, 1884-07-08
THE PRESS AT WASHINGTON.
Sketches OF the Capitals Leading
Netyspnpers-Future Prospects,

NeNspnpers-Euture prospects.
ICor. 81. Louis Spectator.l
Notwithstanding the current remark that
Washington is the graveyard of newspapers,
Mr.. Hutchins has made money out Of the
Post since the second year of is existence.
1t yields him s2S 100 a year or more, and hs
Is just now putting in a new Hoe press of the
most Improved pattern. The Post is a four
page, 2 cent, paper an | has n good circula-
ton The other mo ming daily is The Re-
publican, whose chief hacker is Score
tary Chandler, Of the navy depart.
nient 1t was once owned by
Gen. Brady of star route fame,
who now owns The C,itic, an afternoon jour.
nal The Republican Las been a losing con-
Germ from the day it was star ed, but that
has been largely owing to the management.
Recently Secretary Chandler has turned it
over TO three gent emen who promise to steer
1t clear Of further shortage. Mr.. Clinton
Snowdon, for some { ms on The New York
World. is to be the editor, and associated
with him is Mr.. Frank Hatton. first assistant
postmaster general, and one of the owners OF
The Burlington Hswkeye, of which Mr..
Robert J. Burdette is the editor. The Re-
public IN fell behind during the past twelve
months about $4,000. 1t has been an eight.
page paper, but is to be cut down TO four
pages, the same siz- as The Post
A morning paper in Washington has a dis
cnuraging obstacle in the way Of Baltimore,
Philadelphia ami New York. The Baiti-
more papers get into Washington by 6
O'Clock, the Philadelphia papers by 9, and the
New York papers by IL. Thus the dailies Of
tho larger cities come in to crowd out the
home par ers. The Baltimore Iapers do not
have much effect, since they are about the
most dull and old-fashioned on the CONT.
nent. Washington has two afternoon pa
pers, The S ar and The Critic; the former, as
l have already stated, is owned by Gen.
Brady, who started it to defend himself
during the star route trials, and who keeps it
to ward off possible attacks in the future.
Mr.. Eugene Field was recently offered the
cditorship of it but declined. It has tho pos
sibilit es about it of a successful paper, but
has been edited with no ability or vigor, and
is probably not a very profitable piece of
property.
The star Is the most successful paper
financially in Washington, and it is also the
Oldest 1t is conservative to the asst degree.
1t il hard to imagine how a paper could be
gotten up in a more unattraotive style, but
it has a following of both advertisers ahI
subscribers, and bol $ its sway simply be-
cause there is nothing else to take its
place. 1t is creditel with a profit OF
S50.0M a year. 1t has about three
editorial paragraphs a day. and never in
dulges in a startling Headline. Among the
weeklies at Washington, The Capitol Is re-
gaining Its old pr stige under the editorship
OF Mr.. Edmund Hudson, correspondent of
Tn Boston Herald. 1t is a very bright aud
readable Sunday paper. The Ratchet is an
illustrated Saturday paper that is not over
six months old. but as alta ned quite a large
c.rcu alton. 1t is broadly humorous, au IT
is yet an experiment The Herali Is issu ID
on Saturday and is said to pay. Col. Rams.
delfs Republic has a good name, but the
Editor aud proprietor has a fat official posi-
ton, aud greatly neglect' his Journal