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TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY DEE: NOVEMBER 10, 1907. Passing of "Newspaper Row" Recalls Many Names Known to Fame -r " MS i 1- -iJ;. til L - 'f v. 5, jp "p-T - t , a 03 ' j J .. ,,t U.m.. i, -rM ,i . .T-S. V ' i I.M..II... . ii ' .i . . '" - - 'rri- I i i ! i; xylite! . ..:.m 'ft si ARHINOTON. Nov. 9.-(8psclaJ A Tl Correipondence.) With the re W I movn' of the of Tho umann tiee to anotnor location Newnpapor How, as It has been known for n. halt century In Washing-ton, ceascg to exist, tho encroach ments of business enterprises compelling the representatives of newspapers main taining bureaus at tho capital to seok other quarters. In tho fifty ycurs since the establish ment of what lias coma to be known as Newspaper now Washington . lias under gone a marvelous transformation, tho section between Pennsylvania avenue and F street on Fourteenth street responding to tho demands of trudc. Business blocks and big hotels havo taken the place of the' one and two-story "shacks" which constituted the "Row" la former days, and now the old building ut the north east corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Fourteenth street, which has been oc cupied by newspaper correspondents since tho Baltimore & Ohio railroad abandoned the structure aa Its headquarters, is to give way to a modern, up-to-date hotol, construction of which Is to begin shortly. .Tho history of Newspaper Row Is con temporaneous with the history of the United States for the last half century. History has been mado here, many of tho famous writers of the country and In ternational writers of note in that period bavlng had offices on the Row or In Its Immedlato vicinity. Whltelaw Reld, our able and dlntlngulshcd tinbassador to the court of St. James Dd editor of the New York Tribune, be gan .his career in Washington as a cor respondent of tho old Cincinnati Oazette, signing his articles under the nom-de-plume of "Agate." which finally attracted tno attention of Horace Greeley, who mado au editorial position on tho Tribune for Mr. R''ld; and on tho retirement of John Russell Young succeeding tho hitter as aitor-ln-'chlcf. ; I . First of His Klml. Inquiry shows that tho Ilr3t newspaper to maintain an office, on Newspaper Row Ws tho. Now York Herald, lis corre spondent being W. U. Shuw, who is still engaged in newspaper work us otio of (ho Washington Man of the PhilHdi'lphU In quirer. The credit of having the politlcul news of Washington telegraphed Instead iC trurling the same to the malls, as wai the practice In those eluyn, Is also duo ti the New Yoik Herald, for Mr. Bhuw was t h) first correspondent tu make use pf tho telegraph ns a news distributor. In tho early '&0s Mr. Shaw ennin tu Washington In search of a position in one of the de partments of tho government, Franklin I'icrce-theu being president, while John W". Korncy, foiind-r if tho Philadelphia Press, was clerk of tlC lmiise of represen tatives. Shaw had learned to "set type" on a llttlo pap r In I'ennsylvaiiln, but ho did not fancy the tradn of a printer, and he came to Washington In search oC a ."Ji." He applied ! James Guthrie, the sec-ret sir of the treasury, for a clerkship, which was promised, but. like many another lromle, failed of fulfillment. Shaw be came private secrotary to the late Oalusha A. .Grow, onco speaker of tho house of representatives, and, having some news paper training, secured a place as Wash ington correspondent with James Cur Jon Bennett, tho elder. It cost ID cents a word In the '50s to send a message by tl graph, and there w ere very fi w news papers then thut could afford such ex pensive service. Shaw, like other corre; spondnnta of tho tlmo, sent his dally budget of Washington events by mall, the mall for New York leaving In the early nuirn lng and reaching the nnvtropolis about dark. One day, in conversation with Mr. Bennett,' Mr. Shaw, the dean of the Wash, tngton corps of correspondents in point of continuous service, suggested that ho bulletin the Important events of tho day by telegraph. "Why, it costs 10 cents a word to send a tnssage by wire," replied Mr. Bennett. 