Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-06
NEWSPAPER ROW AND HOW
THINGS ARE RUN THERE.
Great Bureaus of Great Newspapers.
Brainerie, Where Public Opinion
is Manufactured to Order.



1t may be relied upon as just and fair
1t may be picturesque, but 1t will always
20 right down into the core of the mans
being and his chief aims in life.
This famous row, running along Four
teenth street. between Pennsylvania
avenue and Il street, is the most promi-
ncnt opinion factory in the country. Its
denizens call it tie Brain Dispensory."
From fifty to hundred correspondents,
representing papers from Maine to Cali
fornia, may be found here at any hour
from four In the afternoon until mid
night. Some are hard az work grinding
out ihunderOusly heavy mauifestoes over
the heads of unsuspecting readers, prOph-
cts of good or evil, according to their
political tcndenGi,s. IL Democratic
swearing that the country is entering
upon period of prosperity unprece-
dented in the history thereof, and If Re
publican cOnjuring mp terrible govern
mental and mercantile disasters to drop
upon an innocent people.
Many of them are famous men. Or
binary locking individuals whom, IL you
live in Washington you will pass unno-
iiced every day, until some time by
chance you hear their names and they
Immediately take on Il hundred interest
ing Characteristics before unseen. Many
of them have been here for years, and
are walking stOrchouses of living Ameri-
can history, Of information as to the in
tricate manner IN which the great gov
ernmental machine is run and of varie-
gated gossip about the men who have
run it. Others have made regulations
elsewhere. There are several well known
war correspondents, who have written
wonderful stories out from n rain of
bullets and blood, both in this country
and in Europe. These are now engaged
chronicling the less murderous, if none
the less bitter battles of the nations
lawmakers.
There are also on the row several
well known sons of famous men. Not
few of the great statesmen of todu
aud yesterday have given sons into the
stdtesmdn-making profession. Other
great newspaper men have given the
graphite into the hands Of their sous
and babe them write. the command be-
ing, IN most cases obeyed with ability
ald industry.
The Offices run all along from the
ground floor TO the fourth story, and
nearly every one has in II several desks,
and as many occupants. The great pa
pers have finely fitted up suites of
rooms real bureaus, although the term
bureau is tackled ON to every smallest
desk IN the row. The real bureaus are
all fitted up with telegraph offices, where
special or leased wires connect them di.
rectly with the home office, and where
the chief of the bureau may hold
hourly conversation with his managing
editor at the other end of the line.
Just in the middle of il ALL in the old
Occidental building. is the Office of the
Associated Press, which reaches ont
with It's thousand arms into every cor
ner of the earth. In this Office there
Is very large force of men at work
ators. Here all Of the routine reports of
the congressional proceedings is sent out
aud much of the departmental news
issued from the capital In the Office
are large bulletins of copy for the bene-
NJ OF special correspondents who may
wish TO- avoid duplication to their pa
pers OF the press reports.
All mp and down the row there Is a
constant stream Of messenger boys dur
ing the working hours of the newspnuer
mans day. The whirr of the messenger
call may be heard at all hours. and the
Western Union or Postal Telegraph boys
10 respond.
The life of the Washington CORRESPOND.
ent u not such an ideal one as the men
~ the home offices are ant to Imagine
IL Is day of hard work aud long hours
reaching from . or 10 IN the mornin, to
midnight. First there is an early trip 10
80 Ns.fAANlf as ivory I'VE EOfHnenOulplT
Is anxious to be on the floor meeting the
members for about an hour before tbe
session begins. This is about the only
chance one has to see them collectively
Tor they seldom remain until adjournment
and often live so far apart that Il Is
impossible TO get them ut home. If the
session begins, MS II has for the pnst
two weeks, at 10 o'clock, this makes the
trip an early one. The call of the house
10 order congregates the correspondents
IN the press galleries ON either side of
the capitol, according as the happenings
OF interest occur.
An unannouncel event seldom escapes
them. a kind of sixth sense, an I'M
erfing instinct, guides them always in the
right direction to where the news lies.
Only two days ago Senator Sherman was
speaking III length in the senate, and had
almost the undivided attention of very
iuil press gallery up to about half way
through his speech, when. moved by some
instinct, several men strolled over TO the
house side in time to see and hear lie
beginning of the now famous and ut
terry unexpected clash between Mr. Reed
OF Maine and the speaker, when Mr..
Crisp left his chair, n very unusual thing.
and met the Republican giant in an even
battle. And wonderful 10 saw. although
no messenger was sent. and although the
most profound tnancier Of the nation was
Speaking on his best subject In time
when his every word Is weighty. he
house gallery filed inpereeptibly with
men who enjoyed very fuzzy the rrnpple
between the present and the last speaker.
About between and O'Clock the cor
respondents begin 10 leave the building
TO make their rounds Of the departments.
This Is NO easy task. 10 begin ali the
pension office and to make even the d.
rect round from here to the postofice
and the Interior thence TO the treasury.
the White Hcise and the war. state and
navy departments includes a walk "
about Two miles one way, which can
hardly lessenel on the street cars, as
the different buildings are only several
blocks apart. one always jnst beyond the
oiher going from the capitol. Although
we departments close osfensibly al 4
O'Clock, II Is generally ; before the cor
respondent has secured the last Of them,
aha Is q hungry home and dinnerseeker.
Ailer dinner there are specials 10 be
written and the hotel corridors 10 be Wis
lted' involving another walk Of a mile or
lW9 u The correspondent is conscientious
aud does his duty
heyery man. unless In big all-tele-
graph bureau. has letter like this 70 write,
ana the only ohtainahle time Is between
~ aud II o'clock at night.
AFTER this O short visit to the Press
eln9, great and characteristic institu-
lion, Just at the corner Of The row. facing
fennsylyania avenue. There are three
noors, weh aud substantially fitted M for
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