The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-10

paper offices. Pendleton of Ohio called often at The Cincinnati Enquirer office which was located at one time at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue ana Fourteenth street. the last to occupy the building being The Omana See anu several other newspapers. w. c. Mac Bride was in charge of the Cincinnati Enquirer in those days Joking after the night work for The Enquirer. and Tn the day time covering the down town de- partment for the Washington Star.
 In the early part of 1880 The Cincin- tween WashiAgton and Cincinnati. John R. Mclean had had George Gillil- ond with him on The Enquirer in Cin- cinnati as assistant telegraph editor. When MT. McLehn's father the late Washington Mclean was about to move to this city John R. wanted some one at the Washington end of the wire In whom he had confidence and whom he knew. He had little acquaintance with MT, MacBride then and induced Gilliland to come to Washington and manipulate The Enquirer's special wire and act as MacBride's assistant. Mr. Gillfland re- mained with The Enquirer for number of years. or until he became private secretary to the late United States Sem ator Calvin S. Brice. MacBride contin- ued with MT. Mclean and is now re- garded as the closest man to him Tn the newspaper business.
 visitor. to aThe Row.,
 During the early sS0's 1t was quite the thing for cabinet members. Sena- tors, Representatives and the leaders in commerce to spend evenings on Newspaper Row, among the frequent visitors of the day being Hale and Frye of Maine, who were then members of the House and Aldrich of Rhode Island, now the master of the Republican side of the Senate. Ex-Senator Blackburn of Kentucky was almost nightly fre- quenter of the Row and one of its most welcome guests. Mckinley used to drop in occasionally when chairman of the Ways ana Meaps committee of the House. Holman of Indiana, the famous "ob1ector, often called. and here the nation would be, saved much as it has been saved.by "the boys" at the corner
 E. u E. Edwards was the head of The New York Suns office and one of the. very best newsgathe on the Row or in the town. Mir. Edwards yas the envy of all the younger correspondents be- cause of the facb that so many distin- guished statesmen called upon him and treated him with marked familiarity. Mir Edwards is still in the business, having become recognized authority upon many subjects, his articles in the Philadelphia Press from New Y ork over the pen name of Holland" being looked upon as standare information.
 For upwards of twenty years. The Omaha Bee has been Represented in Washington. its first representative be- ing Perry S. Heath who had an office with General Boynton. Mir. Heath on leaving the newspaper field entered politics, and having intimate relation ships. with President Mckinley became the First Assistant Postmaster-General A&, Gor nf Maryland.
 One of the most brilliant and suc- cessful of tile older correspondents was from active work as the head of an im-' l. portant bureau several years ago to write when he pleases and take his ease for the rest of his life. MT. Richardson came to Washington just after the civil war, and for upwards of thirty years
 was the representative here of The
 Baltimore Sun, with which he is still connected and will be as long as he cares to. For quite 8 period he made graphic reports of the Senate proceed | ings for the old Baltimore Associated Press, and it was then he established his reputation as one of the most force- ful writers at the capitol. In 1870 he assumed charge of The Suns Washing | ton office. He attended the national con- I ventionsi of all the political parties from | 1872 to the time of his retirement from | the activities of his calling, and is still | in prime health, vigorous mentally and 1 physically, has wide circle of ac- ] quaintances in this and other lands, i and Is fortunate in not having like so i many others to worry about keeping l the wolf from his door,"
 Walter B. Stevens.
 There never was on the Row a more l alert newsgatherer than Walter B. Ste-
 vens. who made his bow as Washing tUn corr e5 KoiIti5iit It fl o6TTIiTls iIer as the representative of The St. Louis | Globe Democrat. In the Missouri me- tropolis he had been for years connect ed with the old St. Louis Times under
 the .proprgetorship of Stilson Hutchins,