The Portland daily press., 1882-08-09
NEWSPAPER ROW.
Pen Pictures of the Most Notable
Washington Correspondents.
The Men Who Gather News at the Capt.
tai and Telegraph it to all Parts of the
World-Their Names and Characteris-
tics


There is class of persons in Washington
who work harder than any Government officers.
! refer to the newspaper correspondents. do
not refer to the fellows who write a letter now
and then, but to those who work twelve or six
teen hours every day Of their lives-the fellows
who sit at one end of the telegraph wire and
tell the world at the other end everything that
is going on at the seat of Government. They
go to their offices at about nine or ten in the
morning; they read or run over a dozen or
twenty pages; they make notes of ideas as they
strike them, and often get suggestions to work
on. Then they give the departments little
attention, spending an hour or so in looking af-
ter special things. Then they go to the Capt.
tol and find out everything that is going on
there in both Houses and hundred commit
tee rooms. Nothing escapes him. "When
found he makes note of it," as Captain Cut
tie SAYS When both Houses adjourn he goes
home to his dinner, just as though he were a
Congressman-and III bet he gets better din
ner than most of the Congressman get, for
correspondent knows what is good to eat, and
he generally has the money to pay for it. AT
ter his dinner and little rout with his chill
dren, he goes down town, takes run through
the hotels, picks up what he can, and then
goes to his Office and writes up his notes. One,
two or three columns he writes under an Ar
gand burner, getting through his work at l2 or
i or o'clock, and blinded with the glare of the
gas and an aching head.
But the hard-worked boys will soon have
rest, and think the public is more interested
in knowing who writes the Washington news
every day than it is in Congressman. There
fore I started out to tell you who the newspa-
per men are and where they are going this
summer can give only few of them for
two reasons. Ono is that L do not know the
half of them, and the other is that the entire
list as set down in the directory covers exactly
a hundred names. have not the knowledge,
therefore, nor you the space, to notice all Of
them.
Walter Allen, about forty years old, short
and stout and whiskered, represents the BOs-
ton Advertiser. He is not news man, but his
despatches are able editorial review OF what is
going on. When not in Washington he is on
the editorial staff of his paper at home. He
has already left the city, and is with his family
in one of the Boston suburbs. He is reform
2r, DuJ ueVertn6leSS u0lpS out I" Soou lucoHi0
with the salary of committee clerkship.
Byron Andrews has the face and eye OF
man Of thirty-fve and the whiskers and stom-
ach of man of forty. He is probably thirty
years old. He represents the Chicago Inter
Ocean and New York Graphic When Con-
gress gets away he will go to the northern
lakes to join his charming wife, whom he mar
ried about year ago.
Bickford Il don't remember his initials) is a
long, gaunt spectacled gentleman, whose nose
IS SO high in the air that it seems to be count
ing the stars. He is connected with the New
York Tribune, and being practical telegraph
operator, is very useful. He is a religious man
and musician. He plays the cornet-a-piston
at Methodist camp-meetings.
HV. BoYnton is so well known that word
| about him is hardly necessary. He is over fifty
| years old, slight of build nervous and quick of
movement, full beard, and an eye that at times
| is as mild as a womans and at times as fiery as
| soldiers. He hates shams, but loves MS feI-
| low men and does lot of good IN the world
| He never turns his back on friend or Toe. he
| is married TO a most accomplished lady, ana
| OWES fine house here. He is now only con-
| nected with the Cincinnati Gazette.
John NJ. Carson is well known in Philadel-
phia. He has for years represented the Ledg-
| er He, like Bickford, also carries his nose
| high in the air. He has lovely family, and
is about fifty years old. One of his sons is at