The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-19

sleeping on the floor of a nipa hut in
LuzOn, waking at daylight to hear a
candidate address a sleepy audience at
Herkimer or Syracuse or Podunk in
New York state and seeing the bat
tie ship New York in gray paint go into
action in the Caribbean. This was just
called training by the office at 179
Broadway, but that it was good train
ing is subsequently shown by the ap-
pointment of Robert Collins of New
York and elsewhere as the correspond
ent for the Associated Press and Reu-
ter 5 News syndicate at Picking, where
he now controls the greatest centre of
Oriental news, lives in a house which
goes with the jOb-wfhch is a palace
draws great many thousands of dol
lars a year and is held perhaps next
in power in North China to the Eng
fish ambassador and Sir Robert Hart,
whose friend and associate he is.
How News Is Gathered.
Without the United States the Asso-
ctated Press obtains a great deal of
its news through combinations with
similar foreign news collection agen-
cies, notably the one with which Mr.
Collins is associated as the chief of the
Oriental end, Reuters News agency of
England. The Associated Press fur
nishes to this organization, which in
cludes almost all of the English and
colonial papers, with the news of the
United States in return for that from
the British possessions and from those
corners of the world in which British
interests are paramount, and in which
the United States has not so great an
interest.
Until quite recently also the news
which has come to- the United States
from South America has also come by
a transfer with a European agency.
Two years ago, however, Mr.. Stone per
sonally made a trip about South Amer
lea and established offices for the
Associated Press at a number Of the
South American news centres which
will eventually grow into a system by
which it is hoped to preclude the ne
cesSity of European made news on
either of the American continents
There is, however, a very excellent
news service maintained from La Prem
sa, in Buenos Ayres, through Italian
connection at Naples which has stood
for long time as a model of a news
gathering agency.
Covers the World.
Thus, throughout the world the AS
ISOLATED Press is represented, either in
person or through reciprocal arrange
ment, by a corps of correspondents
which forms so complete net that not
an item of interest or Importance can
escape. Trained in fairness and facts.
the men of the Associated Press rep
resent an army which has fairly fought
for the worlds progress by their own
method.
In the United States the Associated
Press members are. in most cases.
served by means of leased wires. For
merly the telegraph companies handled
the Associated Press dispatches as or
binary filings. Today the Associated
Press operates approximately $4,000
miles of leased wires.
In this country the chief office for
the assembling of news is New York,
where an immense staff of experts is
maintained for the purpose of editing
the news. Chicago is the main distrfb-
uting point. From Chicago every sec
ton of the country is served There
are about twenty-five operators in the
Chicago Office and editors for each
wire.
The operators in the Associated Press
service are the most expert in the bust
ness. They are not only telegraph OPP