The National tribune., 1904-06-16
WASHINGTON q, THURSDAY 49,
u. S. TREASURY RECEIPTS.

| been funny when those women, all Wnlte
ribboners. descended on that hotel man. 1t
tions. Mr.. Hotel Man said that if they
didn't drink the beer. they ought to have
done so. it was good beer, and they would
have it to pay for. any how. Aunt Susan
squared her shoulders and called his bluff:
| I'VE will leave your house in a body,
she declared. 'And we will not pay for
your beer either" And off they marched.
Mr.. Hotel Man capitulated in minute.
He wilted right then and there. He de-
clared that American women were the fin
est women in the world, and that for this
he would take off the cost of the beer. and
he did. The women didn't leave, for there
was no where else to go. 1t is a custom of
the land. and they would just have to break
in new landlord, so they preferred to stay
there and make Mr.. Hotel Man all the trou-
| BILE they could.
Fifty years of strenuous newspaper life.
| That is the sum total of the time spent at
the head of big newspaper by Mr.. Crosby
| $. NOyes. the Nestor of Washington jour-
nalism. For 30 eventful years Mr.. Noyes
has been one of the prOprietOrs and the
editor of the Washington Evening Star, one
| of the cleanest, brightest, richest and most
popular afternoon newspapers east of the
Alleghany Mountains. MIR. Noyes came to
WashlngtOn 06 years ago as n reporter III
a small way for out-of-town newspapers.
| At that time there was no telegraphlc
| news, and the newspapers had to depend
on letters for their news service. Mr..
Noyes reported for weekly papers and
they paid him 81 column!
Mr.. Noyes paid $3.50 per week for his
board, and often had just doughnuts and
| coffee for his breakfast He probably pays
that for single lunch often i'm these days
he is able to pay it, any way, and there
hp nf Stnr
| To be drawn from an earnest application
TO business. Mr.. Noyes began to work on
the Washington Evening Star in 1850, after
having made tour of Europe on foot and
sending back letters from there by sailing
vessels to the Boston and New York pa
pers. When he began on the Star he was
mighty near the whole push, he with two
others. and they made good paper of it.,
even for that early day. Slowly, but
surely. the Star began to grow. and week
by week. year by year, Mr.. Noyes, the
late Alexander Shepherd, and Mr.. s. a..
Kaufman labored to improve the Star.
and to uplift the people of the District and
better conditions here. Right noby they
succeeded, as the history Of the District of
Columbia shows.
The other day some OF the public-spirit-
ed citizens of the District business men
who realized what splendid citizen Mr..
Il
he had made in bringing about the bet
tered conditions in the District of Colum-
bia. concluded TO let him know how they
appreciated him. Most men have to die
before the people find out how much the
community values them. but with Mr.
Noyes it is different. His friends conclud-
ed that a fe& bushels of flowers freighted
with good wishes now would be worth a
carload of the same piled on a marble
monument few years later, so far as Mr.
NOyes was concerned, so they gave him q
reception. lt-was a splendid tribute in
which half the business men and public
officials of Washington gathered to pay
their respects to Mr. Noyes. There were
speeches and toasts. all highly eulOgistic
of Mr.. Noyes's work in the community,
but the best speech of the evening was
made by Mr.. NOyes himself He is so
years old: yet is as young looking as many
men Of 65. He has clear, trenchant
style of speech, and told with many hui
morous touch of his early trials and tribu-
latlonS on the Star with a single reporter
who had epleptic fits at inc0nyenient
times. and an editor-in-chief who, spent
most OF his time on a nearby farm. The
little talk was an epitomiZed history of 50
eventful years. land was rOundIy applaud
ed. Then this octogenarian proceeded to
shake hands with something over thou
sand of his friends.
One of the pleasing features of the
evening was the presentation to Mr. Noyes
OF splendid silver loving cup. made i'm the
highest fashion Of the silversmth's art. On
it was engraved the following:
Crosby s. Moves. From the citizens of
Washington. d. c.. as token of affection
Tor him as man. and appreciation of the
valua BILE influence he has exerted for more
than fifty years in the development of the
National Capital. June I, 1904"
The Committee having the reception in
charge. and which informed Mr.. Noyes Of
the desire to honor him i'm the public fash
ion suggested, was as follows: Arrange
ments-Brai ainard III. Warner, Chairman /;
r. \. Richardson. Henry l.. West, John
NJ. Carson. S. Walter Woodward. John
JOY Edison. Charles J. Bell, John McElroy,
Louis +. Shoemaker. Charles c. Glover,
Charles Il. Bailey. J. Henry Small,
Charles B. Church. Fl. H. Darneille. An
drew Parker, James r. Du Bois, and Ed
| ward III. Thomas.