Tones OF THE TIMES

Southland Times, Issue 18860, 28 June 1920, Page 4

Tones OF THE TIMES

Mr William Hartley, sometimes art editor of the Star, Morning Leader, and Daily News and Leader, gives an attractive account of the beginning and development of the photographic news pictures in the London daily papers. It was not until the early ’SO’s that any indications of a desire to pictorially illustrate “copy” was shown; but in 1888, when Mr T. P. O’Connor issued his first 4d evening paper, The Star, illustrations began to appear in the form of four one-column blocks—crude line results —but there was no regular use of line blocks till 1891, after the appearing of the Daily Graphic, which may be said to be the first daily picture paper, but can scarcely be said to have used the illustration as a news-pic-ture. The wonderful progression in this line would seem marvellous if compared with the results obtainable at the present time. From all over the globe—from heights unknown and unthought of by the ordinary person —accurate pictures are brought to their breakfast table, and even the bursting of a bud and the blooming of a rose are recorded and reproduced in a few hours; and now the air pictures, giving a new view of old places, bid fair to become as popular as the pictures from the solid ground. A little paper consisting of four pages is appearing on six days of the week in Constantinople, steadily holding its own against all difficulties, not the least of which is, that it is an English paper, and as the compositors are not English and have only a slight idea of the English language, if technical mistakes are made it can scarcely be •wondered at. This litle paper is the Orient News, started in June of last year by its

founder, Mr H. Collinson Owen, who was for three years editor of the Balkan News in Salonika, which was purely an army' newspaper. The Orient News is more cosmopolitan and is widely read by all races in this most cosmopolitan of all capitals. It is not only circulating among the Greeks, Aremenians, Jews and the Turkish men, but is also finding its way into the secluded homes of the Turkish women, where this daily interest is becoming more and more appreciated, especially as there is a greatmovement toward learning the English language. The present editor is Mr J. D. Quirk, the son of an English clergyman, and two of his staff are young women living in Constantinople, educated at the Robert College, the American institution on the Bosphorus.