The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-04
Alertness in Journalism

When the New York Herald sent
Stanley to find Livingstone, it begana
new movement in journalism. Instead
of simply recording events, the great
journals strove to make events. in order
to describe them. The. London Tele-s -
graph sent an archnologist, Georges
Smith, to Mesopotamia to find the
buried records OF The Assvtian En-
pire. - s1 p hGi .&5s ttE ~ t5'S'
Naresfexpedition to the Arctic sregi-e
ons was accompanied by the Pandora,s ~
a little vessel fitted out BY two London
journals. They put on board a, special,
correspondent, with orders to erieetain
for them all the information he might
collect. He, thinking that y for once, e.
there was no rival near, kepta journal
which he intended TO publish in tie
two newspapers, he represented, as soon -
as the Pandora returned to port. But
an u~nscrupulois rival journal had put
on board a literary sailor. He aiotted Il
down the details of the voyage, and, as Al
lie had opportunity, transmitted them
to his newspaper When the ''specialp
landed IL, England, he discovereds that ~
his journal was, ancient history.
The race for the first news has been
the occasion for extraordinary Jockey
ing" At an Oxford and Caffbrhste's -
boat-race, one london journal hifeds a Z .
small steamer to follow the competing gI
crews. AS it went along it laid aacable
under water. Through, thisthe special
correspondent transmitted, minute ;,hys5s
minute, the details OF the race, to the
paper, and thereby enabled it to pub -
lish successive editions fifteen minutes !.
in advance of its rivals, ,,l ns,s 80
During the Ashantee, War, the great
London Dailies We're obliged to sethe
cable which ran from the island of Ma
deria to Lisbon, Paris and London. "
Each paper had its representative. at
Funchal, on the island, to whom the
special correspondent with the, army
sent by courier his letters. a%S &fs saF
The strife between tho correspondents
was who should first get possession OF
his letters and thus be the first tosfiles*e
them with! the telegraph operator for.
the transmission OF their contents to S.,
London, Unfortunately, they had ialf 3
failed to allow for one obstruction, atIis IS.
quarantine, whose regulations rreduirsd E
that no letter arriving from Africa
should be delivered Until it had been 81
fumigated. .st,$p IN III,
y The operation required day. or two;
but the correspondents consoled them
selves with the reflection that as it was IA e.,
the common lot, no one could get ahead ~
of his brethren. The representative a
of the Daily News had, however, a.
"happy thought" He went to the fumi-
gator and said,AH ~ Ni524 : ssa9 Il
Il do not mean to ask you to neglect
your duty, and to let me have my let
ters before you have fumigated them I
Ii you will.open the letters addressed j
to me, and hold, with, a pair. Of tongs.
the sheets open SO that Hooking through :
the barred window of the fumisatineE :
room, can glance OF them,,I Willpay i
you handsomely"
The fumigator did rs required; tbs :
representative iotted down the interest
ing items, and the Daily News was the
first OF the London Journals to publish -
- letter from Ashantee $ & .ss . tsysl 4-.A