The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-30
JOUnNALIsTIC ENTERPRISES.

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Address 0H6 }s PAPER CO., Rutland. VI.
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JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE.
In years long gone by there was no such
thing known as enterprise In Journalism.
A newspaper was dull, heavy affair. ana
If information, of Importance, was pub
lisbed within two or three days, or TWO or
three weeks, of its happening, 1t was suiii-
Client. The editor and proprietor did not
propose to spend few dollars, or cents |
even. in obtaining news fresh or promptly, |
hcca,,se there was no particular use in so
,l.inc. What mattered 1t to subscribers,
readers. or the world at large, whether an
important political speech was published
promptly. and on the morning after its de-
livery. or two or three days were suffered
10 clapsc before il was given to the world.
An amusing story, bearing upon this sub
cct, went the rounds of the press two or
three years ago. which is worth recalling.
Before giving the story and making the ap-
plication. IL word or Two, in explanation,
may bc necessary and proper. The Boston
.IOis;.n0l h one of the most enierprising
newspapers in that city, which has SO many
Nidc-awal<c newspapers. and like its CO.
tcnporaries, spares neither brains. money,
labor or pains to obtain the news, from all
quarters. fresh and readable Samuel n.
S,ockwcli. who is somcwha, irreyer-
entity called SAM" in the story,
Is the present editor. If not the
principal proprietor, and has lived
long enough to reap rich pecuniary rewards
from, practical pursuit of the policy he so
mntr.,ly suggested when he was taking his
frs lessons in journalism. He believed
iloii. aS his experience has since demons
iratcd. that the people wanted their news
fresh and n, once. or they did moi want it
p, ail.
But To the story. \ man by the name
Of sleeper was editor good man and true
Int too much like his name in enterprise
aud energy. and, As Hudson says. it ''took
4 hurricane to call him on deck" Samuel
\. Stockwell. its present editor and enter
prising manager, was, as we have said. only
II reporter. and he suggested to Captain
Sleeper" that Daniel Webster was to deliver
great speech, that day, at Brighton only
-omc half dozen miles distant from BOs-
ton and that, with a trifling expense, he
could slip out there, make report of his
speech and produce it in tho Journol of
the ext morning. The story goes on to
report, we quote the, exact words, .Cap-
tain Sleeper. pushing his spcctaclcs back
over his forehead, said, We'll, no, | guess
not, Sam. somebody will send lis in some
thing about it within two or three days. +"
II is not stated whether something about
it, was sent in in two or three DAYS,
whether they copied the report from some
more cntcrprsing newspaper, or conclud-
cd, in the end, to say nothing about il. Mr..
Stockwell must have laughed heartily over
this, among his earlier experiences. in later
XfArsi when he, as manager of the same
vi inc United states and the world, and re-
cciving hourly reports thcrcfrom by tele-
graph, which he, as promptly, furnished to
the reading public by means of extra cdi-
tons. Sitting in his sanctum directing the
management of the Journal. secnp. nil
over the country, evidences of wide awake
Journalism, spending moncy-uot needless
~ or foolishly, however-to obtain the
news prompt, sending his reporters. here
there and everywhere, he, probably. ina
gines that his experience and rebuff is a
thing OF the dead past, and only to be re-
called as an incident showing how little our
fathers believed in the power. capabilities
and duties of the press.
II is not TO be expected in the country
that the daily press can be kept in advance
OF the city press. We have not the men at
our command, as reporters or eompositors
to gather news from all parts of the world,
and put it promptly in type. We cannot.
any OF us, under the most favorable cir
cnmstanccs, command circulation that
would authorize such an outlay. A few
thousand copies of each of our daily and
weekly editions is all that any of us can
hope for. In order to obtain this how
ever, we must display as much energy and
enterprise in gathering the news in our
sphere, as marks the course of our cotem-
poraries with broader field and larger cir
cuiation. We cndeavor, day by day, to
lay before our readers the cream of the
news OF the world and full details of local
events, and we take a pardonable pride in
saying that we believe that we, daily. NJ.
compllsh onr cndcavor. But we are wond-
cring from the story. CAPTAIN Sleenor
ana sam have found their equals. Ave
'hcy were surpassed in Rutland on Fri.
day the 2oth day of August, A. D.. 1873
Our readers know--if the readers of other /
newspapers do not that monument vos
"eulactrd IN Pittsiord, al or near the site of |
old Fort Vengeance, on Thursday; n renort !
OF Which with the historical address ia,
jRH-was published in The GLOBE the NEXT
morning The. enterprise of another sheet
Is evidenced by the following rer5otim re.
port of the historical address:
The address by DIR. A. NJ. Caverly. which
really was the principal one of the ,lay. we
are compelled to defer till to-morrow's is-
sue. we viii attempt no abstract, as the
paper viii be furnished our readers entire
OF course it " will be furnished mr. reod-
rs entire ms it will be copied from The
GLOBE, twcnty-four hours after its appear
lnce therein. If :" Our readers get il all.
we trust that they will be truly grateful,
because az Captain Sleeper said some one
VIII send it along. Our contemporaries are
fortunate. They didn't have to wait three
lays, but, by copying from THE GLOBE,
could get it in two days.
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