FLASH BRINGS ELECTION THRILL Within a Few Honrs After You Mark Your Ballot Verdict ■Will* Be Sent Out Kew York, Nov. 3. F-L-A-S-H-! IS ELECTED! On the night of Tuesday, November 7, the missing name in the foregoing sent ence will be supplied by The Associat ed Press. In the business of news-gathering rift, developed by this world-wide or •sfnization, the first word sent over the wires telling of any extraordinary event is "Flash"! It is the signal of a thrill. Tho ordinary routine of The Associated Tress bureaus and their hundreds of newspaper-members is often punctuated with the "F-l-a-s-h!" Operators from Bangor "to San Diego, from Tampa to Tacoma, tighten their lagging nerves, and edi tors come scurrying to the wires to hear a Pope is dead, a Titanic sunk, another country at war. a Lusitania torpedoed, a battle won, a king de posed. or a President elected. This latter thrill has a recognized periodicity, like the passage of a comet, and the experience of it Is again imminent. Within a few hotirs after you have scratched your ballot. The Associated Press will have flash ed the verdict which you and sixteen million fellow voters have rendered — wili have flashed it perhaps within a few minutes after the last of these sixteen million ballots has been drop ped in its box in some of the Western States, where three hours difference in time makes late the closing of the polls. Working to Break Records How, in this brief time, anything approximating nn accurate accounting of these sixteen million votes can be achieved, the returns assembled, and the result made known throughout the land is a process both simple and marvelous. It is true, of course, that ] all of those sixteen million votes are not counted, but when The Associated * Press announces the election, that j announcement will be as trustworthv as if they were. , The gathering and distribution* of returns this year will mark one of the greatest co-operative efforts that has been made on any similar occasion to accomplish this purpose. In pre- i vious elections The Associated Press, 1 relying more largely on its own re- | sources, has done notable work in the ' prompt and accurate reporting of the election figures. In the Rogsevelt- Parker contest of 1904 the organiza-I tion was able not only definitelv to an- ! nounce the result but also to indicate the full extent of the victory as early i early as eight o'clock on election I night. Equally remarkable service has been rendered in othe rejections, and the value of The Associated Press ngures has been such that de feated candidates themselves have on the strength of them. sent, their telegrams of congratulation to their victorious opponents. The service has been such that it has invariably i brought to the executives of the or- • ganization a flood of telegrams on the day after in tribute to the "com-! n " speed -" al >d "accuracy with which the work has been done. , This year it is possible that all rec ords will be broken, for The Associat- ! ' las for the coming election 1 * e <-operaUon of its mem- i bers from coast to coast in a more concerted effort than ever before Preparations Long Coder Way More than two years ago prepara- ; ttons were begun, under the direction general manager of The Asso- Pr ?*\ to "cover" the news ' which will be served to the public "'fb. 1 . of November 7. Election of the organization have dur in S tt,l W T°- i' ears canvas sed every I m the mon and arranged with the papers of each State to work to fhotn. c °-°P Per # e rativo basis under : the supervision of the established' nf S 2£ r ress bureaus. Thousands ' forms have been prepared ' fnL . e v, systen ] atlc conduct of the ser- : of sheets [ distributed listing candidates and : shoeing votes four years ago as a basis of comparison, special corres- ! Pondents appointed and special wire i facilities arranged for this* particula? ! In the collection of returns the and D it i' S thp er>Where made the unit, and it is the purpose of the system to fr ° m - eVCrv " election li w v f I 2 ore lm P°rtant States. ! In New \ork State alone these tricts number 5,700. In Illinois there are over 5.000 and in other States a larSP number of dis* tricts to be heard from. Takine New t^°a r t k State as typical of the syatem that w ill be followed, in principle at east, by other States, the service there is worked out broadly as follows- XT O „. -J e,v v °rk the Center Haying arranged for some com petent man to take charge of county up-State and for" tive effort with the New York CuC- News Association for the collection ' ?■*? * center, usuallv the countv seat 6 ?' 6 " 1 which he throws out his ne for Z gathering of his local returns rh h a°t S °ten Th k e forms, blue forms, buff oomplj^V^^e^rl^f b£ .aussffr to tho ele"t fonTh e KrasHs? SSnSST' cjosfng of a t n he^o.^ n t U hc B w o^ e b r e , ri t n h 15 e The firs returns in New York are r v P rc„s°s"jii Maine which for years have nrMcn lhei> S vot| 3 °?n be '"h th ® firSt ln wlth j-neir \ote. In such small Dlarpn th law permits the opening of the ballot tain e9 th^t B °t°h n U 'f V, hM been made cer- Jain that the full vote of the place r siade e kno^vn ed th ° reßult is then Ovor 17.000 Miles of Wire It is only by driblets that the first figures come in, but once the ava the tf l S Bt , ait ® d there is no letup to the tick of the telegraph sounders t 1 i S T arm of 1110 colored blanks is kept flying from the receiving oner ators to the tabulators. The figured are first entered by the tabulators and i aIonK to the designated chief who keeps a "Doomsday Book" show- i ing the running total of the vote throughout the night. Ev V y fifteen minutes the business of tabulation is punctuated by the issue of a bulletin on New York State, which is rushed to the leased trunk wires of The Asso ciated Press and over three main arteries and secondary ones some FRIDAY EVENING, HARIUSBURG TELEGRAPH NOVEMBER 3, 1916. BUT THIS IS H OW HE DID IT fsa voo itooGtff, beacon, t&T divorcer of \ (MHJE ME^JHEj J tero^lafMAKE, A \i BUT*™ """ u 30a N w 47.000 miles of them, some eighty 'different circuits the news circu lates, keeping all o{, the nine hundred ' and forty newspaper-members of the association posted on how the coun try is going. The form of these bulletins Is known to thousands who have seen them flashed on the election screens: j "506 election districts out of 1 6.700 in Xew York State, for ! President, give: Wilson ; I Hughes ' So, district by district, these bul letins grow until it looks so certain to some of the experts that one paper •or another will concede saAiebody*s ! election. But the Associated Tress ; concedes nothing. It must know. ■ In the year of the Odell-Coler 1 fight for Governor of New York in 1900, its system had a severe test. Coler ran up a big vote in New York City, and the heavy vote of Odell up-State was overlooked by many of i the newspapers which conceded Cool er's election. The Associated Press, in the midst of this confusion was led to wonder If its figures were right. 