The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-02

1000 The assessments on the western
Assoolated Press members amounted 20
ABOUT S25o,0O0 per annum. Hence IL Is
oiear mat aside from the aforementioned
loss they have had to pay up to this time
nearly $l50,000 under this 30 per cent
increase.
"A year later, or August %, 1894, the call
lot voluntary contributions was issued.
Inc second annual report of the Associated
1ress (page 213) states that eighty-seven
STOCKHOLDERS of the Associated Press hao
responded to the call and were paying
aooltlonal assessments amounting to $llo,-
soo ~ per annum. I think it is talr 10
assume that at least forty-five OF the
elghty-seven stockholders SO contributing
are stockholders of the Western Asso-
GATED press. and that they will have palo
during the ten months ending June 81,
1885, at least $50, 900 under this call.
IF these levies and the appropriations OF
the Western Associated Press surplus had
sufficed to proyIue for the needs OF the
service under the new dispensation, there
would be still radical difference in the
results attained by the two homogeneous,
Old and new, and evidenced by loss to
the stockholders of the Western Associated
Press of Michigan of nearly $4S4 900 in four
years.
But the statements of the operations OF
the Associated Press, up to January L, 1893
tpage 12), show a loss of $209,014 81, or,
including the salary of the general counsel
for 1894, $2500 (page 81, SILL, 514 81.
"Thus disregarding the probable losses
on operation for the six months ending
June 30, 1895, and ignoring the doubtful
character of certain assets shown on the
balance sheets of January last, we have
total of nearly $685., 900 lost under the pres
emf management of the Western organiza-
ton, probably 100000 of it being lost to
the charter members of the Western Asso-
ciated Press.
Following is recapitulation of the
figures given:
Surplus of Western Associated Press
July, 1891, dissipated by August, 1898,
$4,000.
"Loss of earnings July i, 1891, to June
80, 1895, four years at SAC, 900, $4,000.
"Early morning report assessment re-
tanned February, 1898, to June 30, 1895,
$4,000.
increase of 80 per cent on Western
Associated press members paying 1928, 600
per annum September, 1898, to JUNE, 1895,
$149.23
Estimated amount of increased assess
ment on Western Associated Press men,
bers under the call of August %, 1894, Sep
temeer, 1894, to June, 1895, $4,000.
Deficit shown January 1, 1895, SILL
514 80.
"Total, 1864. TAT 80.
Faithfully yours, F. G. MASON.
"After a conference in New York with
the Chicago Associated Press people Moves
went back to Washington and told Reriah
Wilkins of the Post that he could prove to
him from the minutes of the conference
that The United Press was prepared to
abandon all its friends and go out of bust
ness and leave him to the mercies of the
Chicago Associated Press. He telegraphed
to New York for a copy of the minutes, to
be sent to Washington in proof, and he
also asked Mr.. Wilkins to inquire of me if
/ had any objection to his having copy
OF the minutes, to which l replied that
had none and that he would be furnished
with copy of them by The United Press
as soon as they were printed, and that
they were then in the hands of the printer.
"In one way and another Mr.. Noyes sue
ceeded in convincing Mr.. Wilkins that
The United Press was going out Of business
just as he succeeded months before in
making the Baltimore papers believe that
their only hopes of getting service after
the end of the week was to go to the Chi
cago organization with him."
boxa hoo ri fho+ 4bara x-oe Soma sort
of a pledge signed by a lot of people and
that Wilkins was one of those who signed
it. Is that true?"
"Yes, that is true. There was no man
connected with our organization in whom
we reposed greater confidence than we did
in Beriah Wilkins, and our confidence was
very well expressed in the words concern
ing him printed in the Sun only few
days before he went over to the enemy,
when Mr.. Dana said: Mr.. Wilkins is not
only one of the best and wisest, but one of
the truest and best of the whole newspaper
fraternity in this country The paper that
Mr.. Wilkins signed read as follows:
"'We pledge ourselves and our associates
to leave nothing undone to promote the
interests of The United Press, and
strengthen its position in the several places
in which werespectively conduct business.
believing as we do that it ia to the interests
of every one of us to protect to the utmost
Of our power the integrity of the news SER
vice.
"1he men who signed this were: Charles
A. Dana, New York Sun; Whitelaw Reid,
New York Tribune; Beriah Wilkins, Wash
ington Post: L. Clark DAVIS, Phil adelphia
Ledger; William M. Singerly, Philadel-
phia Record; Barclay H. Warburton,
Philadelphia Telegraph; Charles H. Tay-
Tor, Boston Globe; Stephen O'Meara, Bos.
ton Journal; +. B. Whitney, Boston Tran
script; r. s. Rowland, Providence Jour
nal; w. +. Balkan and Norman E. Mack,
New York State Associated Press; A. d.
Shepard, New York Mail and Express; G..
r. Miller and George F. Spinney, New
York Times; Samuel Bowles, Springfield
Republican; John H. Holmes, Boston Her.
aid; Gard G.. Rowland, New York Herald,
and George W. Turner, New York Re-
corder."
"Have they all stood up to this pledge?"
eyes, sir; every man Jack OF them, ex-
cepting Beriah wilkins"
CARELESSNESS CAUSES DEATH.