'I think it would pay." responded Shaw. "I would cut out the 'a's, tho 'the's' and all superfluous words' "Well, you may try It," Mr. Bennett I said, and the telegraphic correspondent was established. Mr. Shaw sending current mat ter to the New York Herald until tho civil .war broke out. Developed hy the War. The commencement of war between the states brought Into the newspaper field a corps of well equipped men, and tho war correspondent, so far as our own country Is concerned, became a potentfsl force. At the outbreak of the civil mar there was aa Influx of tralntd journalists to the capital of the nation, among them being Uriah Hunt Painter, who came to Wash ington Just after Lincoln's first election as correspondent of the Philadelphia In- t a W i n r sn Office llrur . tl. of Fourteenth and T streets. He was the only representative of the Philadelphia press to accompany President-elect Lin coin on the Journey to Washington for the first Inauguration. When the civil war began Mr. Painter, with W. B. Bhaw. now n the Inquirer, and Henry Vlllard (then of the NevYork Herald) witnessed the first battle of Bull Run. And then, after being up probably all Saturday night and whn U.e troops began to move, and In 1 r T m.'- ; . -.'. . ; , NEWSPAPER ROW A3 spite of the fatiguing Sunday, rode nil that night In company with Ji. C. Stodman (then of tho World) back to Washington, arriving here about dawn. Undaunted by finding a censorship had been declared over the telegrapli line, Mr. Puinter promptly took a train for Philadelphia, so exhausted that ho slept on tho floor of u baggage car, and wroto out Ms report pf tho buttlo ufler. reaching the Philadel phia Inquirer office. Ho bent all the northern papers by twenty-four hours with news of tho defeat, which they had an nounced to be u. victory. The people of Philadelphia did not believe tho bulletins and "extras"' Issued by the Inquirer and threatened to mob and burn the office of the paper, so that the muyor of the city wus called on for protection. Mr. Painter said they might hang' him If his news proved to bo untrue. This exploit brought this paper Into Instant repute as nn authority for reliable war newfe; and, by unceasing efforts of his own, together with a largo staff of ariivy correspondents, tho circulation of the Inquirer was soon doubled. There being no Associated Press ut that tlmo, everything depended upon in dividual achievement. The record of Mr. Painter's experiences Includes two or three captures by tho confederates, and great physical hardship, notably an cighty-mllo horecback ride after the battle of Hull's Bluff. Ho . Ignored fatigue and knew no fear. Up to that' time the Washington cor respondent was unknown, the big news paper of the day paying little,, or no at tention to' tho national capital unless con gress was in session, and then a man from the home oQlce would bo sent on to report the flolngs of the national legis lature by a series of dally letters to his newspaper with "snappy" descriptions of legislature and semi-editoriul utterances upon tho politics of the times. Henry J. Raymond of the New York Times, Horace Greeley of the Tribune, J. Watson Wobb of the New York C'ommerclnl. Hugh Hastings and Whltelaw Reld were among tho curliest of tho great editors, who were "session" men ut tho capital and in augurated "Newspaper Row." having either offlco or drslc room in the brick and x frame buildings which constituted tho "Row" fifty years and less ago. Tarie Hundred on List. In 1W thero were less than sixty-five names of newspaper men printed in the congressional directory who were allowed ndmlsslon to the congressional jresa galleries. Thesn included' all who repre sented newspapers and had employment In tho several executive departments ond as committee clerks or holding other positions at the cupltol. Among the names printed In tho directory wus that of James Rankin Young, then oxecutivo clerk of tho senate, and later Mr. Young represented for three terms a Philadelphia district in tho house of representatives. He Is at present super intendent ot tint dead letter office in the. Postoffiee department. The names if tho proprietors and editors of both daily and weekly liK-al papers twcre. also included In tho list. Today there aro in the neighborhood- of u00 correspondents who do nothing but gi.ther anl wrllo news for daily papers receiving telegraph oervlce, tho names of whom appear in tho directory. Anybody holding a government position at the capitol.or In any t,f the executive