. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. -publican office, ready for tabulating and com-piling for the next mornings issue of that paper. And this successful gath-ering of election-returns from the remotest towns of Hampden, Hampshire,Franklin, and Berkshire Counties, was compassed with but limited aid fromthe telegraph; as the telegraphic service was then both very feeble in qualityand small in quantity quite generally throughout the Western Massachusettstowns. Almost the whole election-return collection service was then doneby spec
. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. -publican office, ready for tabulating and com-piling for the next mornings issue of that paper. And this successful gath-ering of election-returns from the remotest towns of Hampden, Hampshire,Franklin, and Berkshire Counties, was compassed with but limited aid fromthe telegraph; as the telegraphic service was then both very feeble in qualityand small in quantity quite generally throughout the Western Massachusettstowns. Almost the whole election-return collection service was then doneby special horse and locomotive expresses. And in this connection it isbut simple justice to say, that in the State election of 1883, with all theaids and assistances which a complete and thorough telegraphic servicein nearly every village and hamlet in the State, with the addition of efficientand widely established telephonic service, the morning papers of thenext day after the election had no better or more complete returns thanwere given thirty-one years ago, when horse-flesh and steeds of steel were. The City Seal. 34 KINGS HANDBOOK OF SPRINGFIELD.
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