Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-09-05


the advancement of the political interests OF
Secretary Bristow This was an evident at !
tempt to curry favor with the President, and
at the same time turn the administration |
against the Secretary. Moore has lately
been relieved of his position, and his charac-
ter shown up by Boynton. MIR. w. Il. Cur
It's, of the Chicago Inter Ocean, is one OF the
most tireess searchers after "men and
things" in the business. lie has the capac-
ity of writing very long letters aud very
good ones. Mr.. ID. b. r. Keim represents
the Philadelphia Press, and seems to have
had, on many occasions since the new ad-
came in, the " inside track" in
regard to news which he has known well
how to take advantage of for the benefit of
that very readable paper which John w.
Forney edits, and which Keim represents
at Washington. Mr.. Keim entertained Sec
retary Evarts and General Devens at his
own residence in Pennsylvania, few weeks
ago, which is a peculiarity rare in the pro-
fession. Mr.. George w. Adams, of the
New York World is one of the oldest of the
reporters here. Mr.. w. Scott Smith has
the most voluminous correspondence, report
ing for half-a-dozen papers, among which
are the New York Euening Post Boston
Traveller and Hartford Post. Mr.. X. w. G.
Mitchell is one of the funny writer's and
over the signature of Rob Creighton"
does the Washington correspondence for
the Danbury Nevs His letters on Gail
Hamilton and the National Republican of
this city are bits of sarcastic wit but rarely
found nowadays. He is at present the pri-
vate secretary of Secretary Schurz. Then
there are Messrs. Talcott, of the American
Associated Press, Bartlett, of the Sprinfield
Republican, O'Beirne, of the New York Her
aid, Vance, of the Cincinnati Commercial,
Wetmore, of the Aha- Californian, and Wash
ington, of the Louisville Couier7Joundi,
who, with the others named, make up the
list of the most prominent of the newspaper
correspondents of Washington. There is
Gibson, of the New York Sun, who like his
employer, is busy in inventing sensational
stories, devoid alike of truth and principle,
for the purpose of bringing the government
and every Republican of prominence into
disrepute. His dispatches are thoughtlessly
copied into other papers, whose readers, not
knowing the character of the man or the
falsty of his words, take them as facts along
with the rest. In this way, great harm is
done, and the piratical press encouraged.
Fortunately for the credit of the newspaper
fraternity, Gibson stands comparatively
alone in Washington.
Mention of Washington correspondents is
not complete without a reference to the
WOMEN JOURNALISTS
who are very well represented in the ma
tional capital Many of them, particularly
of the older writers, are women of means,
independent OF any Bohemian style Of living,
and are courted and petted by society. There
are prominently before the public in Wash
ington at this time not more than twenty
five women who make literature or journal
ism aprofession, and even in this small num-
Der few occupy positions under govern
ment OF these the pioneer in the work
is Mrs. Jane G.. Swisshelm, whose letters
date back thirty years, to the era of the
Saturday Erening Visitor. published in Pitts
burg, and which she owned and edited. For
the last ten years, with an interim of two
years abroad, she has made this city her
4 oil 20 ODD naI II,
and in delicate health, she is an industrious
worker, and is at present writing an auto
biography, which her friends await with in
terest She is little, old-fashioned looking
woman, but her keen eye and intelligent
face, despite her disregard for fashion, i'm
press one with the belief that she is re-
markahle woman. During the sittings of
the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Swisshelm
was in constant attendance, and her criti-
cisms and remarks upon it were highly in
teresting and amusing
The best paid newspaper writer, and one
of the most popular now before the public,
is Mary Clemmer, or Mary Clemmer Ames
as she was first known. Having secured a
divorce from her husband she has taken her
maiden name. Eleven years ago she began
writing for The independent, and it now pays
her thirty dollars per week. The Cincin.
natl Commercial also pays her thirty dollars
for every letter she writes for its columns,
and besides these regular salaries she has all
the transient work she can do at her own
price, and, quite naturally she places no
mean estimate upon her pen. She is of me-
dium size, brunette in style and very spark
ling in conversation. Financially she is in
dependent, and owns home on Capitol
Hill. At her Monday evening receptions
the most exclusive society of Washington
assemble.
"Grace Greenwood" a." is known quite as
well as any lady writer of the present day.
At home she is simple Mrs. Lippincott, al.
though, like Mary Cemmer, she has had
domestic difficulties and is parted from her
husband, who absconded from the city about
two years since TO escape investigation into
his affairs as clerk in the General Land Of
flee. In personnel Grace Greenwood is large
and commanding, with face marked with
| lines OF care, yet softened to tenderness
She is an industrious worker, but with hei
heavier responsibilities has not been success
full financially. She resides in this city with
her only child, daughter rarely gifted witt
the histronic talent of her mothers family
Then there is "Aliss Gruudy," or Miss
Austine Snead, correspondent of tn,
Graphic, who, as a chronicer of society's do
ings, dressings and sayings, is perhaps th'
most successful writer in the city " Bessie
Beach," Mrs. Lincoln who is engaged OF
papers in this city, a charming little woman
possessing world of energy and an indie
pendent income; Miss Fannie Is. Ward, o
Ohio, who is both attractive aud gifted an,
the most industrious lady writer in Wash
ington, devoting her whole time 10 her liter
AIRY work, 10y which she is rapidly gainiul
fame and fortunes Mary Gay Robinson, o
Brooklyn, who is engaged on the New Yorl
Daily Witness and the Evening Mail MIR,
Roberts, writer for the Capital of thi
city, a little inclined to rant against oifcia
, power, which verges sometimes upon black
, mail Mrs. Gates, widow of the late Ger
eral Gates, Mrs. Stewart OF Iowa, Miss Jones
and Others equally successful and popular
These all command remuneration for thei
letters quite in proportion 10 the gentleme
, writers. BOHEMIAN, Washington, ID. &.
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