departments In tho present day is denied tho privileges of the cnpitol press galleries. The names of tho proprietors and editoru of local papers are also omitted, and they aro now admitted by courtesy only. If on important occasions either gallery la likely to bo crowded, the regular workers only are allowed admission. Nearly all those admitted to tho galleries In the early 'Sx'a had otiices on Newspaper Row. (recral Uoyaton'e Office. General Henry V. Boynton, one of the ablest and best loved men in the newspaper life of Washington, aSid who died within a year or two, had an offlco at 611 Fourteenth street and immediately adjoining the pres ent site of the Department of Commerce and I-abor building. It Is a 2-story brick, and for many years tho upper story was unusued. General Boynton then repre sented the old Cincinnati Gazette, after ward absorbed by the old Cincinnati Com mercial, and for a Iur.g time called the Commercial Gazette. Before the consoli dation of tho two papers the Gazette leased a special wire, and Jules Guthridge, then a telegraph operator In Cincinnati, was sent to Washington by the late Rich ard Henry Smith to work the Gasette wire and assist General Boynton. Mr. Guthrldgo remained with General Boynton for a year or to wnen he became a .correspondent of several pape.-s, finally graduating as a member of the staff in the New York bu reau. I'athwar oK!rhee. Robert J. Wynne "Bob" Wynne, as he is familiarly called by those who know him well at present our consul general at London, then only telegraph operator In the Western Union office, succeeded Guth ridge and became General Boynton's assist ant. Mr. Wynne resigned to accept the position of private secretary to the secre tary of the treasury, ex-Governor Charles Foster of Ohio having become secretary of the treasury, by appointment of President Hahhison. After the retirement of Secre tary Foster, Wynna resumed newspaper , : t.. ' t - a;, - JT APPEARED IN 187i work as r rrespondent of the New York Press, which position ho held until Presi dent Roosevelt appointed him first assist ant postmaster general under the late Postmaster General Pnyno of Wisconsin, whom he s-.icceeded ns a member of tho Rosscvelt cabinet, and after the election of Roosevelt in 1904 us president was ap pointed to his placo at London. Guthrldgo is still living in Washington, but Is in other business, until recently representing ' a prominent firm of New York brokers. General Boynton served the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette until the retirement of Murat Halstcd, when he relinquished news paper work to become associated with tho War department, und at- the tlmo of his death was at the head of tho Chickatiiauga Park commission. It can with truth bo said that General Boynton had a marked Influence among newspaper men and the "youngsters" In the profession could cour,( on the friendship of this man whoso whold life was ono of lofty purposes, right living and right thinking. Below tho Cincinnati office (there was no uch thing bs a newspaper "bureau" In those days) Edmund Hudson, now tho rep resentative of the Bostgn Herald, his assistant being "Harry" Macfarland, now Henry B. F. Macfarlnnd, president of the Board of Commissioners of tho District of Columbia, ond ono of tho smoothest orators In public llfo. Hive of Brilliant Ulcn. Befcro tho building now occupied 'by tho Department of Commerce and Labor was erected there stood a ramshackle old four etory brick house, which was occupied by Gleaning-s from the Story Illow to Wngnerlans. 1 LV R D-H EA DED old Pittsburg manufacturer, who mado 1.1a fortune, as ho expresses it, "with his coat off," was In duced by Ms daughters to (ic company them to a Wugn'er concert, tho first he had ever attended. The next day ho happened to meet. an ac quaintance, who had seen him the night before, who asked: "I bupposo you enjoyed the concert last uight, Mr. .Smith?" "Yes. Jt took me back to tin; days of my youth." tho old man said. wltha remi niscent sigh'. "Ahl t'ununrr rays in the country, gill in a lawn dress, birds hinging, and uil that?" "No. the days when I worked In a boiler shop In Scrantun. Pittsburg Dispatch. How It Won. Miss Lydia Conley, a clever Wyandotte girl. Is tho only Indian woman lawyer in tho worhl. Sho is n member of tho Kan sas bar, and at Kansas City, anunt a re cent