Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-03-22
A Letter from Mr., Wilson Of the
New York World,
In which The PhaniS j. Called to Ac-
count fer IT. sins.


January q. lsss. The World published
among its telegraph news a brief despatch
from Columbus, in which the CORE
.yonient quoted from an old wool circular
a table Of prices Of wool at Boston The
World was no more responsible for the &C
curacy Of the circular, or Of the sender.
than it was for the accuracy Of the teleg-
rapher The table was not The Worlds
Il was not even the correspondents And /
The World could no more be held response
ble by any reasonable person for any error .
in it, figures than The Phoenix can be held /
dates Of this letter
From January ?. lsss, 70 December l9. |
l~s>-from before the political campaign |
opened until after it closed-that table was
never quoted. alluded 70 or mentioned in
any way by The World, editorially or other
wise. For twenty years pas, the wool arsu-
meuts and the wool tables Of The World
have been based on the prices IN this market
a. compiled from our Chamber Of Commerce
reports and used by the secretaries Of the
treasury-the same tables Mr. Spoford
forwarded % YOU 10 show the inconsisten-
cies ot the table Of Boston prices quoted
by this Columbus correspondent from this
circular
In December last a subscriber to the
weekly edition asked for the average price
oi wool and he preferred, il be could get
them. the Boston figures This Boston ia
B. AgN ., t.
years Il mad been widely used IN the
campaign. though nof By The World and
no one had attacked its accuracy 81 far a.
known Life Is too short 70 prove what j.
hot doubted and hAs stood the test Of time
The table was published in the weekly ELI
zion u December 18th for the benefit of
this correspondent. This was It's first and
only appearance in The World After TIN,
publication IN December. publication uu.
known to you, came your letter question
Ing the accuracy Of this Boston table and
asking y hat it, origin was Careful exam
iuati0n and comparison with the tables use3
by The World showed discrepancies rup1s
sihle o. account for How many blunder,
had been made by the correspondent, how
many by the telegraph operator, how man!
by the printer. how many we're ia 1t org
inally, could not be known. and | at once
began an investigation into its source. Thu
extended over two months including cor
resp1nience with all know who issue
I WOOL circulars. wool experts, compilers Of
wool statistics and Of other statistics, and
al persons likely to give information These
figures had been used il l-Sj and - ia
western wool petitions u Congress. re
memDer-l them. because they gave Boston
prices. They hal been printed long beforr
the Columbu, correspondent used them.
and the first effort made was naturally u
get "a the track 1t those petitions. This
could not be dome IN day. a. YOU seemed
- ,uppp-e. and when you kept prodiiu.
and insisting upon an off hand and immelI-
ate answer % problem involving more
work than the determination Of a comet =
orbit from the observations Of d single
night gave you TAO parts Of the work to
work On yourself As / told the messeu-
yer you sent u me was much more in
terestel than YOU we're in finding out the OF
igin Il these figures and Why such discrep
ancies could exist, in the reported prices
,a,y,sen the B,.,on and Nsa York mar
kets
Tb..spla ,,.ss cli,,r,-d b,. the corr..r.,,,i.
-p, he .sy. f-,r, a, ola vol circular
,bicb fell into hi. hands and I. which he
added from the Cincinnati Commercial.
t-irgip., +, mn 70 dstA
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