The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-25
UNITED PRESS
COMP |MENTED
It's Report Of the Omaha Cyclone
Complete and Sent Over Only
News Wire Working Out
Of the Stricken City.
THE GATE CITY PRAISED
News Gathering Agency Upholds Its
Reputation for Getting the News
and Getting It to Custom
ers In Quick Time.

The highest newspaper ambition of
The Gate City is to serve its readers
we'll and faithfully. The only contest
1t enters into is contest for suprem-
acy In furnishing the first, most com
plete and best news to its readers. 1t
very seldom boasts OF its success In
this line. The Gate City columns tells
every day the story Of its superiority
in every department.
One of the greatest news beats In
newspaper history happened yesterday
in the tragic story of the great Sun
day night storm at Omaha, Neb., and
other points throughout the country.
The only wire running out of Omaha
ran into The Gate City offices and
the other newspaper Offices receiving
the United Press service, and 1t con-
tinued to run all day. The Gate City
had column after column of the story
of the great disaster, other press as.
ISOLATION papers had brief one-third
column, unsatisfactory telephone mes
sage sent to Lincoln and thence by
wire. Here is proof:
The Gate City and other United
Press papers printed eleven columns
OF complete details. without NOM
ent's handicap.
Here is what the other papers
printed:
Wire communication has been cut
off and details are meagre."
The wire used yesterday from
Omaha was leased wire that ran III
to the Omaha News Office. just like the
leased wire that runs into The Gate
City Office. The Gate City, therefore
connected with the Omaha News, get
ting the story direct and exclusive. 1t
was absolutely the only report sent
out by wire from Omaha all day
Other news agencies depended en-
tirely upon rumors or brief and un
reliable telephone messages sent from
Omaha suburbs to nearby cities and
these were In a great majority OF
cases personal messages from friends
to relatives, carrying no details of in
terest to the great general public.
This great scoop will become an
epoch in the history Of newspaper
work In this country and the names
of the United Press papers, who serv-
ed their readers SO faithfully and
promptly will be counted as the proud
winners in the contest. This is the
result-a complete story Of the cal
amity Monday while other press asso-
Citations are serving it to their read
ers today.
This occurs when any great or un-
usual event happens. The United
occasion. The Titanic disaster when
so many lives were lost, is still fresh
in the minds of our people and they
we'll remember how full and graphic
was the story told in The Gate City
and other United Press papers in
comparison with the meagre detail
given by papers depending upon other
agencies. This superiority is not con-
fined alone to prominent events. The
news service of the United Press is
splendid every day in the week. 1t
is only on these great occasions that
the superiority is marked and prom
inent, when people are anxious and
excited for details. Then they come
to fully appreciate the superiority OF
The Gate City's service.
The Gate City Is proud of its sue
cess in furnishing this great. sadden-
ing and exciting story day in adj
vance of it's competitors, and con-
graduates its readers on being so
promptly served with the interesting
details, even to long list Of the kill
ed, all whose names had been gather
ed up to the time of The Gate City's
press hour, without moments delay,
the paper being served to it's readers
at the usual hour.
How the IT, P. Wire was Made Up.
The United Press wire was made
UP out of Chicago to Minneapolis and
st. Paul via Madison and Milwaukee,
from Minneapolis to Des Moines, Des
Moines to Burlington, Burlington to
Galesburg and Peoria; Burlington to
Keokuk; Burlington to Kansas City,
Kansas City to st. Louis and Spring
field. H., Kansas City to Denver via
Garden City, Kansas, Denver to Oma.
ha and Omaha to Lincoln.