The weekly sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1851-1869, 1861-11-16
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| was u good deal Interested writes a Liver
pOul correspondent, under date Of oct. 2jth, in
the operations Of Mr.. Stuart, the agent here Of
the Associated Press, and found he hal very
much moro work TODD than had supposed. In
The first place. in his office are boxes labeled with
the names { ali the journals In America which
belong - the Association, and in these arc
placed every morning the copies of the English
p1uCrs ordered by cach--'o that on the days OF
sjcam' rs ailing they are all ready to he made
up into PARCELS for which tho printed addresses
are 'ady prepared. But this forms
but small part Of Stuarts work. lie
makes n summary Of the news, miniOl led
in sufficient numbers to allow scpa-
laic copy to he given to each Of tho Now
lotk papers Immediately ON the arrival OF the
steam. in New York, and one to bc tclcgraphod
to uS IN BOstuu--ths - the full dispatch-lnd
on tho Wednesday Of whi,h | am writing hat
prepared lay Stuart Tor the city oi New York
was 20 very large octave pages, written in II
separate manifold copies. NcNt lac makes the
abridged dispatch, about three pa,cs--this also
il written ia manifold Tor "A reason to he men.
toned. The principal copy Is placed in the
Cape Race canister of tim thing somewhat
like sweet maIj0rlm box but bigger about
Too high and three inches in lilmrtcr--lit-
i,;hi 80 that it floats, tho bottom slightly lotl:di
with Lead, anl slight stick attached to the ii l.,
four feet loug, bearing little resi- lng. This
IA thr WI overheard oil t'Rpe Race, New
iuuudlund, and II the News Yacht nt the AssOci-
a,cd Press can lind the littlo red tLtt hoh1ug
about upon the waves, II is picked up, the cant
istcr opened, and the abridged dispatch Is te'c-
gIaphod to US from Cape Race. And twice II
i've times ! believe lIcrhaIis not 80 oitcn) svm'
hing comes nj this, Otherwise 1t Is all lost hut
this j. not ALL tlIiId AMI hri,lcr dispatch, a
new ahrid,.mcnt is prepared in duplicate by the
cyer-us'iul mnnlullrr, and this il put into the
Sandy Hoax canister Each copy Of this dis.
Iatcli il written on piece Of tissue pop'r tied
around with u strinH; all ready to he attached to
a pigeon leg and let fly from Sandy Hook to
the city of New York-tho duplicate is 10 allow
greater security.
\ steamer sails this "Wednesday from South
hampton rs wrll ~ from IIycrpool-so that the
AGENT at Southampton is doinl; tho very 'nc
thin, that Stuart is doing, with the certainty
that III" work Of one or the other of them viii
be- wholly thrown away; which, depending on
which steamer makes the quickest plssl'r
This time Stuart thinks IL will not he his work
that is wasted, for the City Of New York makes
fast passages.
Now when YOU consider TIM, there IL a steam
or from Liverpool every "Wednesday, Thursday
and SATURDAY, that one DAYS later papers
must he mailed TO Queenstown or Lon
duulcTry Ia hit the steamers in their call
thcrc--Hnd one dnys later news teleyraphed
thithcr also it will be seen that the prcparn-
ton of the dispatches and the making up Of the
parcels il no light work.
Stuart sat writing with u little clock beside
HMM the receipt Of telcgraphic dispatches
from London and other centres to he incOrpOf-
atcd into his 'lAtcst' until ten minutes before
twelye--when everything was closed the CAMS
tcrs filed, the bag tied up,---a cab called and
the messenger departed with hi1 freight for tie
steamer to reach her Just a. she sailed at twelve.
No time Is lost or wasted.