Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-29
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Observation-Disclosures
How the News of the Country is Collected,
Distributed and Taken Care OF.

| The modern American newspaper had its
! beginning in New York, and here, too the
| Associated Press was organized in 1851. II
| is the center of a com bination of nearly all
the leading journals in the United States
and Canada The agreement under which
| this corporation was originally brought
! about is as follows:
| 1T IS mutually agreed between G. Hal
| lock of the Journal of Commerce, J. aud E.
| Brooks of the Express, j. G. Bennett of the
| Herald, Beach Brothers of the Sun, Greeley
and McElrath Of the Tribune and J. w.
Webb OF the Courier, to associate for the
! purpose Of collecting and receiving tele-
graphic and other intelligence"
Later the Times and the World came in,
the latter under the Courier franchise and
since then there has been no change-until
the present-in the New York branch of
the Associated Press.
At the close of the war of the rebellion,
the great papers of the chief Western cities,
not receiving adequate service from New
York, organized the Western Association
Press. In January, 1888, the organizations
We're consolidated for more effective work
Included in the Associated Press today are
the New England (Which virtually absorbed
its rival, the United Press. the New York
State, the Philadelphia the Baltimore, the
Southern, the Texas, the Kansas and Mis-
souri,, the Northwestern, the Irans-Missis-
Sippi, and the Colorado Association.
This great organization has brought the
collection of news to a wonderful state of
efficiency. The whole world is practically
covered. The leased lines alone exceed
10000 miles in length, and favorable con-
tracts have been made with the Western
Union and other telegraph companies. At
the head offices in London, Berlin and Paris
the news collected by the great agencies of
EurOpe-Reuter, Wolff, Havas, and others
is delivered for transmission. In addition
to these, the resources of the Central News
association of London and the English
press association are at the service of what
newspaper men popularity call the Asso-
ciated Press.
In this country for convenience in hand
ling reports dispatches are sent TO central
points, such as Boston, Washington. New
York. Philadelphia, Chicago, St Paul, St
Louis, New Orleans, Kansas City, Denver,
San Francisco, and also to Toronto in Can
ada. Here the reports are edited and such
news as is of interest to other sections of
the country is retransmitted. The larger
cities receive the bulk of the news, con-
densed reports going to the smaller places.
There are some interesting figures in con-
nection with the work of the Associated
Press. The New York office handles daily
from 5000 to 100, 900 words, equal to from
fifty to seventy columns; the Boston Office
takes care of about $4,000 words. No paper
prints the whole of this great flood of
copy" but it is sifted down, and most OF
it ''gets i'm To meet the peculiar require
ments of the service. the typewriter was
adapted to receiving directly from the
Morse Instruments, special paper being
used
The agents of the Associated Press are Sc
lected for their ability and good character
They are instructed to get all the news and
tell it truthfully and concisely Judicial
fairness must characterize the treatment of
all political and religious events. Its enter
prise and wonderful work on many
occasions-notably, the SAMOAN disaster
and JohnstoVn fiood-are nsw matters of
history.
P. p. P. stimu&tei~e appetite and aids the
process of asSimS MOI, cures nervous troubles
and inyigorateS~ strengthens every organ of
the body. N2f6usN ostration is also cure by
the great a1PpowerfdsR. z. p. Its effects are