Show CLIPPING BUREAUS By Frederic J. J Haskin proof of American In- In A ANOTHER nult K Is found round In th the he clipping bureau au HU institution that Is la al almost ml- ml most moat as much a part of our every r day life as the trolley the tl telephone and anti the electric light It Is Important and ami necessary for people In nil alt prominent walks of or life life- to know what IK is b bring being said aid about thorn In Inthe Inthe the press pres and tho clipping bureau as assembles as p and dellerA dell delivers ers erA those clipping almost as M quickly as the telegraph companies deliver their messages During the great t tariff debate dehate In I congress M the lead on both sides stand sides stand patr patters pat pat- Insurgents and r Democrats kept In touch not nott t only with their Immediate Im hn- mediate constituents constituents but with the nation wide constituency con con- 55 b by means mean of or hundreds of or thousands of at newspaper comments comments- both news and editorial furnished editorial furnished b by bythe bythe the clipping bureaus Bu This Is only one of or the larger largel Melds fields of or effort covered b by what ha has haA been termed tho the song of the shears shear As a matter of ot tact fact there Is 18 scarcely carrel a minor activity which does not at some time tOne find profit proUt and advantage e In si It good clipping chipping service Tako Take the politician or the statesman swinging around the circle or stumpIng stumping stump stump- Ing the countr country He knows what he said at al an any given ghen stopping place or from some Bome rear near platform But what ho he Is 18 Ismore Ismore more vitally Interested In knowing l Is how he wa was wag reported reported correctly correctly or In Incorrectly In- In correctly correctly-b correctly correctly-by by the local scribes and how hl his hi utterances have Impressed the country coun coon try at large Some clipping agency will wJ garner for him or his secretary every atom of ot news and comment and engage to forward the same to him at various points en route Again the financial magnate or the them m member of or tho thio stock exchange finds the ticker cr Itself Is Js not more valuable or Im Important im- im than a a. service er which will la Jay hay hayon on his desk sk every morning before the business of ot buying and selling begins a sheaf shea of ot clipping chipping from tram the financial columns columns col col- col of or every ery dall dally daily paper In evor every great monetary center home and foreign re reflecting reflecting re- re fleeting tho the tone ant and the t temper of ot the local markets Society those people people those who ho have havo arrived arrived ar rived no less than the climbers want want to know what is Jf being said aid about them thorn and their doings especially the lavish entertainers at Newport Bar Harbor the tho Beri shires or Narragansett The Tue Theman man or the woman who has hH written a book may have hae all tho the r reviews ther thereof of collected Actors vaudeville artists singers lIngers and entertainers are all avid for tor notices since to thorn them publicity is as JUI tho the breath of life An engagement may depend upon good notices Here again some sonic clipping bureau will do for tor them thorn what the they moving frequently from place to place cannot possibly perform for Cor themselves Tho The clipping agencies will keep rea real estate to operators Informed as aA to street openings civic improvements or the breaking up of ot large Jarge estates manufacturers manufacturers of or monuments or tombstones and builders of or cemetery vaults are arc kept posted concerning the tho deaths of possible w wealthy althy patrons publishers of at technical journals journal get clippings from all over the civilized d world respecting their specialty architects receive notices of or public structures truc- truc tures urea planned b by various municipalities or of private Individuals who ho may be In tho the market for tor plans and specifications In short nothing escapes the tho clipping ag agency nc ncy and it tL has been w well remarked that for tho busy man or the tho specialist It performs the work of or a private secre talc or of oe a a. press agent at a amare mere trifle trine of expense In the field of sports nowadays the clipping agency is Indispensable Every aviation meet yacht race raco automobile contest balloon voyage voyageS football match or worlds world's championship baseball series Berles Is vcr very ery apt to have several ral volumes of or clippings s prepa prepared for divers enthusiasts So with golf matches matche on the tho various links b by players of International reputation tion not only the clubs Interested but tho the individual contestants champions and runners up alike are aro apt to want to see how their performances appear In print Many any clipping agencies maintain branches In our large cities and in tho the capitals of ot Europe and tho they will contract contract con con- tract to supply clippings by the hundred thousand or ten thou thousand and For example on the death of ot E. E H. H HarrIman and of Russell Hussell Sago SogO certain of ot these agencies engaged to collect and collate the newspaper newspaper news news- paper comment on the career and de demise do- do mise of or each of these great financiers The Tho results were wera arranged and bound II its irr scrap rap books the tho aggregate ute num number r of ot clippings clippinG's