The Press: Legmen

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City News has only two counterparts in the U. S.—Standard News (Brooklyn and suburbs), and City News Bureau of Chicago (pop.: 3,380,000). It was organized 40 years ago, and, like A. P., is supported by weekly assessments on its ten members.* The most anonymous news service in the world, it never receives credit in print, never gives or gets a byline. Often City News merely supplements what a newspaper's own man gathers by himself. Without it, however, each paper would have to hire 12 or 15 extra legmen, could never send large staffs out of town on big stories. In a pinch, a Manhattan editor could get out a presentable paper with only City News and a couple of good rewrite men.