Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01
Tulsa Daily World Is De-
livered and Read Be
fore Noon Each Day.
BY TRAIN AND AUTO
Delivered by Foot in the Oil
Fields just Like
in Town.
SnecInl 10 Tn. World

Special to The World
DRIfMRlGHT, July 31.-How two
thousand daily newspapers bringing
the account of the happeninGs oi .he
world up to O'clock in the morning.
may reach many thousand people in
the most isolated part of the state
before noon of the same day, "a
hours earlier than "A letter sent as
first-class mail matter. or IL hours
earlier than "A special delivery letter
could make the trip. is an interesting
process. so surprising is the service
to many people in the Gushing oil
field to have a daily paper at their
door before they get out of bed, that
it is not an unusual thing to have
someone stop at news stand ana
ask, as a special favor to be allowed
to buy the next mornings paper.
Often they don't believ 1t when they
are told that it will be seven hours
before one is printed.
At 1870 O'Clock at night, when the
postoffiCe clerks in the Tulsa post
office are silently and busily putting
up the mail for the morning trains.
business at The World office is just
well under way. The postofficc win,
dnws are closed and favOrs can not
be asked. much less granted The mail
in hand is enough to keep the force
busy until time to lock the bags. but
the ticker in the newspaper office IS
still bringing cable messages from tho
war zone, doings and sayings of kingS
and noblemen. The police reporter
still Is threading dark alleys with the
officers. solving the mystery of some
crime for the people who sleep at
night dozen typewrlters In the OF
flee are gathering, grinding out the
news of the day, social. political.
commercial, Industrial and miscei-
lanoous. It will all go out in the
mail
Bang, and IL Is All Over!
The hands of the clock point to
1890 a. M. the pouches Of mail In
the postoffice are locked and loaded
on wagon. Alarm clocks set to
wake passengers for the | O'Clock
train begin to ring, and the city ed
itOr breaks the silence in the office
with the imperative syllable. copy"
Tho last development of the murder
trial, the social function which closed
at midnight the concluding para
graph of the presidents note to Ger
many, the latest quotations on prices
Of all sorts of commodities. the finals
on the prize fight just concluded. the
result of an election in Cuba, the
names of the persons injured in a
railroad wreck in Pennsylvania an
hour before, and the prediction for
the next days weather are all
handed down together All that Is to
be found out about everything worth
knowing is given suitable headinA
and rushed into the mechanical de-
partment.
lust as fast as skill is able. the
type is set. the pages made up. the
impression taken. the juice Is turned
on and the press begins 20 run. The
automobile backs up to the mailing
room door and the mail edition Is
showed out. printed and counted and
directed and by keeping close on tho
coat-tail Of the speed limit the truck
reaches the Katy depot as the whis-
tie blows. and Coal Oil Johnnie Is
temporarily entrusted with the re-
sponsibility of carrying the load.
Picked Up by Autos.
Down at Jenninxa one bag "