The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-08-07

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asake as.l .irsi,si5ou. EEeI.srten-
4 hizo-- s. ops would form avery
..ooi I,istsfvol Journalism from the time
se9s.a,.srs sirst i.-,sln 70 ie issued. one
# tlse rnzt scati,s 0f history Ezs a pre-
lss1i8n. The pasiieulars II this szop
an. - hss.arlasl fiizl they can be iound
Il .Eins.ase-s History o. She Crimean
war. The London Times predicted the
faale 81 Alma X called the battle fhat
l,aa 5sgt set leca fought ~ the rsaiae il
isas ia-en kao,i in history. II pointed
CIT where il svould ~ foIciss and pointed
o.sf ri-as sxss,il be tiie result Inls re-
siarrsi.le f,r,slictioa MAS verified neFery
rartieiiar. and. ai.hOueh The Times
afterwards Kept ca The predicting busi-
ns.s a. q the fan Of Sebastopoi. nome II
is o.iser p1c1ictious came true. Th;s
shows fBa beaufg of stopping predicting
eien sou have eiade one big success
4 scnen which involved a good deal Of
personal dzrgeT waa accomplished few
wears ago by the correspondent Of The
New York Tune, ia London Mr- Harold
Frederic ~eat tlirousls the clioierss sinit-
ten districts u France and Spain. and
called a rage 70 his paper. giving an ac-
curate history % the plague, and show
iu. for the first time what was 10 be
feared from the cholera epidemic and
what was not in fact, it gave people
FOR the first tiaae an accurate estimate Of
the situation
when the Prince Of Wales visited
America The New York Herald man got
q scoop on ali his esteemed contempora-
ries bv holding q wire agslinst all cOmers-
This was q Niagara Falls and there was
but one wire at filaf time - New York
The Herald reporter started sending Ia
his message. ans. until he had finished,
none Of tie other men could send in
theirs he te.i,grapilei every mortal
th.ng that be couii Think of, described
AZ the salts the Prince of Wales wore
and what the Duke Of Newcastle said and
did. and what every membsr Of the suite
Thought and were likely to think about,
and finally be lad to fall Saek on the
only book available, copy Of the New
Testament, most 81 which was tele-
crapiel 70 The Herald in New York.
By the time he had finished with the
volume il was then too late for any of
the other newspaper men 70 send IN
special. II the Ilen in The Herald Office
rad all the dispatches that came ia from
the New Testament. the big sum Of
money paid Tor the telegraph bill would
not have been altogether wasted
u. Quad. in his younger days. char
tersd a locomotive 70 bring IN the gov
ernors message 70 The Detroit Free
Press. He had wild ride against time,
and not only delivered the message in
good share, but wrote an account Of the
affair which. it is not too much 70 say.
was infinitely more interesting and very
much uorc widely read than was the
message of which he was the carrier.
In Z recent issue Of an American maya
zine. 5lr. Blowi-z. the Paris correspon-
dent of The London Times. gives q very
Interesting account Of how he scooped
al his esteemed contemporaries by tele-
graphing 70 London 4 copy of the Berlin
treaty. Not the least difficulty which he
Lad to overcome was the getting Of
permit to send by telegraph the matter
which be had the good luck and good
management 70 secure. he had 10 get
into Belgium TO DO it. and even then he
had 10 have an order from . very high
authority or Otherwise his message would
not have been taken.
IL America the only trouble that corre-
spondents have is 10 get the news. Once
they have that. there is no doubt absut
il being telegraphed- In Europe the
correspondents have another difficulty
70 contend with. and that is. even after
they have their special information. and
after they hand il in 10 the telegraph
Office. il Is sometimes not sent. During
the troublesome times in Spain awhile
eco. newspaper correspondent found
that 10 matter what information he man
aged to get It was never forwarded from
the Spanish telegraph office. The gov
ernment Of the day took care that no
news that it did not wish to go abroad
should be sent. This correspondent then
wro:e 10 his friead in London that when
he received the next dispatch he was TO
count every ff.h word and cable only
every fifth word 10 New York. He wrote
his dispatches after that on this principle.
Whenever be got q good piece Of news
he telegraphed a 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 botherins him at that time. but
when every fifth word was taken cut it
gave the news he wanted 10 send. This
the Spanish people never got ION TO"
and 50 the correspondent secured many
scoops Tor his per.-Dctroit Free Press