The San Francisco call., 1898-01-29

NEW YORK, Jan. 2s.-For the past three months the San Fran cisco Chronicle has been guilty of appropriating the copyrighted cable dispatches of the New York Herald, and will now have to answer for it's offering in the eourts. As announced in the foregoing editorial, the Herald is about to institute proceedings in the United States Court at San Francisco to restrain the Chronicle from continu- ing its practice. As the evidence in the case Is both overwhelming and conclu- sive, there is no doubt that the action will be brought to a successful termi- nation.
 The superiority over all other New York papers of the foreign service and also the general news dispatches of the Herald is well established. The ex- cellence and accuracy of the Herald news have contributed to make 1t the foremost newspaper of Greater New York and it Is being continually strengthened by it's energetic editors Some ten years ago the Herald fur nished the San Francisco Examiner with its special cablegrams and other dispatches.
 The latter service was not satisfac- tory to MT. Bennett, and an arrange ment was made with the San Francisco Chronicle, by which the latter was to receive the Herald service in return for the news of the coast. Mir. Hearst's paper was cut off from it's great East ern connection, and as a consequence there was much gnashing and grinding of teeth in the office of that publica- ton over the loss of so excellent a spe- cial news report.
 The continuity of the Herald's serv- ice to the Chronicle remained unbroken until the latter part of last year, when Mir. John D. Spreckels became the pro- prietor of the San Francisco Call. The enterprise shown by the new manage ment of the paper attracted not alone the attention of San Francisco and the people of the coast, but 1t penetrated to the East. The Herald is always ex- peditious in making the most desirable arrangements for the improvement of its news service in all directions, and negotiations were at once opened with The Call with view to an immediate affiliation. The negotiations were com pleted in November last. The service to the Chronicle was discontinued, and The Call was given exclusive right to it for San Francisco. Although The Call made editorial announcement that 1t had commenced to receive the Her aids unexcelled cable dispatches from Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid and other European capitals, and also in its complete Cuban and South Central American news reports, the Chroni- cle continued to print the Herald s news. It evidently disliked the idea of depriving it's readers of something to which they had been long accustomed.
 In this connection it might be inter esting to state that MT. de Young, when in New York several months ago. was heard to remark something to this effect: "It Is not necessary for me to pay for the Herald's news, or that of any other paper in New York. My man here can clip the news when the pa pers appear. and as we have three hours in our favor it can be sent to the Chronicle in time for publication !"
 Seeking to protect The Call in it's ex- elusive right to the service. the Herald requested the proprietor of the Chron- icle to desist from the use of the copy right dispatches. No notice was taken of this request, however, and the Chronicle continued it's practice, boldly reproducing any cable dispatches of importance appearing in the Herald.
 MT. Bennett thereupon served for nal notice upon MT. de Young that the Herald news was copyrighted and that the Chronicle must cease using 1t. This notice. like the Herald's request, was also ignored. And now MT. Bennett