Evening journal., 1900-06-27
Some Of Brightest Men in
Country in Their Ranks
FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION
Cape May Will Have the Largest for
YearS-NeWS Of the Cottage
Colony
speeIal 70 the nvenIng Journal.

I
Cape May, n. j., June 26.-During
the past week this place has been a
suburban convention town. large
number Of delegates having come here
to rest after their long journey from
the south and west, and incidentally
to talk over their desires and exchange
views on the vice-presidential situa-
| ton. Since the selection OF Roosevelt
| for vice-president, these delegates have
also been talking over the plans fer the
campaign in tneir respectives states.
In addition to this life, large recep-
! tion was arranged for Saturday night
for the working journalists of Wash
| ingtOn, Baltimore and Philadelphia
most Of whom have been on duty re-
porting the National Convention pro-
ceedings. These men were accompan-
led by their wives and women friends
and sojourned at the Stockton Hotel as
the guests of the Passenger Depart
ment Of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
They were under the personal care Of
/ G.. w. Boyd, assistant General Passen-
ger Agent and Colonel Frank n. Barks-
cale. the head Of the advertising de-
partment Of the road. In the party was
/ William b. Shaw. who is the dean Of
the correspondents now at Washing
ton and he is still a writer Of we'll
known ability. Mr. Shaw, who for years
was the correspondent for the Boston
/ Transcript, has reported at every con-
ventiOn, beginning with those which
nominated Abraham Lincoln and
John C. Breckenridge. He has made
many a mans character clear to the
public and aided in giving them the
reputation, which they have born in
after years. Although aged he still
does considerable work. and is a firm
friend of Mckinley and Of many Of the
statesmen of Washington.
Another prominent one was Deb
Randolph Keim, one Of the Oldest cor
respondents of Washington, whose
work as newspaper man at the capi-
tai began before the civil war broke
out Mr.. .Aeim. who is an unassuming
gentleman, and who is now about re-
/ tired from journalistic work in its Sc
verest sense. spends most Of his time
at Ia former home in Reading, Pa. He
has had the confidence OF every presi
dent from Abraham Lincoln down tC
the present one. lie was an intimate
! friend OF Grants and went with him On
was really one of the semi-official
mouth-pieces OF the president during
his term. Mr.. Keim, who is thorough
ly versed upon the Cuban and Porto
Rican situation, and whose experiences
are greatly benefited by his having
been a well-known correspondent dur
ing the ten years war In Cuba, told
many interesting stories while here OF
his life on that oppressed isle. He also
told a number Of stories Of Manila, and
Of Landrone Islands, Mr. Keim Wis
tied these countries as an employee OF
government OF the United States, when
he went around the world inspecting
the consular stations of our country
abroad. He also served the nation as
a Civil Service Commissioner during
| the presidency OF General Arthur.
4 Another bright man in the newspa-
per party was James Rankin Young, OF
I two raurth District of Pennsylvania
Il Mr. Young, who writes some OF the best
/ Washington articles that are ever writ
ten there. under the signature OF IS
4 NJ" is now in the prime of life, and is
as valuable a congressman as he Is
4 newspaper correspondent. He was edu-
Gated in Philadelphia, and from 1856;
to the close OF the war was a member
of a Pennsylvania Infantry company
taking part in the Gettysburg cam
paign. At the close of the war he wen
South for the New York Tribune
and later became chief OF the Washing
; ton bureau of that paper. In 1873 HI
was made executive clerk of the Uni
ted States Senate. and ably filled tina
position for six years. In 1882 he be
p came chief clerk of the Department o
r Justice, but after a few months wa
? again made executive clerk OF the Sen
d ate which position he relinQuished il
d 1892. He was elected to the Fifty-fft
< Congress by a plurality Of over 1900
S votes. or more plurality than many dis
L tricts have voters. He has been twie
+ reelected.
It Another man in the journalistic part
IS here was George Alfred Townsend, tn
e novelist whose ancestors go back
e the middle of the seventeenth century
{. and whose writings have been standar
r pieces of literature for more than
nj score OF years past
a Mr.. Townsend, who is a big, fat joll
MI fellow. has a Uranium filled with int
-el ligence and uses itsin such a mann'
m as to benefit the people at large. He hs
y written several novels and many sho
n stories of considerable worth. lie is
native of Delaware, and great mar
Of his stories are taken from the ord
Il, nary life of the people Of that stat'
Z, During the war he served as a CORE
- pondent, and acquitted himself Wi
"a honor in the manner he always did b
.u work. Mr.. Townsend is somewhat
historian as well, and has man
~ for gathering local history. and almo
le every county history in the count
which has been written is found in !
10 library.
THE COTTAGE COLONY.
et The cottage colony viii be as large
in ever this year, and will be made up
b- residents of nearly al of the Mid,
nd Atlantic States. The cottage colony
lip peculiar to Cape May. in that il has
permanence of regular visitors W
come year after year, and who rea
take the lead in all social matters
is composed of that class of people OF
ITS who have large possessions, and
To- xtr,f Ii Df e.,