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

and its method of gathering and dis
tIibuting the news of the world, illus
trating them by several incidents that
have recently occurred.
THE MAIN offices of The United
Press are on the third floor of the
Western Union building on Broadway,
New York. The entire Office was re-
Gently reTnodeled and overhauled COM
pletely in order to give the best ac-
conmodation for the service it was to
fulfill. Half dozen of the old offices
were thrown into enc room for the use
of the telegraph operators and the dis
/ tributors of the news dispatches. This
room is brilliantly Illuminated at night
by incandescent lights, but unless the
visitor has been through heavy bat
tie or is accustomed to tremendous
noises the clicking of the telegraph
instruments is likely to drive him
out
Mr.. Fred N. Bassett, general eastern
manager, in giving a rough outline of
The United Press system, said
81 hardly know where to begin or
just what to tell you. AS we are an
American concern. and as our object
is to serve the newspapers in this
country, I think we had better begin
with our United States service.
In the first place we are, to a GER
tain extent, great telegraph COM
pany-that is to say, we lease from
the telegraph companies a certain
number of wires, and these we operate
with our own men. In this office we
have our own wires to Boston, Wash
ington, Chicago, Buffalo and San
Francisco. The Boston wire takes i'm
the entire New England service, and
the news is sent from Boston to all
points in the northeast. We have two
Washington wires, which run through
Philadelphia and Baltimore. From
Washington our lines run all through
the southern states to New Orleans.
The Chicago line takes in Pittsburg
and the cities of Pennsylvania From
Chicago we cover all the west, north
west and southwest, San Francisco
and the Pacific slope. On our Buffalo
wire we send all our news for this
state and for the cities of Canada
Mr.. Phillips is manager over all the
service, both in this country and
abroad. P. V. de Graw is general
southern manager, A. L. Suesman is
general western manager and I am
general eastern manager. The fact of
the matter is we have a system of tele-
graphic communication in this country
equal to the facilities of the Western
Union and the Postal Telegraph COM
panies.
SO much for the method of commun-
ication. Now for the news. In the first
place, our contracts with the more
than 400 newspapers that we supply di-
rectly in this country stipulate that
they shall give to our correspondent in
their town access to all the news arti-
cles they intend publishing. Should any
paper have an exclusive piece of news
we agree ON our part not to give it to
any other paper in that same town.
Our correspondents. all of whom
are men of experience, take from those
proofs all that is of interest to people
outside of the locality in which the
news was obtained and telegraph it
over their circuit. 1t is sent then to all
other centers, and as speedily as posi-
bic to every paper that we serve.
In small towns where there are no
newspapers or where we have no con-
tract with a newspaper. we have our
own correspondenp-some man upon
whom we can depend for all important
or interesting news that may arise.
From New York we send out each
day a certain routine service. giving
the arrivals and departures of ships and
the market quotations for everything
that is sold in large quantities here,
from railroad stocks to medicines. This
goes to all the papers we serve. The I
Chicago papers publish most of the
livestock and provisions reports and
throw the rest away. Other papers
are interested in the latest quotations
for baskets or lumber, and do not care
anything for stocks or bonds.
eve have a special corps of cor
at Washington when con-
gress is i'm session, because at that time
is the center of interest
for the whole country. When there is
any big event of special interest we
send special men from our nearest
ofice. That brings me to am incident of
/ rather unusual nature. which will
show you what kind of work we have
% do at eimes.
During the races between the Vigil
ant and the Valkyrie we had an ex-