New-York tribune., 1911-11-29

Tribune Office were awaiting him each Of
them supplied with an ample case OF type
ana the necessary frames for the forms.
on the boat Mr. Raymond wrote out his
account OF Webster's speech and the com
positors set It up, and when the party ar
rived in New York at 3 o'clock the next
morning the story. in type was ready TO go
on the presses.
by O'Clock this morning" the account
ends, IT was printed and on sale"
FOR the modern reader Of The Tribune
there Is another point in that brief account
OF an early day beat and that il IN the
time mentioned-5 o'clock the boat arrived
from Boston, and at o'clock the paper
was printed and on sale. When Canal street
as We know il now was q swamp 70 the
north or the city, papers printed at O'Clock
IN the morning could readily be delivered
throughout the city before the prospec-
tive readers sat down to breakfast. In tho
present. when the first editions of The
Tribune must be printed and aboard the
fast newspaper trains leaving the city be-
tween midnight and o'clock IN the morn
ms reporter who hurried in at o'clock
IN the morning would be met with the
sarcastic reminder that he was working on
a daily not weekly. II he found any
one in the Office az all.
That Boston speech Of Daniel webster's
which then occasioned the trip TO Boston Of
the three compositors would now be han
died so swiftly by the aid OF the telegraph
that II would be among the first stories to
be set in print that night. if indeed il did
mot cot FUh .. fr...
afternoon papers.
Tn those days before the telegraph. how
ever when under ordinary conditions the
news was dependent upon the mails there
we're other schemes put forward 20 enable
the paper 70 get the news in advance OF
the regular channels.
News Relayed by Ponies.
Chief among these was the pony ex-
press" which was a system OF carriers
who relayed the dispatches and letters to
each other by swift ponies. They were able
TO beat the malls consistently, and for
that reason were in great demand by the
newspapers of the time. Even after the
steam railroads came into working exis-
teuce these pony expresses continued in
service for time because the railroad
systems Of that day We're patchwork af-
fairs that left great gaps Of uncovered
mileage between many Of the principal
cities.
For several years after 1871, when The
Tribune was established, the ocean liners
OF the time had their terminus at Boston
instead OF az New York. and Halifax.
Nova Scotia, was the regular port OF call
between Liverpool and Boston. Halifax
then was the first point from which The
Tribune or the 49's could get its European
news. From the Nova Scotia city. therefore,
The Tribune Of that day established a
pony news express" and, not satisfied
with the enterprise. when war news OF spe-
cial Importance was impending chartered a
boat 10 meet the liners. cot the European
nows on the situation and carried II across
the Bay OF Fundy to give It's pony ex
press an advantage over its rivals.
From these endeayors IL was Just another
step 20 the point where The Tribune, COM
0lning with some other papers, chartered
a special fast ship 10 make a trip 70 Europe
for the single purpose Of bringing news 70
New York on the prospects Of the threat
ened war with England I'm 1S46. That was
over tie question OF the Northwest boun-
darv line, when the slogan Of the day vas
$40 or fight"
Two years later with the advent Of the
telegraph. the idea or union 10 save ex-
penses and 70 cover the news OF the world
in better manner than vas possible for
single newspaper blossomed forth into the
first organization OF the New York AssOcl-
ated Press. Through that agency The
Tribune along with other papers in the
new union. widoned its field of activity IN
q news gathering way until II was bound
only 10y the extent Of the workings Of Mr..
Morse's new invention.
The next wear brought the gold rush TO
California. and Bayard Taylor famous
then as the author Of Views Afoot; or,
Europe Seen with KnapsacI and stan,
who was working for The Tribune. was
sent 70 the Western coast 20 cover the epic
stories OF the "forty-n'ners.'
With the advent or the telegraph the
system Of news gathering from Europe
was greatly improved. and The Tribune
then established an agent" in Halifax.
whose duty 10 was 70 scan the European
newspapers and letters from European cor
respondents which he received from the
liners which touched ar the Nova Scotia
city on their way 20 Boston. The pony
express" fell into tho discard then, while
the agent sent in by telegraph the Euro
pean news. which up 10 Their was brought
into the Office or The Tribune only by the
pony relay.
The local or city star or those days was
made UP OF fourteen men. ono covered
police stations and hospitals three were
Continued on fourteenth page.