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A paper of the first class, such as The New York World, has now an strung to the Capitol, and thereby gained an hour over its competitors. allowed to telephone their news directly to a swift linotype operator, To-day the evening papers receive most of their news over the wire a the runners never come to the office. They receive their assignments used the telephone in a small way, but in 1907, when a law was passed in ten. And it has enabled railroads to hire more suitable men for the complete substitute. It has already been found to be the quickest way of reporters--one man runs for the news and another man writes it. Some of In the operation of trains, the railroads have waited thirty years years before they dared to trust the telegraph. In 1883 a few railways possible. despatching trains. It will do in five minutes what the telegraph did to the telephone. Several dozen roads have now put it in use, some before they dared to trust the telephone, just as they waited fifteen that made telegraphers highly expensive, there was a general swing This, of course, is the ideal method of news-gathering, which is rarely employing it as an associate of the Morse method and others as a smaller offices. by telephone, and their salaries by mail. There are even a few who are who clicks it into type on his machine, without the scratch of a pencil. while his train is waiting for the signal to start. telephone has arrived. The Boston Globe was the first paper to receive la Bell instead of a la Morse. This has resulted in a specialization of In news-gathering, too, much more than in railroading, the day of the eighteen hours; but the flying words can make the journey, and RETURN, news by telephone. Later came The Washington Star, which had a wire

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