Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-10
Pleasant Greetings.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

over the Union Pacific for their long west
ern journey in charge of Mr.. Z. +. want
land and a staff of assistants.
AS an instance Of the appreciation In
which the visitors were held the following
leading editorial is quoted from the Kansas
City Times:
It will scarcely be regarded by the gen.
tie public as a violation Of modesty for
newspaper to say that newspaper men, as
a rule are pretty interesting fellows This
proposition seems SO patent that it is sub
mitted for consent rather than FOR argu-
ment OF course, there are occasional ex-
ceptions, just as there are lawyers VINO
are without guile and school teachers who
do not think and act in grooves. But
among newspaper men, as in the physical
universe, there Is one glory OF the moon
and another glory of the stars. and one
star different from another star In glory.
Thus, while they are broadly speaking. al!
good fellows to know and to talk with ana
to listen to- the Washington correspondent
may justly be pronounced the prince OF the
craft.
In the first place, he is bright and up to
SNUFF or he wouldn't be in Washington; In
! the next place, he operates in a field which
| Is incomparably richer In resources than
any other in the country. Whatever Is best
| and worst in this country gravitates to
| Washington as the political center Of the
| to be found in Washington, so the men who
are touched and inspired by the Hottest
patriotism and the most unselish concern
| for their country are found there. also.
The Washington correspondent 1t goes
! without saying. meets and knows all sorts
and conditions of men. He, can give more
| accurate measurement Of Senator Fustian
| and Representative Graftwell than man
could get by voting for either of them
many consecutive decades. What the
| Washington correspondent writes and
| causes to have printed Is infnitesimal as
| compared with his information which Is
| mot for publication" He can tell you
| more interesting secrets about public men
| in an hour than an Industrious gossip could
| repeat in a day. He ia full Of good stories
| about the statesmen whom he comes te
| read as an open book. for public men know
mighty well that it is no use to try to bluff
the kind of newspaper men who are Sent
| to Washington. 4
The Washington correspondent sends out
| the kind of stuF that the people want tc
| read lot more than the news about bills
| and debates or trusts and currency and
| isthmian waterways and the like Of these
| Where the Washington correspondent
comes out particularly strong is on wha,
| the profession calls side-nghts-the Incl.
| dents and circumstances which bring out
the personality of public men. The bricl
and mortar stun Is furnished through the
| regular channels. The news that appeals
| to the human interest and human curiosity
comes through the correspondents.
What wonder Is 1t then that no newspaper
that pretends to be anything at all thinks
| of such thing as getting on without 6
| Washington correspondent It would bt
just as feasible to worry along without the
| markets or the weather predictions. Lee
| the paper be printed In Wichita or Oshkosh
or Tombstone. 1t must have special matter
| from Washington.
1t is exceedingly pleasant for Kansas Cit.
to have the Washington correspondents III
it's midst" today. thus bringing into agree
able tuxtaposition not uninterestinG citl