YELLOW JOURNALISM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 44, 15 November 1907, Page 3

YELLOW JOURNALISM.

THE AMERICAN PRESS. A WELLINGTON 1 RESIDENT'S EXPERIENCE. Mr. Arthur M'Koe, of the Panama Streat firm of land and estate agents, returned from a trip abroad by tile \Varrimoo yesterday. ITe travelled from England to iNew York on the liner Caronia. As the vessel was drawing up to the pier at tlio foot of West Fourteenth Street, New York, aii American follow-passenger remarked characteristically, " Now, stranger,.l guess you'll sec something slick in long-siding vessels. They know this business here!" Three tugs appeared, and in the i most expeditious manner imaginable hutted the liner round and shoved her into her berth in good stylo —astonishing, considering' the size of the vessel. Mr. M'Kee saw his American friend later, and said that the berthing of the vessel was certainly the quickest work of the kind ho had ever seen. " Liko that every time here," said the unperturbed Yankee. Mr. M'Keo wont to his i hotel, and the same day a fellov,--passenger asked him had he seen the " New York Journal " ? Ho obtained a copy, and this is what appeared— PANIC ON THE CARONIA AS SHE HITS THE PIER. Several hundred passengers on the x stoamship Caronia, which arrived from Liverpool to-day, were thrown into a panic when the vessel crashed into her pier at the foot of West Fourteenth Street, tearing away the captain's bridge, and partially wrecking the upper portion of the landing structure. _ . The big vessel listed to starboard, and scores of passengers on the decks grcoting their friends were thrown to tho floor. Excitoment was intense, and tho commander ordered all to the other side of tho ship. Several women suffered from shock. The passengors were delayed an hour in landing. Mr. M'Kee states that this articlo was nure fabrication from beginning to end. The Caronia was induced into her berth without a hitch, there was not even a bump leave alone a crash—in short, nothing occurred to justify a word of what appeared. The article was from a diseased imagination, and is typical of the sort of Press reports that Americans take 111 with their meals.