Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-03-30

destiny. He is deacon of the Church or the
Covenant, President Harrson's church,
superintendent of that church's mission
school in Georgetown and very active
member of the Salvation Army.
Fred Perry Powers, now IN New York,
was while here an elder in the same church,
and William Eleroy Curtis is a member.
Just at present, it must be added, Mr.. Cur
tbs has need of pretty strong moral support,
for he has several little but heated discus
sions on his hands. He is after the scalp of
Josiah Quincy, is ripping up the Autograph
tc scheme and administering on some of the
concerns of the bureau of American repub-
lies, in addition to doing work for the
Chicago Record and performing other lit
erary labors. He is prominent in many
ways outside of journalism. With a branch
of the tariff commission in 1852 he went to
South America and wrote the report. He
was then correspondents Of the Chicago
News Later he was executive officer of
the Pan-American conference of 1SS9-90
and still later established the bureau of
American republics. He has acquired a
good deal of wealth for a newspaper man,
but it has not yet operated to relax his en-
ergy
Old Timers.
Another tolerably serious man is f. j.
Gibson of the Philadelphia Press His
hearing is defective, but he has scored some
great Scoops" especially in getting adj
vance Information on tariff bills The boys
speak of him as fly" on finance and tariff,
and he was the first to exploit the fact that
the senate finance committee had decided
to wipe out the reciprocity treaty Judge"
j. j. Noah of The Rocky Mountain News
is ranked among the serious thinkers, with
an unusually good grasp on the general
course of legislation and politics. +. A.
Richardson of the Baltimore sun is one OF
the old timers, who reported the senate from
the gallery many years ago, before any re-
porters were allowed on the floor, and did
it we'll He has silver gray hair, looks like
a successful stockbroker, is ii man of some
wealth and acquires information without
saying much.
Another remarkably observant man, who
seems to acquire information easily and
hold it tenaciously, is the we'll known John
NJ. Carson of the Philadelphia Led ger, who
was clerk of the ways and means commit
tee in two former congresses and is an eX-
pert on tariff. In fact, he is said to be the
only journalist in Washington who thor
oughly understands the Mckinley bill He
makes a tour of the doubtful states during
each presidential campaign, and his letters
on the prospects are quoted as high author
ity. Another writer somewhat in the Wit,
riolic line ut times is f.. q. Dunnell of the
New York Times, and if he has any special,
ty it is an acquaintance with foreign affairs.
Lige Halford's Brother.
In these days correspondents have sc
many privileges on the floor Of the house
and every one has so many opportunities tC
get solid with he members from his state
that, so far as general Legislation is con
cerned, there is not much possibility OF
making one of those scoops" the rush fol
which formerly made up so much of the life
of Washington journalism. Among those
who have permanent Sit i'll the house
is A. j. Halford, who represents the United
Press and sits Il little in front and just tC
the left of the speaker. He is a younger