The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-26
PLANS COMPLETED
FOR THE VISIT OF MELVILLE E.
 STONE,

Head of the Associated Press Here
 To-night--PubIic Address at Hendrie
 Hall Under the Auspices of the
 Yale Law School Political Club
 Reception at Union League to Fol-
 low Lecture-Sketch of MT. Stones
 Varied Career-His Audiences With
 Royalty Resulted in Concessions
 Plans are now complete for the en- tertainment of Melville F. Stone, gen. eral manager of the Associated Press, who will give an address in Hendrie Hall, under the auspices of the Yale Law School Political club, at o'clock this evening, upon "The Influence of the Newspaper in American Life" Alex ander Cumming, the president of the club, stated yesterday that the address will be open to the public.
 After the lecture MT. Stone will be given a reception at the Union League club by the members of the League and of the Yale Law School Political club. Many men prominent through out the state in business, social and political life have been invited to pc present at this reception.
 MT. Stone was born in Hudson, H., on August 22 1S4S, and removed early in life to Chicago, where he was gradua- i ted from the High school in 1867. He was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune in 1864. He conducted foundry and machine shop from 1869 to 1871, at ! which later date he was burned out by the great Chicago fire. During the next few years he was editor of several Chi cago dailies, and in 1875 established the Chicago Daily News and in 1881 the Chicago Morning News, which became the Chicago Record. In 1888 he went to Europe, spending the ensuing three years there. He returned to Chicago in 1891, and organized the Globe National bank, of which he was president until its consolidation with the Continental National bank in 1898, when he re- moved to New York city. MT. Stone has been general manager of the Asso- ciated Press since March 1, 1S9S
 As general manager of the Associa- ted Press Melville E. Stone has worked @ revolution in the gathering and transmission of the worlds news
 In 1902 at the invitation of M. Cambo | +l, ,1,n- 11r +o tba TTptt
 Mir. Stone went to Paris and through M. Delcasse, minister of foreign affaira
 arranged for t4.e establishment of As- sociated Press offices throughout
 France for the direct collection and
 forwarding of news I to the United
 States. Previously all European news had been obtained in London and sent from there to the United States. MT.
 Stone also secured that the news be sent uncensored, and that it should , have the right of way over the tele- , graph and cable lines, in precedence even to government dispatches.
 ! MT. Stone also visited the King of It. : ally and the late Pope Leo XIII, and se- , cured like concessions from them in Italy with press representatives at the ) Quirinal and the Vatican. He also i went to Berlin and arranged with the : Emperor of Germany for the collection and transmission of news upon the same terms.
 After an audience with the Czar of Russia in his Winter Palace on Febru- ary 1, 1903, MT. Stone secured from him an open door to each ministerial de- partment of the government for cor respondents of the Associated Press, and the removal of the censorship from all news sent out by the association, as well as precedence in the transmission
 of all such messages over the telegraph : and cable lines. This had never been , done before, even for the Russian newspapers. Thus, during the past three or four years, through the dis patches of thousands of correspon-
 dents, the daily events of Europe and
 even of the east have been an open
 book to the American public the dis patches always being received in this
 country by the Associated Press within ', from ten to sixty minutes after being
 sent from the other side of the world Mr. Stones varied and active career |. as banker, business man, reporter / editor, and as general manager, during i, the past thirteen years, of the greates a organization for the collection and dis
 tribution of news that the world hal - ever seen, fits him peculiarly well t discuss the various phases of the sub
 ject of ''The Influence of the Newspa
 per in American Life"