Show ASSOCIATED PRESS Report of the Committee on the State of the Association Chicago Sept 27At the regular quarterly meeting of the board of directors direc-tors of the Associated Press held here today the committee o the state of the association reported as follows The committee appointed by the board of directors to present to the board the actual present condition of the Associated Press report that more than 400 newspapers are now receiving directly by telegraph the news report of the Associated Press These newspapers news-papers are membersof the Associated Press and supplied with the news directly di-rectly by agents of the Associated Press A large number of daily papers in addition get news through minor associations procuring news from the organization Since the reorganization reorganiza-tion of the Associated Press one year ago one hundred and twentynine daily papers have given up the news service of ithe United Press and have become members of the Associated Press and in the same period of time not 0 single paper having membership privileges in the Associated Press has relinquished that news service to accept service from any other news association not in close and friendly relations with the Associated Associ-ated Press The committee reports that the present actual cash receipts of each week in payment for the various deliveries deliv-eries of its news service are in excess of the actual weekly expenses of the Associated Press and in excess of the average weekly expense of the organization organi-zation at the last l annual meeting The Associated Press has for the exclusive ex-clusive use of its news service today 18581 miles of leased wires extending from St Johns N B on the east to Portland San Francisco and San Diego on the west and from Duluth on the north to New Orleans Galveston and San Antonio on the south The independent agents correspondents correspond-ents in the service of the Associated Press is 1560 The number in the eastern division is 528 in the central division 632 In the western division 400 in the southern division the correspondents corre-spondents of the southern Associated Press cover that territory The number of telegraph operators In the service is 168 The average number of words transmitted over the day wires Is 16000 The average number over the night wires is 45000 The approximate ap-proximate number of words in the telegraphic tele-graphic news gathered by the service throughout the country is 28000 per day The committee finds that the Associated Press has maintained and improved at every point great superiority superior-ity in its service over all competitors and that not only in its domestic but also In foreign news arrangements it stands far ahead of any previous record re-cord I shows exclusive contracts with the London Times prohibiting the legitimate use of news of that paper by any other American association and similar exclusive contracts with the chief and most important agencies of Europe the Reuter of London the Havas of France and Wolfe of Berlin Ber-lin the three greatest agencies of Eng land France and Germany which maintain correspondents In every important im-portant city in Europe Africa South America Asia and Australia The examination of the books of the Assocated Press show that its members have signed and pledged themselves to a guaranty fund of 550000 to maintain the high character of its news service and to meet any extraordinary contingencies contin-gencies of expense Of this vast sum not one single dollar has been demanded demand-ed from any subscriber and the entire sum remains in the account unused for any purpose and available any minute for service I S CARVALHO New York World FREDERICK DRISCOLL St Paul Pioneer Press C W KNAPP St Louis Republic CLAYTON MMICHAEL Philadelphia Philadel-phia North American ALBERT J BAR Pittsburg Post J S SCRIPPS Detroit Tribune E H PERDUE Cleveland Leader and Cleveland News and Herald |