The Washington critic., 1889-03-02

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Newspaper Row begins to look lively
about three o. clock in the afternoon and
up to about the same hour in the morning
il is the busiest place in this town. But
do you know where the Row is? The
old Row is on Fourteenth street, running
from the Avenue to the Ebbitt House.
Not one. fourth of the correspondents
have olllcesthcrc now, however. The
business of news gathering In Washing
ton has grown to such enormous pro
portions that the old Row with all its
traditions Of famous correspondents
and scoops couldn't accommodate them
all, and so they had TO seek other quar-.
tiers.
They cling to the old ncighborhool,
though, and the Offices they found
were very near by. All of the CORE.
spondcnts for out-of town papers have
offices within radius of five blocks,
the row being the centre. The New
York star, TriJuHo, Press and Nc,cs,
the Kansas City Timer, Baltimore Sun,
Cincinnati Enquirer and Chicago Inter-
ocean are on + street between Thir
tccnth and Fifteenth. Other promi
nent papers are within stones throw
of these, the New York Hcr0M and
WorM being on Fifteenth and the Asso-
ciatcd Press and about fifty correspond
cnts have rooms in the CorCoran Build
ing.
To describe the Inauguration TO the
sixty millions of people who are so un-
fortunate as not to be able to visit
Washington requires u small army of
reporters, and they are now busy doing
it. Though they cant come they want
TO know all about it, and during the
next few days many q thousand col
umns of matter will be flashed over the
wires to every nick and corner Of this
big country of ours. The very best
men that money can procure are sent to
Washington by the big papers outside
for the Inauguration work. The old
men are kept hard at IL, but they need
help and lots of II, so the New York,
Philadelphia and Chicago papers send
in their crack writers, and frequently
the editors come themselves to see that
the thing is well done. A number are
here already.
SOME OF THE EDITORS.
Colonel Elliot +. Shepard, the editor
of the New York Mil and Express,
will supplement with his large stock of
biblical knowledge the labors of Scna-
tor Blair and Mr.. Robert Wynnc, who
are his regular correspondents. Mr..
Shepard is cnterprising enough TO take
rooms at the Arlington, where he can
be near the President elect at all hours.
lie has not been able to find out yet
what church Mr.. HARRISON will attend
in Washington.
Murat Halstcad came on Wednesday,
and is also at the Arlington, but II is
not known whether he is looking after
the French mission or the interests of
the COmm6Icidl- Gazette. This latter,
however, doesn't need much attention
in Washington, as 1t is represented by
General II. V. Boynton, q veteran of
forty years experience. Colonel Fred.
Musscy is also in town, and will con
tribute budget of readable, descriptive
articles in his own inimitablc style
These two will be ably seconded by W.
ii. Smith, who represented the Gazette
on the Presidential train, and ten or n
dozen reporters. Editor Arkell of
JudgC has been at the Arlington for
some days. Charles Emory Smith.
editor of the Philadelphia Press, is at
the Normandie, near his great political
chief, Mr.. Blaine.
Robert =. Porter, the editor Of the
New York Press, and the man who
couldn't get along with Frank Hatton
of the Post on account of his extreme
protection views, arrived in town to-day.
He will address the Spellbindcrs' As
scmbly this evening at their dinner at
the G. A. II. Hall. He will stay over
for the Inauguration and help George
Martin, the regular correspondent.
George only got home from his bridal
tour yesterday, and as the Press people
don't want TO disturb his honeymoon
they are going TO send the veteran Joe
Howard, jr., down from Gotham to
help him out.
John II. Mclean of the EHqni,fr will
give his personal attention to the Wash.
ington correspondence of his paper,
though William G. MacBride, the pop.
ular, fat and iovial special, will do the
greater part of the descriptive writing,
assisted by Mr.. S, c. Johnson, the resi-
dent correspondent, and Mr.. John Il.
Mccarthy, who did the indianapolis
work before Mr.. Harrison came tc
Washington.
The New York Hcro,d is going to dc
one of its surprising things by sending
DR.. Alfred Martin from his post in Cuba
where he has been stationed for years
to write the descriptive portion of the
| UerdM dispatches from this city,
John Il. Sullivan, editor of the Gal
latin Mo.) Republican, is in the city
John A. Sleicher of the Albany EceHi0S
| JOWrHdL is another visitor.
II Is no new thing for the U,r0M
though, TO send man from the othel
end of the world to write II few columns
| about the Inauguration. Edmund
| Yates, at one time the HerdM'S London
| correspondent, was sent from that place
| TO Washington TO write the story o.
! Hayes Inauguration, and he gives {
very interesting account of It in hi
book, "Thc Memoirs Of Man of thu
| World"
| There are, perhaps, over two hundred
men now in the city sent here by paper
from all over the country. There i
much visiting in Newspaper Row anC
many renewals Of old friendships
Among others in town are w. c. Nc
Phers0n of the New York IiijUae
Earnest Chamberlain of the SIM, JOIN
Munford of the Wiorld, George G, Hit
of the indianapolis J0UTaal, and Henri.
! Oviatt of the Times.
All of these gentlemen accompanied
the Prcsident-elect on his trip from In
dianapolis, and their accounts of tn
tour have given the readers of their re
spectivc papers a foretastc of what is t
come. Mr.. j. l.. Rogers of the Colum
bus Dispatch is also here for the lnau
gmation, and his paper may depenI
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