The life of Horace Greeley, editor of "The New-York tribune" : from his birth to the present time . nd safety, and in the running of which in-credible things were achieved. Not reporters alone were thensent to remote places to report an expected speech. The reporterswere accompanied, sometimes, by a rider, sometimes by a corps ofprinters with fonts of type, who set up the speech on the specialsteamboat as fast as the reporters could write it out, and had itready for the press before the steamboat reached the city. Wonder-ful things were done by special express in those days; for the com-petiti
The life of Horace Greeley, editor of "The New-York tribune" : from his birth to the present time . nd safety, and in the running of which in-credible things were achieved. Not reporters alone were thensent to remote places to report an expected speech. The reporterswere accompanied, sometimes, by a rider, sometimes by a corps ofprinters with fonts of type, who set up the speech on the specialsteamboat as fast as the reporters could write it out, and had itready for the press before the steamboat reached the city. Wonder-ful things were done by special express in those days; for the com-petition between the rival papers was intense beyond description. Take these six paragraphs from the Tribune as the sufficient andstriking record of a state of things long past away. They need noexplanation or connecting remark. Perhaps they will astonish theyoung reader rather: The Governors Message reached Wall street last evening, at nine. Thocontract was for three riders and ten relays of horses, and the Express was toitaxt at 12 oclock, M., and reach this city at 10 in the evening. It is not 206. THE SPECIAL EXPRESS SYSTEM. 207 known here whether the arrangements at the other end of the route werestrictly adhered to ; but if they were, and the Express started at the houlagreed upon, it came through in nine hours, making but a fraction less thaneighteen miles an hour, which seems almost incredible. It is not impossiblethat it started somewhat before the time agreed upon, and quite likely that ex-tra riders and horses were employed ; but be that as it may, the dispatch laalmost—if not quite—unparalleled in this country. Our express, (Mr. Enoch Ward,) with returns of the Connecticut Election,left New Haven Monday evening, in a light sulky, at twenty-five minutes be-fore ten oclock, having been detained thirty-five minutes by the non-arrivalof the Express locomotive from Hartford. He reached Stamford—forty milesfrom New Haven—in three hours. Here it commenced snowing, and th
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