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Show GREAT CABLE TOLLS DURING WAR. That the war is a source of heavy expense to the American newspapers is disclosed by Louis Wiley, business manager of a New York paper, who was asked recently to what extent news of the war had increased tolls, and replied; "For the fourth week ending Saturday Sat-urday night. September 12, the London Lon-don cable of the New York Times amounted to more than 270,000 words, at a cost slightly under $20,000. The Paris cable amounted to 25,000 words, and cost $2,500. Here was a total of $22,500 for cable tolls covering 295,-000 295,-000 words. "These figures -do not include the thousands of words coming in from Berlin by wireless and through the Associated Press news from other centers, cen-ters, which increase these figures. 'In addition to this the Times sent approximately 45,000 words of war news to its South American newspaper newspa-per subscribers during that period. As the rates to South America are considerably con-siderably higher, this service added another $10,000 to the coffers of the cable company making the expenditure expendi-ture approximately $35 000 on war news alone through the office of the New York Times during this four-week four-week period "Usually it takes four special wires to carry the Times cables at night, and occasionally as many as half a dozen are employed. The dispatches are copied in sheets of 50 words or less each one properly headed and timed Rut the enormous cost, and the editing of the copy if not the most I Interesting feature The cable companies com-panies have levied the higher press rates there are alternate rates during dur-ing normal conditions and the censor, cen-sor, the newspaper editor's nightmare, puts the finishing touch on the whole machinery He seems to read th dispatches after they have been filed ;t his will or at his leisure it would often seem passing such as he t'm-eles. t'm-eles. deleting ihe most Important parts of the dispatches in some cases, and hanging the still more important ones on the 'spike.' never to be sent at all. He passes dispatches addressed ad-dressed to one newspaper while his fellow-censor, sitting at his elbow, spikes' the verj same dispatch addressed ad-dressed to another paper "A most disquieting example of this occurred in transmitting the bulletin of the fall of Naniur The bulletin conveying I his intelligence was filed by all the American press representatives representa-tives in London about 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the day it was officiallv announced in London "Three of New York City's morning morn-ing papers did not receive this bulletin bul-letin until more than twelve hours after af-ter it had been filed, it having been suppressed by the particular censor handling it. Two other morning papers pa-pers received it in due time, the censor cen-sor handling it for these papers s?e-Ing s?e-Ing nothing objectionable about it apparently. ap-parently. Often dispatches filed in sections are so held up that the third or fourth section reaches its destination desti-nation before the first one turns up. and in some cases the first one never conies " This conflict is not all profit to the newspapers, as some people have thought but a source of expense far beyond all possible increase in revenue. |