The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 8, 1899, Page 11

e e P R R PP S + Pages 11 o 20 A b ad ittt st et d a0 st X2 + + + + = - + - + + + + + + Pages 1l to 20 R s 2 S S R R S all SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1899. CROWDS READ THE CALLS YACHT RACE BULLETINS nto 1 KLU Utter Rout of Yellow Journal ism and Its Faking Methods. ROM immemorial the wood- | nd have rung with to whom and ons of these cables its cable steamers will the vessel follows the cable will connect at the running directly to the out yachts. The nd with w York Jour: eased 1 office and thence by spe- wire to the Examiner office in s R L o 0*0—0—0—0—0-0&‘&-0* In this manner thers will ed communication between r and the Examiner. Those wat ie bulletins will have the news ithin & few seconds after it is noted by »ndents who are watching the no need of waiting to twenty r the £ but he will , it seems, w ve bee m| race 18 over or after it has been declared to learn the fac Just as on Thurs- | happened without delay. | ly the Examiner bad boy is a per- | nt brat. Undeniably his conscience not be quickened punitive appli- tions to his mendacious understandi is wasted upon him, shingle Only one remedy ap- ake him swallow his | at like xaminer yellow ul boy or an | r0ugh to > Marconi bulletins of the great I O e e e o S ) B .. D N A gt namca SO VAST” THRO GS IN FRONT OF EXAMINER’S BULLETINS street, showing the amount of interest being taken in Examiner bulletins any bis fact to show g that vithout say gregate, ther o ment s unsupported. Under nagement of The Count the 5 slipper + photog ¥ 4 You give .} § + b o of s | + Lt . ¢ explain it. Noth- 4|1 any claims he | may : for the miserable t ¢ £hird attempt to + | f © | Thousanas of people in | this day to and fu. sent ou | graph to ty . two ou » been made R | all the yach: race the great Ita | @1d all and more than he promised. From start to finish every movement of the racers was followe. in a running s lucld, interesting and truthful S 6 no padding. Every wor v count. There was no “pe s . no “it seems” and “it appears,’ or “it 5 looks like,” as the Examiner yellow Kid was forced to use in a fatuous effort to )f *| deceive | The Examiner bad boy, it will be noted, ¢ | sald in his matutinal lie: “Watch the Examiner bulletins on the yacht race! . They will give the news most accurately, most fully and most rapldly.”” A few sam- ples taken at random, almost before tho who had been lured on the rocks of dis appointment by the “dulcet” shrieks of miner’s siren had time to recover, how how the bad boy fulfilled the “most rapidly” part of his promise. At 11:20 a. m. w York time, the yel- low kid posted a bulletin that the starting gun had been fired and the yachts were off. At 11:35 he posted another that the wind had shifted and decreased to about nine miles an hour. Ten minutes later, apparently to show that the Shamrock wasn't using her salls, he posted this: . & “11:45 a. m mrock lowers her spin- T naker and hoists it again after shaking it D out.” b And—now note the ‘“‘most rapidly”—at . 5! New York time, it posted the ; “Columbia’s spinnaker flaps. somewhat ! in the tening breeze. The smoke of 3 excursion .craft goes straight up out by 3 the vachts, which are now about five PS miles from the starting point." ? “Rapidl “Most rapid] You just B A e e e A wager it Poor Marconi, a stranger in a strange 1anr!. could not keep up with that sort of pa: Figure it out for your- self: Yachts Mtu'ted by the Yellow Kid A .4%@—0—@4-04—0—‘«9+®—0—&~@+®+¢+—0—0—&4@+¢—0—0—0—0+. IN FRONT OF THE EXAMINER AT 10:30 O’CLOCK. tographs Tell the Story of the : mme—rwmermm——mmrr = A1&7w Kid, he could not manage to make it 1 ,-o WMWW&HWHW+MW@+@4"@%M‘Q. 1 A City Full of People Testifies to the Splendid Service Rendered by Signor Marconi. at critical times. Mr. Marconi, stranger as he is in a strange land, sent a builetin at 1:40 p. m., New York time, posted here at 10:41 a. m. by The Call, to the follow effect: 1:40 p. m.