Indian case that she conducted, sho told an Interesting legal story. "Jo I put my man on tho stand," tho Bald. "Thut, If your case 1m a Just one. Is always tho thing to do. You know tho story of t.'ic Kansas land claimant? ' "Well, out hero many years ago a man brought suit before the fqetlro to recover eomo land that had been outrageously filched from him. His ease was a good one, but tho other bide had doctored its witnesses; had even doctored the plain tiff's witnesses, too; and up to tho tlmo when he took tho stund himself not a jot or tittle of testimony in his favor had been recorded. "He, as soon as l-.e was sworn, turned to the Justice and said: "Squire, I brought this suit, and yet tho evidence, excepting my own, is all against me. Now, 1 don't accuse nyono of lying, squire, but tbc-so witnesses aro the most mistaken lot of fellows I ever saw. You know me, squire. Two years ago you sold me a boss for sound that was as blind as a bat. I mado the deal, and stuck to It, and this Is tho first time I have mentioned It. When you used to buy my grain, squire, you stood on the scales when tha empty, wagon was weighed, but I never said a word. Now, do yon think I am tho kind of a man to kick up a rum pus and fcue a fellow unless he has done me a real wrong? Why. squire. If you'll recall that sheep speculation you and me" "But at this point the squire, very red in the face, hastily decided the case in the plaintiff's favor." Kansas City Jour nal. A Loyal Vartlsaa. Colonel W. P. Thorne. the present lieu tenant governor of Kentucky, Is one of the best campaigners and story tellers to be found In Kentucky. Ono of the best he Is telling in tha present campaign runs as follows: "It was Just after W. O. Bradley was elected governor of Kentucky In j:hj6 and tho republicans In my county were holding a big ratification meeting. Brass bands, all kinds of floats snd banners, and hundreds of men and women and boys had been pa rading the streets. A young girl claimed that while standing on her front porch, which was almost covered with vines and foliage of different kinds, she was repeat edly hugged and kUsed by a young man whom she hardly knew. A warrant was sworn out for her asullanL He was ar rested, and it was my duty as common A . - Y''.' f:. f.'A 3 a number of brilliant newspaper corre spondents, as well as by tho old United Press and Western Associated Press, prom inent among them being Major John M. Carson, now hcud of tho bureau of manu factures, Department of Commerce and Labor. In those days tho major repre sented George W. Chllds' Philadelphia Pub lic Ledger and the New York Times. Later he was succeeded on tho Times by tho late E. G. Dunnell, who was tho recog nized friend on tho Row of tho Cleveland administration, tho Times then being tha principal so-called "mugwump" puper. Mr. Dunnell was a thin, wiry fellow of high character and as brainy as they make them. Ho had. tho con;ldcnco of both Presi dent Cleveland and his private secrotary. Colonel Daniel S. Lnmout. Colonel La mont frequently visited Newspaper Row and met "tho boys" in DunneU's office. Senators and representatives were almost dully visitors at ono or tho other of the newspaper offices. Pendleton of Ohio was a frequent visitor ut the Cincinnati En quirer office, which was once located at the corner of Fourteenth street and Penn sylvania avenue, the last to occupy tho building being The Omaha Beo and several other newspapers. W. C. MacBrido was in. charge of tho Cincinnati Enquirer in those days, looking afto rtho night work for the Enquirer, and In the day time covering the down town departments for tho Washington Star. Iri the latter part of 18S0 tho Cincinnati En quirer leased a special wire between Wash ington and Cincinnati. Mr. John R. Mc Lead. had had George Gilllland with him on the Enquirer in Cincinnati as assistant wealth's attorney to prosecute hlni. John Carroll, who Is at present a Judgo of the Kentucky court of appeals, hud been em ployed to defend him. J soon finished my examination of tho witness and turned her over to Carroll for cross-examination. " 'What night was this?' thundered Car roll. - ' " 'Thursday night,' answered tho witness. " "Thursday night, you say? What tlmo of night?' " 'About S o'clock.' , " 'That was about tho time tho parada was passing your house?' " 'Yes, sir, tho parade, was