The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-18
Our News Service.

'\HE TRIBUNE is now the
only paper in Scranton re-
"A Ceiving directly and prompt
ly the complete and incom-
parable news service of the AssO-
ciated Press. At a meeting of publish
ers held last week in tho city OF Chi
cago. in which it was represented; a
meeting participated in by more than
50 per cent. of the newspapers of the
United States receiving telegraphic
news: steps were taken to correct GER
tain defects in the organization of the
Associated Press under the laws of
Illinois and to broaden and strengthen
the lines of it's service. It's service
has always been the best in the field;
but measures are being taken to go
far beyond any achievement of the
past in the systematic collection and
distribution of news, and develop
mcnts tbon to appear will emphasize
our meaning.
when we say that the great dailies
of Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago. St. Louis, Cleveland, Pitts
burg, Cincinnati, Washington, San
Francisco, Portland, Seattle st. Paul,
Minneapolis, Atlanta, New Orleans
and other cities of magnitude dis
tributed throughout every section Of
this great country and having at their
command exceptional and in many in
stances exclusive facilities for the col
lection of the news of their vicinage
have entered most heartily into the re-
organization and Improvement of the
Associated Press, in conjunction with
a host of smaller papers, absolutely
covering the American news field, and
nat they have agreed to put their
immense resources and facilities be-
hind the remodeled enterprise on terms
# fairness to every interest, it can
Re understood that we are speaking
advisedly.
There is hardly a place of any news
consequence in the United States where
the Associated Press is not represented
both by skilled correspondents under
instructions to report promptly every
important occurrence with absolute i'm
partialty and also by members under
agreement to give careful supervision
to this work and to aid it by the whole
means at their command. What this
is worth i'm insuring a comprehensive
service instantly responsive to uneX,
pcCted news happenings of great in,
tcrest was recently shown in the Asso,
ciatcd Press treatment Of the Calves,
ton flood where the whole energy o.
its Texas circuit was at a second.
notice available to convey to the
world Information, not simply from
Galveston, but also from every import
ant point within the storm zone. II
news gathering it is the unexpected
which must be provided for; and tn
measures of the Associated Press t
provide for the unexpected in ever,
part of the civilized or uncivilize,
world represent the best devices of tn
most elaborate and resourceful mutua
news association ever instituted.
To be a member of the Associate
Press with voice in its management
and control costs more than to be
tenant of one or another of the two O
three small private news bureau
whRh are trying to compete with il
but the difference in cost represent
the difference between certainty an
uncertainty. This may not be appar
ent in day or in a week, but it wi
be plain to everybody in course of tim,
The Tribune considers that its reader
want the best and that the best is non
100 good for them.