Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-10-30

their cargOeS.
Third, Amount and descrip of
freight arriving at and forwarded from
Los Angeles railroad depOts.
Fourth, Lists OF. passengers arriving
at and departing from Los Angeles,
by land and sea.
Fifth, Freight, and description of
the same shipped from San Pedro to
New York.
Sixth, Progress of railroad work in
the county, also, improvements of all
kinds of a general nature.
s@ Seventh, Information Of public
interest, such as condition and amount
Of all the different crops, woOl-clips,
and details of all other resources of
the county, carefully compiled.
Eighth, Information on any other
subject that the Chamber of Conn
merce may from time to time desire.
Also. to furnish daily, or as often as
may be necessary, all of the above in
formation to the telegraph office in
this city, in such form as may be
accepted by the agent and ready for
transmission to the upper country
papers.
All of the above items to be pub
lished in the weekly papers in the
same form as in the daily.
Please hand in your reply to the
Chamber of Commerce in time for the
meeting of the Board of Directors,
this, Tuesday, evening at 1880 p. NJ.
Yours respectfully,
MI. NEWARK,
Chairman of Committee on News
papers and Telegraphs.
The several papers made the follow
replies: a
OFFICE OF THE EMPRESS,
Los Angeles, Oct. 2Sth.
To the Board of Directors of the
Chamber of Commerce: Gentlemen
In answer to your request for the pub
lication of certain intelligence speci-
fled in yOnr note to-day, We beg leave
to say that all matters mentioned
therein, which are in our power to
procure daily, we will cheerfully pub
lish free of charge. Judging from the
tenor of your request, that you desire
us to procure all the different items
ourselves, we would say, that in other
cities it is customary for the Chamber
to furnish reports for the papers up to
the hour of going to press. All such
news as you furnish us we will pub
lis free of charge. A large portion of
the intelligence we will be unable to
procure without extra editorial help;
nevertheless, we will publish large
portion of it at all events.
Respectfully, yours,
TIFFANY & Co.
From tho above snswar of Tiffany
& Co., it will be observed they state,
"a large portion of the intelligence
we will be unable to procure without
extra editorial help"
The Star sent the subjoined answer:
Los ANGELES, Oct. %, 1873.
To the Board of Directors of the
Chamber of Commerce of Los Ange-
les, Gentlemen:-I hereby respectfully
acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of this date, which is enclosed. In
reply to the propositions numbered
from one to eight inclusive, beg to
say that it is my daily aim to furnish
such information to the readers of the
Star. But l think there is room for
improvement. look upon the Cham
Der of Commerce of Los Angeles as
the most important body in our midst,
and am ready to publish any and all
news and information that may be
suggested from that source as best cal
culated to enhance the consolidated
interests of this city and county. l
know of no terms to impose, except
that am ready to contribute toward
the payment for any and all news
furnished by the Chamber of Com
merce exclusively.
In reply to the last proposition, am
constrained to say that have no time
to collate matter for telegraphic trans
mission. If you will permit me to
suggest in this connection, think that
you could get one of the operators to
collate from the three dailies the
cream of commercial and other news
of moment for about two dollars per
week. I am willing to give him in
formation and let him see my proofs
each night before publication.
If the Chamber of Commerce wishes
to send any of my papers to other
Chambers, or to hotels in our State
and in the East, it may do so by pay
ing about the cost of white paper,
wrapper, etc.--the Duily Star for $5
per year and the Weekly Star for 81 so
per year.
. l am, Gentlemen, very respectfully
your Obedient servant,
~ BEN G. TRUMAN.
From this it will be seen that the
Star says, ~ am constrained to say
that have no time to cOllate matter
for telegraphic transmission" He
suggests however that 1t can be hired
for about So per week, which is $lO4
per annum. The supposition that any
person can be hired to feed pigs for
this sum, is highly absurd, far more
so when collating dispatches is the
duty involved, which requires skilled
labor. ,..
The HERALD made the following
answer: tF9s~ W t'A~ ~@@
.rf4 ~ : HERALD OFFICE, iEf1f
Los Angeles, Oct. %, 1873.
To M. J. Newmark, ESQ.,, Chm'n OF
Committee on Newspapers:--Sir-- Your
communication in regard to publish
ing statistics has been received. In