Ju:;t passing my house' "Ktreet:; full of nfoplu?' " 'Yrs, sir, the btrccts were lull of people,1 " 'Did you ever cry out or se-rcam?" " '.N"o, sir, I did not.' " 'Will you pleaso tell tills jury,' atked Carroll, with rising voice, 'with the streets thronged with pcoplo and this man hugging und kissing you againrt your will, as you claim, why you never uttered a slnglo cry for help or assistance '." " 'Yes, sir, I will tell tho Jury and1 every body elso that you'll never ketch me hol lerin' at no republican gathcrln':' ' Judo. StufAhca,s. "Willie" Collier, tlio comedian, was an Irrepresslhlo member of a baru-stormlng combination which, 'some ten years ago, did tho "ta;jk" towns of the middle west. Tho company hud been doing a poor business for several weeks when a certain town In Illinois via reached. Just before tho curtain went up that night. Collier W'as btamling at tho curtuin "pecp-hole," sizing up the audience. "How s the house, Willie?" o-ked an other player. f "Well," answered Collier, "there ar somo out there. But." ho added, impres BltjyvweTc still in tho majority, old boy, still in tho majority:" Harper's Weekly. (lose to .Nature. A gentleman from ono of tho northern states hurried to Texas to tho bedside of his son, who lay sick with a very high fever. The doctor who accompanied him was very anxious to procure some ico" for his patient, and the faiher went out in searcli thereof. Ho approached a group on tho hotel piazza, inquiring where he might get some Ice. None of the group rnadb any response for somo time, but when tho Inquiry was repeated, ono man finally renounced tobacco Julco for artic ulation. Striding to the end of the bal cony, he ejected the Julco and piade the still somewhat Irrelevant reply: "Well, who tho h I ever hcerd o' Ice In the sum mertime?" Harper's Weekly. Quo til the BTH." When H. G. Wells, the English novelist, was In Boston he praised Poe at a dinner. "I think hardly of your New England writers." he said, "for their contempt of Poe. I shall never be able to forget that Emerson called him 'that Jingle man.' To day a thousand read Poe when one reads Emer3on, ard not to know Poe's works Is rather a disgrace. There Is a little inn " Mr. Wells smiled. "It is a rather poorly conducted little inn," he said, "but the landlady gets every visitor to write something about it in a kind of autograph album that she keeps on her drawing-room table. One vis itor wrote In the album many years ago: " 'Quoth the raven ' "The landlady did not understand that quotation. She was not a well up In ber Poe as she should havo been. And ever telegraph editor. Wiie-n Mr. McLean's father, the Into Washington McLean, was ubout to move to Washington, Jhn R. wantod soma one at tho Washington end of tho wlro in whom he had confidence and whom he knew. Ho had littlo acqualntanco With Mr. MacBrido then and induced Gilll lund to como to Washington and manipu late tho Enquirer's special wire, and also act us MacBride's assistant. Gilllland re mained with tho Enquirer for a number of years, until ho became private secretary to tho lato United States Senator Culvln S. Erice. MacBrido continued with Mr. McLean, and Is now regarded as the clos est man to 'John R. McLean in tho news paper business. Knows to Great Men. During the early '80s it wns quite the thing for senators, representatives, cabinet officers and the leaders In commerce to spend evenings on" Newspaper Row. among tho frequent visitors of that day being Halo and Frye of Maine, who were then members of the house, and Aldrich of Rhode Island, the "master" of the repub lican side of tho senate. Ex-Senator Blackburn of Kentucky was almost a nightly frequenter and one of its most welcome guests. McKlnley used to drop In occasionally when chairman of the house committee on ways and means. Holman of Indiana, the famous "objector," was likewlso a regular caller, and here the nation would bo saved, much as it has been saved by "the boys" at the corner grocery. Ew J. Edwards was tho head of the Now York Sun's office and ono the the very best ncwsgalhcrers on tho row or In town. Teller's Pack sinco that tlmo sho has shown tho cryptic line to every guest, entreating him to tell her. If ho can, Its meaning. But tho guests aro always to polite to tell her. They pre tend they do not know. And hence, year after year, to every