The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-18
woFnzD,s GREATDsT NEWSPAPER cEEEBRATHs
 IT'S BTRTEDAY.

What is the. greatest newspaper III
 the world? The newspaper man famil- l far with the worlds journalism will answer she question by naming his own paper frst; but he is likely to give secosld place to La Prensa. the tns Argentina. which to-day. az on every eighteenth of October. will celebrate
 it's birthday by issning special . sdi- of admirers all over the globe. There are newspapers with larger c1rcula- tons than the Prsnsa, but none with Ayrss, the fourth largest city in the New World and the thirteenth largest on the globe, a "one-paper town, and Argentina q one-paper nation All the La Prsnsa as mentor and guide, and it's rivals admit it's superiority.
 La Prensa issued its drst edition of
 two small pages on Oct, 1s, 1889. 5ust
 forty-three years ago to-day, under
 the editorial and business manage
 ment of pr. Jose c. Paz. The found
 year. and his son. Dr. ENequial c. Fax.
 is now proprietor and editor-in-chief.
 In bulk La Prensa has no superior
 among ao1l newspapess. ps its dady ed1tisn .aa
 as many seven-column pages. Typo
 graphically it resembles the European
 journals, and. although printed in
 English. It lacks the provfnei alisrn
 that characterizes so many of the
 newspapers of North America, and
 New York papers combined. La Prensa gets daily average of 12.0O0
 words by cable. and. as 1t comes by
 code, the printed result Is in the neigh
 borhood of 26, ,ooO or so, ,ooo words daily
 The tolls for this foreign news amount
 to about $s,800 night. A special
 correspondent, at big salary. repre- sents La Prensa in vry important cap- ita1 and big city On earth In Tol1to and Cape Town, in Shanghai and Mel bourne, as well as in every city of Eu- man is on the Job. Not even the Lon don Times has so extensive a staff of correspondents. And all of them are by no @ other naper or associa ion With the result that some of the biggest stories that have ever "broixe" nave appeared in the North American and La Prensa. Buenos Ayres.''- La Prem so "beats's have come from every quarter of the globe. and big European of Buenos Ayres. In "make-up'' Flu ropean, La Prensa is American in en- terprise, with the world as it's news As the Prensa lnuse nave pleased its patrons in order to have attained so tremendous an influence. it follows itan. with interests that extend be- yond the narrow limits oF "me. my wife and my son John
 La Prensa occupies the most mag nif1cent newspa per. building in the world. It includes, nesides the activi- ties Of the newspape .s5ar. a series O. suites in which important foreign visitors are entertained in lavish style as the guests of La Prensa and the nation; a public art gallery, dispen- sary for the free treatment of the poor, law office where legal advice is giv- en without charge, the finest public library in South America, a school of music and the arts, also free, and various other institutions for the pub lie welfare. The site is informed of highly important news by the blov ing of a siren-and a fine of S1Or
 imposed every time the siren shr'
 Once when the whistle was blow
 was to call attention to the resul
 the peace conference ending the Rus so-Japanese war, twenty-four hours before any other newspaper. And so it came about that the news from Portsmouth, N. H., of one of the greatest events in history, reached New York By Special Cable from La Prensa.