Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13
GATHERING THE RETURNS.
Remarkable Newspaper Feat--CompIete
Vote of the state Printed in every
Evening" Within 20 Hours of the Polls
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| Remarkable Newspaper Feat--Complete
Vote of the state Printed in "Every
Evening" Within 20 Hours of the Polls
| Closing.
From Every Evening of Saturday.
This paper on Wednesday last presented
in the third edition Of its eight-page
election number the entire vote Of
| Delaware, and this important news was III
| the hands Of It's thousands Of readers
within ~ hours after the closing of the
polls. Probably only those who have ever
had to do with election returns, their de-
lays and immense uncertainty, can appre-
ciate the magnituacnl the undertaking so
successfully carried out for the benefit of
the public.
In the first place every possible precau-
ton was exercised to guard against the
failure of any part of the plans. Two
weeks before the election an EVERY EVEN
ING representative visited every polling
place in The State, and engaged the services
of man to visit each poll, remain from
lis time of closing until the vote was
counted and registered. He was TO get n
correct copy Of the tally list totals, make a
duplicate of the same, One was to be at
once enclosed in an envelope and deposited
in the nearest post-ottice and the other
despatched by wire from the nearest
telegraph station. Very MANY places
in Kent and Sussex counties are remote
from either mail or telegraph wire, and to
carry out these instructions entailed long
ride in the middle of the night to the tele-
graph office, which had been kept open.
In many instances where the vote was
large long tedious wait in the cold was
necessitated before the hasty ride could be
begun. From every polling place in the
two lower counties the detailed result was
sent EVERY EVENING by wire the aggre-
gate dispatch service running up into the
ff INV In
cost.
In this county the same means were EN-
ployed. except in some contiguous hun
dreds it was necessary to dispatch some
one to each polling place by horse in order
to avoid delay.
The returns were promptly bulletined
and at once put into type, later to be verl-
fled by the duplicate copies sent by mail, a
preeaution taken to guard against e%ors in
transmission by wire,
AT each poll in this city a young man
waited until the count was over to bring
the result to this office and many of the
yigils lasted through the night. A large
force Of compositors were waiting, ready
to put the result in type.
The Postal and Western Union tele-
graphic service We're momentarily flashing
election news from every quarter Of the
United States and with this double service
the story of the great Democratic tidal
wave was made known to the thousands
who read EVERY EVENINGS bulletins.
But the greater of the two achievements
by far was the remarkably short time in
which EVERY EVENING gathered the state
returns, The undertaking in this State,
with a limited telegraphic service, has
! heretofore been considered animpossihility
and though attempted once or twice it had
always failed. EVERY EVENING spared
neither time nor expense, and taking ad-
vantage Of every possible facility. accom-
plisheGl the most difficult task The cleo
lion was an event which interested every
person in Delaware. and everyone was
anxious to know the result and naturally
! looked to this paper 70 accomplish what
seemed an impossibilitY. No newspaper
had ever performed this service before and
to lead inthe work and the hearty apprecia-
gion the achievement met with, was a
tratifving reward
EVERY EVENINGS fast perfecting press,
printing eight pages with every impress
sion, was Kept running until after dark
supplying the demand for papers. After
the press had been stopped, the supply Of
papers were soon exhausted, and it was
necessary to set it going again. The
papers poured from the press in contin-
uols stream, but the demand seemed un-
abating, and il was long into the night be-
fore the news-hungry patrons We're salts
fled. 1t is safe to say that the number of
EVERY EVENINGS printed and sold on
Wednesday surpassed the sale of all other
newspapers-loca Philadelphia and New
York-in this city combined.