The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-24

west at f'i5 p. M. and on the Mis-
souri, Kansas and Texas at 7;40 p. m.
AS TO the statement in the Chron.
icle circular that The Post is bound
to go to press a long time before mid.
night" those who read the first edi.
ton will know at Il glance that It is
untrue, and there are n hundred en-.
ployes around The Post building any
one Of whom will testify that it is I'm.
true.
Now as to n few details
To newspaper men familiar with the
rules and hours of the Associated
Press service and with the tricks OF
the craft the Chronicle circular
quoted, is "all to laugh"
The Associated Press service which
the Chronicle receives is the early
morning birds nest" as it is known
in press circles. composed Of some
$500 words OF overflow, sent after
$3.50 a. IN, composed OF indifferent
matter side-trackeo during the night
for better news, with an occasional
cleaning from the early morning edi-
lions of the Eastern papers; and the
afternoon pony report, composed OF
bulletins of the day up to about $3.50
p. m. The birds nest" comes over
leased wire in the office of The Post
and may be used in our late edition
whenever We consider it worth us.ng.
The pony" afternoon report is dupli.
Gated to The Post Both services APP
pear in the midnight edition of The
Post where they are labeled as such
so that there may be no sailing I'M
! der false colors.
This early morning report and this
afternoon report constitute the sole
Associated Press report which the
Chronicle receives.
Besides these it contains a few State
| specials and an occasional very oc-
casiouan outside special on events Of
great moment. The remainder of it's
telegraph" is scissored from other
newspapers and dated up, as the
reader Of Washington, New York, Chi.
cago and Philadelphia papers may cas-.
| lily discover
The Post does not undertake to say
whether the Chronicle prints two or
four editions But It does know that
the second edition. printed about l:3o
! p. m, contains date lines over its
| Houston news and that this is the
midnight edition" with the date lines
changed to next day. which has been
going to the country. Upon the oc-
casiou of the November election and
few other times We believe the
Chronicle printed editions about II
o'clock containing Western Union bul.
letins, but these we're exceptions.
As an evening paper taking Asso-
cioted Press service the Chronicle Is
not allowed to print after Il p. m, "a
morning papers are not allowed to
print before IL p. m. Besides, the
Chronicle receives no press service
after $3.50 P. H. so there is no excuse
for its last editiouabeing delayed later
than A or AGO p. m. And it is not
I delayed.
The most amusing thing in the
Chronicles circular is the statement
that it's last edition contains news up
to midnight, but that The Posts mid.
night edition must close "a long time
before midnight in order to catch
trains'-the same trains which the
Chronicle catches
The truth is, the Chronicle has no
midnight edition. Il dates up an after.
noon edition and sends it to the coun.
try
1t was not The Posts business to
uDdeceive the public so long as the
Chronicle contented itself with work.
ing its bunco. But when it sought to
discredit the midnight edition of The
Post, which is just what it pretends
10 he, as every reader may see for
himself, 1t was time to call a halt
and expose the most brazeu fake ever
perpetrated in Texas Journalism.
And il the Chronicle is not satisfied
with this exposure it can have little
more with greater detail