The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-25
CAR AND PRESS CLIPPINGS.
NICHOLAS is A MOST INaUIsITIvE
ROYAL PARSONAGE.

has ordered Press Clippings of Com
ment About HimseIf-An American
Idea First Developed Upon n Cap
ital of Fifty Cents Has Produced
Worldwide Busihess-Half n
Dozen Firms Have Just Combined
Into One, Capitalized at Five Mil
lion DOllnrs-Other Millions Where
they Come From-The Business Is
That of Making Newspaper Clip
pings-RoyaIty, Art, Science, Com
meree, Society ana sport Now Find
Them Indispensable.
New York, June 2S.-Eighteen years ago
a man had an idea, which he developed
with 80 cents, the last money in his pocket.
Less than a month ago half a dozen firms
| engaged in the business resulting from
mat idea, coalesced, and capitalized their
JOINT undertaking at S5,OO0,0OO. Even at
mat they had no stock for sale--the capi-
talization was merely an equitable pro-
rating. Unless all signs fail there will be
| handsome dividends. The business is in
tcrnational, and so solidly established on
| ~ social cataclysm can overset it.
Inc story has been told more than once
OF how a young Russian-American at the
end OF his resources, saw a famous French
arust pay handsomely for papers several
uays ola, containing notices of his salon
pictures, and was inpired by the sight with
the thought Of making a business of fur
hlshlhg such notices 10 whoever had need
Oh them. But the spread and development
OF the thing thus insignifcantIy begun.
VIII be news to the most part of the read
Io-day $4,000 persons and $5OOOO.OOO are
Siilp4UEed IN the business of making and
distributing newspaper clippings. rhere
are petWeen fifty ana one hundred bureaus
~ ~ me United States, nearly as many in
England and on the continent Others N
Melbourne Sydney, Calcutta, Yokahoma
f1Ohs Kong, johannesburg, Natal Buenos
AyIes and Rio de Janeiro. All the big
So Ssi, OF these are in effect International IL
tney nave not branches all about, they
nave instead soft of traffic arrangement
| AFTER the manner of the big banks, by
mniS1 their Ioragn correspondents fill
Cdpied orders quite as though they were
received over their own counters
hNeh thls COS not mark the tull spread
OF the IDEA. Railways telegraph Gces and
express companies have gone INTO the bus
mess on their own account. AT first they
were among the regular bureaus most pay-
ing SUBSCRIBERS, but presently they began
SIueriLS local agents TO c.sp ana file every
me OF railway matter appearing in local
sheets, and TO send the clippings 10 the
mann once, where they are indexed and
put away. Several times an item SO kept
has proved to he worth good many dol
iaiS 10 the company Keeping it.
Specialized Clippings.
Among clippers as elsewhere speciaaiza-
tlon works. Some bureaus give their Whole
mind to things literary To them The au-
thor, especially the fledgling author Is as
the shadow O1 gleal rock IN a weary
and. The minute book is out-sometines
even earaef-the Wrlter OF ii receives their
circular letter, enclosing samp.e clipping
"a nouce OF himself or his hook, and ask
ing his subscr pdon. The tate is five dol
lars bundled clippings, or if the writer
be lttie known, five dollars a year. Where
competition is Keen figures are often low
cred one-halt. In case the author should
already nave engaged with another bu-
reau, il Is not uncommon to ask that the
later conner be a lowed TO send clippings
also, receiving pay only for such as are
not duplicates of those already received.
Besides notices and reviews the literary
bureau, viii, ii ordered, send all manner
OF literary Intelligence. 1t as thus a very
present help to those who live away from
the great centers. 1t is a question, how
ever, if the bureau is rot cualy a boon
TO those in great centers. Life there is so
tense and crowded, one has but little time
TO seek out liens for himself
Certain facts in clipping history bear out
the idea. Emperor William, for example,
is much too busy to read the papers, yet
needs strenuously to know what his world
is saying of particular things. So he has
whose business IL is to see that every
morning il is brought strictly up to date
and duly submitted to the imperial eye.
w. 7. Stead, another very busy man, is
credited with possessing a whole library
of books made Up of clippings. 1t fills
three dizzy rooms in a London house, ana
is said to have suggested to him the plan
of the Review of Reviews.
Otner bureaus concern themselves main
~ with business affairs. They give to
their subscribers not only all that appears
in print concerning the subscribers lines
of business but advance intelligence of
such things as the letting of contracts,
the adoption Of building plans, new mate
rails, inventions, discoveries, legal decis-
ions affecting commercial Interests, also
legislation. While the Dihgley bill was
pending every firm interested in the wool
trade received from d Chicago bureau
every scrap of intelligence bearing on the
wool schedules. II is the same with other
staples-cottoh, copper, wheat, live stock.
crop prospects generally. The whole ma
terial world indeed is the business bureaus
parish, and one that is very carefully look
ed after.
The very latest development is the bu-
reau of medical intelligence which col
lects and distributes whatever is new in
medicine This not merely of the as
founding discoveries that exploit them
selves, but of operations, experiments.
theories even, which men eminent in the
profession put into print. They are, of
course, always available to the men who
know where to find them and have time
to look