New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-29
WHERE TO Loog FOR WAR NEWS
GENEROUS TESTIMONY FROM LEADING JOURNALS
Prom VI Evening Post

The war in Europe has shown no" hlucn
greater the enterprise Of American than OF Engnsh
Journalist for neither correspondence nor in elc-
graphic reports do the chief London journals show nearly
the fullness OF information OF OF the New YORK Jour-
nas THE TRIBUNE whose special telegraphic reports OF
the really credit to American Journalism
TIE TRBUNEs war dispatches, where they concern
facts been invarab accurate and the dispatch OF
la. giving @ eS OF ss for it, full
ness of details The dispatches sent by The agents OF ne
Associated Press have also the merit on accuracy Iu
ness OF details trutnfulness, and mpItiality.
Prom The Scientific American
The Atlantic Gable dispatch containing a
fun account OF the great battle OF G1yeotte seIt 10
TIE NEW. YORK TRIBUNE, and published III tat pal%r
the oath ut is probably the LONGEST anu h0Ss coS'
cost THE TRIBUNE s2,2s0 in gold AZ a speclnen. ~
enerprsng journalism this Is absoutey cit
The slow moving dailies OF London anu 0ter ~ e
les will stand wide-m0uthed with astohshnent aC w.
cotemporaries in obtaining news We doubt WHEELER ,!i
any of them ever paid as much Tor news III al on'e
week as THE TRIBUNE paid for this single dispaten
From The Buffalo Courier. -,
THE TRIBuyE's Gravei0tte dispatch, wien
we republished in full yesterday, was indeed asnn
cent demonstration OF newspaper enelpie, am iyc I'D
In connection with the present war 10y the way, Tau
has become of The SUMS special correspondent az hu
sell We shall have TO take BACK soon az VIC sau aO'
that stroke OF enterprise
From The Army and Navy Journal .
full description OF the last OF tile seIl1 a V ~
engagements for the possession OF the Verum roaT is
given in the very valuable and interesting etr On in
TRIBUNE correspondent at Metz when we @ ~
TOR map accompanying this description as wei S i
the very valuable descrptons 1I oe has
Prom The Boston Evening JournsL
THE NFW-YORK TRIBUNE has experienced
some OF the joys journalism lately The other piiSrs
have appropriated its news very TSely, anu sp 49,. ~
yantages they have gained by is enterprse The story
of the battle of Grayootte, published in The IbpSE
Sna e s4ae1e D and d." vivid descriptions Of
that ever appeared in neTpaPs eb holds e RE w eo
tending forces before the eye like moving panorama
shas we Ss1 hs at rSyoote has seldom eqgad
in modern warfare Heaven grant that its repetition
VIZ n0' No From The Jersey City Times
We have made free use of THE TRIBUNE,s spe-
cia from the Dateelds in France in our edO
rial columns and have omitted to give tine proper
credit for them This morning We find the whole hrst
teegraphic accounts OF the various actions fought near
Metz sunday Tuesday and THURSDAY 81 nt %eef
with the dispatches published by the auIn0res
publish entire The TRIRgSEs Interesting account
of the terrible battle of Thursday Beside being mar
he horrors of war and Just tribute the unsurpass
able courage of the French and German soldiers
From The WILLIAMSBURG Tines
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE has taken the lead
in furnishing news, ani II Ia matter for hationa
pride that that great paper has in this instance ecpsed
out1a jealousy we are sorry 70 say, altogether
worthy of the profession OF journalism. Our cotempora
most successful in matter of this kind The Herald,
find has resored the columns of the other papers to
respondents from whom it expects news from the seat
Of war strange proceeding the part of The Herald
and lookngvery like confession on lis part that like
the French, it has been outgcneraled this time.
From Tie Fe New Mercol Post.
With all the show of The Herdtd and the
heat OF The sum- the steady, trustworthy Old TRIBUNE
bears off the palm in the ew York papers contest for
cts, ANNOUNCED that Bull Run Russell OF The london
Times to be its special correspondents The Herald
with it, 1sSa G SoS pr bS war wSs go HS
TRIBUNE quietly set 70 work. said nothing about what 1t
was going to do but dd give us the news more com
given in the London papers The trouble with The
sensational point of vew and retained corps report
it, whose fancies could paint pleas and readable
neither gave them the fitness nor the industry esse
tia to the war; the hardest working o. all correspond
great and important feature of the worlds history and
secured competent to pen the leaf bearing its record.
terprising journalism, determined 10 succeed ouy II
could be obtained by integrity and industry and
mind which will neither encourage nor tolerate the
trash which In tee In sn acs 1ronp sssh
"'i'''' ''-N 'Ni From The Oswego Journal
Since the Franco Prussian war began The
TRIBuSE has displayed a degree of enterprise hitherto
unknown TO the press OF the United states, and that
Ian papers as The London Times in advance OF the rest
of the london press THE TRIBUNE has corps OF CORE
and we are glad record its in its expensive
deraking. The money thus spent will no doubt return
in good time the circulation Of that paper and its
power to advance Republican principles will he immeas
urably increased The dispatches Of TIE TRIBUNE have
Deen OF much value that The SUM- Herald, and other
papers have been compelled to copy them
Prom The Albany KuieAerbOcser
The account of the battle of GTavelOtte,
which took from The TRIBUNE, or the great
est and successful Efforts attempted by news
paper this country The dispatch cost THE TRIBUNE
" $50 In gold, for its transmission from London to New
York There beside the cost OF special courier
from the battle field through France Rhenish Prussia,
Belgium, and thence to London, and the py OF the cor
respondent himself We recognize the merits Of this e1
iProm The Montreal HERALD
Among an immense amount of twaddle and
rubbish which the Associated Press sends over the wires
some Of the specials being much better In fact
number OF these said specials look II they were made
correspondents OF enterprsng American papers do their
foreign tours The Sun engaged ~ teiessaPn DT
the world but il appears to nave been only Hash
The Doctor has not turned and he 70 have been
he eQpld not see IT. Blind with excess OF light The
TRIBUNE Gil not telegraph whom had engaged out II
furnishes an enoriou aponn Of information OF all that
is going on nearly all the TINS sde being
from It's correspondents The despatch relating the pat
that has probably ever passed along the cable IN one
message TIE TRIBUNE says IT cost In gold "a $50 for
there was the cost special courier from the battle
field through Alsace Rhenish Prussia and Belgium TO
on We gay nothing Of expense Of the correspondent
and his assistants OF whom there are hye In the Held As
commercial enterprise The TRIBUNE has In this respect
gone far ahead Of It's contemporaries.
From The Albany Bvsnins Times.
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE certainly deserves
credit being the enterrisng OF the Metropo
tan journals in obtaining reports by telegraph In its
issue Of yesterday the first page filled with complete
and graphic account Of the great battle OF and
Grayeote, the particulars of which published IN
the extra lines OF last Saturday We are informed Dy
gentleman connected with the Associated Press IN TINS
city that the actual charge for transmitting this
by Atlantic Cable not less than - COO and that snc
total expense attending could not be Lees than y
We doubt whether any journal extended money
freely for TIE TRIBUNE IL doing ut the p'''"'
time. ~
The precise cost would have been Si'oo' pu' -,
the fact that the cable reduces the rates 10 u'