Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-12
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HARRISBURG TELEGR APH
readers were served last evening with
me hrst Sporting Extra ever issued
by Harrisburg newspaper. 1t will
pe issued regularly hereafter as a fea-
ture or the TELEGRAPH to meet the
growing demand for baseball and
other sporting news in this city. All
tle scores of the National, American
ana International Leagues will be car
rled and when the New York State
League opens its season on Nav 3 full
accounts of the Harrisburg teams
Eanes, Doth at home and abroad, will
pe puDllshed, together with full and
LON go piete scores of the whole league.
Inc me TELEGRAPH Baseball Edition
Will be off the press a few minutes
after the games are over. The news
Is carried into this office both by
leased wire and by Western Union
| ticker, installed beside the desk of
tne sporting editor. He and his as
slsIahts compile the scores as rapidly
as Ine runs are made and close by
STANDS fast type setter who drops
the type into the skeleton forms as
quickly as he receives the COPY By
thls method when the last run is in,
the type is ready for the composing
room and the speedy mechanical
equipment and the great Goss
straightline press do the rest in a.
few minutes.
These are days when speed counts
Tor more in the newspaper world than
ever before. Never was there a time
When the wires carried tidings of
such tremendous import News editors
i've constantly on the edge of a VOL
cano that may erupt at any moment
scattering double and triple column
news heads all over the carefully de-
signed tlrst page. The sinking of the
Iusltania is an illustration at point
The overthrow of the Car by Russia.
ana the explosion at Eddystone are
more recent examples. To meet these
/ conditions the TELEGRAPH has ex-
pended thousands of dollars on the
most modern equipment known to the
printing trades. Its readers get news
an hour later than is given to them
| by any other newspaper sold in Har-
rlspurg in the afternoon or evening.
Ana IN addition it is the only after
noon newspaper covering the Central
PennsyiVania field that prints the full
| Associated Press reports Supplement-
! ing this is its own corps of 123 sne-
cial correspondents scattered through
out pennsylvania and covering Dau-
phln, Lebanon, Cumberland Perry.
FRANKLIN, northumberland, Lancaster,
y ork and other nearby counties like
| a blanket. 1t is seldom ANYTHING of
importance transpires in any town
within the main circulating distance
OF the TELEGRAPH that one of it's
| correspondents is not on the ground
In Few minutes. These correspond
ents have instructions to use the tele-
graph or the long distance telephones
| at thelr discretion, and 1t not infre-
quently happens that the same news
item is wired to the office by two or
: three representatives before it is more
than five or ten minutes old.
| The TELEGRAPH is serving more
\ en- hCf vi hnr
served by any newspaper In Harris
| burg, and to take the best possible
care of this great body of readers
the fastest mechanical equipment and
crew between Harrisburg and Pitts
| burgh and equal to those of some
of the largest newspapers of those
cities have been assembled. The new
dry mat system of sterotyping has
been introduced, eliminating the nee
essity of drying the old-fashioned
wet mats under heavy steam pres
sure, and the great Goss press is
faster and has a bigger capacity than
| any now in use in Harrisburg or
likely to be installed for years.
Baseball enthusiasm is already
strong in the city A crowd already
gathers in the TELEGRAPH editorial
rooms to watch the ticker that tells
the score by innings of all the big
|
small boys who gather in baclllots
much to the worriment of nearby
householders, surpasses the interest of
any fans who must pay their so per
to witness q game with not a chance
of being a participant. Every lot in
the city large enough to hold two
picked up" teams and a few root
ers' is being utilized to good advan-
tage these fine afternoons. Many
passersby who have not forgotten the
time when they, too, We're doing the
same thing, cannot restrain an inn
pulse to stop and watch the "kids"
For it doesn't seem so very far away
when you think back on those times,
now does it?
Scarcity of river coal in the city
has resulted in rivermen Drawing the
high water with their coal fleets to
bring in a supply. Despite the wind
and cold during the last few days.
steamers and fiat boats were pulled
up the river and brought back laden
with fuel. Sand fleets have been sent
out also because of the shortage in
the city. Many contractors and even
the city highway department were
held up for weeks and delayed in
completing work which had been
started.