-THIRD ST.		 LONDON
27 KING WILLIAM ST., STRAND

The Knickerbocker Press
1890

Copyrighted, 1890
by
KIRK MUNROE

The Knickerbocker Press, New York
Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by
G. P. Putnam’s Sons

TO JOHN BOGART

FOR MANY YEARS CITY EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK “SUN”

who, more than any other, helped me to obtain a literary foothold, whose honesty of
purpose, strict sense of justice, and unswerving fidelity to duty uplifted
him as an example of the ideal city editor, the dedication of
this story of newspaper life is offered as a tribute
of gratitude and affection by

The Author