The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-16

stefani Agency, with headquarters in
Rome, gathers and distributes the news
OF Italy; 1t Is the official agency. and
to II the authorities give exclusively
all governmental information: II 10
controlled by Italians. but a large mi
nority Of its shares are owned by the
Agence Havas of Paris, and II operates
In close alliance with the latter organi-
zation.
For the exchange Of domestic news
each Newspaper whose proprietor 10 q
o-called member OF The Associated
Press Is Obliged to give the representa-
tive OF The Associated Press free access
to It's news a. soon a. gathered: Tho
Associated Press representative calls
from day to day at every Associated
Press newspaper office in the large cit
les and obtains the latest local news,
and II 1t IL sufficiently important imme-
diately transmits II by telegraph over
the corporations leased wires, and In q
few seconds II In in the hands Of the
telegraph editors OF every Associated
Press Newspaper throughout the coun.
try. For the purpose Of administra-
ton The Associated Press divides the
country into four subdivisions, each
controlled by superintendent acting
under the direction Of the general man.
ager.
The said corporation leases $4,000
miles Of telegraph wire and expends
over $1,000 a day In its work. These
leased wires. which are worked by its
own operators. stretch from Halifax by
way Of Boston. New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore. Washington, PittsburG.
Cleveland. Detroit. Chicago, st. Louis,
Kansas City. Denver and Salt Lake 70
San Francisco. San Diego and Seattle:
they radiate from New York through
Albany, Syracuse and Rochester to Buff
falo; from Washington through the
leading Southern cities TO Atlanta from
Chicago south by way OF Indianapolis.
Cincinnati and Louisville to Nashville,
Atlanta and New Orleans. as we'll as to
Memphis, San Antonio and the City OF
Mexico; and from Chicago north by way
OF Milwaukee to st. Paul and Duluth;
they also extend from Philadelphia
through the interior OF Pennsylvania
and touch by an extension from Kan.
sas City the interior cities OF Nebra ska
and Iowa on the north and Kan
sas and Oklahoma on the south.
Thus every city OF consequence Ia
reached by the wire system OF
said corporation. Three OF these leased
wires are operated between New York
and Chicago at night and two by day;
the volume Of the said corporations re-
port thus served daily to a morning
newspaper in Philadelphia or Balti-
more. through which cities the three
night wires are extended. thousands OF
words and nrdlpur "a
newspaper; the telegraph operators are
men OF exceptional skill and receive
higher salaries than are paid by the tele-
graph or railway companies; to expe-
dite their work they use automatic send
ing machines. which greatly exceed
hand transmission In speed. and employ
a system Of abbreviations which can be
sent with great rapidity.
Said corporation. having gathered its
news In the manner indicated at certain
centres. transmitted to its so-called
members such reports AS were called
for by the contracts OF such members,
respectively. some contracts calling for
he entire report. others for a condensa-
ton of the whole report. still others for
only partial report, and yet others for
a condensation Of a partial report. The
~ va SuNu ~ LHttnOu Oh gain
ering information and news from SO
wide an extent OF territory as was done
by said corporation. as aforesaid. re-
quired the expenditure OF vast sums of
money; because of such enormous ex-
pense II was impossible for any news
paper which did not have exceptional
financial resources to organize and con-
duct the means OF gathering informa-
lion and an L.,
character and extent 10 the informatio
and news which were collected by said
corporation and transmitted by II to Its
members. While a newspaper does not
depend for its local news upon the ser
vice OF any such association, II does and
must. unless published In one Of the
large cities, where there exists the OPP
portunity for wide circulation and for
obtaining large and remunerative ad-
vertising contracts, giving IL great finan-
cial power, depend almost solely on such
an association as said corporation for
news gathered from the various parts
of the country outside OF the locality
where the particular newspaper is pub
lished and for news gathered from for
eign countries. BY accustominG the
newspaper reading public Of the United
States to receive. through the newspa-
pers which were served by said corpora
ton as aforesaid. the news of all the
important events happening In the
civilized world Immediately upon their
happening. the public came to de-
pend upon said news so furnished for
judgment and guidance and intelligent
action In matters OF commerce and trade
and in many other fields OF human ac-
tlvity, so much so that a public interest
attached to the dissemination of that
news by said corporation as aforesaid.
In effect the newspapers which were on
the membership roll OF The Associated
Press were combining their vast aggre-
gate pecuniary resources for the gath
ering OF information and news OF such
varied character and. drawn from so
vast territory ms was difficult without
enormous expense for any one news
paper depending upon It's own re-
sources to obtain. and were thereby en-
abled To reap an unfair advantage over
any competing newspaper which was
not In said combination.
For the purpose of securing such
unfair advantage to Its members, and
effectually monopollzing such part of
commerce. said corporation adopted "a
bylaw which for several years prior to
September 80, 1900, was continuously
in force, by which It was provided that