'The general manager, had an abiding i confidence in his men and figures, but in the face of concession that some of | the papers were making of Coler's election, something must be done to j check the matter. He ordered a re ! count. The system provided for just j such an emergency, and this Odell j Coler year is the cnly time it has I ever been called into play. All of the I county returns, after being tabulated, .and hung on a large rack o'f hooks, ' classified by counties, where they are i immediately available for recount. Off the hooks came these hundreds j of telegrams, and in just fifteen min utes time the entire State vote was recounted. 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Marks & Son ifl Harrisburg Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Society Brand and Cloth Craft Clothes EM9 Fourth and Market Streets JjwK that a plurality of one for—(lt would bo partisan to anticipate the name) j had been cast at Ranch 49. There are several such remote districts even i in Xew York State whence news leaks! almost as slowly as in Montana or Idaho. And there is no deprecating j the importance of the vote that is cast at Clover Four-Corners. It is the will j of the people that rules, and The As sociated Press can know no distinc tion when it comes to the counting of j honest ballots. Otherwise it would 1 not pay for that twenty-mile ride. Surpasses War Interest Xew Jersey has been a thorn in the flesh of the election tabulators for many years. In the first place it re fuses to close its polls until 7 o'clock, I and its law requires that the counting j of the entire ballot from top to bot- i torn shall be completed before another ' ballot is taken up. There are upwards ! of 240 names on the Jersey ballot ' this year in some of the cities, and ! it is doubtful whether x on election j night President Wilson wnll know how i his own State has gone. The Jersey j method is employed in some of the! Central and Western States, adding aj further handicap to the difference in j time, but New York and a majority! of the Eastern States put Presidential | electors on a separate ballot to facili- I tate the count. If the foregoing has not helped you . to visualize the process by which the j greatest news-gathering organization j tries to satiate your election curiosity and furnish masses of figures to back j up its announcement of the victory, j picture to yourself this one fact: On \ election night the facilities for wire | communication over practically the ' entire country are for the moment I devoted almost exclusively to the col- i lection and distribution of returns. | The mileage of those wires you will j find run up into the millions. The Associated Press leased wire system ; itself is almost doubled on election ! night, and the telegraph companies! in their own way are co-operating directly or indirectly in the great ef fort to bring the figures to a head. Consider also the human factors thousands of operators at the key and telephone transmitters, newspaper re porters and editors at work on local | situations, while the army of trained j Associated Press men are assembling i all their matter, and you arrive at | something like a general glimpse of i the efforts that will be made on elec- | tion night to supply the missing name j in the first sentence of this article. Surpassing though it will public in- i terest in the great war, or in the mul- | titudinous events that the world daily i contributes to the excitement of the j breakfast table, the news of a Presi dential election will by no means at-' tract all of the argus-eyes of an or ganization whose field is the world. So elastic is the system of this clear ing-house for news, that its corres pondent in Peking may come in at the height of excitement over the election with a new revolution in China, its representataive in Panama with a dis astrous slide in Culebra Cut. Its bureau in Petrograd with a stirring speech in the Duma, or its men at the front with a great victory. The usual designated men are on deck to handle any emergency, in the election or out of it. Germans Training Dogs to Lead Blind Soldiers London, Nov. 3. According to the correspondent of the Dally Mail, an in teresting experience is about to be car ried out by Germany, in which the ever faithful dog will play an impor tant part. It is proposed to use the Red Cross dogs, which have alreadv done extraordinarily fine work during the war. The ever dutiful animals are to be trained to lead, accompany and pro tect officers and soldiers blinded at the front. The German army had 2,500 dogs in service at the end of 1915. Finds Law to Forbid Selling Bread by Loaf Altoona, Pa., Nov. 3. ; Digging up the law of 1797 which requires all loaf bread to be sold by the pound, Consta ble J. J. Bradley has prosecuted five of the leading bakers of the city for sell ing by the loaf. The defendants are John Haller, former president of the Pennsylvania Bakers' Association; H. W. Trostle, Franklin Brothers, J. C. Peightal and Mrs. L. S. Henshey. The law requires every baker to keep a set of scales and weights in the bak ery. Violations carry a fine of $lO, half of which goes to the informant. The bakers intend to flglit the case, and have employed counsel to repre sent them. ASK FOR and GET HORLICK'S THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK Cheap substitutes cost YOU same price. 13