Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-13
CORRESPONDENT AT THE CAPITOL.
How the Country and ,hc Ne~spavsss Have
Grown

oroWh
CHE Warden IN ths cOzcor, Monitor.
An interesting illustration OF the wonderful
growth OF our country and Of all Kinds Of pub
.ie ana private business IL afforded BY single
feature IN that little pub. doc.," the Con
sressaonsi Directory" Of which = new edition
has Just been issued. Three rNgcs OF the doe
ament are devoted 10 . list Of members 81 the
press who ars entitled 30 admission 90 the pres.
galleries This iist embraces the names Of the
special correspondents Of Ia different news
papers Throughout; the entire American Union,
from Maine 20 California aud from the Dako
70 Florida. and In addition thereto are tine rep
resentatives Of ten distinct new.-gsthsring and
news distributing associations. by which thou
saoos OF newspapers In both continents are
sepphed With information relative 20 oil sorts
capital
tor the purpose Of interesting comparison I
nave examined tho directory OF thirty wears
ago. Then there were but about TWENTY-FIVE
special correspondents OF that many news
papers and the representatives OF two nevs as
sociat,ons Then anybody who Was st all
Identified with a newsl,aper-no matter how re-
mote that connection or how infroouentlv he
may have sent his commuuica tons (slmost en-
tireiy by mail, except 90 a few OF the metro
poitan gaqers)-could get abundance 20 the
press gallcrieA
crease OF newspaper work aud GA account OF
The limited space allotted in each house for the
accommodation OF representatives OF the press
OF the country, the occupation Of the press gal
.eries ~ coiflncd by rule TO strictly bona nde
correspondents Of reputabie standing IN their
business who represent daily newspapers. and
tho press list Ia the ongressionsl DIRECTORY v"
before mentioned 'shan be confined
TO tsiegTaphie correspondents" The rules
specifically declare that .'clerks An
me executive departments OF the govern
Ineni and persons engaged in other occups-
lions whose chief attention Il not given 10
newspaper correspondence, are not enutled 10
'dmission, and also that members OF the
ianiiles OF correspondents are not entitled 10
| admission"
IL the press list in the new edition Of the di-
rectory the city OF New York has seventeen Diff
ierent newspapers enresentate by tweut,-ioar
sveena eoffespondents, aud each paper has. In
aaAtioh, The efficient general news ssrysce Of
one or more Of the great associations. Chicago
comes next In order with eight papers repre-
sehtea by twelve special correspondents; Phila-
aeip.ia, seven papers aud oIgnt special CORE
sfohden.si FittsVurg, Sax papvrs ak men;
bosion, five papers, SIX men. Cincipra,l. three
papers, sLx mea. Washington CITY, two papers.
siA men; Baltimore. three paper. Ave- men. "a
LOUIS three papers, fve men; Cleveland, three
papers, Tour men; Detroit, three papers. four
I-eili brooklyn. buffalo, Mlnnsspoli. ST. Paul
Denver, Louisville, ky., auG Richmond Va,
each three papers and three men; Omaha two
papers and three men, Springfield, MassL, e.
MIRA, Toledo, Columbus, Milwaukee, New
oreahs' Atlanta aud Salt Lake City,
eacn two papers and two Correspondents; SAN
Francisco has one paper represented by two
correspondents In addition 20 those named
there are many other cities which have in the
press Inst one paper represented by one s,eciAl
correspondent among which are Portland,
Ores Helena, Mont; Galveston, Nashville.
Memphis. Charleston, Kansas City, Des Molnes,
harrisburg, Erie and Concord CHE koaitor).
Inc ten news associations employ thirty-four
active, able men, twelve Of whom are engaged
gathering news for the Associated Press. eleven
Tor the United Press. three for the Press News
Association. two for the California Associated
Press and one each for the American Press As
ISOLATION, Dslziers news agency. the Globe
Iress Association, the Interstate Association,
the Connecscgt Associated Press and the kler.
nan News Company.