The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-11-20
The Heraid's ship News-The vaiuc Of
a Oar system Of stean Yachts. ~ i

/ Oar system Of stean Yachts. Il
The usefulness and advantage Of the
HERALD system of collecting ship news by
means of steam yachts was never made so
apparent to the great body Of our citizens In
all callngs and professions as when 1t enabled
us yesterday morning to lay before our four or
five hundred thousand readers the exclusive
intelligence known to no other journal in the
city, Of the arrival Of the Grand Duke Alexis.
For two weeks past all the daily papers, all
the collectors of news and telegraph operators
have been on the alert, eagerly seeking to
gain the earliest tidings Of the hourly expected
event; yet If it had not been for the
HERALD yachts the news would have been
unknown to our people until this morn
ing, unless, indeed, sthe lannon's opening
roar about noon yesterday had set some few
Of them to conjecturing that something special
had occurred, and that it might possibly be
the arrival Of the long-looked-for Svetlana.
The journalistic triumph which we secured
yesterday is not, however, an isolated or even
an unusual case, although more marked than
ordinarily from the fact that it happened to be
one in which our whole population, and not
the commercial and mercantile classes alone,
felt an interest. Day after day the columns
Of the HERALD present similar instances of ex-
elusive shipping news, and our list Of arrivals
is every morning far more full and complete
than that published In all the other daily
papers. The expense and labor of collecting
these numerous arrivals at all hours
of the night outside Sandy Hook
would be incredible to those who
are not conversant with the outlay and toll re-
qulred to obtain perfection in q live and enter
prising newspaper; but our commercial men,
shippers and merchants, understand the great
value of our shipping news, and they know
that they cannot find a full and reliable list of
arrivals in any other journal than the HERALD,
which is regarded as the authority in such in
telligence all over the world.
Our feet of steam yachts is now an es-
sential and valuable part of the HERALD
establishment. These smart little yachts
dash and dart about outside Sandy Hook at
all hours and In all manner Of weather, keep
ing sharp lookout for homeward bound
vessels, boarding them and steaming rapidly
to the nearest telegraphic station or up to
headquarters with the news. The painting
Of their engines is heard through the
fog and mist while they are themselves
yet invisible on the waves. Their graceful
forms are seen riding saucily over the rough
est seas and beating onward in the teeth Of
the fercest gale as they pursue their adven-
turous and important labor. Few Of our mer-
chants and shippers, as they read the long
list Of arrivals published morning after morn
ing exclusively in the HERALD, give mo-
ments thought to the cost exertion and
hazard at which these brief but most valuable
scraps Of intelligence are gathered and
laid before the public. At all hours
of the night and far into the early
morning, while others sleep, these vigilant
and untiring collectors Of news are busily en-
ployed, at heavy expense, in order that those
who send forth their wealth on to the uncer-
tain ocean may learn at the earliest moment
of the safe arrival of their ventures. Through
this liberal enterprise of the HERALD our citi-
zens are supplied with intelligence Of the ar
rival Of at least one-third of the vessels that
reach our port, from twelve to twenty -four
hours earlier than they could learn
the news from any other journal
or from any other source. In the
instance of the arrival Of the Svetlana,
with the Grand Duke Alexis on board, this
fact is made strikingly apparent to all. The
HERALD spares and begrudges no outlay that
can make it what it is, the leading newspaper
of the world In commerce as in all other
branches of intelligence. But when the public
benefit of our splendid system Of collecting
ship news is illustrated in so gratifying man
ner and by SO signal triumph we may be
pardoned for abiding to our great enterprise
and in priding ourselves upon the successful
results.
WHAT Dr.. MCLEOD SAYS ABOUT QUEEN
VrcToRrA.-There are two DR.. McLeods The
one is minister Of the barony parish, Glasgow,
and editor Of ''Good Words !" the other is q
medical man and professor in the University
of Glasgow. The minister Of the barony has