The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-10
Removal of Washington Correspondents to Other Quarters Brings to Mind Men Who Became Famous Af- ter Starting as Gather CTS of Political News at Center of the Coun- try's News.
nY ALFRnp ,. sroFER.


 Washington, November 10.--(Special.) ---With the removal of the offices of The Omaha Bee. Troy times, Deseret News and Buffalo Times to other loca- tions Newspaper Row., as it has been known for hlf century in Washing ton. ceases to exist the encroacment of < business enterprises compelling the faining bureaus at the capital to seek ether quarters.
 In the fifty years since the establish ment of what has come to be known as Newspaper Row. Washington has under zone a transformation. the section be- tween Pennsylvania Avenue and F Street on Fourteenth responding to the .asmands of trade. Business blocks and big hotels have taken the place of the one and two story "shaclxs" which con- Btituted the Row" in former dave and now khe old building at the Northeast corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Fourteenth street which has been oc- cupied by newspaper. correspondents Binre the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company abandoned the structure as its headuuarters is to give way to e modern, up to dats-fotel. construction bf which is to begin shortly. The his- kory of Newspaper Row Is contempor- nneous with the history of the United Etates for the last half century. His kory has been made here. many of khe famous editors of the country and International writers of note in that period having had offices on the Row Dr in its immediate vicinity.
 Whiteiaw Reid, our able and distin- wufahad Ambassador to the Court of St. James and editor of the New York Tribune. began his career in Washing kon as correspondent of the old Cfn- clnnatti Gazette. singing his articles under the nom de plume of Agate, which eventually attracted the atten- xfon of Horace Greeley who made an editoraI position on the Tribune for Mfr. Reid. and on the retirement of John Russell Young he succeeded the latter as editor in chief.
 Shaw ia she Dean.
 Ipuufry shows that the first news paper to maintain an office on Newa- paper Row was the New York Herald, 1kA Correspondent beingNw. B. Shaw, who is stiii engaged in newspaper work is one of the Washington stan of the Ehfladelphia Inquirer. The credit of having the political news of Washing ton Autographed instead of trusting the same to the malls. as was the practice in those days, is also due the New York Herald, for Mir. Shaw was the first cor respondent to make use of the telegraph as q news distributor.
 Tn the early '50's MT. Shaw came to Washington in search of a position in one of the departments of the govern uoMf, Franklin Pierce then being Pres- tdent of the United States. while John ". Forney. founder of the Philadelphia greas was Clerk of the House of Rep resentatives. Shaw had learned to "set 1yVu oTa a little paper iH T5Ti7isy ifT aFiiss, but he didn't fancy the trade of a print CT and he came to Washington in search of a ''job." He applied to James Guth- rie. then Secretary of the treasury, Tor a clerkship which was promised him, but like many another promise failed of ful6llment.
 Shaw became private secretary to the late Galusha A. Grow once Speaker of 9he House of Representatives, and hay tnK some training for newspaper work secured a place as Washington corre- Bpondent with James Gordon Bennett the elder. It cost ten cents a word in the '5o's to send message by telegraph, and there were very few newspapers that could afford such expensive serv- ice. Shaw, like other correspondents of the time, sent his daily budget of Wash angton events by mail, the mail for New York leaving in the early morning and reaching the metropolis about dark. One day in conversation with MT. Ben nett MT. Shaw, the dean of the Wash fngton corps of correspondents in point of continuous service, suggested that he bulletin the chief events of thee day by telegraph.
 ssWhy, it costs ten cents word to send a message by wire" replied Mir. Bennett.
 T think it would pay" responded Shaw T would cut out the 'a's', the sthe's' and all superfluous words"