The age-herald., 1901-06-22
NOVEL EXPERIMENT
 IN NEWSPAPERS

eight years and has proved an unqualified success, although it has not rendered thu newspapers superfuous.
 The Telephone Hirmondo," as it il called, has e2OO subscribers out of a popu. lation of 6O,OOO It is owned by a stocl company capitalized at $250,00O Tht maximum expenses are 10000 forins g month. The price paid by subscribers is IS f1orins, about T 50 per year, while the ordinary price for a telephone in Buda> pest of 15O tiorins per year. The concern employs about 190 people in winter and 150 in the summer. The staff comprises a business manager, an editor-in-chief four assistant editors and ten reporters.
 The work of the staff differs little from that in vogue in the regular newspaper offices Reporters are sent on assign ments for special material, and they hand their copy, when completed and signed, to the chief, just 1t goes elsewhere to the city desk. The copy is copied by clerks on long galley slips lithographic ink be- ing used. There writings are transferred to the stone so that they appear in par allel columns about six inches wide and two feet long. The pressmen take impress sions from the stone on roller hand press Each sheet is then submitted to an assistant editor, who goes over 1t just as would a proofreader and veries it's correctness. One sheet Is used as the office file, while the other Is cut up into convenient strips and handed to the stentors. There are six of these men, four of whom are actively employed while the other two act as substitutes They have particularly strong, clear voices, and very distinct articulation. The news Is all telephoned and is heard with re- markable distinctness at the receivers
 All the routine news is received from .f.. kt11 4es by the newspapers.
 Advertisements are charged at the rata of a florin for twelve seconds. The re3 ports reach subscribers hours ahead of the issues of the afternoon papers. The programme, which is affixed to the wall above every subscribers receiver, is close- ly adhered to and one can tell at any hour what may be expected next over tho phone in the way of routine news. Ths issue of bulletins commences at 10:S0 a. m. and closes at 10:S0 p. In, unless there are concert or theatrical reports to be com- pleted later Stock Exchange items ard sent out at regular stated intervals. The reports of the Reichsrath are givn simul. taneously with the occurrence Of tha events
 In order to prevent any delay from tho crossing of wires the company has it's own telegraphing plant, owning exclusively it's
 
 a certain number of districts and the main wire runs to each. The ''Telefon-Hir- monde" owns 56O kilometers of wire with 62O0 receivers, one for each subscriber.
 The system, even as it exists in Buda- pest. is an improvement upon anything in the United States, as early reports are received by subscribers hours before they can reach them through the ordinary routine of a newspaper office. Extras are issued so frequently that they drive newspaper competitors to despair The busy man finds the service exactly what he wants People confined to their houses claim that it keeps them as much in touch with the outside world as if they were being jolted and pushed about in the rush themselves
 With improvements in the American scheme, including the printing of the news on the receivers and the sending of the pictures, the news departure will be real twentieth century invention and seems to be assured of success before singled plant is installed.