Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-30


learned the art and was soon one of the best
receivers in New England As telegrapher
be received President I.incoln,s first call for
troops He acted as an operator all through
the war and received the news of Lees sur
render, Richmond,s fall, the assassination Of
President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booths death
and other press news which made the country
alternately glad and sorrowful.
During this time Mr.. Phillips devoted him.
self to study and to writing for various jour
mails He had an ambition to be good
newspaper man. He had taken a prize as one
Of the best telegraphers in the United States
at the telegraph tournament, and Professor
Morse had decorated him with badge given
TO the operator who had at that date made the
fastest record.
In 1873 Mr. Phillips left Providence for
New York and became reporter on The New
York Sun He tried to write editorials, but
his editorials were thrown into the waste bas-
ket He got them out and sent them to Mr..
Dana,.but they did not appear, snd Mr.. Phil
lips concluded 20 leave The Sun. A week
after he left The Sun printed his editorial
paragraphs. but he had in the meantime en-
tered the office of the Associated Press, and
q year after he began his work here at WASH
ington he was chief assistant to John W.
Simonton, the general agent
Il was just ten years ago that Mr.. Phillips
became the chief of the Washington bureau
Of the Associated Press, and here he remained
until 1882. At this time the United Press
had become financially embarrassed, and
Mr. Phillips concluded to go in with it. He
invested his spare funds, became chief man
ager Of the association, and in a short time
put Il on its feet a rival Of the Associated
Press When he took charge Of it the list of
newspapers served numbered 102, and the re-
ceipts were a little over $500 day. Now
the United Press serves one or more news
papers in each leading city and town, and its
daily receipts run over a thousand dollars.
1t has inangurated, through Mr. Phillips,
new wsys of gathering and sending news,
and it controls more miles of wire than any
other press association OF the country. It
has its correspondent at each crossroads 1t
has made itself felt as a news gatherer.
People who are not posted ON tho work
ings Of the large press associations have little
idea Of their operation The United Press
works the longest and most complicated tele-
graph circuit IN the world 1t has single
wire $500 miles long, and it works direct
from Chicago to San Francisco. The United
the papers Of the country, and from st Louis
and Chicago its wires reach TO every village
In the land At these conventions there was
great strife between. the United Press and
the Associated Press as TO which would get
the first bulletins of news into the various
cities
Gated in New York, and his association with
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ings with the United Press. He is good all
around newspaper man, as well as a good
executive, and can write as racy dispatch
q any man who sends his letters over the
Telegraph wires.
saw Harrison, Grants body servant, on
the street the other day, and / asked him
about the Badeau-Grant trouble. He said
Gen Badeau intended to push the matter,
and he gave me to understand that Badeau
wanted him TO testify as to his relations with
Grant He replied, however, that he did not
tank he ought to be brought into the case at
all He was acting under Grant as conf
Dental servant and such conversations as he
bad heard and things he had seen ought not
TO be reported. Harrison did not say any
thing in support Of Badeau's position to me,
ehu ne gave tne ho1ning InAt couio oe USED
in support OF that position He was entirely
of nr,is.-s for mis- dead master He has now
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