The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-09

count Of how the Vigilant won the
third race and the cup, but not the
slightest idea of how I was going to let
Pittsburg and Chicago know even
which boat had won. I filed copies of
the story with the Western Union and
the Postal companies. and then tried
for three hours to make our wires
work. 1t was no use. Chicago was for
all practical purposes further away
than China
cat 1890 o'clock went to the Long
Distance Telephone Office, on Cort-
landt street, and asked E. T. Bonds,
the night chief, if he could get a con-
nection with Chicago. He sent for
Hugh Wallace, the day chief, and for
two hours they worked together in that
Office ringing and halloing like tkun-
Iteration. At II o'clock they got Phila-
delphia and shortly afterward they got
Pittsburg.
They teiephoned to the Pittsburg
operator 10 attach a Morse instrument
to his end of the line and get man to
work it. While he was doing that they
attached a Morse instrument to this
end of the line. 1 had several operators
with me ready to pitch in. AT midnight
it was all in working order, and I tele-
! cd 70 tor in tclo1
| to telephone to the Chicago operator
to attach an instrument to his end of
the line. The telephone wire from Pitts
burg to Chicago was all clear, but the
Pittsburg man telegraphed back that
there was some hitch in the Chicago
Office and that nobody there knew how
to attach a Morse instrument to a tele-
phone.
"And then sent this message:
""TeI the Chicago office to get tele-
graph operator and place your trans
mitter over the ticker SO that operator
in Chicago can plainly hear the ticking.
"And that is how it was done. Two
operators in Chicago took turns at
holding the telephone receiver to their
ear with one hand and writing out
what the instrument in Pittsburg said
with the other.
ut was 1890 when we began, and at
2:3O we had sent 5000 words about the
Yacht race and the editorial comments
of the London papers Of that morning
upon the result, together with brief
account of the Toulon festivities. l
stood by, prepared at any moment to
cut short the yachting story M the
wires threatened to give way, but no
thing happened.
80 much for that Now, what else
can 1 tell you? Oh yes; the European
service. We have correspondents of
our own and of the subsidiary associa-
tons with which we have contract re-
lations in all the big cities of Europe
and other continents. In England, for
example, the Central News of London
covers the news just as che United
Press covers the news in this country.
They have also their own correspon-
dents all over the world. All the news
they get is given to the manager of our
London Office. who has charge of all
Europe for us.
ION the continent we have our own
correspondent in every capital, and he
makes aITang enents with the cor
respondents of the best newspapers in
that particular country, or with the
newspapers themselves, TO get all the |
news. Unless the story is of special |
Importance it goes first to London, |
where our manager translates it, if i
necessary, or boils it down If it is too
verbose, and sends it to US.
VERY often, to save time, when we
know that the afternoon papers want
the story, we have it cabled direct to
New York. In that case our CORES
pondents are compelled to pay the
overland telegraph tolls in advance,
which makes it necessary for them to
carry large sums of money with them
at times. Thus the Deacon trial in
France was sent almost direct from
the court house to New York. And the
stories of the festivities at Toulon all
came direct from Toulon, without pass
ing through London. For such stories
as these we send special men from our
London office, so that they may have
nothing to do but attend to one SUBJ
ject and devote all their energy to it.
eve have tested these two systems
of sending dispatches-that is, direct
and by way of London-time and time
again, and we find that the former is the
swifter by all the way from ten min
utes to half an hour. and half an hour
is good deal for an afternoon paper
when the Emperor Frederick was i'll
we beat the whole world by all the
way from twelve to twenty hours ev-
cry day. All the newspapers that did
Reuters agency, but that agency, be-
ing Of a partly official character, al