The San Francisco call., 1896-05-29
SPLENDID NEWS SERVICE.
AS Usual, The United Press Scooped
Its Rivals.

NORWALK, ONO, May 2S.-The Chron-
icle, Norwalk's vigorous young morning
paper, issued an afternoon edition to-day
containing the magnificent report of the
st. Louis disaster furnished by the United
Press up to P. NJ.
Speaking of Wednesday nights report
the Chronicle says: The Chronicles re-
port of the st. Louis cyclone was by two
columns more complete than that of any
Cleveland paper which came to Norwalk.
The United Press beat the Associated
Press two to one on its report.
LINCOLN. NEBR., May 28.-The follow
ing editorial, which is seif-explanatory,
will appear in to-morrow's State Journal:
"The report of the st. Louis storm
printed by the Journal yesterday morning
was prepared and sent out by the United
Press. 1t was, considering the monstrous
difficulties encountered, the most notable
piece of newspaper work done in this
country in recent years. The task of COL
lecting and transmitting the particulars of
the great disaster could not be commenced
until after o'clock and then practically
all of the telegraph wires in the path of
the storm were prostrated. How the
United Press managed to send out nearly
q 1OA4 pdSS OL N4NAO anu ldlEIl dCCuIdlc re-
ports in the next six hours is a puzzle to
telegraph operators and newspaper men.
a press association that can perform such
a feat must be highly organized and well
equipped with brains.'
OMAHA, NEBR., May 2S.-The World
| Herald will say editorially tomorrow
morning:
"The superior service of the United Press
covering the st. Louis catastrophe enabled
| this paper to give to its patrons a COM
| prehensive story of the terrible details
twelve hours before its Associated Press
| competitors were reused from their slum-
! bers to the fact that anything very start
| ling had occurred. An attempt to relieve
their defeat by extras with CARRIED re-
ports taken from other papers, failed
utterly"
BOSTON, Mass, May 28.-The Record,
the afteT noon newspaper associated with
the Morning Advertiser, to-day says:
"Since the Journal dropped out OF the
United Press news service, which supplies
| the Advertiser, it has made some talk
about what news it was getting that the
other papers did not. AS there were in
the claims very few items of any impor-
tance, no attention was paid to this by
any of the United Press papers. But last
night came real test of the comparative
merits of the United and Associated Press
service, the former supplying the Re-
cord and the other leading pap rs of the
city. While the other papers piled up
fact upon fact with wealth of detail in
the way OF names of people killed and
| property destroyed at st. Louis, the West
ern Associated service gave only frag-
mentary and incomplete accounts. 1t
gave the names of only few of the many
buildings destroyed or damaged, and re-
| ported the steamer Grand Republic, for
instance, destroyed, while the fact is that,
| though stranded, she is safe and sound.
| "The Advertisers report this morning,
| being the full United Press report, was
| splendid piece of newspaper work, and
| showed what could be done in the face of
such disaster by news service that is
thoroughly equipped and master of its
own resources at such trying time. 1t
not only told well the story of the storm,
| but gave what is of the choicest value
at such time, thorough summary of
the buildings ruined, and considering the
circumstances, remarkable list of the
dead ~