Show ASS associated PRESS BUREAU IN OGI EiT among the numerous institutions institution by which tho the american people shows an enterprise superior I to that of an any transatlantic nation is the rapidity facility and universality with which the news of f the day is gathered in all the four corners comers of the in habituated cd ed world and distributed among the hundreds and thousands of units constituting that mighty and progressive whole the american press many have been the in instances atances where american promptness has taken the start of european p ean c dispatches r is patches in communicating ng news of general interest thus wo we have the frasco german war of 1870 71 when the people of new york knew tho the result of tho the battle of sedan as early as did king williams faithful subjects in berlin likewise oil on the occasion of the conflagration fla of the ring street theater vienna of which the western papera papers among them the oarl OGDEN gave columns of dreadful details detail sou on the very evening of the bocc occurrence currence ur rence while journals of widespread wide spread fame and pre tensions tent ions with hundreds of thousands of readers only a few bun hundred dred miles from the scat of the catastrophe I had bad no more than from five flye to ten lines the day following to the lynx eye e e of the american press reporter nothing escapes his greedy merciless grasp spares nothing from a brilliant wedding in high life aird es metropolis to io a a domestic tragedy yin in a cabin of the western wilds from the unctuous sermon of a talmage and beecher to the ribald remains of a noted prize pugilist from the clandestine breach of trust resulting in in a half million deficit in a bank ora or a t state treasury pe a sury to the daring robbery ofa of a railroad train or r a stage from the wholesale conflagration of a whole city or town to the reckless of an isolated farm house froin blood drenched battlefields li in i the shade of the pyramids to a drunken brawl in a country grog shop from the sinking of a proud bunard or in inman man steamer with hundreds finding a watery grave td the upsetting ofa of a rowboat on ax a inland lake from froni the great terrific appalling elevating ennobling to the small arnall trivial disgusting shocking from froni the many to the few from the council halls of parliament and congress to the low dens of infamy everywhere penetrates the eye of the journalist everywhere listens his ear and everywhere his fleet digits fill pill the apte book with items for dissemination throughout the length and breadth of the land such ad an omnipresent and almost om omniscient am n is chent organization ha liase sonly only bet isible tb the principle of cooperation for years the united states have bad two great press prem associations consolidations of leading journals for the cheaper acquisition and more uniform distribution odthe of the current topics they were the new york associated press and the western associated press the former with its headquarters in the hudson metropolis the latter in chicago realizing the good accomplished complis hed by the action of cooperation within tho the sphere of each of these companies it was but natural for them to expect still stil I greater benefits from a harmonious union of tho the two this as has been announced in these columns on previous occasions took place on nov last when the new york associated socia ted press and tho the western associated socia ted press entered into an agreement to place the business of the two associations under the general management of a joint ex executive committee constituted as its follows chas chai A k dana of the N NY S sun Ca chairman irman whitelaw reid of the N Y tribune T secretary james gordon bennett of the N Y herald richard smith of the cincinnati commercial gazette Ga selie walter N haldeman aldeman II of theloris is journals journal ono of the results of thi this fortunate amalgamation of the iho two most powerful agencies of news in the world is of special cl i al interest and we may say lay benefit to ogden city As we wo intimated in our last issue mr addison thomas a gentle roan man representing presenting ie abe western associated frees erets chicago chic Z has been here t to make i arrange rr all e ments for the establishment of a press bureau in this city it appears that as tho the great value of the junction city as a central point has long ben acknowledged forche for the distribution of freight so its central advantages are equally great in the matter of the gath gathering erint r of f news in the intermountain liter mountain region egliori under the new arrangement the ogden office will gather prepare and transmit all local news of general importance or interest and the salt lake agent who has hitherto sent his often mendacious messages directly to ban san francisco will henceforth be gubor dato to tho the ogden bureau the news from idaho idalio montana wyoming utah etc will bo be focused in this bureau and thence communicated lotha eastern and western c centers ell we hope a roan mail of ability prompt promptness nees judgment and discretion dl is ere will w ill bo be assi assigned gued tills this responsible pos position I and especially one who will accord to the tile people and institutions of Uta liflie same degree of impartiality and veracity which is extended to other sections of country and other sets of people |