Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-20
AMONG THE scRIBHs.

What the Brethren Of the Press Are
Doing-Chatty Gossip on Our
Fellow Quill Drivers.
The Schley inquiry has been a Cod send
TO the newspaper boys What they would
have done without IL no one knows Il has
been an easy thing to cover too, although
some Of the New York papers thought 1t
advisable TO send down special men. Lang
don Smith came for the journal and Lee
Meuiwether for The Heyaid. II was pie
for both They didn't have enough to do
to disturb the natural naughty eunui that
always attaches to a reporter from New
York when assigned to an out -of-iowu af-
fair
George Blake was down for awhile from
the /0H1NaPS home force to look after
President Roosevelt After he had sue.
ceeded in gettingthe President comfortably
enscouced in his new home and his admin.
istration started in the right way, Mr.
Blake returned, and now the local staff of
the journal has to get along the best way II
can. OF course it still has the benefit of
the presence and moral support of that dis
tnguished literateur Uncle Ambrose
Bierce, who is shedding much luster on
both himself and the Journal by writing
Little Johnny" essays.
Fred Schrader has taken hold of the
dramatic department of the Post in fine
style. There is always one danger in that
position on the POST and it has always been
amystery TO me why IL should be so There
never was a dramatic critic on the Posi- but
sooner or later got the big head, and got il
bad. For instance, there was Page. Nice
fellow clever and all that, but insuHerably
bigoted / don't know whether Harry
West beg pardon, Henry Litchfeld West,
ever did the work or not am sometimes
forced to believe that he must have held
the position for several years.
of an the men IN Washington who do
hardwork and consistent work and effective
work, commend me to Harry Merrick
There is the boy for me. He has made the
Post famous the country over. He ought to
be getting sIoo a week and all expenses.
But most Of all, he ought to be given credit
for what he does There are thousands of
people in this country who think Beriah
wilkins or Captain Gibson write all those
brilliant paragraphs Why can't Merrick
be allowed to put his name to his work. Is
the Post afraid that the moment he did so
some other paper would pick him up and
pay him something like what ne is WORTH
Young Albert is with the Star now.
Didn't you notice the immediate improve.
ment2 I am afraid you are not very OBJ
servant. Hal Smith left the Post to take
Albert's place on the Baltimore SuAbabey
Yes that's right-SHRbabcy In Baltimore
they wouldn't know what you meant If you
spoke of just the Baltimore san. But
Smith has struck it just right. He would
never have accomplished much on the POST
and it goes without saying that he gets
more money ON the SHR The Post doesn't
pay as well as the Times and that is saying
a good deal.
They say that Charley Hamilton has been
seen in Buffalo wearing a silk hat and Prince
Albert coat, patent leather shoes and white
spats His most intimate friends are uuani-
nous in denouncing this as a canard
Ii is said that Sam Small can get along on
less sleep than any other man in town He
may do it for awhile but the candle has
never yet lasted long when burned at both
ends
tis said that Handsome Jack" wilkins
is making a great success of the-business
end of the IoW This is surprising to an
who know Brother Pierce, the popular ad.
verusiug manager of the paper. There is
one interesting question i would like TO
have answered and that is Who In the
business Office or editorial room is rcspou.
sible for the advertisements ofthe massage"
houses' They surely do not pay enough to
make it worth while for the paper to lower
its tone by admitting them to its columns.
There must be some reason that the outside
world knows nothing about They surely
are blot ON the paper.
Linsley reibush representing the Chicago
NccgS is one Of the new men in town. He
has not been here long enough yet to show
what he is made of, but he is making very
agreeable impression.
Billy Bell that is the only way ever
heard him called, can probably do more
work and make less fuss over it than any
other man on the row. never saw him
when he seemed to be at work, but / know
he does IT, just the same. He is pretty
smooth, and he has a very smooth assistant
in Eddie Coyle. Coyle is a graduate Of
Baltimore, and they have to work over
there, so they tell me.
Why don't the boys get together and form
a club and be sociable2 The Gridiron club
doesn't ill the bill Let there be some
place where the new men can meet the old
timers and be made to feel at home. Every
other city in the country has something of
the kind There Is no reason why 1t could
not be made successful here