Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-27
THE UNITED PRESS.
The Washington Bureau in Its New
Quarters.
GATHERING THE WORLDS NEWS.
A Great Agency Called Forth by
Modern Enterprise.
THE STAFF IN THIS CITY.
THERING THE WORLDS NEWS.
THE STAFF IN THIS CITY

The Washington Office of the United Press
Is now housed in quarters in the new Post
building. which are not only elegant, but
most completely equipped for the business
of press association. The United Press is
the greatest news collecting and distrib-
uting agency in the world. 1t is the gen.
eral news purveyor for several hundred
newspapers in the United States and Can
ada, and. by means of its exchange agen-
cies. its service also reaches all the prin-
cipal newspapers of Great Britain. and the
continent of Europe. 1t Is the most extern
sive and influential news gathering associa-
ton in the world
Its province is to record not to comment.
1t collects the facts and transmits them
leaving to each individual newspaper in It's
vast clientage to draw its own deductions
from the events narrated or the proceed
ings reported.
OF the fifty principal cities in the United
States enumerated in the UIired States
census thirty are exclusively supplied with
the general news of other communities Ivy
means of the United Press. anil a large
proportion Of the remaining twenty cities
derive their outside news almost entirely
from the United Press and its allies Nearly
all the old established and powerful Jour-
mails In New York city. Brooklyn, Phila-
delphia. Boston. Baltimore and Washing
ton are United Press papers. The leading
newspapers In Chicago, Louisville and Gin
cinnau belong to its organization.
Its system of leased wires extends from
the extreme east to Denver. Col. to the
Pacific coast by way of the Canadian Pc
cifc railroad and to Memphis in the south
west, and covers 1858 miles of territory.
xtaf
York. Chicago and this city. where the
eastern, western and southern general
managers respectively reside There are
resident managers also in Lon Ion. England;
City Of Mexico, San Francisco, Buffalo,
Philadelphia, Cincinnati Pittsburg. BAL
timore. St. Louis and other large cities.
The president of the association is Mr..
Charles A. Dana Of the New York Sun: the
vice president, Mr.. w. M. Laffan; the treas
urer, Mr. Jno. r. Walsh of the Chicago
Herald and the secretary and general man
ager, Mr.. Walter P. Phillips. to whose re-
markable ability. energy and tact the as
ISOLATION owes its marvellous success.
In New York the general offices are es-
tablished in the Western Union building,
on Broadway, at the corner of Dey street,
and are handsome and we'll appointed. The
Chicago Offices, in the Chicago Herald build
ing. are in keeping with everything else in
that model newspaper office.
Henceforward the Washington offices will
take rank with the other chief offices Of the
association. In addition to the rooms oc-
cupied in the Occidental building. the COM
pany has furnished commodious and hand
some quarters on the fourth floor of the
new Post building, on Pennsylvania avenue
rear 18th street, the telegraph department be-
ing in rear of the building, in a room large
enough and lofty enough for ball room,
which receives light and air from all four
quarters of the compass. Opening out Of
the telegraph room are quarters for the
news editor, the reporters, the editors, the
cashier. the general southern manager and
his assistant, and the stenographers and
typewriters. The suite also contains re-
ception room and library and every modern
appliance for rapid work and comfort. All
the furnishings are in antique oak. The
walls are a dark cream color and the floors
are covered with lnoleum and rugs. Buried
under the hardwood floors are the wires.
drawn through armor-covered conduits, as
are also the electric light wires.
There are sixteen sets of instruments in
the operating room, placed on four quar-
tette antique oak tables, and these include
two sets of repeaters and duplex set. In
the switchboard there are accommodations
for the main circuits and several battery
circuits Running into the board also are
loops from the United Press office to the
office of The Evening Star. to the editorial
rooms of the Post, to the United States
weather bureau and to all the departments.
These loops can be attached to any of
the main circuits and are of great value in
facilitating the prompt gathering and de-
livery of news matter.
The staff maintained at the Washington
office is a large one, and well equipped by
experience and standing for the respon-
sible duties thrown upon it of recording for
the rest of the world in great part the do
ings at the national capital.
p. V. DeGraw, the general southern man
hapn 70 N
Walter p. Phillips the founder of the
United Press, for twenty years. He was
with him on the old and now defunct New
York Associated Press, came with him to
the new organization. and has contributed
not little to build up its success from the
Washington end.
James B. Austin, his assistant, has been
in the telegraph service in Canada and this
ington since January, 1870. He had charge
of the Western Union office at Long Branch
at night during President Garfield's linger-
ing last illness, and has been connected
with the United Press since 1888.
Henry Conquest Clarke the news mana
ger, was gallery reporter in the house of
commons for the Manchester. Eng Guard
ian over thirty years ago; served as for
eign editor of the New York Herald during
the closing years of the war, and subse-
quently as a correspondent in the southern
states; in Mexico during the Macmillan
revolution, and in this city He first be-
about eight years ago.
Edwin NJ. Hood. who Is in charge Of the
work of the United Press at the Capitol,
entered the service of the old New York
Associated Press as a boy and rose through
all the grades until he was appointed by
that organization to the position he now
so acceptably fills for the United Press.
Henry q. Hayes Senate reporter for the
United Press. an old and accomplished
journalist and Charles J. Hayes, his SON,
who reports the House proceedings, stand
unequaled in the United States as parlia-
mentary reporters. All the great events
of modern American history at the national
capital have been recorded at their hands.
Herbert s. Wright. night manager:
Charles S. Albert. night editor; Ernest
w. Emery. who files the western day re-
port; James G.. Holland. who files the west
ern night report John Boyle. who repre-
sents the United Press at the Treasury De
partment and the Department of Justice;
A. J. Halford whose speciality Is the House
of REPRESENTATIVES, it's committees. &c, and
the Supreme Court: F. I. Whitehead, who
looks after the Senate committees and eX-
ecutive sessions: Richard V. Oulahan. who
represents the United Press at the War,
State and Navy Departments and the White
House; Jerome ]. WILDER. who reports for
the United Press the varied matters occur
ring In the Interior Department and all Its
bureaus. the Post Office and Agricultural
Departments; L. A. Leech. Albert Chapiine
and w. j. Dwyer, reporters of House COM
mittees. are all experienced and capable
men. Some of them have had many years
experience as journalists or In the telegraph
service.