San Francisco Form., Daily Racing Form, 1896-12-02

article


view raw text

SAN FRANCISCO FORM FORMDAILY FORMALLY DAILY RACING FOKM FOLK doesnt doesn't believe in the varbal verbal exultation so common in modern newspaperdom newspaper It gathers and prints its news from day to day as an orderly and well man ¬ nered neared man arranges his affairs It aims to serve the racing public and seeks its path keen ¬ ly and energetically The paper may well be pardoned for seeking the special attention of its clients toward the San Francisco charts which are published each morning The San Francisco service began with the issue of Tues ¬ day December 1 It involved the wiring of many complicated racing figures some 2400 miles The Western Union wires to Frisco when bad are the best in the land When good they are superb Monday night they were bad A mountain storm swept away five or six miles of poles last week They are being set up with keen energy The Ingleside Ingles chart of Monday came by Western Union but in a roundabout way by the ancient Wheatstone Whetstone methods Yet it landed in the office of DAILY RACING FOKM FOLK at 1010 p m complete and was off our presses at midnight At 9 a m Tuesdays paper was in Detroit Never before has such a table been wired such a distance in such time


Persistent Link: https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1890s/drf1896120201/drf1896120201_2_3
Local Identifier: drf1896120201_2_3
Library of Congress Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/unk82075800