Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-08
TINES REPUBLICAN, ENTERPRISE.

Men who are daily eXerting every eff
fort to do the best that is in them can
be excused if they pause moment to
MERTON to their friends few instances
of notable success in their endeavors.
The TR has built UP an enviable rep
utation and business because of its ca
pacity TO get the news and get it quick.
Only y few days ago we gave publica-
ton to the following from the Mahaska
Chief al Men sharon:
THE Marshalltown Times Re-
publican WAS the first paper to
reach New Sharon containing the
Mares of the nominees of the re-
pubiSan state convention. For
news, right fresh from the scene,
that paper can be depended upon
every time 10 head the procession.
1t is i new spaper in every sense of
tire word.
This was true of the news of that
day and many days before and after, as
well, Without mentioning the many
items of important news that all eve
ming papers with press report are able
to publish first because of the vastly
superior news advantages of AN after
noon daily, we would call attention to
the terrible wreck disaster that oc-
Cured Wednesday afternoon on the
Milwaukee road down toward Des
Moines. The T.-R. maintains a force
of $50 special Iowa correspondents that
gives it an Iowa news service superior
to any paper publishe. AS result the
T.-R. was the only paper in Iowa that
told of the Milwaukee wreck on
Wednesday afternoon, the same day it
occurred. Not content with the CORE
spondent's brief story of the main facts
a man was dispatched from this office
on the first train for details. On the
following morning the morning dailies
of the state appeared with practically
the same story as appeared in the T.
r. the night before. No further infor-
nation had been obtained.
BY following the T-R. man to that
wreck one can see what effort it takes
to get all the news and get it first. Our
star reporter went west to State Center
at S o'clock in the evening. From there
he drove six miles to Rhodes. the scene
of the wreck. Here he found the
ruined trains, with wreckers still recov-
ering dead bodies from beneath the
ruins, but the improvised hospital car,
with nearly forty injured men, had been
taken to Collins eight miles away, for
medical attendance. To Collins the I.
r. man drove, and blufting his way into
the car under the pretense that he was
"a physician he worked ali night helping
the DOCTORS until he had the name and
residence of practically every poor fell
flow hurt The scenes behed were like
a nightmare, fairly sickening, but by
daylight our reporter had every detail
mistaken orders, the names of the dead
and injured, and could describe the
scene as an eye witness. Without sleep
or rest he returned to Marshalltown at
$50 in the morning for days hard
work in his department.. AS result the
T.-R. Thursday evening had a new
story of the wreck, and again was the
only paper in Iowa that gave the de-
allied information on that day. Very
naturally the T.-R. article was re- pub
Iished in full In the morning papers the
text day. Such is the kind of work
hat makes the T.-R. what 1t is. That
L is appreciated is often evil
dent by such comment as the following
that appeared in this weeks issue of