The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-08-16

ries by holding Il wire against all corners.
This was at Niagara Fails and there was
but one wire at that time to New York.
The Herald reporter started sending in
his message, and, until he had finished,
none of the other men could send in
theirs. He telegraphed every mortal
thing that he could think of, described
all the suits the Prince of Wales wore
and what the Duke OF Newcastle said and
did, and what every member of the suite
thought and were likely to think about,
and finally he had to fall back on the
only book available, copy of the New
Testament, most Of which was teie-
graphed to The Herald in New York.
By the time he had finished with the
volume it was then too late for any of
the other newspaper men to send IN
special If the men in The Herald office
read all the dispatches that came in from
the New Testament, the big sum of
money paid for the telegraph bill would
not have been altogether wasted.
N. Quad, in his younger days, char
tered locomotive to bring in the gov
ernor's message to The Detroit Free
Press. He had wild ride against time,
and not only delivered the message in
good shape, but wrote an account of the
affair which, it is not too much to say,
was infinitely more interesting and very
much more widely read than was the
message of which he was the carrier.
In arecent issue of an American maya
zine, Mr.. Blowitz, the Paris correspon-
dent of The London Times, gives very
interesting account of how he scooped
all his esteemed contemporaries by tele-
graphing to London a copy of the Berlin
treaty. Not the least difficulty which he
had to overcome was the getting of a
permit to send by telegraph the matter
which he had the good luck and good
management to secure. He had to get
into Belgium to do it, and even then he
had to have an order from very high
authority or otherwise his message would
not have been taken.
In America the only trouble that CORE
spondents have is to get the news. Once
they have that, there is no doubt about
its being telegraphed. In Europe the
correspondents have another difficulty
to contend with, and that is, even after
they have their special information, and
after they hand it in to the telegraph
office, it is sometimes not sent. During
the troublesome times III Spain awhile
ago, newspaper correspondent found
that no matter what information he man
aged to get it was never forwarded from
the Spanish telegraph Office. The gov
eminent Of the day took care that 10
news that it did not wish 10 go abroad
should be sent This correspondent then
wrote to his friend in London that when
he received the next dispatch he was to
count every fifth word and cable only
every fifth word 10 New York. He wrote
his dispatches after that On this principle.
Whenever he got a good piece OF news
he telegraphed long rigmarole to his
friend in London, which when read as
it was sent appeared to be a long talk of
financial and domestic troubles which |
were bothering him at that time. but
when every fifth word was taken out it |
gave the news he wanted to send. This |
the Spanish people never got 'on to" |
and so the correspondent secured many |
scoops for his paper.-Detroit Free Press