The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-10-13
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1871.
The News--A Modest loot on Our
Own Horn.

Our telcgraphic columns continue to
afford the readers Of the lNTELLIGENcER
the latest, the fullest mud most interesting
details concerning the great Chicago
Fire; and ii affords US some qualification
to know that the freshness and complete
ness Of our news report, ms compared
with the stale and attenualed report fur
nshcl by our Market Street cotem'
porary, is notcd, and appreciated,
especially by those who read both
papers, While the Register had
not word Monday morning about the
great fire which started in Chicago Sunday
night, we had the same morning full
and graphic account Of its progress up to
the hour when the advancing ilomes
drove the operator, who was sending the
news ont of tho Western Union Compa-
ny'B Office. Our neighbor, somewhat as
tonishcd when he read this news in our
columns, went to work and had 1t set up
and put ont during the day (MOnday), rs
an extra" and then put it in his news col
umns Tuesday morning This we call
Journalistic enterprise Of very high or.
der.
The difference between the two reports
about the Fire has been just about the
same each day since While VIC have
filled near u page with that matter alone,
every word Of which is telegraphed ex-
Clusivoly for our columns, and have had
to make room for other dispatches on
another page, our neighbor has only been
able to ill two or three cOlumns-and
from what sources, except in the instance
referred to, We cannot undertake to say.
We get our news from the old estab'
lshed Associated Press, which has Capa-
bic and active news gatherers In every
city, town and hamlet in the United States
and CanadNs and in all the leading cities
OF other parts of the world, and embraces
in It's membership every newspaper of
any importance in the United States.
The Western Associated Press Of which
Tie lSTELLIGENCER Is member, en-.
braces the great papers Mt Cincinnati,
Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee,
Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and
nearly all other papers in the
West, and exchanges news with the
New York Associated Press which In.
cludcs the great dailies of New York
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other
eastern cities. Thus all the news re-
sources Of the whole country arc at the
disposal of our Association and the In.
TELLlGENCER gets everythingit sends to
my Of It's members. Our capacity is SC
limited compared with some Of the
great metropolitan sheets which want
everything, that We can seldom find
room for all that Is sent us; and
every night this week we have re-
ceiYed two or three columns more tele,
graphic dispatches than we have been
able to get into type. SO that our news
resources are equal to those enjoyed by
any paper in the United States; and when
Wheeling grows to be as great as Clncln.
natl, aud the INTELLrGENCER expands to
tho stately proportions Of the Gazette, we
shall be able to make room for 1t all,
good, bad andindiaerent.
OF course 1t costs something to get a
page by telegraph each day and we arc
now paying more than twice as much per
week for dispatches rs any other Wheel.
ing paper ever paid before, or pays now
but so long as our patrons continue theiI
generous appreciation Of our efforts, We
will try to give them everything in the
way of news that is ahoat, at the earliest
moment that lightning can bring II.