Evening star., 1911-08-27
NOTED NAMES |NL|ST
National Press Club Has Dis
tinguished Personnel.
HAS MEMBERSHIP OF 688
Great Growth in It's Four Years
Existence.
BIG NONRESIDENT ROLL
Editors, Publishers, Congressman
and Diplomats, Affiliated With
the Organization.
NONRESIDENT

Few social organizations In the United
States have inscribed on their rosters of
members so many names of men dis
tinguished for high accomplishment in
literature. art. statecraft diplomacy,
| finance and commerce, as has the
National Press Club OF Washington
Not only dwellers in the National
Capital. but of every state. from coast to
| coast. from lakes to gulf. national
| characters. have been received into the
organization.
The roster records a membership of
6sS. according to the latest count of
| noses. as indicated in the year book
OF the organization. just published. OF
| this number, 252 are active members,
| which means, according to the require
ments of the bye-laws, that they are
| newspaper men actually engaged in
gathering and disseminating news AS
sociate members number 206. The bal
ance Of the membership is made UP of
230 non-residents.
This Is the growth Of four years ex-
istence. From small club with hun
dred or so members, at it's institution.
with almost instantaneous success, the
National Press Club has expanded. so
that new quarters of much greater ca
pacity had to be provided, and now a
clubhouse with every facility and more
room is needed and talked Of.
The fourth annual book of the club
imparts information regarding the activi-
are congressman, members of the admin
istration. diplomats, ocials of the execu-
tive departments, politicians, lawyers,
dortors. millionaires and others.
The list of active members is notable
In the fact that thereon Is inscribed the
name Of nearly every newspaper man
IT, Washington whose name is at all
known to the public. Editors and news
gatherers, the roster makes almost a
complete directory of Washington jour
nalists.
Associate Members.
In public life, business and professional
gressmen, members OF the administra-
ton, diplomatic, officials of the executive
departments. politicians. lawyers, doc
tors, millionaires and others.
Editors Of out-of-town newspapers and
magazines and journalists and publicists
Of national repute, who have their head
quarters elsewhere than in the National
Capital are the run of nonresident men,
bers.
William Jennings Bryan. many-t time
candidate for President of the United
States, Is a nonresident member, and is
recorded as the publisher Of the Com
moner Among editors and publishers
the Outlook, Edward w. Box of the La
dies Home Journal. Robert j. Collier OF
Golfers Weekly. C. H. Grasty of the
Baltimore Sun. John Temple Graves OF
the New York American, Ben b. Hamp-
ton Of Hampton's Magazine, Julian Har-
ris Of Uncle Rem,fs' Magazine, George
Harvey of Harper's Weekly. H. II. Kohl
saat of the Record Herald, Chicago;
Silas McBee OF the Churchman, 8. S.
Mcclure of McClure's Magazine. Richard
V. Oulahan of the New York Sun. H. N.
Hickey of the Scripps-McRae League, Err
man J. Ridgway OF Everybody's Maya
zine. Norman E. Mack of the Buffalo
Times. Albert Shaw of the Review of
Reviews, Melville E. Stone, general man.
ager of the Associated Press, William
Kan, and others.
Authors and artists are represented by
the names of Charles Dana Gibson, Rich
ard Harding Davis, Alfred Henry Lewis.
oe1r Gs9rse y Randolph a. %,,h Chester; J. B: Con
win LIE Fevre. c. r. Macauley, George
Barr McCutcheon and his brother, John
L. McCutcheon: Cleveland Moffett, Gou-
verneur Morris. Sir Gilbert Parker. Rich
ard Wightman and Woodrow Wilson.
Correspondents Elsewhere.
SoIt CSPoiiuchtS WHO nave 1ndQe names
for themselves in worldwide service and
are now located in far places have had
those names written on the book of
members. Gerald Egan is in Copenhagen,
Denmark. and Martin Egan is in Manila,
p. l.; M o. Hammond is in Toronto,
Canada: f. l.. Keen is United Press rep
resentative in London, England; the AS
sociated Press Office In Toxic, Japan, is
under the management of J.. Russell I>en-
nedy; Theodore NJ knappen is in Van
couver, B. c., Thomas +. Milard is do
ing correspondence from Shanghai, China,
and j. X. Oil signs his name to dis
patches for the New York Herald from
Peking.
Officers of the Club.
Arthur j. Dodge, correspondent of the
Minneapolis Tribune, is president of
the club and will retain office until
the first of the year. The vice presi-
dent is Frederick j. Haskins, of
Hasi1in's Syndicate. Ralph A. Graves
Of the Washington Post is secretary,
G. A. Lyon, jr., of the Washington Star
is treasurer and Arthur c. Johnson of
the Denver Rocky Mountain News is
the financial secretary.
The board of governors is made up
Of Ernest G. Walker, chairman: the
officers of the club and William P.
Spurgeon, William NJ. Crounse, L. W.
Strayer. Thomas Kirby. F. B. Lord
and Jackson S. Elliott.