Arizona republican., 1904-05-17
HIS QuADRENNIAL TOUR
Perry Williams Getting Ready to Go
 East.

Berry Williams, of Maricopa, was in the city yesterday. MT. Williams is ar ranging his affairs for one of his quad- rennial visits to the east. He will leave in about a month. He will spend the most of his time at his former home in Milwaukee and will also have seat. but not as a delegate, in the republi- can national convention He will visit the worlds fair, where he hopes to meet Colonel Frank Hatch and his col lection of petrified wood which has been pleasing feature of every international exposition of the last decade and a half.
 MT. Williams saw Colonel Hatch and his petrified display at the Paris expo sition. It was distracting attention from the Eiffel tower. Colonel Hatch was surrounded by throng of French men, Russians, Germans, Croats. Turks, Portuguese and Poles, and he was talking to them all at once in sev- entcen different languages. MT. Will jams hopes to see Colonel Hatch at St. Louis for he believes that the exposi- tion cannot be wholly success without that petriied wood collection.
 Mir. Williams was asked if he would come to Phoenix in the event of the building of the Southern Pacific, which would leave Maricopa no longer the southern gate to the Salt River valley. He replied that he thought that he would not: he did not believe that he would ever leave Maricopa. Tn fact he could not. In the course of his resi- dence there of years he has made a collection of Indian baskets the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world. It would be great job to move these baskets and MT. Williams would never consent to leave them. They are filled with poetry and philos- ophy, subjects of constant delightful study.
 If the railroad should leave Maricopa high and dry it would also leave that collection of baskets there and MT. Williams in happy contemplation of them.
 It is not generally known in news paper circles that Mir. Williams intro duced the first press report into the territory. When he settled in Phoenix and later in Maricopa, the happenings of the outside world were made known here after they had been forgotten else where. Local newspaper accounts of them were taken from exchanges of lin- certain age. MT. Williams quickly re- solved to correct this state of things. He had, while in the east a great deal to do with the Associated and other press reports. He therefore decided to organize the Williams Press News service. He arranged with a corre- spondent at San Francisco to send him daily 300 words, covering the most inn portant events of the days grist. Af- ter the manner of those who know how. he hung many hundreds of words upon that meager skeleton. He served the Phoenix and Prescott papers to their advantage and his own. In those days the telegraphic service was not nearly so perfect as it is now. There was fre- Quent and long Arrangement of the wires and Maricopa was apparently cut off from the east and west, but that made no difference to the Williams Press News service. It had it's custom CTS and they were not to be disap- pointed because there happened to be break somewhere in a trans-continent- al telegraph line. They and their readers, by the terms of the contract with the Williams Press News service, were entitled to know what was going on in the world. If MT. Williams could not know what had actually happened, he knew by the trend of events which he had formed the habit of watching. what was likely to happen and what ought in the nature of things to have happened. Therefore, the papers in his service were never disappointed unless the wires broke between him and them.
 He kept the service up until his pa pers were attracted by the glamors of the name Of the Associated Press which was only bigger but not better than the Williams Press News service.
 The Republican has heretofore di- rected attention to the versatility of MT. Williams, who recently wrote: " Hitch your wagon to a star
 Twas thus the sage of Concord spoke. did; she starred in Jolly Tar
 And ever since then I've been broke"