The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-18
BOGUS CABLE TELEGRAMS.
The AHsocInted Press VS.. The American Press
AnsocinliOn--A Question OF NeracILy. -

The Associated Press VS.. The AwerIcan Press
Tothe Editor of the N. Y. Tribune. --Sir:-As
conclusive evidence that the cable kilograms"
daily published by the so-called American
Press Association" are almost exclusively bogus,
being concocted in this city, except so far as
they are based on news previously published
from this Office, l invite your attention, and
that of the public, to the following, which APP
peared in the New York Star, the Day of Phila-
delpha, and the Post of that city, yesterday
morning.
'LoNDoN, March 16-Midnght. were
received here this afternoon from New York, asking
a confirmation of report said to have been tee-
graphed from this city to the Associated Press that
the steamer City OF Boston had arrived that the
news had created the most profound excitement
both here and at LIVERPOOL and that business had
been suspended in the Stock Exchange and general
markets In both cities, in the eagerness to gather
the particulars The Associated Press Agent here
must have been made the victim OF an unfounded
rumor which came here a few days ago from
New York. OF his despatch must have received con-
siderable padding In the hands OF the New YORK
copysts The rumor OF the safety Of the steamer
not credited by any person, and there has ne N
no unusual excitement either IL thus Guy Liver
pool. Business proceeded to-day usual in all de-
partments OF trade, and the announcement that 1t
was suspended could not possibly have been tele:
graphed by any sane correspondent from this city,"
Now, assert that the foregoing telegram
never saw London, but originated in this city
and challenge proof to the contrary. On the
other hand, we have in our possession the
original telegram In which our correspondent
Yesterday notified us of the excitement in Lon
don and Liverpool-facts which his kilograms of
to-day repeat and confirm. This is only one
instance from hundreds in which we might
show that the Gable kilograms to the American
Press Association" are pure fabreations, if the
game were worth the candle. Very respectfully
yours, j. w. SIMoNToN, General Agent.
The American Press Association and the
'Eve"Ing Bulletin"
This is n wide world, and the little American
Press Association-which by this title seeks TO
distinguish itself as a soi-disant rival of the
Associated Press--is welcome to whatever
honest enterprise it can show. We are bound,
however, to take objection to any tactics which
find their round OF labor in denouncing the
Associated Press for its valuable monopoly on
one day, abusing its news as worthless on the
next stealing this news, or in default thereof in
venting kilograms on the third, and on the fourth,
de Cdpo, creScendo. hurope and America have
Joined in eXecrating the cruelty of the error
which reported the arrival of the City of Bos-
ton; but what must be said of the ingenuity
which, accepting this error, enlarged upon it to
the extent of giving full particulars" of the
mishaps and trials of the newly arrived steamer?
The news that her delay was caused by the
disabling of her machinery in mid-ocean on
the oath, after which her captain at
tempted to make her port under sail, we
owe first to late conjecture of her owners
but secondly by the indomitable inveracity of
the marvellously enterprising Philadelphia
Bulletin. Little progress was made by the
missing Esteamer, we are thus told, owing to
her poor supply of canvas and her encounter
with head winds, while her signals of distress
were of no avail in the thickness of the weather
This is frghtful enterprise. One of these days
Napoleon may be falsely reported assassinated
and what is to prevent some malefactor news
man, some ghoul of q telegraphic Jenkins, from
describing every circumstance of the imaginary
crime every fold and feature of his LAYING out?
The man who added particulars to the late
steamer hoax did more than make that crime
his OWN Y. Tribune, editorial, to-day.