The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-17
I2S=I3o-I32 N. Main.
GIVES NEWS rHRoUGH DrFFIcuLrIE
Lightning Brushed Aside m Order 10 Get
the ST Louis Convention News

Lightning Brushed Aside IN Order 10 Get
the 1T. Louis Convention News
/ The moon went down as red as blood
( last nighL After IL cane Wild Con-
/ test OF the elements Lightning dane
ed and euiyered on every side or TIE
J Eagle Office. The tin roofs were fair
Z " ablaze. On any. or almost any other
night there would be cause for fear.
{ but 10. last night There IS no such
thing as coWardIcs under certain cir
{ cyius-sn ces. II there - such a thing
as coWSrdice a. all II - a physical Cond--
ton The whole Office VAS baLhed n
electrical sheen after midnight and sv-
erybOdy bravery stood az his post The
Linotype operators sat at their ma
chimes trembling. While iightniUz beat
around Lnern Ike artillery. Nobody
moved or would have moved II the
warning roar Of a tornado had been
heard Why? Simply because the
readers % the Eagle wanted the news
and al the boys knew II L w1S one
OF the greatest lightning storms ever
seen z Wichita but not a word OF ne
. convention news had been lost Net
everybody knows that rne Eagle build
ing IS supplied With its own electric
light plant and electric wire system
telephones. telegraph. alarm bells and
messenger service Win al this essc-
tr.c magne rism Oce can appreciate the
situation in TIE building on a night
wien tia electric king rules yerythtuS-
TIE telegraph operator n ths buildtn z
a. wen as the opera tors a. the Western
Union sat FOR TWO hours n the midst
OF danger plucking from the elements
the news from ST Louis. Ike Ajax
; they defied ths lightning, for the people
wanted . know me drfft OF national
+ opinion on national issues and the po-
sltion OF rational characters with rel-
/ erence 20 the same. Few people have
any idea OF the work OF getting news
I under difficulties. The Eagle has Two
circuits during The convention one Of
! them is over It's own wires; tsre other
direct FROM the convention hall rad
national committee headquarters a. 81
Louis A lolt % ifE5tning strikes these
wires and L comes into the Eagle Office
T but the operator dos not stop any Ion
ger than 70 shake the saock OF MS IN
gers-and never MISSES = word Tar
nex: thing he hears - thar the wire =
broken CT burned out and then he has
/ 70 seek another route 70 81. LOUIS 10
o-ne- words he walks around me storm
F belt by getting 4 wire BY way % Denver.
s.. Paul and Chicag q St Louis %
CATCHING en- tdle wire ~ Nay OF Gal
weston. Dallas or New Orleans That
IS how the readers u the Eag gle ct their
news from St Louis this Tnornfng-ard
they will get every word % - Il f7e-
qlseu-fy- happens thai when the Eagle
operator wants % get news from New
ton CT WeiIi1Fton o. Valley Center Il
sin1Diy asks Denver. they ask New York
they ask Omaha and Omaha asks esther
one % the places mentioned BY roua6
aoogt wfre-a-lt = CONES. IN fhe work
% getting AL The 81. Louis news Tor the
Eagle ne Western Union does good ser
vice. At O'ciock this morning not
vv1-hs-andinE IL electrical storm ne
Eagle had net missed q word OF con
veuttoa rews. That the work IS sp-
p-eclated IS syiderced BY the fact that
tslegraETls poured n al day yesterday
from al over the soLIl west FOR thous-
anGs % extra copies. Tie men wao
ara advertising are having 8 picnic n
bon Instances enterprise s rewarded
This double end complete service viii
D. kept ID durirE ne convention
When th- managing editor Eoe@ hone
every night he says. Boys get up a
goo4 payer and give the people ell the
news whether &. = n favor or against
US A con sr1s0n with other papers
VIII - chzt - done 4 similar double
service direct % Chicago w1ll b put IN
during The Dsuoc7a-tc conventiOn-