Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-06-04
-sTAUNToN SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISERS
Women Journalists.

Women Journalists.
WHO THE FEMALE QUILLERS ARE
WHAT is SAID OF THE NEW YORK !
WOMAN WRITERS-HOW THE THREE I
LEADING DAILY NEWSPAPERS ARE ]
oFFICERED-w OMEN A S EDITORS, {
PROPRIETORS AND CORRESPONDENTS.
New York Correspondence Washington PostG
Tt is strange that so many newspapers
shouId be as surprised as they seem to
he that two vomen-Mrs. and Miss Will
Iard-have become respectively editor
and nroprietor of the Chicago Post,
when women throughout the United
States are to-day occupying the most
important positions in journalism. In
Chicago this is particularly the case
There is Mrs. Margaret Buchanan sui
liyan, the leading editorial writer OF the
Times of that city-the most charming
of journalists. The lady is devo9t
Roman Catholic, is only tWenty-slX
wears old, is plump in figure, and has a
high intellectual forehead, blue eyes and
a Wealth of golden hair, which she al
lows to fall in wavy masses about her
shoulders. Her husband, A. p. Sulli-
van, is also journalist, but perhaps Is
better known as the man who shot
down Prof. :Hanford for an alleged SLAM
der of his wife. He was tried for muir
der but was acquitted, or else the jury
disagreed. I forget which. In Chicago,
too. there is Mrs. Sara 4. Hubbard, the
literary and scientific editor Of the Trib-
une. a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of AL
most thirty-fve years of age, with tall
commanding figure and dark hair and
ewes. She is perhaps the most scholarly
woman on the American press and is
veritable bookworm. Her husband is
musician of ability. He has composed
hundred or naore pieces of one kind
or another, the best known of which is
the song "Off the Blue Canary Isles. y
On the Chicago Inter-O Ocean there is the
best lady interviewer in the United
States, Miss Alice Hobbins, Of Madison,
Wisconsin. She is a pretty girl of
about twenty years of age, in appear
ance somewhat resembling Sara Jewett,
the actress. When every male inter-
viewer on the staff OF the Inter- Ocean
has failed to draw out victim, Miss
Hobbins is sent into the field, and it is
said that she never fails. She Is also
correspondent of the Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Among the best known of the lady
journalists of Philadelphia are Mrs.
Briggs, the "Olivia" of the Press, and
Mrs. Lambert, wife of the managing
editor of the Times. In Washington
YOU have an array of accomplished lady
correspondents. at the head of them,
!. suppose. is "Grace Greenwood Mrs.
L. K. Lippincott, of the New York
Times. She ia a great granddaughter
!, of Jonathan Edwards, and kinswo-
man of Aaron Burr, to who1n she is
, said to bear q strong likeness. To look
. at her now, in her matrOnly dignity,
one would hardly imagine that, as q
girl, she was distinguished as romp
whose great delight it was to catch 6
spirited horse, and, putting him to full
gallop, without saddle or bride, emu late
the feats of the circus riders she hao
seen. Her breezy and spirited poem
"The Horseback Ride" was composed
J in the saddle, andis fair example o1
"Grace Greenwood's" style. Then
: there is Mrs. Mary Clemmer, who has
: written for the newspapers since she
) was fourteen years old, and ia certainly
one of the best of correspondents. She
was great friend of the Gary sisters
!. and her "Cary memorial is graceful
J, tribute to them. Her "Ten Years il
! Washington and "Men, Women and
: Things" are both cosby and enter
tanning volumes.
OF course every one in Washington
D knows Of "Miss Grundy," the entertain
: ing correspondent of The Post, the New
8 York Graphic, Detroit Free Press, ant
8 the Cincinnati Enquirer. Her rea
e name is Austine Snead-Miss Snead.-
There is Mrs. Snead, "Fay," of tn
Louisville Courier-J Journal. The Sneads
mere ct file, are pretty young women
: seemingly of about the same age.
:, In New York there are an amazins
number of brilliant women in journal
ism. There is not newspaper here
which has not one or more OF ths n
= on its staff. Mrs. J. B. Lyman edits tn
: "home Department. of the Tribune
f: Miss Glider, whose brother is one of tn
4 editors of Scribner's. is the principa
Il dramatic and art critic of The Herald. =
8 Mrs. Emily Batty is the fashion editor
I of the Sun. and writes also many c:eve
articles for that Journal not CONNECTED
with The fashions. A feeei:t .:ontflt.u
e ton by This lady on Lace" pui,iishet
In Harpers Monthly, attracted s.suel
J attention u ;sS Middle Morgan Il tai
J stalwart English wonan, for !l.;,,t,
years has been HE cattle ahd stock re
porter an The riinas. She il i sg.i' hdit
horsewonIan aud can make 2 capita
after dinner speech ! heard her Dnc,
s at al agricultural fair at Waverly, n
a j., when one of her eff handed orator.
r cal efforts was received with unbouudei
: enthusiasm. BY the way, in speaking
, of the Tribune, / should not have omit
ted to mention Miss Nellie Hutchinson
e She used to be reporter, but now writes
many of the book reviews, and, if l an
: not mistaken, the capital personal para
f graphs on the editorial page. TIL
screeds OF Mrs. Florence /. Duncan ar,
9 familiar to all the readers of the Worlt
: and the Graphic. Mrs. Mary Kyle Dial
1 las used to get $4,000 a year salary a
r one of the department. editors Of tn
Ledger, and now writes, l believe, TO
the Sunday Times, and several othe
weekly papers. Mrs. Mary A. Bootl
is the editor of Harper's Bazar and st
Nicholas, the best children's magazine
in the world, is conducted by Mrs
Mary Mapes Dodge. AS I draw to thu
end of my space, a number OF names
and feuilletonistes, who should b,
mentioned, occur to me; prominently
those of Mrs. M. Ii. Fiske, ("M. II
F.,'D formerly IN. I'll. B." and Mrs
Connolly cecilia Logan"), sister o
Olive Logan. [ must pass by them
however, to devote few lines to lady
t whose name might fittingly have lee
i fmy mention of the women journalist;
of New York. OF course I me Mrs
S Jennie Cunningham Croly, or "Jenni'
$ june" the name by which she is known
t from Maine to California. She received
1 the nom de plume when she was twelve
3 years old, from friend who used to say
, she was the Funniest child" he ever met
r Mrs. Csoly is the wife of David G. Gro
8 ~, the editor of the Graphic, to which
3 paper she is favorite contributor, az
she was to the World for twelve years
as fashion editor, her husband being
managing editor at the time Her faith
t er was prominent English Unitarian
She came to this country when very
young ,ghas so thoroughly identified her
r self with the works and aims of intelli
gent American women, that she is gen
orally supposed to be one Of them. She
is OF slender physiq medium height
and is blonde. Her voice is low anf