The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-08
MIR. MORAN HAS A
GIGANTIC SCHEME
Wants to Launch a Novel Newspaper in
New York City.
WILL BE PRINTED FOR BUSY MEN
Intends TO Seek the Aid Of Millionaire
Enterprise Started...IIis Plan
Would Mean q Revolution in JOnr.
naiism. .OutIine of What He
Wants TO DO.

the local newspaper arena as Patsy"
Moran with the accent on the last
syllable) intends to revolutionize news
paperdOm With one Whack from his
vivid imagination. ''rhere'S millions
in it, said Patsy" recently to Trib-
une reporter Then he went on to eN-
plain. He intends to go to New York
city and the first man he wants to
meet is John ID. RgckaGeller. Then Mr.
Moran whl unfold his scheme for print
Ing the greatest newspaper of the CEN
trry and he will ask the New York
millionaire To back the enterprise with
his money. Mr.. Moran will supply the
rest.
'Thr Idea is to create Q. newspaper
which will he a curtailed reproduction
nf all the principal dailes in the world.
issued ON the day in which the other
papers appear only it viii be a few
hours later These few hours will be
necessary 10 obtain and reprint the
news of its contemporaries.
An illustration Of the scheme is this:
The New York Herald is isued ut
O'Clock Il. m.: the Herald editor" of
the Zig Paper will get one of the first
copies run off the Herald press. This
he will take to his office and with sc!s-
sors ana pencil, glue and discretion
will rob the Herald of its best news
items and few hours afterward-say
: o'clock the Big Paper will come out
with the llerald's own stories, printed
after careful curtailnent. The sun
editor of the Big Paper will also ana
at the same time as the Herald man"
take one of the freshest prints from the
Sun press and he, likewise. will clip
and curtail it's principal news items.
And the "World editor" the "Adver-
tiser man" and all the other fellows
will at the same time be attending
to their individual assignments in the
same way.
BUSINESS MANS PAPER.
Result: The Big Paper will cone
cut in time for the business mans
breakfast and it will contain the gist
of all that's contained in the other
papers and at Il price as low as any of
them. More than this, the Big Paper
will also give the leading and most
important editorial utterances of its
contemporaries. If the Sun calls Cleve-
land "a tin god" the Big Paper will
echo "a tin god" and it's readers will
know what Dana said almost as soon
as Dana himself said it, The Herald
may have Il forcihe argument on the
silver question. This the Rig Paper
will gobble up ana the Herald's thun-
Il, ,,.iI
tum soon after the Herald attempted
to thunder.
But the end is not yet The stock
market quotations from the New York
dailies will be reprinted in parallel col
umns in the Big Paper
II the Herald says "l20la" and the
World "122" the Big Paper will tell the
stock gambler how the papers differ and
he can place his money accordingly.
Moreover If the Herald prints the same
news Item as It's contemporary. The
Tribune: and If in that item both papers
vary in some statements, the Big i'aper
will note the incongruity. An item of
this sort would appear in the Big Paper
somewhat as follows: "rhe Herald
says that Mrs John Jones, of Third ave-
nue., fell fifty feet. CTribune 20 feet and
she was killed by forceful contract with
an iron fence CTribune says Sc did not
ana was not killed.. So the Big Paper
will have lots of fun and can show
up the reliability" of its daily news
market. Certainly there are not many
people. in New York who care whether
Mrs. Jones struck the fence or "a Bow
cry policeman, but this is for ilustra-
tiOn only.
The Big Paper will go farther. The
Times Herald, away off in Chicago will
also be regularly quoted. This is pos
sible by the use of special telegraph
direct wire from the Windy city to the
Big PAPERS office.
A CHICAGO EDITOR.
To do this it will be necessary to have
Times Herald editor at Chicago, He
Will act as do his scissors brethren in
New York. Every other paper .in the
world says Patsy" will receive SINH
lar attention If its prestige and inhu-
ence warrants the notice.
u u pt IL great IN tnat BIG
Papers office between the hours of 4
and 3. Everything hustling: machines
clicking. devils" lifting, and the voice
of the Editor in Chief bawling out: "Is
The Times Herald in?" or, whats the
Matter with Dana?" "Where's Pulit-
2er.'' and the like.
Then when the papers are falling
from. the scores Of presses and the
myriad of news boys are streaming from
the great basement. and the click of
the linotypes Is stilled. and the wearied
editors" are gone home. then the busi-
ness man will be rubbing his eyes and
yelling like mad for the "only paper ON
EARTH" as Patsy" says. When he gets
ii he feasts upon the worlds thoughts
and worlds sensatiuns-all for two
cents.
Yes, Patsy" will print original news
also. He will have all the local news in