The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1903-05-07
The Wireless
Daily Newspaper
Unique Journal Served
by the Wireless
Telegraph.


its birth on the morning of March %, at
Avalon, Santa Catalina Island The
event is unique one in the history of
Journalism and marks the beginning of
in isolated places.
The name of the infant journal is
The Wireless" appropriately so called
on account of the method by which it re-
ceives the news of the busy world
The unique sheet begins its career in
the shape of a three-column folio. the
exact size OF the pages being II by 8
inches. In this convenient form is
crowded, in addition to the local news
of Avalon, an epito me of tie local and
general news appearing simultaneously
in the Los Angeles Times, thus giving
the residents of the island and visitors
| to its lovely shores comprehensive
synopsis of all the principal news Of
the world, hours before the arrival of
| the steamer from the mainland with
the Los Angeles morning paper.
| TIMES ENTERPRISE
The Wireless is Times enterprise.
1t is published in Avalon by the Los
Angeles Times for the benefit of the
island, who, previous to the installation
of the wireless telegraph service across
the channel, were cut off from all com
munication with the mainland except
/
by steamer and sailboat or carrier pigeon
| the latter means Of communication be-
ing Of little practical service to the
islanders and seldom used.
The installation of system Of wire
less telegraphy between Whites Point,
near San Pedro, and Avalon, was accom-
plished by the Pacific Wireless telegraph
Company some months ago Many
messages, mostly private have been
flashed back and forth since the open
ing Of the wireless Zine, but the PEG
pie on the island in general had no
means Of benetitting by the service 50
long as there was no medium for pre-
senting the news to them after trans
mission to the Enchanted Isle" 1t
was to fill this 'long-felt want" that the
daily Wireless" newspaper was called
into being
BY WIRE AND WIRELESS
On the night of March "a, the news
gathered by The Times local reporters
and correspondents, as well as that fur
nlshed The Times BY the Associated
Press by direct wire for its correspond
ents throughout the country and the
foreign dispatches that come by cable
under the oceans and the overland wires
of the Western Union Telegraph com
pany, was condensed in the Times office
and sent by Western Union wire to
Whites Point and thence transmitted
by wireless telegraph by the operator of
the Pacific Wireless Telegraph company
at the Whites Point station across the
channel to the wireless station at Ava
Ion. The operator at Avalon wrote it
down as fast as licked off to him and
forwarded 1T by messenger to the Office
of the Wireless newspaper, where
the dispatches were edited set up in
type and printed in time to be distribu-
ted to Avalon readers shortly after
breakfast
The process will be repeated and i'm
proved upon from day to day in order
to meet all the requirements of the sit
uation.
QUICK WORK AT START.
The first budget of news for the THE
Wireless was filed with the Western
Union in this city in the early morning.
At 1912 o'clock the whole of it had been
received at Whites Point At $50
o'clock a. IN. it had been transmitted to
Avalon. Before 1890 o'clock it was in
print and the first edition of the paper
exhausted and a second already under
way. This was quick work considering
the disadvantages under which the first
edition was gotten out AS soon as
everything gets to working smoothly, it
will be possible for THE Wireless to
go to press before breakfast
EVERYBODY WANTS TT.
Surely Avalon will put on metropoli-
tan airs this summer with its own
morning paper No event in the his
tory of the island has created such a
stir as the first appearance of THE
Wireless. The first edition of 1000
copies was disposed of in less than half
an hour and a second edition was COB
bled up with equal haste without sue.
ceeding in supplying the demand As
much as 81 was offered for single copies
when the second edition was exhausted
Another extra edition of the first is
sue was published the next day
LOCAL EDITOR.
The manager of 1.-The Wireless" al
; Avalon is S. J. Mathes, for several
years past the regular correspondent of
The Times at Avalon, and by the way,
one of the founders of The Times Mr..
MatheS also collects and nrenares for