The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-17
PUZZLED PROvINCIALS.

PUZZLED PROVINCIALS.
From the " Y. World
Provincial papers-and by provincial alpopers
we mean papers published in Philadelphia,
Chicago, Hartford Saugerties Podunk, and
other small places-which content themselves
with and confine themselves to- the daily or
weekly chronicling of local occurrences, varied
with an occasional sensation, such as that
Deacon Dewbeuy has ''laid' an extraOrdina-
rily large egg on the editors table, utterly
fail to comprehend how a great metropolitan
journal like the UOyd can record every
day not only all the doings worth noting
in New York, but lay before its readers
everything Of importance from all quarters
of the globe. Still accustomed to pretty
much the same method Of news-gathering
that obtained twenty years ago, these country
journals cannot conceive how the lP0rid, by
means of steam, the telegraph, special cor
respondents, and wide-awake reporters, man
ages every twonty-four hours to collect, sft
and present all the news in the world worth
knowing from day to day. What used to be
considered extraordinary enterprise is now
merely necessary routine. The readers of the
Uorld demand the whole worlds news every
morning, and the supply is always equal to
the demand.
But this mere doing of the days duty alb
solutely dazes some Of the provincial editors
Here comes the Hartford Post, for instance
with an editorial showing that the writer is
utterly dumbfounded by the amount of news
and matter presented in a single issue of the
JVorld. Spreading the sheet before him, he
finds it, indeed,
"a map of busy life,
Its fluctuations ana its vast concerns
and, recovering from his first bewilderment.
he attempts to epitomize the contents. He
Il i'm n11p Il 1oI
the jVorld, that ''the Senate is a nuisance and
deserves to be abolished:' that there is a diff
ference, worth noting. between the stroke of
the Harvard and Yale oarsmen; that the move
ments of Grant and Sherman at Long Branch
are minutely reported; what is going on in
the Ohio campaign: then to England and
France, only to come bounding back on to
the Pacific coast" how soda water is made,
| supplied, and sold in New York: 1T snatches
up the English grammar and revises it, show
| ing us how to make new Words it reforms
fashions it ''rattles plastering down on the
| head of Fisk, junior; and it does all these
| things, and many more, with the same vigOr
| with which, "a few months ago, it entered
| the tea chests and sugar barrels of every
| groceryman and the fusel-oil bottles of every
| barkeeper.' This maze and multiplicity of
matter in a simple issue prompts the Hart
ford Post to excaim that the most mystic
| New York IV0lId.
In the same mail with the Hartford Post,
comes another puzzled almost petrifed, pro-
| vincial-the Houston (IeXas) IGmca-which
| is also overwhelmed at the greatness good
| ness, energy, and enterprise of the JVOrld.
| Extremes meet, and the nearby East and the
! remote Southwest seem to have come stimuli
taneously to the conclusion that the WOlJd is
not only the leading paper in New York, but,
as the Hartford Post phrases it, the 'most
! wonderful newspaper eXtant But if the
Hartford editor was dazed, the Houston jour.
| nalist is almost swamped in surf and breakers
Of surprise, andwhen he catches breath he talks
! i'll this wise:-
"The World is our favorite. 1t is the organ of the
I've, progressive Democracy OF the United States in
| COntTadistinctOn to the defunct Democracy Tine
Hord'S history is a short one but it has an immense
one before it. 1t is about eight years Old but in thai
time 1t has grown into a powerful position. 1t is
United States; that is to say, in the world II is the
abest sa4ciest, smartest wisest paper in the United
States. The most splendid editoral-writing in
America is to be found in its columns The World
IS very often kicking against party traces, and sug
gestng something new and startling. Thus it Otter
brings down upon itself storms of attack from Othel
organs OF the party; but who can saw after ALL that
the boItd mas ever proposed anything which it would
not nave proved best to do? We have watched its
course closely and this question forces itself upor
us strongly The WW@ is very ambitious, and il
knows how to achieve its ambition. 1t vii
achieve it,
Thus do two papers at two extremities Of
the country unite in declaring the superiorit,
OF the Word over all other metropolitan
journals, and this verdict may be taken as tn,
opinion of the entire sensible ''betweenitv.
! One word as to the Houston Times con1n
) erum:-"Who can say, after all, that tn
lgorld has ever proposed anything which i
would not have proved best to do ?" Well
0 the UoHd proposes to continue to publisl
the best ncccS-paper extant, and also propose
3 to print as many copies every morning a
- may be demanded by those who wish and ma,
0 expect to find in the lPorJd the news of tn,
I world. For our readers as well as for our
, serves TINS will prove in the future as in tn,
a past, as the Houston Times puts it, E'the hes
g thing to be done"