The age-herald., 1898-07-06
CHICAGO'S
 NEWS HUNGER

Chicago, July 4.-Chicago has experienced a Sunday without newspapers. It has been an experience unique in the history of mod- ern cities and one that nobody wants peated, unless it be the anti-Sunday news- paper leaguers. The sufferings of a thirsty man in prohibition town could not be compared to it. Early this morning the population of the metropolis of the west be- gan to stir. People intuitively started for their front door steps to look for their Sunday morning papers, but soon realized that there were to be none. On the streets were to be heard the stident voices of news- boys calling ;'The Latest War News" and hoping to find acceptable substitutes for the local papers, the people eagerly pur- chased any and all of the mushroom and flake" sheets that were offered.
 Perhaps the earliest paper on the street was warmed over' Saturday evenings Milwaukee Journal with Sunday date line. This was obtainable at 330 a. m, and sold readily for ten cents copy. It contained not line of news that was not printed on Saturday evening before clock, and was probably off the press early in the evening and sent on here to meet a demand which it was known would exist. Its pub fishers reckoned wisely, but the ones to- reap the harvest of silver were the enter prising newsboys who stayed up all night in order to be the first in the field. By o'clock this morning wagons containing great bundles of the mushroom sheet known the Chicago War Bulletin were .hurried to all parts of the city, and met with a ready sale. It was, no doubt, the best of it's kind, as it had secured from a small news bureau a condensation of war bulletins and special dispatches from New York, which had benn skillfuy padded into a page of readable matter It was turned out by one of the largest job printing es- tablshments in the country, where type setting machines, sterotyped plates and fast presses enabled the promoters to sup ply large demand. Closely following the appearance of this sheet came the Stock Yards Sun, muchroom organ called the Chicago Republican, which claimed to pre- sent "all the Associated Press dispatches" but which in reality printed only matter culled from yesterdays out-of-town papers; the Drovers Journal, the Bulletin, the Eagle, and various similar publications. whose only excuse for appearing seemed to be the desire of the men who issued them to catch quantity of the nickels that were eager 10 De spent Tor news.
 The first really readable papers to reach the city were from Detroit and Indian- apolis. At the hotels and newstands, where these papers were due at Il o'clock, there were great crowds of men, boys and even women The supply limited, but the newsdealers did not advance prices, and 2,Ooo or 5000 copies of the Detroit Journal. Detroit Free Press, Indianapolis Journal and the Indianapolis Sentinel were disposed of quickly at nicke copy. These papers gave fair accounts of the progress of fight ing at Santiago, but they were all the "de- layed in transmission" order, common with the Associated Press, and the cus- tomary special telegrams on war news furnished by the leading Chicago newspa- pers were greatly missed Saturdays New York papers arrived about 10 o'clock, and inside of fifteen minutes every copy was sold The Sun was easily first in demand, and the newspaper dealers Were kept busy announcing that the Suns were all sold" Their stocks were disposed of at 10 cents a copy. Shortly after 1 o'clock in the af- ternoon a supply of Cincinnati papers ar- rived and sold readily, the Enquirer and Tribune bringing from 10 to 20 cents copy. The St. Louis papers arrived at o'clock. and met with a ready sale at like prices.
 Alleged "extras" were published by the local sheets soon after the arrival of trust worthy news from Detroit Indianapolis, Cincinnati and St. Louis The war dis patches and other news, culled from these papers, were peddled about the streets as quickly as news could be put in type and the papers turned from the presses All the evening the voices of the newsboys rent the air that they had 'the latest and only reliable war news" The terrible battle at Santiago was cried along the fashionable residence streets and avenues and the boys made more money than the ever before cleared in a single day.
 The status of the sterotypers' strike re- mains unchanged. There will be no news- papers in Chicago tomorrow. It is now probable that all the papers will appear on Tuesday morning. They will be small af- fairs-only four pages-compared with the twelve and sixteen page sheets to which Chicagoans have been accustomed, but they will be welcomed as a great relief. No union men will be employed in the sterotyp- ing rooms of any Chicago newspaper. The question has been asked whether the union compositors will work in offices with non- union sterotypers. They will. The Chicago Typographical union is not in sympathy with the striking sterotypers, who have vio- lated the rules of the International Typo graphical union, which require that sixty days notice of a proposed. strike must be given.
 The public is strongly against the strik- CTS and this feeling was. deepened by the experience of Chicago's population in being compelled for two days to go without news papers, and at a time when the whole na- ton is anxious to know the smallest de- tails of the most interesting event in the present war with Spain. That the strikers must meet with defeat is inevitable and men of intelligence would have warned them against the step they took in trying to bulldoze the publishers at a time when they thought their demands would be hum- bly, conceded.
 
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