The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-20
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The following are the contributions to the
July number of Putnaaa's Mogazine:-
''The Kings Sentinel" r. H. Stoddard;
'Salmon-Fishing on the Nippissiguit, Thad-
deus Norris; "At the Associated Press Office, y
William Aplin; Glove in Filthy Early Life
Among the Cannibals" Edited by L. NJ
Coan, M. D.; ''Wild Bees" John Burroughs;
ga Womans Right: VII. The Camp Meet
ing" Mrs. M. G. Ames; ''What they are
Doing in Mexico" j. Henry Brown; "Fairy
Island, Miss G. F. Woolson; ''To Frances
-" It. Buchanan Read; ellis Honor's
Daughter, o. M. Ellsworth; Pictures in the
Private Galleries of New York: II. Mr.. j.
Taylor Johnston's Collections" Eugene Ben
son; ''Disraeli as Statesman and Novelist, "
j. M. Bundy; ''Roseetti, the Painter and
Poet" w. j. Stillman GA Disenchanted Re-
publican-Letter from German Traveller"
Editorial Notes." Literature at Home;"
Literature, Science, and Art Abroad"
From the paper by William Aplin entitled
''At the Associated Press Office, we collect
the following bits of information that will be
of interest to those of our readers who do not
know exactly what the Associated Press is
The Associated Press has an army of cor
respondents, called local agents, scnttered all
over the civilized world. In thinly-settled
districts, where news is likely to be too
scarce to warrant the appointment of regu-
lar agents by special contract the telegraph
company, which is alike interested in the
forwarding of dispatches, takes upon itself
the service of making its operators ez
obiciO agents of the Associated Press. By
such economical means the whole field
&c
graphic system, has been covered effec-
lively with no less than fifteen thousand
intelligent news reporters. All dispatches
from the local agents are sent directly to the
headquarters at New York. where they are
corrected and reproduced by a process of
manifold writing, and the copies distributed
to the several newspapers. The services of
the telegraph are then required again-this
time to scatter the news already collected to
all points of the compass and the farthest
ends of the land. The receiving telegraphers
at other cities deliver their copies to the
Associated Press agents, by whom they are
again manifolded and sent to their individual
papers, as in New York.
Ranged about at dozen desks sit dozen
men, who are expected to know something of
everything under the sun-the ports and
products of every country, as well as every
vessel by name. parliamentary practice
must be at their fingers ends. They would
be worthless without poetry and the dead
languages, wherewith to correct politi-
clans bad Latin, and equally SO without
the living languages. Chronology is
indispensable in the news business;
hence Rollin, Gibbon, Hume, Hallam,
and Motley must be learned by heart. That
great English lawyer, Lord Campbell, said: =
There is nothing SO dangerous as for one
not of the craft to tamper with our free
masonry" Consequently these men must
have studied law enough to master the sta
tutes and rules of practice of all the States
and all the nations. They must be able to
write up, understandingly, horse races, re-
| gattas, and baseball matches, as we'll as
synods, conventions, and congresses. Like
policemen and soldiers, they must have no
politics, affections, or opinions; they must be
stoically unconcerned in confagrations, muir
ders, shipwrecks, and battles. Practical
printers they must be, certainly, as well
as practical electricians. Finally, they
must have good sense and judgment, in
order to know the value of news, and good
common-scheol education, that they may
write it out intelligently. These extraordi
nary men are the manifolders. They edit the
dispatches as fast as they arrive, whatever the
subject matter may be, and at the same time
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