Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-22
James W. SCOTS First Newspaper
Venture in Maryland.

The announcement in recent Chicago dis
patches that James W. Scott has pur-
chased the controlling interest in the Chi
cago Herald, which has been owned since
the establishment of that paper by John r.
Walsh. will be of interest to many persons
in this locality. 1t, perhaps. Is not known
that the James w. Scott who has purchased
the two great newspaper establishment
the Chicago Herald and the Chicago Post
dts evening edition)-is the same Mr.. Scott
who in 1870 entered upon his first indie
pendent newspaper venture at Huntingdon
Md He is known also TO many of the vet
Grams of the railway mail service here as
having been connected with the service In
the days when the railway postal system
was in its early stages The success of Mr..
Scott is one of the remarkable illustrations
Of what is possible under our institutions
He is still q young man. having been born
in Wisconsin in 1919. He was born jour
nalist. his father having been engaged in
the business, Mr. Scott himself, save with
few short intervals has been in the
newspaper business all his life. MIR. Scott's
father moved from Wisconsin when James
Scott was Il .re boy to Galena, ILL., His
father was associated there in the publica-
ton of the JeffersCnian, a vigorous weekly
of that time. with DIR. Ray, who subse-
Quently became one of the founders of the
Chicago TrubIne.
1t in this same interior city of Ga
lena that Mr.. III. II. Kohlsaat of Chicago.
of whose enterprise and success as a pub
Usher the country has heard so much. was
horn. Mr.. kohlsaat and James w. Scott
Were boys and playmates together. and
have been the most steadfast friends and
comrades throughout their lives. 1t was
in this city of Galena where Gen. Grant
lived so long and from which he entered
the Union army under Abraham Lincoln.
that young Scott was educated and had
his first newspaper training. And 1t is in
nitx hat Nr Il oh fpU Cn.lr
ago erected n statue which is an enduring
monument to Gen. Grant. After he had
grown to manhood and had had his first
venture in the newspaper business on his
own account at Huntingdon, Md, Mr.. Scott
returned to Galena. where he started
paper called the Industrial Press. In 1874
he removed to Chicago, and together with
F. w. Rice engaged in the publication of
the Hotel Reporter, newspaper which IS
still published there. But the ambition and
ability of Mr.. Scott could not he confined
within such narrow bounds. In the spring
of ISL he actively promoted the organiza-
ton of the Chicago Herald Company, with
which he has ever since been connected
Mr.. John X. Walsh. banker and business
man. now many times d millionaire. who
has had a remarkable career. furnished
the capital and Mr. Scott became the pub
Usher. and developed this newspaper by
his genius ability and industry. until it
has become the great and valuable prop
orty which 1T now is. According to the
comes the controlling owner of this vast
property. including also the Evening Post
and the separate newspaper buildings in
which the two newspapers are published.
This is one of the most extensive news
paper operations which has been conducted
for many years.
If the hint contained in the dispatches
shall also prove true, hat negotiations are
in progress. by which it Is probable that
the Chicago Times newspaper will also be
consol. dated with the Chicago Herald.
under the ownership and management of
ist will be in control of one of the greatest
and will have practical control of the demo-
cratic newspaper property of the great
commercial metropolis of the west. 1t IS
known that the German-American lawyer.
Krause. who sometime ago purchased the
controlling interest in the Chicago Times,
" hich hal been owned by the heirs of the
late Carter Harrison. had become tired of
conducting a business with which he is not
familiar. and within three days a dispatch
has stated that he had disposed of his in
tcrest in the Times to his publisher. Mr..
Hawley. This sale or transfer of the stock
of Krause. in the Times, is thought by Chi
cago men here to have some possible rea-
ton to the rumor that the Times may he
cor soliGated with the Herald. and as indi-
eating that the Times transfer may be 4
part of the same deal. Mr.. Scott in CON
tinuing the management of the Herald,
will have the real control of an enterprise
which Hitherto he has practically conducted
as business manager and publisher and as
directing genius.