Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-05-30

The celebrated telephone news
paper" of Budapest, Hungary. which
has had IA successful career OF is years
and is still running, is now duplicated
in Newark. n. j.. and although at pres
ent it seems to be in financial difficult
ties.
Arthur r. Cotton writes in The Tech
nical World Magazine that it's first
subscribers received the news of the
day more promptly than that commod-
'ty had ever before been served i'm
America. The enterprise. which is
known as The Telephone Herald. is in
dependent of the Typographical union
and the Allied Printing Trades council.
OF upon paper. In other words. the
subscriber does not read The Telephone
Herald. but merely listens to it.
Whether he listens or not, Tho Herald
appears In one continuous edition
from 8 O'Clock i'm the morning until
1890 O'Clock i'm the evening. Its news
is constantly on tap. like water or gas.
for the small sum of 3 cents !; day.
Says MIR. Cotton:
"One OF the American tourists who
discovered the relcfon Hirmondo Uhe
Budapest 'ncWSpaperD Was NJ. Nj. Gill
lam, formerly advertising manager of
the New York Herald. He obtained
thc American rights and organized the
United States Telephone Herald COM
pany to dispose of state rights. The
= SlstS COStSIilCU lUc NEW JCT-
sey privilege decided To try it ON the
dog at Newark. Wires were
leased from the telephone All
was ready for business last March
when the telephone company sought to-
cancel the lease. After six months de-
lay the public utilities commission or
dered the telephone company to carry
out its original agreement. Thc Herald
does not use the regular telephone
lines. but extra wires.
g..
Speaking of buying a pig in Il poke.
The Telephone Herald has done some
thing of that sort II Newspaper
telephone. which is not like the ordi-
nary telephone. since 1t will carry mes
sages in only n direction. has never
been patented. Instead. the secret OF
ITS construction a been carefully
guarded. When the New Jersey COM
pany was ready to- install its Newark
plant a young Hungarian engineer was
sent from Budapest to do the work.
The anternal arrangement OF the
switchboard is kept under lock n key.
1t Is what he can see. This includes
an ordinary looking switchboard in q
room by itself. In another room are
two ordinary sound proof telephone
booths. Instead of the usual telephone
set there are two very large micro
phone transmitters mounted opposite
each other some six inches apart. With
his mouth between the tranSmitters the
stentor reads an item. says change
then. Immediately begins upon another.
AS the stentors have haa special
courses in distinct cnunciation every
word can be clearly heard. The work
is SO exhausting that ono man reads
only Is minutes, then rests for 81 min
utes while Others take his place. Tn
music room where the evening enter
tainment is provided has sound proof
walls hung with green baizc. with "a.
pair of translnitters for each instru-
ment and each singer"
h editorial Offices of his uriou
news dissemination. Mr.. Cotton assures
us. somewhat ironically. measure up
to the finest traditions of journalism
There is the usual barn like room,
meagerly furnished, with dirty windows
guiltless of shades, the floor Uttered
with waste paper. and the regulation
paste pot that has not boon cleaned
since the year one. In these familiar
surroundings a couple of editors smoke
cigarcts and clip the morning papers,
go through press reports. proofs from Il
local evening paper. and correspond
ents' manuscripts. and receive tele-
phone messages. condensing everything
to the utternlost. $50 words being the
maximum limit for the most important
items. The modu Operandi of publi-
cation is AS follows:
The subscriber gets Il little woodcn