The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-14
Journalists From All Over the
Country in Council
THE TERRITORY DIVIDED
Representatives From Leading Journals
Elected to Office.
list of the Delegates Present - The United
States Divided Into Districts and
News Editors Appointed.

The attendance was large. III tdiliiG
them to order, President Victor f. Law
son congratulated the members ON their
ability TO rise superior to the weather.
Those present were; 5. 5. Cawalho,
New York World; Horace White, New
York Evening Post; Albert J. Barr,
Pittsburg Post; E. II. Perdue, Cleveland
Leader; James E. Scripps, Detroit Even
ing News; Frederick DriscoA, st. Paul
Pioneer Press; Charles W. Knapp, st.
Louis Republic; Frank B. Moves,
Washington Star; Hon. Clayton Me
Michael, Philadelphia North Americans
H. H. Cabannis, Atlanta Journal Walter
Forester, Louisville Commercially; w. r.
Miohaelis, Chicago Free Presse; Henry
watterson Louisville Courier Journal;
E. Rosewater Omaha Bee Charles fancy,
Wheeling Register; J. X. Hail. Wheeling
Intellgencer; L. w. Nieman, Milwaukee
Journal Lucien Swift, Minneapolis Jour
nal L. H. Baskette, Nashville Banner;
James G. Hode, Jr., Seattle Post
Intelligencer; C. e. Kennedy,
Cleveland Plain Dealer; w. A.
Bunker, Kansas City Journal; Colonel
K. G. Cooper, Denver Republican; Witten
Mcdonald, Kansas City Times; A. A.
Clarke, San Francisco Chronicle; A. J.
Akin, Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin; J.
r. Wilson, Chicago Evening Journal; Ar
thur jenkins, Syracuse Herald; J. r.. Ell
lison, Columbus (Ohio) State journal; w.
D. Brickell, Columbus Evening Dispatch;
Hon. Charles p. Taft, Cincinnati Times
STAR Robert Simpson, Pittsburg CONNER
cial Gazette; Adolph S. Ochs, Chattanooga
o. VI.
Charles L. Nixon, Chicago Inter Ocean;
Frank P. Mcclellan, Topeka State Jour
nal; J. n. Carver, Peoria Transcript;
Willis Abbott, Chicago Times W. c. Ball,
Terre Haute Gazette; Washington Hes
ing, Chicago Stats zeitung; Il. W., III.
A. and H. H. Coleman, Milwaukee Her
aid; Charles w. Hasbrouck, Boston Tray
eller; C. G. Stuart, indianapolis Sentinel;
l. f. Mack Sandusky Register; Delavan
Smith, Portland Oregonian; c. P. Walker,
Pittsburg Dispatch; James II. McNeilly,
Evansville Journal; John Schroers, St.
Louis Anzieger; Hugh Hume, San Fran
cisco Post; William Druhe, st. Louis
Amerika; A. G. Boynton, Detroit Free
blatt; a. S. Bickham, Dayton Jour
nal W. H. Kentner, st. Louis
Die West Liche Post; f. T. Lane
Toledo Blade; William c. Warren, Buffalo
Commercial; D. NJ. Bouser, st. Louis
Globe Democrat; McAlair Elway, Brook
Ign Eagle; f. p. Langley, Springfield,
Mass, Union; Bradford Merrill, New
York Press; John A. Mccarthy, Troy
Standard; c. F. Poole New Orleans Times
Democrat; Hon. Charles Emery Smith,
Philadelphia Press; James EMERSON, IT.,
Philadelphia Inquirer Foster Coates,
New York Advertiser; J. W. Scott, Chi
cago Herald; General Felix Angus, Balti-
more American; John 5. Baldwin, Wor-
cester Spy; Charles d. Pierce, Louisville
Courier-Journal George NJ. Allen Terre
Haute Express; George E. Matthews,
Buffalo Express; Perry E. Heith,
Cincinnati Commercia-G Gazette; William
c. Mcbride, Cincinnati Enquirer; ]. l..
Watson, Houston Post; W. D. Chandler,
Concord n. H., Monitor; Colonel r. G.
Lowe, Galveston News aud Dallas News;
Frank G. Rice, San Antonio Express
Dell Keiser, Topeka Capital; H. c.. Vor-
triede, Toledo Commercial; F. A. Rich
ardson. Baltimore Sun; c. H. Christy,
Baltimore News; Harry S. New, Indian
apolis Journal Major G. W. Richards,
Indianapolis News; Slayton Thompson,
Chicago Evening Journal; W. G. Muir
ply, Minneapolis Tribune; William
Penn Nixon, Chicago Inter Ocean; II. L..
Knitton and William Dawson, st. Paul
Globe; L. VESSEL Jr., Omaha Bee; c. S.
Seymour New York Evening Post.
Quite number of other papers were
represented by proxy. The report of the
board of directors and that of the general
manager had been given to each stock
holder. They showed in detail the finan-
cial condition of the association, with the
receipts and expenses for the last seven
teen months up to December 81, 1894, and
that the income was now more than suffi-
cient to cover the outlay.
The following resolution was presented /:
Resolved, That the territory of the Associa-
ted Press shall be divided INTO four grand
divisions; the Eastern division, which shall
comprise the states OF Maine, New Ham pshire
Vermont Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con-
necticut New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia The
Central division shall comprise the states of
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois. Wisconsin.
Missouri. Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska
South Dakota, North Dakota, Arkansas Ken.
lucky, Texas, Oklahoma and Indian territory
The Western division shall consist of the fol
lowing states: Arizona. California, Wyoming,
Oregon, Colorado Montana, Washington
Idaho, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico, The
Southern division shall consist of the District
of Columbia, Virginia, North and South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee Mississippi
and Louisiana.
Resolved, That the members of the Associat-
ed Press in each of the grand divisions shall
elect annually at the meeting of the commit
tee of five members which shall act rs an nd
visory board and shall recommend from time
to time to the board of directors such i'm
provements in the news service as in their
from time to time to the board of directors
such suggestions Tor the promotion of the gen.
era welfare and the interests OF the Associated
Press as may seem wise to them.
The resolution was adopted adding
this: Provided in case change of group
ing of states shall be deemed desirable by
the delegates of any state or territory, the
executive committee or the board of di-
rectors shall have authority to make such
changes as may be desirable.
Advisory ommittees-Eastern division :
p c. Boyle, Oil City Derrick; Arthur Jen-
kins, Syracuse; A. B. Langley, SPRING
field Union; Foster Coates, New York
Commercial Advertiser; James Elverson,
Jr, Philadelphia Inquirer.
Central Divisional T., Mousar 81