Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-08-19
GETTING NEWS
ON THE WORLD
How United Press Serves
Evening News Readers.

telegraph news that Is puDllSh6d IN
the EVENING NEWS Is found the
words. Special by United Press
Wire" Not everybody knows what
this zeal Such lines at the begin
ming of an article tell through what
source the news Is received.
The United Press Associations Is
an organization for gathering news
from all parts of the world and SELL
ing it to different newspapers
throughout the United States. The
association has representatives in
every important city in the world.
These representatives get the news
there and send it at once to the asso-
citation headquarters, from whence 1t
is distributed to the newspapers TAX
ing th~e-service.
Take the daily report of the condi-
ton of the pope. The representative
of the United Press Associations in
Rome is watching the condition of
the pope. This representative at
Rome is in constant communication
with the associations European
headquarters in London, which, In
turn, is in constant touch with the
associations New York Office. Thus
the moment the pope dies the repre-
sentative in Rome will wire London
and London will Immediately flash
the news under the ocean to New
York. In New York the news will
at once be sent to all the newspapers
receiving the United Press service,
the EVENING NEWS being one Of
these. The EVENING NEWS office
is connected with the United Press
headquarters in New York by a
direct wire over which the news Is
received at stated times during the
day so that the latest happenings the
world over are received right up to
the minute of going to press in the
afternoon.
This brings to the service of the
EVENING NEWS readers the entire
staff Of the United Press Associa-
lions. Just to show what this aCtu-
ally means an article regarding re-
cent changes IN the United Press staff
abroad, as published in the Editor
and Publisher, a newspaperman's
magazine, is quoted as follows;
Closely following the recent ap-
pOintment of Ed. L. Keen as its gen.
eraI European manager, with head
quarters in London, the United Press
this week announced two additional
important changes in the personnel
Of its foreign staff.
Karl H. Won Wiegand goes to
Berlin as chief of the bureau there,
succeeding Herbert A. White in that
capacity, and Henry Wood goes to
Rome as the successor of Enrico
Tedeschi.
Won WIegand, who is one Of the
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organization, Is German born, though
he has lived in this country since
boyhoOd. He broke into the news
paper game In Los Angeles, and has
had a wide and varied journalistic
experience, having been associated at
different times with the western
Scripps papers, the Hearst papers
! ana the AssocIateu PRESS. Before
joining the United Press organiza-
ton some months ago Won Wiegand
was San Francisco manager Of the
Associated Press, with which concern
he has been connected for seven
years. He is probably one of the
best known and most popular of the
younger newspaper men on the
Pacific coast.
One of the stories with Won
! Wiegand's western friends delight to
tell as indicating the depth to which
his newspaper instincts extend re-
lates to his conduct at the time of
the San Francisco earthquake and
fire in 1906. Having been out of
town on an assignment on the day of
the quake, Won Wiegand returned to
Frisco the next day to find his home
deserted and his family gone. APP
preciating the hopelessness of trying
to locate his wife and two children
among the thousands of paniC-strick-
en- refugees, Won, after a glance at
the situation, reported at the office
and kept on the Job for seven days
~(remaintng on duty for one unbroken
stretch of s1xty-one hours) before he
succeeded in locating his family.
Won Wiegand sailed with his fam
lily today on the st. Louis, and after
stopping for a few days in London
will proceed to Berlin, locate his
family, n than start on a trip
through Germany, Austria-Hungary
and the Balkan country.
Henry Wood, who goes to Rome,
will be one of the few American
trained newspaper men in Rome, his
contemporary, Mr.. Cortezi, of the
Associated Press, being a native-born
Italian. Wood, who did most Of his
newspaper work before Joining the
United Press in Omaha, Cincinnati
and Cleveland, has spent the better
part of four years in Italy as a free
lance correspondent and as a repre-
sentative of n Of the big tour-con-
Quoting agencies. He not only speaks
Italian %fuently, but Is well known to
and enjoys the confidence Of many
high officials both at the Vatican and
in the departments Of the Italian
government.
The new Rome manager. who was
formerly connected with the cable
department in the New York United
Press office, has more recently been
the manager Of the Ohio bureau of
the United Press, with headquarters
in Cleveland. He sailed for Rome
last Tuesday.
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