The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-10
Old Newspaper RoD in Capital
 the Nation Ceases to Exist

occasions either gallery Is likeay to be crowded the regular workers only are allowed admission. Nearly all in the Nariy sos had offices on Newspaper Row.
 General Henry V. Boynton, one of the abiest and best loved men in newspaper life of Washington, had an office for many years at 511 Fourteenth Street, Immediately adjoining the present site of the Department of Commerce and Labor building. 1t is small two story brick, the upper story being long un- used. General Boynton began his Journ- alistic career here as correspondent of the old Cincinnati Gazette. afterward absorbed by the old Cincinnati Com- ,mercial, and for long time called the Commercial Gazette. Before the consol- idation of the two papers the Gazette leased Q special wire and Jules Guth- ridge, then a telegraphic operator in Cincinnati was sent to Washington by the late Richard Smith to work the Ga- zette wire and assist General Royntop. Guthridge remained with General Boyh- ton for year or'two. when he Necame the correspondent of some other West ern papers. finally graduating as one of the New York Herald staff.
 Robert J. wynne~-.Bob" Wynne as his friends familiarity call hirn--at pres- ent our Consul-General at London, then only an ordinary telegraph operator employed in the Western Union office. succeeded MT. Guthridge, and became General Boynton's assistant. Mir. wynne resigned to accept the position of private secretary to the Secretary of the Treasury, Ex-Governor Charles Foster of Ohio having become Secre- tary of the Treasury by appointment of President Harrison. a
 After the retiremtnt of Secretary Foster Mir. Wynne resumed newspaper : work as correspondent The New York Press, which position he held until President Roosevelt appointed him to lbe First Assistant Postmaster-G General. He became a member of the cabinet as. the successor of the late Postmaster General Payne of Wisconsin, and after MT. Roosevelt was elected Presi- dent was appointed to the London con sulate. Mir. ss6uthridge Is still II vnigin Washington, but Is in other business, until recently representing a prominent firm of New York brokers.
 General Boynton served The Cincin- natl Commercial Gazette until the re- tirememt of Murat Halstead when he re- linquished newspaper work to become associated with the War department, being at the time of his death head of the Chicgamauga Park Commission. It can with truth be said that General Boyntoh had marked influence among newspaper men and the youngsters" in the profession could count on the friendship of this man whose life was one of lofty purpose, right living and right thinking.
 Advent of aBurehus.v
 Below The Cincinnati Gazette office (there was no such thing as a news paper bureau" in those days) Edmund Hudson, now the editor of The Hartford (Conn.l- Times, had an office as ths>rep- resentative of The Boston Herald, his assistant being Harry Mcfarland, now Henry B. r. Mcfarland President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and one of the smoothest orators in public life. Be- fore the building now occupied by the Department of Commerce and Labor was erected there stood on the site a ramshackled old four story brick which was occupied by a number of brilliant newspaper correspondents. prominent among these being Major John M. Car son. now head of the Bureau of Mauu- factures, Department of Commerce and Labor. In those days the Major repre- scented George w. Childs Philadelphia Public Ledger and The New York Times Later he was succeeded on The Times by the late E. c. DunneIl, who was the recognized friend on the Row of the Cleveland administration. The Times then being the principal socalled Mug wump" paper MT. Dunnell was a thin, wiry fellow of high character and as brainy as they make them. He had the confidence of both President Cleveland. and his Private Secretary Colonel Dam iel s. Lamont. Colonel Lamont frequent ly visited Newspaper Row and met ''the <boys& in Dunnell's ofice. Senators and Representatives were almost daily yikitors at one or the other of the news.