Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-16

| can movement toward current pictures His
paper was fairly established when the war
broke out, and had followed Benefits lead
for sensational exposures. His enterprise
was ahead of his capital, but he pushed
many young men into the field and has
tened others to sketch before they were tu-
tored.
Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper
appeared December 10, 1855. Its first page
bore sketch of DR.. kane's fur-clad ex-
piorers from one of NJ. Is. Brady's ambro-
types. The first article was a defense of
President Pierce. The first review was of
Duyckinck's great cyclopedia of American
literature. Illustrations of DR.. Hare's
spirltuaiist experiments and the trial of
the murderers of Bill Poole were other fea-
lures. The leading article there traced our
pictorial journalism to Henry Wikoff. called
the Cheyalier, in the year 1874, with the
Picture Gallery, weekly adjunct of the
Republic newspaper.
The Picture Gallery, made by Euro
pean artists and engraSers. soon ceased,
and ten years later Gleasons Pictorial
was published in Boston QS5D, and
was followed by the American Illustrated
News of Nassau street, New York pub
Usher. MIR. Strong. This was succeeded by
Barnum and Beech's Illustrated News,
which lacked large wood blocks and suffi-
Gent press, matters which Leslie promised
to remedy.
Leslie's first volume had Walkers expedi-
ZION to Nicaragua, the attack on Charles
Sumner, Pierce's cabinet and the Kansas
lures of the vigilance committee in Cali
fornia, Of the Buchanan and Fremont presi-
Dental conventions and of Washington Irv-
ing's medals, presented to him as he then
lived.
The first number of Harper's Weekly
bore date January ,, 1857. Its first article
recited the vote of near 1,SG0,OGO for Bucil-
anan and near ,337 900 for Fremont and
$4,000 for Fillmore
Harpers Weekly began without news
illustrations, and was mainly meek liter
airy paper. The laying and tie failure of
the original Atlantic cable We're recorded
that year, and portraits were given of
Walker and his filibuster leaders who were
designed to Africanze Central America
The second volume contained few pho
toSraEhs OF the Mormon war and the orig
inal poem Of Beautiful Snow
The third volume. 1880 was improved by
pictures of the John Brown raid by Porte
Italian war ard the key-Sickles homicide
The paper claimed 10000 circulation at )
cents. its price till the war.
Other Men Of the Craft.
N. P. Willis. the master. perhaps
the first social newspaper correspond
ent. was the grandson of Nathaniel
Willis. who established the Potomac
Guardian at Martinsburg, a few miles
from this spot, in 1850, and twenty
days after their occurrence being the near
est to the western frontier, and before any
paper on tide water, he published the mill
tary events on Lake Erie and the Maumee
where Wayne and Harrison figured
In that same district grew I'D David
Hunter Strother. or Porte Crayon," the
earliest OF the war correspondents and the
son or soldier under The writer Gen Will
kinson. on the Canadian frontier His IA
ther was forty-iive years in the county
clerks office, and died OF chagrin at seeing
his country and his home In occupation Of
the lnsurgent army in 1862.
Three well-known photographers in tho
war were NJ 3. Brady, who died in 1895:
his chief operator in the field Russell. and
Gardiner of Washington. Russell took a
picture twenty minutes after the event of
the horrible scene at the foot of Marye
heiShts, fredericksburg, or In the interval
before dark.
Frederick Hudson personally empIoye,] all
or nearly all the war correspondents of
the New Y rk Herald, and in his stimulat-
ing, feiIoW-craft contact they, who were
by iaT the largest phalanx OF writer's and
couriers in the army, felt unwearied conf
dence and friendship, and the sanse of a
Just, honorable and regular government in
the home Office.
Mr. Hudson not long before his death
published the history Of Journalism in
the United States
Mr.. Sidney Howard Gay equally inspired
and soothe1 the Tribune's less numerous
Dut better individuaGzed writers. whose
readers were of a high class. George w
Smalley Sam Wilkison, Albert d. Richard
son, Junius H. Browne, Henry Willard
Nathaniel Paige took and held rank after
the war which showed the inspiration of
bellies lettres associations
The American scholar and poet Edmund
C. Stedman and Jerome 3. Stillson Rich
ard T. Colburn and G. A. Townsend were
among the correspondents of the New York
World.