The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-05-15
Who GET. the NewsI


A New IDEA.-We present in our dis
matches this morning a new thing IN inc
history of telegraphing-the poem writ
len by Bret Harte and read before the
society Of the Army OF the Potomac, in
session at Boston yesterday, received by
the Pacific and Atlantic telegraph office
in this city last night, exclusively for the
Rsgistsr. Our readers will have noticed
That our dispatches are fuller and twenty
four hours ahead of those Of any paper
published in this State.-hegistcr Of 'Sdt'fr-
day.
The poem here referred to was received
verbatim in our telegraphic report satur-
day morning. We threw it out, as didthc
Pittsburgh papers, because we wanted
the space for news, OF which we had more
than we could find room tor, and because
we presumed the news would be more
acceptable TO our leaders than very in
different article of verse,
Since the Register has challenged com.
parlson of their telegraphic reports with
ours, we trust the readers OF the two
papers will make it. The Register from
which we clip the above contained
six columns OF telegraphic dispatches,
OF which about three.quarter ola column
were markets. The INTELLIGESCER OF the
same day contained little over nine
columns, every line of which was telc'
graphcd exclusively for ilscolumns. II
had about half column more markets
and two columns and . half more other
dispatches. Then our columns are lit
tic longer and our type being closer, a
column takes In near stick more matter
than a column of the Rgisier About one
third of the Registers report was loaded
while we loaded but about third OF a col
umn. Set in the same type and same way
the telegraphiC matter in the lNTELIIGRN
CER Saturday morning was nearly double
that in the Register. Then the quality fth'
report is greatly superior Our news il
gathered by the old established Associated
Press, which has agencies not only every
where throughout this country, bu
in Europe. The association on which thu
Register now depends for It's news Is I
young and weak organization, feebly
struggling for existence, with but limi
ted number of agencies in this country
and none at all in Europe. That assOcia
tlon gets no cable dispatches at all. |
depends for It's foreign news wholly on thu
New York papers that belong to the Asso
Ciated Press. The Associated Press ha
agencies in every capital In Europe; ant
we get whole columns directly iron
them over the Cable, OF course, undo
these circumstances, the Register can bu!
dispatches from It's association much NOR
Cheaply than from ours, but like most 9th
er commodities, the quality correspond
with the price.
Wehayo recently secured, with increas
cd cost, great improvements in our telC
graphic reports; though We should not hay
made any special mention ortho flctifth
Register had not provoked It. Let II
then say that we are now printing III
fullest and best reports by telegraph eve
before printed by Wheeling paper W
receive by telegraph all the news receives
by the great papers Of Cincinnati, Pitts
burgh rnd Chicago. The reader OF Til
INTELLIGENCER this morning gets all TIL
dispatches TINT are printed this morn
ing in the papers Of those cities
except, Of course, their specials; an,
VIC will be excused for saying that is some
thing Of an achievement for Nhcelin
newspaper, which the reader will apprC
ciatc If he will think Of the diiTcrcnc
between the size Of this city md those
and between the patronage Of the paper
there and here.
These enlarged reports necessarily in
volve large increase Of expense; but 8
long as our patrons continue their gcneI
Gus support we will try to give them tn
worth Of their money, and furnish thel
the news, cost what 1t may.