Evening journal., 1905-06-10

Free Press for himself and his associates.
ID. S. Barry for sixteen years head of
the New York Sun bureau, left a year
ago to become editor-in-chief of The
Providence Journal, perhaps the wealth
lest and certainly one of the most in
hueutial papers in New England. Louis
Brownlow who had a chain of Southern
papers a few months ago took charge of
Ia prominent Kentucky journal; A. S.
In. Johnson is in charge of the Tacoma,
Washington. News. while further back
are Jack Cohen, now making a fortune
out Of the Atlanta Journal, Ed. Barrett Of
Birmingham, W. f. Wiley, managing edi-
tor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and
Others too numerous to mention, includ-
ling Perry S. Heath.
RICHARDSON RETIRED.
F. A. Richardson, who accumulated a
comfortable fortune as head of the Balt-
moro Sun Bureau. retired several years
.ago and George II. Harries. who repre-
.sented the Washington Star at the Capt.
tol. is at the head of one Of Washington
two great street railway systems. COM
mands the District National Guard, and
is otherwise prominently identified with
local and national affairs.
Charles II Boynton. now Eastern Mar
agor Of the Associated Press, received
his newspaper training in this city and
was connected with the "a. F." here. Az
ter establishing the Paris bureau he took
charge of the New York office and now
although quite young man. is I'm charge
of the eastern service. The "a. p" draws
heavily on its Washington bureau for
important posts Howard n. Thompson,
who is I'm charge OF the st. Petersburg
Bureau, for years had charge OF the floor
work Of the A. =. at the Capitol. He was
assisted by Charles r. Thompson, who
was sent TO Paris to succeed Boyntcn
John w. Mitchell, formerly Of this city.
is connected with the London Bureau,
while many others have passed from
places here TO important positions abroad
with the great news-gathering agency
Claiming Pollock made a small fortune
from his dramatization Of "rhe PITT" jay
Durham is the leading advance man.
for Daniel Frohman; Charles i. Kloeber
and Francis j. ONeill are with the A. p.
in New York; w. G. Nicholas OF the old
indianapolis Journal. has a news bu-
reau in New York which is making him
a fortune and Walter b. Stevens left the
81. Louis Globe Democrat to become sec
retary of the Louisiana Purchase Expo
sition. These are only mentioned off-hand;
, what the list would be if carefully com
piled can be imagined.
In glancng over the list one is immedl-
ately struck with the number of ap-
pointments made from the Gridron Club.
TO dwell UPON this famous organization
would be wasting time, but its personnel
can be accurately estimated from that
Of the members who have been appointed
to high government positions. While 5o-
cause Of it's limited membership it does
not include all Of tho first class cores.
pondents at the Capital it does take in
most of them, and although there are
many correspondents not members Of this
club, who are in all respects equal to
those who are, IL would be difficult if not
impossible 10 duplicate its membership.
Some day Washington win have a
Press Club, but until then the Gridron
Club must stand as the representative
organization OF the correspondents and
one which reflects great credit on the
profession.