Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09

eight minutes ahead. The A. p. bulletin
just before the announcement OF Defend
er's victory said: 1.-The form of big
sloop yacht can be made out half mile
from the finish line. The second yacht Is
about half mile astern of her. The ex-
cursion fleet is clustering about the finish
line. The leader is being constantly sa-
luted by steam whistles"
The Star in its regular issue made known
the truth that during nearly all the time
covered by its account the advantage was
with Valkyrie as we'll the error above
noted concerning the turning of the stake
boat by Valkyrie, and in its extra The
Star gave to thousands of Westinghouse
the first Information Of the gratifying fact
that Valkyrie's advantage had been over
come. and that Defender had won glor-
ious victory.
A Statement by the Associated Press.
Today the Associated Press sent out from
New York the following:
In reporting the international yacht race
en- last Saturday between the Defender and
Valkyrie the Associated Press provided it
self with all available facilities to accurate
ly and promptly record the movements of
the two yachts. In addition to maintaining
a special leased wire from the Navesink
Highlands on the Jersey coast, from which
the principal observation can be made
telegraph stations at four other points on
the Jersey and Long Island coasts. and
leased wires directly connecting with its
New York office. and had tug following
the yachts over the course.
In addition to this 1t had a special wire
from the cableship MackayBennett which
had been brought here from Nova, Scotia
by the Commercial Gable Companysto pro-
ocean at Sandy Hook lightship, eight miles
from shore, from which point it was ex-
pected that each would start. Owing to the
nature of the wind, Saturdays race was
Cto fad frnrrn rtrht he Inrc
coast, south of Navesink Highlands, and
the course was fifteen miles to sea and re-
turn. The land observation was only pos
s,hle for few minutes after the yachts
started, owing to the haze. 1t was only
from the cable boat that it was possible to
accurately note the movements of the
yachts. as they passed the cableship al
most at right angles, pointing out to sea.
1.-The Associated Press reported the po-
sition of the two yachts, noting every
movement accurately until they were near
ing the outer stakeboat, when they began
to be lost to view In thick haze. The Val
kyrie led nearly all the way to the outer
mark, and was outpointing and outfooting
the Defender during the first half of the
race, which facts were verified by the off,
cial reports of the race, as made by the
experts who followed the two yachts on
tugs. The lead maintained by the Valkyrie
on the outward run was verified by the
representatives of the New York World,
New York Herald, New York Evening Post
Boston Herald and the other leading news
papers having representatives on the cable
boat. When the two yachts were nearing
the outer stakeboat the sky had become
darkly overcast and the racers could only
be family seem The lookout in the rig
gtng of the cable boat reported that the
Valkyrie had rounded the outer mark
ahead, which proved to be an error, and
was the only inaccuracy in the report.
When the yachts had nearly completed
the first half of the run, a tug dispatched
from the course by the New York World
tla1 Ill
lead of the Valkyrie as made by the look
out of the cable boat. On the run home,
the shadowy forms of the yachts were only
dimly outlined and their identity could not
be defined. tp.
1.-THE United Press bulletined through
out the entire race that the Defender was
leading the Valkyrie. This was a false
and misleading statement and demon
strated that that agency had no facilities
to accurately report the race. The Asso-
ciated Press proceeded on the theory that
either yacht might win, and it did not
proceed blindly to state that the Defender
would win. 1t told the truth as the race
proceeded, and properly reported the Val
kyrie as leading, which the British yacht
did until nearing the outer mark"
Superiority of the Associated Press.
1t Is not strange that The Star should
place implicit confidence in the Associated
Press even to the extent of being led as
in the case of this inexplicable Mackay-
Bennett cablegram, into an infrequent
blunder. The Associated Press is furnish
ing every day exclusive and accurate in
formation from all parts of the country to
the humiliation of it's rival In the trial
yacht races between Defender and Vigilant
it gave to TIE Star full, accurate and
speedy reports up to the latest hour at
which, by the quickest handling, the news
could be utilized in this Office, and The
Stars accounts of these events were so su-
perior to those in afternoon papers served
by the United Press to be beyond com
parison. In the first of the formal trial
races with Vigilant. from which Defender
when in the lead withdrew, on account of
an accident, this superiority was notably
manifested, The Star being enabled to print
an exclusive account of the ending of the
race, while the United Press afternoon pa
pers were all at sea. Hardly a day passes
without the service by it of some exclusive
iter of Importance, like the nomination of
Campbell for governor of Ohio, and of
Lowndes for governor of Maryland in re-
cent political conventions. In the very is
sues of The Star under discussion, those of
last Saturday, The Star had as Geographic
exclusives, in its yachting extra, the re-
suit of the Pittsburg- Washington base bail
game at Pittsburg, and in it's regular edi-
ton long list
Notably among these events of which
the readers of The Star were informed,
but for which one looked in vain in other
evening papers, were the return to this
Cuba of fresh troops from Spain. Hardie's
speech for the red flag in Chicago M
BANDS prediction Of a democratic split
and the departure of German-Americans
from Berlin.
The Star and It's COtcmperaries.
comparison between The Star and it's
U. P. contemporaries shows that 1t is not
alone in its Geographic service that 1t is
notably superior as a newspaper. The ex-
elusive local items published in The Star
of Saturday, the last regular ISSUE in
clude the announcement of the exonera-
ton of Detective Proctor, the authoritative
denial of Secretary Carlisles alleged inten-
ton to take the stump in Maryland. the
announcement of the new civil service ex-
aminations in the G. P. O., the controversy
over the cutting of tie rods or braces in
the G. P. o. building, Colonel Wilson's re-
port for August, important labor news
with reference to the proposed organiza-
ton of a branch of the American Fedora
ton of Labor in this city, the report of
the Washington Hospital for Foundlings,
the arrangement of a new time schedule
on the Belt line, and the progress in the
work of making it again a belt line in fact;
the Commissioners action regarding street
car tenders. and many other items of local
news. And every recurring day tells