running innIng Into many thousands thousand and nd forming an invaluable record for tOI the I respective families So likewise at tho the decease of King Edward Edwrd VII a E European European Euro Euro- clipping bureau was ordered to se secure secure so- so cure everything that was printed In the newspapers ne and nd magazines of the period The he results were embodied In ten great folio volumes and are among tho the most treasured J possessions Os of ot Queen Alexan dra It is stated that the work is still g going on c collections ll of at clippings ha have been made for tor other crowned heads notably the emperor of or Russia And man many ordinary everyday people resort to tho the clipping bUI bureaus aus for or co collections I of 01 If obituary notices of ot their lov loved d ones dead and gone Po So with births bIrth weddings wed wed- dings and tam family II histories and saris saries There Is practically no limit to the tho amount of or man money which may be spent on omi th time tho selection arranging and binding of or those these do volumes olum dealma deal deal- ing ma with purely purel personal matters This marvelously mar simple yet ct quite complex coOn com plex Industry Is less than th thirty years ears old Starting In iii 1881 1851 with witha a very small I force and a limited number of ot periodIcals period period- on tile file th pioneer agency has lived to see Fee publications read and ma marked dall dally daily by exp experts In It UK Its great t establishment As s man many more clip chip the selected Items Horns Another ton forte attends to the classifying and distribution and still another branch of or th the office fores tOre attends l to official and amid special assign assign- ments mentH It Is Js Jocularly remarked that after tho the marking and clipping of or a 8 newspaper nothing but tho the first page title and he head 11 tines are mire left leCt Each expert reader reador carrica carries car car- rica ries about fifty subjects In his head an as he goes JOU through h the plies of ot car I ex tx ej- changes s-no s no slight ht tax on tho the memory tho the judgment and the attention when I It ItI Itis Is I remembered that t. all are arc re ro re- j ct d. d System stem Is III what t accomplishes the desired d results result with the maximum of or Hp speed ld and accuracy anti and the lie mInimum of expense Naturally the readers arc aro divided dl Into bite t technical scientific literary and general groups group each rich readIng read read- In Ing tho periodicals on these subjects am and culling tho the matter desired from each for tor perhaps hundreds of or Individual subscribers cr ore ers to th the clipping service Great authors l such as Charles Charle and Wilkie Collins to name anI only two were addicted d to the practice of or making voluminous clippings and anI filing th thorn them away properly Indexed J. Tho The II library r o othe or of orthe the first named novelist contained d scores of or volumes filled with clippings of or e Imaginable d description dea dealing In with fact tact r fancy n or r fable bl Some of or th time the most striking ing incidents Incident In his novels no were ba baser based on actual happenings 8 in real 11 life am and when the author was as on more marc than one on occasion charged with unduly taxing the tha cr credulity of or his hi readers he hn wan was able to confound hl lila his critics b by referring th then m to some ome newspaper cutting stored a away aV on file In a Il scrap crap book Clark Russell vi th tho th nautical writer did the same lam thing on OTT two to or three occasions occasion thus proving pm-nv- pm ing the correctness of ot the adage that tha truth II Is stranger than fiction Ne Nearly every overy great groat modern dally daily journal jour jour- nal nl has It Its librarian whose duty It II Is Isto isto to file tile J away for tor future reference biographical blo- blo graphical data of or great JeRt discoveries cries eries or curious happenings happening In various parts of or the tho world all of or which am and more are Indexed and preserved preer In case of or need It was owing to this system that the time New Ne York World at t tho the time Um of or the Panama II libel I case Sf was as able to collate and print a whole volume 1 of or clippings clippings clip clip- pings r relating to the matter culled from its contemporaries B Of C the making of ot scrap crap books there Is III no end end to to paraphrase n it well ell Imo known n proverb Children delight to paste pasto up fugitive pictures and are ara never so o happy happ as aB when hen busy bulY with scissors and brush making litter r enough enouch to drive o the housekeeper housekeeper housekeeper house house- keeper frantic Then too children o oa ofa or of orR a R larger larser growth both men and women keep and file Ole awa away all sorts of clippings clip clip- pings according to the individual taste taste- poetry old and now new Jokes curious facts facia or strange happenings Women too collect collect col col- col lect clippings 8 relating to cookery household household house house- hold recipes and the like while many man a good cook book has haR been made In this wa way In time scrap books book such as these ms may come como to possess a n value tar far beyond bond the Intrinsic worth of or their sets cis contents To s settle tUo a R. date or confirm confirm con con- firm an occurrence a book of at clippings has more than once figured In courts o or of law |