The San Francisco call., 1898-02-22
OUR SPECIAL NEWS SERVICE.


 / manifold evidences given of public apprecia- ton of the special. service provided by The Call to supply the popular demand for news of the latest developments at Havana In every town to which the swift trains have carried it The Call has been eagerly received by the people and every copy placed on sale has found a prompt and early pur- chaser. N
 This service Is an illustration of the zeal and energy with which The Call fulills the duty of a great journal to the public As soon as the startling news came of the destruction of the Maine the man agers of The Call recognized that there would be an intense and impatient eagerness on the part of all classes of people to learn every detail and circun- stance of the disaster They, therefore at once set about providing for the swftest possible transmission to the public of every item of news or information, that could be gathered by the Associated Press by the special correspondents of The Call and those of its ally, the New York Herald.
 In performing the work of distributing the news bulletins sent rapidly as received to all the principal cities of the State and promptly displayed on The Call bulletin boards That was much, but it not enough The popular excitement de- nlanded far fuller reports than could be given by bulletins To meet this demand The Call started it's special trains carrying the paper to Sacramento, San Jose, Fresno, Monterey, Marysville, Woodland, Ukiah, and all intermediate points, in time for the people to read at their breakfast tables
 There was no attempt on the part of The Call at self-advertisng self-laudation in this matter It enterprise of legitimate journalism undertaken to meet popular demand for news at great crisis i'll the affairs of the nation. It was not done for rivalry with other papers, to cause fictitious in- terest in The Call itself. It was done solely as a means of meeting need of the time, and conse- quently may be accepted by the public as proof that The Call will always furnish the news as swiftly as any emergency or popular demand may require
 As foreseen and announced yesterday the en- tcrprise of The Call forced the Examiner now in the and yellow leaf of decadent journalism, to make spasdomc effort at enterprise itself. How the strain of the spasm upon the aundced system of the faker displayed by the way the paper screamed in type yesterday the fact that had followed The Call and sent out special trains of its own. It filled many columns with steamng and pufng descriptions of the trains that an uni1- formed reader who chanced to see the paper would have thought such feat had ever before been ac- complished by newspaper in all the history of journalism
 The Examiner two days late in following The Call. Our special train service had impressed the public and ceased to be wonder before the slow going faker had found out that important item of local Not until the second day of our special service, when published an announcement of it. did the Examiner know what was going on Even at the present time it IS not giving The Call the complete imitation that is needed to meet the emer- gency. The people demand special trains only for the sake of the news the trains bring and since the Examiner has been threatened with prosecution for violating copyright and stealing news from The Call and the New York Herald it has been compelled to get out Klondike editions, or devote whole columns of space to ord descriptions of its special trains in order to make show of having any news at all