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Show . NEWSPAPER, ENTEEPEISE. Feats of novmpapor enterprise have b5d bo common for many years past that tho average American, has reached tho point wheo. scarcely anything can sur prise him. It is probabio that the New York American broke all records for expon30 and. speed, in order to obtain ob-tain a now picture for its regular edition. edi-tion. The American wanted now pictures of tho Sayro-Wilsou wedding. After the coremouy in tho White houso a week ago Tuesday, tho couple were photographed. pho-tographed. As soon as tho photographers photogra-phers had completed their work at tho Whito houso, they jumped into an automobile au-tomobile and woro driven to the railroad rail-road station, whoro a special train was waiting for them. It was 8:10 when thoy boardodi tho spocial, consisting of two cars, a Pullman and a coach, to which was attached a fast locomotive. In a few minutes tho train wns speeding speed-ing along at the rato of sixty miles an hour. A little later they struck a sixty-ftve-mlle an hour gait. Wilmington Wilming-ton was reached at 9:58 and Philadelphia Philadel-phia at 10:25. At 12:10 tho train ar-rlvod ar-rlvod In Jersey City, whero a spocial fcrrr bnnfc wns wnltJner to tako tho photographers across tho river. Forty-llvo Forty-llvo minutos later thoy wore in tho American oftlco. Tho actual running timo from- Washington to Jersey City, a distance of 23S miles, was throe hours, forty-eight and ono-half minutos, exclusive of stops. This is 6aid to bo the fastest timo over mado between the two cities. Tho photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Sayre in thoir bridal finery appcarod in the American! on Wednesday Wednes-day morning. Tho best of those photographs photo-graphs was, by arrangemont with the International News Service, which handles the Hearst features, sent to Tho Trlbuno and reproduced in this paper last Sunday morning. Tho Tribune is not giving this narrative narra-tive because it is so verj' extraordinary, extraordina-ry, for it really is not. Tho Now York paper simply decided' it had to haro a picture of Mr. aud Mrs. Sayre takon after the ceromony and mado the arrangements ar-rangements to tako tho roture, provided pro-vided tho photographer and then hired a special train In order to get tho picture' pic-ture' to New York in timo for publication publi-cation in the Tegular odition of tho American. Thero Is nothing extraordinary extraor-dinary about this. Sinco tho days whon tho Nevr York Herald sont Stanley to find Livingstone, tho metropolitan American nowspnpor has led tho world in enterprise and distanced all of its foreigu competitors. |