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

paper in this country in direct COM
munication with an able correspondent
in any big city in Europe"
AT the recent browning of the car of
Russia, the United Press was the only
American press association that sent
a special representative to Moscow to
describe the scene, which was the
grandest of its kind ever witnessed in
the world. The graphic story, as tele-
graphed from Moscow, involved an ex-
pense that eXcites our special wonder.
AS an illustration of the working of
the foreign service of the United Press
the New York Sun traces a piece of
news in this highly interesting manner:
Early one morning, not long ago, a
party of Mohammedans desecrated, in
some fashion, a place of worship in
Calcutta. A fight followed, and the
Bramin defenders of the temple killed
six of the Mohammedans Now wit
ness what small globule the world
has become.
This piece of news reached the Office
of all the newspapers in Calcutta long
before noon. At 10 o'clock a young man
ran into the telegraph station of the
government lines.
United Press, London he hastily
wrote. 'Mohammedans desecrated Brah-
min temple here morning. Fight fol-
lowed. Six Mohammedans killed. All
quiet now. May lead serious compli-
cations.
''This brief dispatch was telegraphed
to the office OF the Eastern Telegraph
company in Bombay, whence it was
transmitted to Alden. In Alden it was
received in the office of the Hindoo-
European Gable company. The oper-
ator sent the message into the cable
room, and a few minutes later it was
on its way to Suez. There it was de-
livered to the Eastern Gable company,
whose operator Immediately sent it to
Malta. At this place another operator
of the same company repeated the mes
sage to Lisbon. From there it had
only short stretch of sea to cover to
reach Penzance, where, unmolested by
pirates or aught else, it was tele-
graphed to it's destination in London.
"Now, from the moment that the
operator in Calcutta touched the key
of his clicker until the message was
delivered to the man who was on duty
in the United Press office in London
two hours had elapsed. But, owing
to the kindly habits OF the sun, all
though the message had been filed in
Calcutta at 10 a. M, it was received
in London at about a. m. of the
same day.
"The United Press man made two
copies of this message. One he sent
without delay to the Central News of
London. The other he sent by cable
to the United Press Office in New York.
The man in the Central News Office
at once telegraphed it to the offices of
all the afternoon and evening papers
in England and Scotland. The man in
the United Press Office in New York
received the message shortly after 2
a. m. of the same day. That roisterer,
the sun, was still turning night into
day on the other side Of the Atlantic.
Now, at a. m. most of
the newspapers in New York have
gone to press, but if often hap
pens that they issue a. second edi-
ton even at a later hour to publish
important news. At any rate, when
the man in the United Press Office re-
cedves that message at 2 a. m he al
most becomes excited.
Here! he cries, take this
Some man in the office seizes a book
if tissue paper interspersed with sheets
Of carbon paper, inserts it in type
writer and writes-each impress of the
Key recording itself upon thirty sheets
this message:
Calcutta, July 6.-A number of
desecrated a Brahanin
emple in this city at o'clock this
A fight ensued and six of
he Mohammedans were killed. All is
luiet now, but it is possible that sari-
JUS complications may arise from the
affair.
ga minute later messenger boys set
nut for the offices of all the newspapers
hat receive this service and hand in
he dispatch. At the same time half a
Iozen telegraph operators in each of
he big eastern cities have it. In each
# these offices 1T is again received
Ipon manifold sheets, again distribu-
ed to more operators and again sent
N to many more cities.
And so the messages flash across the
ountry, zigzagging everywhere, like a
'olt of lightning, SO that no city may
re omitted, gaining hour after hour as
strikes westward, until even before
it reaches all the newspapers
long the Pacific slope that are mem
ers of this globe-encircling instftu-
ion infnrrniner them that at o,n1-o1-