The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-20

bumped or two-humped camel and brought
back in his note books wealth Of actual OBJ
servatios and correct history Of the animal.
The 70 atile Frenchman FASTENED TO a public
library consulted Cuvier and several ency-
clope1ias and prepared Il brilliant and grace.
full essay. The speculative German holding
both these methods in equal contempt be-
took himself to meditation and evolved tho
camel out of the depths of his own conscious
ness. 1t is easy to see which one Of these
three was the real Contributor to scientific
knowledge and historical truth. So il is
with journalism.
Having furnished you with the gradual
| general growth of the newspaper, it may not
be inappropriate TO refer particularly to tie
progressive development of It's
NEWS, GATHERING FEATURE.
In the early part of this century, and just
after our war, when our commerce with
Europe was becoming important and wien
| the events with our Trans Atlantic neighbors
Were of stirring moment, the chief ieHLure of
our news papers was that of foreign inteli-
gence. AT that time the Advertiser and the
Gazette were tie live dalies OF New York
City. 1t was about the year 1873 that
Jo'eph Lang of the latter paper, originated
the idea of anticipating this all important
news from across the ocean by cruising in "a
fast yacht and first meeting the inward bound
vessels Vheidea spread and competition being
strong between the Advertiser, the Gazette,
the Journal of CONNIE rec and the Courier
and enquirer, these papers conceived the
plan of obtaining this sort Of news from
incoming
PACKET SHIPS
so that in 1881 the Courier and Enquirer
commenced the reportingaofit in a systematic
manner, having expended some twenty-five
thousand dollars, which WAS large sum in
.hosc days for the purpose The COMPETE
uon became so strong and the expense so
great because of the rivalry thus begotten,
the various papers concluded to form an as
ISOLATION in the interest of all. They en-
ployed two dispatch boats at the general
cost, instead of the ten or dozen schooners
which they had individually paid before. Six
or seven years later, steamships having super
ceded sailing vessels as mail carriers, Moses Y.
Beach, of the Sun, chartered steamboat TO
intercept the expected steamships. The OPP
position between the enterprising papers
was so severely expensive between 1888 and
lS47, that the Journal OF Commerce, the
Courier and Enquirer, the Express, the Sun
and the Herald combining and cooperating
estabhshc: n system of news-gathering un-
der the ection OF what was then termed
and has ever since been known a.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The Association began its work BY the in
PRODUCTION of telegraph lines between all
the then important points in the country.
Its iSpo uttorurar 1s fapJa1 20 oil
tions of the country by companies organized
by private capital and under the auspices of
the association.
Events followed one another in rapid sue. |
cession. the appetite for news growing BY
what it fed on so that the Associated Press
found it advantageous to extend the area of
its operations not only to all the cities of the
United States, but to all the leading ones of
Europe. The arrangement effected for this
purpose was, that upon the departure of each
steamer from Liverpool cylindrical cans,
containing the latest news written on tissue
paper, we're haided to the purser of the yes-
sci for Transmission to Halifax, St.
Johns, Quebec or Portland. Upon the
appearance of the Associations news boats
stationed off those ports the cans were thrown
overheard. AT Sandy Hook
CARRIER PIGEONS
we're for some time employed, the ips OF
tissue paper being listened to the p,rds,
which, upon being released, winged their
way directly to New York. Instances, how
ever, frequently occurred Of the news being
published in the New Orleans papers before |
the steamer reached her berth in New York |
This was the origin of the row thoroughly |
systematized Associated Press, which TODAY
keeps the wires busy with the news of every
thing of Importance that hourly transpres
throughout the globe How different
from the time and the plans when
each paper had to send its special express
with reporter and corps of printers with
pnts of type to the place where some great
ipeech or event was expected to be delivered
or to take place, and there to write it out and
set It up before the wagon or the steamboat
reached the city. And yet how compare.
lively small in the matter of dollars and
tents appears to us now the outlay of few
numbered dollars when we contrast it with
that expanded by some of our enterprising
that have cablegrams sent
hem from across the Atlantic, containing
'oLumn or more of gossippy letters and often
several columns containing descriptions even
=. '"Nu nu alialt us concert
,iven at Westminster Abbey, where
very detail of the programme is made
,Ialn to the reader, at cost of nearly a
lollar per line.
This with the other advances that have
oeen mace, tempts the mind to indulge in
he
POSSIBILITIES OF THE FUTURE
IT the newspaper Every hour we see i'm
'rovements in all its branches. To-day we
go presses, each turning out mammoth | {
heets, at the rate of 500 per minute or go. ]
upper hour, from roll of white paper !
hat Is cut at the right place, the forms being ,
tereotyped and the fresh damp paper I
landed as it is printed to the machine that
olds it ready for the mailing clerk as rapidly
Nth his machine for the addressing. What
Improvements may yet be made in even this r
ranch alone, not even the widest specula- !
ion can assume to prophecy. The inventive !
enius of humanity seems to have no bounds. :
eeesslty ever spurs 1t to effort, and the eff i
,rt is ever achieving ~
SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING GRANpER
nan has ever played in the role of the mast.
Already has the scientific mind ofcunninp
ian persuaded the electric fluid to descend A
ON its aerial domain and do his bidding be- n
eath oid oceans waters; already has It en- v
ced the sand OF the earth to be chrystalized c
10 the glass that reveals some secrets from
70 starry dome; already have the gentle dews 4
heaven been converted into that breath of i
cam which energies the nerves
steel to set in motion