The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-01
THAT FAST MAIL.

an intelligent newspaper reading public
of Kansas.
Missouri now feeds itself with the ne
cessaries of life from the larder of Kansas
and this new mail train is for the pur-
pose of adding luxuries to an Unsuitable
appetite; these extra items coming partly
from the government pie counter at the
rate of $500 a day. the cost of the train
from Kansas City to Newton.
Now for few facts:
The people from Topeka to Newton read
the news of the day the same evening.
They know it through the State Journal
nearly twelve hours before it is printed
in the morning papers and the evening
before the fast mali leaves it's depots.
A Santa Fe real through fast mail leaves
Topeka at 4:30 every afternoon and it
carries huge bundles of the State Journal
for the towns between here and New
ton-these papers being received by the
subscribers the same evening. For in
stance the big news of yesterday about
the Christian Endeavor train disaster, the
appointment of General Caldwell, etc, was
known to our readers west of Topeka
last evening. This morning the fast
mali carries this news to the same towns
warmed over for their breakfasts.
At Newton the government ought to
erect a cold storage warehouse for the
morning papers because the alleged fast
mall makes no connections there. The
papers are simply stacked up and wait
from in the morning till late in the aft
ernoon, for there are no trains to carry
them. The impression was created at
first that the west and south bound
trains would be held at Newton several
hours for the benefit of the morning pa
pers, and let the hundreds of passengers
furne and complain and make the best of
the delay. Not so. The regular trains go
right ahead. Meanwhile the State Jour-
nails reach the towns from Newton to the
Colorado line twelve hours ahead of the
morning papers.
The State Journal at the points on the
Santa Fee from Topeka clear through
Kansas will continue to give the people
the news ahead of the morning papers
At these towns there are now from six to
twenty times as many State Journals
taken any morning paper These peo-
pie will continue to take The Journal be-
cause they get the news of the day first
by so doing. The main trouble with
morning papers is that they wait till the
next day when news is cold before they
print it. Fast mali trains will not save
them. 1t is unfortunate for morning pa
pers that they can't print the news when
most of it happens, the day before.
The people in towns tributary to To-
peka in other directions read the news in
The Journal before the morning papers
reach them. This is true at Horton, IIo1-
ton. Valley Falls, Meriden, Rock Creek,
Nortonville, Elmont, Maple Hill, Valen-
cia, Rossville, st. Marys, ETC., etc.
Certain features in connection with this
fast mair' are very amusing. The
morning papers try to create the impress
sion it is a great benefit to the CONNER
cial mail and mail orders. So far To-
peka is concerned business men send out
their mail in the late morning, at
4:3O in the afternoon or midnight. They
don't sit up till in the morning debating
letters to mail to the Newton jumping off
place.
At Kansas City the mail train leaving
at 9:20 at night carries all the mail. No
eastern trains arrive in time for the
fast mali leaving at a. and few
business men write letters between 9 p.
m. and a. M, or transact much business.
The fast mali is great deal of
fake, 1t helps the Kansas City morning
papers somewhat. Instead of reaching
the towns in the afternoon with the
news carried the evening before they
reach their subscribers in the morning
only twelve hours late instead of eighteen
hours late.
The Kansas City papers have used one
Kansas morning paper cats paw and
are laughing in their sleeves now that
while heretofore only one morning paper
the local one-has been available at To-
peka before nearly noon these same Kan
sas City papers are now read here at
breakfast time every day in the week in
GLIDING Sunday and on Monday morning
these same Kansas City papers have a
monopoly of the news for breakfast
Topeka does not yet enjoy the luxury
Oh yes, the fast mali is a good thing
for the Kansas City morning papers.
That is it helps them out a little in their
efforts to beat the evening papers of
Kansas, but still leaves them a whole
night behind in the news. 1t comes high
for the government and the dear people,
but Kansas City and poor old Missouri
must have 'em.