The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-10

TknesLall Washington dailies. Before coming to Washington Mir. Stevens had risen to be city editor of the Globe Democrat. Stevens could do any sort of newspaper work here and had the rep | utation of not getting half the sleep Ethat was due-hin, so industrious. was he. It is said of him that he stood f equally well with the pubic men of all parties. and politicians were glad to make him their confident.
 | Mir. Stevens quit Washington to ac- cept the position of secretary of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Com- | pany at St Louis at a big salary, and | that kept him at work two years or
 more after the big show was over. The late J. B. McCullagh, editor-in-chief of | The St. Louis Globe Democrat at the l time of his death served quite period | as a writ Washington correspondent | writing for several Western papers.
 Mir. McCullagh was the. originator of | the American interview, and his first
 subject was Ro less. . parsonage than | drew Johnson. McCullagh was boon. companion Of President Johnson, and l not only obtained favors at the White l House of great value to him in his ! Journalistic labors, but was enabled | through MT. Johnson to be revenged on at least two former Union Generals who lhad been severeupon him when McCul- a W I hel6 during the civil war.
 | Curtis and Wei1man.
 | Another of the exceptionally prom | fhent correspondents who for years had An office on Newspaper Row is William ! Eleroy Curtis. who was formerly con- nected with The Chicago Record Herald | Mir. Curtis within the past decade has l travelled almost the civilized world l over for that paper, and since Congress | adjourned last Spring has been digging | out facts in many states for his gossipy and entertaining daily letters. Walter | Wellman, also of The Record Heral0' staff all the world knows has been in- | strncted by the proprietor to find the | North pole, and Mir. Wellman is fgur- | ing on crossing the ice-fields in mon- | ster balloon if favorable winds permit next season.
 Some other well known WashingtoA | correspondents who at various times | were located on the Row will be found | in the list below;
 The late Ben Perley Poore came here shortly before the civil war For long | time in addition to his work for The | Boston Journal he compiled the Con- I gressfonal Directory, for which he re- l cefved a snug salary and considerable | in the way of perquisites. Major Poere was the first President of the famous Gridiron Club organized in January. | 1885, and which is noted for its dinners | and novel entertainments. l Frank c. Carpenter came here for The f Cleveland Leader quarter of cen-' | tury ago and originally wrote under | the nom de plume of Carp" Shbse- | quently he started Carpenters Syndi- | cate, and in recent years his weekly 1 letter has appeared in thirty or more | papers. Mir. Carpenter has done won- | derful amont of travelling in foreign | countries, has lectured, and has con- l tributed many illustrated articles to | the leading magazines ofs the United 1 States and Great Britain. His success i has enabled him to amass 8 comfort l able fortune. Charles w. Knapp came l here when a young man just out of col- | lege for The St. Louis Republican, then | returned to hts native city and did ed- I itorai work, and again joined the corps | of Washington correspondents, but re- | turned to St. Louis once more In 1887 | to~hecome editor and general manager, holding those positions at present on
 the Republic as the first paper estab- lishad West of the Mississippi river Is
 now called.
 While in Washington Mir. Knapp was | conceded to be an authority generally on financial and economic subjects.
 One of the most forcible writers on I the tariff has been E. J. Gibson, for many years washington correspondent
 of The Philadelphia Press MT. Gibson 1 Is now Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Manufacturers.
 For upwards of decade Charles F. Towle was The Boston Travellers rep l resentative He quit the calling to so I into the theatricais and has made con- l siderable money by holding large in= ! 4A.-es4 T.. 4hAA co1npa Afhst has been presenting. Ben Hur." James Morgan,
 who for years was correspondent of
 The Boston>Globe and made his mark i in Washington, now has responsible | position in the home office,
 | A A Southern Correspondent.
 One of the most noted of the South | ern correspondents was the late Colonel l LittIeton ouinton Washington of the l Virginia family of Washingtons At the
 breaking out of the civil war he enter
 ed the service of the Confectionery and
 had several months of field duty, but | his health was so poor that he had to l quit the army. He accepted position
 at Richmond with the State department l of the Southern Confederacy, ahd dur
 ing the war period wrote letters regu-
 lariy to The Londan Telegraph. For a
 number of years after the civil conflict ended he furnished letterS from the | national capital to Thef Telegraph | Colonel Washington was for years the
 representative here of the New Orleans l Picayune. He also for quite a period l served The Louisville Courier-Journal
 and The St. Louis Times. He was l trenchant writer, ana Deln8 an intense | Democrat and of an impetuous nature
 his hot Southern blood fairly boiled | during the Reconstruction" era when
 "carpetbaggers" had sway in the land | of Dixie and negroes occupied seats in | both the Senate and House of Repre- | sentatives. Colonel Washington was an i intimate personal friend of Jefferson | Davis and before Mir. Davis died was in | the habit of paying him annual visits | at BeauVoir in Mississippi.
 Major Richard Sylvester, Superintetr
 dent of the Washington Police depart ment, represented Ther Kansas City l Journal and other Missouri papers. He Is now considered one of the finest of
 Chiefs"
 President Mckinley and Roosevelt be- slowed important public offices upon
 quite a number of men who have been
 engaged in newspaper work in Wash
 ington. In addition to those mentioned above are:
 Francis A. Leupp, Commissioner of
 Indian Affairs; Henry l.. West, Demo-
 cratic member of the Board of Commits
 sioners for the District of Columbia P. V. De Gray, Fourth Assistant Post
 moster- General; the late George H.
 Walker, for many years correspondent
 of The Cleveland Leader. a special at- torney in the Department of Justice;
 Francis B. Loomis, United States-Mi
 ister to Venezuela, then to Portugal and
 later First Assistant Secretary of State
 during Secretary John Hays regime;
 and Morton E. Crane. formerly of The
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