—Shamrock turns. Cc lumbia turns a few seconds later.”” Or The Call’s mimic ocean, in accordance with Marconf’s bulletin, Shamrock was ahead of Columbia. In a bulletin some fifteen or twenty minutes later the E. aminer corrected its chart and put t At 11:16 a. m., at it | lumbia appe lead The Ca he neisco time, Shamrock where Marconi said she was. | How do the: Quite a concession from the perverse yel- | this one f low Examiner kid. Call at 1 Columbia has not bt‘dl in the lead since the yachts turned boat. B o S I S S S S SR SO SO the stake i g and the B will you bi bad boy the Columb even a pig n hour at It would tire a lousness of the Chronicle followed suit At 1:43 p. m the Sxaminer bad b likewise and two ites lat his tin whistle to emphasize the race was off Shame! shame your granny out that way Call's service D RS A A e g adjunct to mode Sl nd away * o] © | his o | for ¢ immune to the vellow mi- R N A R R R R B N R S SR L - et et isco the people have Hl A THE C OWDS G n it tried, ny number of them PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW WHICH WAY R 0. dy fo testify with The Call that % o wireless tele eriment, Above are two photographs taken yesterday morning in front of The Call business office during the progress of the o el o Gpenment o great vacht race. The upper one was taken at 11:30 o'clock from the entrance of the building. The lower one was | _ e X taken at noon and shows the crowd directly in front of The Call's Marconl bulletins. Another photograph, reproduced | Ry e = 3 on this page, will allow the reader to cot number of people In front of the Examiner's “perhaps” bulletins. | (CLRGILE e il L 2 D int the breeze nine knots an hour; set. on of the 1 he was ther sect w Kid aic rust same ess bul ch th as an still | thing Mackay nd ha used ne or the very 7 wi did not | forced to use n he fake. n of the two will not In | r a few preliminary bulletin | maneuverings of the yachts | ? he wind good pr sign | Yeliow Kid 1 minutes later. yunced the s | ! r's bad art hoy blew his tin whistle | to 1 that the race was on. At the same time The Call posted a bulletin that the Columk crossed the line, and B » Yellow Kid repeate | n, at clock, San | | posted this, to make his first bulletin had od: s not been misunderst “They are off— | Journal.” He might as well have included ‘ | himself with the Journal to make the | plural of those off. | At 9:56 a. m., San Francisco time, as | another instance of the Examiner bad ;" he put the Sham- r 3 ad on the 1 Two minute r later he put out a bulletin that th were on even terms, racing neck and neck. Pretty rap- idly itself, but nothing to the next one. At 10 an Francisco time, the Yellow Kid posted: ASBURY PARK—Columbia now appears to be gaining on Shamrock. The boats from here appear to bz about a quarter of a mile apart. Three miles from stakeboat. Three minutes later the Examiner Yel- low Kid, having blown on the salls, caused both yachts to turn the stakeboat, | Columbia leading, a minute ahead of the | Shamrock. According to the yellow Ex- aminer's own bulletins, just quoted, the Columbia had in three minutes not only crcome the Shamrock’s lead of one- arter of a mile, but both yachts had safled three miles in three minutes. A mile a minute. That beats Souther Pacific time all_hollow Most rapidl thanks to the Yellow Kid. T x\doubtedly¢ he must have been traveling with the Prince, For all the “most rapidly” of the Yel- bulletin | -0—0— B S o e 2 %hc gfitrchants 'fixthange Assnmiwn | OF SAN.FRANCISCO. | 42324z CQZZz%aficg John D. Spreckels Esq., Proprietor San Francisco Call. Dear Sir: Please accept thanks for the very complete and valu- able reports furnished the ¢<‘Exchange'' (by your wireless system) of Columbia-Shamrock race. The bulletins came /di‘f | at 1 a. m. 11:35 Shamrock ta in spinnaker, dusts and hoists it ain; 11355 a. m, chts about five miles from the start- ing point irty-five min- utes in a ¢, is a mile every ite of *most h - course of fif- een miles could be sailed in the same | breeze hours 3 minutes. fost rapidly!” Well, rather. Too d for the managers of the race, whe allow the boats five hours and b Too rapid, it ms, XMI Columbia and Shamrock on two former | sions to complete the course. Un- | btedly rapid. The Yellow Kid must | have been traveling with the Prince of | in as fast as we could place them on our |blackboards and were perfect in detail. Your courtesy-in giving us this news, ously, is very highly appreciated. Very truly yours, Secretary. o e I might say instantane 4040404040049 44000400409 G . e an an an a2 S S S S S oY ] CROWD AROUND THE CALL BOARD AT 10:30 O’CLOCK.