New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-26
BRITISH TOPICS.
ENGLISH JOURNALISM.

DON f-CHEAP BUT INFERIOR TELEGRPhS eE'-
VICE IN ENGIAND-NEwsPAPER IMPROVEMENTS
MOVEMENTS or AMERICAN JOURNALISTS
,yRox THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF rHE rRIpuSE'I
Ioxnox Sent. 8-Of the curious views which
o,oe people who might know better entertain about
journalism, a specimen has just turned up. ma
in an important periodical two references TO the re-
nort of Prof. Tyndalps address. 1t is described as
occupving eight and half columns of The Times,
and every word of it, are told was transmitted
NV telegraph at an immense cost to the leading
,ournalD The telegraphic dispatch is again men
,;oned in the same periodical "one of the latest
vonders of journalism the cost of which, it Is mani
tost mnst have been enormous" IquOte from The
publishers' Circular which, concerning itself with
practical matters touching literature of all sorts,
might TO be better informed about the literature OF
journalism and the expenses of putting 1t IN shape
20 be read. There is something ludicrous in the
notion Of enterprise and expenditure in getting Prof.
TyndaPs address Whether the address was tele-
graphed at all may be doubted. 1t was In type IN
London some days before the meeting of the Assocl
alton in Belfast. That copies were deposited with
the principal journals of London may be inferred
from the fact that evening paper published ex-
tracts from the address some hours before il was de-
lvered II would be odd If no copy were sent to
The Times Office OF if their Belfast correspondent
did not know that one had been sent and so treated
them TO telegraphic copy. Even in the latter case
the EXPENSE would not cripple the paper. The ac-
tual cost which The Publishers Circular speaks of
Immense" and enormous" would be about nine
pounds sterling or $50 in currency. believe have
explained before that the English press gets its tee
Graphing done at very cheap rates. The ordinary
rate for telegram between any two places IN the
kingdom is one shilling for twenty words addresses
free When the Government took over the telegraphs
.elause was put into the act securing to the news
sapers the privilege of receiving one hundred words
5or one shilling. That is the price they now pay
In q Times column of solid miniOn there are about
21OO words. If telegTaphed. the column comes as
nearly as possible to S. Thisis rather less than the
s2.lOO gold we should have the pleasure of paving
the Anglo-American Company for the same quantity
Of matter.
II is remarkable that the London papers, notwith-
standing the cheapness of the inland telegraph, do
not use II freely One may be the inaccuracy
of il. though special efforts are made to do good
work for the papers The meeting of the British As
ISOLATION Is more fully reported by telegraph than
most Others and statement about it, either Official
OF from official sources, has been published. The
whole number Of words transmitted during its SIX
DAYS session to the English IIish and Scotch press
was 10000 The cost is mentiOned-that wouldre-
duce the importance of the event too much-but the
sum which the newspapers of the whole United
Kingdom paid was little over Goo. should say
that The Northern Bbjg of Belfast spent just about
the same amount for IT'S extra reporting. The Post
Office desires 10 have it understood that some OF the
wires between England and Ireland are out of order.
There are % in ALL contained in four cables and
seven ont Of the p were under repair. The remain
ing Is were asked to transmit the busiest night
o. the meeting 900 wOrds-and failed. The official
account remarks that some pOrtiOn-it does not say
how much-Of the matter telegTaphed was "neces-
sarily" too late for publication next morning The
sections adjourned at in the afternoon, the papers
20 10 press at or later next morning and, If the
matter was reasonably handed in, one does not
Quite see the force of the necessarily" Deducting
two wires for the AnglO-American COmpany-of
Of which they have the exclusive use between Lon
don and Valentia-there remain 10 wires, which
were asked on this occasion TO transmit less than
800 words each per hour plus the ordinary business
and necessarily" failed. But the official apologist
for the Department thinks that having regard TO Its
vastly diminished resources" the work was SIN
gulafly well done"
In the same periodical, The Publishers Circular,
appears an account from an unnamed sourcel OF
1.-THE most startling of trade InnOvatiOns-the manu-
facture of new type daily for the use of daily
newsDapers"-as follows:
1T stated as an ascertained fact that by comb
nation OF process Of tvpemakng by machinery WIN
that OF the cOmpositor the Manufacture OF new type
cv for the composor is attended with less cost than
he distribution and resetng OF old type into hines Tor
daily printing. The typetounding ring VIII pfoDaoIy
witness therefore, result OF their restrictions on ne
sale Of new type. the singular result that ~ snort lIme
Tie largest purchasers OF type, the publishers OF uaiy
papers Will print type made on their own premises
and renewed every day instead o. on an average once
ayear."
Let fortune favor the bold,' exolaims The Circa-
lar. Perhaps we shall see the old Chinese fashion
- Lob no md nh Solid
From the same anonymous source comes notice OF
q patent "papyrog1aph," a simple cOntrivance,
chiefly chemical, by which any manuscript can be
made TO give OFF IN the common office letter-press,
from 20 to 400 fac-smiles of tselfP This and the
other are now being introduced to the public" and
may, let us hope. prove greater wonders than
The Iimes reports from Belfast. good the latter
were. and at a cost not more enormous" than that
of Prof Tyndalls address by telegraph. AS TO type
making and setting. / suppose no newspaper pub
Usher is satisfied with things they are believes
that great improvements of some kind are not 10 be
expected. In presses, nothing newer and better
than Hoes latest improvements is to be heard OF.
But The Dqily Necs cnging fast to things English,
has Teftted its establishment with Walter presses,
of which it speaks enthusiastically as powerful and
splendidly finished machines. It's satisfaction may
be partly due TO the fact that il is now able to 90 TO
press with both sides of the paper at once. Some
day il viii be a wonder TO all concerned that it
should have endured the old system long. Its
makeup noonvenent to the last degree for its
leader pages printed before the teleaphic and
Parliamentary intelligence was in type. If a start
ling event or great debate occurred it was Obliged
70 postpone discussing them till next day. to print
leader out OF place where ii had a makeshift look
Now that there is no longer any need of IT, il has
transferred its kilograms 10 the fifth page change
which gives to the second and third pages formida-
bly, solid and serious appearance