Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-06-11

TELEPHONE JOURNALISM.
An Alleged Edit1r who Spouts tho News
to Hts Subscribers.

A dlsuatch from Buda-Pest says: The
capital OF Hungary, where | am now
spending few DAYS. has distinguished
Itself among the CITIES OF tie globe hy "1-
tablshlng a telephone newspaper. winch
has now been IN existence some moutbS
and is extending It's plans and
homes. The Or',p'1l Herjpr If this
CITY for Auril 30th gives a long account
of what this novel enterprise has done and
nav DO, which am sure viii interest my
readers. The whole city OF 500, 0H people
az large as Boston laud, lmnv add, quite "a
handsome and bcttor served with street.
railways. Is divided into eight sections Tor
the purposes of tins telephone editor. and
each of the sections has one cOnductlH&
wIrc. The apparatus IN each house occu-
pips n space of about hvc inches square
and has two tubes 50 that two members Of
TIE family can get the news at once. Inc
whole cost Of putting II IN Is g, ard each
subscriber pays a rate Of 90 cent, month
for the special newspaper service.
The news-cOllcctor does his work in the
night, as elsewhere, and at 4. Vi. he
takes his post III tho central station and
bpalus TO tell his story in tclCgraDhlc
styie. summary and precise, avoiding
everything superi|UOus.' At the end OF
five minutes, fearing lest some of ms sub
scrlbers NAV not have heard everything,
ne repeats his budget Of news, word for
word mostly concerning homo events
and news Of hungary. At ~ O'Clock
he issues another oral edition, tins timb
of foreign news. AtIi o'clock he lets Is
know that TIE Hungarian Parliament Is IN
session and may mention what i boinS de-
hated. Bnt word mas also come % riot,
and 10y noon the alarmed subscriber may
hear that the populace have attacked tae
police and been fired upon. lhls, we VIII
say. causes stocks 10 fail > per cont. I'm
medIafely the Wise subscriber rushes 10
his own telephone and gives his broker an
order 10 buy. Al o'clock the central edl-
tor rings furlOusly and reports violent
debate in Parliament, which loads TO "a
change of the Ministry. At 3 O'Clock there
Is a fire in a building of which the sub
scribcr Is part OWner-and So II goes On.
IAN this news" says my author. " Is re-
lated III q sOnOrOus voice, easily under
stood-an1, rs there Is only one wire. the
surscriber Is not vcXed with the hubbub
of twenty voices trying TO use the same
wire 1t once. soil. II - little iauculne
to yet your news IN such slices instead OF
having Il all IN your hand ~ once. 20 Il
continue 10 quote at O'Clock ne
can take rest chat Is, the
subscriber cam. and madam, his
wife, comes forward to hear the report u
IA lecture at the academy; perhaps the
rcneiinon, with all due emphasis, Of new
poem. AZ { q tlbNA LIZ pAiie AhNNANo A''NN'A
TO a concert through the IcteDR0'Ic Gdze1c J;
they can distinguish wonderfully we'll the
Touching pa,hos Of the violonceilo. the
pearlv SaccG.oS Of the violin. the sweet
melodies Of the hute, and the enchanting
voice Of the prima donna." What co1ld
be more delightful and convenient!
All this. am assured, Is daily going on
in BUDAPEST. Nay more by tho aid OF a
single wire OF the State telegraph line our
,ontrol citation has been connected stimuli
taneouslv with the telephone stations OF
Vienna, Graft. Brunn, and Trieste, and IN
all those cities the voice of the Gdzeiie' 5
editor has been heard clear, sonorous,
and with every shade of information"
+. Il. SASBoRS.