Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-09
THEY SIT IN SACKCLOTH The New Orleans Morning Dai-
 lies Are Disguised AT THEIR FAKE SERVICE The Daily States Makes Merry and GleefuIIy
 Rubs It In. AWFUL BLuNDER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS It Couldn't Tell the Broad Beamed Enellsh- man From the Saucy Yankee-Mil-
 lions of People Sore Over
 the Sell.
AWFUL BLUNDER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS

New Orleans, Sept. 8-The Tines-Dem- ocrat this morning thus apologies for yesterdays fiasco:
 The Times-Democrat owes and hereby renders an apology to the crowd of peo- pie who were fooled with bogus news on our blackboard yes .erday in reference to the international race between the De- fender and Valkyrie III flor the Amer ica's cup.
 "Vexed and chagrined, however, at being made the medium of publishing incorrect news, we need hardly assure our readers that it was not through any fault of ours that we furnished such mis- leading information. It was the fault pure and simple of the Associated Press, which mistook the one boat for the other and deluded millions of people with false news. For such grevious mistake there is only the excuse that no human Sys tenn is perfect. But this is an excuse that would better not be made.'
 The Picayune had nothing to say this morning by way of apology for its bull eltins yesterday. No language could ex- press it's profound humiliation and deep disgust for the way the Associated Press deluded it and the crowds who stood around the Picayune's bulletin board.
 Under the caption, "A Grand Scoop" the States this morning devotes three quarters of a column to roasting the Times-Democrat and Picayune for the ridiculous blunder of the Associat ted Press yesterday in reporting the yacht race.
 "The States yesterday, by reason of it's superior teegraphic news service, scooped and humiliated that well-known concern called the Associated Press, managed by one Stone of Chicago, in tn ksfa of scoop was the great race between the American yacht Defender and the Eng fish yacht Valkyrie, now engaged in a contest for the cup won in English wa ters by the Schooner America as far back as 1851.
 fired and the Valkyrie crossed the start ing line ahead of the Defender, the As sociated Press lacking the facility to keep track of the two flyers, fooled she public and its patrons for time by is- suing bulletins to the effect that the Valkyrie was far in the lead of the De- fender, and our esteemed morning con temporares, the Picayune and Times Democrat, persisted in posting the bull letins on their boards until they had verified by special dispatches the news sent out by the United and Southern Associated Press and bulletined by the States that the Defender had won the race
 'The United and Southern Associated Press is the service which the States re- lies upon for all important news mat ter, and the States yesterday evening was the first and only paper to inform the people of New Orleans that the De- fender had won the first of the series of races for the challenge cup, and shortly after the start had taken the wind an1 led the Valkyrie.
 "In the meantime statements were ev- cry minute sent oyer the wires of the Associated Press that the Valkyrie was far ahead of the American boat. As these highly disappointing bulletins were being given to the public by our morn ing contemporaries the telegraphic news of the States was corroboratcd by the special dispatches received by the cotton exchange and pool rooms from reliable correspondents in New York
 "The States wishes to say that by req son of it's membership in the Southern Associated Press it was the first to ob- tain reliable news regarding the progr. ss and the result of the yacht race. The United Press consists of such papers as the New York Herald. Sun, Times, Tri- bune, Recorder, Mail and Express and others It is impossible with their means and facilities. for the Southern Press, working in harmony with it, to be scooped in an important piece of news like that of the race of yesterday"