Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-02-08
SUPPLIES WORLD
WITH DAILY NEWS
/ At BIG EXPENSE
ONE DOLLAR A WORD WAS PRICE
PAID FOR TRANSMISSION OF
SPEECH GERMAN OFFICIAL.
MELVILLE (. STONE OF ASSOCIATED
PRESS TELLS OF ITS An
NUAL BUDGET.

paid to have the speech in the reichstag
Of, Chancellor Won Bethmann- Hollweg
flashed to this country. The same amount
was paid for the countless Fluctuations
which appeared in the speech.
An audience composed Of bankers, mer
chants, clnbmcn, society women, clerks,
stcnographers and laborers heard Mel
willie f Stone general manager Of the As
sociated Press, quote various prices as to
what il costs to have the news flashed
to this country from different regions Of
the world.
Mr.. Stone spoke at the annual meeting
Of the Franklin institute. His lecture was
ON Supplying the World With News"
Mr.. Stone gave a historical sketch Of
the Associated Press. He Described the
methods which were adopted in gathering
the news of the Russo-Japanese war the
Martinique earthquake disaster and the
death Of Pope Leo XIII in Rome. The an
nual budget Of the Associated Press is
more than 81. O00,OO0, according to Mr..
Stone. Touching upon the methods Of
getting the news i'm countries which are
IsN0ttU tuOuSdnuS III IuiitS AWAY. VII.
Stone gave several Illustrations. He DIES
cRil,ed a wrek, a fire and ether disasters
interesting from an international view
point.
Now, assume that fire has broken out
in Bcnares, the second city Of the Hindus,
on the banks Of the Ganges." said Mr..
Stone, 'and 100 or 900 persons have
lost their lives. Not far away, at Al
lahabad or Calcutta, is a daily paper
having a correspondent at Benares. who
reports the disaster fully. Someone on
his paper sends the story, or SO much of
ii az il of general rather than Of local
interest, to the agent of the Renter com
pany at Calcutta, Bombay or Madras.
And thence il is cabled to London. Hong
kong, Sydney and Tokyo. At each Of these
places there are Associated Press men.
one Of whom picks il up and forwards il
TO New York.
IF the thing happens in Zanzibar the
story goes either to Cairo or to Capetown
and by the same process finds its way 10
London and ON to ms in this country.
Thus the wide world is combed for news.
Wnt'H w bU Ih'itttbtN Nuot thu' IL
delivered and printed everywhere.
when Pope Leo NH died i'm Rome
the fact was announced by an Associated
Press telegram in the columns Of a San
Francisco paper i'm nine minutes from the
instant when he breathcd his last. And
this message was repeated bark 10 Lon
don, Paris and Rome and gave those ci-
tin thu frat - Inflammation 80 III. .x.nf
when Port Arthur was taken by the
Japaneses in 1S96. il came Ia us in New
York in 30 minutes. although il passed
through "a relay offices. Few Of the
operators transmitting il knew what tho
dispatch meant. But they understood the
Latin letters and sent il on from station
To station. letter by letter.
when Peary came back from his great
discovery in the Arctic sea. he reached
Winter Harbor. on the coast Of Labrador.
and from there sent me a wireless mes
age that he had nailed the stars and
strips 10 the north pole. This went 10
Sydney. on Cape Breton island. and was
forwarded thence by cable and tcle-
graph to New York.
"F " WIN 'thft nv
thOds are adopted. The territory covered
includes United States proper. Alaska.
the Hawaiian islands the Philippines the
islands of the Caribbean sea. Mexico. the
Central American states aud, by an cx-
change arrangement with the Canadian
Press, ltd. the British possessions on
this continent.
sTbC npuuuiyatInn IL - ~ have tpeu
told, cooperative i'm its character. As "A
condition OF membership each one he
longing agrees to furnish To his fellow
members. either directly or through the
association and tn them exclusively. the
news Of his vicinity. rs gathered 10y him
for his own paper. This constitutes the
large fountain from which our Ameri-
can news supply is drawn. But. as in the
case of the foreign official agencies. if
there be danger that an individual mem
her il biased. or il the matter bc one Of
high Importance. we use our own trained
and salaricd staff men To do the report
ing. For this purpose as well as for ad
Winistrative work. we have a bureau in
every leading city
When the European war broke out.
Mr.. Stone said. all of the processes of
civilization seemed To 90 down in an
hour. The International relations for the
exchange of news were instantly dislo-
Gated.
However," Mr.. Stone added. we were
able to impress the governments abroad
With the value Of IN impartial and un-