Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-05
TO CIRCLE THE GLOBE FOR NEWS
With its Correspondcnts-An InviG-
ious Attempt 10 Color News Causes
RebeIIion-To BE the Creates
Newest Gathering Organization Ever
Known to the World.

cldc hotel in this city today, 1t is the
first time in the history of the orguniza-
tion that the newspapers embraced in
the Associated Press membership Were
ever called together in extraordinary ses-
sion, as 1t has never before been deemed
necessary to call the owners of the great
newspapers OF the country together. out
side of the regular annual session.
The special purpose of the meeting was
to provide for an increase In the capital
stock Of the organization; to enable the
management to widen the field of its
operations so as to include the entire
country. Hitherto this association has
confined It's membership to the territory
west Of the Allegheny mountains. al
though its news has embraced the infor-
nation Of the entire globe, and it had
working alliances with all of the leading
ws-gatherlns organizations of the
world
lle attendance was larger than at any
previous meeting OF press association
ever held in this country. This was large
ly due TO the fact that a deep interest
had been aroused by the Vaccinations of
the men under the leadership of Chi.
cngo banker. looking TO the seizure of
the business Of the gathering and dis
tllbnton Of ;he news aud the conversion
| Of II into private trust. The menace,
| Allkc 10 the newspaper profession and the
| general public, involved in this attempt
was 50 great as to create general alarm
and call for prompt and heroic meas
ures.
he following members were in attend
nnce: General Horace liublee Sentinel.
| Milwaukee; T.. c. Doyle. Derrick
| OIL City, Pa; IL. IL. Coleman, Herald
Milwaukee; Edgar w. Coleman. w. j.
| Fohl, Albert j. Barr, Pittsburg Post; W
d. Brckett' Columbus Dispatch, Column
bus, o.; Fred j. Grant, Pittsburg Dis
patch, Pittsburg; A. j. Aiken, Evening
! Wisconsin, Milwaukee; b. A Eaton
| The Sentinel, Indianapolis: Il. Drscoll
| st. Paul Pioneer Press; w. J. Richards
indianapolis News; $. Il. Farrnr, Chi
cago Evening Journal; Robert Simpson,
| littsburg Commercial Gazette; Victor Il.
Lawson, Chicago Daily News and Chi
cago Record; Charles W. Knapp, 81;
Louis Republic; II. H. kohlsaat, Inter
| Ocean, Chicago; Carter II. Harrison, Jr.,
Chicago Times; II. c. Nortrede,
| president Toledo Commercials; q. $.
| Hershman manager and treasurer Pitts
manager Minneapolis Journal; II. W.
| Hawley. manager Denver Times: w.
| j. Murphy, Minneapolis Tribune; II. Z.
| Hall, 81. Paul Globe: w. G. Ball, Terre
! Hnute Gazette; Il. II. McNeely, Evans
| willie Journal; W. W. Ross. j, II. Weedy.
Jr.. Milwaukee sentinel; ID. b. Cooper.
| Nashville American; Charles Ray. Mil
| Wlukee Sentinel; Charles IL. fancy
! Wheeling Register: IL. G.. Deming, Co
lumbus Dispatch; X. &. Cooper, Denver
! Republicans; John Atkins, Rocky Noun
| tain News; George Thompson, st, Paul
/ At
| NOlksblatt; j. ID. Ellison and ID. l..
| Bowersmth, Ohio state Journal Colum.
| bus, o.; u. l.. MIrkhrpit. proxy for the
! Cincinnati Nolksfreund; Robinson Locke,
| Toledo Blade; a. W. Campbell, Wheel.
I ing lntclligcncer; James u. Scripps De.
| troit Tribune; Marshal Hulstead Gin
/ clunnu COmmercialGnzeuc /. IL. Mack,
! Suudusky Register; w Mcdonald. Kan
sas City Times W. A. Bunker Kansas
| City Journal; Eugene II, Purdue. Cleve-
| land Leader: Charles i. Taft, Cincinnati
| Ymes-Star; \. c. Boynton, Detroit
Journal; George VI. Allen, Terre Hauta
| Express; II, n. Lane. Toledo Blade; Vie.
tor Roscwater, Omaha Bee; l.. u. Hol-
den, Cleveland PlIindealer; A. H. BelO,
| and II. q. Lowe, Galveston News; VIII
| liam Drnhc, 81, Louis America; ID. NJ.
| HOuser. st. Louis Glohe-DcmOcrat; Jno,
| Schrocrs, ST. Louis Anzeiger; Florence
| liam A. Collier. Memphis Appeai-Aya.
| lanchc: Harry Snow. indianapolis Jour.
| mai.
-Four papers only members of the as
| ISOLATION, were reported as having no
REPRESENTATIVES, present and three of
| these, who were unable TO reach here
| from the Pacific coast. telegraphei tbeir
| loyal adhesion TO the association ami
| their acduiesence in and anDroynl of
| tie most vigorous measures 10 insure
| Tho purity and integrity Of Tho news
| service. They gave positive exprrssion
| In favor of the co.operntiye plan OF news
gathering, which has been Inc policy of
the Associated Press for moro fbon
thirty years, and We're eounily stron@
in their condemnation Of ali schemes for
making their collection and distribution
of news a private enterprise and snhiact
10 the irresponsible control OF designing
men. The dangers of such a system,
were made manifest, involving, as they
do, the possibility of tampering with
market reports, the cooring Of political
or other Important information ami aii
absence of restraint or censorship on
the part Of the papers themselves. So
alarming was the threat that IL was felr
by every one to reach entirely beyond
the lines of the newspapers and toneb
in vital way the interests OF every
citizen. Two or three attempts of snch