visitor that comos, tho poor landlady with her album gives herself away." Washington Star. At Acute'' Observer. A one-armed man sat down to his noon day lunch In a llttlo restaurant the other day, und seated on tho right of him was n big, sympathetic Individual from tho rural district. Tho big fellow noticed his neighbor's left sltevo hanging loose and kept eying him In a sort of how-dld-it-happen-way. Tho one-armed man failed to break the Ice, but continued to keep busy with hia ono hand supplying the Inner man. At last the inquisitive ono on the right could stand it no longer.' Ho changed his position a little, cleared his- throat and snid: "I see, sir, you have lost nn urm." Whereupon tho unfortunate mun picked up tho empty slocvo with hia right hand, peered Into it, looked up with a surprised expression und said: "By George, air, you're light." St. Louis Republic Extra for Labor. A western Jobber recently sent an usplr ing young man on tho road to open up a new territory whero a new railroad was going through. All tho towns bc-lng new, thero were no hotel accommodations, and It was necessary for tho salesman to secure meals and lodgings at restaurants, etc., whero tho price was 25 cents per meal. On looking over Uio cxpenso account the man ager noticed uil meals charged at fO cents. "Look here, Charlie, I sco you huvo charged us 00 cents per meal on your trip, and I am reliably Informed that It Is im possible to get a meal for more than 3 cents in your entire territory. How about it?" "Well," said tho salesman, "you are right. It did cost but !5 cents per meal, but I tell you, sir, It's worth tho other 2 cents to cat those meals." Philadelphia Ledger. Sometblos; Xew In Tablecloths. She had come into the store to buy tablecloths, and she stated in tho begin ning that sho wanted something "new." The salesman was patient and showed her everything In stock, but nothing suited. "Oh, dear!" she exclaimed, fussily, "haven't you anything different?" Tho clerk brought out one of the dis carded tablecloths that he had put baeJc on the shelf, and said with an air of In terest: "Here Is one of the very newest de signs, madam. You see, the center. Is in the middle and the borders runs right around the edge." "Why, yes! Let ma have that one," she said, eagerly. Accommodating. There is a good story going the rounds in Pittsburg of a young man. formerly a stock broker, who dropped many thous ands in speculation during the early spring. One night, shortly after going to bed, the Pittsburger was awakened by strange signs. At his first motion to Jump up be was greeted by a hoarse voice. "If you stir, you're a dead man!" it said. "I'm looking for money." "In that case," pleasantly answered the erstwhile speculator, "kindly ullow me to arise and strike a light. I shall deem it a ' favor to bo permitted to assist in the search." NEWSPAPER ROW AS IT LOOKS TODAY. Edwards was the envy of all tho younger correspondents becauso of the fact that 6o ninny distinguished statesineu called upon nim and treated him with marked familiarity. Mr. Edwards is still in tho harness, having become a recognized nu- thorlty upon many subjects, his articles In the Philadelphia Press from New York over tho pen name of "Holland" being looked upon as standard Information. The 'lee's Representatives. For upwards of twenty years The Omaha Ece has been represented In Washington, Its first runriMnntatira u f i tr Popra S ij.!. .i . j . , m ..J Heath, who used to have an office with Gcneral Boynton. Mr. Heath on leaving the newspaper field entered politics, and having intimate, relationships with Presl- dent McKinley became the first assistant wlur or rostcrmaster general under 'Postmaster tlme ,n addJtlon to work for lh9 Boston General Gaty of Maryland. Journal he compiled the Congressional During the tlmo Mr. Heath represented Directory, for which he received a good The Beo In Washington, William Edwards "alary and considerable In the way of Annln, then secretary to the late United Perquisites. Major Poore was the first States Senntor A. S., Paddock, furnished President of the famous Gridiron club, Tho Bee with editorials and paragraphs, organized In January, 1S5, and whlcl la having been on the editorial staff of The noted for its dinners and novel entertain- Bee after leaving Fort Robinson, where he ments. was postmaster