Smart Newspaper Work.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 17 March 1904, Page 4

Smart Newspaper Work.

The London Evening News and Mail of dan. 19 contains a verbatim report of Mr Chamberlain's speech delivered the same afternoon in the Guildhall, which, it suys, was published in the quickest time on record. " The last line was linotyped before the cheer which rewarded Mr Chamberlain at the close oi his oratorical effort had died away. . '. . Mr . Chamberlain's audience, not entirely | dispersed from the meeting, were able | to take home with them the actual I speech which they had only just I heard." The shorthand notes were taken, not at the hall, but at thei newspaper oilice, which had been connected by electrophone. The elec- J irophone—a telephone with a specially large trumpet-shaped receiver—is not a novelty ; the remarkable part of the feat lay in the preparations made beforehand, and the excellent disposition of the reporting, subeditorial, and typographic stall'. Twelve reporters took notes and transcribed in turn, the copy being passed to the lino operators as soon as written ; the "sub" meanwhile looking it through and adding the headings. The last "turns" were of one minute each. Mr Chamberlain rose to speak at 2.31 p.m., eight minutes later the first sheets of copy left the reporters' room, and three .minutes later were linotyped. The stereotyped page containing the first portion of the speech was on the machine at 8.25. At Si.<l9 Mr Chamberlain resumed his seat ; at 3.57 the report was completed ; four minutes later the lino, operators had it in type, and in two minutes more the stereotyped page was on the page and the impression started. This is a record that it will not be easy to surpuss.