The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-19

4 EIEOKAIl Will w AAlN cSftY cCtffttS
fate, bu6Eished in this city in which the
afternoon dispatches of the Associated
Press will appear.
TELEGRAPHIC NE WS SPATCHES
THE discussions arising from the false report
of the arrival of the steamship City of Boston
at Queenstown have awakened an unusual
degree of public interest in the whole subject
of the supply of telegraphic news to the daily
journals. We have, therefore, deemed this a
fitting occasion to explain the position of The
EVENING TELEGRAPH in this matter, more
especially as its relative advantages in OBJ
tanning and promptly publishing the very
latest intelligence from all portions of this
and other countries have recently been
greatly improved, and it is right that readers
and advertisers should be apprised of the
character of the arrangements upon which
our unquestionable vantage ground over all
afternoon contemporaries is based. We have
not the space here to give an elaborate de-
scription of the practical workings Of the
Associated Press. 1t is sufficient to say
that every influential journal in the
country depends upon this source, exclusively,
for its regular supply of telegraphic news
In New York, the Herald, Tribune, Times
World, San, Journal Of Commerce, E0e0tng
Post, Commercial Advertiser, and E0ening
ErpreSs look to this quarter for all their des
patches Except those called specials). In
Philadelphia precisely the same intelligence
is supplied to the North american, Ledger,
Inquirer Press, Age, and The TELEGRAPH
and to no other daily journals IN this city. The
superiority of this news to that furnished by
any other association is well understood by
all intelligent readers, and it constitutes, in
fact, the main cause of the superiority of the
journals we have named, as newspapers, to
their contemporaries Long experience, abun-
dant capital, the control of many thousands
of miles of telegraphic wire, and the employ
ment of hundreds of agents, have
given to this association 80 strong a position
that all attempts at serious rivalry have proved
abortive, and the few successes of its antago-
nists have been limited to the temporary
triumph of nefarious schemes to steal GtS ReDS.
Formerly the dispatches of the Associated
Press were furnished to the Boenj1g Bulletin,
of this city, as well as to The TELEGRAPH.
But, for reasons unnecessary to mention
here, the Bulletin was recently cut off from
this source of supply, and after this occur
renee The EVENING TELEGRAPH effected an
arrangement with the managers of the Associ-
ated Press in this city by which this journal
obtained the egcJ1sjUe right of publishing
Associated Press dispatches in regular after
noon and evening editions. For this
privilege we pay a good round sum
nearly as much as The TELEGRAPH
andBuUetin, combined, paid, when they shared
jointly the news and the expenses. But, as a
practical result, we have the same vantage
ground over the Bulletin, and all other after
noon or evening journals of Philadelphia,
that the North american, Ledger, In
qaeiTer, Press, and Age possess over their
morning contemporaries or that the Herald,
Tribune, World, Times, and Sun possess over
such journals as Brick Pomeroy's New York
Democrat. Ourfacilities for obtaining prompt
and reliable intelligence are therefore now on
a frmer basis than at any former period, and
the superiority of our news is palpable
to every intelligent observer. Since the
Bulletin has lost its former facilities
it has been compelled to fall back upon the
device of copying our dispatches, and day
after day intelligence which appears in the
third or fourth edition of The TEIEGRApH is
vamped in later editions of the Bulletin.
1t is true that it obtains by this expedient
much Of the sama naws that we publish: but