Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-17
1rLrpAoNlo JOURNALISM.
rhe Alleged Editor IN Buda-fes,h who
s,outs the News to Ills Subscribers.

r,a Aucre,l Editor In Buda-Pesth Wit
| sn,nts the News 10 Ills Subscribers.
The capital OF Hungary, where am nov
.nendiug "A few days, has distinguished IL
self among the cities Of the globe by estab
fishing n telephone newspaper, when ma
| ro,v heen in existence some months and u
extending its plans and hopes The orlen
| tal Review OF this city gives long account
of what this novel enterprise has done ano
may do which am sure VIII interest my
readers. The whole city OF 5o0,Oo0 people
va large as Boston and may add quite rs
handsome and better served with street
railways--is divided into eight sections FOL
the purposes of this telephone editor, and
zach of the sections has one conducting
wire. The apparatus in each house occll
pies a space of about 3 inches square and
has two tubes, so that two members of the
family can get the news at once. The whole
cost OF putting it in is 50, and each sub
scriber pays rate of 90 cents u month for
the special newspaper service.
The news collector does his work in the
night. MS elsewhere and at a. IN. he takes
his post in the central station and begins to
tell his story "in telegrapbic style, sum
mary and precise, avoiding everything SUI
perfiuous" At the end of five minutes,
fearing lest some of his subscribers may
not have heard everything, he repeats his
budget of news, word for word--mostly
concerning home events and news of Hun
gary. AT 10 o'clock he issues another oral
edition, this time of foreign news. AT III
o'clock he let's us know that the Hungarian
parliament is in session and may mention
what is being debated. But word may also
come of Il riot, and by noon the alarmed
subscriber may hear that the populace have
attacked the police and been fired upon
This, we will say, causes stocks to fall 5
per cent. Immediately the wise subscriber
rushes to his own telephone and gives his
broker HI order to buy. At 2 O'Clock the
central editor rings furiously and reports Il
violent debate in parliament which leads
to Il change OF the ministry. At 3 o'clock
there is fire in building of which the
subscriber is part overland so it goes on.
"All this news" says my author, lis re-
lated in a sonorous voice, easily understood
and, us there is only one wire, the sub
scriber is not vexed with the hubbub of 90
voices trying to use the same wire at once
STILL it is "A little fatiguing to get your
news in such slices instead of having it all
in your hand at once. So Il continue to
quote, at 6 O'Clock he can take rest Chat
is, the subscriber CAM, and madame, his
wife, comes forward to hear the report of
lecture at the academy; perhaps the repeti-
ton, with all due emphasis, of new poem.
At O'Clock the young ladies listen to
concert through The Telephone Gazette
They can distinguish wonderfully well the
touching pathos of the violoncello, the
pearly staccatos of the VIOLIN the sweet
of the flute and the enchanting
voice of the prima donna" What could be
more delightful and convenient?
All this, am assured, is daily going on
in Buda-Pesth. Nay more, "by the aid of
single wire of the State telegraph line our
central station has been connected stimuli
with the telephone stations of
Vienna, Gratz, Brunn and Trieste and in
all those cities the voice of The Gazette's
editor has been heard-clear, sonorous and
with every shade of information. "-Bucla- |
Pesth Cor. Boston Advertiser.