The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-06-21
TIE PRESS AT WASHINGTON.
Sketches of the Capitals Leading
Newspapers-Future
Prospects.
Cor. St Louis Spectator.

Notwithstanding the current re-
mark that Washington is the grave
yard of newspapers, Mr.. Hutchins
has made money out of the Post the
second year of its existence. 1t yields
him $25 900 a year or more, and he is
just now putting in a new Hoe press
of the most improved pattern. The
Post ia q four page, 2 cent, paper and
has q good circulation. The other
morning daily is the Republican,
whose chief hacker is Secretary
Chandler, of the navy department.
1t was once owned by Gen. Brady of
star route fame, who now owns the
Critic, an afternoon journal. The
Republican has been q losing
concern from the day it
was started. but that has
been largely owing to the man.
egement. Recently Secretary Chan.
dler has turned it over to three gen.
tlemen who promise to steer it clear
of further shortage. Mr.. Clinton
Snowden, for some time on the New
York World, is to be editor, and as
sociated with Mr.. Frank Hatton,
first assistant postmaster-general and
one of the owners Of the Burlington
Hawkeve, of which Mr., Robert J.
Burdetle is the editor. The RepubH-
can fell behind during the past
twelve months about $4,000. It has
been an eight page paper, but is to
be cut down to four pages, the same
size as the Post.
A morning paper in Washington
has a discouraging obstacle IN the
way OF Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York. The Baltimore papers
get into Washington by 6 O'Clock, the
Philadelphia papers by 9, and the
New York papers by II. Thus thu
dailies of the larger cities come IN tt
crowd out the home papers. The
Baltimore papers do not have much
effect, since they are about the most
| dull and Old-tashioned on the cont.
nent. Washington has two after
noon papers, the Star and the Critic
the former, as I have already stated
Is owned by Gen. Brady, who started
! it to defend himself during the Stal
Route trials, and who keeps it t.
ward off possible attacks in thu
future. MIR. Eugene Field wa;
offered the editorship of it but de
clined. 1t has the possibilities
about it of a. successful paper, bu'
has been edited with no ability O,
vigor, and is probably not a verl
profitable piece of property.
The Star is the most successful
paper financially in Washington
| and # ia also the oldest. 1t is con.
sentative to the last degree. It i
hard to imagine how a paper couit
b. gotten up in a more u~nattractiv'
style, but it has a following of botl
advertisers and subscribers, ant
holds it's sway simply because ther
is nothing else to take its place
It is credited with q profit Q
$50, 900 a year. 1t has about three edi
torial paragraphs a day and never in
| dulges in a startling headline
| Among the weeklies at Washington
| the CuDitoz is regaining its old pres
tige under the editorship of Mr.. Ed
mund Hudson. correspondent of tn
Boston Herald. It is a very brigh
and readable Sunday paper. Tn
| hutchet is an illustrated Saturda..
paper that is not six months old, bu
has attained quite a large circulation
It is broadly humorous. and IL is We
| an experin.e nt. The Herald is issue
on Saturday aud is said to pay. Col
| Ramsdel's Republic has a good name
| but the editor and proprietor has a ia
| official position, and greatly neglect
his journal.