The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-26


THE N. Y. "TRIBUNEs" WAR NEws-rHE
SPLENDID "oRAvELoTTE" BATTLE PIECE.
The remarkable despatch from one of the
1T5buneS representatives in the Prussan
army, describing the battle of Grayelotte
which we published yesterday, was notable,
not merely as the heaviest ever brought across
the Atlantic concerning q single event, by
single newspaper; but as in some respects
the most remarkable instance of conquest of
space and time by modern American Journal
ism. What now seems the decisive battle of
the present war was fought last Thursday,
lasting far into the night, nearly four thou
sand miles away from us. Every effort had
been made to hinder our correspondents
from reporting the facts, or even being pre-
sent. But on the succeeding Monday morn
ing we laid before the readers of the Tribune
q special despatch containing full outline
of the days events, and on Wednesday morn
ing vivid description, entering into minute
details. AT the time of this publication in
New York-Rs we were advised by the As
sociated Press, and as we also know from
private sources-there were no details known
in either Berlin, Paris, or London; SO that
the anomaly was presented of the first publi-
cation in a New York journal of news of
battle in France that may recast the map of
Europe
Readers of the Tribune will bear us wit
the news, rather than to brag about the news
we are going TO furnish them. The exciting
events in Europe have stimulated no new
developments in the policy of this journal;
they have simply given us better opportunity
to show what that policy is. If its success
has been apparent, we have left il to other
newspapers to record the fact in terms that
to them seemed fitting.
Holding ourselves bound, by our contract
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day, with all the news worth their knowing,
which experience, energy, and money can
procure, we took steps Immediately after the
outbreak of the war to organize a complete
corps of correspondents for both the armies
and all the leading capitals, who were in
structed to stop at no expense that would
secure for us valuable details. Up to this
hour we have made no promises; but we have
printed the news The very large and con-
stantly augmenting advance in our circula-
tion is the best evidence that readers appre-
oiate the fact
Our single despatch concerning the battle
of Gravelotte cost us, notwithstanding the
great reduction in cable tolls, two thousand
two hundred and eighty dollars in gold for
the mere transmission from London to New
York. There were, besides, the cost of q
special courier from the battlefield through
Alsace, Rhenish Prussia, Belgium, and
thence to London, and the pay of the CORE
spondent himself, singularly capable and
experienced journalist, recently engaged on
the Tribune, together with the pay of body
of no less than five assistants in that army
alone. We mention the facts in no spirit of
boasting, but simply to crafty natural
curiosity, expressed in innumerable in
quiries, and to show what rapid strides this
more than imperial city is taking towards be-
coming, at whatever cost, the centre of the
worlds news as we'll as the worlds trade
zaS6aae editorial, Aug 25.