New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-23
EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS.
THEIR ASSOCIATION HOLDS A MERRY
FEAST.
REPRESENTATIVES, OF LEADING PAPERS ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY on HAND-NEws-

REPRESENTATIVES, OF LEADING PAPERS ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY on HAND-NEws
PAPER SUBJECTS BRIGHTLY DISCUSSED.
The two hundred business-ike looking repre-
senting the American Newspaper Publishers As
sociation. tired of dry discussions on finance.
telegraph wires. libel laws and printing machines.
last night sought relaxation in Il dinner. In the
large dining room at No. l.2j2 Broadway they as
sembed under the presidency of c. w. Knapp.
Of THE St Louis Republic" This the eighth
annual dinner of the association and it of
the most successful Nearly every leading news
paper North East. South and West, was repre-
scented. At the chairmans table or in different parts
of the room could be such well-known men as
Melville +. Stone. Andrew Mclean of THE Brook
lyn Citizen: Victor F. Lawson. of THE Chicago
News: ST. Clair McKelway, of The Brooklyn
Eagle: c. W. Knapp Of The ST. Louis
Republic: Colonel y. G. Osborne, of The
New-Haven Register; Z. r. Dodge, of the
Merganthaler Typcsetting Machine Company;
] w Stoddard. of The Baltimore American
F r. Whitney, of THE Boston Transcript:
stephen O'Meara of THE Boston Journal; Charles
H. Taylor ir. of THE Boston Globe; j. 5. Sey-
mour of The New-York Evening Post; William
c. Bryant. Of The Brooklyn Times ; T. T. Peters
OF THE Brooklyn Times; William Berri of The
Brooklyn Standard Union; Warren +. Smith. OF
THE Brooklyn Tines; Major T. Richards and
Perry Lukens, jr of THE Indianapolis News
f. NJ. Hooper. of The Philadelphia Calf; Colonel
Robert NJ. Floyd and W. \. Brooke. of THE ~.
Louis Republic; w X. WOrran. of The Mall ana
Express: Herman Ridder. of THE Stats Zeitung';
George Z. Randall, of The Kansas City Star
NJ c. Refer of The Detroit Tribune; George G.
Booth of THE Detroit Evening News; w. a.
Bunker Of THE Kansas City Journal George e.
Hill Of The Indianapolis Journal; +. G. Deming.
N"rhe Columbus Evening Dispatch; y. +. Langtry
Of THE Springfield Union j. II. Lindsay. OF The
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Tines; J. 5. Mccartney. of THE Philadelphia Rec
ora: II. +. Gunnison, of The Brooklyn Eagle
Walter p Phillips and Colonel Finley Anderson
Of the United Press l.. Swift. Of The Minneapolis
Journal; X. A. Craig of New-York ChaT'eS +.
Pierce of THE Boston Journal; Albert J. Barr,
of The Pittsburg Post; Frederick b. Noyes. Of
"The Washington star; J. NJ. Mill1r Of The chi,
caUo News; 4. 5. Calvert of %fhe Cincinnati
Post; +. G. Bell. of The Savannah CGaJ News;
Arthur Jenkins. of The Syracuse HERALD; k O.
Cooper, of The Denver Republican; Colonel
A. b. De Frece. of the Mail and En-
nress: Frederick j. Grant. Of "The Pitts
burg Dispatch; Joe Kerr. of New-York.
j. 9. Metcalf. Of Life; Ellis H. Masters of The
Tribune; George c. Pease. II New-York J. Ambrose
Butler Of 1.-THE Buffalo News f. l.. Whiting Il
"The Boston Hera!d"; George i. spinney, OF The
Times: L. II. Perdue. Of The Cleveland Leader;
F. Fayram. Of "The Detroit Free Press; W. Liv
ingston Of 1.-THE Detroit Journal; A II. Finn, Of
"The Detroit Journal; Max II. Fischer. Of THE
Milwaukee Journal: S. ;. Nreeland, Of THE Pitts
burg Tines: James Elverson. Of The Philadelphia
Inquirer" and Frank b. Stevens Of THE Boston
Journal"
MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT SCOTT.
pleasant incident in the dinner the reading
OF the following cable message from James w.
Scott president Of the association who IS just
now in London:
kindly convey to the members OF the American
Newspaper Publishers Association and their friends
assembled tonight at the festal board my very
best wishes. | am drinking their best health here
in London with my trowsers turned up.
MR.. MKELwAYs SPEECH
The speech of the evening was that delivered by
s., Clair McKeway editor of THE Brooklyn
Eagle" who spoke on the Relations OF the Editor
to the Publisher" Part OF what Mr. McKelway
said Is follows:
Mr. President and Friends: Two thing: crafty
glad i am not publisher. David G. croy. under
whom ! had my training on another put ho 1,
pubsber is the eternal enemy Of the editor. The
sanctum should maintain an armed neutrahty Tow
ways suspended on Fridays. when went down
stairs to get our little yellow envelopes ana SOM, so
special application for special advance TO be liqui-
dated by periodic instruments was required by an
emergency in the affairs Of nations and OF men.
Editors of the period. however. long ago got over
Mr Croiys pessimistc view Editors are the besr
money for them. Publishers are the best friends of
editors, because they let them nave some OF inc
money which they have made
FRIENDS ON BOTH SIDES
know a good deal about publishers for went
out TO Chicago last week a proxy OF publisher
10 the Associated Press gathering. Now none OF
You United Press fellows need look at me askance.
for I'll buy all the one OF the associations
has and Will steal all the news that the other as
ISOLATION won't sell TO me. and will thus maintain
dgnihed impartiality between the two. "A brooklyn
woman on a railroad train was sepulchrally asked
I'D
80 10 Heaven to hell. She said IT was matter
or Indifference to her, because she had friends In
both places l don't whether you're A. i. men
or l. =. men. for I have friends In both associa-
Tons and II any men In either or them are my
enemies they are the victims of envy Ignorance.
malaria or indigestion.
NEWSPAPER LIFE IN CHICAGO.
There is one thing. however about those Chicago
publishers that | hope Is characteristic or your
whole associaton-they love one another There Is
an esprit du corps which is utterly unknown in the
wild and woolly East. They charge the same rates
to advertisers. None Of them will take an advertise
II in all the other newspapers out there. They be
long TO the same clubs. they hold the same hahus
hours and neither make nor lose a cent Cards
Merey form OF enjoyng one ahotn Gos no,icey
y they publish any at all they unlted!y disguise
snen. ard then concertedly swear that my nie
not reading notices at all. They never aow ais-
catoriai page. and they give all the news inc L1
they ind SgsI at pill Publishers in
Valcago lead the market by day ana society iuii nc
f Tns az night Editors out there ,capo club
Spending their mornings in the art museum, ,se I
In the Auditorium and their and
DIookiyn Is only sldetrack town ,,, In
Sadelphia stiffness broods oyer every Cb,caeo
publisher is the only man in the newspaper pus'Hes'
VI. tnere with liability to insomnia