The times., 1899-06-18
THE NEWSPAPER
OF A CENTURY Hence
How Reports Will Be Written
and Printed in 1899.
Under the New Order Minute Edi-
tionS VIII Go Off.
Notes on Aerial Transit and Thought
Trnnsference-sens Plates
for Cerebral Impressions.

"ilhib one ueCdue many strange things
have come to pass. Liquefied air. wire
less telegraphy. Edison's and Tesla g
| discoveries of new possibilities in electric
ity, and other matters OF present fact
were wild dreams not long ago. One de-
cade hence and many more still
stranger things may come to pass and
the crank of today may be the hero of
the future.
So. too. with modern developments in the
daily newspaper office. The facilities for
gathering news are being improved and the
mechanism whereby the facts and fables
are turned into cold paper and ink for the
reader has undergone a complete revolu-
tion within very few years At the
present rate of progress and discovery the
linotype will soon be relegated to the at
tic and the Hoe press sold for scrap iron.
Last week the Transcontinental Aerial
Navigation Company opened up offices in
New York and will build a line of winged
cruisers which, it is promised, will take
a passenger to Paris in thirty hours
Again, William Marconi has promised that
within the near future no clumsy wires or
cables Will be used for the transmission
OF messages around the world, and last but
the missing something which will enable
all things to be accomplished.
So are there good grounds for supposing
that the newspaper, the newspaper man.
and the newspaper office of 1899 will be
strange and wonderful affairs.
The Washington Instantaneous Reflect
or will be such journal as might well
cause the newspaper man of 1899 to drown
his surprise and sorrow in liquefied rye
n nfr witch ala
The assignment book would be a thing OF
horror and the managing editor more
absolute monarch than was even Car
Reed.
1t is to be expected, OF course. that an
edition will be issued every minute in the
day and no man will be able TO obtain an
exclusive story. The 1918 edition has
just been sent upon the street and a weary
reporter is indulging in some liquid re-
freshments at the other end of the city.
He hears buzzing in the occult detector
in his headgear and, listening, learns that
he is wanted at the Office. Mounting a
rapid transit moving sidewalk, he is soon
al his destination.
i have just had a sympathetic air wave
10 the effect that Dom Paul XII has
slapped the President of Scotland on the
wrist, states the city editor, "and / want
you TO run over TO the Transvaal and in
hustle up, as We want the story for the
O'Clock edition. The African Aerial Ex-
press leaves in four seconds, and you can
Just make it,"
In the course of an hour the city editor
receives 10000 words by the mulit-print-
phone from the Transvaal, and as the des-
patch emerges from the machine it is
printed upon wax. This is photographed
upon a page of the paper at the rate OF
J, ,000,0e0 copies per second.
AT the same time the underground cur
rent illustrator is making pictures direct |
from the scene of action These pictures |
include everything within 100 miles of the |
affair, with signed statements from every
man of prominence in the whole world, |
and a few signed articles by the man who |
sold the President of Scotland the gloves |
worn by the latter when the slapping was |
done, the man who saw the President two |
hours before the slapping occurred, and |
the woman who had nursed Dom Paul XII /
when the latter was child.
The managing editor dislikes a state
nent made by the reporter who has just
the King of London, and .
touching a button on his desk labeled
England" is soon in conversation with |
His Royal Highness Matters are soon set
tied and the paper goes to press. 1t will |
not be surprising if the newspaper Offices
d century hence are decorated with the
ousts of the great journalists of the nine
-eenth century. These will include Thomas
sharkey, Robert Fitzsimmons, John L.
Sullivan, Theodore Roosevelt, Richard
Croker, James ]. Corbett. and others of
anne Charles A. Dana will be ignored be-
;ause ne failed to run signed statements
and the editors of other New York dailies
ire barred because Of their failure In 1899
o obtain signed statement from Baby
Clarke
Following are several paragraphs from
he Washington instantaneous Reflector"
II June l, 1883, 1906 edition:
While private aerial drag was proceeding
iown the Pennsylvania Avenue sky track at a
spid rate, four minutes ago. the equipage col
lded with car ll,444 OF the Southern Cloud Line
70 damage was effected, the aerial drag foated
rom its auxiliary parachute until the arrival Of
he cyclone ambulance
Great excitement was caused on the main north
sast hyafare two minutes ago by runaway
lereolite, which coursed madly through The SKY
The wild machine was captured by Aerial Police
nan Jones'
Peter Brown accidentally shot and killed
y Tom Jones, at S4l5,0O0 Street, about one
minute and eighteen seconds ago. The inquest
howed that Brown had failed to bathe himself
II impregnabe oxygen this morning, and was as
| result, liable TO injury. Jones was released.
man giving the name of Dorsey FouItz was
irTested upon the arrival Of the Manila Sun Line
iyer this morning. Foultz claims TO have killed a
1arty in this city about 100 years ago An in
viii be made as to his sanity.
1t is expected that the newspapers of
century hence will contain from twenty
i've TO fifty pages in the minuteIy edi-
ions. There will be little grind, however
The editorial writers will simply think hare
md their thoughts will be transferred |
Ipon wax by elaborate machines The
wax will be photographed and printed.
special air waves will be employed TO car
y the doings in Congress to the various
newspaper Offices, and before the gentle
nan from Iloilo has ceased speaking his
emarks will be ready for the first edition.
Special sensitized plates will record the
lourly doings Of the President and the
members of the Cabinet, and occult de-
ectors will record their every thought.
Al this will furnish news and campaign
material and there will be no trusts, no
.mbalmed beef, and no relief commissions
n those days. There may be some strong
lenials of thoughts, but the plates will re-
:ord all Of these as evidence. So will the
.ditor become the greatest power in the
and and no man will dare refuse him any
hing from a signed statement to a paid
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