The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-22
OUR NEWS SERVICE.

BY alliance with The United Press the
CALL has obtained a telegraphic news
service which gives it distinguished and
pre-eminent place in the journalism of the
Pacific Coast. The main business OF a
| newspaper is to obtain all the news, print
it, publish it and circulate it among the
people. This work the CALL, with its two
giant quadruplex presses and its full re-
ports of the news gathered up in all parts
OF the world by the tireless energies of The
United Press, can do more effectively and
more completely than any other journal
on this coast.
1t is in no spirit of boasting we claim the
best news service in the State and the
equal of any in the Union. 1t is the SIM
pie statement of a fact too easily verified
to be disputed. Evan P. Howell, editor of
the Atlanta Constitution and president of
the Southern Associated Press, in congrat-
ulating the CALL upon it's new alliance,
said: Il know whereof I speak when
say the plan you have adopted is the only
safe one, for the Southern Associated Press
tried the one you have abandoned" Here,
then, IS the testimony of one of the oldest
and most successful newspaper managers
In the country, who, having tried both the
rival association and The United Press,
speaks with the authority derived from a
full experience in asserting the superiority
of the latter. Nor does his testimony
stand alone Charles A Dana of the New
Iork San; R. R. Soper, secretary of the
New York State Associated Press; John
II. Holmes, president of the New England
Associated Press, and others in similar
positions in different sections of the coun-
try give evidence essentially the same as
that of Mr.. Howell and amply sustain the
claim that the news service we obtain by
this alliance is superior to any other that
can possibly be had.
1t does not need the testimony of indi-
viduals, however, to prove to any intelli-
gent mind the substantial truth of our
claim, for that truth is made clear by the
well-known facts of the history of the
organization with which we are now allied.
The United Press came into existence
solely because other news-gathering asso-
| Citations were not giving full satisfaction to
their patrons. Such great papers as the
Herald, San, Tribune and Times of New
York and leading journals in other parts
of the country, from New England to the
South, devised the plan of The United
Press for the express purpose of getting a
more satisfactory service. 1t has fiourished
and extended solely because it performed
that which was expected of it, and now
draws into alliance with itself the pro-
gressive and leading dailies of the Nation,
for the reason that its superiority as a
news-gatherer is everywhere recognized.
1t must not be supposed The United
Press confines its energies to this country.
The managers in their offices in New York
City are in close, constant and speedy
communication with all the centers of
European life and with the remote parts
OF the world in Asia, Africa and Australia.
Its able correspondents are everywhere in
cessantly engaged in learning the truth of
every event that occurs of general interest
and telegraphing it to the central office,
whence it is disseminated to papers
in all sections of the Union. In a recent
address, Mr.. Dana estimated the expense
of this elaborate system of news-gathering
at about $4,000 every day. This forms an
enormous sum in the course of year, and
yet the readers Of the CALL get the full re-
suits of all this energy and cost served to
them at the breakfast-table every morning
for few cents.