and post trader. "Billy" Frank G. Carpentor came here for ths Annln wns ono of tho best newspaper men Cleveland Leader a quarter of a century In Washington In his day. and as a ago, and originally wrote under tho notu raconteur was without a peer. After the de plume of "Carp." Subsequently ho retirement of Senator Paddock, Annln be- started Carpenter's Syndicate, and In ro- camo associated with Major Carson on cent years his weekly letters has appeared tho Philadelphia Public Ledger and the In thirty or more papers. Mr. Carpenter Washington represent atlvo' of tho Lincoln has done a wonderful amount of traveling Satc Journal and the Salt Lake City in foreign countries, has lectured, and haa Tribune. Ho was a division superintendent contributed many illustrated articles to the of the rural free delivery service with head- leading magazines of the United States quarters at Denver at the time of his and Great Britain. His success has cn- d81"1, abled him to amass a snug fortune. W'hon Terry S. Heath left newspaper. Charles W. Knapp came here when a work for politics. Smith D. Fry succeeded young man Just out of colIega for tno 0lJ as representative of The Bee In Washing- Et. Louis Republican, then returned to his ton. and twelve years ago tho writer came natIvo clty ttn(1 d,d edltorlal wolki id from tho homo office of The Bee as Its ngaln jolned tno corp9 f Wa,htlIgton C0l.. Washlnfiton correspondent, which posl- reBpomlentB but rcturYIlcd to Bt. Uul, tion hqrhas filled ever since. . uga)n , Jsg7 t() becomB Bd,tor Bnd grnoral F. A. nirbarilson'a Work. manager of tho puper, and holds those posl Ono pf the most brilliant and successful tlons at Present on tho . Republlo, os tho of the earlier correspondents was Francis ,lrst Puuer established west of tho Mlssis A. Richardson, who retired from active BlPP' rlver ' 'w called. While In Wash work at the head of an Important bureau inston Mr. Knapp was generally conceded several years ago to writo when ho pleases t0 bo an authority on financial and ccono and take his easo for the rest of his life, mlc subjects generally. Mr. Rlchurdson came to Washington Just Ono of the most forcible writers jn tho after tho civil war, and for upwards of tariff bus been E. J. Gibson, for ihany thirty years was tho representative here of yoars correspondent of tho Philadelphia tho Baltimore Sun, with which ho Is still Press. Mr. Gibson Is now assistant chief connected and will bo as long as ho cares of tho bureau of manufactures, to. For quite a period ho mado graphic For upwards of a decado Charles JT. reports of tho senato proceedings for tho Towlo was the Boston Traveler's reprcsen old Baltimore Associated Press, und It was tative. He quit tho calling to go Into thea then ho established his reputation as one tricals and haa made money by bavlng a of the most forceful writers at the capital, largo interest In tho company that has In 1S70 he assumed charge of the Hun's been present lng "Ben Hur." Washington bureau. Ho nttended tho James Morgan, who for years was corre lational conventions of all of the political 8p0ndc.nt 0f the Boston Globo and recog parties from 1872 to tho time of his retire- ,.H , K1 ,, ... ment from tho activities of his calling, and is still In prime health, vigorous mentally . , . , ,, i ii ii . and physically, has a wldo circle of ac quaintances in this und other lands, and is fortunate In , not having, like so many others, to worry about "keeping tho wort" from hia door. Alert as News (ietter. Thero never was on tha row a more alert newsgatherer than Walter B. Stevens, who mado his bow as a Washington cor- ' c.u., ui urn respondent In 14. coming hero as tho ,h,caIth WM " ,oor thut 1,9 ,lad l" Hlt representative of the St. Louis Globo- 'e "my Ilo accepted a position at Rlcii Democrat. In tho Missouri metropolis he monf wlth no 8tatu d'Ptment of the had been for years connected with tho old out"frn confederacy, and during the war St. Louis Times, when that was a prof- p,rloJ, wroto cUrS rularly ! le ttable, Journal under the proprietorship dn T- Vof . number of years of Stllson Hutehins, former owner and a"r clvil war co,li,l t 'lJl " fur founder of tho Washington Post, and sub- ",Hhed lctterg from tho national capital for sequently tho owner of the' Republican, i'10 lelefraP"- Colonel Washington was Critic and Times-all Washington