Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-08

The Washington correspondent VINO
keeps the country en- rapport with the do
ings and undoings Of Congress is as modest
as he Is intellectual Physically, an Adouis,
he is mentally prodigy. His modesty is
eNemplihed from claiming rank for his
women folks with the wives of Congress
men, instead of Cabinet officers better
halves. He Is deficient alone in what is
vulgarly called gall and his retiring dispo-
suou is in shining contrast with the impu-
dence of the alleged statesmen who make
the laws he criticises suggests and amends
To see him at wor,. in the evening after
terrapiu supper, a cold bottle and a stogie
is a sight as elevating as IL is astonishing TO
the uniniuated His ypewriter-gcncrally
a halfgrown youth slowly developing into
Cousciousuess-sits at the machine and
trcmbliugly awaits dictatou from the bulg.
ing brain and gigantic intellect of the
masterful correspondent. In "a voice of in.
tense strenuousness he inquiries
Has the Star been marked2"
Explanatory of this queryit is proper 20
state that the E1sHUlg Star contains the
Congressional happenings of the day, and
that the Associated Press kindly marks with
"a blue pencil those portions of il which has
been wired by that great news corporation
TO the newspapers iu the association. The
correspondent now scans the portions of the
paper which has not been wired by the
Associated Press. He makes his selections
and the intellectual work of the evening
begins The portions selected are. of
course those having the most direct iu-
terest for the readers of the particular
paper of which the correspondent is the
Washington end, so to speak The great
mans eyes now take on a far-away look,
his torso swells and his muscles assume a
hypnotic rigidity as he rolls out in an i'm
tellectual stream Of irresistible plagiarism
the photographed portion of the .Siayl
SandwiChed In, here and there, are few
stereotyped items from the departments and
occasionally the foreshadowing of a COM
ing event either in Congress or society.
Having thus spent less than an hour at his
task, the correspondent arises and the floor
and walls tremble. The type writer heaves
a sigh of relief and lights a cigarette
Forcing his hat on his now swelled head the
great correspondent seeks the street to pan
handle awhile Pan-handliug" is to
visit the rooms or Offices Of other CORES.
pondents and exchange, beg, borrow or
steal any strange items OF news lying around
loose This occupies another hour or two.
Finally a round up of the leading hotels is
made, and the great correspondent returns
to his Office and If the fit is on him he may
send by wire some of the personals found
iu the Times or an item or two in the Star
which before escaped his lynX-cycd type.
writer
The preliminary work of the night is now
over and the real duties of the great Wash.
ingtou correspondent begins and sometimes
lasts all night
This night work varies. lie may have "a
date He may have a quiet game of poker
or perhaps q little jag on the side at the
club houses after the saloons are closed
But either one or all of these duties are not
permitted TO interfere with his nightly pose
on the street corner 100 his raglan and lordly
look for the admiriug gaze of Sunday edi-
tors who write more original matter for
single issue of their papers Than the great
correspondent is guilty Of in "a seasons ses-
sion of Congress
The eNhausting character of the intellect
ual labors of these great puryeyors of cap
ital and capitol occurrences soon reduce
them To- mere automatons and they would
become Immediately subject to locomotor
ataxia Il am original idea entered their
craniums by way of the auditory nerves.
The only method by which such dangerous
experiments with the tired brain of the cor.
respondent can be safely utilized is in the
act of de-luiton to secretly encyst the
idea in a capsule of whiskey and let him
gulp 1t In the seclusion Of his closet This
has been tried with more or less success and
beneficial results.
The metropolitan newspapers supporting
these expensive literary appendages in
Washington are not buuCoed as the super.
fetal reader might infer The papers afore.
said are IN the bunco game themselves up
to the neck Their Washington Bureaus"
are THE features Of the title pages of their
papers and the unsophisticated are thereby
duly impressed with the marvellous enter
prise of the managing editor the great ex-
peuditure he incurs for the (Siay clipped)
news from Washington and the special
DISPATCHES" lsent by mai) from the
"bureaun
The great fake goes on, session after ses-
sion, and meanwhile the Associated Press,
and the Washington evening papers furnish
all the REAL news of any importance to the
numerous newspapers maintaining bureaus
in the National Capital,
The lobby and the Washington CORES.
poudent must form chapter by themselves
The GLOBE will i'm some future issue throw
It's search light ON this phase of the great
duties rendered by the great correspondent
at the Capitol to the great metropolitan
newspaper