Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-29
STAR REPORTERS
IN TAFT'S PARTY
ARIST0CRATS or NEWSPAPER
WORLD WITH PRESIDENT
SIX FAMOUS scRlBEs RECORD
EVENTS OF TRIP
Half Dozen Men Who Make Business
of Writing About Others Are
Not Least interesting
of Cortege


of President Taft clipped the following
interesting story from the Salt Lake
Herald concerning the neWspapefmen
who will visit Los Angeles with the
president every members of Presl-
dent Tafts encourage except SIX mas
been the subject of extended news
paper comment. These six are the men
who make a business of writing ABOUT
others. They are virtually aristocrats
of the newspaper world, occupying
positions which many a hardworked
managing editor might covet. Their
names are: Harry L. Dunlap New
York World; Robert II. Hazard, Unit
ed Press; William Hoster, Hearst
News service; E. A. Fowler, New YORK
Sun press association; Sherman +. Al
len, New York Herald, and Robert L.
Small Associated Press. They are the
most unobtrusive of the entire party,
but nothing escapes their keen obser-
walton, and after every important re-
ception they go over with the preslueI'
the salient facts which are to be print
ed, for on such a trip as this happen
ings left out are more than those that
are printed.
"These correspondents are trusted by
their editors to judge what shall be
printed and what can be omitted. How
ever "yellow' an American newspaper
may be, it is seldom that an appeal
from a high official based on the
grounds of public policy, fails to sup
press almost any news story.
"At first glance it seems like pretty
nive way of earning living. Just rid
ing in a special car about the country
and watching the big crowds pay their
| tributes to the ruler of the nation would
be attractive to most persons, but to
| the men assigned to write the news
| of the trip 1t is a very old story. Most
of them have been sent on trips to
Europe, departing so suddenly they
scarcely had time to pack suitcase.
Nearly every one of them earned his
present position without any adventt-
tious aid. Robert Small, the Associat-
ed Press man, is a son-in-law of the
late Admiral Sigsbee, but If any of the
others had influential relatives they
| have never made the fact known.
1.-THE careers of H. L. Dunlap and
r. H. Hazard give some idea of how
"cub" reporter transforms himself in
to a "star" newspaperman.
Began in ST. Louis
Hazard and Dunlap both did their
first regular newspaper work in st.
| Louis. Dunlap was a reporter on the
st. Louis Republic, beginning in 1893,
| and Hazard started on the now de-
| funct Chronicle in the same year. Dun
| laps faculty for reading manuscript
accurately and rapidly soon became ap-
parent and at the Republican national
convention he was captain of fourteen
reporters who were covering the con-
vention. He took all the separate writ
| ings of the fourteen and reconciled
them, then arranged them just as they
were to go to the printers, and when
they reached the office all the city ed
itor had to do was to send them down.
stairs. 1t was the first time an event
of such magnitude had not produced
confusion in the composing room be-
| fore the matter got into the paper.
Dunlap was soon discovered by the
ever watchful Joseph Pulitzer, whose
| famous saying, I always buy the best
brains has been illustrated in the
making of the New York World and
the st. Louis Post-D Dispatch. Dunlap
was made managing editor of the POST
Dispatch, which position he held until
his health, being slightly impaired,
Mr.. Pulitzer called him to the magnifi-
cent palace Of the publisher at Bar
Harbor and told him to take Mrs. Dun
lap for a European trip. He also told
him to stay until he was fully re-
cuperated.
"When Dunlap came back the Wash
| ington billet was given him in prefer
ence to the more exacting duties of a
managing editor. Although he has
never had a photograph taken, nor was
he ever the written up to 2ny extent,
there is perhaps no more competent
and modest newspaper man in the
United States than Dunlap. Not quite
40 years of age, he has seen most of
the civilized countries of the world, and
has an acquaintance among statesmen
and diplomats that few other corre-
spondents have been able to rival.
Richard Hazard, after brilliant
work in st. Louis, was called to New
York and has gradually been elevated
by the Scripps-M McRae league to his
present position. William Hoster, the
Hearst star is a man whose name Is
| familiar to any reader of the Hearst
papers, because the most important
story in those papers usually bears the
PREDATORY legend: by William Hos
ter He is a successful exponent of
the late Charles A. Dana's theory:
Whatever the Lord Almighty permits
to happen, l am not too pruod to re-
port
Hoster's Peculiar Art
"Hoster is peculiarly able to tell the
most salacious details of Gould di-
| vorce case or similar news story, in a
manner which omits nothing, but with
out offending the most aesthetic sensi-
bilities. He has made that sort of
work close kin to art.
Sherman p. Allen is one of those
New York Herald men who always
have so much expense money and who,
| If they stop at any except the highest
| priced hotels are apt to be reprimand-
| ed in a cable from Paris signed James
Gordon Bennett Allen is a typical
New Yorker, and his colleagues say
| that this trip is the best thing that
ever happened to him, because he al
ways had the average New Workers.
| limited conception of the west. Allen,
| like the corps of which he is a men,
| ber, is a man who won his spurs by
| hard work and a little luck.
"E. A. Fowler of the New York Sun
| contributes many western stories and
! abstruse criticisms on all sorts of sub
| iects when he is not busy untangling
| the skeins of diplomacy in Washington.
Robert T. Small is always an OBJ
| tect of interest to most of his col
| leagues, because what he sends to the
| press association goes to most of the
| big newspapers. The correspondents,
| however, usually cover the same sub
iects in their own special style and
| language, for the very reason of their
being sent along demands the justih-
cation of improving If possible on the
| ordinary press reports.
"At all the receptions these corre-
spondents are stationed where they can
see everything that goes on and in
reality they are quito as much of
safeguard to the president as the Sc
cret service men, for there 10 not one
of them who would not sacrifice his