The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-19
PASSED LOVING CUP.
Annual Banquet and Meeting of the
Associated Press

Chicago, May 19.-The annual meeting
of the Associated Press was held today
in Recital hall. Auditorium building, lis
of the 128 stockholders being present.
Vice President Horace White, of the
New York. Evening Post presided.
The annual report of the general
manager showed that the receipts last
year were 1605, 1866 and the expendi-
lures 81, $40. 545.
The present membership is 700 and
about $500 daily and weekly papers are
served through minor organizations.
The following directors were elected:
DeYoung. San Francisco Chronicle;
Victor F. Lawson, the Chicago Record
and Daily News; Charles w. Knapp, St.
Louis Republic.
The following advisory boards were
chosen:
Eastern Division-Gen. Felix Angus,
Baltimore American; James Elverson,
jr., Philadelphia Inquirer; Ambrose
Butler, Buffalo News; Charles H. Tay-
lor, jr., Boston Globe; P. c. Boyle, Oil
City Derrick.
Central Division-George Thompson,
St. Paul Dispatch; D. NJ. Houser, St.
a1nk!e, Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune;
H. S. New, indianapolis Journal; E.
Rosewater, Omaha Bee
Southern Divisional. H. Cabaniss,
Atlanta Journal; A. B. Pickett, Mem
phis Scimitar; A. S. Oches, Chattanoo-
ga Times; G. H. Baskette. Nashville
Banner; Thomas G. Rapier, New Or
leans Picayune.
Francisco Evening Post; Colonel P.
Lannan, Salt Lake Tribune; w H.
Mills, Record-Union, Sacramento; E. B.
Piper, observation-disclosures, Seattle; Har-
VeV w. Scott POTtl9 nd ()rpOnni9n
The annual banquet was held at the
Grand Pacific hotel in the evening, 100
members being present. Aside from
the ferns and roses in the center of the
tastefuIly arranged tables, a pretty fea-
ture was a large and complete printing
press of flowers. Colonel c. OBJ. Cow
ardin of the Richmond, Va, Dispatch,
was toast maker. The loving cup was
passed by General Manager Stone.
After the coffee and cigars all arose
and drank to the memory of Moses P.
Handy, Colonel William singerly and
Washington Hessing.
The first regular toast, 1.-THE New
worlds Fair" was responded to by Ed
ward Rosewater, of the Omaha Bee,
who spoke of the TranSmisSisSippi eX-
position.
The question of the second toast, "Is
the Associated Press a Trust?" was
answered by Mr. E. w Lehman of St
Louis. He said the right OF the Asso-
ciated Press to the reports it gathered
was as high as the right of each one of
Its reporters to the fruit of his own Ia
Dor. 1t was as high as the right of
every author to the production of his
own mind and of his own pen and the
speaker did not believe the courts
would ever reach the conclusion that
the Associated Press could be made to
serve those they did not choose to serve.
If that injunction could be laid upon the
members as a body, it could be laid up
on every one of them as individuals.
General Manager Stone announced
the death of the Hon. William Ewart
Gladstone and all arose and drank ITO
the memory of the man who more than
any other represented in his life the
public sentiment-the best opinion of
the world
The other toasts and responses were:
1.-THE EARTH Mr.. Henry Watterson of
the Louisville CONFECTIONERY; ITO
Woman-Warriors in time of peace and
white winged messengers in war;" Mr..
Stephen O'Meara of the Boston Jour
nal; Our People, they know no north,
no south, no east, no west, but one
country" Mr.. Clarke Howell of the At
lanta Constitution; 1.-THE country of my
adoption-lil<e an acquired taste my
love grows for her with time" General
Felix Angus of the Baltimore American