Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-06-26
THE PRESS AT WASHINGTON.
Sketches OF :hc Capitals leading
.>papcrs-i'uturc Prospects.

Cor. 81. Louis Spectator.
Notwithstanding the clrrent remark tnus
Washington IS tac graveyard Of newspapers,
Mr.. liutchins has made money out of Tie
Posi- since tire s-coai year uf it, existence
1t yields him So G0j yeaT or more, and ne
is just now putting in a rev Hoe press OF the
most improved pattern The Post rs a four
Page. cent, paper an ! has Il good circula-
ton The ojhe: tao ming daily is the Re-
publiran. whose chief bic-or IS Secre-
tary ChanIler, OF tho navy depart
mcn'. j. was oace owned by
Gen Brady 81 STAR route fame,
who now owns The Critic, an afternoon jour
nal The Republican has been losing CON
Germ FROM the day it ,.a starred, bat that
has been largely owing 20 !he management.
Recently Secretary Chandla. has turned it
over to three gea t'eEen who promise to steer
it clear of further shortage. Mr.. Clinton
Snowdou, for some tns Oh The New York
World. is to DE the editor. and associated
with hus - Mr. Frank I!a;tcn. first assistant
postmaster general and one OF the oHne.s of
The Darlington IIawkeYe, of which Mr..
Robert j Burdctte is the editor. The Re
public "A fell Soliad during the past twelve
months ,,hoGt Si3o)o 1t has been an ci5hJ-
page ,.arer, bus i, 10 lie cp: down To four
page, the sam, siz' a. The Post.
A morning paper in Washington iiaS "a dis
cournging ol,..acio IN the way Of Baltimore,
Pniia lcphja AMI New York. The Bati-
moro papers get into Washington by 6
oclock. 10, Philadelphia papers by 2, and the
New YORK lApers by i Thus the daiies ot
the larger cites come IN to crowd out the
home papers The baltimore iapers do not
hny iinuch effect. siice tacy are about the
most dull aud old-fashi1nad ON the CONT
nent Washington has two afternoon pa
pers. The $ ar and The Critic; the former, rs
| have already stated, Is owned 10y Gen.
Brady. who started It 10 defend himself
during the star route trials aud who keeps it
to ward OF possible attacks in the future.
Mr. Eugene Field was recently offered tho
editurship Of it hut declined. l. las the pos
sibilit.es about it OF a successful paper tut
has been edited with ~ abi,tJ or vsor, and
is probably ia a Very Profitable piece of
! property.
The star is tho most successful paper
financially IN Washington, and it IS also the
Oldest. Il Is conservative 10 the iGst degree.
II i, hard TO Imagine how paper could DO
gotten UP in a moro unattractve style, but
it has a following of both advertisers anl
subscriber, aud holis its sway simply be-
cause thcre is nothing else to take its
place II is credited with profit Of
$4,000 year. 1t has about three
editorial paragraphs day. and never in
dulges in n startling headline. Among the
weeklies at Washington, The Capitol Is re
gaining its old prestige uader the cditorSE;p
of Mr. Edmund Hudsun, correspondent Of
The Boston Herald. 1t is very bright and
readable Sunday paper. The Hatchct Is an
illustrated Saturday paper that II not over
six months old, but has attained quite large
circulation. II is broadly humorous and 1t
is yet an experiment The Herald is Issued
on Saturday and is said 10 pay. Col Rams
del's Republic has a good name, tout the
editor and proprietor has a fat official posi-
ton, and greatly neglects his Journal