The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-03-06
BACK NUMBERS.

uOllCeu llldl IL UOlo lHe udue VI Mild
han CORVALLIS as editor and proprietor.
1t is safe to say that there is only one
kinahan CORVALLIS in the United
States, and there was other evidence
that he was one of party of news
paper men who net III Halifax, Nova
Scotia. in 1860 to report the arrival and
reception there of the then Prince of
Wales. now King Edward. | have the
names of the party in an old scrap
book. and believe that of that very
jolly crowd there are but two survivors,
Nj CORVALLIS and the writer. If
wallis had come to this country from
Ireland but a few months before and
was a graduate of Dublin University
He was very tall, very slim, wore tall
hat and carried tightly rolled umbrella
He followed the Prince in his American
tour and later published his reports for
the Herald i'll book form. Nicholas
Woods, the London Times correspon-
dent. also published book MI Corn
wallis subsequently became the financial
editor OF the New y ork Herald and
.arer was editor and proprietor of the
u1ckerbOcker Magazine and the \
blOu. both now defunct. The Albion
was a week. literary paper, the organ
of the English people i'll America, as
the Scottish American, also New
York weekly, was for the Scotch. The
New ! oTh Times was represented by
Arthur Harvey, who was, | believe, a
Canadian F.. II. House was the New
Work Tribune correspondent He had
about that time two articles from his
pei, IN a single issue of the Atlantic
Monthly a distinction attained by few
magazine writer's Mr. House went to
Japan where | think he was teacher,
and did more OF less literary work, writ
iug. among other publications, for Har-
per's Young People II returned to this
country a few years ago, an invalid,
was Discontinued here, and went back
to- japan. where he died Frank Les
hes Illustrated Weekly was represented
by d. Augustus RaWlns, who was
loud M manner and III costumes, ana
Mo distinguished himself at dinner
given by the Mayor Of Halifax by I'LL
ny His pockets With bottles OF cham
pagne Later he went to England and
WAS presented to the Queen but the
presentation was cancelled afterwards
for some reason OF other The Boston
Post was represented at Halifax by a
MI Fields, d very pleasant fellow. of
others Of the party have faint recoi-
lection. Tie experiences OF these
newspaper men would make quite a
story but it is hardly worth telling now.
| sdW in the Washington, ID. C., Even
ing star the other day an article caption
ed old Newspaper Row." but it did
not 90 farther back than the middle
ages" 1t was not the Old Row at all.
The place thus designated was the east
side of 18th street between Pennsyl-
yauia avenue and f. street Here a
third Of a century ago the Washington
representatives of the leading news
papers had Jheir offices. The rooms
occupied by the New \ ork Tribune had
once been restaurant the Occidental,
and the name long remained On the
front window. There was tradition
that once upon time" an inebriated
United States Senator drifted in and
rapplng Oh table called for an oyster
stew. James Rankin Young, now serv-
ing his third term i'll Congress from a
Philadelphia district, was chief of the
Tribune in the late sixties His assist
ant II j. Ramsdell, has been dead many
years H. l.. White, who succeeded M.
Young, and his assistant, E. y Smalley,
have also joined the silent majority
In the same building was the World
Bureau this was the World of Manton
Marble Wm. Henry Hubert and ID. G.
Nroly-of which Geo. W. Adams, the
King OF Washington correspondents,
was long the chief and he, 100, has
crossed the dark river Ben Perley
Poore OF the Boston Journal and
CrouuSe of the New York Times, both
long since dead, We're among those who
mad their offices on the Row in the
early days Father Gobright OF the
Associated Press, and NJ. w. Barr of
the Southern Associated Press, who
used TO cali out dor-hee, when he sent
his copy mp the elevator to the waiting
telegraphers, are also dead, as are most
Of the operators who handled the copy
of the correspondents i'll those days.
Now the newspapers have their offices
elsewhere and their former quarters
are given over to business, but to the
writer the Row is peoped only with
ghosts.
y recent acquisition of much i'll
telest TO me is a fine photograph of
the marble palace erected Oh Pennsyl-
yani avenue by the proprietors of the
Washington, ID. G., Evening Star 1t is
almost directly opposite from the for
mer home of the paper-the one in