Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-24
A GREAT NEWS SERVICE Promised Readers of the Age
 Herald From the West. TUE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Will Furnish News From the Pacific Coast. What Its Readers Think of the Ser
 vice From the East.

fishes the following in it's local columns this morning. The acquisition of the United Press service and the setting in
 motion of the second giant quadrupleX Hoe press by the Call, as announced last Friday, are features of newspaper prog ress and advancement that are attract ing the attention of newspaper readers all over the city and the Pacific slope. In the past two days many generous eX- pressiens of depreciation have been heard l in this city, and they are such words as prove that the readers of the Call are | quick to notice any improvement in a l newspaper that strives to give them the | best possible service, both in quality of the news and speed in serving its pa l irons. This addition to the already eX- l tensiYe news service and the doubling or I the capacity and speed in turning out | the Call have been the natural result of l a very liberal patronage by the people, | who have come to demand newspaper | devoted to their interest. The two presses
 now in operation are capable of turning | out 5000 eight page papers an hour, or | 4S000 sixteen page papers, so that the | increased number of subscribers may
 now be served as quickly as are the old 1 patrons of the Call.
 The added telegraphic service is dis | tinctive feature, and embraces the same
 sources of news getting as the New Hork | Sun, Herald. Tribune and Times the big | four of the eastern press, these papers | being the sponsors for the United Press.
 These four papers present each day | the most essential news features Of the world, and the Call, in its acquisition | of the United Press service, is placed on | an equal footing with the Big Four in the matter of securing the very cream of tha news of the world. And in this way the | Call is enabled to furnish news ser | x-iCo Ari, f1 of | on the Pacific slope.
 At the city hall Fridays Call was | genuine surprise. In journalistic enter | prise it is nine days wonder, and the | expressions of approval were kind and | unstinted. Among the federal officials
 the new paper, with it's improved tele- | graphic service, caused a good deal of | comment.
 50 the Call has broken away from the
 traditions of the daily press and is now
 seeking the news through new chan
 nels,'' said Deputy Postmaster | Doyle. Judging from yesterdays and
 today's issues the venture is a success,
 and the United Press is to be congratu-
 lated for the manner in which it is filling | the bill Candidly, l think the change,
 from news standpoint, is an improve
 ment, and the foreign and eastern news | in the Call is better than ever. 1 am not ] a republican, but take the Call regularly.
 and I am glad to see that it is improving l rapidly"
 ''The Calls telegraphic news is better
 than ever" said Collector of the Port | John s. Wise During my perusal I | have noted many telegraphic items that | I have. not seen in the other papers. l | think with the increased telegraphic fla | eilities which the United Press will give
 the Call it will distance it's contempor- | aries in foreign and domestic news"
 "The Call is a great paper" said Dep
 uty Collector of Internal Revenue Louis T.
 ined to get out of the rut at any cost,
 and there can be no question that he
 is turning out a live paper. l like the | United Press telegrams. There is snap l in them that carries conviction, and the details help out the story wonderfully. l take great interest in the paper, and l am glad to see it pushing ahead.'
 On change and along the city front
 the new departure of the Call was favor
 ably commented upon, its appearance
 having attracted attention everywhere. Shipping men were quick to notice the | improvement and. to appreciate good l thing.
 "The Call is up to date" said A. E. | Pryor of the Piper-Alden- -Goodall com | pany, "and think they have made an-
 other move in the right direction. l | have noticed with great interest the
 steady march of improvement in the
 paper, and it's standing today is another | proof of what energy, enterprise and l good management will do.'
 That's a great paper,' commented | Harbor Commissioner Chadbourne. The | Call has been publishing the news right | along--ali the neWS-and has been a | shade ahead of it's competitors on
 local matters; and with combination like the one it has made it ought to be | the greatest newspaper on the coast.
 There is nothing like pluck and enter
 prise in the newspaper business.
 "The Call has been printing more Pa | .;G nrt OU l coast" said c. c. Bruce of Bruce, Pownee l Co, and with the New York Herald. | Sun, Times and Tribune to draw from
 for the news of the world, l should im- | agine in a very short time it would be | right in the front ranks of journalism
 in the United States. Its reputation for local news is already established"
 'I have maintained right along that the Call was the peer. if not the superior, of any paper published in San Francis | CO.," was the comment of Commissioner Cole. Tt gives the news in just the | shape that the business men want it. ! and, to my mind one of it's greatest | qualifications is it's cleanliness. It is a l great stroke of enterprise and the paper | is entitled te the success which will l surely crown it's efforts"
 | "I am glad the Call is taking the | United Press dispatches" said Congress- | man Samuel c. Hiborn," as we shall
 now get all the news all the time. If | the Call keeps up it's improvement in | news gathering facilities and advances | as rapidly in ideas it will become the | great leader of the Western Press. It's | improved service since the new manage l ment took hold indicates generous de- | votion to the Pacific coast in winning | friends for its daily"
 The Call prints eritorially this morn | ing:
 Tn entering into an alliance with the l United Press the Call has placed itself in | a position to be of larger service than | ever not only to its readers. but to the | whole of the vast region known as the greater west This results from the fact | that it will furnish news to all the papers l connected with that great organization, | as well as receive it from them, and thereby obtain the publications of the