dallies. ?r ytar8 the representative here of tho Before coming to Washington Mr. Stevens Ncw rlean Picayune. He also for quite had risen to be city editor of the Globe- 14 period 8ervf1 th L-m'vllle Courler Democrat. Stevens could do hero any sort Jurnttl nd St- Times. He was of newspaper work, and had tho reputation trenchant writer, and being an lutonso of not getting half the sleep he was aPmocrat ard of an Impetus nature, his entitled to. bo industrious was ho. It Is hot nut,'e b''l fairly boiled during tho said of him that he stood equally well "reconstruction" period when "carpet bag wlth tho public men of all parties, and "crs" '"J BWay ln the ,anJ of Dlxl "" politicians were glad to make him their noroes occupied seats In both the senate confidant. Mr. Stevens quit Washington 'n(1 hoU88 of representatives. Colonel to accept tho position of secretary of the Wah,nton was an iutimato f personul Louisiana Purchase Exposition company ,rieni1 of Jefferson Davis, and before Mr. at St. Louis at a large salary, and that Davl dl,'d was 1" the habit of paying him place kept hlra at work for two years or annual vl"lu at Beauvolr in Mississippi, more after the big show was over. Major Richard Sylvester, superintendent 4r of the Washington polico department, rep- MoCollagh's start. resented for many years tho Kansas City The late J. B. McCullagh. editor-ln-chlef Journal and other papers in Missouri. He of the Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat at the ma1 mark as a correspondent and Is time of his death, served for some years cogulzeI as ono of tho finest "chiefs ' In as a Washington correspondent, writing the United States, for several western papers. Mr. Mc- ' S - Cullagh was the orlglnutor of the Amerl- Mamr Cmiled to OIHce. can Interview, and his first subject was Presidents McKlnley and Roosevelt be no less a persenage than a president of stowed Important public offices upon quite the United States Andrew Johnson. Mc- a number of men who have been engaged Cullagh was a boon companion of Pre si- ln newspaper work hero. In addition to dent Johnson, and not' only obtained those mentioned above they are: Francis favors at tho White House of great value A. Leupp, for many years Washington to him In his journalistic labors, but was correspondent of tho New York Evening enubltd through Mr. Johnson to be re- Post; Harry T West, democratic member venged on at least two former union gen- of the Board of Commissioners for tha erals who had been very severe upon him District of Columbia; P. V. Do Craw, when McCullagh was a war correspondent fourth assistant postmaster general; tha in the field. late George H. "Walker, for years corre- Another of the exceptionally prominent spondent of tho Cleveland Leader, a ape correspondents who for years had an office clal attorney In the Department of Justice; cn Newspaper Row is William EJeroy Francis B. Loomis, minister to bajh Venez Curtis, who was formerly connected, with uela and Portugal and assistant secretary the Chicago Inter-Ocean, but latterly with of state, and Morton E. Crane, secretary The Chicago Record-Herald. Mr. Curtis of the Immigration commission, which vl withln the past decade has travelled tha lied Europe during the last spring and civilised world over for that paper, and summer. a C. BNYDEJt. - since congress adjourned last spring has been digging out facts In many states for his gossipy and entertaining letters. Walter Wellman, connected with the same paper for years as one of its Washington staff, all the world knows has been ordered ty the Record-Herald proprietor to find tho north pole, and Mr. Vellman Is flgur- 1nff on cr0Ssing the Ice fields In a monster balloon If favorable winds permit next season. Famou Men of Row. Some of the other well known WasUing- ton correspondents who at various tlmos ' . ... . , , were located on the row will bo found in the list below: The late Ben Perley Poore came hero - - ' v. ..vr uu.v .J. .UJUWI .III I , on tho Row, has filled for some years a ,M, ... ... . ., , ' most responsible position In tho homo office. Man from the South. Ono of tho most noted of tiio southern correspondents In the olden times was the lato Colonel Littleton Qulnton Washington of the Virginia family, of Washlngtons, At the breaking out of tho civil war he rn teied the service of the confederacy and