Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
Supplying People With Newspaper
Clippings on Many Topics.
THE GEAR is 4 REGULAR PATRON
Others Who Want to Know What
is Said About Them.
V AL U BILE SCR BOOKS
Written for The Evening Star.


Eighteen years ago man had an idea
which he developed with 30 cents, the last
money in his pocket. Less than a month
ago half a dozen firms engaged in the
business resulting from that idea, coalesced
and capitalized their joint undertaking at
s5,0eo,oo0 Even at that they had no stock
for sale-the capitalization was merely an
equitable prorating. Unless all signs fail
there will be handsome dividends. The
business is international, and so solidly
tablished that only a social cataclysm can
overset it.
The story has been told more than once
of how young Russian-American at the
end of his resources, saw famous French
artist pay handsomely for papers several
days old, containing notices of his salon
pictures, and was inspired by the sight
with the thought of making a business of
furnishing such notices to whoever had
need of them. But the spread and develop
ment of the thing thus insignificantly be-
gun will be news to the most part of the
reading world.
Today $1,000 persons and $5o,o00,00O are
employed in the business of making and
distributing newspaper clippings. There
are between fifty and one hundred bureaus
in the United States, nearly as many in
England and on the continent, others at
Melbourne, Sydney, Calcutta, Yokahon?a,
I1ohs hohs, 1ohaiiesoniS s. .Ta'ai, i,ueno .
of these are in effect international. If they
nav MOI pldhCies On dpout' Itiss i
iLsteau sor. OF tralnc arraHsei,isHS, - a.;
me manner OF the pig oanhs' by Mnich t,te-l
foreign correspondents HI capieu ordeiS
quite though they We're received over
their own counters.
Often of Grcut Value
Even this does not mark the full spread
of the idea. Railways, telegraph lines and
EXPRESS companies have gone into the bust
mes. on tbeir own aarornt At first they
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were among the regular bureaus Lilost pay
ing subscribers, but presently they began
ordering local agents to clip and file every
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thor especially the HeGSei!hg auNhpf' Is ds
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land me minute pouk Is oue-SotiIeti me-
even catherine writer OF II receives tneii
circular letter. enclosing saih'le ciIppnhS
"a notce OF nlhlSelI OF MS pooh' anu sshliIs
MS suhscriptlon- Inc rae Is hhe Golla.S
a hundred Clippings or IL me %Ilter pe IL
lie Known ilNe dol!afs = year w hei com,
petition Is keen ngureS are olleLl ioNerGu
one,haif In case the author should al
ready nave engaged WIN aloitisr ouf etu,
1t is hot uncommon 10 ask that the latter
conner be allowed to SEND clippings also re-
ceiVing pay only Tor such as are not dup4i-
Gates OF those already received.
Besides notices and reviews the literary
bureau, VIII. II ordered SEND all manner
of literary intelligence. 1t is thus very
present help TO those who live away from
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those in the great centers Life there is so
tense and crowded one has but little time
70 seek 81. items i"r Hi:nSSI:
III. Sc Fnneror Svjiii,r, fnr nyan,nIa
is much too busy to read the papers, vet
needs enormously to know what his world
Is SAVING OF PARTICULAR things SO he has
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