Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-10
Dr.. GEHRING'S STATEMENT RE
GARDING THE ARRANGEMENT
WITH THE ASSOCIATED
ppECG

IAkEoDs
On Wednesday afternoon. Septem-
Der %, 1901, one, w. Upperman who
represented himself as the assistant
manager Of the Associated Press, came
to Galilee N. j., the station OF the
American Wireless Telephone and
Telegraph Company, at Lockwood's s
House and stated to DR.. Gehring presi-
dent Of the American Wireless Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company and
! capt. Nelson Lockwood, that he rep
resented the Associated Press, that he
made a contract with the Marconi
Company, of London, England, who
was to furnish the wireless telegraph
news to the associated press for $751;
OOO." / stated, that we would have
furnished all the news for cost of re-
porting" He stated also chat Mar
coni's company had permission to go
inside the lines Of the yacht course on
the Associated Press boat "Mindora,"
ana that we had no show whatsoever
to report the yacht races; that there
was a Chicago party at SeabTight, one
NILE above us, who were also going
to report the races" Mr.. Upperman
thought that the different systems
ght interfer with each other. | told
him, mo 81 had no fear of that as
far as our getting the bulletins was
concerned. He suggested that we
each work every alternate five minutes
so that we would not conflict I told
him that was agreeable to me and he
left.
On the following day, September 26,
Mr.. Upperman rushed into our tele-
graph Office at Gailee called up Mar,
conf people at Nevarsink Highlands
and swore at them because they could
get no bulletins. stating that these peO-
pie here (meaning the American Com
pany) were getting them very nicely
without trouble; he then asked me to
give our bulletins TO the Associated
Press; 1 demurred he then stated that
they could get no bulletins from Mar
conf. that his service was rotten and
no good and we interfered with the
working of the Marconi system, and
that II the American Company refused
to give him their bulletins, they would
do them lots of harm and ruin the
Company, that the Associated Press
was all powerful; that on the other
hand II the company would give him
their bulletins, the Associated Press
would give the American Company
due credit for Il in 1900 papers, which
they represented, and would help us in
every way. l then accceded to his re-
quest and he ordered a loop cut in
from the Western Union Office to their
New York office. as he wanted it. In
THREE MINUTES. and the American
Wireless Telephone and Telegraph
Company then furnished the Assoclat- !
ed Press the race bulletins.
On the afternoon of the 26th, after
the race, Mr. Upperman closed the
doors and then made the following |
proposition to me in the presence Of |
Captain Nelson Lockwood, in whose |
house we were, saying, Doctor now
YOU have received very nice bulletins, |
excepting one mistake, but your bulle- |
tins are not long enough, they are too
brief and the men on your boat ought |
to have a good Associated Press re- |
porter" I told him we had three op- |
orators on board our dispatch boat who I.
sent kilograms, however, |
we are satisfied with our service. /.
He then told me that Marconis service /.
was simply rotten and no good and N /
e.. hau not been for MS the Associated /
Press would have had no bulletins that
day. He stated then that he had been |
requested by phone from the Associ |
ated Press office to make some kind Of .
terms with our company, so the Mar .
conf company and we would work har- .
moniously together or join forces and .
report the yacht races together and .
both get credit in the press; as it is