The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-31

and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
together in unity" The Pioneer-Press
has recently sent two young men here,
neither of whom has ever had expert
ence in Washington life, but they are
doing exceedingly well. Unlike the
average new men on the Row, they have
not come here to show the old hands how
to attend to business.
1t very frequently happens on the
Row that some bright, young reporter
comes here, and Immediately sets HIM
self up as an authority from his own
section: but very speedily they learn
that each one of these cid correspond
ents has very fair set of brains himself.
and they simmer down. The St. Louis
Republic is represented by O'Brien
Moore. He is one of the brainiest,
jolliest, roundest, plumpest, most like
able fellows in the world. He knows
news, too, when he sees it, and dresses
1t up in altisonant superlatives with
gaudy verbal adornments. Colonel L.
Q. Washington represents the Picay-
une, and is one of the oldest news
paper men in Washington. He is an
elegant Southern gentleman, dignifed,
polite, considerate, keen, bright, an in
cisive writer, friend of all public men
regardless of party affiliations, and re-
spected by all of his associates.
Just north of the Baltimore & Ohio
building we come to the New York Sun
building. 1t is crowded. Several gen.
tlemen have desk room there. Mr.. Bar
~ represents the Detroit journal and
Grand Rapids Times. Mr.. Wellman
represents the American Press Associa-
ton and the Chicago Herald. Bob
Vance, ex-Congressman from Connecti-
cut, represents the Sun, and is as
sisted by Mr.. Barry and Amos Cum
mings. They are cotorie of educated,
refined, scholarly gentlemen, and the
Sun building is popular place on the
Row. Adjoining this building. on the
north, is brick which has long been
unoccupied. Mr.. Willard, its proprietor,
has acted like dog in the manger about
1t for many years. He is idiosyncratic,
wealthy, cranky in some senses, and the
boys have tacitly agreed to let him Sc
verely alone. In the natural order of
events Mr.. Willard will be gathered
unto his fathers, and then this building
will be occupied. We next come to the
Office of General Boynton, of the Cincin-
natl Commercial-Gazette. There is no
ADLER newspaper correspondent than
General Boynton. and no more accom-
plished gentleman. He is reputed to be
a fighting character, in his correspond
ence; and it is true that his belt is filed
with the scalps of public men who have
dared to cross him. But, with his
friends and associates on the Row, Gen
eral Boynton is one of the most kindly
disposed, genial, helpful men in Wash
ington. Those who know him best like
him best.
Fred Mussey and Bob Wynne are as
sociates of the General ON the staff of
the Commercial. Every body knows
Mussey. He has been National char
acter for several years past, although
he is yet young man. Iregard him as
one of the most remarkably gifted young
men it has ever been my good fortune
to meet with; and, if his private life
had been permitted to glide along as he
mapped it out, Fred Mussey would have
been known to higher ranks of fame
and fortune than he has yet attained
unto. "Life is not the thing we planned
it" and an adverse influence, without
warning and without the possibility of
prevention, warped his life from its
original purposes. But nothing on
Gods green earth could drive so clear
. brain to aught but what is right.
There is and has been nothing wrong
in his life; but It Ia not just what he