Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-31

| There is one popularity about the
! Washington correspondent that is worthy
| OF notice, and much to be wondered at.
| That is his reluctance to accept anything
new as relates to his own personal
methods. Persistent seekers after news
as they are, they reject anything new in
their own line until 1t is actually forced
| upon them through recognition by the
business world about them. Take the
| typewriter for instance. It's universally
conceded to be an excellent thing for those
who have much writing to do, yet these
men who make their living by writing,
who do nothing else from one years
end to another, and who would find it a
great relief after a busy day in the ''feld,"
where they are compelled to write more
or less by hand, reject it. There are a
few who are now beginning its use; a
very few who have used and commended
it for years, but they are, altogether, not
10 per cent. of the whole. Take that labor
saving instrument, the telephone. Here
it connects you with the White House,
the home of every Cabinet officer,
the desks of dozens of department
officials who are always willing to answer
any inquiry you may desire to make, the
capitol, the post office, the hotels, the To-
cal newspaper Offices, the telegraph Off
ces, and every news centre, yet you can
the newspaper correspondents VINO have
it at residence or office. The duty of the
correspondent requires him to travel
about the city a great deal. He must, If
successful and alert, visit all the depart
ments, the hotels, the capitol, tire white
house, and often the residence of some
official, besides visiting his own home oc-
casioually. Here, in Washington, there
is no method of travel more popular,
more swift, more comfortable, more mex
pensiVe, or more time and labOr-saving
than by bicycle or tricycle.. The asphalt
streets are as smooth as a floor. and eX-
tend all over the city. You may 20 by the
"silent steed" in any direction with the
utmost ease and comfort, day or night,
after the street cars have stopped or while
they run. BY it you save time, labor and
money, and make that which otherwise
would be a drudgery pleasure. The
bicycle is sufficiently popular
that the person who rides it does
not become unpleasantly conspicuous
thereby, for there are hundreds and hum
dreds, probably thousands, in the city
and to be seen on the streets at all hours.
Department officials, business men, physi-
clans, and people OF all classes ride them,
and many ladies use the tricycle. with
grace and ease, yet with all these recon-
mendatiOns and practical advantages
which the machine offers the newspaper
men 1t is rejected. There are but two or
three newspaper men who ride the bicy-
Gle, and but one of these who makes it of
constant practical use in his business.
IL seems odd that these men who are con-
stantly seeking something new, who may
only make success by hard and constant
work. who lead public opinion in many
things of great Importance, who claim to
be progressive in many things, should re-
iect the very things which would aid
them in their own success, simply because
they are comparatively new and because
their father and grandfathers before them
did not use them