St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-03-29

planned It He is . superior newspaper
man. but be might Is we'll have been
In the front rank Of lawyers, doctors,
politicians or statesmen. Bob wynne
Is one Of the handsomest men on the
Row. and An energetic worker. In the
same room with these CincinnatiAns,
Mr.. Stevens and Mr.. Appsrson, Of the
st. Louis Globe Democrat, hold forth.
They are worthy mon, too, Of whom
nothing could be said save in praise.
The next building is occupied by Perry
Heath, OF the indianapolis Journal and
Omaha Bee. He il . young man yet
but occupies exceedingly close conf
Dental relations with the White House.
In the back room, with stenographef
and typewriter hard 1t work, sits Will
lam Eleroy Curtis. Of the Chicago News;
that is he is there when MI. Blaine is
not sending hfm elsewhere upon foreign
missions for the Department Of State.
He is not only . newspaper man, but .
book-msker. traveller. diplomat and lit
erateuf. He is q round, plump, boy
looking fellow, and wears q smile Is
sweet as honey and as natural as An old
shoe. The noxt house is occupied, on
n side, by the United Press. Here
Burhans, Boyle, Balm and the other
busy BIS toll far into the night and
keep the ~telegraphic wires hot. Across
the hall we find the New York Times,
neld down by Dunnell and De Puy
They are young men, both, and full OF
vim and vigor, each enthusiastic to get
more Washington news for the Times
than any other New York paper can
gather. The Tribune, World and Her
aid are of Of the Row. Mr.. Secken.
dorf and Major Clarke, of the Tribune.
are around on F street, near Mr.,
Wright's Office. The World is farther
up OF Fourteenth and the Herald is
away around on Fifteenth. There
Messrs. Nordhoff, Preston and Guth.
ridge delve in symphony of purpose.
But to return to the Row. Above the
heads of the Times and United Press
thore is h~oneycomb Of workers! Hos.
ford, of the Detroit Free Press; Hamil.
ton, Of the Milwaukee Herald; Low, OF
the Boston Globe; Dodge, of the Mil.
waukee Sentinel, and several others
serve their great constituencies.
The next building is the Ebbitt House
Until last summer it had never opened
its portals to the press, but used the en-.
tire ground floor for q bar-room. Major
John NJ. Carson, Of the Philadelphia
Press, one of the oldest and most sue
cessful correspondents here, induced
Mr.. Willard Caleb, not the crank to
rent him that room. Major Carson
caused it to be elegantly fitted up, and
rented desk to Charlie Towle, OF
the Boston Traveller, and Charlie Gray,
of the California Associated Press.
They bad the handsomest ONCE on the
Row until within the past two weeks
Every n knows Charlie Towle, by
He Is not only Q good
writer, but tells . story better than any
other fellow, NOT even excepting Msjah
Stofah. His laugh would make IN in.
FAINT scream. 1t Is not . 'haw-haw,'
but . sui generis sort of . "tut-tut-tut
te-te-tut-te." There is no other cachin.
nation like it, and if it could be photo.
graphed, every dime museum man in
America would want q copy. Charlie
Gray laughs with his whiskers, and when |
gets of . new story, Gray's
smoker can DO heard way down by the
B. 4 o. Building. When Gray smokers,
the wind literally b10~s through his
whiskers, and he don't care, either. |
Major Carson seldom smiles. He is the |
personification of c~omrsdeship and dig.
nifty combined. He knows more ofArmy
and navy matters than all the rest of us.
He was an intimate, trusted friend Of
General Sheridan.
l must not leave the Row without d.
Hunt. He is . character, SURE
His education is limited, but
he knows how to gather department
news. He walks on crutches, wears Bye
and looks pretty. Hegoes to all
the executive departments, gets lists
appointments, designations, promo
ions and other light matter, and sells
lis information At night to the boys on
he Row. He is nobody's enemy, but is
he friend of every body, including the
pretty actresses at P~erreard's. -.
But there is another Office in Newspa
,er Row. 1t 10 north of Major Carson's,
nd was but recently opened. Mr.. Will
I'd was prevailed upon to let two moro
newspaper men into the Ebbitt, and they
ave an Office beautifully and lavishly
ppointed in every respect. One of them
) John Shriver, of the New York Mail
nd Express, formerly with the Balti.
lore American, latterly with the Balti.
lore & Ohio Railroad Company. He is
ne of the smoothest writers, one of the
estdescriptive writer's. in the profession
ere. His Office is . model of beauty,
nd he is himself par excellence q trav-
led, cultured gentleman. Associated
18th him in this new Office is the CORE
pondent of several Western papers and |
,e representative Of the A. n. kellogg
newspaper Companyof Chicago, . pretty
fellow named
SHIrH D. FEY.