The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-01

lscf assistant editor ~ 1867 became editor
in chief and a few years later, together
with two friends, secured control of the
paper, which. under tactful manage
ment, gradually rose to the position it
now holds as one Of the influential jour-
nails of this country.
Frank Brett Noyes was born in Wash
ington, in the public schools of which
city he was educated. He entered the
preparatory department of the Column
blan university with the intention of
taking the full course, but was divert
ed into business and at the age of IS
was actively employed in the Office of
the Star,of which he was business man
ager from 1881 to 1901. Like his father,
Frank b. Moves from the very first
took an interest in civic or district
affairs, the elder Noyes having been
prominently connected with the city's
benevolent, educational and scientific
institutions for m any years and the
younger serving as director in num-
Der of financial institutions 1t has
been the custom of the owners of the
Star since the editorial and business
mana cement devolved upon MeSsrs.
Noyes and Kaufman to initiate their
sons as helpers in the higher depart
ments, being blessed with boys excep-
tionally, bright who later developed into
men of marked literary and executive
ability.
Mr. s. n Kaufman, who has for
more than thirty years been one of the
proprietors of the Evening Star COM
pany and its present president, has
two sons, Rudolph and Victor, who !
have long been connected with the |
paper in editorial capacity. The elder |
Kaufman, like the elder Moves, has
been a great traveller, is a patron of art |
and literature and a trustee in nearly |
all the various societies for the promo |
ton of the arts and sciences, such as |
the Corcoran Art gallery and Geo
graphic society.
These facts are mentioned in order to |
show the trend of parental influence |
during the formative period of these
young mems lives and to accentuate the |
fact that the very atmosphere they |
breathed was vitalized and energized |
by the examples of their public spirited |
seniors. There is no denying the fact /
that the Star has been for many years
an inspiring and progressive influence
in Washington civic, or, to put it
m ore accurately, District affairs. 1t is
as force making toward the uplifting
and conference of capital society in its
broadcast sense that the Star has been
a beneficent influence and to exert this
influence it had to have men of the
highest character behind the guns.
These men, then, were most assuredly
found in the persons of its prOprietors
and practical founders, Messrs. Noyes
and Kaufman, and 1T would seem al
most invidious to call attention to any
one member of this fraternal organiza-
ton without also mentioning the 9TH
ers. 1t is for this reason that allusion
has been made to the Star newspaper
and its organizers in a sketch of one OF
taken up his abode in another city.
Guided by such examples and with
such a progressive environment, it is
not surprising that Frank B. Noyes
should have become what the world of
journalism now knows him to be. His
talent was inherent. and his career was
in great measure shaped by his father,
but his own energy, perseverance and
mental acuteneSS have caused him to
forge rapidly to the front. In May,
1900, at the age of only thirty-seven, he
was elected president of the Associated
Press, that vast and complicated news
gathering organization which, with |
headquarters in New York, has ramifi-
cations all over the world. To attain
to such a position required talent for
organization and executive ability of
the highest order, and the choice of Mr..
Noyes for this responsible post stamps
him as a leader among men. He was
reelected president in September, 1900,
and again in September, 1901.
When H. H. Kohlsaat consolidated
the Chicago TimeS-Herald with the Chi
cago Record last April, he sent for Mr..
Noyes to assume the responsible posi-
tion of publisher. His energy and dis
cernment publisher of the united |
Record Herald gave ample evidence of
his capa bilities should opportunity
arise, and that opportunity arose when,
on the retirement of Mr.. Kohlsaat re-
Gently Mr.. Noyes was made editor as
paper.
1T is a source of the greatest salts
faction to me-" said the retiring editor.
Mr. Kohlsaat, Ito commend Mr.. Noyes
to the good will and confidence which