The Worcester spy., 1899-03-19
London Papers May
Yet Issue
EVERY SUNDAY.
Some Remarkable Instances
Of Popular Patience.

The decision of the owners of the
London Daily Telegraph to issue a sun
day edition OF their paper, may mark
the beginning of new departure in
the vast field Of London newspaper
dom, and as London leads the old
world, the innovation may extend far
outside its limits, into the cities of
provincial England, of Wales and
Scotland and Ireland and across the
channel, to the cities of the continent.
That is, should the experiment prove
encouraging enough in it's results to
warrant its extension. For, strange
, though it will appear to the American
mind, the Sunday newspaper is still
in the experimental stage, even in
huge, cosmopolitan London.
James Gordon Bennett thought once
J that he could make a Sunday paper
succeed in London, but even he. with
all MS capital experience and Yankee
push and enterprise, failed and he
abandoned the project after a brief
trlal. There are those, however. VINO
believe that had Bennett put men who
We're not themselves active politicians.
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not have proved so disappointing. But
his chief lieutenant, Louis Jennings
formerly Of New York; was a thor
ouShgolng tory partisan, M. p. for
stockport, and an ardent supporter Of
the late Lord Randolph Churchill. He
was, therefore, immersed to his chin
in conservative, or tory, politics, and
rightly or wrongly, the public came TO
regard Benefits paper as a tory polit
zeal organ. rather than q
There are, of course. many London
weekly papers, some of which come
out on Sunday and have enormous cir
cu!ations. But they are not Sunday pa
perS as the term is understood in this
country; each has its own special class
or constituency-denom polit-
ical, scientific or sporting, and to those
respective fields they are closely con-
fined. The great London dailies, the
Times the Telegraph, the Standard,
the Echo, the News, the Post, the
Chronicle, the Pail Mall and st. James
Gs6ettas, rest on their oars from Sat
urday till Monday morning, and, so far
as they are concerned, not one atom
of news reaches the British millions
during that time
What a strange sensation it would
be for the citizen of an American city
to have nothing to read on Sunday eX-
cept his Saturdays paper, a book or
magazine or q religious weekly, Yet
thai Is just what he would have to en-
dure If he resided in London or Liv-
erpol or Manchester, Glasgow or Edin-
burgh, Dublin, Belfast or Cork or the
hundred other cities that dot the map
Of the British islands.
How the suspension of news service
works to the Inconvenience Of the pub
lie may be seen from one or two nota-
Bile instances. Late one Saturday night
a dozen years ago, the members of one
Of the cleverest gangs of counterfeiters
that ever crossed the ocean. operated
simultaneously in one Of the large cities
of the north of England. They an
peared in different sections of the city
where retail stores were located, and
began purchasing goods Of every sort
and description. groceries, jcwelry
shoes, umbrellas, clothing, ETC. and ten
dering in payment for each bill of
goods a G10 note. Change was will
ingly made, for the buyers looked re-
spectacle, and the purchases were Or
dered sent to addresses in various To-
calities. But the delivery men coming
back in short order and reporting that
no such goods were required at the ad-
dresses they went to. made the shopmen
look more closely at their ten pound
notes, and then their eyes baZed in an
ger. for il was easy to see on compari-
son with genuine notes what clumsy
and barc-faced counterfeits they were
Fully score Of the victims turned up
at police headquarters as soon as their
shops were closed and told their tales
of woe. But by that time, the slick
gentlemen from the west had got out
Of town leaving behind some costly SOU
venirs OF their shopping tour. If such
series OF swindles as this took place
in an American city on a Saturday ev-
ening every man, woman and child in
town would know all about 1t next
morning before they started to church.
But since it happened when it did, not
line Of the information reached the
public eye until Monday morning.
The other remarkable instance was
the terrible tragedy of the 9th of May,
1882, when Lord Frederick Cavendish
and Thomas H. Burke, respectively
chief and under secretary for ireland,
were assassinated in Phoenix park
Dublin. Here was an occurrence that
thrilled the world with horror Yet the
people of New York and Chicago, even
of far distant Melbourne, knew all the
details of the murders. a whole day be-
fore those Of the very city where they
were committed. True, the leading
facts. such as the finding Of the bod.
les, the names Of those who found them
and the extent and nature of the intu-
ries and SO coDth, wera Quac5ay dIesen-