The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-01
A METROPOLITAN PAPER.
sae Eagle With Its Own Wire ana the
Associated Press Report in Full.

other daily paper Of the state contains SO
mary features and characteristics OF tne
metropolitan journal. That this has oeen
true Of the EAGLE ever since its first ap-
nearance as a daily no one familiar with
the status of the various publications.
in the west will deny. Ihe
EAGLES field, if more remote and less
nccessibles to the over-crowded competi-
,ion of the older centers of the state. has
had an imneasurably wider and more de-
sirable field.
Its patrons. however, will be interested
IN knowing that the news service OF the
EAGLE henceforth is to be vastly enlarged
and very materially improved, in brief
that its columns will from this time on te
served with the full wire and cable news
of the Associated Press reports of Europe
and America.
The domestic news of this continent,
up to within few months ago, was inter-
changeably handled by a number of press
associations in connection with the West
ern Union Telegraph company. The
EAGLE was q member of the Kansas and
Missouri association, an adjunct of the
Western Press. These associations were IN
fact corporations. organized not for
money profit but for gathering and dis
tributing the news of the world at the low
est possible cost to the members.
At the time referred to a consolidation
under a single management was affected,
in an effort for self-pressrvation against
threatened stock and dividend monopoly
with the headquarters in New York City.
To the new organization the name Of "The
Associated Press" was given and Mr.. Mel
VILE Z. Stone of Chicago, one of the bright
est business men Of the country, was
chosen general manager who immediate
ly proceeded to Europe where he
consummated arrangements and contracts
with the English, French, German and
other press and intelligence bureaus and
companies for all old world news. The
EAGLE, being q member of the Kansas and
Missouri Press, of which the Western
Press was the parent, was notified of its
opportunity for the enlarged service, but
owing to hitch in the circuit line. or
transmitting wires, existing between
the telegraph and railroad companies
lnder previous contract. the matter of
the EAGLES service was postponed from
month to month, it in the meanwhile being
supplied by the Kansas and Missouri
Press agents.
All difficulties having been finally ad-
justed by the EAGLE leasing a wire con-
nected with the full report circuit, one
end of which is now anchored in the EAGLE
office. with an expert press operator at the
instrument, the news of the whole world is
put at our disposal from which to select. or
to run in full, as the interest and demands |
of our readers may be best served. They |
are now assured that nothing of import
ance can happen, anywhere, and they not |
know it fully and promptly. One |
noticeable and valuable feature will |
prove especially acceptable to all the |
business men OF every town and city |
throughout South Kansas and Oklahoma.
We refer to the markets. From the full |
reports, from everywhere, will be culled |
every quotation which can in any
way interest the business men of the great
southwest who hereafter will not be COM
PEELED to await the arrival Of papers from |
distant cities to know what the ruling
figures are.
Our readers. of course. will understand |
that this means an additional expense of |
several thousand dollars annually to the
EAGLE. but our faith in the great field |
that lies all about US and in the |
enterprise Of the men who have come to |
occupyit, linked to the knowledge that |
they cannot afford. nor will they wait for
that which they can have just as well |
twenty-tour hours sooner. we confidently |
solicit their good will and support in an
enterprise which, while in one sense may |
be private yet which after all is more pub
lie one, in that it not only seeks to guard
and defend all their public concerns, but
which the more closely links all their en-
terprises, present interests and future pros |
poets, with the great centers of the world |
With corps Of bright writers and wide |
awake news gatherers and reporters, sup
plemented by special correspondents To-
Gated at every town and city in South |
Kansas and Oklahoma: equipped with the |
finest, most costly and rapid perfectipg |
press ever set mp west of the Missouri |
river, morning mail trains moving |
out on every line of railway that |
directly or by close connections reaches /
this city, the EAGLE, as the old and |
long-tried champion of all the interests |
and enterprises of the Great Southwest
now, with its new and enhanced wire
service. aud consequently increased power
and Importance, confidently looks forward
TO new victories and brighter material
achievements for itself and its thousands
of patrons.